Former State Rep. Al Salvi's decision to go public on Illinois Review with interaction he had with scandal-ridden IRS official Lois Lerner is drawing national attention. Thursday, the liberal blog Mediaite is ranting about the story mentioned on Fox and Friends by nationally-followed conservative blogger Michelle Malkin.
Steve Doocy reported that the IRS official in charge of tax-exempt status application who was recently placed on administrative leave, Lerner, was previously in charge of the enforcement division at the FEC where she was also engaged in targeting Republicans.
“She went after a Republican U.S. Senate candidate in the state of Illinois,” Doocy said. The report he referenced in the Illinois Review blog claims that Lerner approached Sen. Dick Durbin’s (D-IL) 1996 Republican challenger, State Rep. Al Salvi, after he was charged with two violations of FEC code. “Promise me you will never run for office again, and we’ll drop this case,” Salvi says Lerner told him.
