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madfloridian

(88,117 posts)
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 10:16 PM Feb 2016

The guy from Kansas who is behind the Official Transcript Clock...waiting for Hillary's disclosure.

If you have not seen the iwilllookintoit website...take a look at the countdown.

The AP has an article today about the man behind the site.

The 40-year-old Kansan behind the Clinton-knocking website

WASHINGTON (AP) — Jed McChesney awoke Friday morning to find that his website had crashed. When he glanced up at MSNBC's "Morning Joe," he learned why: Bernie Sanders had tweeted it to his 1.5 million followers.

McChesney had made the site, iwilllookintoit.com, earlier this month, after hearing Hillary Clinton say those words in a Democratic presidential debate. That was her response when asked whether she would release transcripts of her paid speeches to Goldman Sachs and other big banks.

Clinton's speeches were on McChesney's mind. A day earlier, she'd seemed dismissive of the six-figure fees the banks had given her when she said in an interview that's what they'd offered her.

"To me, it was the equivalent of her saying, 'Let them eat cake,'" McChesney said. And that's when the 40-year-old web developer in Olathe, Kansas said he became a fan of Sanders, whom he calls "genuine" and "the real deal."

Within a few days, McChesney had donated $650 to the campaign and created the now-famous website. It's exceedingly basic, with red text on a white background and a running timer showing how long it has been since Clinton uttered the "look into it" promise.
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