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rusty quoin
(6,133 posts)JI7
(89,287 posts)Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Deja DU excerpts, many more at link: Bush vs. Gore, the 'Arkansas Project,' the USA firings, and the Swiftboat Admiral
44. Donald Trump, Roger Stone, Jack Abramoff, Gaming Gaming and Scalping the Tribes.
How is it that two consumate Republican insiders, both purported specialists in illegal
funding of campaigns, one a political dirty trickster who stays behind the scenes and
the other a felonious convict linked to the White House political office, each manage
to garner tens of millions of dollars from Indian tribes in the gaming rackets? By
working both sides at once, of course. And, how is it that one gets convicted and goes
to jail while the other keeps getting paid? Who is scalping whom for how much, who has
lost their scalp, who still has theirs, and will Donald Trump's hair survive the scandals?
With all the attention to Abramoff defrauding the Tribes, why isn't there more attention on
who else is involved in all of gaming's political machinations and influence peddling?
Who has lucrative contracts to receive a percentage of the gross from Indian casinos, and
how did they obtain it? Where is all that money going? How much ends up in the coffers of
politicos like Sen. John McCain, and why? Who else is scalping the Tribes?
And how much of the scalping goes to legal and illegal campaign contributions?
Questions to be answered.
"Roger J. Stone, Jr. is a long-time Republican dirty-tricks operative who led the mob that shut down the Miami-Dade County recount and helped make George W. Bush president in 2000. He was also a campaign strategist during the presidential campaigns of Presidents Nixon, Reagan and George Herbert Walker Bush. .............
........ Roger Stone and the Jack Abramoff mould. Making $$millions$$ gaming gaming.
A Dirty Trickster's Bush Bonanza
The man who stopped Miami recount makes gaming millions
by Wayne Barrett
April 19th, 2004 9:30 AM
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/...........
Roger Stone, the dirty-tricks hobgoblin of Republican politics, has exploited his Bush connections to become an influence-peddling force in the $13 billion Indian gaming industry. Stone's booming business in such a federally regulated enterprise makes his recent pro bono orchestration of Al Sharpton's double-edged presidential campaign an even stranger covert caper.
The longtime GOP consultant's reward for fomenting the "Brooks Brothers mob" that shut down the Miami-Dade recount in 2000 was an invitation within days of Bush's election to serve on the Department of Interior transition working grouphelping, in his own words, to staff its Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). Stone has since used this unannounced perch to market himself to tribes and developers from Louisiana to California, earning fat fees and contingent percentages of future casino revenue. Just two of the five deals examined by the Voice are projected to pay him at least $8 million, and perhaps as much as $13 million.
Time, The Washington Post and The New York Times have published exposés about Bush's BIA, with a February story highlighting $45 million in payments to two GOP lobbyists from four tribes since 2001. But no one has focused on Stone's profiteering, which, unlike the payments to registered lobbyists, is not reported on any public filings. ..............
What role did Stone play in financing the Contras? .............
41. Roger Stone - "slash-and-burn Republican black-bag election tamperer"
A Prayer for Reverend Al
Let Him Buy His Soul Back from the Republicans
by Doug Ireland
www.dissidentvoice.org
February 21, 2004 - First Published in LA Weekly
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Feb04/Ireland0221.htm
Who is Roger Stone? A slash-and-burn Republican black-bag election tamperer and consultant whose mentor was the repulsive Roy Cohn the redbaiting hatchet man for Senator Joe McCarthy. Stone first made news in the Nixon Watergate scandal, when it was revealed that the 19-year-old apprentice McCarthyite had infiltrated George McGoverns 1972 presidential campaign as part of CREEPs sabotage plan. ... Stone helped Ollie North raise money for the Nicaraguan contras, and was a close associate of the notorious Lee Atwater ...
This one, my favorite, exemplifes the lengths to which these unscrupulous operatives will go just to malign a Dem candidate. This is not democracy, it is criminal conduct.
un-10-07 04:44 PM by L. Coyote
There just is no way to make this stuff up!! This is a court pleading. Unbelievable.
First get some spy files from Israel, alter them to look like Argentine spy files, make them implicate Bush and Menem in corruption, blame Gore for the forged documents. Sound familiar. Did I mention blackmailing bribed journalists and, of course, the perennial covert Republican dirty tricksters. This genre of dirty trick came to be known as "swiftboating" when done to Kerry four years later by the same players!!
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http://pacer.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinion.pdf/041901.P.pdf
Olavar (Triumph Communications International Group, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v.
Santibañes, Defendant-Appellee, and Ikon Holdings, Inc., t/a Ikon Public Affairs, Dick Morris, Roger Stone, Eileen McGann, John Does, Defendants.
Appeal from the United States District Court Decided: December 1, 2005
Triumph Communications International Group, Incorporated is a corporation that provides political consulting and public relations services and is owned and operated solely by Mattie Lolavar.
