GOP Operative and Phony Nader Supporter May Launch Pro-Sununu PAC

Why launch a 527 instead of raising money for... (4.00 / 3)

...the Sununu campaign itself?

Oh, yeah. With a 527 you can run a dirty, negative campaign without Sununu's fingerprints on it.

Like the phone jamming.

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by: elwood @ Sun Feb 03, 2008 at 10:57:42 AM CST

Right (4.00 / 2)

And you can raise more money from people who max out to the Sununu campaign.

Carney has a history of using the 527 loophole. He was associated for years with one called Americans for Job Security.  AJS is a textbook case of a "non-profit" engaging in allegedly independent expenditures that look a lot like a parallel campaign organization. Carney and AJS had a pattern of engaging in political activity to benefit Republican candidates, yet continulously denied coordination.  In 2002, the Alaska Public Offices Commission found that AJS broke state campaign laws requiring reporting of contributions intended to influence the outcome of elections. In '02, AJS also ran anti-Shaheen ads here in NH.

In the "it is a small world category", Benjamin Ginsbure, counsel for Bush/Cheny '00 and '04, and counsel for Swift Boat Veterans For Truth, also served as legal counsel for AJS.  In the diary I did on DCI yesterday, I mentioned that Chris Lacivita, who worked with Jim Tobin at DCI, was one of the people involved with Swift Boat Veterans. Oh, who was the biggest funder of Swift Boat Veterans?  A Texas multimillionaire named Bob Perry, who was also the largest donor to a constitutional amendment drive in Texas run by - Dave Carney! These guys all run in the same circles, and their names come up election after election after election.  

Energy and persistence conquer all things.


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by: Kathy Sullivan @ Sun Feb 03, 2008 at 11:22:07 AM CST

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The most dishonest thing the man said: (4.00 / 1)

If you don't belong to a major party in this state, they treat you like an alien.

Yeah, it's not like over 40% of the electorate is without Party affiliation...

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by: Douglas E. Lindner @ Sun Feb 03, 2008 at 11:03:10 AM CST

By the way, Dean, I object to your title. (4.00 / 1)

It's not going to be a Pro-Sununu PAC.  It's going to be an Anti-Shaheen PAC.

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by: Douglas E. Lindner @ Sun Feb 03, 2008 at 11:35:20 AM CST

Yup (4.00 / 1)

In 2002, according to a NH Attorney General's investigation, Carney suggested to some other Republicn operatives that he could get $10,000.00 from the Republican Governors Association to to do phone calls on behalf of Mark Fernald (who was running against Governro Shaheen in a primary) and on behalf of Norm Jackman (who was running in a Demcoratic congressional race against Barney Brannen). This was without the knowledge of either Jackman or Fernald. The "brains" behind the plan, one Republican operative named Christopher Lyon, didn't pursue the idea with Carney, because he had decided to do anti-Gordon Humphrey postcards and phone calls (Lyon supported Jeff Howard, Carney supported Humphrey). When the anonymous anti-Humphrey efforts hit, Carney publicly accused Jeanne Shaheen of being responsible, and then later had to apologize when it came out that Mr. Lyon had been behind the calls and postcards.  

So, that is Dave Carney.

In an interesting footnote, it also came out that Lyon, who was from New York, volunteered in NH in 2000 to work on the campaign of: John McCain.  John McCain hired Terry Nelson in 2007 to assist in his presidential campaign; Terry Nelson was one of Jim Tobin's bosses in 2002.  With all these Republicans, you can play Six Degrees of Jim Tobin.  

Energy and persistence conquer all things.


Benjamin Franklin


 

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by: Kathy Sullivan @ Sun Feb 03, 2008 at 13:32:35 PM CST

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