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.
Same organization to which the Cruz PAC paid 500k ...
Yeah we should post them in every school so little girls can have a fine example of what they can be when they grow up.
The photos are on sale on the GQ website. Like many of their photos of nude women.
Hey..... that is so old school it would be ridiculous. the little girls have I phones and each other showing themselves off and claiming bragging rights
What was it...around half-a-million that he gave her campaign? It would explain a lot.
Don't forget Romney on your wall of shame. Things got waaay out of hand as soon as he vowed to do whatever it takes to stop Trump.
It takes only a few moments on Google to debunk the "same address smoking gun" garbage. I suggest you try it yourself.
That said, the $500K payment is the real issue here, and once the facts behind that are fully exposed, I don't think it will look good for Mr. Cruz.
Just be very glad nobody has placed an ad with a nude picture of Her Thighness. . .
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Isn't there something un Christian about these criticisms?
“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.”
Problem: P.O. Box 26141 is the address of Election CFO, a clearing house for donations to MANY groups/candidates...
Somebody posted yesterday that the Make America Awesome PAC used the picture without authorization, and they received a cease and desist letter from GQ, and they pulled the ad.
I have no idea if that is true or not.
The $500K payment bought something for somebody. I want to know what that was.
Thanks for that excellent post!
Even not paying for the photo, how do they pay for TV ads in Utah for even a day for $2,000? They must have the lowest rates in the nation for TV ads! The story does not hold up to anyone who has ever paid for advertisements.
As I understand it, the ads were on Facebook, not TV.
Whhhhaaaaatttttt?
This "breaking revelation" has been posted 20 times in the past few days. No one ever pays attention to the fact that the company has dozens of clients who all use the same mailbox. There's no gotcha here. It's a company which does the FEC compliance back end of campaign donations.
I don’t care about all that. I care about campaigns and PACs and non profits being financially handled through the same corporation.
Political donation and spending reports are not real time. Donations and spending reports can take months to complete. Campaigns can exploit this.
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