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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: 74798
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
Oh jeeze, not those Koch libertarians again! Good guess, could be. "Some people say I'm crazy, paranoid even, but they've never been attacked by pre-Cambrian life forms, have they?" ~Burt Gummer (Tremor)
Oh jeeze, not those Koch libertarians again! Good guess, could be. Again: "...can Be anything they want to be in this country." Now combine the Slave just getting his/her 'freedom', with the Koch Brothers, having freedom PLUS Billions of $$$ at their disposal. The Slave has to bring Mass Human Support to bear. The Koch Bros can just BUY gov't. And I can repeat this Ad Nauseum for your benefit. ;}
IMO us tax slaves aren't doing real well at winning elections and gaining liberty, with what's left of our slave wages. Maybe some fat cat libertarians with a fistful of dollars, buying TV ads, could help us? Is everyone with a wad of cash evil?
After say, $150 K a year (being generous here;}, pretty much. Who does a president represent, exactly? Why are we still in Afghanistan? 8D
Two good reasons at least, poppies and oil. Gotta protect those profits. The prez represents whomever will pay the most. No change from past administrations. In theory we could try some third party leadership, but it's a long shot. One thing for sure, little will change (except for the worse) with D's and R's running the show.
The prez represents whomever will pay the most. No change from past administrations. Thank you, H. But we continue to get less bang for the buck. Pakistan’s remote tribal agencies of North and South Waziristan are in a state of virtual panic tonight as US drones continue to loom in the air and three attacks against separate towns across the region killed at least 28 people and wounded an unknown number of others. The Daily Times story that Ditz links to goes on to describe the "great panic among the locals" as the American drones continued to hover over the defenseless towns even after the attack. No one could be sure when or if the robots would fire again. There was no way to stop the machines; they were impervious, implacable, just floating there, groaning in the sky, their "pilots" sitting safely and comfortably before computer screens thousands of miles away. You couldn’t get away, you couldn’t hide, you couldn’t protect your children. http://www.chaostheorien.de/startseite « Zurück The Language of Pipelines Samstag, 11. September 2010 05:23 von Lars Schall The historian Dr. Daniele Ganser from the University of Basel, Switzerland, answers in the following interview questions related to the “National Energy Policy Development Group” of 2001, Peak Oil and the connection to pipelines in Central Asia. According to Dr. Ganser it is very doubtful that NATO will succeed in Afghanistan in order to built the proposed pipeline from Turkmenistan to Pakistan/India.
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#6. To: mcgowanjm (#1)
**KOCH Bro's**
#7. To: hondo68 (#6)
#11. To: mcgowanjm (#7)
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The Slave has to bring Mass Human Support to bear. The Koch Bros can just BUY gov't.
#16. To: hondo68 (#11)
Is everyone with a wad of cash evil?
#19. To: mcgowanjm (#16)
Why are we still in Afghanistan?
#23. To: hondo68 (#19)
Two good reasons at least, poppies and oil. Gotta protect those profits.
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