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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: 77708
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
Good guess. The Koch brothers have funded most libertarian / anti-government institutions from the Libertarian Party to the Cato Institute to Freedom Works, and now probably the Tea Party movement. They are true heroes of freedom. BRAVO!!!!!!
BRAVO!!!!!! Spoken like a true, entitled Nazi. To equate the Wealthiest(and All wealth comes from Undiscovered crimes;} with the Bottom 90% is obscene. And quoting that nazi from Alaska is ignorant.
No, I am for freedom. You are for government control. YOU are the Nazi. That's very clear.
YOU are the Nazi. That's very clear. I find it incredulous that Jimmy doesn't recognize his own image in the mirror. Honestly, what you've always proposed is a hybrid Stalinist-Nazism. The worst of ALL worlds, fella.
Spoken like a true, entitled Nazi. No, I am for freedom. You are for government control. YOU are the Nazi. That's very clear. I hate stupid people, like Ibluafartsky jwpegler posted on 2010-09-22 never mind. I found it. Made up. And passed on. Like Nazi's. Where Facts are irrelevant. History was yesterday. Double Standards only cut one way. And Everything's Legal cause we Nazi's are in charge. 8D September 23, 2010 THE IRAQ WAR -- PART I: The U.S. Prepares for Conflict, 2001 U.S. Sets "Decapitation of Government" As Early Goal of Combat Talking Points for Rumsfeld-Franks Meeting in November 2001 Outline Policy Makers’ Aims for the Conflict and Postwar Rule of Iraq Declassified Documents Show Bush Administration Diverting Attention and Resources to Iraq Less than Two Months after Launch of Afghanistan War National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 326 Posted - September 22, 2010 For more information contact: Joyce Battle - 202/994-7000 jbattle@gwu.edu
If you support the source of the problem, how can you claim to support the solution? YOU and your ilk are about CONTROL.
If gravity is real, why doesn't the moon have an atmosphere? YOU and your ilk are about CONTROL. LMFAO. Oh Yeah! You got me, copper! But I ain't goin down w/o a fight. As the US Empire collapses. And a btw: the solution is to stop. No worries on that, eh? 8D
The Afghan invasion was sold to the British and American people on the basis of a pack of lies. Presented as part of the war "against terrorism" in the aftermath of 9/11, it was supposed to eliminate the regime harbouring Osama Bin Laden and providing the main base of operations for Al Qaeda. US military and intelligence officials have subsequently admitted that there were less than 100 Al Qaeda members in all of Afghanistan. The occupation was then supposed to bring about democracy by deposing the Taliban. Instead it resulted in the installation of the despised puppet regime of Hamid Karzai, which is defended by US military force and presides over unspeakable conditions for the masses of people.
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#5. To: mcgowanjm (#1)
KOCH Bro's
#8. To: jwpegler (#5)
They are true heroes of freedom.
#10. To: mcgowanjm (#8)
Spoken like a true, entitled Nazi.
#26. To: jwpegler, mcgowanjm (#10)
You are for government control.
#28. To: Liberator, jwpegler (#26)
#10. To: mcgowanjm (#8)
#62. To: mcgowanjm (#28)
#64. To: Liberator (#62)
If you support the source of the problem, how can you claim to support the solution?
#65. To: All (#64)
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