Opponents of Obamacare are sensing blood. And Citizens United now says it’s prepared to sue the government. “A small organization took on the entire weight of the federal government and was able to prevail,” says president David Bossie, referring to their successful suit over campaign financing in 2010 (that suit boosted the influence of SuperPacs). […]
An independent investigation by a special counsel is tailor made for the Internal Revenue Service targeting scandal. In instances like this, national leaders like the President and Attorney General of the United States must transcend politics and make restoring trust in government the paramount issue. Read more at Breitbart.com here.
The outside group’s pressure campaign has been a multi-pronged offensive with ex-military officials rallying the grassroots base while Washington operatives at American Crossroads, Citizens United and others have mounted an inside-the-Beltway campaign with online videos, letters to Congress and Twitter activity. Read more at Politico here.
To conservatives, the IRS’s scrutiny of groups according to their names and mission statements between 2010 and 2012 put the weight of its enforcement power on the Democrats’ side of the ledger. “I think that if you look at the IRS scandal, we see that the left will stop at nothing to thwart the conservative […]
David Bossie, president of Citizens United, said the IRS scandal is a “clear example of the Chicago-style, win-at-all-costs politics that Obama brought to Washington.” Bossie said Obama set the tone for targeting political critics when he criticized the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, which barred the government from limiting corporate spending to influence election campaigns. […]
Meanwhile, outside of Congress, the president of Citizens United, a conservative organization at the center of the Supreme Court’s 2010 decision, reacted with anger at the suggestion by Pelosi that the court case was at least partly at fault for IRS conduct. “Nancy Pelosi and her liberal allies’ obsession with the Citizens United Supreme Court […]
David Bossie, executive director of Citizen’s United, the organization that brought the case against the FEC, said the new information should prompt a full congressional investigation. “The IRS clearly saw the Citizens United case as a catalyst to go after conservative groups in the lead-up to President Obama’s re-election,” Bossie said in a statement. “The […]
“The revelations revealed today that the IRS was targeting conservative groups during the 2012 elections is shocking,” said David Bossie, president of Citizen’s United, the 501(c)4 organization that touched off much of the recent controversy over these groups’ role in political elections. “The politicization of the IRS cannot be tolerated by the American people. To […]
Washington, DC — Citizens United President David N. Bossie issued the following statement in response to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing investigating the Benghazi terrorist attack. “Today was a step in the right direction, but as I feared more questions have arisen from the testimony given today and the need for a […]
In his 2013 State of the Union Address, President Barack Obama promised his administration “will keep faith with our veterans [by] investing in world-class care, including mental health care, for our wounded warriors; supporting our military families; and giving our veterans the benefits, education, and job opportunities they have earned.” But the reality for former […]
Former special operations officers say that a much-anticipated congressional report investigating the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya leaves vital questions unanswered and proves that the Obama administration abandoned its responsibility to protect those who were under siege. The House released on Tuesday what lawmakers claimed is a comprehensive report detailing the Obama […]
Washington, DC — Citizens United President David N. Bossie issued the following statement in response to the non-sanctioned progress report released today by the five House committee chairmen investigating the Benghazi terrorist attack. “Although I applaud the work that’s been done by the five committees to date, it has become abundantly clear with the release […]