New Media Comm info thread, part 2

[NVMojo]

Check this company out! So in bed with Rove!!!

October 11, 2004

New Media pours political heart into boosting Bush web site

By: TOM JACKSON - CrainsCleveland.com

Mike Connell is busy mixing business and politics again.
After redesigning George W. Bush's presidential campaign web site in 2000, when the Republican candidate's strategists decided they needed more Internet expertise than they had in house, Mr. Connell's New Media Communications in Richfield is the web developer behind the latest version of www.georgewbush.com.

snip ...

Mr. Connell said he can't talk about most of the stragetic planning with which New Media has been involved in the Bush campaign until after the election. However, one example he mentioned is the "Early Voting" area of the Bush web site. It provides Bush supporters with a form to obtain absentee ballots.

"Whatever themes the president is accentuating on the stump are reflected on the site," Mr. Connell said.

Mr. Connell said he communicates constantly with the Bush campaign, chiefly through Chuck DeFeo, Mr. Bush's electronic campaign manager. Mr. Connell was reluctant to discuss whether he communicates often with Karl Rove, Mr. Bush's top strategist, but said, "Good ideas will go as high as they have to to get approval." He said he has met the president but has not talked much with him.

more....

http://technomania.com/News.asp?Type=latestnews&FormMode=Detail&ID=109


and here is some more bragging material ...

Just look at www.georgewbush.com.

During the campaign, anyone could access the Web site and get cursory information on Bush and Cheney. But for the real in-depth content, contests and activities, New Media Communications made people register.

That handed the campaign a huge database of names and e-mail addresses. It ''put people on the radar'' to be solicited and mobilized, Connell said.

And why would somebody do that? For the prizes, of course.

Registered users who sent the most GOP news articles to their friends, signed up the most voters and donated the most money could win a signed letter from President Bush.

snip..

Some of the ideas for spicing up www.georgewbush.com came from as far up the food chain as Bush's senior adviser, Karl Rove.

''The Bush campaign, to their credit, ran a very tech-savvy campaign,'' Connell said.


more...


http://technomania.com/News.asp?Type=MediaSaying&FormMode=Detail&ID=116

[NVMojo]

1. New Media listed here as part of the Bush/Cheney 04 campaign

http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Bush-Cheney_'04_Inc.

lots of other little tidbits of info here too....

[Carolab]

2. That absentee ballot form reminded me

I read something elsewhere on the forum about people voting more than once--sending in absentee ballots and then going to the polls and voting again because their ballots weren't recorded--what if certain voters thought they voted but their ballots were somehow either not received or not recorded and someone voted for them at the polls? Without being able to examine the ballots or the logbooks how would you know if your vote was properly recorded? Or how about the "fraud" lists on the fake Bush website? Were those recording ballot forms or registrations sent out that came back undelivered and then those voters were either marked as ineligible to vote and removed from the rolls or someone "voted for them" if they never showed up?

[NVMojo]

3. I received one of those absentee ballot things in the mail, through

direct mail of the Bush campaign. I threw it away and wondered if they were doing it to create duplicate registrations ...or votes ...

[NVMojo]

4. while his company handled the Bush campaign website ...he said ...

this regarding the Swiftboat crap against Kerry...

snip...

Estrich disagreed, saying that the toll is on Bush. Donatelli said Kerry's response shows that Kerry is being hurt. Kasich observed that if the republicans are behind it, this could boomerang on Bush. Donnatelli noted that republicans are behind it, but there's "not a shred of evidence" that it's the Bush campaign.

more...


http://www.newshounds.us/2004/08/21/combat_survival_mode.php

[jdog]

5. Is this the same Mike Connell?

(3rd picture down)

http://www.gspm.org/politicsonline/winners.html

[mikelewis]

6. Yes

He worked on Taft for Gov and is working on Blackwell for Gov

[Carolab]

7. What I want to know is if Campaign Solutions develops websites

what is Campaign Solutions' website doing in this website developer's portfolio?

http://altmania.net/link.html

It looks like Mark Altman of Long Beach CA may be of the reasons that they only have 17 employees but lots of websites.

P.S. Look at what else is on Mark's website (ugh): http://committeeforjustice.org/

[jdog]

8. Why did this company shrink?

Everything you see on the NMC web site and in its news archives indicates that it was thriving, and that demand was growing, yet they cut it back from 40 to 17 employees? That doesn't make sense to me, seems like it should have been the opposite. And, where did the other 23 employees go?


"After working with Republican campaigns in Washington, D.C., Iowa and elsewhere starting in the mid-1980s, the Connells moved to Lakewood in 1990, when Mike Connell ran the Cleveland office of former U.S. Rep. Martin Hoke. They started New Media in their basement and have steadily grown the business to the 40-employee firm it is today."


http://www.technomania.com/news.asp?formmode=Detail

[loudsue]

9. Ok. Let's try to get our arms around what is going on here:

Here's this TINY little dynamite company (17 employees), bragging about a 100% success rate in getting their client candidates elected... all repukes. And, all neocons, at that.

They specialize in campaign related computer software/design AND telecommunications (from the background of the two partners, Connell and Donetelli).

They have connections to all (and I mean ALL) of the power brokers in D.C., including the bush mafia.

Well...in other words, they have access to massive computer databases, and are close buddies with all the neocons, and undoubtedly connected to OTHER big campaign doners, like ....um maybe Wally O'Dell? So, sure.... they're connected to the same people who own the vote counting machine companies. That's NOT a big stretch, as they've already been connected to Blackwell, and Blackwell is SoS of the state where Diebold is headquartered. And they're ALL bush "pioneer club" doners.... which FUND RAISING is one of this company's biggest things.

I'm really wondering what kind of magic these people are able to weave around having a 100% success rate getting their repukes elected?

:kick::kick::kick:

[jdog]

10. So, did everybody quit working on this thread???? n/t

[Carolab]

11. I stopped because NO ONE ELSE SEEMED INTERESTED

And I thought all this stuff on these two threads was JUST AMAZING

[jdog]

12. I think so too.

It's all a bit confusing to me. I was waiting, hoping someone would make it a little easier to understand for me. It's pretty overwhelming sometimes.