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Title: In It For The Money? Conservative PAC Spends Big, But Not On Candidates
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URL Source: http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsme ... ends_big_not_on_candidates.php
Published: Mar 20, 2010
Author: Justin Elliott
Post Date: 2010-03-20 12:18:45 by Skip Intro
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Views: 32657
Comments: 86
A California-based PAC called the Republican Majority Campaign spent nearly all of the $1.7 million it raked in from conservative donors last year, but less than 2% of the money went to supporting candidates or independent political spending. The rest of the money raised by the group went to operating expenses, salaries for the PAC's top officers, and back into fundraising appeals -- which often ask supporters for as much as $144 in exchange for sending faxes opposing health care reform to members of Congress. The lion's share -- roughly $1.3 million -- of the group's 2009 fundraising haul went to a murky Arizona telemarketing firm that goes under the name Political Advertising, which has been linked to questionable PAC activities in the past. Its business type in the state's registry is given as "telephone fundraising." Republican Majority Campaign's Executive Director is Gary Kreep, the California-based attorney and activist who produced and starred in the Birthermercial. That was the late-night program that, much like the Republican Majority Campaign email appeals, asked viewers to donate $30 to send faxes to Attorney General Eric Holder demanding that President Obama produce his birth certificate. The Birthermercial was produced by Kreep's United States Justice Foundation, which describes itself as "your conservative voice in the courts." United States Justice Foundation and the Republican Majority Campaign are in adjacent suites at the same address in the San Diego County, CA, town of Ramona. And while the groups have different phone numbers, calls by TPMmuckraker to each group were answered by the same receptionist. The Republican Majority Campaign paid Kreep about $60,000 in 2009, mainly for "legal services," according to FEC records. Randy Goodwin, the group's co-founder and treasurer, was paid just over $75,000 for, among other things, "accounting services," "management services," and "medical reimbursement." Neither man has responded to requests for comment. "It's a business model," says Meredith McGehee, policy director at the Campaign Legal Center. "Whoever gives to one of these groups, they probably don't realize it, but there are no laws or rules governing a percentage PACs need to give to candidates or spend on a particular kind of activity." One of Republican Majority Campaign's recent fundraising pitches, sent on the email list of the conservative magazine Human Events, is headlined "Obamacare: The Final Battle!" and begins like this: Dear Fellow American, Barack Hussein Obama has spoken. YOU, the American people, have decided NOT to listen! Mr. Obama's LIES have been uncovered! The e-mail contains no less than five sections asking the reader to: Please, CLICK HERE to FAX every Member of Congress to tell them to EXPOSE OBAMACARE as a complete sham. AND, please GIVE your largest possible DONATION to the Republican Majority Campaign to help us DEFEAT OBAMACARE! Recipients who click through find a page where they can choose from several donation options -- $19 to $144 -- to send faxes to, for example, "ALL 59 Democrat/Independent U.S. Senators And a Donation for just $49." McGehee notes that sending faxes can be a legitimate way to lobby Congress, but with some groups "it is a product without much value. It is a product geared to getting the money in, not towards actually producing meaningful results. They'll do a fairly perfunctory thing." You can see Republican Majority Campaign's anti-health reform fax to Congress, which is headlined "'NO MORE FEAR; NO MORE LIES!' VERY IMPORTANT FAX / PLEASE ELIMINATE OBAMACARE," here. The group made news this last week when it released an ad trying to link Sen. Harry Reid to Arab "slave-bosses." That ad represents a rare instance of the Republican Majority Campaign spending in support of a candidate. While the PAC spent $3 million in the 2008 cycle, mostly on ads against Barack Obama, the picture has changed markedly since that time. In 2009, the group spent just $15,600 -- out of $1.6 million in total spending -- on contributions to candidates, according to its latest FEC report. Most of that money went to New York conservative congressional candidate Doug Hoffman and Rep. Bill Posey (R-FL). The Republican Majority Campaign also spent about $15,000 on independent expenditures -- paying for a consultant -- to work in support of Marco Rubio in the Florida Senate race. So where did most of the money go? About $1.3 million went to the Arizona telephone fundraising firm called Political Advertising for services described on FEC forms as "phone/mail communication." Located on the tenth floor of an office building in downtown Mesa, Political Advertising is another name for the Political Call Center, according to Arizona corporate records. The company's Web site advertises for "tele service agent" positions, but contains virtually no information about what the firm does. State records list Political Call Center's owners as a pair of Delaware-based companies called the Corporation Trust Center and HCC Investment. Despite the records listing, a spokeswoman for Corporation Trust Center's parent company tells TPMmuckraker that Corporation Trust Center does not own Political Call Center, but rather provides a legal service for the firm. The number for HCC Investment goes to a company called Wilmington Equities, which, like Political Call Center itself, did not respond to a request for comment. This isn't the first time Political Advertising has been on our radar. TPMmuckraker first reported on Political Advertising and the Republican Majority Campaign in 2008. At the time, several PACs associated with former Reagan Administration official Linda Chavez and her family had been the subject of a Washington Post expose detailing how the groups churned through millions on fundraising and salaries but spent little on political activity. Two of the Chavez-linked groups -- the Pro-Life Campaign Committee and the Republican Issues Committee -- had used the services of Political Call Center under a previous name, HCC Political Advertising.
