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

by: Dean Barker

Sun Feb 03, 2008 at 11:05:09 AM EST
Rumor had it that GOP consultant and longtime John Sununu backer Dave Carney is planning to start a pro-Sununu 527 with a goal of raising $2 million to spend in his upcoming Senate re-election battle.

We took it to Carney, who said he's done no such thing and underlined that he has no role in the Sununu campaign. But he wouldn't knock the notion.

"Although it's a good idea - I may do it - I've never had a discussion with a single person about it," Carney said.

Let's get one thing straight - after Carney's shameless attempt to manipulate Nader supporters four years ago, there is no reason whatsoever to believe his denial - the man's word is not bond.

One-time Papa Bush political director Carney, as you may remember (and as Kathy S. remnded us recently) orchestrated a Nader ballot petition in 2004.  Gee, I wonder why he would have done that? No doubt for the same reason the DoJ slow-walked the Tobin phone-jamming indictment - to give Bush the edge in the razor thin Kerry-Bush 2004 race in NH.

Carney offered cold cash to GOoPers who would help fill names on the petition on the one hand, while on the other spoke oh-so-nobly about democracy:

Meanwhile, Nader is finding support from an unusual source: Republicans who feel his name on the ballot would boost Bush's chances in New Hampshire. Dave Carney, a prominent Republican strategist and staffer in the first Bush White House, lent his own signature to the effort. His company, Norway Hill, is offering a dollar per signature to any like-minded Republicans who collect names for Nader's ballot drive.

"I personally think it's a good thing for the country," Carney said. "I would encourage everybody, regardless of their affiliation, to help get the guy on the ballot. If you don't belong to a major party in this state, they treat you like an alien."

These are the kinds of creatures we will be going up against in our quest to get John E. an early retirement package.  Be prepared.
Dean Barker :: GOP Operative and Phony Nader Supporter May Launch Pro-Sununu PAC
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GOP Operative and Phony Nader Supporter May Launch Pro-Sununu PAC | 5 comments
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.

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.
Benjamin Franklin

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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...

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.
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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