In early 2000, Miss Lolavar began discussions with defendant Dick Morris about the possibility of her working with Craig Snyder and defendant Roger Stone, who are partners in defendant IKON Holdings, Inc., another political consulting firm ... about the possibility of Triumph Communications assistance with work that IKON was doing for the government of Argentina.
These discussions lead to two contracts ... and provided that Triumph would act as a public relations consultant to "the Secretary of Intelligence of Argentina" as well as arrange various media events...
Miss Lolavar went to Argentina in August 2000 to assist de Santibañes with preparations for his testimony in Argentine congressional hearings inquiring into allegations that he and the Argentine intelligence agency, known as SIDE, were responsible for bribing various Argentine senators in exchange for political support. Morris and Stone assigned other tasks to Miss Lolavar while she was in Argentina. Among other acts, they instructed her to contact SIDE and obtain a list of journalists who accepted bribes from that organization in order to harm the credibility of those same journalists in reporting on a bribery scandal surrounding de Santibañes and President de la Rua, as well as requiring her to spread false information to the press concerning de la Ruas political opponent, Dr. Carlos Menem. The charges and counter-charges related here are from the papers in the court file, as are the other facts.
A request that occasioned controversy between Miss Lolavar and the defendants was Morris and Stones request that she serve as an intermediary in an anonymous wire transfer of funds to an official in Israel. These funds were to be paid to secure intelligence files from the Israeli government to assist de la Ruas political domestic disputes with Menem, and to imply a corrupt relationship between Menem and George W. Bush, who was then running against Albert Gore for the United States presidency. These files were to be altered by Miss Lolavar to appear to be SIDE documents.
When the defendants became concerned that this plot would be discovered and traced back to them, they ordered Miss Lolavar to orchestrate a press response to blame Vice President Gore for the dissemination of the documents, since it was known to them that the Gore campaign had been attempting to connect Menem with the Bush campaign.
Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)There was a neo-nazi website (eternal sentry), that was supposed to be a co-sponsor of the rally pictured in the o.p. Until media matters got a hold of the advertising for the rally, and started publicizing it. So Stone, bircher Jones, 'Vets' for drump, 'Bikers' for drump, etc., had to soldier on and hold the rally without their nazi buddies' website getting listed in the credits.
Mendocino
(7,523 posts)I'd say Warren J. Harding.
Retrograde
(10,181 posts)to show off his spats. What is it with right-wing demogues and ill-fitting clothes?
Mendocino
(7,523 posts)Pence could have been a funeral director. He has a very creepy vibe.
Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)along.
Hell, the "minority city polls" are usually so damn crowded on election day, and the lines so long, those Big Tough Guys will be outnumbered a hundred to one during the SLOW times.
They'd better think again. Those little weasels are breakfast meat in some neighborhoods.
RandySF
(59,697 posts)duncang
(1,907 posts)Every time I hear bikers for trump all I think of is rich sunday warriors. Who dress up every so often and go out trying to impress someone in their high dollar designer leathers.
The thought of anybody actually associated with him going to work each day on a bike, eating bugs, having their hands get so cold they can barely move them at the end of a ride, snot mustaches, actually fixing one not calling the local Harley shop to come out to pick it, and give them a ride home is just ridiculous.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)world wide wally
(21,760 posts)they don't fucking vote anyway
malaise
(269,278 posts)to stop African-Americans from voting. I dare him.
whistler162
(11,155 posts)Last edited Sat Oct 22, 2016, 10:49 AM - Edit history (1)
don't they realize that the voting place is likely to have their nemesis.... little old ladies with canes!
Hope the bikers have good insurance!
Tempest
(14,591 posts)It's a random kind of thing
Came upon a delicate flower
I can't believe
a machine gun sings
Driveby, driveby,
driveby, driveby
nolabear
(42,002 posts)I hope they bring ear plugs because hoo baby are they going to hear some things!
yardwork
(61,772 posts)roamer65
(36,748 posts)They may not like the response.
hatrack
(59,602 posts). . . they'll drive into lampposts while checking their phones because they never got the correct addresses from HQ.
Stinky The Clown
(67,838 posts)lpbk2713
(42,774 posts)About shady characters loitering.
salin
(48,955 posts)and *this* is what they are organizing? Says everything you need to know about how amateurish and misguided this whole campaign is.
And I agree with the poster up thread who warned these bikers about mad little old ladies with canes.
Takket
(21,702 posts)the police should arrest them all for loitering.
jmowreader
(50,589 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Sup of Elections and he will remove them or have them arrested.
Thuggish intimidation will not be tolerated.
If you are a lawyer PLEASE volunteer with Hillary's LBJ (lawyers bound for justice) Voter Protection Team to help stop this.
http://hillaryclinton.com/protect-the-vote
Old Vet
(2,001 posts)I think its safe to say if they show there punk asses up at a minority area of any city they will be lucky to be allowed to leave. Just because they might of gone around shit kicking in the middle east doesn't mean shit. If they dare start any shit at polling stations, Them and there plantation owner looking friend, Might not make it out so easy.