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)
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This reminds of me of when Rudy Guiliani took Jackie Mason on the stump with him when first running for mayor. Jackie joked by calling David Dinkins “a fancy schvartze with a mustache,” which went viral. Guiliani quickly dumped Mason. Of course, Mason is far more talented and smarter than Beck.
Disingenuous article. Glenn Beck was not apoplectic when he heard Sarah Palin. Be honest for a change.
Beck is likely Bi-Polar. Poor Crazy sicko
Thank you for posting this! I found even more tidbits that I hadn’t seen. That kitchen table discussion that Cruz and Heidi had concerning the financing of Cruz’s campaign sure is getting complicated.
Dumb for Cruz to attach himself to Beck.
It’s a strange situation with “open-borders Beck” at the center of it . Cruz is one of their puppets
More goodies for your files.
Beck is even apoplectic when tying his shoe laces.
Sounds slippery...
One reason I hardly ever, ever, do online petitions, online votes, etc. You know someone is gathering that info to target you for marketing purposes.
This could answer a lot of questions of who has been coordinating the attacks on Trump.
Wonder how many thugs they have employed to try and rig internet sites?
Why would Cruz accept Super Pac from this guy with a big IRS problem? Eliminating the IRS isn’t going to work for Mercer, once you catch the IRS’s attention, especially for billions of bucks your not going to get rid of the Audit.
Just the thought of late fees and penalties on billions of bucks gives me a headache.
That article documents some interesting connections.
I unfollowed Ben Shapiro on twitter yesterday before I knew this. Might explain why he tweeted anti-Trump, pro-Cruz drivel every three seconds.
Man, I wouldn’t wish Glenn Beck’s endorsement on my worse enemy! Well, OK, not quite; I exaggerate: I’d approve Beck’s endorsement of any Democrat candidate.
One reason I hardly ever, ever, do online petitions, online votes, etc. You know someone is gathering that info to target you for marketing purposes.
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