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#41. To: mininggold (#35)
Is that you or your fifth of Gilbey's talking? Nevermind - you two are indistinguishable.
What "bunch" is that? Those laughing and waving at you up in your perch in the belfry? Few a more clueless and insular from reality than you.
One comment is quite a bit? LOLOL Forget the obsessions, it's delusions you are suffering from. I don't think you are a neocon though, but they have you so intimidated you are afraid to use the King's English in describing the problem.
Few a more clueless and insular from reality than you. From an angelic Bible quoter to a gutter mouth in less than 24 hours and Sunday ain't over yet.
Oh wait, one last thought. Can you arrange for me to to suck Barack's dick?
I'm going to make one more attempt to post to you - in the unlikely event you may still have one or two brain cells functioning. In case you haven't noticed, our country is in its death throes. We can argue all day long as to who's at fault, or when it started. You say everything bad began with Bush. I say it was FDR (or even Lincoln) In the end, it doesn't matter. The criminals running the enterprise NOW - AT THIS POINT IN TIME - are not named Bush or Cheney. Can you get that through your thick head? Did Bush and Cheney do un-constitutional things? YES. Did Bush say the constitution was just a GD piece of paper? YES. Did Bush pave the way for Obama? YES. IS BUSH OR CHENEY IN CHARGE NOW - AT THIS POINT IN TIME? NO! IS OBAMA AND HIS CRONIES IN CHARGE NOW - AT THIS POINT IN TIME? YES! It is frustrating as hell to see people like you either being intentionally obtuse. Or are you just stupid. We still have a few freedoms left. We can piss the rest of them away, whining about neocons and the former evils Bush and Cheney. Or we can recognize the REAL AND PRESENT evil - Obama. I don't know what form resistance should take. But I know what form it SHOULDN'T take. Yours. Wise the hell up.
Obammy sez it Our country is a long way off from being in any kind of death throes. But just to humor you.... until you identify the cause just how can you rectify the problem? Every thing else is just applying a bandaid and will not cure the problem. That's what is wrong with the current state of the tea party movement. They are letting themselves be led around by the nose by those who created the problems in the first place.
The 'ignore' worked for the thread you posted, now stones bozo filter will take care of you...
It's okay Buckie, I'm sure you can find a way to do that on your own.
"Gutter mouth"? No - that's you waking up in a gutter. With the usual empty fifth of Gilbey's hanging from it. I appreciate your effort in putting the bottle down long enough to type your usual hyperbolic hysterics.
I appreciate your effort in putting the bottle down long enough to type your usual hyperbolic hysterics. Why are you posting here since there are no posters worthy of your vast intellectual posting expertise?
The apparent lack of critical thinking is frustrating indeed. Not long after coming to this board I posted something to war along these lines: he seemed to have above average intelligence, but he was "eaten up with the goofies" in his obsession with Bush. I indicated to him that such obsessions weren't healthy, and he should quit feeding it. His response? A real "intelligent" one - I'm a bot. You used the word "contrarian". I believe that defines war to a "T".
