Sean Mahoney's Million Dollar Investment

by: Kathy Sullivan 2

Fri Sep 24, 2010 at 09:36:42 AM EDT

David Carney is a long time "consultant" to AJS, so he is prominently mentioned. Something I didn't know about Carney is that he is a principle of Crossroads Media, a political media company. I had never heard of Crossroads, but thought, hmm, Carney was a consultant to Sean Mahoney, Mahoney did lots of tv ads but little grassroots activity. Coincidence?

If you look at Mahoney's July quarterly report at the FEC website, Mahoney paid Crossraods Media, as of the end of June, $336,000 for advertising.  In addition, he paid Norway Hill, another of Carney's companies, nearly $20,000 in fees. This does not include anything spent starting on July 1, 2010, and if you were watching tv in the last four weeks before the primary, you know that Sean Mahoney was buying a lot of tv time.

Sergeant Schultz, David Carney, Patrick Hynes & AJS

by: Kathy Sullivan 2

Fri Mar 19, 2010 at 09:16:01 AM EDT

Kelly Ayotte called AJS "shady", with a "demonstrated record for false and sleazy attacks". Two prominent NH Republican strategists, long time Sununu family intimate David Carney and Republican operative Patrick Hynes, are involved with that shady organizaton: Carney as a consultant (and former e.d. of the group), and Hynes as a board member. But when it comes to the activities of AJS in their home state, Carney and Hynes are making like Sergeant Schultz.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

Hynes denied having anything to do with the effort. Sort of. Hynes said, "The first I heard about this was in the Granite Status...I didn't have any decision making authority in this at all."  Hynes loves to parse statements by Democrats, so let's parse what Hynes just said.
 

NH-Sen: Amusing-er Development

by: Dean Barker

Fri Mar 19, 2010 at 06:48:40 AM EDT

Me, I continue to find it LOL funny, especially DiStaso's later update that tries to round up the likely culprits.

Think about it.  The local, coordinated GOP response to having Judd Gregg's DC orchestrated successor campaign forced on them without contest is to launch a well-funded, anonymous, multi-platform attack from Virginia.  Was it that Ayotte-Lamontagne wasn't mirroring Crist-Rubio fast enough?

And although Patrick Hynes and Dave Carney are intimately involved with Steve DeMaura's Americans for Job Security, gosh darn it, no one knows where this is coming from.

The fact that some in the NHGOP have to hide behind out-of-state front groups to go after the establishment sector of the NHGOP is really telling.  Try to imagine the toxic dump this would be if done on the D side, how quickly it would poison the well.

This civil war has already damaged Ayotte, who responded late, and badly, to the news.  But it also damages Ayotte's opponents, because of the general lack of honesty and integrity clouding up the picture until we know who exactly is behind this.

Why Is Patrick Hynes Trying to Defeat Kelly Ayotte?

by: Kathy Sullivan 2

Thu Mar 18, 2010 at 10:52:02 AM EDT

AJS has always refused to disclose where it gets its money, so we can only guess about who is funneling the cash this time. However, we can lift the veil of secrecy a tiny bit, and it leads to a couple of interesting facts, which lead to some interesting speculation.

Fact 1: According to the corporate fililngs of AJS in Virginia, one of the members of the Board of Directors of AJS is Patrick Hynes, of Faux!Hampshire, the phoney "news" web site, and sometimes guest on Granitegork. Hynes also is on the payroll for Tim Pawlenty. If I were Kelly Ayotte, I would be on the phone right now to the possible 2012 presidential candidate and ask him why one of his paid PAC consultants is working against her United States senate campaign. And if I were Pawlenty, I'd be on the phone to Hynes asking him why he is making trouble for him in NH, because this kind of thing will be remembered by Ayotte supporters come 2012.      

Sununu Sidekick Selling Stevens

by: Kathy Sullivan

Sun Oct 05, 2008 at 19:05:04 PM EDT

New Hampshire operative Dave Carney is in Alaska working for Ted Stevens's re-election bid, as the senior senator sits on trial for corruption.

Carney said the campaign is "Great. Going to win." (For now, polls show Anchorage mayor Mark Begich holding a slim, two-to-three point lead, according to pollster.com.)

Carney headed up the draft Sununu effort in 2002, and also has headed up Amercians for Job Security, which has a penchant for spending hundreds of thousands of dollars attacking Jeanne Shaheen.  He worked with Sununu's father in both New Hampshire and in the first Bush White House.  

Senator* Sununu's close relationship with Ted Stevens has been discussed here at BH. See, inter alia, Where Was Ted Stevens' Protege John E. Sununu? and  What Do Senator* Sununu, Ted Stevens, VECO, and $50,000 Have in Common?

Retarded

by: Dean Barker

Fri Oct 03, 2008 at 22:01:34 PM EDT

David Carney is a GOP consultant from Hancock, who served as White House political director for George H W Bush.

"For her [Jeanne Shaheen] to sit there and say she'd vote against the alternative minimum tax fix, which 93 senators voted for just the other day, this is retarded.

FWIW: I was aware of Carney's past with Sununu the Elder, and as a consultant for the shady stealth group Americans for Job Security (against whom the NHDP recently filed an FEC complaint), but this one is funny - he once campaign consulted for (now disgraced) Vito Fossella.  And Sourcewatch lists Carney as a "protege of Karl Rove". So, scratch that earlier comment; let's say instead - extra classy.

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.

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.