Donation Totals thus Far!
$655
$100- Alan B.
$50- Karin B.
$25- Gail U.
$25- Kelly R.
$25- Carol E.
$25- Yehudit L.
$5- Erich D.
$250- Daniel S.
$80- Addrienne on behalf of YES ON PROP 2
$20- David
$50- Bob H.
Sandra Maxwell, a Cal Berkeley student has joined the forces. Currently there are 5 of us from 3 different states headed to Florida October 3rd, 4th and 5th. We are meeting up tonight (the Californians that is) to finalize our destination plans. We are leaning towards flying into Ft. Lauderdale as it is less expensive. It looks as though you can donate flights directly to us through this website: http://TravelForChange.org
If you have any connections in Florida for where we might be able to sleep any of those nights we would greatly appreciate it. Or if anyone wants to donate a hotel room that would be awesome as well... we don't mind sleeping on the floor.
This has been an amazing experience and I have a really great feeling about this election. I would like to encourage everyone to begin "Secreting" President Obama. (As taken from the book/film- "The Secret"). The concept is a mix of the Law of Attraction and acting as if. So begin referring to him as President Obama, acting as if you are already sooo happy that he won the election, start telling people he won the election, and start feeling relieved.
Please continue to pass on this information and this website to everyone you know.
Thank you for all of your love and support.
xoxox
Frankie
415-225-0747
http://FrankieNorstad.com
2 comments:
The donation that you have collected are from real americans that will benefit from this cause.
My question; What is the benefit does non-american gets for supporting candidates?
WHERE DID OBAMA'S MONEY COME FROM???????
Subject: New York Times Editorial
By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: June 29, 2008
Go to Columnist Page
Certainly the most interesting and potentially devastating
OBAMA'S TROUBLING INTERNET FUND RAISING
Certainly the most interesting and potentially devastating phone call I have received during this election cycle came this week from one of the Obamaâ's campaign internet geeks. These are the staffers who devised Obama's internet fund raising campaign which raised in the neighborhood of $200 million so far. That is more then twice the total funds raised by any candidate in history and this was all from the internet campaign.
What I learned from this insider was shocking but I guess we shouldn't be surprised that when it comes to fund raising there simply are no rules that can't be broken and no ethics that prevail.
Obama's internet campaign started out innocently enough with basic e-mail networking , lists saved from previous party campaigns and from supporters who visited any of the Obama campaign web sites.
Small contributions came in from these sources and the internet campaign staff were more than pleased by the results.
Then, about two months into the campaign the daily contribution intake multiplied. Where was it coming from? One of the web site security monitors began to notice the bulk of the contributions were clearly coming in from overseas internet service providers and at the rate and frequency of transmission it was clear these donations were programmed by a very sophisticated user.
While the security people were not able to track most of the sources due to firewalls and other blocking devices put on these contributions they were able to collate the number of contributions that were coming in seemingly from individuals but the funds were from only a few credit card accounts and bank electronic funds transfers. The internet service providers (ISP) they were able to trace were from Saudi Arabia , Iran , and other Middle Eastern countries. One of the banks used for fund transfers was also located in Saudi Arabia .
Another concentrated group of donations was traced to a Chinese ISP with a similar pattern of limited credit card charges.
It became clear that these donations were very likely coming from sources other than American voters. This was discussed at length within the campaign and the decision was made that none of these donations violated campaign financing laws.
It was also decided that it was not the responsibility of the campaign to audit these millions of contributions as to the actual source (specific credit card number or bank transfer account numbers) to insure that none of these internet contributors exceeded the legal maximum donation on a cumulative basis of many small donations. They also found the record keeping was not complete enough to do it anyway.
This is a shocking revelation.
We have been concerned about the legality of bundling contributions after the recent exposure of illegal bundlers but now it appears we may have an even greater problem.
I guess we should have been somewhat suspicious when the numbers started to come out. We were told (no proof offered) that the Obama internet contributions were from $10.00 to $25.00 or so.
If the $200,000,000 is right, and the average contribution was $15.00, that would mean over 13 million individuals made contributions? That would also be 13 million contributions would need to be processed. How did all that happen?
I believe the Obama campaign's internet fund raising needs a serious, in depth investigation and audit. It also appears the whole question of internet fund raising needs investigation by the legislature and perhaps new laws to insure it complies not only with the letter of these laws but the spirit as well.
IS IT RIGHT FOR FOREIGN COUNTRIES TO HAVE AN INVESTMENT IN WHO BECOMES OUR NEXT PRESIDENT??? IF YOU ARE IN AGREEMENT WITH THIS, PLEASE PASS IT ON.
The fact that the NY Times allowed this to be printed is amazing in itself.
You ARE joking, right? because I know you looked this one up on snopes.com and googled it before you posted. You obviously studied up on it or you wouldn't be reading swingkidvote.blogspot.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/donations.asp
Maureen Dowd wrote about Hillary Clinton on that day and FactCheck.org and other sites quote Dowd independently denying it to them.
"Not only did Dowd not write that column on June 29, she never wrote it. Dowd told our colleagues at PolitiFact that "it just seems like anyone who is familiar with my column would know this wasn’t me."
It is true that that campaign had to prohibit sales of shirts and buttons overseas because there was no way to check the citizenship or motives of the purchasers. The store now will not ship even to certified U.S. citizens living outside the U.S.A.
The fact that you read swingkidvote means you obviously are open to Obama's message, and should not be shaken by fakery like this. Vote for Obama, and join other real Americans who believe in his message and in the possibility of bringing this country past the politics of suspicion and fear.
Thank you for exposing this fraud.
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