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About ladyliberty1885

I'm a Conservative minded mother and wife living in the Triangle area of NC. I began writing in 2009 via my LadyLiberty1885 blog. My writing can also be found at WatchdogWire - NC, Carolina Right, BatShitCrazy news, TheConMom and at WizBang. I also write science fiction novellas that are, as of yet, unpublished and dabble in other genres from time to time.

When Liberals On Twitter Attack

Posted on May 21, 2013

This is a little story of what happens when Liberals attack on Twitter. Mind you, this has happened before but this time they took aim at my kids as a means of trying to get me to be quite. So…Earlier today I was treated to how territorial liberals are over the hashtag #NCpol and how desperate they are to keep it one big incestuous link around.

Full disclosure – It started with a tweet I didn’t tag correctly with an MT instead of an RT. I tweeted an acknowledgement to the original complaining party, however that wasn’t good enough. Someone else decided I was going to be a pet project:

RT @jeannebonds4nc: @gwfrink3 introduce her to @timothypeck and report her. They both take RT and lie.@ladyliberty1885

— Tim Peck (@timothypeck) May 21, 2013

Soon enough, I had people not even involved insulting me, attacking my choice to protect my kids by writing anonymously and in general wanting me to shut up and go away:

RT @jeannebonds4nc: @chadcnance @ladyliberty1885 the is the third time in 3 weeks a Mom is worried @ her kids so is anon. Answer:don’t tweet

— LL1885 (@LadyLiberty1885) May 21, 2013

I’m sorry, @jeannebonds4nc how are you involved with my mis-RT/MT of @gwfrink3 ?I’ve already noted the error and tweeted it. #GrowUp — LL1885 (@LadyLiberty1885) May 21, 2013

She never did answer that. Instead, the person in question, one @JeanneBonds4NC, spammed me, with help from pal @ChadCNance, and then threatened to report me for bothering her. Turns out after spamming me and with me not taking it lying down, she decided to let me know she had indeed reported me.

@ladyliberty1885 do you understand English?Reported. — Jeanne MillikenBonds (@JeanneBonds4NC) May 21, 2013

Keeps threatening/insulting me instead of blocking me => RT @jeannebonds4nc: @ladyliberty1885 do you understand English?Reported. — LL1885 (@LadyLiberty1885) May 21, 2013

Anyone following the tweet progression can see she beset on me and not the other way around. And these people wonder why some of us write anonymously – if they behave like this on Twitter, imagine face to face? @ChadCNance is a big man with 75 followers who has had death threats and yet still jumps into conversations online of which have nothing to do with him. Yeah, I’ll take his advice right to the bank.

@ladyliberty1885 @jeannebonds4nc – That is a fairly lame excuse. I’ve gotten death threats for articles. Here I am with my name hanging out.

— Chad C Nance (@ChadCNance) May 21, 2013

Yes, there you are with your name hanging out. Good for you! Cookie? I’m not doubting he may have received threats – who knows who stalks a man with 75 Twitter followers – but I don’t see him blogging about Unions, Jihad or Occupy. Groups which have given my email box a who new set of disgusting and disturbing new terms.

This is how the Left rolls – mocking someone for protecting their kids.

Pardon me, but I write under a pen name to protect my family, it makes me no less valid than someone writing out in the open. My kids deserve better than the biased drivel put out in the media today and if I have to write under a pen name to fight it, so be it. Your family should always be the priority.

A bit of irony from @JeanneBonds4NC’s timeline around the same time she was spam tweeting me:

Funny thing about twitter. Folks jump in conversations w/o reading all @ caste judgment. #refrain

— Jeanne MillikenBonds (@JeanneBonds4NC) May 21, 2013

How does the story end? Well, I’m not leaving. Figure it out. Continue reading →

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Sen. Kay Hagan (D-odge, NC)

Posted on May 20, 2013

Sometimes a few tweets can bring serious matters into focus:

Paging @americavotes & #BlueprintNC partners. “Operation Destroy @myncsenate Budget” meeting @ 9 am. goo.gl/1Tb93 #ncga #ncpol

— RealLiberalHack(@LiberalHack) May 20, 2013

Hey, remember BluePrint NC and America Votes? Hey, look at all the crazy demonstrations going on downtown with all these groups that are buddies with BluePrint and America Votes. It’s all coincidence, I’m sure. It seems Twitter user @LiberalHack hasn’t forgotten and sent out this tweet this morning.

By the way, the link in the tweet goes here: AJ Fletcher Foundation. It’s the little details like that which matter. To explain a bit, the AJ Fletcher Foundation is founded and run by Jim Goodmon, the owner of Capital Broadcasting group who in turn runs local news outlet WRAL. The AJ Fletcher foundation gave a wad of cash to BluePrint NC (more below). This is the same WRAL who decided to start a ‘Promise Tracker’ on McCrory, but didn’t have the ‘technology’ do set one up for Bev Perdue:

Note: WRAL responded to my public tweet with a private Direct Message.

