Morning, everyone!
Let’s spin that airlock door and get started!
Looks like someone blew the whistle on the grift-o-rama that is the Tea Party! (there is no tea party)
Hey, Freepers! Remember your red-faced exhortations to give to tebagger PACs instead of the RNC? I do.
50 Million Down The Tubes: How 17 Conservative PACs Are Spending Their Money (Stunning Disclosure)
Right Wing News ^ | 17 Feb 15 | John Hawkins
Posted on 2/17/2015 9:51:04 AM by xzins
What a shocker! Everybody on the Professional Left has been sniggering for years about the ignorant Republican poors scraping up what utility money they haven’t already given to Pat Robertson, and pissing it down a PAC sinkhole, but suddenly, the rubes have awakened!
To: All; Jim Robinson; onyx
This is a truly sad report. Rove wastes money and others manipulate us just to enrich themselves.
That’s right, constant readers – it’s not the rubes – it’s not the goniffs and bunco artists who are to blame here – it’s CARL FUCKING ROVE!!
What better reason that to give to FREE REPUBLIC!
2 posted on 2/17/2015 9:54:53 AM by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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(by the way, Free Republic is having even more trouble than usual with their never-ending Freepathon, but we’ll get to that in the next thread)
So, Freepers – what’s your reaction to the fact that you’ve been played like a cheap guitar?
To: xzins
All I know is that the Liberals spent a LOT of money in 2014 and got their butts kicked on election day.
4 posted on 2/17/2015 9:56:32 AM by Cowboy Bob (Isn’t it funny that Socialists never want to share their own money?)
So your defense is that somebody else spent money? Money that actually went to their candidates? That’s it?
To: xzins
To my mind, most of these records if true are completely reprehensible, bordering on near fraud, actually. With the exception of CFG who I think is legitimately conservative and not GOPe related, they are pitiful records.
I had suspicions about Jenny Beth Martin and the TPP here in Georgia and was rightly so.
There was a thread yesterday from someone asking what to do about donations to ‘tea party whatevers’. My advice was to put the money into individual campaigns and bypass them altogether.
6 posted on 2/17/2015 10:01:59 AM by Gaffer
That’s the ticket! Eliminate the middleman!
To: Nevadan
That’s the way I read it. If you further read the entire accompanying narrative with the article at the leak, you will see that a common trick by some of them is to expense-out money to vendors for all sorts of things. It also says there are MANY of these PACs whose ‘vendors’ are employees, workers, relatives or other persons not wholly identified. What’s worse FEC regs don’t require them to go beyond the first vendor expenditure. Thus, that expenditure gets credited as an expense. This study sought to find out the truth – and the truth is very ugly my FRiend.
11 posted on 2/17/2015 10:16:58 AM by Gaffer
To: Nevadan
I’ve suspected this all along. When I saw Jenny Beth Martin of the Tea Party Patriots being interviewed on TV about what she and her group directly did to help that professor oust Eric Cantor in Virginia and exactly what her group was doing in the way of funding the Senatorial Primary in Louisiana, I got my answer – essentially not a damn thing.
16 posted on 2/17/2015 10:52:27 AM by Gaffer
To: Gaffer
Frumpy Jenny Beth (Tea Party Patriots) has made millions off the backs of sincere Patriots.
She went from bankruptcy to living in a lakefront mansion in a gated community.
17 posted on 2/17/2015 11:19:33 AM by bimboeruption (REMEMBER MISSISSIPPI!)
To: Gaffer
Right, and she likes to brag about all the Tea Party groups that are under the Tea Party Patriots umbrella in order to lure in more suckers.
The last time I went to her site I saw a lot of Tea Party groups listed, but a vast majority of them hadn’t met in 3 years…they no longer existed.
Mark Levin does ads for her. I wish he’d check them out.
19 posted on 2/17/2015 11:31:04 AM by bimboeruption (REMEMBER MISSISSIPPI!)
To: bimboeruption; Gaffer
I have given $ to Tea Party Patriots twice before.
They call me almost every day. I refuse their calls. Next time they call I will answer and let them know why they will never see another dime from me.
27 posted on 2/17/2015 1:00:07 PM by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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To: Gaffer
“To my mind, most of these records if true are completely reprehensible, bordering on near fraud, actually.”
I am forced to agree.
We’ve long known that we have more than our share of con artists on our side of the aisle, people like Karl Rove who’ll say anything at any given minute if they think it’ll bring in a couple more donations. But some of the names on this list are deeply troubling.
I used to think better of Sarah Palin, but this is indefensible. I can only hope that she’ll refute this report with hard facts if it’s false. Because if these numbers are true, she’s just another scam artist raising a fortune from conservatives who really thought their money could make a difference to more than a grifter’s bank account.
40 posted on 2/17/2015 6:36:53 PM by highball (“I never should have switched from scotch to martinis.” — the last words of Humphrey Bogart)
Oh dear.
One Freeper’s not convinced:
To: xzins
I wonder if money is being stockpiled for 2016?
Stockpiled, yes. For candidates? Not so much.
I’d need to have more info before I can determine if the Tea Party PAC’s are really a ripoff.
34 posted on
2/17/2015 3:24:12 PM by
liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob ‘urban yutes’ and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
Almost the post of the thread:
To: Gaffer; All
It has always puzzled me how the super rich like the Koch Brothers have been able to persuade so many modest income people to vote against some of their own interests.
46 posted on 2/18/2015 1:08:33 AM by gleeaikin
And now – the actual post of the thread!
To: xzins
Imagine the shenanigans the Clintons and their fellow travelers commit with all their fundraising.
38 posted on 2/17/2015 4:59:58 PM by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
That’s right – speaking fees paid directly to the Clintons = Teabagger PACs scamming you by promising that they’ll support your candidates.
Exact same thing.
More after the non-tax-deductable contribution.
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