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In reply to the discussion: Am I the only one tired of the Bullying of Debbie Wasserman-Schultz? [View all]L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)367. Have we no decency? Not to mention historical perspective.
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Some History of Trump Operatives
Deja DU excerpts, many more at link: Bush vs. Gore, the 'Arkansas Project,' the USA firings, and the Swiftboat Admiral
L. Coyote Jun-09-07
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.
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.
36. Who is Roger Stone, Jr.? Buckley, Nixon, Reagan, Bush operative.
"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. ..............
"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. ..............
40. Roger Stone, Iran-Contra, NCPAC, Blackwell, Buchanan, Rove, Sex & Trump's Money ...
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 ...
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.
48. Swiftboating Al Gore from Argentina, SIDE, Israeli wire transfers, spy files, forgery, Bush & Menem
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.
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!!
==========================
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.
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Am I the only one tired of the Bullying of Debbie Wasserman-Schultz? [View all]
bravenak
Jul 2016
OP
Your on a short list pal as most of us want her resignation.Take blinders offl look at facts
bjobotts
Jul 2016
#186
You're not the only one tired of it! I thought us Dems were better than this.
Little Star
Jul 2016
#2
We are better. I don't think most Dems would behave like this but folks sometimes oretend to be dems
bravenak
Jul 2016
#17
How can someone who refused to endorse Democrats in Florida for vulnerable Republican seats...
bvar22
Jul 2016
#381
Norman Solomon on now. He is NOT working for unity. He is still running to elect Bernie.
glennward
Jul 2016
#116
But it ain't gonna. Why? Because this was a concerted effort in favor of Repubs, that's why.
BlueCaliDem
Jul 2016
#136
The DNC will never do good enough with people who dislike the Democratic Party no matter
BlueCaliDem
Jul 2016
#188
SO.SPOT.ON. More inconvenient truth. The worst bullies and harassers are NO Democrats.
Surya Gayatri
Jul 2016
#324
Exactly, Surya. This angry mob booing and acting their shoe-size is a new phenomenon that I haven't
BlueCaliDem
Jul 2016
#337
Did you see her appearance in front of the Florida delegation this morning?
Surya Gayatri
Jul 2016
#341
I did! I was appalled. That's not how Democrats behave. Teabaggers? Yes. Fringies who never stood
BlueCaliDem
Jul 2016
#346
Hahaha! I completely understand where you're coming from, Surya. Trust me. What really gets me is,
BlueCaliDem
Jul 2016
#357
I think a certain percentage of them know perfectly well what they're doing.
Surya Gayatri
Jul 2016
#359
I believe you're right, Surya. These rodent-copulating faux Dems would rather confront non-violent,
BlueCaliDem
Jul 2016
#361
You know how many fucking elections that she's already cost the party with her incompetence?
Chakab
Jul 2016
#375
Calling one to account is not bullying. She has a hard time justifying her actions.
bjobotts
Jul 2016
#191
Bullying her can't possibly help us win the election. Hillary won by 4 million votes.
pnwmom
Jul 2016
#205
no, "bullied" is the woman in FL facing 10 years in prison for growing her own medical marijuana.
Warren DeMontague
Jul 2016
#8
No maybe you thought it was normal behavior, but it wasn't normal! T'was bullying!
Her Sister
Jul 2016
#66
Yeah, I'm Jewish, too- but I dont think Granny belongs in prison for eating a pot brownie.
Warren DeMontague
Jul 2016
#36
Assange really does have a Bunch of nerve with his antisemetic conspiracy Theories
bravenak
Jul 2016
#94
Amazing who one can find posting anti-semetic statements on the internet eom.
PufPuf23
Jul 2016
#219
Amazing how he keeps coming up with new shit to say about 'bankers' and shit constantly
bravenak
Jul 2016
#223
Actually, if I look at the sentiment of this post...this is actually the victimisation of
insta8er
Jul 2016
#26
Maybe she should have remained impartial and not inserted herself. She's being called out for
onecaliberal
Jul 2016
#35
Were emails written by her or something? I had no idea. Link to the email where she is partial?
bravenak
Jul 2016
#43
Some people are so willing, and so quick, to smear a Democrat on a Democratic Party supporting site
BlueCaliDem
Jul 2016
#113
Yep, but we have had Putin lovers here for tears and they ALWAYS do this shit
bravenak
Jul 2016
#137
More bullshit. The State Department, the White House, and the e-mails of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
BlueCaliDem
Jul 2016
#217
The only right thing is you dismiss wrong doing because it benefited your preferred candidate
onecaliberal
Jul 2016
#246
Where she knows there's a buck that needs to be stopped, if you know different then please source...
uponit7771
Jul 2016
#290
Any REAL evidence that she was not impartial? That accusation started even before....