Obammy sez it If you look closely that's not war, that's periodwar.
Dodge, the woman wouldn't recognize a runaway trainwreck if it landed three feet from her. C-L-U-E-LESS. The question is how people like this can remain so detached from reality at their relative advanced age when wisdom is normally imbued upon one. Frankly, I wonder how they dress themselves or handle money in denominations of more than a few dollars at a time. NOTHING 0bama and the Dems do affect these people, thus we should conclude that they can either be onboard with his agenda, or are just oblivious pods.
Thank you, thank you. You don't know how relieved I am. Now if I could get war to stop calling me a bot, my life would be complete.
Obammy sez it 1 + 1 = 3 to them. Always. They are hard-wired to disengage from our dimension of reality - I'm not being facetious. You used the word "contrarian". I believe that defines war to a "T". Yep. Yet he claims NOT to support or endorse 0bama. If he could, war would claim dibs on "the head of a pin." If there's anything he hates it's being pegged.
I know it's not war, it someone who wants to needle him, could be packass himself for all we know...who cares, whoever it is, they're a coward hiding behind someone elses name...
LOL
The question is how people like this can remain so detached from reality at their relative advanced age when wisdom is normally imbued upon one. Frankly, I wonder how they dress themselves or handle money in denominations of more than a few dollars at a time. NOTHING 0bama and the Dems do affect these people, thus we should conclude that they can either be onboard with his agenda, or are just oblivious pods. Why do you insist on posting here with us plain country rubes when your higher IQ'd intellectual equals are on LP? And since this country has never, ever weathered any economic storms in it's history before, I'm sure by this time next year we will all be on street corners selling apples or probably in your case, jumping from high rises.
NOTHING 0bama and the Dems do affect these people, thus we should conclude that they can either be onboard with his agenda, or are just oblivious pods. If you drew a straight line, labeled the right end "Liberty" and the left end "Totalitarianism", where did the country fall on the line in 1789? In 1860? 1865? 1900? 1913? 1939? 1980? 2000? 2010? Has the country not been moving in a steadily leftward direction (with few interruptions?) You're right, Lib. Miz Gold is onboard with Obama's agenda. Likely sucking the government teat, and ready for more.
Obammy sez it Crying in your beer with that Libby. LOLOLOL I voted for Ron Paul, but I'm sure you see that as a vote for Obama since that's how you concrete thinking types rationalize. Have you ever thought maybe your problem is with yourself? Let me be prophetic now...I bet you voted for the lesser of two evils and felt good about it too. LOLOL
BZZZZZZZZZT! You lose. I voted for Bob Barr
Obammy sez it Has the country not been moving in a steadily leftward direction (with few interruptions?) You nailed the major catalysts - Lincoln's Civil War, Wilson's collaboration with the banking Elites, FDR's socialism and surrender to Stalin, Dubya's 9/11 and Wars-to-Go, and of course the final chapter to the End Game with so called "President" who would have been either been ridiculed arrested, jailed, or indicted for Treason at one time or another for a good 200 or so years of the American Republic. Ever since the curtain had fallen on Reagan's Reign, we have plummeted head first into the Leftists' abyss - no doubt about it. In earnest, the acceleration had begun with Poppy Bush, but ALL the wheels fell off....in 2009. Miz Gold is onboard with Obama's agenda. Likely sucking the government teat, and ready for more. VERY likely.
What a snob; Mininggold cries (and cackles hysterically) in her ubiquitous fifth of (fill-in-the-blank.)
You need to analyze your behavior and find the appropriate Bible quote condemning it.
Ever since the curtain had fallen on Reagan's Reign, we have plummeted head first into the Leftists' abyss - no doubt about it. In earnest, the acceleration had begun with Poppy Bush, but ALL the wheels fell off....in 2009. You conveniently forgot the Savings and Loan crisis during which 747 S and Ls failed or were taken over by the US Government, which happened under your hero Reagan and directly involved your other hero McCain.
0bama is governing like a tyrant and thug, admitted his scam is about wealth redistribution, is riddling our prestige, ridiculing our sovereignty, and purposely and utterly destroying of our economy - and yet you marginalize his obvious evil as a mere "economic storm"?? This laissez-faire statement of yours underscores your total obliviousness. Have you any idea of what the hell is going on?