The AJ Fletcher Foundation is the same outfit who claimed they had nothing do to with BluePrint NC’s attack memo citing the ‘evisceration’ and ‘crippling’ of the opposition. Even BluePrint NC tried to dodge ownership. Also recall that the AJ Fletcher Foundation gave over $35,000 to BluePrint NC. Via Civitas:

The WRAL reporter left out the very deep connections WRAL has with BlueprintNC through its owner Jim Goodmon, donations and former employees. The AJ Fletcher Foundation has given $35,000 to BlueprintNC and $380,000 to the NC Justice Center which initially housed BlueprintNC when it was formed (the foundations 990 IRS reports are not current so there may be more) . The Goodmon family which owns WRAL has 4 family members on the board of the Fletcher Foundation including Barbara the President and Jim the chairman of the board. The Executive Director was formerly the head of the NC center for Voter Education, one of the original members of BlueprintNC. In addition Chris Fitzsimon, former WRAL reporter, is head of the liberal NC Policy Watch, the original lead attack group in the Blueprint coalition. Fitzsimon is also provided free airtime on Goodmon owned WRAL-FM from which he launches daily attacks on political opponents. The Fletcher Foundation has been a long time funder of Policy Watch is now housed in the Justice Center.

Well, America Votes finally owned up to the memo to take the heat off of BluePrint NC, but the damage was already done and there was zero apologies made:

The leader of a political nonprofit group came forward Wednesday as the author of a leaked strategy memo on how to attack Gov. Pat McCrory and Republican leaders.

Jessica Laurenz, the North Carolina director for America Votes, said she wrote and distributed the draft memo – not Blueprint North Carolina, a Raleigh group being blamed for crafting the plan to “eviscerate the (Republican) leadership and weaken their ability to govern.”

In an interview, Laurenz defended the memo saying “America Votes has not done anything wrong or out of the ordinary” and didn’t regret “strongly urging my colleagues to fight for what we believe in.”

The memo, leaked to reporters last week as a document originating from Blueprint, was first reported by The Charlotte Observer – an article which ran in this newspaper. The story was quickly pounced upon by Republicans. McCrory called the memo shameful.” House Speaker Thom Tillis used it as a fundraising appeal. The N.C. Republican Party registered complaints with the Internal Revenue Service and the state elections board, asking both to investigate Blueprint for political activity outside its charitable status.

Who authored the memo is central to any potential inquiry. America Votes is allowed to participate in political efforts as a 501(c)4 nonprofit under federal tax law. But Blueprint North Carolina is limited to issue-advocacy and barred from political campaign activities as a 501(c)3 nonprofit. Both are tax exempt organizations but only donations to 501(c)3 groups are tax deductible.

Back to Twitter

It looks like BluePrint NC’s talking points memo pal, America Votes, is taking fire and whoops, Senator Kay Hagan is in the mix:

BREAKING: @senatorhagan starts using @americavotes talking points on @morning_joe. #winning #ncpol #ncga.I hope Rep. Luebke is proud. — RealLiberalHack(@LiberalHack) May 20, 2013

H/T to @bringastar showing that @senatorhagan “hit all the points” in her first interview using @americavotes#memogate approach #ncpol

— RealLiberalHack(@LiberalHack) May 20, 2013 Continue reading →

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NCGA House Passes Bill Banning Foreign Law

Posted on May 19, 2013

In the North Carolina General Assembly this week, HB 695 was passed by a vote of 69-42. The bill is entitled ‘Foreign Laws/Protect Constitutional Rights’. The long title is ‘An act to protect rights and privileges granted under the United States and North Carolina Constitutions in the application of foreign law’. In short, the bill states that the laws of the United States and North Carolina supersede that of foreign law introduced into the court system. For deeper detail, read the full text of HB 695. The bill now heads to the Senate for consideration.

There was a bit of mocking done regarding this bill by local media and on Twitter. Sharia, Islamic law, was automatically assigned to the bill in coverage of it, even though the term does not appear in the text. It was a reasonable assumption though, since multiple states have passed similar legislation and the target was to block Sharia law. I don’t know that I would have run with that as the title, like Laura Leslie of WRAL did:

Sharia Law ban in House Thursday – By Laura Leslie Continue reading →

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#IRS Scandal: Obama Admin Knew In 2012; Possible Catalyst Letter In 2010

Posted on May 17, 2013

BREAKING NEWS: The Obama Administration knew a full five months before the 2012 election that the IRS was targeting Tea Party Groups. This revelation comes from the New York Times via Breitbart

June 2012: The Treasury Department’s inspector general told senior Treasury officials in June 2012 he was investigating the Internal Revenue Service’s screening of politically active organizations seeking tax exemptions, disclosing for the first time on Friday that Obama administration officials were aware of the matter during the presidential campaign year.

