We wrote Tuesday about Senator Rand Paul’s resolution condemning the IRS for attacking tea party groups. In a not so shocking partisan move, Senate Democrats have blocked Sen. Paul’s resolution. Apparently Senate Democrats do not feel that the IRS’ actions are concerning enough for the resolution. Paul is quoted as saying “This resolution is not [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 Contact: Tom Zawistowski, 330-592-1848, TomZ [at] WethePeopleConvention [dot] org The individuals below represent five components of this IRS “Targeting” story which Media members have been asking me about. Marion, represents one of the most outrageous requests by the IRS. Justin is an individual citizen who was targeted. Tim’s [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Sen. Rand Paul today proposed a resolution condemning the targeting of Tea Party groups by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and calling for an investigation. “The IRS has been using taxing power as a political tool to bully these conservative groups and this type of intimidation is a major violation of our [...]
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Saturday, May 11, 2013 NOTE: See Original Email TEA Party Leader tells conservatives to reject the ORP’s “classless” attempt to fund raise on IRS Targeting of Liberty Groups. Kent – Today Ohio TEA Party Leader, Tom Zawistowski, responded to the blatant attempt by the Ohio Republican “Party” to raise money [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Saturday, May 11, 2013 Contact: Tom Zawistowski EVIDENCE ATTACHED AS PDF’s (Note Higher Quality Copies are available upon request) Five Questions that the IRS and the Obama Administration Need to Answer about the “Targeting” of TEA Party Groups during last year’s election cycle: 1. If the IRS was looking for groups with [...]
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, May 10, 2013 TEA PARTY LEADERS RESPOND TO IRS APOLOGY FOR TARGETING “TEA PARTY” AND PATRIOT GROUPS Kent, OH – On Friday the Associated Press broke a story quoting Lois Lerner, who heads the IRS unit that oversees tax-exempt groups, as saying that organizations which included the words “tea [...]
Late Monday afternoon news services in Ohio began reporting that statehouse leadership was planning to remove the $13 billion Medicaid expansion from the governor’s proposed biennial budget. Further indicated were the removals of sweeping professional service taxes and the severance tax increases on oil and gas extraction. While it appears we may have gained some [...]
Kent, OH – Today, Tom Zawistowski, President of the We the People Convention and Executive Director of the Portage County TEA Party, announced his bid to be Chairman of the Ohio Republican Party which is being vacated by retiring Chairman Bob Bennett. His candidacy was announced in a letter to Chairman Bennett, and the members [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, following a historic 13-hour filibuster on the Senate floor that ended early this morning, Sen. Rand Paul received correspondence from the White House regarding the legality and constitutionality of the U.S. government using lethal force, including drone strikes, on Americans and in U.S. territory. Sen. Paul’s repeated correspondence to President Obama’s [...]
Recently, the Columbus Dispatch published an editorial piece by reporter and editorial writer Joe Hallett that ripped the Ohio liberty movement. We get hammered for daring to endorse the legal and democratic remedy of the primary process to protect our state from Governor Kasich’s proposals to institute new redistributive taxes and expand Medicaid in accordance [...]
PRESS RELEASE – Friday, February 1, 2013 Contact: Jason Mihalick Columbus, Ohio – The Board of Directors of the Ohio Liberty Coalition announced today that they have elected Ted Stevenot, 48, from Union Township, Ohio, as President and a member of the Board. Ted succeeds Tom Zawistowski, who has served as President since July 2011. Ted is co-founder [...]
PRESS RELEASE – Wednesday, January 23, 2012 Contact: Tom Zawistowski Columbus, Ohio – The Ohio Liberty Coalition announced this morning that over 50 Liberty Groups in Ohio are planning to provide public showings of the new independent documentary film “FrackNation” which premiered on the ASX national cable channel last night. The movie takes apart the anti-fracking [...]
PRESS RELEASE – Tuesday, December 11, 2012 Contact: Tom Zawistowski Columbus, Ohio – After nearly two and a half years of fighting for its legal right to “tax exempt” status as a non-profit corporation, the Ohio Liberty Coalition was notified today by the IRS that the organization is indeed exempt from Federal Income Tax under section 501(c) (4) [...]
On Friday Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted announced that Attorneys general from 15 different states filed a joint amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of Secretary Husted’s recent appeal of a Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision in Obama v. Husted. States signing on include Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, [...]
PRESS RELEASE – Sunday, October 7, 2012 Contact: Tom Zawistowski Columbus, Ohio – With early voting starting and the election just weeks away, Ohio Liberty groups are playing the key role in deciding who will be elected in Ohio according to a statement released by the Ohio Liberty Coalition. Tom Zawistowski, President of the OLC, said, “Whether [...]
PRESS RELEASE – Wednesday, October 3, 2012 Contact: Tom Zawistowski Columbus, Ohio – The Ohio Liberty Coalition released a statement tonight applauding Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney for “educating” President Obama on how the US Economy works. Tom Zawistowski, President of the OLC, said, “It was refreshing to see Governor Romney explain to the President how lowering [...]
In the following letter, Ohio Liberty Coalition President Thomas Zawistowski responds to McDonald’s’ new TV advertising campaign which suggests that lying is socially acceptable. The decision by McDonald’s to publish this type of ad should attract the interest of all Americans who are concerned with the moral decline of the nation. September 22, 2012 Mr. [...]
PRESS RELEASE – Monday, August 20, 2012 Contact: Tom Zawistowski Tampa, Florida – Republican Party Platform Committee members met today to debate the contents of the 2012 Republican Party Platform prior to the start of next week’s Republican Convention. In the initial draft of the Party Platform, a total of 10 of the 12 proposals put forward [...]
PRESS RELEASE – Saturday, August 13, 2012 Contact: Tom Zawistowski Washington, DC – FreedomWorks, a grassroots service center serving more than 2 million members of the conservative movement, today released the Freedom Platform, a crowd-source proposal outlining 12 of the boldest, most important solutions for the nation in 2012. Twelve grassroots activists from around the United States [...]
PRESS RELEASE – Saturday, August 11, 2012 Contact: Tom Zawistowski Columbus, Ohio – The Ohio Liberty Coalition released a statement today supporting the announcement of Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan as the Vice-Presidential pick of Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney. OLC President Tom Zawistowski said “Our members will see this as a solid conservative pick and will be [...]
