Comments on: Introducing the Swiftboat Network

By: Astroturf Market Rises After Citizens United Ruling

Astroturf Market Rises After Citizens United Ruling — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:59:14 +0000

[...] September I wrote about a scheme hatched by Carl Forti (late of the NRCC and Freedom’s Watch) to circumvent FEC disclosure rules relating to the [...]

By: Karoli

Karoli — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 10:30:16 +0000

Hi Earthbound. I just updated this post with the most recent news. The reason FEC link #2 doesn't work is because they made their decision, and the link now goes to that ruling. The FEC ruling site is an almost-unnavigable labyrinth of embedded frames, making it very easy to break links or not link at all.

By: Earthbound

Earthbound — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 10:09:34 +0000

Great article. I hope you get on Rachel's show, I'm emailing it to her. Please fix the link to the FCC, preferably to lead to the proposals and to the proper site to comment.

By: Karoli

Karoli — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 03:30:16 +0000

By: Earthbound

Earthbound — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 03:09:34 +0000

Great article. I hope you get on Rachel's show, I'm emailing it to her. Please fix the link to the FCC, preferably to lead to the proposals and to the proper site to comment.

By: Karoli

Karoli — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 02:30:16 +0000

By: Karoli

Karoli — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 02:30:16 +0000

By: Karoli

Karoli — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 02:30:16 +0000

By: Earthbound

Earthbound — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 02:09:34 +0000

Great article. I hope you get on Rachel's show, I'm emailing it to her. Please fix the link to the FCC, preferably to lead to the proposals and to the proper site to comment.

By: Karoli

Karoli — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 06:03:52 +0000

Just so we have everything clear here, the government did not fund ACORNs voter registration arm. The only funding went to the branch of ACORN that advised low-income mortgage holders on how to manage their mortgage. That was not the ACORN branch that was 'caught on tape'.