A liberal blog in Ohio is attempting to infiltrate the Republican get out the vote campaign (GOTV). They are soliciting their members via their website to pose as Republicans interested in GOTV.
I found this web site link last night and brought it to the attention of Freepers.
I did send a note to Drudge about this last night. I also sent a note to the Ohio GOP.
Is this an act similar to the ACORN trick of collecting registrations and throwing all republican forms in the trash?
We need to keep watch on this. There's an easy way to prevent it, though. Ask whoever calls/emails a loaded question that only a conservative republican can answer correctly. I do this when I call people who want my vote. For example, I'll ask, "What's your opinion on guns?" instead of a leading, "What's your opinion on firearm ownership?" The latter reveals MY opinion, the former is more neutral.
Whether it is merely a legitimate business, or something more should be approached with all due diligence. Many people do business with Saudi Arabia; however, it seems a little interesting when that person doing business is a Democratic Operative trying to block a GOP "Get Out the Vote" effort...
http://www.saudicommerce.com/profile_contact/uid/33028.htm
Vessels who is a democratic party precinct official in Columbus Ohio, is listed on the Saudi Site "Saudi Commerce" which lists it's purpose as "matching buyers and sellers".
The contact is clearly Eric Vessels, with his phone number, home address and name listed.
The site to which Saudi commerce links is Eric Vessel's "Shak Blog", where he sells pens made of bamboo. There, he lists his name and contact info.
http://shakblog.com/?page_id=15
One Shakblog page directs you to "alternate payments". There one can find the information for payment:
http://shakblog.com/?page_id=25. It is the same contact information for Eric Vessels as the Democratic Party website lists...
In the interest of fairness, I went to pull up what other sites may be linked to shakblog for business. In addition to Shakblog Contact info and a plea for bamboo boxes listed in Arabic on Trade Key,
I found this information linking the Shakblog paypal account to Plunderbund...
http://wordpress.org/support/ WordPress Support Thread: Paypal Integration en Wed, 25 Jan 2006 06:10:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/support/topic/58030#post-313551 Wed, 25 Jan 2006 03:40:19 +0000 plunderbund 313551@http://wordpress.org/support/In truth, the man may very well be merely doing business with the Saudis, or just looking for it. Shakblog/Plunderbund/Eric Vessels is certainly a very busy man and I commend him for his beautiful pens - evidently, they are in high demand in the Middle East. However, I am not as sanguine about that little voter intimidation issue...Appreciate very much! http://wordpress.org/support/topic/58030#post-313512 Wed, 25 Jan 2006 02:48:01 +0000 incredipete 313512@http://wordpress.org/support/
I asked the same question a couple days ago. Just delete the hard returns after each line of the form. Example:
<form blah blah blah>
<second line blah blah>should look like this:
<form blah blah blah><second line blah blah> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/58030#post-313309 Tue, 24 Jan 2006 19:54:09 +0000 plunderbund 313309@http://wordpress.org/support/
I'm trying to put up paypal code and it all works fine, but there is some excessive space I can't seem to get rid of. It would be great if I could get some feedback. I'm using a page for this and not a post.
Page is http://shakblog.com/?page_id=28
I put up the same exact code from Paypal here to show the difference. Spacing not a problem here: