No Backbone Nunn and the Potemkin Primary the Beltway Big Money folks have tried to buy here in the Georgia in the Democratic US Senate Primary gave me an idea...
Er, well
after I watched this video I got an idea... as this is a dialectical thing on my part. Just watch...
The AJC's
Jim Galloway notes:
You don’t generally find WAGA’s “Georgia Gang” on YouTube, but clearly an interested party wanted to document Sunday’s discussion of the campaign contribution made by actress Jane Fonda to the U.S. Senate campaign of Michelle Nunn – a fact that the Insider’s Greg Bluestein reported last week.
Watch it above. Boiled down:
Alexis Scott: “That population has aged right out, and Jane Fonda has made a comeback.”
Dick Williams: “If Michelle Nunn is with Jane Fonda, I don’t need to know anything more.”
Consider the exchange just a foretaste of what’s headed our way next year. But also note something of a family connection here. Fonda’s ex, billionaire Ted Turner, is a major underwriter of former U.S. senator Sam Nunn’s efforts to corral “loose nukes” around the world.
Jane Fonda isn't the actual issue in this segment that stands out the most--its the Tea Party nutjob who is calling No Backbone Nunn a radical leftist. So we are caught between crazy and the 1% and we need some fresh air and sunshine to fight off this impasse.
Even No backbone Nunn was able to come out after the polls had been conducted to stand firm agaist the Tea Party fringe. No more Shutdowns!!! Sadly she couldn't say it in the middle of the crisis when her leadership could have helped push the agenda more towards reality. No, what this segment shows is the real problem in Georgia politics and its not Jane Fonda. Its the spineless politicians and crazy fringe who have taken this state and this country down the wrong path.
No backbone Nunn
who is busy raising money from the 1% and is obviously
going to be a center-right Democrat along the lines of Obama is some kind of radical leftist!?!? Lol... it'd be satire if it wasn't a mainstream political talk show here in Georgia.
The Very Serious people tell us that candidates have to play it safe and not get caught in the cross hairs of nutjobs who make up whatever they want to and just happen to have the bully pulpit and a radical faction controlling gerrymandered districts here in Georgia.
But the reality based community knows better.
We need politicians with the backbone to have open honest debate with the Tea Party types and stand up for the best ideas; not try to poll test their way to 50% + 1 of the vote. Between the Tea Party and "swing" voters who don't pay attention till two weeks before election day we've allowed our elections to be reduced to letting those least qualified set the policy and agenda for the US Senate race.
If you were listening to the
Very Serious People about the war an Iraq, deregulation of Wall Street, the public option in the health care plan, they would have given you an answer and it would have been dead wrong.
Those same Very Serious People are telling us all that the Democratic Primary for US Senate is a done deal. Now we all know I've tried to recruit Jason Carter; to a whopping
26 signatures. And I think Dr. Rad is awesome even if he doesn't have name recognition to beat Nunn (I even donated and became a monthly donor which will obviously stop today once you read further).
But the Tea Party circus that controls the GOP and the Fix the Debt crew who have bought and sold the Democrats have one thing in common. They both feed off of spineless Politicians who either a) don't have the backbone to stand up to the nutcases with calm sober facts, in the case of the Republicans or B) don't have the backbone to turn down dollars from the 1% that demand selling out the working class on policy issues.
The Very Serious People have sucked all the air out of the US Senate race in Georgia and its time the reality based community have someone working hard and hitting harder for them here in Georgia.
Therefore, i'm out of the US Senate candidate recruitment/support business.
I'm taking my cue from Stephen Colbert and am going the Citizens United Route:
So I went to
How to Start a Super PAC
Step 1: Pick a Cause or Candidate
The US Senate race in Georgia and the cause? Giving voice to the reality based community.
Step 2: Pick a Clever Name for Your Super PAC
Stop The Spineless PAC --- because its a Super PAC to stop the spineless politicians not willing to speak out on the issues.
Now the paperwork to the FEC
To officially launch your super PAC you will need to file what's called a
Statement of Organization, or Form 1, with the Federal Election Commission. Check box 5(f) under "Type of Committee."
Also, write a short cover letter to the Federal Election Commission.
Here's a sample. You'll want to be sure you make it clear your new committee will be functioning as a super PAC.
You can do that by including the following paragraph verbatim:
"This committee intends to make unlimited independent expenditures, and consistent with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit decision in SpeechNow v. FEC, it therefore intends to raise funds in unlimited amounts. This committee will not use those funds to make contributions, whether direct, in-kind, or via coordinated communications, to federal candidates or committees."
Yeah that is hitting the mail.... (even before the wife knows ---"at least I'm not running for office this year, dear")
Step 5: What To Do With Your Super PAC
As the proud new owner of a super PAC, you are permitted to raise unlimited amounts of money from people including your friends, neighbors and families. But you can also solicit money from political action committees, corporations and labor organizations.
You can turn around and use all that money to produce and air TV commercials or take out a massive billboard along a busy highway to roundly criticize a politician you don't like. Have fun and be creative!
So if I'm able to raise the money we'll be up on TV in Georgia swinging away at Spineless politicians not willing to stand up for good policy.
If I'm not up on TV in Georgia for the primary and then the general election it won't be my fault. It will be the fault of you, dear reader, for not opening up your wallet (I'll figure out if Act Blue can be the donor route for online donations); and the unions and corporations who fail to give me the unlimited donations I'll now be able to raise thanks to the Supreme Court and "liberty lovers" everywhere who understand that money is speech and we can't be against free speech...ever.
So I have a shitload of work to do. Bank accounts, raising money, (eh, any of you people know how to make a TV commercial?). So I guess I'll close with this
A Note of Caution: What You Can't Do With Your Super PAC
This is pretty simple. You are not allowed to use all that money you've raised from corporations and unions to make "direct contributions" to candidates or their political action committees. You also can't take out TV ads or billboards in coordination with any of those candidates or their PACs. This is a fairly gray area, so play it safe and steer clear of planning your attacks with any candidate or elected official.
Sorry Dr. Rad, I won't be able to do that monthly $25 like I had committed--but best of luck and I'm glad you are running. You seem like a stand up guy, in it for the right reasons. I don't want to get in the gray area's. You are new to politics so this might be the first time someone has broken their word to you about money and support they'll be giving you. But it won't be the last time. Believe me. But its for a good cause. I just have to play it safe. The reality based community needs someone working hard and hitting harder for them here in Georgia. But we can't discuss any of that. I wish you the best because No Backbone Nunn
is clueless, she
really is . But this is a system problem and calls for new approaches, and getting back to basics such as your campaign has been doing. Keep it up!
For the rest of you readers... Luckily I'm an under-employed, newly minted philosophy grad, and a pissed off Teamster so I've got time on my hands since the Very Serious People have done nothing about the unemployment crisis in this country.
I'm not letting a bunch of beltway insiders in DC buy a Democratic primary--or going to let Tea Party nuts have the only bully pulpit next year when the circus gets done on the GOP side.
Campaign 2014 just got real. Or should I say... occupied?
-----update----
The mail hasn't been picked up at my house so I'm reprinting the first form and changing the name to Working Class Georgia .
30 years late, but....have SuperPac
will fight back!
----update part deux---
We are live:
http://workingclassgeorgia.com but not quite ready for all that cash you are going to send me online.
I just pulled a Colbert. Rural Georgia will have a pro Social Security TV comercial October of 2014 beamed in to living rooms--mark my words.
The 1% are right--- Free Speech rules!!!!
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