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Title: Tea Party group gets $1 million anonymous donation
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USA TODAY
URL Source: http://content.usatoday.com/communi ... 1-million-anonymous-donation/1
Published: Sep 21, 2010
Author: USA TODAY
Post Date: 2010-09-21 17:49:18 by Hondo68
Keywords: businessman, entrepreneur, Tea Party Patriots
Views: 75921
Comments: 66
A donor who does not want to be named has written a $1 million check to Tea Party Patriots, and the organization's national coordinators intend to push the funds out into the field by the beginning of next month -- in time to help with get-out-the-vote efforts for the Nov. 2 election. In a Q&A with reporters at the National Press Club, Mark Meckler and Jenny Beth Martin of Tea Party Patriots dropped a few hints about their benefactor: "He" is a businessman and entrepreneur, they said. Asked if he had given to other political causes, Meckler said he didn't know. The anonymous nature of the donation was Topic A at the press conference where Meckler and Martin announced the grant. Organized as a "social welfare" group under section 501(c)4 of the tax code, the Tea Party Patriots is not regulated by federal campaign finance laws and is not required to make its funding sources public. Meckler said the grant will be distributed among the Tea Party Patriots' 2,800 local affiliates to help further voter education and turnout efforts. "None of this money is to be used for direct election activities," he said. Translation: As long as the Tea Party Patriots do not mention candidates' names in their material or explicitly advocate for or against a specific candidates' election, they don't have to meet federal requirements to disclose their donors. This according to Paul Ryan, one of the experts at the Campaign Legal Center, a non-partisan watchdog group that monitors election law. "There certainly seems to be an increase" in the use of 501(c)4s to "launder" political donations, Ryan said. He said big donors find them "attractive" because they can give money without getting their names in public. Some business donors would prefer to keep their political preferences private to avoid alienating customers, Ryan noted. "The Target corporation is Exhibit A," he said. The reference is to the furor set off when news surfaced this year of the mega-retailer's financial support for a Minnesota gubernatorial candidate who opposed gay marriage. Gay rights advocates boycotted the company, and Target apologized to employees. At the news conference today, Meckler took a not-so-indirect swipe at a rival Tea Party organization, the Tea Party Express, which operates a full-fledged political action committee that has reported more than $5 million in donations to the Federal Election Commission. In a reference to the consulting firm of veteran political consultant Sal Russo, Meckler said the Tea Party Express answers to the "small, elite leadership team," that helped found the organization. "We're here to support the real grass-roots activists," Meckler said.
Poster Comment: Not the "Tea Party Express", which is Dick Army/GOP. Hopefully more Tea, and less GOP. Who's the donor, Soros or Rockerfeller?
Tea Party Patriots coordinators Mark Meckler and Jenny Beth Martin announce an anonymous $1 million grant for their 2,800 local chapters at the National Press Club in Washington. 
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#1. To: hondo68 (#0)
Cough****KOCH Bro's****Cough
The takeover has begun.
The Takeover is OVer. The Top 50 000 can't get any wealthier. The Bottom 90% will be crushed further by the Wealthy's Efforts to do just that. The Collapse has happened. We're just waiting on the Crash: Headline: 15 Million Unemployed Cheer Restored Wall St Bonuses 8D
Sure they can, and they will.
#17. To: Skip Intro (#15)
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Sure they can, and they will. No. They won't. They can't. " Let’s also consider the fact that more than 20 million people were on unemployment benefits last year. A Center on Budget and Policy Priorities analysis concluded that unemployment insurance temporarily kept 3.3 million people out of poverty. Food stamp assistance kept another 2.3 million people out of poverty. On top of that, an additional 2.3 million people in prison were not counted in the poverty rate. Add up these numbers and we are looking at 60 million Americans living in poverty. Which means the government number glosses over 16.4 million Americans in poverty. Now let’s look at the poverty line that these numbers are based on: $22,050 for a family of four. Let me repeat that: $22,050 for a family of four. That breaks down to $5513 per person, per year. I don’t know about you, but I can’t imagine living in the United States on $459 per month. That amount will barely get you a good health insurance policy, never mind food, clothes and a roof over your head. No wonder why a record 50.7 million Americans do not have health insurance. (Beware: 50.7 million Americans without health insurance is a government-based number. If you had health insurance for only one day last year, you are not counted in this total.)" http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/ Unless they can feed humans thru the grinder, faster. ;}
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#3. To: mcgowanjm (#1)
#9. To: Skip Intro (#3)
The takeover has begun.
#15. To: mcgowanjm (#9)
The Top 50 000 can't get any wealthier.
Replies to Comment # 15. The Top 50 000 can't get any wealthier.
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