Yummy, Yummy, Yummy
Okay, so you know about the former James O’Keefe compadres opening the American Phoenix Foundation in Texas where they train “journalists” to stalk non-tea-party state Republicans and secretly videotape them. Hannah Giles and Joe Basel are not strangers to drinking at the fountain of slime.
It is Republicans getting eaten by their children. It’s a thing I truly deeply and delightfully enjoy watching.
But now it’s getting even sweeter.
Come to find out, one of their big financial supporters is a guy who pulled some major weight around the Texas capitol and helped Rick Perry try to destroy the Texas secondary public education system. He’s semi-famous in Texas. And it’s not that he revealed himself. Oh no, he wouldn’t want to do that and give his enemies even more ammo against him. He got outted.
A private foundation led by billionaire oilman and higher education critic Jeff Sandefer has given $200,000 in recent years to help bankroll a conservative nonprofit now at the center of a scheme to secretly film lawmakers and lobbyists, tax filings show.
The American Phoenix Foundation is a 501(c)(3) so they don’t have to reveal their donors. But Sandefer’s organization – although tax exempt (Republicans will do anything to keep from paying their fair share of taxes) – has to list their donees on their IRS filing. Bingo!
When questioned about the activities of this pet project, Sandefer had a ready answer.
“We did not get into specifics of what they were going to do. I never got that far. I never heard a specific plan to do anything,” Sandefer said.
But yet he gave $200,000 to two people involved in falsely editing ACORN tapes and illegally breaking into Senator Mary Landrieu’s office disguised as a telephone repairman to gather dirt on her. Maybe he expected that they’d turned good and were going to feed poor little crippled children with his $200,000.
That, my friend, is enough caca del toro to fill Texas stadium. Nobody, no body, who has ever set foot in the Texas capitol believes that story.
For its contribution to caca ownership, the American Phoenix Foundation says it has 11,000 small donors. Yeah, sure. Honey, if they can prove that I’ll eat grandpa’s saddle on the capitol steps and let them videotape it.
This story promises to get better and better.
IF he just wants to give away money….
1Huh.
211,000 small donors (whose names, of course, they can’t disclose)… yeah, right.
3small donors=donoritos?
4I have visions of a Swarm of Hobbits carrying $1 Bills converging on a dark place
He and the others like them wallow so deeply in dirt that standing downwind from them is like being in the dust bowl. I vote we rename the GOP the DBP: Dirty Bastards Party.
5Shouldn’t the headline read “Scummy, Scummy, Scummy” to be even more accurate?
6Congress seems to be having more than a little difficulty closing tax loopholes. I can propose one. End all deductions for political contributions. I’ll eat the cost of what I donate. Are people like the Koch brothers, Shelly and Jeff Sandefer ready to man up?
We can save a few $million over at the IRS on employees no longer needed to wade through bullsh!t paperwork.
Relax, Alfredo, you will never be unemployed. The bottom feeders will always create a need for your skills of following their money.
7joe’s still confused @#4,
Not Hobbits (mostly goodguys), those ‘baggers would definitely be “Orc’s”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orc_%28Middle-earth%29
“In J. R. R. Tolkien’s fantasy writings, Orcs or Orks are a race of creatures who are used as soldiers and henchmen by both the greater and lesser villains…”
811,000 small donors? Maybe the size of the minions in the movie Despicable Me? Hey, it all fits.
9I thought that political donations were already NON-Deductible.
10This “Foundation” needs to be outed, itself. Send in the FBI.
maryelle, we need the resident The World’s Most Dangerous Beauty Salon, Inc., numbers guy Alfredo to teach the seminar “On How It is Done.” Technically you are correct, but that big however is a mush of dark and plain shady money.
As pointed out to me by my wife, all the hoopla projection by Republicans regarding the Clinton Foundation. Jane explained to me the hows and whys of the Clinton Foundation being ‘clean’ despite all the RW mud being slung at it.
Jane further explained to me the ‘foul’ cries of the RWNJs are clues as to how every flavor and variety of campaign finance violation is committed by Republicans. Remember a year or so ago, when all the Tea Bag “non-profits” were screaming about that horrible invasive IRS picking on them? The IRS was correct in setting aside their applications for closer scrutiny, but the Tea Baggers are adroit at playing the victim. Those useful idiots are controlled by huge dollar contributors with a flotilla of writ twits capable of scaring the IRS.
Jane has terrific insight as to ‘how it’s done.’ Maybe Miss Juanita can charm Alfredo into providing one of his follow the money finds to amplify the points.
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