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WHOA! Why would a hard-core Conservative like me write a title like that!?
I have written more than a few times about Conservative Fraud – Matt Cunningham, Chip Hanlon, Chuck DeVore and Karen England.
While doing research – I uncovered another doozy along the lines of Chip Hanlon getting caught whoring his blog out to Meg Whitman.
Why would a self-styled Conservative activist who travels the state and country to speak at and attend events attack a Prop 8 campaign?
Placer County had a prop 8 campaign in 2008. We paid people to walk precincts and make phone calls for Prop 8 – but Karen England has been on a psychotic rampage to try and sully the people involved in running said campaign in Placer.
Prop 8 was a brutal campaign, people got their houses vandalized, people got physically assaulted and businesses got boycotted.
People needed a way to participate without the specter of the open-minded tolerant liberals coming after them.
Enter www.lavendarliberal.com – this is a homosexual activist website designed to attack anyone who supported Prop 8. If you click on the block8 link – it takes you to a searchable database where you can look up anyone who has donated money to most pro-family campaigns across America. The site is replete with vicious comments about the donors as well.
Apparently, the ultimate goal of the Capitol Resource Institute is to eliminate competition in the Prop 8 arena. The pattern of financial motivations by Karen England is well established – and attacking the Placer GOP’s Prop 8 program in an attempt to expose the names of all who participated anonymously would certainly prevent such an effort from happening again.
And, as a side bonus, Karen England is able to “get” two of her political opponents in the process.
Karen England registered a domain in 2008 – www.yesonproposition8.com. This was a website that was put together by the Capitol Resource Institute to raise money. I was also told that the Capitol Resource Institute refused to participate with the real prop 8 campaign – www.protectmarriage.com and that they sent out numerous fundraising emails actually competing with the real prop 8 campaign!
Lavendar Liberal was kind enough to leave a blog post active with screenshots of the fake prop 8 website. It also proves a direct linkage to the Capitol Resource Institute in the creation and maintenance of the website.
Your intrepid blogger cross-referenced campaign finance reports that show what happened with the money raised by the fake prop 8 website run by Karen England and the Capitol Resource Institute.
Please also note that most all of the money raised by the CRI was from small dollar donors – suggesting that hundreds of people were fooled by this website.
The link to the campaign finance report is here for your reference.
A close look reveals this:
They held back $20,000 which was sent to the Capitol Resource Institute itself after the election was over. This is odd as most campaigns finish in debt – this suggests to me some pre-meditation with regards to the plans for the money all along.
Of the remaining $104,732.36 raised – it was spent as follows:
Around $31,000 in expenses of Capitol Resource Family Impact – a related entity to the Capitol Resource Institute. From looking at the report – it appears that over 40% of the money raised benefited the Capitol Resource Institute directly or indirectly.
In addition – there are several payments to LaTanya Wright, who works for the Capitol Resource Institute. (Side note – Wright was intended to be a alternate from the Seal Beach Republican Assembly in the attempted CRA coup in 2011. Wright lives in Roseville)
Meredith Turney also shows up on the report – at that time, she was employed by the Capitol Resource Institute as well.
The Capitol Resource Institute’s Yes on Prop 8 campaign sent out several emails as well. A 36-page document is linked here with several of the emails that were sent out in competition with the real prop 8 campaign. The comments at the beginning of several of the emails are revealing:
“This is the Capitol Resource Institute trying to skim money off of Prop 8″
“This is very fishy – I almost donated money to this site…”
“It appears Karen England is at it again, read on”
I spoke with a few people off the record and they were adamant that the Capitol Resource Institute refused to be cohesive with any of the other interests behind Prop 8 – and openly competed with the real Prop 8 campaign.
That pattern of behavior continues today as Karen’s rampage against the California Republican Assembly and the Placer County Republican Party has targeted a legitimate grass-roots effort done in 2008 to get out the vote for Proposition 8.
WHOA! Why would a hard-core Conservative like me write a title like that!?
No, what I wonder is how the hell someone like you or Larry can call yourselves “conservatives” with a straight face when you back having big government tell us citizens whom we can or can’t marry.
Relax Nelson!
Whether you are straight or homo to get marry in the USA you need a license from the government which may disallow such marriage. (always have been like that)
Needing a license from the government means that marriage is a privilege not a right same as drivers license.
If you liberals would eliminate marriage licensing you would eliminate your problems with your right to marry.
So true,
What many on the left (and to a lesser extent right) failed to comprehend is that Prop. 8 was a POLITICAL battleground. While the no on 8 cause was noble, it was poorly run, and frankly a mess.
The instability and dysfunction of the campaign was fueled by foolish blogs on the left, who wanted to champion a cause, but they were playing in the varsity sandbox, using elementary tactics.
Clearly, the esbablished right (not the fundalmentalist Christains) saw this as a driving force to get conservatives to the polls. Even Bush, didn’t give a shit about it, as long as it helped the GOP cause.
Meanwhile the gay community, much like the internet itself splintered into factions and even worse a collection of independent voices only to lose what could have been an easy victory.
Why is this important? because in the debris, you find hundreds of people who really don’t care becoming “outreach directors”…..etc all for a little $$$$$. AHH POLITICS.
“While doing research – I uncovered another doozy along the lines of Chip Hanlon getting caught whoring his blog out to Meg Whitman.”
Pot, kettle, black – see Steve Poizner. Apparently you didnt’ heed my earlier “glass house” comment.
Newbie – I did disclose my financial relationship with Poizner to Chip Hanlon on October 30, 2009. I have the emails to prove that as well as emails that prove that Whitman also had tried to hire me in the months preceeding.
On Dec 6, 2009 he used said disclosure to attack Steve Poizner on the Meg County Blog because on Dec 2, 2009 he received a check for $20,000 from Whitman that would be the first installment of $110,000 from her.
Any other questions?
Aaron Park lies like a rug. He publicly denied being paid to shill for Poizner on Red County even when commenters accused him of it. He LIED. The man has zero integrity, and no business questioning anyone else’s .