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Maze of Websites Brings Unity12 Operation Back to GOP Consultant Jim Jonas
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Back in 2006, the Unity08 corporation formed to select its own candidates for President and Vice President of the United States. Unity08′s pitch: why not have a bipartisan team of one Republican and one Democrat working together in the White …
The Political News I’m Waiting For. What Are You Waiting For?
As the summer progresses, I find myself waiting with interest for the arrival of some pieces of news. Here’s what I’m waiting for: Section 527 quarterly financial reports. Most non-profit political organizations must file reports of their contributions and expenditures …
Posted in Americans Elect, Environment, Politics, Sex and Gender, unity08
Tagged Americans Elect, california, castro, climate, equality, marriage, news, prop 8, proposition 8, san francisco, section 527, temperature, unity08, upcoming, vaughn walker
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Unity12 Task Force Begins Registrations; Unity08 Was a Corporate Zombie
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Unity08, the organization that sought to have its own candidates for President and Vice President of the United States placed on the November 2008 ballot, filed organization papers as a corporation in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, DC. Records show that …
Posted in Alternative Parties, Americans Elect, Election 2012, Politics, unity08
Tagged Americans Elect, corporation, delinquent, domain names, registration, taxes, unity08, unity12 task force
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Meet the New Leaders of the Unity12 Task Force
As I noted yesterday, the political group Unity08 has reformed for the 2012 presidential election season as a Section 527 corporation named the Unity12 Task Force. The stated goal of this new corporation is to arrange for the nomination of …
Posted in Alternative Parties, Americans Elect, Election 2012, Politics, unity08
Tagged Americans Elect, unity08, unity12 task force
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Unity08 Resurrected as Unity12 Task Force in Washington, DC
In the 2008 presidential election cycle, the well-connected Unity08 corporation declared that it would run the nation’s first-ever online presidential nomination in order to run its very own candidates for President and Vice President of the United States. Unity08, peppered …
Posted in Alternative Parties, Americans Elect, Election 2012, Politics, unity08
Tagged 2012, Americans Elect, president, task force, third party, unity, unity08, washington
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Unity08 wins right to unlimited donations and secret-term loans. Watch for the relaunch.
In the 2008 presidential election cycle, the corporation called Unity08 used its media contacts with DC insiders such as David Broder and shared financial history with publications such as The Hill and Atlantic Monthly to spread word that it would …
Posted in Alternative Parties, Economy, Election 2008, Election 2012, Ethics, Politics, unity08
Tagged 2012, Americans Elect, campaign contributions, corruption, court of appeals, election, fec, graft, money, relaunch, unity 2012, unity08
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With an Income of $0 in 2009, How did Unity08 Pay for These Digs?
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Unity08, the corporation set up with the intention of getting its own presidential ticket elected with unlimited big-money donations, insists that it is not dead. It’s arguing in federal court that, with a planned name change to Unity12 (sorry, the …
Posted in Economy, Mysteries, Politics, unity08
Tagged 2009, dc, headquarters, income, rent, unity08, washington
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Unity08 Resurrects Itself in Bid for Big Money, Rewriting the Past
You may remember Unity08, the political corporation dedicated to railing against big money while pursuing big donations, railing against lobbyists while putting lobbyists in key leadership positions, railing against the erosion of democracy while forbidding criticism of it, and getting …
Posted in Alternative Parties, Election 2012, Ethics, Politics, unity08
Tagged 2012, Americans Elect, candidate, corruption, general election, money, party, political party, president, unity08
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Multiple Organizations Crowd Out the Unity 2012 Name
From the spring of 2007 to January of 2008, Unity08 declared itself to be a grassroots movement dedicated to bringing the American people together, taking big money out of politics and solving America’s problems by electing its own presidential ticket …
Posted in Alternative Parties, Election 2008, Election 2012, Ethics, Politics, unity08
