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IDemo

(16,926 posts) Wed Apr 25, 2012, 12:27 PM Apr 2012

George Zimmerman’s fund-raising website goes dark

Source: New York Daily News

The website George Zimmerman was using to solicit funds for his legal defense has been pulled down.

TheRealGeorgeZimmerman.com has gone dark while his lawyer, Mark O'Mara, is working to restructure the fund, Fox News reported.

The volunteer neighborhood watchman launched the site on April 10 and was using a PayPal account to ask for money to fight second-degree murder charges he faces for killing Trayvon Martin on Feb. 26.

The site contained photos of pro-Zimmerman slogans, including a sign at a rally by hatemongering preacher Terry Jones and graffiti scrawled on a college's black cultural center.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/george-zimmerman-fund-raising-website-dark-article-1.1067166

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George Zimmerman’s fund-raising website goes dark (Original Post) IDemo Apr 2012 OP

What idiot thought that was a good name for a website? MADem Apr 2012 #1

georgezimmerman.com was grabbed up in march karnac Apr 2012 #2

I must be older than you PSPS Apr 2012 #3

He was a west coast DJ--when I was in America I spent more time on the east coast, MADem Apr 2012 #4

Why do they still libodem Apr 2012 #5

it wasn't for his defense, it was for his pocket grantcart Apr 2012 #6

According to the atty, he is getting lots of oilpro2 Apr 2012 #7

MADem

(135,425 posts)

1. What idiot thought that was a good name for a website?

Reply to IDemo (Original post)

Wed Apr 25, 2012, 12:30 PM

Apr 2012

Whenever I hear "The Real" anything, I think about the OJ Simpson trial and the repeated references to "the real killer."

It just doesn't inspire confidence.

karnac

(564 posts)

2. georgezimmerman.com was grabbed up in march

Reply to MADem (Reply #1)

Wed Apr 25, 2012, 12:43 PM

Apr 2012

when he got controversial. Common practice among domain trolls looking for a quick buck.

Obviously for sale to those that REALLY REALLY hate gz, or to those that REALLY REALLY support him.

clearly GZ could not affort the jacked up price.