There is a verse or two about "liars," but I don't have the Scripture off-hand.
You're equating Reagan with McCain? *chortle* You possess no sense of proportion - none whatsoever. But that should be the worst of your problems - analytical and otherwise.
If McCain had been elected and had a bank scandal and passed an amnesty during his reign, you would be right up there singing his praises too. Your problem is: you are either blind to or choose to ignore the faults of those who you choose to lavish your childish hero worship on.
Oh come on.... you were putting out the verses yesterday like a pastor looking for a new church.
Yeah I agree.... since most "conservatives" lately seem like defeatist clones of you, there probably is not a shred of hope left for this country. Maybe you should be on suicide watch.
Your first post ever to me on this board was, in a back handed manner, to extol the virtues of Sarah Palin who is an even dumber version of Boy Blunder with tits. So take your overdeveloped, yet vastly under deserved, sense of self righteousness and shove it...
Day 29 of Packrat refusing to register here. Day 27 of Boofer The One Eyed Wonder Bot refusing to answer: When is Blackwell going to have the recount? Jan 30, 2006 ... by saveliberty (Proud to be Head Snowflake, Bushbot...
The country was founded by several leftists...why are you surprised? Man governing himself?!? The horror... The fact is, Henry, you're great at making obtuse observations but pretty thin at offering anything that resembles a solution to the vast array of problems that this country has developed. The most glaring one being the widening disparity between the capabilities of this society and access to those capabilities. Cancer can be cured. Is it the characteristic of a just society that not all who are so afflicted can get the best treatment available? Treatments, the development of which, that has often been HEAVILY subsidized by the taxpayer? And you never got back to me on your Alfredo sauce...
Day 29 of Packrat refusing to register here. Day 27 of Boofer The One Eyed Wonder Bot refusing to answer: When is Blackwell going to have the recount? Jan 30, 2006 ... by saveliberty (Proud to be Head Snowflake, Bushbot...
It would appear that you have another stalker.
Yea...if feel so fucking special...like a member of the AC fucking C does... [wink]
Day 29 of Packrat refusing to register here. Day 27 of Boofer The One Eyed Wonder Bot refusing to answer: When is Blackwell going to have the recount? Jan 30, 2006 ... by saveliberty (Proud to be Head Snowflake, Bushbot...
No... I am fairly certain that it is Patriot Henry...or We The People...
Day 29 of Packrat refusing to register here. Day 27 of Boofer The One Eyed Wonder Bot refusing to answer: When is Blackwell going to have the recount? Jan 30, 2006 ... by saveliberty (Proud to be Head Snowflake, Bushbot...
Felatorator doesn't need to live by the Bible as long as he is able to quote it...
Day 29 of Packrat refusing to register here. Day 27 of Boofer The One Eyed Wonder Bot refusing to answer: When is Blackwell going to have the recount? Jan 30, 2006 ... by saveliberty (Proud to be Head Snowflake, Bushbot...
Define "leftist." Then name these leftists.
Obammy sez it You used the term. What did YOU mean by it?
Day 29 of Packrat refusing to register here. Day 27 of Boofer The One Eyed Wonder Bot refusing to answer: When is Blackwell going to have the recount? Jan 30, 2006 ... by saveliberty (Proud to be Head Snowflake, Bushbot...
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestSince I have the facts and data on my side you are the one obsessed. Cal....ifornia con....vict is that you? LOLOL
#42. To: mininggold (#39)
They are quite nuts at this stage of the game. One year of a president they didn't vote for was all it took. What a bunch of pansies, and these types are going to fight a revolution? Just way too funny from this bunch.
#43. To: Get Outta Dodge! (#36)
#44. To: Liberator (#42)
What "bunch" is that? Those laughing and waving at you up in your perch in the belfry?
#45. To: mininggold (#39)
#46. To: mininggold (#35)
I believes it
an' that settles it!
#47. To: Get Outta Dodge! (#46)
#48. To: .war (#45)
#49. To: .war (#45)
Can you arrange for me to to suck Barack's dick?