Tagged 2012, Americans Elect, campaign, unity, unity 2012, unity08
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AmericanPresident2012: Internet Democracy, Revocable, Revisable, Ish
Unity08 may be dead, but the tribute band is coming. AmericanPresident2012 is a website that will, according to its “Mission Statement”: The purpose of AmericanPresident2012.com is to bring back to the American people the vision that was The United States …
Posted in Alternative Parties, Economy, Election 2012, Politics, unity08
Tagged 2012, americanpresident2012, election, legalese, presidential, spam, terms of service, unity08
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Federal Judge Ruling on Unity08 Declares Possibility of Corruption
Thanks to 123kid for sharing a link to the final court decision of DC District Judge Richard W. Roberts in the case of Unity08 v. FEC. Unity08 was a registered corporation with plans to nominate its own candidates for president …
Posted in Alternative Parties, Ethics, Politics, unity08
Tagged corrupt, corruption, fec, richard w. roberts, roberts, ruling, unity08
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Unity08: Superdead
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As a sort of post-mortem, today I looked back at the IRS donation and expenditure records of Unity08 in the summer and fall of last year. No donations to Unity08 were made during during that period, and expenditures of just …
Posted in Alternative Parties, Politics, unity08
Tagged dead, doug bailey, douglas bailey, jim jonas, peak, peak creative media, superdead, unity 08, unity08
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Big Change in Unity08 Lawsuit? Address.
It’s a fairly important substantive question being considered in the Unity08 v. FEC lawsuit, filed back in January of 2007: ought groups attempting to engineer the election of third-party figures as presidential candidates to obey the fundraising restrictions of political …
Posted in Alternative Parties, Election 2008, Politics, unity08
Tagged campaign, contributions, dc, district court, fec, lawsuit, richard roberts, third party, unity
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Former Unity08 Founders Council Members Show No Pattern in Campaign Cash
As the 2008 election cycle moves forward without the utterly defunct Unity08, I thought it might be instructive to look at the pattern of donations made by Unity08 leadership to other political campaigns. But it turns out that the biggest …
Posted in Economy, Election 2008, Politics, unity08
Tagged campaign, catherine dunham, contributions, council, david maney, donations, fec, founders, Mitt Romney, pac, tom stroock, unity 08, unity08, unity08.com
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Rider Board for the Unity08 Convention
Are you heading to the Unity08 presidential nominating convention? Let’s set this page up as the unofficial Rider Board. If you have space in your car to spare, say so. If you need a ride, say so. Be sure to …
Posted in Alternative Parties, Election 2008, Politics, unity08
Tagged convention, rider board, sam waterston, unity, unity 08, unity08
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When DC Insiders Tell You How It Has To Be, Remember This
Inside operators within the beltway of Washington, DC love to tell the rest of us how it has to be, and how anybody who thinks otherwise is just naive and wouldn’t understand. The next time you hear some DC insider …
Posted in Election 2008, Politics, unity08
Tagged dc, election, insiders, iowa, new hampshire, possibility, presidential, unity08, washington
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Contribution to Draft Bloomberg Committee by Unity08 Goes Unmentioned by Unity08 in its Own Report
The Draft Bloomberg Committee reports in its 1st Quarter Disclosure that it received a $1,288 contribution from Unity08 on March 4, 2008. Unity08 reports no such contribution to the Draft Bloomberg Committee in its 1st Quarter report (filed two days …
Posted in Alternative Parties, Economy, Election 2008, Mysteries, Politics, unity08
Tagged 2008, bloomberg, dbc, disclosure, draft bloomberg, draft bloomberg committee, irs, presidential, race, unity
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Unity08 Gave Money to Draft Bloomberg Committee
Happy April 15! This isn’t just the day you need to file your tax return. It’s also the day that political organizations not regulated by the FEC are required to file their 1st Quarter disclosures of political contributions with the …
Posted in Economy, Election 2008, Ethics, Mysteries, Politics, unity08
Tagged bloomberg, contribution, donation, doug bailey, douglas bailey, draft bloomberg, economics, irs, money transfer, president, rafshoon, scandal, unity 08, unity08
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