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)
This is very interesting.
Sarah Palin has an unstable Donald Trump problem.
I remember the heart issues and him speaking of his WIFE...doesn’t seem like that long ago. I’m of an age where I’ve seen too many middle aged men dump the wife that raised the kids, did without extras only to be divorced in their 50s and see half of their joint savings go to a Sandals Resort w/a younger “fiancée.” So Levin is an uber creep in my eyes now.
Back to the campaign—this is all like high school—and we are all gonna be bullied for four long years if this collective bunch doesn’t get their s#it together. It’s a game/ego booster/speaking few builder/ book deal maker to the lot of them...WE get to live with the results of what their machinations do to our health care , taxes, immigration. I feel they all are “insiders” and not finding ANY ONE particularly vote worthy...but I’ll pull that R lever in November for whoever raises to the top.
Damn bunch of phonies.
NP, I really don’t know why they stick with Rove, considering his dismal track record. They dumped Morris, but kept Rove.
Again, it’s hard to swallow “real conservatives” and “real Republicans” when you know they sell out, settle for less, lie and obfuscate, and so on.
bump
You know him personally??
Mark Reed Levin was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Erdenheim as well as Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. His father, Jack E. Levin, is the author of several books.[2] He graduated from Cheltenham High School after three years in 1974.[3][4] After high school, Levin enrolled at Temple University Ambler including summer classes and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Political Science in 1977 at age 19, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.[5] Levin won election to the Cheltenham school board in 1977 on a platform of reducing property taxes.[4] In 1980 Levin earned a juris doctor from Temple University Beasley School of Law.[6] Levin worked for Texas Instruments after law school.[4] He is Jewish.[7]
Beginning in 1981, Levin served as an adviser to several members of President Ronald Reagan’s cabinet, eventually becoming the associate director of presidential personnel and ultimately chief of staff to Attorney General Edwin Meese during the Iran–Contra affair; Levin also served as deputy assistant secretary for elementary and secondary education at the U.S. Department of Education, and deputy solicitor of the U.S. Department of the Interior.
He practiced law in the private sector and is president of Landmark Legal Foundation, a public interest law firm founded in 1976 and based in Leesburg, Virginia.[8][9]
Levin has participated in Freedom Concerts, an annual benefit concert to aid families of fallen soldiers, and uses his radio program to promote aid to military families.[10][11] Levin is also involved with Troopathon, a charity that sends care packages to soldiers serving overseas.[12]
In 2001 the American Conservative Union awarded Levin its Ronald Reagan Award.[13] He was awarded the inaugural Citizens United Andrew Breitbart Defender of the First Amendment Award at CPAC in 2014.
What a dumbo. So Conservative Review, Sarah Palin, and Willie Robertson, they're all far left Commies now in Cruz-world.
how about you worry about the very real connections between Donald Trump and the mob in New York
Why would I when not even you take it seriously, lol.
Oops, meant Conservative Tree House, not Review.
Why would I when not even you take it seriously, lol.
Yeah? Outside the crazy Trumpbots, everyone takes Trump's connections to the mob seriously.
CNN
Donald Trump and the mob
www.cnn.com/2015/07/31/politics/trump-mob-mafia
The Wall Street Journal:
Trump and the Goodfellas
The presidential candidate says he didn’t know he was doing business with the mob.
www.wsj.com/articles/trump-and-the-goodfellas-1449877685
ABC News:
Memory Lapse? Trump Seeks Distance From ‘Advisor’ With Past Ties to Mafia
abcnews.go.com/Politics/memory-lapse-trump-seeks-distance-advisor-past-ties/story?id=34600826
Do you want more?
And these are not the far left dregs of the web that you usually post from either.
But it's true. Ted Cruz's dad is a weirdo with a fake church and who thinks it's the job of the "kings" to redistribute the wealth of the wicked to the hands of the righteous. It's on video.
And these are not the far left dregs of the web that you usually post from either.
Not even CNN took their story seriously! That's why it disappeared the very next day.
Okay AyatollahJoe, whatever you say MuhammadJoe. Put down the sword OsamaJoe.
Trump's led inks to the mafia crime families of New York is still at CNN. I just read it and linked to it. Trump's links to the murderous mafia families is at the Wall Street Journal, it's at ABC News, it's at the Washington Post, it's everywhere. And they take it very seriously.
Sure it is, but you won't hear them covering it everyday, because it's too stupid to air.
Trump swam in mob-infested waters in early years as an NYC developer
"He was never accused of illegality, and observers of the time say that working with the mob-related figures and politicos came with the territory."
You are so dumb.
Donald Trump’s senior adviser is a stock fraud felon with mob past
By Associated Press December 5, 2015 | 12:27pm
nypost.com/2015/12/05/donald-trumps-senior-adviser-is-a-stock-fraud-felon-with-mob-past
"Sater never had an employment agreement or formal contract with the Trump Organization and did not close any deals for Trump, Garten said."
And he even ratted to the police too and had done his time already.
You are so dumb you think this can hurt Trump.
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