Posted on 07/26/2006 12:00:26 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
Edited on 07/26/2006 7:34:33 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
This fraud makes Ponzi look like an amateur.
You can turn a phrase, and should think about entering THIS.
Exactly, You know I was researching and I came across this liberal site. This liberal made a very insightful comment in the comment section
"What a ripoff. Kay R. Daly of Alexandria VA pays herself $25k, website maintenence is $4k and leaving $11k. A lousy 2-page 990 and there are two mistakes on it.
Her purpose of being is to maintain a website that advises people about judicial nominees and warns them of gasp! judicial activism. Like there are not three hundred sites just like that.
I swear there is a company somewhere that must specialize in right wing websites off the shelf. These sites now operate in interconnected rings by topic.
LOL - The Democrats should start a phony campaign to advise conservatives that the need for money is urgent and to please give as much as you can to every right wing organization on the internet.
If we can get the conservatives to panic and stampede by throwing out the names of liberal judges and stuff like that, they will spend a lot of money on nothing.
Hip-hip-hurray for our side!"
http://www.tpmcafe.com/blog/mrs_panstreppon/2006/jul/14/stand_up_for_israel_and_finance_ralph_reeds_campaign
Oh I forgot this part of what she said
"Hey, my memory is pretty good. I checked the 990s and the name of the Texas lawyer that signed the Coalition for a Fair Judiciary is Maureen Otis of Stafford"
Add to that the Vanity Candidates, like Alan Keyes, etc.
I mean in the end its stupid. Not only is the out of control rethoric killing us. BUt we are being basically robbed of money. The NRA, The National Right to LIfe, THe Republican Party are having to compete for money against people like Alan Keyes groups. Its insane. I just hope there is something on the Dem side snookering people out of money or we are going to be in trouble financially if these groups keep reproducing like rabbits
That's a safe bet.
Thanks for all you've exposed here. This has been an educational couple of weeks for me.
Well thanks but its been a pretty much group effort I think. I am afraid this whole situation is going to get worse in the next year unless we can bring some of this down. My next post on my blog is how political consulting groups are basically paying off blogs to take a certain view. IN fact I found a company out of New Hampshire that basically admits that they do that.
PLus I highly suspect and I am trying to track it down that under the guise of telemarketing they are paying people to go into conservative forums and comment sections of blogs and post stuff all the time giving the appearance that there is more support for a position than there is.
It is classic political astro turfing in the modern internet age.
YIKES!
Well, as to that last bit, that's been done here, for a while now. Just look at the archives and you WILL see familiar nics posting the same stuff over and over and over again.
Thanks for the ping!
From: http://www.northcountrygazette.org/articles/021906NoEndorsement.html
William Greene, president of RightMarch.com, is shamelessly circulating email solicitations using the name of Terri Schindler-Schiavo, claiming that he’s raising money for a political action committee known as Terri’s List even though the Schindler family has asked him to stop doing so.
He’s exploiting her name. (can anyone say HOT BUTTON?)
Greene said he founded the new PAC using Terri’s name in an effort to match the fundraising efforts of the PAC created by Michael Schiavo, and infers that it’s being done with the support of Terri’s family.
Such is not the case.
The formation of Terri’s List was done by Greene without the family’s knowledge or consent and has prompted the Schindler family to place a disclaimer on the website of the Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation at www.terrisfight.org.
"Any sources soliciting contributions on behalf of Terri other than the Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation are not affiliated with or endorsed by Terri's Foundation or the Schindler family. If you are receiving any contribution requests of this nature, please bring this immediately to our attention as they could be mail or internet fund-raising schemes".
"People like this who fail who obtain permission to use Terri’s name exploit her name", her father said.
"Don't Let Terri Schaivo's Name Be Exploited" shouts a headline from Greene's RightMarch.com website above a picture of the disabled woman who died last March in Florida, killed by judicial order at the behest of her estranged husband. Supposedly the headline appears on an ad that Greene has placed nationwide. But when you click on the ad or the verbiage underneath that says "view our nationwide ad to support statesmen who tried to save Terri Schiavo", you’ll get a "this page cannot be found message".
So where’s the ad appearing, or is this a case of false advertising?
"Please make your best donation", Greene’s propaganda implores. "We need to raise money".
According to Greene’s website, the purpose of the RightMarch.com PAC is to raise and distribute funds for, to and independently on behalf of conservative candidates in targeted primary and general federal elections across America.
However, according to the quarterly and year-end reports for 2005 filed for RightMarch.com PAC by Greene, PAC treasurer, although contributions totaled $49,200, the total contributions to federal candidates was only $3,100 which included $1,000 to Bob McEwen for Congress Committee in Batavia, Ohio and $2,000 for the Lewis for Senate Inc. campaign in Morgantown, West Virginia. The year-end report shows a $100 contribution to the House Conservatives Fund in Washington on Oct. 25.
Individual contributions for 2005 according to the reports filed with the FEC totaled $5,150 from 10 individual contributors. Unitemized receipts for 2005 totaled $44,050.
