Linda Chavez's PAC scheme
Back in 2001, Republican activist Linda Chavez was Bush’s first choice to serve as Secretary of Labor, looking out for the interests of working people nationwide. She ran into a little trouble when the White House learned that Chavez failed tell the Bush gang about housing a Guatemalan woman whom she hired illegally to clean her house, and then encouraged a neighbor not to talk about the cleaning woman to the FBI when agents asked questions during her background check. Oops.
But never fear, this was a temporary setback for Chavez, who has built a successful network of political action committees. The problem, as the WaPo reported in a fascinating front-page expose today, is that Chavez’s PACs don’t appear to do anything — except raise money.
In the years since she was forced to pull her nomination as Bush’s labor secretary after admitting payments to an illegal immigrant, Chavez and her immediate family members have used phone banks and direct-mail solicitations to raise tens of millions of dollars, founding several political action committees with bankable names: the Republican Issues Committee, the Latino Alliance, Stop Union Political Abuse and the Pro-Life Campaign Committee. Their solicitations promise direct action in the “fight to save unborn lives,” a vigorous struggle against “big labor bosses” and a crippling of “liberal politics in the country.”
That’s not where the bulk of the money wound up being spent, however.
Josh Marshall has more.
Fr...yawn...ist....
I don't know, I think that's pretty sweet. The mouth breathers who make up the right are like one giant cash machine. It's nice to know if I ever fall on hard times it shouldn't be to difficult to legally scam them out of a few million bucks here and there, and they'd most likely thank me for it. Hell! Maybe one day I'll run for president, send all their kids to war, and they will reelect me to show their gratitude to me for making heroes out of their dead children. Just joking. Republicans couldn't be THAT stupid. oh wait...
Anyway, money going into these scam artists pockets is money that isn't going to reelect right wing douche bags. I personally applaud their efforts.
I still wonder how much interest the Chavez family has in that telemarketing firm.
if she keeps 90% and gives the other 10% to those causes then i'm ok with it.
let them steal from each other.
Fools and their money.......
One more for MC Rove.......Hit it!
The bell on the trolley ding, ding, ding!
The phone on the hook goes ring, ring, ring!
Republican scandals!
Who can keep score?
Now it’s Rove’s out the door!
And Leahy’s back for more!
But who's that on the floor?
Oh, it's just Vitter with a DC whore!
Ruthless People @ 6:
oops...posted my tribute on the wrong one.
These people are nothing more than a bunch of low life grifters.
1). Someone's gonna be pissed about this. Very pissed. They're known as the "grassroots".
2). Who were the telemarketers who got the 90+% of the money?
3).Has anyone told Chavez and Gersten that those people at the door- ya know, the ones carryin' torches and pitchforks- aren't the Welcome Wagon? I hope not.
Ruthless People @ 7:
That's whatchya get fer disrespectin' the Frist.
republicans are born with the con artist gene
It's nice to see repugs feeding upon themselves. All seems right in the world tonight.
I remember reading Chavez's columns around elections cycles some 25-30 years ago. That seemed to be the only time the Chicago Tribune would let her out of her cage.
Reading her columns gave one the vivid picture of her rabid persona as she sat at her typewriter drooling and foaming at the mouth as she shredded and violated whatever unfortunate person had attracted her vitriol - only occasionally stopping to howl out her bloodlust and frustration.
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It figures this goes on in their fund raising. Especially with the right tone to fighting unions and fighting pro life.
It is a clear informative article on how many of these fanatics (my opinion) gain as a well polished mega church microphone. The republicans made it a cross between art and science. To fleece people in name of the all mighty and promising combating sin. When all along the sinners are preaching to the flock.
I know some people that are probably donors to Chavez. If they were to read this article they would just dismiss it and call it liberal propaganda. Because that is what the right has be preaching for a decade.
Its sort of like watching an addict. You see their destroying their life and those around them. You try to talk to them of it. The ignore you, you try again, and they promise it isn't that bad, You try one more time and they try to cut your throat because your the problem.
Maybe when these donors run out of money and food to eat will they understand as they look in the news to see a Chavez living high.
But they see this in their mega church pastor(s). With the BMW's Mercedes, private jets, limo's, multi million dollar homes, to the vacations in Monte Carlo. And they think it is god the the pastor lives like a Saudi Prince.
For Chevez, fleecing the sheep is better than being a fleeced sheep. She does think there are alternatives to her behavior. Jail could be one of them alternatives. For as time goes on, she will engage in more despaerate and risky challenges for money.
Wow, she is more of a theif than Rick Santorum. At least Ricky claimed his expenses were for coffee and bagels... had to keep the staff happy and working for "the cause" whatever that was.
she's almost as crooked as a televangilist.
preying on peoples emotions for the sacred dollar......how very republican.
It's pretty hard to fail in a Mexican Rest....
lol ... shocking!
Please, save the indignation for another issue.
These guys (all of them) need to raise millions and millions and millions of dollars
to run presidential and senate campaigns, so I'm not surprised that ALL OF THEM
are looking to find a way around every single f***ing campaign funding limit that's
on the books.
Huh... A latina running what amounts to a pyramid scheme... And calling it a PAC ehh... Well, gotta admit, neat scheme if you can pull it off... Highly immoral but neat as scams go... I coudn't' pull it off, But then I'm neither a ethnic minority nor a republican... Ms. Chavez had both situations working in her favor... Ms. Chavez..Just a small sidebar honey... You ain't helping the immigration perception with this kind of bullshit... Jus sayin...JD
Shhhh. Let this scandal lie under the rock where it lived safely for years. It's PERFECT. Republican donors already give less, and it turns out that much of it is just a welfare scheme for a few connected faithful. God, it's beautiful . . . don't urge them to fix this system for crying out loud!
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