Democrats ActBlue Illegally Funding Raising.

[GURPS]

Data shows that half of 2019 donations to ActBlue came from untraceable 'unemployed' donors


Action Fund President John Pudner questioned the veracity of those donations and called it a loophole that must be closed for the sake of election integrity.

"After downloading hundreds of millions of [dollars in] donations to the Take Back Action Fund servers, we were shocked to see that almost half of the donations to ActBlue in 2019 claimed to be unemployed individuals," he said. "The name of employers must be disclosed when making political donations, but more than 4.7 million donations came from people who claimed they did not have an employer. Those 4.7 million donations totaled $346 million ActBlue raised and sent to liberal causes."

The trend is continuing this year: An Action Fund examination of 2020 data from January through August showed an uptick in "unemployed" donations through ActBlue, to 50.1% this year.

ActBlue defends the integrity of its donations and said many come from retirees and people who aren't counted as employed, such as homemakers.

 

[GURPS]

Who Are These 'Unemployed' Donors Contributing Nearly Half of Democrat Group ActBlue's Massive Campaign Funds?


The fundraising group ActBlue is the most successful leftwing money group in the country. In 2019, they raised more than $467 million from 3.7 million donors.

But there are questions where a lot of that money comes from. More than 40 percent of the cash came from donors who said they were “unemployed.” Federal law requires that political donors disclose the name of their employer in giving money.

By contrast, a GOP group called WinRed raised $301.8 million in 2019 but only 5 percent of the donors were unemployed.

 

[pontificator]

"The name of employers must be disclosed when making political donations"

Are people who are retired from active work not allowed to donate to campaigns?

 

[GURPS]

The numbers don't line up

 

[PeoplesElbow]

How can they be anonymous, are they using cash and bitcoin?

 

[GURPS]

How can they be anonymous, are they using cash and bitcoin?

There is NO Verification on your bank account ..... you could route the money through Paypal - use a prepaid Visa like Obama did in 2008

 

[PeoplesElbow]

There is NO Verification on your bank account ..... you could route the money through Paypal - use a prepaid Visa like Obama did in 2008

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Paypal isn't that anonymous, I know someone who runs an eBay business who thought it was until he got a tax bill for all revenue routed through PP.

Maybe the difference is the sending vs receiving, but with all the restrictions in place for electronic money transfers because of terrorism and illegal drugs I just don't see how this is possible.

 

[GURPS]

I just don't see how this is possible.

well bank accounts are not ' anonymous ' either as far as I know, but ActBlue is not verifying the location of the bank when the money comes in ... so someone in Russia donates money ... the bank is not verified as being in the US ... the money is charged no questions asked

 

[DaSDGuy]

"The name of employers must be disclosed when making political donations"

Are people who are retired from active work not allowed to donate to campaigns?

If you or anyone else seriously believes those contributors are from retired people, I have some waterfront land for sale cheap. It's just south of Point Lookout.

 

[pontificator]

If you or anyone else seriously believes those contributors are from retired people, I have some waterfront land for sale cheap. It's just south of Point Lookout.

That wasn't my question.

I'm not interested in what you believe. I'm interested in an answer to my question.

 

[GURPS]

Hmm I smell Bacon

 

[DaSDGuy]

That wasn't my question.

I'm not interested in what you believe. I'm interested in an answer to my question.

The answer is yes, retired people are allowed to contribute. And it must be awesome to be retired on a fixed income and have so much liquid assets to make those contributions. Kudos for their retirement planning.

 

[pontificator]

The answer is yes, retired people are allowed to contribute. And it must be awesome to be retired on a fixed income and have so much liquid assets to make those contributions. Kudos for their retirement planning.

Still doesn't answer my question. If you can, please do. Thanks in advance.

 

[Gilligan]

Hmm I smell Bacon

A familiar stench, yes...

Trash collection around here is in serious need of some upgrading and expansion.

 

[kom526]

From https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2011/04/some-campaign-donors-creatively/

Here’s a run-down of some of the most creative descriptions from donors who don’t want to share. Profanities have been edited here, but aren’t edited in the official public record.

