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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Ohio Liberty Coalition
2531 Tiller Lane • Columbus, OH • 43231 •
740-837-4593 • 216-342-1147 (Fax)
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Sunday, May 6,
2012
Contact: Tom Zawistowski, Tom.Zawistowski@OhioLibertyCoalition.org 330-592-1848
OHIO LIBERTY COUNCIL CHANGING NAME TO OHIO
LIBERTY COALITION
Columbus, Ohio - The Ohio Liberty Council announced
today that it is changing it's name to Ohio Liberty Coalition after a unanimous
vote by its Board at it's April meeting. Tom Zawistowski, President of the OLC
explained, "For over two years there have been complaints from another
conservative organization, whose name is the Liberty Counsel, that our name -
Ohio Liberty Council - was confusing to the public. The Liberty Counsel is a
non-profit public interest law firm which is based out of Orlando, Florida.
After months of discussions to address the issue, it was mutually agreed that
we could clear up any confusion in the public's mind if we just changed the last
word of our name from Council to Coalition. Therefore, effective immediately,
the Ohio Liberty Council is now Ohio Liberty Coalition and our new web address
will be www.ohiolibertycoalition.org."
The phone numbers and mailing address for Ohio
Liberty Coalition will remain the same. For a period of time, people accessing
the previous web address will be redirected to the new web address and directed
to update their bookmarks. All of the organization's email addresses will have
to change to the new domain. Our new facebook page is http://www.facebook.com/OhioLibertyCoalition while
our Twitter address remains @OhioLiberty.
The Ohio Liberty Coalition is a coalition of Liberty
group leaders whose purpose is to unite conservative grassroots organizations
for greater effectiveness in the state and nation, and to provide resources for
member organizations to strengthen their groups. The OLC currently has over 75
liberty-minded groups across Ohio who are members of its coalition.
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Monday, May 7, 2012
Obama Campaign Office Violates Civil Rights Law
Civil rights lawyers told The Daily Caller that President Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign managers may have violated employment law by hiring an overwhelmingly white office staff for his campaign headquarters in Chicago.
That skewed workforce is starkly visible in an April photo released by Obama’s Chicago office, which shows roughly 100 of the office’s staff.
Only two of the people in the photo, far in the back, are clearly African-American, far below their 13 percent of the national population, and their 33-percent representation in Chicago.
Friday, May 4, 2012
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Wednesday, April 4, 2012
VOICES OF LIBERTY/MARION COUNTY TEA PARTY SECURITY STATEMENT FOR PRIVATE MEETINGS
Effective immediately all Voices of Liberty/Marion County Tea Party meetings are private meetings and as such our organization reserves the right to determine who may and may not attend and how the meeting will be conducted. We respect the first amendment right of free speech for all in attendance, and we are open to questions and comments at appropriate times. However, unruly or inconsiderate behavior will not be tolerated and may be grounds for removal from this event. Such behavior includes, but is not limited to: intoxication, profane, disruptive or abusive language or gestures, and offensive or disorderly conduct towards any guest or speaker.
Since we want to encourage open and honest discussion among attendees, we do not allow audio or video recording of the event other than by those people authorized by our organization. If you become aware of someone making an unauthorized recording of this event, please notify an officer of the VOL/TEA party immediately. We reserve the right to publish any audio or video of our meetings at our sole discretion, so please be aware that an electronic record is being made of anything you say or do while participating and may become available to the public.
In an effort to improve security, all members are being asked to sign in at the appropriate table upon arrival. We still have a need to grow our membership and educate the public by having them attend our meetings. Therefore, Guests are welcome and should be encouraged to come by our membership. However, non-members will need to be invited to attend, by a member, and will be asked to sign in using their identity and the members name.
Should we ever have an incident of any kind during one of our meetings, in close proximity to you personally, please do not engage the individual or individuals involved, but instead move yourself to another part of the room and allow our security staff to handle the situation.