Incredible. It would seem this administration sat on it during an election year. What would the election have looked like had this information come out? Likely very different.

Could it be possible that the catalyst for the targeting began with the Tea Party organizations in Senator Max Baucus’ Montana?

Montana Shrugged, one such organization, was starting to be quite the “nuisance” to Senator Baucus as early as March of 2010. Mind you, the Citizens United case had just been heard and decided on two weeks prior to Montana Shrugged holding demonstrations in Montana. Citizens United drew the ire of President Obama, who during the State of the Union, called out the Justices displaying his disapproval with the decision. Another organization getting under Max Baucus’ skin at this time was American Tradition Partnership, who was working directly with a few Montana Tea Party Organizations.

Bear in mind that Senator Baucus is the Senate Finance Committee Chairman and has taken up the charge to get to the bottom of this scandal. Baucus also sits on the Joint Committee on Taxation. Baucus himself has warned there will be more revelations:

“I have a hunch that a lot more is going to come out, frankly. It’s broader than the current focus. And I think it’s important that we have the hearings, and I think that will encourage other information to come out that has not yet come out. I suspect that we will learn more in the next several days, maybe the next couple three weeks which adds more context to all of this.”

Source: Washington Examiner

Ever hear of the man who was being run out of town? He raced to the front and pretended he was leading a parade. The same analogy might fit here, but time will tell.

Here is a timeline of possible events as they may have unfolded starting with the creation of the Tea Party and ending with the IRS IG report.

April 15, 2009: Tea Party protest

May 2009: Obama jokes about IRS audits in a commencement speech at ASU.

September 2009: Tea Party groups and 9/12 projects start filing for tax exempt status

January 21, 2010: Supreme Court rules on Citizens United case.

March 1 2010 American Tradition Partnership sets up shop in Montana with Baucus in its sites and continued to do so.

March 2010: Ten Tea Party cases identified as targeted. (TIGTA appendix)

April 29 2010: Max Baucus gives a press release regarding new campaign finance reform titled the Disclose act which was drafted in direct response to the Citizens United decision. Its co-sponsors were Senators Charles E. Schumer (D-NY), Russ Feingold (D-WI), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Evan Bayh (D-IN) and Al Franken (D-MN).

August 27 2010: Austen Goolsbee lets it slip that he has access to Koch Brothers Tax structure

September 23 2010: A letter is sent to J. Russell George Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration regarding the possible illegal accessing and disclosure of confidential taxpayer information specifically the tax structure of Koch Industries, Inc

September 28 2010: J. Russell George Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration sends a letter acknowledging receipt of Senator Grassley’s letter regarding the possible accessing of tax information of the Koch Brothers. A review had been ordered however, the letter ended with

“As you are aware, there are certain constraints on my ability to share information from our review with you in the absence of a request from the Chairman of the Committee on Finance.”
(Max Baucus)

September 28th 2010: Sen. Max Baucus sends letter to Commissioner of the IRS, Doug Shulman. The letter asks for the IRS to look into 501(c)(4), (c)(5) and (c)(6) groups.

October 6, 2010: NY Times article, ‘Republicans see a political motive in IRS audits’. The article describes Republican charges that a Senior Obama official inappropriately accessed the tax records of Koch Industries. It also mentions Republicans are upset over an audit proposed by Senator Max Baucus into the activities of tax exempt groups.

October 6th, 2010: Republicans respond to the Baucus letter.

March 12, 2012: 7 Democrat Senators – Schumer, Bennett, Whitehouse, Merkley, Udall, Shaheen, Franken – send letter to Commissioner of the IRS Doug Shulman. Letter stated they want the IRS to look specifically into Conservative ‘social welfare groups’ and 501(c)3′s.

June 2012: Obama administration has knowledge of IRS inappropriately targeting conservative groups. Remember: President Obama said he just head this news last Friday.

June 18, 2012: Senator Max Baucus visits the White House. All details of the visit are missing from the White House Visitor Logs.

April 23, 2013: Senator Baucus announces retirement. Baucus claims personal and not political reasons.

May 14, 2013: IG report comes out. Note: On page 43, there is a letter from Joseph Grant thanking the Inspector General for giving him a copy of the IG’s draft report in advance of it being published. The received stamp on the letter is April, 30th. That is just one week after Senator Baucus announced his retirement. It is entirely possible as a member of the Ways and Means committee that the Senator was privy to this advanced report.

May 10, 2013: Unsolicted ‘apology’ comes out of the IRS for targeting Conservatives.

May 15, 2013: Steve Miller resigns as Acting Director of IRS. Miller was set to depart in June anyway.

May 16, 2013: Joseph Grant announced retirement from Tax Exempt and Government Entities division of the IRS.

May 17, 2013: Steve Miller testifies in front of the Ways and Means committee. Miller’s overall theme in answers in this testimony is ‘I don’t know who is responsible’.

* This post was co-written by LadyLiberty1885 and Liberty S Continue reading →

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