Republicans get busted posing as communists, trying to donate to Democratic campaign

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  1. k995

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    RINOS?
     
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    looks staged somethings weird about this [​IMG]
     
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    Why did they accept a donation from communists in the first place?
     
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    Is that illegal? What is illegal is fake names
     
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    And I am sure bringing up anything from project VERITAS will be dismissed, but this is taken on whole sale? IF this did happen as its reported, do you also acknowledge how leftist have been doing this very same tactic since 2008 with TEA party rallies? Showing up in full Nazi regalia?
     
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    Of course the guy behind that was busted and caught for creative editing and actually has had to pay damages .
     
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    Ill need your citation on this, all I am seeing is the arrest of the leftist because of the video sting.
     
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    really?
    Just from his wikipedia :
    Acorn:

    On the basis of the edited videotape which O'Keefe released, Vera appeared to be a willing participant in helping with O'Keefe's plan to smuggle young women into the United States illegally. However, authorities confirmed that Mr. Vera immediately contacted them about O'Keefe and that he had also encouraged O'Keefe to share as much information as possible about his scheme and gather further evidence of O'Keefe's purported illegal activities, which could then be used by prosecutors to bring charges against O'Keefe for attempted human trafficking. Due to O'Keefe's release of the dubiously edited video, intentionally designed to "prove" that ACORN employees were ready and willing to engage in illicit activities, Mr. Vera lost his job and was falsely accused of being engaged in human trafficking. O'Keefe noted that he "regrets any pain" caused by his reckless actions, though O'Keefe's lawyer dismissed any claimed injury incurred by Vera and stated that the payment was a "nuisance settlement".[59]

    O'Keefe moved for summary judgment in his favor, arguing that the plaintiff had no reasonable expectation that the conversation would be private. In August 2012, the federal judge hearing the case denied O'Keefe's motion for summary judgment. The judge ruled that O'Keefe had "misled plaintiff to believe that the conversation would remain confidential by posing as a client seeking services from ACORN and asking whether their conversation was confidential."[60] On March 5, 2013, O'Keefe agreed to pay $100,000 to former California ACORN employee Juan Carlos Vera for deliberately misrepresenting Mr. Vera's actions, and acknowledged in the settlement that at the time he published his video he was unaware that Vera had notified the police about the incident. The settlement contained the following apology: "O'Keefe regrets any pain suffered by Mr. Vera or his family."[61][62]

    On June 14, 2010, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) published its report finding no evidence that ACORN, or any of its related organizations, had mishandled any of the $40 million in federal money which they had received in recent years.[10][11]

    NPR as well:

    Comparison of the raw video with the released one revealed editing that was characterized as "selective" and "deceptive" by Michael Gerson, opinion writer in The Washington Post, who wrote, "O'Keefe did not merely leave a false impression; he manufactured an elaborate, alluring lie."[78] Time magazine wrote that the video "transposed remarks from a different part of the meeting", was "manipulative" and "a partisan hit-job."[79]

    The raw video shows Schiller told the two men "that donors cannot expect to influence news coverage." On the longer tape, he says, "There is such a big firewall between funding and reporting: Reporters will not be swayed in any way, shape or form."[6] The broadcast journalist Al Tompkins, who now teaches at the Poynter Institute, noted that Ron Schiller was a fundraiser, not an official affecting the newsroom. He commented on the raw tape: "The message that he said most often—I counted six times: He told these two people that he had never met before that you cannot buy coverage", Tompkins said. "He says it over and over and over again.[6]
     
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    So? You saying this didnt happen?

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...blicans-communists-democrats-donation-attempt

    Two young Arizona Republicans tried to make a donation to a congressman while posing as members of a university communist party, in an apparent attempt to tie the Democrat to the far left.

    On Friday afternoon in Flagstaff, two men who called themselves Jose Rosales and Ahmahd Sadia walked into the campaign office of first-term Democrat Tom O’Halleran, with $39.68 and an urgent desire for the “Northern Arizona University Communist party” to be given a receipt for the donation.

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    Lindsay Coleman, finance director for the campaign, drove to the local Republican field office in order to return the money. Almost immediately, the man who identified himself as Rosales appeared and was identified as “Oscar”. He accepted the money from Coleman.

    Speaking to the Guardian, Coleman identified the second man as a field organizer for the Arizona Republican party and said Ahmahd Sadia was not his real name. The Guardian later learned that the man had been fired from his job with the party.
     
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    It shows where they are politically

    Socialism, communism, ISIS, Black Lives Matter, ANTIFA, NAMBLA

    All the political a social freaks turn to the democrat party
     
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    Other than you making allegations, you did not answer the question. BTW The ideology of ISIS is right wing conservatism.
     
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    Pretty sure Muslim religious conservatism doesn’t fit anywhere in the right - left spectrum.

    As to the OP, if true these guys should be lambasted. So sick of this fake crap going on from both sides of the isle.

    We no longer talk about actual policy, it’s all smear tactics and dirty nonsense like this to try to make the other side look “evil”

    Politics is such a joke right now
     
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    Why do people keep posting this obvious nonsense?
    I want a refund for my lost minute
     
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    And naturally nobody at the Tea Party ever thought to photograph it. Nor did the "leftists"

    The thing that gets to me is that the only communists left in the world must be American liberals.
    The Chinese are Fascists and our own President is a Russian agent.
     
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    The ideology of ISIS is anti American
     
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    So you must be a verified communist before they will accept your money? She became suspicious when he appeared well-fed. She should have checked to see if he knew the communist handshake. (Which is putting your hand into the pockets of hard working people!)

    Good times!
     
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    Nice to see you support criminals.
     
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    If I did, I would donate to your party!
     
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    "Republicans get busted posing as communists, trying to donate to Democratic campaign"

    doesn't surprise me, republicans are trying to divide us rather then unite us as a county, it's the time of Trump

    I have faith that this too will pass and the country will heal again, just two more years and we can vote Dirty Donald out of office and say.... "Your fired!"
     
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    Tell that to yourself.

    Do you feel better now?
     
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    Was it "commiepublican" John Brennan? :roflol: You think commies don't infiltrate both parties? And demo-socialists are all the way out of the closet. Why smear? Bigger news ... Beto, socialist(?) darling / crusader, won't SHARE THE WEALTH. Down 15 pts. sitting on $38 million, Beto won't back (D)'s who actually have a shot. :roflol:
     

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