Posted on 03/29/2016 4:27:14 AM PDT by VitacoreVision
A super PAC that launched a smear ad on Melania Trump in Utah has been linked to former GOP presidential candidate and Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina.
According to Breitbart, the Make America Awesome PAC, which ran the smear ad in Utah about Melania’s nude modeling, is run by political consultant Liz Mair.
Unfortunately, Mair isn’t that bright. On Make America Awesome’s website, it tells potential donors, “If you would like to donate by mail, send checks to: Make America Awesome PO Box 26141 Alexandria, VA 22313.”
Problem: P.O. Box 26141 is also the mailing address for Carly for America, the official organization for Fiorina’s former presidential campaign. It’s since been re-purposed as a general-issue political action committee.
Whoops.
Mair’s advertisement touched off a Twitter war between the Cruz and Trump campaigns over each candidate’s wives, during which Cruz has vigorously accused Trump of playing dirty. Fiorina, for her part, has been an ardent supporter of Cruz’s campaign these last few weeks, linking the original smear ad back to Cruz for the first time.
The smear advertisement against Melania (it’s disgusting and underhanded enough that we’re not going to show it here; I assure you that you can find it easily enough on Facebook if you’re so inclined) also managed to incur the wrath of some liberals who felt that it was “shaming” Melania.
Mair was open about the fact that she didn’t actually believe in the ad’s content, she just wanted to win.
…and we have indicators that for them, Melania posing nude is disturbing and bothersome. I'm fine w her having done it, but they're not.
— Liz Mair (@LizMair) March 22, 2016
And if that wasn’t enough, here’s a more succinct summation of Mair’s moral scruples on the issue.
.@emilycrockett I'm fine w Melania's prior work. But I'm not a Mormon woman. I also want to defeat her husband.
— Liz Mair (@LizMair) March 22, 2016
Lovely. Of course, you, loyal reader, could argue that Mair paid for the ads; can we really prove collaboration between Fiorina and Mair?
While we can’t definitively prove it, we can come pretty close. See, Make America Awesome’s filings with the FEC show that, on its own, the PAC doesn’t have enough money to Make America Even Slightly Different Than Before. It only lists seven donors who gave over $200, in 2015-16, for a total of only $2,000. (That will pay for the post office box, but not a whole lot more.)
Fiorina made a bold stand for women’s issues during the campaign, pointing out Hillary Clinton’s “war on women” on multiple occasions. It’s a shame to see her, acting as a surrogate for Ted Cruz, maligning Donald Trump’s wife as a sort of modern-day Jezebel to get votes.
In one simple act, both Mair and Fiorina have thrown away whatever scruples and decency they may have had. If it turns out a desperate Ted Cruz is behind this, too, we can only say the same for him.
Please like and share on Facebook and Twitter if you agree this smear campaign is disgraceful.
....that which was hidden is being revealed
The money she got from the Cruz team, this could be where that money went (to buy the photo)... just a possibility.
There ya go.
Do Cruz and Fiorino have an event together today?
A hatchet face attmpted a hatched job.
Please stop this “same address” garbage, it is meaningless.
PO Box 26141 is the address of a company that describes itself as...
“Election CFO provides a full-range of campaign finance services, tailored to your needs. Whether you need a full-service treasurer to make deposits and write checks, or just a professional to review compliance reports prepared by volunteers - Election CFO is ready to help.”
What. $500,000 will buy?
And why Carlie will stand by her man.
PS: Where I'm disgusted? The other candidates' wives should've immediately as one voice expressed disgust with the ad that used Melania's photo. Especially Heidi, since Ted is still in the campaign, she's left her daughters in the care of Melania (those debate pictures), and Heidi is involved in the campaign.
MELANIA FOR FIRST LADY !!!
Carly ‘standing by her man’ is an attack on feminists.
(it’s disgusting)
The photo was not disgusting but rather a work of photographic fine art
Facts don’t matter and investigative journalism is dead. Didn’t you get the memo?
I guess I could get on board with the Election CFO concept if it weren’t for the troubling implication of a supposed “arms length” service provider comingling resources and funds for both campaigns and PACs so it seems. Add to that the transfer of $500K from a Cruz PAC to the Carly PAC (which morphed to a non profit conveniently) and there is something rotten in Denmark here.
Frankly, if I were the FEC, I’d be up this company’s butt with a rectal audit.
How dare you pollute a nice conspiracy thread with your disgusting “facts”
apparently the ‘face like that’ comment by Trump hit a nuclear nerve after all.
Do you all buy white wash by barrel? Better use the white wash more conservatively, supplies are dwindling
Wasn’t $500,000 paid by Cruz to Fiorina?
Hush money? Money to buy the photo?
Least the pic of Mrs. Trump didn’t have a bunch of condoms in it.
Cruz, Kasich, Fiorina, Jebthro - they are all filth and unfit for anything good and decent in this world.
Spits...
wrath of a woman scorned is potent if backed up by the money of her other paramour
These blogs posts have been debunked many times by many people including by me:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3414857/posts?page=95#95
So the people who point out that the 3rd Mrs trump was a nude model are sleazy.
But the Mrs trump who was a nude model is considered classy and a model first lady.
This country is so upside down.
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