Posted on 01/21/2016 4:41:30 PM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans
In response to Sarah Palin's endorsement of candidate Donald Trump, an apoplectic Glenn Beck has announced his intent to rally with Ted Cruz in Waterloo Iowa.
However, the event itself is being organized by a pro-Cruz group 'Keep the Promise 1' (KtP1), a Super-pac originally started by billionaire hedge-funder Robert Mercer, who eventually turned over control of the Political Action Committee (PAC) to David Barton.
David Barton is Co-Chair for Glenn Beck's Mercury One charity, and the assembly of interests provides an opportunity to explain how all of these entities connect.
[GPH: Documents at link]
Billionaire Robert Mercer originally started KtP to promote candidate Ted Cruz. Eventually three pro-Cruz KtP enterprises were started but not before $500,000 was transferred to start up another Super-PAC for Carly Fiorina, "Carly for America" (CfA).
The Federal Election Commission sent an inquiry directed to Mercer's KtP, requesting an explanation of why a Pro-Cruz Super-PAC would be funding the start up of a Pro-Carly Super-PAC. -LINK-
The financial transfer remains a mystery, but common sense and a look at the timing of the transfer, would indicate this was a way for Robert Mercer to hedge his bets (no pun intended) in the event Fiorina gained more traction than Cruz. Mercer obviously wanted to have self-interested influence with both candidates.
The extraordinarily wealthy influence agent, Robert Mercer currently owes the IRS somewhere between $6 billion and $10 billion dollars. If he can help purchase a White House victory for either candidate, obviously the scales could be tipped in his favor.
However, as noted, not long after founding the political committee, Mercer turned over the Super-PAC to Glenn Beck's friend and business partner David Barton.
Barton (pictured right) now runs "KtP1" in addition to being Co-Chair for Beck's Mercury One charity.
But the Mercer influence didn't just stop with the KtP organization.
The billionaire also purchased a controlling stake in Breitbart.Com, who then began promoting a years' long poll of presidential candidates.
Unknown throughout most of 2015 – in the background for the poll data was actually a secondary Mercer enterprise, Cambridge Analytica.
Cambridge Analytica is a rather spooky enterprise consisting of a massive data-mining operation collecting the information of Breitbart.Com poll users. This data was then organized, packaged and used for social media micro-targeting and Ted Cruz campaign donation requests.
It is from the Cambridge Analytica data that millions of targeted GOP voters are inundated with Ted Cruz campaign donor requests.
In essence Robert Mercer used his financing to create a massive data set which targeted voters and then, in order to work around FEC limits on campaign finance rules, Mercer (via Cambridge Analytica) sells the data to the Ted Cruz campaign via KtP. See example FEC filing.
(See link for the rest, along with pictures, sources and documentation)
Yes, and he frequently let loose in a way that was more than embarrassing, because he was clearly out of control. Thin-skinned doesn’t come close to describing his behavior.
He attacked the person terribly, wanted the person to meet him in person so he could beat the person up, called the person a drunk, on and on.
I can honestly say, when you see people who tout themselves as “true conservatives” or “real principled” people—and you witness a completely different side to them-—! it’s disgusting. That’s not how conservatives act. Ever. I’m really not kidding.
Fantastic find, GPH. Reflects more poorly on Beck and Barton than Cruz. Beck was in the bag nine months ago.
““a fancy schvartze with a mustache,†“
A Yiddish insult is the best there is.
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You’re welcome. We are all in the company of strange bedfellows, but that little bit with Rove & Loesch, took the cake for me especially — she was on CNN for a bit but was a disaster b/c she wasn’t well informed and they let her go.
When she popped up on Fox, I was very surprised because Rove is such a darling there, you’d think they’d have done their homework on their Tea Party leader pundit.
I've been to Breitbart occasionally to read an article or two that was linked from somewhere else, but never given them any contact information. The only ways I can think of that they would have gotten my mailing address would be from voter registration records (I was Republican before reregistering Unaffiliated) or from one of several gun rights organizations I belong to. Maybe it's the NRA.
Thanks (both) for the back story. I’m going to search holdonnow and catch up (i wake up in the middle of the night—so they will be my reading material).
I’m taken aback by it too. Seems not long ago that Mark was talking about his wife taking him to a tai chi class for his health (after a heart attack or heart issue?).
It seems to me, that FOX doesn’t care; they’ll put anyone on, willy nilly now. Why they stick with Rove is beyond me.
Then it’s as big a mystery as we getting begging SPAM from Carson on cell phones! I almost NEVER even turn mine on, nor do I use it to post here, etc.!
How can you tell Beck wasn’t apoplectic about Palin endorsing Trump?
The loon is apoplectic 24/7.
You’re welcome. :-)
Yes, really bad heart attack, but that was a while ago.
I don’t think that ANY OF US knew that he was divorced.
Could have been more than 10 years ago, the wife reference on air. At my age, a decade seems like yesterday. :-)
I caught part of Levin today. I thought he said he didn’t think it was Trump. I think he was alluding to the Rubio camp.
LOL....welcome to that club! :-)
He talked about it tonight on his radio show. I went and listened. He’s upset that someone found out about this connection between his fiance’s son and Ted Cruz. He claims he is being intimidated because of this connection. He was not upfront about it, and rather than just admit it and be done, Levin is claiming intimidation.
I guess most people didn’t now he was divorced. He said something about his long term girlfriend. So I wonder how long they’ve been dating and how long he’s been divorced.
Levin is NUTS!
Why do you say that? Because he don’t endorse the Donald?
There’s some new stuff in this article and in the posts that follow.
No....because I know him.
He was NUTS years ago and my opinion of him hasn’t changed. My opinion has less than nothing whatsoever with whom he supports or doesn’t support.
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