WHO Really Paid BART STUPAK'S Rent?

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" It's really nice to see at least one person in the media looking into the activities at the C-Street House by The Family as Rachel Maddow has done. She follows up on the previous show's reporting and continues to ask, who's paying Bart Stupak's rent? She talks to Rev. Eric Williams who along with "12 other pastors have filed a complaint with the Internal Revenue Service challenging C Street‘s tax-exempt status".


MADDOW: In making a name for himself, though, Mr. Stupak has opened himself up to some questions about who he is and where he‘s coming from. Last night on this show, we talked about Bart Stupak‘s long-time Washington, D.C. residence. It‘s an 8,000 square foot, 12-bedroom mansion called C Street. C Street is reportedly run by a secretive religious group called The Fellowship or The Family.


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So, according to The Fellowship, they have nothing to do with C Street nothing. They don‘t even know who runs C Street.


Well, today, we were able to obtain what appears to be the official deed to the C Street house. It‘s a deed that is dated September 23rd, 2009. It‘s a deed that appears to change the ownership of the property from a group called Youth With A Mission to an organization called C Street Center Incorporated. Signing on behalf of C Street Center Incorporated is that group‘s secretary, Marty B. Sherman.


Who‘s Marty B. Sherman? Well, here‘s the 2008 tax filing of the Fellowship Foundation, again, or The Family. Right there listed on page seven, hey, wouldn‘t you know, Marty Sherman, associate.


So, The Family claims they have nothing to do with C Street and yet one of their associates is the person who‘s listed on the deed to C Street. The mystery deepens.


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It turns that not that long ago, when talking about C Street to the press, Bart Stupak told “The Los Angeles Times” that he kind of did abide by a code of secrecy when it came to C Street and The Family. His quote to “The L.A. Times” when they asked him about C Street was this, quote, “We sort of don‘t talk to the press about the house.”


The reason this is important is because Bart Stupak continues to deny having anything at all to do with a secretive religious group, The Family. But check this out. In 2002, when Bart Stupak was living at C Street—he‘s lived there for years—when he was living there in 2002, an associate of The Family described for the press the arrangement that The Family had with the members of Congress who have lived at that house.



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1. Time for a Primary Challange

In case he needs to drop out due to ethics worries, you know.

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2. PRIMARY Deadlines WILL Slip By as the House tries to make Bart Stupak Happy.

From FDL:

" How many state primary deadlines will slip by as the House tries to make Bart Stupak happy? In how many states will progressive activists have to wait until 2012 to challenge Democratic incumbents who vote against women’s health rights and for a mandate to buy private health insurance? Are we losing 2010 accountability?


The answer is yes.


Here are the states with filing deadlines that expire between now and Easter, which is April 4th. Passover begins March 26th, and Congress’s Passover/Easter recess is currently rumored to be the House’s new "deadline" for passing the Senate bill. Of course, this would be on the promise of fixes from the Upper Chamber. The thirteen states with expiring primary candidate filing deadlines are:

Arkansas 3/8
Oregon 3/9
Pennsylvania 3/9
California 3/12
Nevada 3/12
Maine 3/15
Montana 3/15
Idaho 3/19
Iowa 3/19
Utah 3/19
South Dakota 3/30
South Carolina 3/30
Missouri 3/30

Moving into April, these seven states have primary filing deadlines before May First:

Tennessee 4/1
Alabama 4/2
Virginia 4/9
North Dakota 4/9
New Jersey 4/12
Georgia 4/30
Florida 4/30

Fully twenty states’ Democrats will lose the opportunity to file challengers to incumbent Democratic House members who vote to restrict women’s rights or require Americans to buy private insurance.

I’m pretty sure the Speaker knows this calendar better than I do: this makes me wonder if the current delays are about insulating incumbent Democrats from possible 2010 primary challengers.

As far as this fall’s election is concerned, where are progressive voters going to go? Without the chance to primary their Congresscritter, Democrats will be stuck supporting the incumbent.

After all, 2012 is a long time away, with lots of opportunities to make local progressives happier with their representative, right?



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3. Interesting, but the one deadline that counts

Michigan's

isn't on the list.

They only need 1000 signatures to get onto the ballot in Michigan and if a well connected candidate, one who is already active on local politics and has worked to elect democrats before, steps up, they can have the signatures by the end of the month.

Just saying.

Edited to add

The deadline in Bart's district is May 11 by 4 pm and they need at least 1000 signatures.