Republican Senate Candidate Gabriel Gomez, who made headlines by calling his opponent in next month's Massachusetts special Senate election Congressman Ed Markey (D-MA) "pond scum" for running an internet ad that compared Gomez to Osama bin Laden, doubled down by repeating the insult Friday afternoon on Boston's Howie Carr radio program.
24 May 2013, 5:55 PM PDT
On Thursday, Jay Sekulow, Chief Counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), claimed that Lois Lerner, the director of the IRS's tax exempt unit, personally signed invasive letters sent to 15 Tea Party groups represented by the ACLJ.
24 May 2013, 11:03 AM PDT
Blaming the sequester, the IRS is "furloughing" employees for a day on Friday. In an internal email sent out on Monday, the IRS's Deputy Commissioner for Operations Support, Beth Tucker, told all IRS employees that "the IRS as an organization and all of us as employees are going through some difficult days."
23 May 2013
Breitbart News has confirmed the biographical claim of E. W. Jackson, who won the Republican Party's nomination for Lieutenant Governor on Saturday and is only the second African-American to be nominated for a statewide office by the Republican Party in Virginia since Reconstruction, that he served in the Marine Corps.
23 May 2013
Downers Grove, Illinois was not the only Tea Party protest at IRS offices that experienced scrutiny from federal authorities on Tuesday.
22 May 2013
The campaign of presumptive Democratic Gubernatorial nominee Terry McAuliffe has recruited members of Occupy Roanoke to conduct a "counter" protest at a Roanoke campaign event for Republican Gubernatorial nominee Ken Cuccinelli on Monday.
20 May 2013
On Sunday, a day after the dramatic Republican Party of Virginia convention in Richmond that picked Ken Cuccinelli as the party's standard bearer for the Governor's office, and tapped E.W. Jackson for Lieutenant Governor and Mark Obenshain for Attorney General, the trio wasted no time hitting the campaign trail. Their three-day, statewide fly-around began in Virginia Beach on Sunday afternoon and will include campaign events a total of ten cities before it ends in Fredericksburg on Tuesday night.
19 May 2013
E.W. Jackson won the Republican nomination for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia on the fourth ballot in a dramatic primary convention held in Richmond on Saturday. Jackson is only the second African-American candidate to receive the Republican Party's nomination for a statewide office since Reconstruction. A former Marine, graduate of Harvard Law School, and a minister, Jackson is a spellbinding orator with a loyal following among evangelical Christians and Tea Party grassroots activists.
19 May 2013
In January, 2011, ten months after the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration's report released on Tuesday says the IRS first developed policies to target Tea Party groups for more severe scrutiny than other groups, the IRS responded to a FOIA request by denying that any such documents existed.
17 May 2013
The Republican Party of Virginia is holding a primary convention on Saturday that it has assured the public will be fair to all the candidates vying for the party’s nomination for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and Attorney General. But the party’s General Counsel, Lee E. Goodman, also serves as counsel to a mysterious group, Virginians for Limited Government (VLG), that recently sent out $46,000 in direct mailers in support of one the seven candidates for the Republican nomination for Lieutenant Governor, Corey Stewart.
17 May 2013