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Federal Bureaucracy Culture of Liberalism: IRS Union Tied to FEC

Liberal labor union staffs FEC bureaucracy linked to IRS scandal.

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The National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) represents the bureaucracy that staffs the Internal Revenue Service. The IRS.

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The NTEU also represents the bureaucracy that staffs the Federal Elections Commission. The FEC.

The NTEU has a political action committee — the Treasury Employees Political Action Committee. TEPAC.

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TEPAC routinely gives over 90% of its contributions to Democrats (94% in 2012, 98% in 2010, 96% in 2008 and so on and on and on).

Now.

In the last week, Americans have been informed courtesy of The Wall Street Journal among others of an episode involving Lois Lerner, she the now-infamous IRS official who is at the center of the IRS scandal — and who was previously employed in the FEC’s general counsel’s office. The paper wrote up the release from the House Ways and Means Committee of 2008 and 2009 e-mails between Lerner, and her old stomping grounds at the FEC’s general counsel’s office. 

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