George II
Jul 2016
#220
It is scary how they immediately start trashing her Jewishness and her femaleness.
bravenak
Jul 2016
#50
The EXTREME LEFT was far more viscious and anti-semitic to her than the extreme right, too! eom
MohRokTah
Jul 2016
#67
Thank you for replying... I had had written a post and then by accident, hit the x box on DU and
glowing
Jul 2016
#317
We've known for months DNC server was hacked. Wikileaks sat on emails all this time to release few d
Her Sister
Jul 2016
#58
No shit...disrupting and destroying unity. These are expert rodent-copulators.
Surya Gayatri
Jul 2016
#329
I do think people could have some class about the resignation, like Clinton herself. n/t
Akoto
Jul 2016
#68
Wont happen. Just like I want Al Giordano for senate but I have no control over that.
bravenak
Jul 2016
#84
Obviously not the only one. Since the thread is filled with people agreeing with me.
bravenak
Jul 2016
#92
She is already resigning at the end of the week. I have no idea what more they want?
bravenak
Jul 2016
#97
DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz joins hands with GOP in assault on Elizabeth Warren’s consumer...
Omaha Steve
Jul 2016
#109
The thing about what comes around is that it goes around. That's the thing.
Bluenorthwest
Jul 2016
#111
I think the released emails show that some in the DNC did not conduct themselves properly during the
WIProgressive88
Jul 2016
#117
Debbie's shortcomings aren't related to her gender, and sexist comments have no place here.
Scuba
Jul 2016
#120
It is unseemly. She's gone. No need to kick a person when he or she is down!!!
DemocratSinceBirth
Jul 2016
#147
"... or wrongly..." = doesn't matter if she's involved just hold her responsible
uponit7771
Jul 2016
#292
+1... I can always tell the folk who are NOT easily pulled into group think or pile on mentality...
uponit7771
Jul 2016
#296
Yeah, don't know what the real reason why the DWS hate... seems like another woman in power
uponit7771
Jul 2016
#300
It started late last year and wouldn't have ended until what happened today took place.
George II
Jul 2016
#142
Probably not. Heck, if you go back in history, there were likely people outside Marie Antoinette's
jtuck004
Jul 2016
#156
Yes. Putin wants to effect the election for his buddy Donald. We cannot let him
bravenak
Jul 2016
#193
Poor Debbie. She is so innocent and pure. It's those sexist men who hate strong women
Feeling the Bern
Jul 2016
#196
Brad Marshall, a man, sent the nasty email. But for some reason DSW gets all the blame. n/t
pnwmom
Jul 2016
#210
As a person of Jewish background who is also an Atheist, I say that dude should resign too.
Warren DeMontague
Jul 2016
#241
How do you know she didn't? There weren't any subsequent emails like that, at least released.
pnwmom
Jul 2016
#396
I'm glad she is resigning because of the leaked emails. But I agree she has been targeted.
applegrove
Jul 2016
#209
I would not put it past them either. They have been wanting the Jewish vote for years but it does
bravenak
Jul 2016
#216
shine through things like voting to send medical marijuana patients to prison.
Warren DeMontague
Jul 2016
#318
BS! imperious, undemocratic, clearly pulling for one side. Refusing to allow more debates, and
Akamai
Jul 2016
#218
My sister Bravenak has 40 recommends in this thread so she can't be the "only one".
DemocratSinceBirth
Jul 2016
#253
whether it's bullying or not, it's going to get worse when she is booed off the stage tomorrow.
aikoaiko
Jul 2016
#240
See, non falsifiable bullshit... 2010 was all DWS's fault? REALLY?! Come one man
uponit7771
Jul 2016
#303
Since the largest amount of gerrymandering by the GOP in US history took place? Are we going to ...
uponit7771
Jul 2016
#305
Low Information Voter, I know about the GOP congressional gerrymadering in 2010 and it was historic
uponit7771
Jul 2016
#307
Most likely, tRumps "bounce" doesn't get him above the GOP floor ... she'll do good things
uponit7771
Jul 2016
#310
I know. I used to like them, then last year something happened and they lost their common sense.
betsuni
Jul 2016
#412
Poor, poor pitiable payday loan protector/subverter of democracy/smug elitist D.W.S.!
cer7711
Jul 2016
#352
To hell w/ DWS - she is not being bullied. Unity through dishonesty and bluster is not unity. n/t
xocet
Jul 2016
#355
No, I am not tired of shining sunlight on a cockroach like DWS. It's about time, already!
FighttheFuture
Jul 2016
#368
I'm tired of people willing to excuse the bad behavior and incompetence of the leadership
Chakab
Jul 2016
#373
I doubt this will make her antagonists happy. They will hate everyone that takes her place. Why?
Laser102
Jul 2016
#378
I was tired of HER bullying when she was surreptitiously stepping all over the Sanders campaign.
Zen Democrat
Jul 2016
#386
Does it make you mad when you see your representative being treated unfairly?
grahamhgreen
Jul 2016
#391