A prominent Middle Tennessee Republican and tea party organizer has filed a lawsuit against a blogger for revealing his tax troubles.
Nationwide Tea Party Coalition co-founder and Williamson County Republican Michael Patrick Leahy filed a libel lawsuit naming Stephanie Grasmick and challenging her claim that Leahy committed “tax fraud.”
Documents posted at Teablogging show tens of thousands of dollars in tax liens and civil and small claims judgments against Leahy. On Twitter, Leahy admitted hours ago that “tax liens is an accurate statement,” but took issue with claims that he has committed tax fraud.
Leahy is a prominent figure in a national conservative movement to protest taxes. One of his tea parties organized Rutherford County Republicans to protest taxes and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Leahy was elected as a delegate to the Republican National Committee as an at-large delegate from the State of Tennessee. Leahy currently hosts two programs on Pajamas TV: TCOTonPJTV and The Tea Party Coalition Show. You can read more of his accomplishments on his website.
Leahy describes himself as your average Republican who happens to hate taxes a lot. He travels to and from his Thompson’s Station home on the very public roads other people’s taxes pay for. He and his family is protected by tax-funded police and emergency personnel who save lives with less and less, yet documents show Leahy hates taxes so much that liens had to be placed against him for unpaid taxes.
Michael Patrick Leahy was Keith Olbermann’s “Worst Person In The World.”
America is the greatest country on Earth, and we owe our gratitude to those who pay their share in blood and treasure to make it that way, but some people here in Middle Tennessee feel that price is better paid by others while they reap the benefits. Rutherford County Republicans registered their complaints by protesting enhanced health benefits our hereos deserve, spending $13.9 million in stimulus money in Rutherford County schools, extending unemployment benefits for Rutherford County’s growing unemployed as well as $30 million to retrain dislocated and low-income workers.
After eight long years of disastrous conservative economic policies that led to record deficit spending, unprecedented government expansion and a deepening recession, it’s time Republicans start being part of the solution instead of continuing to be part of the problem.
The Rutherford County Republican Party has invited Leahy to speak at an “instant tea party for Bart Gordon” scheduled for Thursday May 21.
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The article quote “record deficit spending” as if the democrats were concerned about that. This year’s budget has a deficit that is 5 times that of last year’s. And actually, it is Congress that spends the money. The President makes the proposal, Congress tweeks it to their liking. The last 2 years od President Bush’s term is when the democrats were in control of Congress and spending. The economy was sailing along quite well until then. Don’t you remember? Low interest rates, low inflation, great market returns. It started down in 2007. You can’t argue with the charts. Saying it over and over again doesn’t make it so.
If you look at Bush’s entire term, you’ll see his budgets were just as large or larger with a republican congress for his first 6 years. In fact, Clinton handed Bush and the republicans a budget surplus with pay-as-you-go. Bush and the republicans promptly overturned the pay-as-you-go legislation and quickly drove the deficit to record heights. Facts are such pesky things, aren’t they?
Hmmm, seems like you might be next to be listed as a defendent as you are spreading the libel… typical democrat ploy…
btw, did you write about Tim Giethner, Tom Daschle, Charlie Rangel, Hilda Solis, Nancy Killefer et al - I’m sure you wrote a searing article about each and everyone and their non-tax paying pecidillos.. right?
”There’s a huge scientific breakthrough today. Researchers say they’re very close to finding someone from Obama’s Cabinet who’s actually paid their taxes,” Jay Leno said on NBC’s Tonight Show.
For you to point out the struggles of one man that has issues with the IRS is rich…
You will be writing many more articles if the US Gov’t doesn’t get ahold of itself and reign in spending… Americans far and wide will be lining up to be Olbermann’s “Worst Person In The World.”- a badge of honor considering the disguting depths you guys will dig to justify your pondscum politics…
Now, start at the top with The Elf, Geithner, and write a story about him, you know, the guy that runs the IRS but couldn’t figure out how to run Turbo-Tax and fraudulently claimed his girl’s summer camps as a buisness expense… get real
“For you to point out the struggles of one man that has issues with the IRS is rich…”
Yeah, especially when that man is the republican front for a “grassroots” effort to whine about paying taxes, when he himself hasn’t paid his taxes. rich…
The libel suit is because the original blogger erroneously claimed Leahy committed “tax fraud.” He has not committed any crime and the RCDP has never suggested or said Leahy has committed a crime. Leahy has acknowledge that “tax liens is an accurate statement,” and that’s is what is being reported here. It is a fact that Leahy has had tax liens, and it is a matter of public record as is Leahy’s libel lawsuit.
[...] In May, a blogger revealed that Williamson County Tea Party organizer Michael Patrick Leahy owed over $100,000 in tax liens and civil judgements. [...]