After Request for Refund, City of Richmond Announces Audit of Tea Party Group

Via Don

Despicable little Collectivists.
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Remember a few weeks back when a Tea Party group in Virginia made a fuss about fees they paid the city for meeting space? Their argument, with which I agree, was that it was unfair for them to be charged thousands of dollars in fees when the city of Richmond was allowing occupiers to use public land without permits:

It’s not fair, the City of Richmond’s picking and choosing whose first amendment rights trump someone else’s first amendment rights and we thought – well that’s fine, then they can refund our money. If that’s how they’re going to run the city then they owe us our fees back.

Two weeks after this complaint hit the local papers, the Tea Party group received notice that they were being audited:

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