I'm SHOCKED - APNewsBreak: Green Party candidate was on state GOP payroll

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https://apnews.com/amp/aae15528a9fe415282402c4e14090c75?__twitter_impression=true


HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A man who registered as a Green Party candidate for Montana's U.S. Senate race was on the state Republican Party's payroll and heads a newly formed anti-tax group, according to a review of election documents.

Timothy Adams filed as a challenger Monday against Democratic Sen. Jon Tester, who faces a tough re-election campaign, in a race where a Green Party candidate could siphon votes from the Democrat.

The Green Party qualified as a political party in Montana on Monday, which was also the state's deadline for candidates to file for office. Green Party officials blasted an email that morning to solicit candidates who could register by the day's end.

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This has been going on for a long time. Sorry if this was brought up already. I didn't see a post if it was.

[R B Garr]

1. I knew there were shenanigans with the Green Party, power

and influence lies, but now they are proven payroll employees of the GOP. The Green party all need to show us their taxes.

Edit: Proof that taxes should be required of everyone! Especially if you want to challenge Democrats.

[el_bryanto]

2. Every member? What about other liberal third party supporters? nt

[applegrove]

3. Look for tons of false flag far lefties this election season. The only

way the GOP can win the House this year is to run false green party candidates in every house race they need to win. If not false flag candidates, then they will fund legitimate ones, who are delusional, like so many Jill Steins.

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4. Exactly my thoughts

This stuff makes me crazy and people need to stay vigilant and not fall for this stuff.

[Jim Lane]

7. I think the Greens there would agree with you.

Let's just note that this person is not a Green Party nominee for anything. He's a Republican operative who changed his registration in the hope of running the kind of false-flag operation you describe. There's at least one other Green Party member (presumably a legitimate one) seeking the Green Party nomination for the Senate seat.

One obvious danger is that a bunch of other Republicans might change their registration and vote for their guy in the Green Party primary. I don't think the Green Party leaders can prevent that. For some decades now, nominees have been chosen in primaries, not by party bosses.

Of course, I'd prefer that the Greens not have organized a minor party and not have qualified for the ballot at all, but that ship has sailed.

[Gothmog]

5. In 2000 and 2004, Rove funded Nader

This does not surprise me. The GOP used Stein and Nader to win races. Rove funded Nader in 2000 and 2004 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-zuesse/ralph-nader-was-indispens_b_4235065.html

Furthermore, Karl Rove and the Republican Party knew this, and so they nurtured and crucially assisted Nader’s campaigns, both in 2000 and in 2004. On 27 October 2000, the AP’s Laura Meckler headlined “GOP Group To Air Pro-Nader TV Ads.” She opened: “Hoping to boost Ralph Nader in states where he is threatening to hurt Al Gore, a Republican group is launching TV ads featuring Nader attacking the vice president [Mr. Gore]. ... ‘Al Gore is suffering from election year delusion if he thinks his record on the environment is anything to be proud of,’ Nader says [in the commercial]. An announcer interjects: ‘What’s Al Gore’s real record?’ Nader says: ‘Eight years of principles betrayed and promises broken.’” Meckler’s report continued: “A spokeswoman for the Green Party nominee said that his campaign had no control over what other organizations do with Nader’s speeches.” Bush’s people - the group sponsoring this particular ad happened to be the Republican Leadership Council - knew exactly what they were doing, even though the liberal suckers who voted so carelessly for Ralph Nader obviously did not. Anyone who drives a car the way those liberal fools voted, faces charges of criminal negligence, at the very least. But this time, the entire nation crashed as a result; not merely a single car.....

On July 9th, the San Francisco Chronicle headlined “GOP Doners Funding Nader: Bush Supporters Give Independent’s Bid a Financial Lift,” and reported that the Nader campaign “has received a recent windfall of contributions from deep-pocketed Republicans with a history of big contributions to the party,” according to “an analysis of federal records.” Perhaps these contributors were Ambassador Egan’s other friends. Mr. Egan’s wife was now listed among the Nader contributors. Another listed was “Nijad Fares, a Houston businessman, who donated $200,000 to the Bush inaugural committee and who donated $2,000 each to the Nader effort and the Bush campaign this year.” Furthermore, Ari Berman reported 7 October 2004 at the Nation, under “Swift Boat Veterans for Nader,” that some major right-wing funders of a Republican smear campaign against Senator John Kerry’s Vietnam service contributed also $13,500 to the Nader campaign, and that “the Republican Party of Michigan gathered ninety percent of Nader’s signatures in their state” (90%!) to place Nader on the ballot so Bush could win that swing state’s 17 electoral votes. Clearly, the word had gone out to Bush’s big contributors: Help Ralphie boy! In fact, on 15 September 2005, John DiStaso of the Manchester Union-Leader, reported that, “A year ago, as the Presidential general election campaign raged in battleground state New Hampshire, consumer advocate Ralph Nader found his way onto the ballot, with the help of veteran Republican strategist David Carney and the Carney-owned Norway Hill Associates consulting firm.”

It was obvious, based upon the 2000 election results, that a dollar contributed to Nader in the 2004 contest would probably be a more effective way to achieve a Bush win against Kerry in the U.S. Presidential election than were perhaps even ten dollars contributed to Bush. This was a way of peeling crucial votes off from Bush’s real opponent - votes that otherwise would have gone to the Democrat. That’s why the smartest Republican money in the 2004 Presidential election was actually going to Nader, even more so than to Bush himself: these indirect Bush contributions provided by far the biggest bang for the right-wing buck.

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6. This is exactly why I don't get how people can't see through those candidates

It's mind boggling that so many are still fooled by those folks.

[mcar]

8. K&R