BNA Money and Politics ($$) reports that Judith Kindell, the senior technical adviser to the director of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Exempt Organizations Division, has publicly stated that the report on prohibited political activity by charities during the 2008 election has been further delayed. The report, originally expected to be released at the end of March or in April, covers the IRS' Political Activities Compliance Initiative (PACI) during the last election. Kindell said, "It's probably more 'IRS soon' than 'real-life soon,'" implying that it will likely be awhile before the report is published.

Meanwhile, the IRS has decided that the Texas Restoration Project's efforts to mobilize members of conservative Christian churches in Texas to support Gov. Rick Perry's (R) reelection campaign in 2006 were in fact permissible. The Texas Freedom Network filed a complaint with the IRS charging that the Niemoller Foundation sponsored events amounted to illegal partisan activity. They held a series of closed-door pastor conferences, encouraging pastors and congregations to get out the vote and support Perry's campaign. The IRS ruled that church congregations were "told to vote their values," but not for a specific candidate. According to the Dallas Morning News, "Perry took an active role in developing the Texas Restoration Project, a network of evangelical pastors that encouraged voter registration and the election of candidates reflecting a conservative moral agenda."