#50. To: mininggold (#44)
From an angelic Bible quoter to a gutter mouth in less than 24 hours and Sunday ain't over yet.
#51. To: Liberator (#50)
"Gutter mouth"? No - that's you waking up in a gutter. With the usual empty fifth of Gilbey's hanging from it.
#52. To: Liberator, war (#37)
What gets tiring is the same ol' lack of critical thinking and intellectual dishonesty from the same people.
I believes it
an' that settles it!
#53. To: Murron (#48)
.war
#54. To: Get Outta Dodge!, mininggold (#46)
To MININGGOLD: "In case you haven't noticed, our country is in its death throes...It is frustrating as hell to see people like you either being intentionally obtuse. Or are you just stupid."
#55. To: mininggold (#43)
I don't think you are a neocon though
I believes it
an' that settles it!
#56. To: Get Outta Dodge! (#52)
The apparent lack of critical thinking is frustrating indeed.
#57. To: Fred Mertz (#53)
If you look closely that's not war, that's periodwar.
#58. To: Get Outta Dodge! (#55)
#59. To: Liberator (#54)
Dodge, the woman wouldn't recognize a runaway trainwreck if it landed three feet from her. C-L-U-E-LESS.
#60. To: Liberator, mininggold (#54)
Our country is a long way off from being in any kind of death throes.
I believes it
an' that settles it!
#61. To: Get Outta Dodge! (#60)
(Edited)
#62. To: mininggold (#61)
Let me be prophetic now...I bet you voted for the lesser of two evils and felt good about it too. LOLOL
I believes it
an' that settles it!
#63. To: Get Outta Dodge! (#60)
If you drew a straight line, labeled the right end "Liberty" and the left end "Totalitarianism", where did the country fall on the line in 1789? In 1860? 1865? 1900? 1913? 1939? 1980? 2000? 2010?
#64. To: mininggold, Get Outta Dodge! (#61)
Crying in your beer with that Libby. LOLOLOL
#65. To: Liberator (#64)
What a snob; Mininggold cries (and cackles hysterically) in her ubiquitous fifth of (fill-in-the-blank.)
#66. To: Liberator (#63)
You nailed the major catalysts - Lincoln's Civil War, Wilson's collaboration with the banking Elites, FDR's socialism and surrender to Stalin, Dubya's 9/11 and Wars-to-Go, and of course the final chapter to the End Game with so called "President" who would have been either been ridiculed arrested, jailed, or indicted for Treason at one time or another for a good 200 or so years of the American Republic.
#67. To: mininggold (#59)
Since this country has never, ever weathered any economic storms in it's history before, I'm sure by this time next year we will all be on street corners selling apples or probably in your case, jumping from high rises.
#68. To: mininggold (#65)
#69. To: mininggold (#66)
your hero Reagan and directly involved your other hero McCain.
#70. To: Liberator (#69)
(Edited)
You're equating Reagan with McCain?
#71. To: Liberator (#68)
There is a verse or two about "liars," but I don't have the Scripture off-hand.
#72. To: Liberator (#67)
0bama is governing like a tyrant and thug, admitted his scam is about wealth redistribution, is riddling our prestige, ridiculing our sovereignty, and purposely and utterly destroying of our economy - and yet you marginalize his obvious evil as a mere "economic storm"??
#73. To: Fred Mertz (#53)
Not long after coming to this board I posted something to war along these lines: he seemed to have above average intelligence, but he was "eaten up with the goofies" in his obsession with Bush. I indicated to him that such obsessions weren't healthy, and he should quit feeding it.
#74. To: Get Outta Dodge! (#60)
(Edited)
Has the country not been moving in a steadily leftward direction
#75. To: war (#73)
#76. To: Bartcoprules (#75)
(Edited)
#77. To: mininggold (#35)
(Edited)
Cal....ifornia con....vict is that you?
#78. To: mininggold (#65)
You need to analyze your behavior and find the appropriate Bible quote condemning it.
#79. To: war (#74)
The country was founded by several leftists
I believes it
an' that settles it!
#80. To: Get Outta Dodge! (#79)
Define "leftist."
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