"Tea Party Consultants, Sarah Palin, Herman Cain Fleecing Right's Small Donors"

[applegrove]

Tea Party Consultants, Sarah Palin, Herman Cain Fleecing Right's Small Donors

By Brendan Fischer at AlterNet

http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-consultants-sarah-palin-herman-cain-fleecing-rights-small-donors?paging=off

"SNIP........................................

"Donors are deceived into giving to these organizations [without knowing that they are really] generating funds for the group's political operative leaders," Sheila Krumholz, Executive Director of the Center for Responsive Politics, told the Center for Media and Democracy.

Krumholz notes that groups like these have largely escaped scrutiny because focus is usually directed towards their funding, rather than how they disburse money. "Spending is often considered less worrisome than the source of a campaign's largesse," she says. Additionally, "the FEC doesn't require clear categorization [of expenditures], or disclosure of connections between groups or the likelihood of personal financial gain."

In any case, the average Tea Party supporter making a $50 or $150 CDBO contribution to fight back against the media's purported effort "to falsely blame the tea party for the Colorado massacre," or (as the group's name suggests) to defeat Barack Obama, would likely be disappointed to learn that a big percentage of their contributions are really going to support CDBO's political operative leaders.

"It's a ruse -- to line the pockets of the campaign or those associated with the campaign," Krumholz said of groups like CDBO.

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[tularetom]

1. LOL, give more, dumbasses

Barnum, or whoever said it, was right when they said "there's a sucker born every minute".

Nor was Mencken when he stated "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.”

[surrealAmerican]

2. No surprise there.

It's easy to con people who are extremely gullible.

[concreteblue]

3. I'm thinking of a new career as

a repub Blogger/fundraiser/agitator ....fleece the sheep daily for donations to / for support of both blog and daily poutrage issues, while putting out a steam of satirical blog posts/"news" to keep the faithful riled up...IO ppromise to give what the law allows to uphold "charitable" status...what is it these days, 6%?

[vinny9698]

4. The Newt Business Plan

Newt is the leader in this type of profits for the organizers. He has done quite well, Tiffany line of credit, books, movies, speaker fees, etc. Now Cain, Bachmann, Palin,West, Scalia, Thomas's wife, and the rest are following the gravy train.

[FSogol]

5. I don't know whether to type, "A fool & his money are soon parted" or "Grifters gotta grift"

[Wounded Bear]

6. So, in essence, they are secular televangelists, right?

[applegrove]

9. Well the right wing belief system is based on myth - so yeah. It is a religion.

[bemildred]

7. Grifters grift. That's what they do. nt

[polichick]

8. RepubliCONS.

[johnlucas]

10. A sucker & his/her money is soon parted

That's the only silver lining I have for the existence of a Sarah Palin on the political scene.
Milk them suckers dry, I say.

John Lucas