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

Jim Cook 5/26/2012
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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)

Jim Cook 5/25/2012
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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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Draft Walker Fever Ran Cold: Independent Expenditure Committee Reports No Expenditures

Jim Cook 5/25/2012
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On the very first day the Committee to Get Walker Running announced its existence to the public, the DC beltway publication Politico declared: “Walker Fever: It’s Spreading.” The basis for author Alexander Burns’ diagnosis of a “fever” for David Walker …

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ICPurple Billionaire Money Doesn’t Bother Angus King

Peregrin Wood 5/24/2012
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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

Jim Cook 5/23/2012
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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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Beloved Defender of the Constitution Ron Paul Just Voted Against the Constitution Again

Jim Cook 5/23/2012
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On May 9 of 2012, the House of Representatives voted to pass the Amendment 1096 to H.R. 5326, shortly before H.R. 5326 itself passed the House. Amendment 1096, introduced by Tim Huelskamp of Kansas, forbids the President from directing the …

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Paul Ryan Having Breakfast With Company That Ships Jobs Overseas

Peregrin Wood 5/23/2012
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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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What Kind Of Faith Relies On Robocalls?

Peregrin Wood 5/22/2012
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Do these supporters of Republican Richard Mourdock really believe that their god’s political plans for the U.S. Senate seat from Indiana depends on computer programs that make automatic telephone calls to interrupt voters’ family dinners?

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Replacing Olympia Snowe

Peregrin Wood 5/21/2012
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Four Democratic candidates are competing for the nomination to run for the U.S. Senate seat that Olympia is vacating this year.

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No Labels Fights to Stop the Fighting

Jim Cook 5/21/2012
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No Labels, May 18 2012: “The fight to solve our country’s problems goes on — that’s why you should support #NoLabels”. No Labels, May 19 2012: “Listen up #Washington: Stop fighting. Start fixing! Plz RT if you agree.” And yes, …

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

Jim Cook 5/19/2012
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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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Americans Elect Says it Has 400,000 Delegates. Fewer than 500 Delegates Tell AE to Continue.

Jim Cook 5/17/2012
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The privatized presidential campaign corporation called Americans Elect has made repeated public claims that it has at least “400,000 delegates” (source | source | source). However, Americans Elect has refused to release a verifiable count of delegates, and there are …

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As Massive Occupy Protest Takes Times Square, New York Times Covers Van Cliburn Piano Sale

Jim Cook 5/15/2012
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A massive protest by Occupy Wall Street is underway. Photo: ArckiiART The New York Times (you know, “All the News That’s Fit to Print”) refuses to cover it anywhere on its front page, where over a hundred other news headlines …

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Americans Elect: Fact Check of Kahlil Byrd’s May 15 Statement Presaging a Rule Change

Jim Cook 5/15/2012
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After the failure of any Americans Elect candidate to meet has released a statement of one of its founding officers, Kahlil Byrd. The statement follows, interrupted in another font with annotated fact checking. Links labeled “source” will direct you to …

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U.S. House Playing Hooky Today

Peregrin Wood 5/14/2012
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For most Americans, the work week begins today, and we have to arrive bright and early at our jobs, on time or ahead of time, or risk getting fired. The elected members of the U.S. House of Representatives, however, have …

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Say Yes to the Future, No to Bank-Run America: Protest in Times Square May 15

Jim Cook 5/14/2012
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I note in this morning’s Bangor Daily News that Governor Paul LePage and his Republican allies intend to cut funding for Head Start programs, despite solid empirical evidence that for every dollar invested in early childhood education, nearly nine dollars …

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Last Americans Elect Gambit: to put Candidates on the Ballot despite Insufficient Support

Jim Cook 5/13/2012
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Section 8.3 of the bylaws of Americans Elect state: Section 8.3. Convention Votes. Votes to draft or nominate candidates shall be governed by the convention Rules as adopted by the Rules Committee and ratified by the Delegates in accordance with …

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AE Transparency nominates Deleted Candidate for President with Americans Elect

Jim Cook 5/13/2012
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There’s only 1 day left for any candidate to get the needed 1,000 votes in 10 states to qualify for the Americans Elect presidential ballot spot — unless Americans Elect changes the rules in the middle of a vote, that …

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