Posted on 05/17/2005 12:04:34 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
You have to have the blessing of one of the established parties to become a congresscritter and he was virtually ignored by the Dumbocrats of Wa. State when he ran for Sec of State.
He ain't part of the in crowd. DU is not the established Dumbocrat party and thats who he needs.
The peeps he has credibility with are viewed as faaaaaaar left wingnuts by the mainstream Dumbocrat party.
The Grand Duh-mmie "Skinner" probably already has the 1,000 dues-paying members--he always does--but prolongs announcing the goal has been reached until the last day of the drive (and then refuses to state by how many, the goal was exceeded).
The Grand Duh-mmie "Skinner" never reveals dollar totals--unlike Free Republic--but the Grand Duh-mmie "Skinner" unwittingly revealed that DUmmieland takes in something less than $100,000 per year ($96,000? $97,000?), when he mentioned that in raising $50,000, felonious Andy and the deeply-troubled-multiple-personalitied DUmmie "sfexpat2000," raised two time as much as a quarterly fund-drive (like this one) for DUmmieland.
For the record, Free Republic raises about three times as much as DUmmieland, per year.....although Free Republic has more than three times the members, and much more than three times the traffic, as does DUmmieland (donate to Free Republic if you can, folks).
Somewhere on Free Republic, one can find an income-and-expenses report; one cannot find such a thing anywhere in DUmmieland. Which leads me to suspect that either the Grand Duh-mmie "Skinner" comes from money, or that the Grand Duh-mmie "Skinner," the Assistant Grand DUmmie "Elad," and the 5th Assistant Grand DUmmie "EarlG," wait on tables and somesuch, so as to keep DUmmieland going--it surely costs more than $100,000 per year.
So these guys are probably waiters and bus-boys on the side, struggling to keep DUmmieland going, while freely allowing the felonious Andy to use them for free, for his more-lucrative fund-raising.
I'll add those at the bottom of the list. They won't be in alphabetical order for now. I'm running short of time right now and will work on it later tonight and tomorrow.
I did a google on his paypal account name and came up with 122 sites asking for money:
http://www.google.com/search?q=%0D%0A%0D%0AAndy_Stephenson%40comcast.net%0D%0A&num=100&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&filter=0
Thanks! I'll check it out later.
That doesn't address the income from advertisers.
I'm not so sure that a glorified bulletin board costs 100k per year. I saw some DUers grousing about Skinner was gonna upgrade the servers last year but nothing had been done. Bet he got a 'grant' or some such for the initial investment (servers and software) and the other two are just tech nerds who keep the ship floating.
This whole affair just surprises me. When we first got this running 2 weeks ago, not in my wildest dreams would I have imagined a split between Will Pitt and Andy. All the documentation we have. I certainly never expected to ever talk to Andy. Having Bev Harris pop up on here herself? Oh Man! If this had been foretold at the beginning, who the hell would have believed it?
CU link, check out post #814.
which led me to this thunk:
you think Andy may have some extra DU names, just so he can pat himself on the back whenever needed?
Perhaps some of his most faithful followers don't even exist.
Would be interesting to see if there is anything to this... like how long does it take for a tagteamer to appear on one of Andy's threads or responses on DU.
Volunteer franksolich already showed up!
From post #2946
I am starting to get bites from various media, all of them telling me, "well, give me the Reader's Digest condensed version, and then the evidence." Uh, this is comparable to reducing War and Peace into two double-spaced typed pages. So, I have a proposal--keepers of the time-line, please note. I will gladly "sacrifice" my profile so as to contain the entire time-line, if those involved will send it to me. This way, I can give the reporters the link to one single place that has the sordid, tawdry details; also, this would give everyone who wishes, the advantage of just having to "click" on my name, to get those same details. Of course, since my "profile" is password-protected, that would mean that only I could make changes, amendments, and additions--but even though I've gotten six dozen eggs on my face the past two weeks, I'm sure I have enough "credibility" with all you others, to trust me to make those changes, amendments, and additions in a timely manner (and if not, P-J Comix, Charles Henrickson, speed-addiction, Purrcival, JLO, and commonguymd, will probably tie me to a bison, just to see what happens). This is all up to you, the keepers of the time-line. But I do need to have this all set up so it is easily accessible to news reporters; if anyone has a better idea, holler. Or if you like this idea--having my "profile" be the time-line, please send it to me. I'm going to sleep now; I'll be back later on in the day. 2,946 posted on 05/20/2005 8:28:46 AM CDT by franksolich (still on track)
I'm with you, it's getting pretty weird around here...
Ping to #3212.
Also, condensed version of Andy's paypal search - sites fundraising:
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q=++++Andy_Stephenson%40comcast.net++&btnG=Search
Oh, no.....frank is the Synopsis Czar. He won't have time to work on the links list. I would volunteer but I am now a highly respected "journalist" and Online Investigator™ for the FR News.
Of course you know I'm kidding. I have tried to compile a list of the websites, but usually get side tracked searching for other things. I'm not sure who will come forward to keep up on the list of websites but I have a partial list for comparison.
Ok, I have a simple, honest, naive question here.
How is it possible, that someone could perpetrate a hoax of this magnitude, in plain view of soooooooo many sites on the Net? I looked at that link with 122 sites and it BLOWS MY MIND!! I have thought all along something is not right with this, and I know things have not been presented honestly, but I'm having a hard time wrapping my mind around the idea that this could really be done.
Am I just naive here? None of this makes sense to me.
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LOL! I was thinking the list links would be part of the synopsis. You, know all the sites who got snookered.
I know there is another person who is some other list Czar about this; but can't recall the name.
I think it's because people are basically good and are so willing to help someone in need... and the fraudsters know exactly which buttons to push.
I can't believe this either, it's absolutely astounding how this has mushroomed. someone posted earlier a guesstimate of what may be the total haul for Andy - from all these sites - and I couldn't believe it then - now I'm not so sure that this thing could be in the 7 digits.
but we will never know.
Oh, isn't that special? Now Al Gore has blessed us with multiple internets...
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