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[John1956PA]

31. You and I agree 100%. As an aside, here is my LTTE of yesterday to a local newspaper.

Yesterday, May 17, the online version of a local newspaper published a slanted poll which might be described as a "push" poll. The the poll question began, " It appears the IRS has targeted conservative nonprofit groups for extra scrutiny because they disagree with President . . ." The poll asked how that activity by the IRS made the reader feel. The three choices the reader could select from to answer the poll were: "Outraged", "Afraid", and "Disappointed."

In my letter to the editor, I wrote the following:

"Slanted" is the term to describe the News' May 17 poll regarding the IRS's heightened scrutiny of applications for non-profit status submitted by certain organizations.

Is has not been proven that applications submitted by conservative groups were singled out. The preliminary indications are that political groups from both ends of the spectrum, liberal and conservative, were targeted for heightened scrutiny, since an organization is required to limit its political activities if Section 501(c)4 non-profit status is to be granted.

An IRS spokesperson apologized for the method of targeting conservative groups. That method involved using certain conservative groups' names or bywords as the criteria for review. However, liberal terms may have been used as the criteria for pulling up liberal group’s applications for heightened scrutiny. The IRS had not yet answered that question.

Regardless, there has been no indication by the IRS that applications from conservative groups were subjected to heightened scrutiny just because of the groups' ideology.