Shenanigans Ahead
Okay, so here’s how this works.
Pop-Up Super PACs register with the FEC so late in the election cycle that they won’t disclose their donors until after the election.
This one just registered with the FEC using the most generic name possible: ABC PAC
Oops, no points for creativity.
See that email address? Datwyler’s FEC accounting firm was acquired by Republican political consultant Jeff Roe’s Axiom Strategies in September.
Kansas City-based Axiom Strategies LLC, the largest U.S. Republican consulting firm, wrapped up its second acquisition within about a week.
Axiom announced Wednesday that it acquired 9Seven Consulting, a political compliance firm specializing in federal and state reporting, compliance, accounting and treasury services, according to a release.
“Tom Datwyler and 9Seven provide the highest level of campaign finance services, and their skillset and expertise will play an integral role in Axiom’s growth. We look forward to the entire 9Seven staff joining our company,” Axiom founder and CEO Jeff Roe said in the release.
When the Super PAC starts running ads saying that Candidate X is a pedophile the disclaimers on the ads will simply say “Paid for by ABC PAC. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee.”
Candidate X won’t know who paid to destroy his political career until the Super PAC files its Post-Election Report . . . in December.
That right there is how Republican shenanigans work. So, for this election we know they’re coming but we don’t know when or where. Makes your head spin, don’t it?
Aarghhh the treachery never stops. One of the first things I noticed when I first started paying attention to politics about 18 years ago was Republicans don’t know how to govern, but they DO know how to steal.
1Fox ‘Hate’ News and GOP standard talking points, ‘Lie and blame the Democrats.’
As Dylan said: “Money doesn’t talk, it swears.”
2One of the many ways that the dark side usually wins.
“That right there is how Republican shenanigans work. So, for this election we know they’re coming but we don’t know when or where.”
The damned Democrats just need to get all that craptastic ‘Take the high road’ bullshit, and vaporous ‘wishing for a better world’ delusions, and fling it all in a ditch for a while.
Then get down and dirty and beat these Rethuglikan SOBs to bloody pulps with their own chickenshit methods x10. Until they are nearly eradicated.
There simply is no choice, time is REALLY running out on avoiding having the USA turned into a Christo-fascist hellhole. If it gets to that point there will be no going back.
Once the Rethugs are thoroughly vanquished, then we can think about the possibility of ‘a kinder gentler world’. It ain’t happening until they are gone.
3How itʼs done in Alaska
First big donation made just before disclosure required under new state law. Money from Republican Governors Association to “A Stronger Alaska”
Now no record of such transfer, instead just a bank account “Republican Governors Association, A Stronger Alaska.”
The filings with the IRS (federal) show no money to the local group “A Stronger Alaska”, while the filings with the Alaska Public Offices Commission show $3 million to the local group.
…and the national group is not registered for political action in the state.
Details
4https://www.dermotcole.com/reportingfromalaska/2022/10/17/shell-group-for-dunleavy-draws-new-alaska-campaign-complaint
https://www.dermotcole.com/reportingfromalaska/2022/10/20/059qz7oxerfp4362jp0b705zd89pn3