Mass. GOP Threatens to Yank Harvard's Tax-Exempt Status if They Keep Elizabeth Warren

[TrollBuster9090]

You might have seen this already, but I wasn't aware of it, and actually found it ENCOURAGING.

The Mass. GOP appears to be having a really hard time finding dirt on Elizabeth Warren. This despite Scott Brown already having raised nearly $11 million dollars from Wall Street to hire opposition research slime-bags to go looking for it.

So far, the best they can come up with is:

1. A pathetic attack ad, where they take her most popular "nobody gets rich alone" speech, convert it to a shaky B&W image and add scary music, and hope a few rubes will ignore her words and just be put off by the visuals.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsiAtXyv_WA


2. A pathetic attack article in POLITICO trying to infer that she was dishonest in reporting how much money she was paid as Chair of the TARP oversight panel. She was paid $192K over two years, but her campaign people made a mistake, originally released the figure of $65K for one year only, then corrected the mistake. The article then cites a 2009 financial disclosure listing her other incomes, including a $340K "annual" salary from Harvard, some book royalties and legal consulting fees, without giving a time period for the payments. Thus hoping a few rubes will add up all the numbers and conclude she's a $700+ per year "Harvard elitist."

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0911/64306.html

And now THIS:

3. Warren had taken a leave of absence from Harvard while running the Consumer Protection Agency. With her appointment blocked, she returned to Harvard to teach and run for the Senate. Now the Mass. GOP is trying to intimidate Harvard into yanking her faculty status (and her income as a professor) while she runs for Senate.

http://www.boston.com/Boston/politicalintelligence/2011/09/mass-gop-urges-harvard-end-elizabeth-warren-salary/qYl7CACXVlIW6LhL2vfUYL/index.html

From a letter from the Mass. GOP to Harvard:
"Of equal concern is that Harvard runs the risk of jeopardizing its tax-exempt status. As a non-profit charitable institution, Harvard is prohibited from taking a position on behalf of or in opposition to a candidate. Your payment of a salary to Professor Warren causes reasonable-minded people to conclude that Harvard is supportive of her candidacy"

I find it funny that they think they can intimidate Harvard into cutting off Warren's pay check, and ENCOURAGING that they are having to stoop to this because it's all they've got.

Looks like Warren will be the next Senator from Mass.!

[Davis_X_Machina]

1. Funny how John Silber's stint at BU never caused any probems....

[Andy823]

2. well...

The right wing churches are tax exempt also, but when they promote right wing candidates, or spew hate about liberals from the pulpit, do the same idiot GOPers call for them to lose their tax exempt status? Hell no they don't. The GOP are the biggest bunch of hypocrites around!

[Rex]

3. The GOP is a cancer in the modern political system.

They like to anti-govern.

[elleng]

4. Good luck w that, Idjots!!!

:rofl:

[mike_c]

5. I would think she'd have little trouble taking sabbatical to run for the Senate....

eom

[TrollBuster9090]

7. It's easy enough just to take a leave of absence, and I suspect

that's what she'll do next year for sure. But this year would be a little tricky given that the academic year is already underway, and they'd either have to cancel her course or find a last minute substitute.

[Fla Dem]

6. Well let's demand the US Government not pay Scott Brown and all

other incumbents while they run for their seats. I certainly don't support all of them and it's my tax money paying for their salaries.

[TrollBuster9090]

8. That's a good point.

Apparently, drawing a taxpayer-funded check while you're out campaigning is only a bad thing if you HAVEN'T already been elected.

[TrollBuster9090]

9. Oops!

Although....silly me.....I forgot that Elizabeth Warren IS NOT being PAID BY TAXPAYERS. Harvard is a PRIVATE university. As long as she fulfills her teaching commitments, what she does in her other time is between her and the Harvard Alumni and students.

[rgbecker]

12. And isn't Scotty in the National Guard....Military is obviously endorsing Brown for Senate!

[TrollBuster9090]

13. Hahah! Yeah, I forgot about that. nt

[MadMaddie]

10. But..but..I thought they liked the Free Market?

That is Private companies can do what they want....what's that you say? Only the companies they support?....

The more they attack her the more pathetic they become..

[ThoughtCriminal]

11. Their next surprise

Harvard knows some good lawyers.

[TheCowsCameHome]

14. When did Mass. get a GOP?

I was away last month. Did it happen then?

[Scuba]

15. They fear Elizabeth. I love Elizabeth. n/t

[midnight]

16. K&R