{"id":485167,"date":"2010-03-29T14:56:15","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T18:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=80776"},"modified":"2010-03-29T14:56:15","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T18:56:15","slug":"crew-votevets-file-complaint-against-sean-hannity%e2%80%99s-freedom-concerts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/485167","title":{"rendered":"CREW, VoteVets File Complaint Against Sean Hannity\u2019s Freedom Concerts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week’s poorly researched Debbie Schlussel story<\/a> on Sean Hannity’s Freedom Concerts burned some of the people who posted on it, such as David Frum. Schlussel’s claim that Hannity’s organization wasn’t giving much of the money from the concerts to charity didn’t hold up. But the door was wedged open, and now CREW and VoteVets are running through it with complaints to the FTC and IRS, accusing the Freedom Alliance (which runs the concerts) of engaging in political activity.<\/span><\/p>\n

From Crew’s press release:<\/p>\n

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CREW\u2019s IRS complaint against Freedom Alliance asks the IRS to consider revoking its charitable tax status because the organization has engaged in prohibited political activities.\u00a0 When Freedom Alliance first formed in 1999, the IRS conditioned its charitable tax status on the organization removing politically partisan materials from its website and warned it not to intervene in political campaigns.\u00a0 Despite those warnings, Freedom Alliance\u2019s website includes links to Lt. Col. North\u2019s columns, which are largely political, rents its mailing list to a communications firm that works for organizations that \u201cseek to reach Republicans and conservatives across the United States,\u201d and hosts an annual \u201cFreedom Cruise\u201d with Republican politicians such as former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele.\u00a0 In addition, Freedom Alliance appears to have a relationship with Team America, a PAC formed by Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO), dedicated to anti-immigration efforts and supporting conservative candidates.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Here’s the filing:<\/p>\n

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