Americans Elect Spokesperson Acknowledges Big Lie: Delegate Count inflated by at least 400%

In the all-online corporate privatized presidential nomination effort called Americans Elect, there are different levels of participation: 1. Facebook Fan: someone who “likes” Americans Elect on Facebook. As of this morning, 466,625 people have “liked” Americans Elect on Facebook. 2. …

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Postponing Transparency, Americans Elect Delays the Posting of Form 990 Disclosures (5/2012)

Finally, after two years of initiating contact with Americans Elect and asking for a response, the 501c4 corporation that wanted to elect its own President of the United States has written me a letter in response. That’s the good news. …

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ICPurple Billionaire Money Doesn’t Bother Angus King

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Is Angus King really disgusted with the system of billionaires using Super PACs to buy control over the political system? If that’s the case, then Mr. King should repudiate ICPurple and the money from Ted Waitt that is being used to promote the King for Senate campaign.

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Big Finance Democrats Willing to Throw Obama Under the Bus for irking their Masters

As you may know, the presidential re-election campaign of Barack Obama recently released a campaign advertisement that — correctly, according to PolitiFact — showed how Mitt Romney made himself rich as head of Bain Capital by gutting American industries, kicking …

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Paul Ryan Having Breakfast With Company That Ships Jobs Overseas

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Gap, Inc. is a company that specializes in making profits by taking jobs that could be held by American workers and sending those jobs to sweatshop factories in foreign countries. Paul Ryan happens to promote a legislative agenda that keeps the door open to corporations that set up shop overseas instead of creating jobs in the USA.

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Formal Request for Americans Elect Form 990 (and why it’s important to keep asking)

Americans Elect, which until this week told America it would run the country’s first-ever privatized all-online presidential nomination, is a corporation organized under Section 501(c)(4) of the IRS code. The federal government requires corporations organized under Section 501(c) to make …

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National Campus Director Blake Wright the Latest Americans Elect Staffer to Violate Neutrality

Let’s get right to the point: Three weeks ago, circumstantial evidence suggested that Americans Elect had violated its neutrality policy regarding presidential candidates. Today, Americans Elect has inadvertently confirmed it. Americans Elect, the 501c4 corporation that wants to run its …

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Will Cutting Retirement Funds Stop Lobbying By Former Members Of Congress?

Yesterday, U.S. Representative Steve Israel introduced H.R. 5737, legislation that would remove federal retirement benefits for any “former Member of Congress receiving compensation as a highly-paid lobbyist”. Many former members of Congress, such as Newt Gingrich, make a killing using …

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AE Transparency’s Asymmetric Warfare Letter to Americans Elect (and why I disagree)

Yesterday, AE Transparency sent off a letter to Americans Elect executives Peter Ackerman, Elliot Ackerman and Kahlil Byrd. AE Transparency sent me a copy and has given me permission to reprint that letter here: Gents: http://aetransparency.blogspot.com/2012/05/this-weaks-voting-at-americans-elect.html In case you’re wondering, …

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Document: “Grassroots” Committee to Draft David Walker for President intends to take Big Money

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The Committee to Get Walker Running — a draft committee trying to get David Walker on the presidential ballot through Americans Elect — calls itself a “grassroots and youth-driven initiative” in public: Grassroots? In private, the committee informed the Federal …

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The Real Hollister Brand Story

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The official story of the Hollister Co. clothing brand is bunk. A more established Hollister brand is established with colostomy bags, urinary incontinence, and games of golf in Georgia with old politicians and corporate lobbyists.

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Every Identifiable Student in new Draft David Walker Video is Americans Elect Campus Leader

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Americans Elect is supposed to be neutral. But is the infrastructure of Americans Elect being used to promote David Walker for President? Look for yourself. Watch this new “Draft Walker” video featuring a series of college students: I can’t positively …

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Oil Industry Gets What It Paid For With Cory Gardner Drilling Bill

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No industry has given as much money to Congressman Gardner as the oil and gas industry. No wonder Cory Gardner just introduced legislation to create more profit opportunities for oil and gas corporations – using public lands.

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Congressman Jeff Denham’s Compressed Gas Party

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Kathryn Lehman started out in politics in the 1990s, working for the ethically-challenged Tom DeLay and Newt Gingrich. She has since discovered that there’s more money to be made working for corporations, so she’s traded in on her political contacts and now roams the halls of Congress working to influence American law on behalf of her corporate clients – including the Compressed Gas Association.

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Committee to Get Walker Running Supporters connected to Americans Elect and Concord Coalition

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The Committee to Get Walker Running, a group trying to kick start a Draft David Walker for President campaign, has 10 public supporters on the morning of April 21 2012. This count comes from a causes.com web page prominently linked …

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Patrick Leahy Wants To Help The Ski Set With Cheap Imports

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He talks about preserving American jobs, but yesterday, Senator Patrick Leahy introduced legislation that will, if passed, protect exemptions from reasonable import fees for foreign-made ski boots.

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David Walker for President: The People, The Connections

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Five names have emerged in the leadership of The Committee to Get Walker Running, an entity at draftwalker.com that yesterday morning was nothing but a splash page… …but which by yesterday afternoon was being used to vigorously (and with non-disclosed …

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Presidential Candidate Jill Stein Stands Against Americans Elect

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Today, Jill Stein, the strong front runner in the 2012 Green Party presidential
primary, released the following statement, in which she pledges to abstain from all involvement in the Americans Elect political party.

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