We are confident that these measures will be sufficient to ensure a safe and productive environment for all of our meetings. Our group has always been courteous and respectful of our speakers and other attendees and we thank you all for representing yourself and our organization in a positive manner.
Friday, March 2, 2012
HOUSE WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE REGARDING IRS ACTIONS AGAINST TEA PARTY GROUPS
Columbus, Ohio - The Ohio Liberty Council welcomed the letter sent yesterday, March 1, 2012, by the House Ways and Means Committee Oversight Chairman Charles Boustany (R-LA) requesting that the IRS give a complete response to a previous request for general information on the tax-exempt sector, IRS audits and compliance activities related to tax-exempt organizations. The letter also requests additional information following reports that the IRS was questioning certain tax-exempt applicants, including grassroots political entities such as local TEA Party groups, about their operations and donors. For the past six weeks, hundreds of TEA Party groups and other conservative non-profit organizations across the country have suddenly received letters from the IRS demanding information about their members, donors, speakers at their events, affiliation with elected officials, and other highly confidential information.
Ohio Liberty Council President Tom Zawistowski said, “Those of us in the liberty movement who have been fighting against the politically motivated efforts of the IRS to intimidate and stop the activity of TEA Party groups around the nation, are glad to see someone giving the IRS a list of questions to answer about their actions and activites. We thank Chairman Boustany for beginning the process of finding out who is behind this attack on our First Amendment Rights to Political Free Speech and Freedom of Assembly. We hope in his next request to the IRS he will demand that the IRS show proof that they have asked the same questions of union and other liberal groups that are also 501(c)4 tax-exempt organizations.”
The Ohio Liberty Council is a council of leaders whose purpose is to unite conservative grassroots organizations for greater effectiveness in the state and nation, and to provide resources for member organizations to strengthen their groups. The OLC currently has over 75 liberty-minded groups across Ohio who are members of its coalition.
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Friday, February 17, 2012
OHIO LIBERTY COUNCIL REFUSES TO COMPLY WITH IRS REQUEST
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Thursday, February 16, 2010
Contact: Tom Zawistowski, TomZ@OhioLibertyCouncil.org
OHIO LIBERTY COUNCIL REFUSES TO COMPLY WITH IRS REQUEST
Columbus, Ohio - The Ohio Liberty Council today announce that it would refuse to comply with an IRS request for information concerning the organizations application for non-profit status which has been delayed for the past 18 months. The IRS was informed in a letter today from Ohio Liberty Council President, Tom Zawistowski, that said “We find that your requests are unreasonable, overly burdensome, intrusive and possibly politically motivated and that they have little to do with determining our organization’s qualifications for non-profit status. Instead we believe that your requests force our organization to either forfeit our First Amendment Rights to Free Political Speech and Freedom of Assembly or deny us the non-profit status we are entitled to under IRS regulations. Neither of which is acceptable.”
The letter went on to say “Therefore, we hereby refuse to comply with your request. We have asked our Congressional Representatives to investigate your actions and intentions and we are exploring every legal means available to defend our rights. We answered all pertinent questions about our organization in our detailed original 1024 application in June of 2010 and see no reason why non-profit status should not be granted. We hereby request that our organization be granted non-profit status on the basis of that application without further delay.”
Zawistowski closed by saying “I defy any American to read this list of demands by the IRS and not be outraged. This is the kind of personal information that this government is going to be demanding from your church, your doctor, your hospital, your business and your favorite charity going forward. This isn’t speculation, these documents prove it is actually happening and will continue - particularly under Obamacare. Like the Catholic Church, we will not comply, we will resist with all our might, and defend the Constitution.”
The Ohio Liberty Council is a council of leaders whose purpose is to unite conservative grassroots organizations for greater effectiveness in the state and nation, and to provide resources for member organizations to strengthen their groups. The OLC currently has over 75 liberty-minded groups across Ohio who are members of its coalition.
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