The total disbursements for the 2005 reported to FEC were $44,058.
RightMarch paid SICM a total of $15,861 for rental fees, or in other words, going from one pocket of Greene’s to the other. In addition to being the president of RightMarch, Green heads the Buford, Georgia-based Strategic Internet Campaign Management (SICM) an organization who says its mission is "helping non-profit organizations, corporations and political candidates to achieve a better bottom line by using the Internet for fundraising and grassroots activism".
Greene’s modus operandi is to flood conservatives with Christian Response "E-Alerts".
SICM says it "specializes in online fundraising for political candidates and organizations".
Greene’s "patriot" at RightMarch and his media director is Phil Sheldon, son of Lou Sheldon of the Traditional Values Coalition. The email contact address for the RightMarch.com PAC is that of Sheldon’s at Diener Consultants of which he is CEO and president. Sheldon also heads Response Enterprises, both entities which profited handsomely from RightMarch.
In 2005, according to FEC filings, of the $44,058 disbursed by the PAC, Response and Sheldon pocketed $12,752 while Diener took in $12,916 for a total of $25,669 for Sheldon. While the reports indicate that the bulk of the money was paid to Sheldon for advertising, Sheldon was also paid rental fees for email lists.
OF the total $44,058 in disbursements, over $41,500 went to Greene and Sheldon organizations.
Other disbursements in 2005 went to William Constantine who’s listed as the PAC’s CPA at $5,182; the $3,100 to federal candidates, $2,000 to Special Guests of Naperville, IL for advertising and several small amounts for rental fees for mailing lists.
www.fec.gov
Last April, Bill Berkowitz penned an article for Media Transparency entitled “Deathbed Dollars” about the radical right wing Christian groups who were raising money from the Schiavo case, in particular Greene’s RightMarch.com.
http://www.mediatransparency.org/story.php?storyID=60
Response Unlimited of Waynesboro, VA, which is also the home of Sheldon’s Response Enterprises, was renting a list of Schiavo supporters for $150 per month for 6,000 names and $500 a month for $4,000 email address of people who had responded to an email plea in the Schiavo case. After being publicized, the list was quickly removed from the Response catalogue.
http://www.responseunlimited.com/
Philip Zodhiates operates Response Unlimited and is an associate of Sheldon’s in another Internet organization called Conservative Petitions.com. They bill themselves as being "involved in political and Christian activism for decades", and realized the "need for someone to harness the technology of the Internet to make our voices heard in mass".
At the Response Unlimited website, in a FAQ section, in answer to a question if “my email or postal address will be sold or loaned”, Sheldon and Zodhiates responded that they don’t "sell addresses or information to anyone. We do occasionally send out emails on behalf of others or allow someone to use the postal list only when we feel the product or service will be beneficial to you or have a significant impact on the kingdom of God or our nation. You may opt out if you wish, and we will honor that request. Each message contains an opt out opportunity. The opt out message is at the bottom of each email. It is also on the page when you sign any petition". Greene’s media director at RightMarch and his partner Zodhiates "ask for $3,000 from organizations that do a petition with us. They get a great deal in return, including contact information on all who sign", they proclaim.
"Through its "Christian Response e-Alert," RightMarch.com has become one of many right wing groups that concoct campaigns to "convince people that there is a 'them' out there -- liberals in this case -- who are out to destroy America's moral fiber and are thus responsible for working-class misery," Berkowitz says.
While Greene attacks Michael Schiavo’s PAC, his PAC is under the FEC microscope and has twice in 2005 received requests for more information from FEC. Most recently, on Jan. 20, the FEC questioned Greene’s quarterly filing for October of RightMarch.com PAC, requesting "information essential to the full public disclosure of your federal election campaign finances" FEC asked Greene to clarify expenditures he has reported for advertising. Although Greene was given a deadline of Feb. 21 to file a response with the FEC, to date he has not done so according to the FEC website where reports are required by law to be filed within 48 hours of receipt.
Greene says, "Don’t Let Terri Schiavo’s Name Be Exploited".
That’s right, don’t let William Greene exploit Terri Schiavo’s name. The Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation is the only one authorized to solicit funds in Terri’s name and according to highly reliable sources, Greene has been asked by the Schindler family to stop using Terri’s name in his fund-raising efforts.
http://www.northcountrygazette.org/articles/021106ShamefulExploitation.html
June Maxam 2-19-06
Some verrrry interesting information regarding this nest of Carnies we’ve uncovered. If anyone would like to assist me in creating a flowchart of people, entities and linkages please freepmail me!
Well that's mighty Christian of you.
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I am ready for the whole house of cards to come down myself lol. In the end this is just killing the party and conservatives. I have no problem with a network of groups to fight the left but this isnt what appears to be happening to me. It seems to be all about $$$$$. The groups I support are having to compete against this nonsense out there for dollars.
I usually take part in the annual thread here on FR, trying to write truly ghastly prose from one Freeper to another. Xena's another fan, as I recall. And dighton has his occasional posts of dreadful English news articles from India. Great fun.
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