ALL EVIDENCE POINTS TO FACTS THAT, TheTeaParty.net and Stop This Insanity are phony groups collecting monies for their own purpose.
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Mystery Group Gets D.C. Help
TheTeaParty.net Offers Few Clues About Goals
A little-known, Arizona-based tea party organization has hired a prominent Republican operative to help advance its mission in Washington, D.C. But after more than a year in operation and hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations, it’s still not clear what the group’s mission actually is.Todd Cefaratti, founder of TheTeaParty.net, announced last week that the group had hired a big Washington gun: governmental affairs specialist Donna Wiesner Keene, a veteran of the Bush and Reagan administrations and the wife of the incoming president of the National Rifle Association, David Keene.Donna Keene said she will act as an intermediary between the field and Washington, helping activists connect effectively with lawmakers to influence policy and advising potential first-time candidates. She has lobbied for conservative groups such as Americans for Fair Taxation in the past, but she is not registered as a lobbyist for the TheTeaParty.net.“There are a lot of questions about Washington,” she said in an interview with Roll Call. “How do we stay active? What issues need attention? That takes someone like me who understands Washington.” But it’s not clear what TheTeaParty.net is active in. Despite its extensive website and an impressive ability to pull in money, TheTeaParty.net appears to do little more than promote its own name.
1. Click here to see the Federal
Elections Commission report which documents the finances of
“JoinTheTeaParty.US.”
2.
STOP THIS INSANITY INC. - Ariz. Corp. Comm. -- Corporations ...
May 10,
2011 – ... Number: -1585446-2.
Corp. Name: STOP
THIS INSANITY INC.
... Agent Name: ALPHA LEGAL FORMS MORE INC. Agent Mailing/Physical
...
April 5, 2011 By Carol Greenberg
H/t to @MelissaTweets for alerting us
to this.
Every once in a while someone comes
along who preys on the beliefs, tenets and successes of other people and
entities and takes greed into their own hands to advance their own
personal agenda and coffers.
Disclaimer TheTeaParty.net
is the DBA (doing business as) name and website listing for Stop This Insanity,
Inc. ("STI"), which is a 501(c)(4) organization which primarily
focuses on nonpartisan education and advocacy on important national issues. STI
is a federal political action committee which primarily helps members elect
candidates who reflect our values through a variety of activities aimed at
influencing the outcome of the next election. Contributions to STI are not
deductible as charitable contributions for income tax purposes.At first glance their website looks
great. We have the video, we have the voter registration drive which even links
to a map of the US where one can learn how to register to vote. The website is
immaculate and has no errors that I could find.But when reports started pouring in
about people who had signed up for email alerts being spammed with ads
to buy gold, silverware and knick knacks and other items did things become
suspicious.CBS/KPHO in Phoenix broke the story
last November and apparently because the rest of the country has been occupied
with other matters like Egypt, Libya, budget deficits, and energy woes it
escaped our notice. But not any longer.If one scrolls down to the bottom of
their home page, this is the “owner” of the website:Paid for
by Stop This Insanity Inc., a 501 c4. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee. www. TheTeaParty.netc owned domains:
Check out “Stop This Insanity” donor
list. Notice anything unusual? Not the typical $10, $15, $25 donations.
Instead we have $500, $600, $1,000, even several $5,000 donors.
Loew tells us that no one at a
pre-election rally in Phoenix had ever heard of JointheTeaParty.us. And FYI
JointheTeaParty.US links to The Tea Party.net.Links to Stop This Insanity..
Loew picks apart the FEC
filing of this group, which also lists all these mega-donors, and this is the
astounding find: Receipts and Disbursements
· They raked in nearly $500K, $469K to be exact, from January
2010 to October of 2010, the most of any Tea Party in Arizona.
· $4,500 for company travel.
· $23K for office expenses.
· $16.5K for pens, books and videos for donors
· $181,759 for marketing: Google, FaceBook and other ad
companies, so every time you “google” “tea party US” they are the first to pop
up.
· Not one
DOLLAR spent on rallies or campaign expenses for Tea Party candidates.
And
that’s not all. Thousands have logged into this group and typed in their
personal information and credit card information and the group that runs the
website is also into the “data collection” business. One of the companies they
own sells people’s personal information to ReverseLeadClub.com in an attempt to
sell reverse mortgages.
Reporter Loew attempted to interview
Cefaratti however he refused and jumped into his Escalade. Note at the 4:20
mark on the video Cefaratti’s license plate reads “TEAPARTY1.”
I also advise people when hunting
around for info to “also read the comments on blogs.” They can afford a
veritable wealth of information not found elsewhere. And I found this little
tidbit. TeaParty.net just happened to be a sponsor of the Media Lounge
at CPAC this year. No conclusion drawn here, however. Another piece of
information I ran across is TeaParty.net is using Rock the Vote
for their GOTV efforts. If one goes to the link on TeaParty.net’s sidebar under
“register to vote” they come up as the entity handling the GOTV. TeaParty.net claims on their header they
are “non-partisan” and to be registered as a “non-profit” they must be
non-partisan, however, Rock the Vote is nowhere near being non-partisan.
Rock the Vote is a client of Catalist.
Catalist is a for-profit company and is a repository for voter records
and registrants which is used only for progressive groups and Democrats.
Whether or not TeaParty.net is aware of this I can’t say. However, the
information is relatively easy to find. This is circumspect for anyone who has
put as much effort into a website like TeaParty.net.
Billy Hallowell
does an excellent job of explaining why and how Rock the Vote is not non-partisan.
TeaParty.net under its “Tea Party Racing” is
also a sponsor of Chris Lafferty’s NASCAR Truck Series #89. Lafferty’s Motor Sport page
shows the “Tea Party Racing” team-up. According to the Washington
Times: Chris Lafferty’s No. 89 truck will be known as “We the People’s”
through the 2012 election. [snip]. Bill Wallace, the coach and general manager
of Lafferty Motorsports LLC, wrote in a letter posted on TeaPartyRacing.com
that the sponsorship will be funded with donations. Part of the donations made
to TeaPartyRacing will go to Mr. Lafferty’s team, part to TheTeaParty.net. Notice
The Times makes no mention of the controversy surrounding TeaParty.net.
ANALYSIS
of Carol Greenberg
It always behooves anyone when
making a donation to a company, website or individual to use care especially
when giving out credit card information. While there is actually no absolute
proof TeaParty.net is a “fake” I believe the evidence presented makes a fairly
damning case against them. Based on the information provided above it’s also
troublesome about where the dollars raked in from the NASCAR sponsorship will
end up.
It’s possible if this group is
proven to be false it could place a “black eye” on the Tea Party movement,
however, it is this writer’s belief this is probably just a group out to make
money by deceit and the Tea Party will live on and maintain its strength.
Caveat emptor. Buyer Beware.
Carol Greenberg
Crossposted at Unified
Patriots
Research: Raw Story
Conservatives Outlook
Big Sight
Free Republic
About Todd Cefaratti
Research: Raw Story
Conservatives Outlook
Big Sight
Free Republic
About Todd Cefaratti
