AlterNet:Republican Dirty Tricks,Sproul and Associates

AlterNet has learned that Sproul, the former Arizona Republican Party and Christian Coalition director, has cozy ties to a group of consultants working on the Bush/Cheney campaign. According to a Democratic source well-placed in Arizona political circles, Sproul's firm, Sproul and Associates, operates next door to the office of Gordon C. James Public Relations (GCJPR) in Phoenix, a Republican PR company which is coordinating various Bush/Cheney campaign events nationwide and has provided PR services for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq.

Last spring, one of GCJPR's executives, who is an advisory board member of Bush's re-election campaign, served as the chair of a ballot campaign Sproul was quarterbacking, while, according to the source, Sproul collaborated with a GCJPR employee who is a White House consultant on a scheme to get independent candidate Ralph Nader on the Arizona ballot. In both instances, Sproul's company, Voter Outreach of America, was involved in gathering signatures.

The cozy ties between Sproul and Bush operatives should raise a serious question: Is Sproul simply an overzealous lone wolf, or are his activities part of a concerted effort by the Bush/Cheney campaign to subvert the democratic process?

http://www.alternet.org/story/20190/

an interesting and maddening read...

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/10/13/32821/029

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So here we have Sproul involved in three (swing) states, using a bogus GOTV name to disguise his organization's own name, and using fictitious names (Harry Miller) as "contacts" for those with questions.

But that's just the tip of the iceberg with Mr. Sproul and the RNC. Keep in mind that in the recruitment ads for Voter Outreach, Inc, run on careerbuilder.com in targeted states (including Missouri and Arizona), the bottom of the ads included this statement:

Paid for by the Republican National Committee. www.gop.com. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee.

Folks, this was an organized effort in swing states by the Republican Party using Nathan Sproul as their hatchet man.
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the updates are interesting... the expose' keeps getting better...

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UPDATE 2

As is noted downthread under the link to opensecrets info, Sproul has been paid more than $600,000 by the Republican National Committee for his "efforts."

KEEP DIGGING! And pass along a link to this thread to news organizations. Thanks...
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this should be front page news across the country, but of course that'll never happen with the media whores in control, eh?

:hi:

What's more, according to a well-placed source who spoke on condition of anonymity, a GCJPR employee, Meghan Rose, worked with Sproul on a clandestine campaign to get Nader on the Arizona ballot last spring. Last June, Derek Lee of Lee Petitions told me that while his company was handling various signature drives in Arizona, Sproul's Voter Outreach of America was paying petitioners to collect as many signatures as they could for Nader's ballot qualification campaign. Once rumors began emerging about covert Republican assistance to Nader, Sproul "put the hush-hush on it real quick," Lee said.

In order to cover his tracks, Sproul devised a clever scheme. According to the source, Sproul tasked GCJPR's Rose to drive the Nader petitions to a "low-end" motel in Scottsdale where Jenny Breslyn, the person officially contracted by the Nader campaign to oversee its signature drive, was staying. There, Breslyn and her employees mixed the petitions in with their own, in effect, brushing them clean of Sproul's fingerprints.

Rose has worked as a consultant for the Bush White House Easter Egg Roll, the State Department and the Republican National Committee. She is currently working out of James' RNC-funded shop and as a volunteer on Bush's re-election campaign. Confronted with the accusation that she served as the baglady for Sproul's Nader ballot scheme, Rose would not issue an outright denial.

the Dems who had registered and had their registration torn up will not be allowed to re-register and vote. I feel ill.

this is outrageous.


Voter Outreach of America is accused by former employees of shredding the registration forms of thousands of Democrats; in West Virginia, Voter Outreach of America employees say they were instructed to mislead voters into registering Republican and voting for Bush;

When we were doing the Dan Rather research, a lot of the web sites we found resolved to Phoenix, AZ through Whois.

It wouldn't surprise me at all if these, uh, people, set up sex sites to use as blackmail maybe even years later.

I never thought about researching the ownership of on-line sex sites, but 10 to 1 at least some of them are set up for that purpose. Given the thrashing Mr. Bill is getting, it could be a potent weapon.