Employer Listed	Occupation Listed	Name	Location	Date	Amount	Beneficiary
None​	Of Your F—ing Business​	David Steakley​	Houston​	09-Sep-10​	$1,000​	Sharron Angle (R-Nev.)​
Your Business​	None Of​	Mark Ostrow​	Seattle​	27-Jul-10​	$500​	Murray Victory 2010​
None of the government’s business​	Same​	Ron Hughes​	Green River, Wyo.​	12-Sep-08​	$250​	RNC​
F— Federal Law​	None Of Your Business!​	Jason Kapusta​	Satellite Beach, Fla.​	21-Jan-08​	$500​	Ron Paul (R-Texas)​
NoneOfYourBusiness Inc.​	CEO​	Taia Ergueta​	Redwood City, Calif.​	25-Oct-04​	$500​	John Kerry (D-Mass.)​
None of your business​	Patriot​	Bruce Backup​	Portland, Ore.​	23-Oct-04​	$500​	DNC​
“NOYB Inc.”​	None of your business​	Jeanne Czajka​	Albuquerque, N.M.​	12-Oct-04​	$500​	DNC​
None of your business​	Take your money​	Ezra Shapiro​	Van Nuys, Calif.​	29-Jul-04​	$250​	John Kerry (D-Mass.)​
My FEC’N Business​	None of your business​	Arthur Iger​	New York City​	28-Jun-04​	$200​	John Kerry (D-Mass.)​
None of your damn business​	Computer Geek​	Robert Bowers​	Cupertino, Calif.​	19-Dec-02​	$500​	Green Party​

The Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 sought to enable the public to better follow the money in politics.

 

[GURPS]

The Democrat Party Reportedly Received Half Its Donations from Unemployed Americans, Many Are Elderly Voters Whose Identities May Have Been Stolen – Where’s the Money Really Coming From?​

The Gateway Pundit was the first to report that ActBlue was raising money using BLM as its front group. ActBlue is the Democrats’ funding apparatus. We know this from our early reporting and from the fact that BLM later admitted this. In 2022 Black Lives Matter announced in February 2022 that the organization was deactivating its fundraising pages on ActBlue. This was after the Washington Examiner exposed that BLM was still accepting donations on the Democratic platform despite claiming it had stopped amid questions about its finances.

The Daily Caller confirmed that ActBlue was using BLM to raise money. BLM is not a recognized non-profit organization and nonprofit organization (Thousand Currents) said it provides ‘fiduciary oversight, financial management, and other administrative services’ to BLM.

Candice Owen reported on the BLM – ActBlue relationship and was targeted by a bogus fact-checker. Tom Fitton from Judicial Watch jumped in and stated that their findings confirmed what TGP and Candice Owen reported:

 

[GURPS]

BREAKING: Attorneys General from Virginia and Missouri, and Wyoming Secretary of State Launch Investigations into ActBlue Over Allegations of Money Laundering Scheme​

The Attorneys General of Virginia and Missouri, along with the Secretary of State of Wyoming, have announced simultaneous investigations into ActBlue over allegations of a money laundering scheme.

Investigative journalist James O’Keefe III broke his first major investigation in March 2023 since the launch of O’Keefe Media Group.

The legendary journalist released a video from his investigation of the Democrat’s VAST network of donation harvesters.
The investigation involved:

• MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN DONATION HARVESTING
• HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF ILLEGAL DROPS
• CROSSING NUMEROUS STATES!

 

[Bare-ya-cuda]

This is probably the reason for the unsolicited emails asking for me to donate to democrat candidates. Person names in email is not me. Somewhere along the line these pacts got a large data dump of emails and are laundering donations using them.

 

[Hijinx]

I don't expect the FBI to spend much time investigating, or any other alphabet agency for that matter.

 

[GURPS]

In another encouraging election integrity development, yesterday Texas’ terrific Attorney General Ken Paxton announced completing the first part of its investigation into Democrat fundraising platform ‘ActBlue.’ The press release was headlined, “Investigation Into ActBlue Uncovers Large Number of Suspicious Donations Through Obscured Identities and Untraceable Means; OAG Demands FEC Action.”



You may recall this summer’s news about James O’Keefe and his OMG citizen journalists who broke the ActBlue “smurfing” story. Apparently, ActBlue has been —knowingly or negligently— serving as a sort of money-laundering clearinghouse. Large donations, which could easily be foreign, were (are still?) being divided up into hundreds or thousands of small individual donations, made in random low-income people’s names.

The absurd results included cases like a 92-year-old woman living in an Alabama trailer who was apparently making dozens of daily donations, totaling nearly ten thousand dollars per day, to dozens of Democrat candidates and causes. When O’Keefe visited folks who were willing to talk, the donors denied making all those donations, logically insisting they couldn’t afford to do it even if they had that kind of time.

ActBlue responded in August by adding a requirement for the CVC code for credit card donations. Think about that. They weren’t even requiring a security code before then. When was the last time you used your credit card without that code?

The fact is, someone has obviously made vast amounts of illegal donations. There are for sure one or more rotten actors out there. If caught, they’d probably get life in prison, or worse. But Grandma Garland has never even held one of his DOJ press conferences or rambled about saving democracy by finding and convicting these fraudulent election interferers. Oddly.

AG Paxton announced that his office opened the investigation back in December of last year. Yesterday, he sent a formal demand to the FEC —including proposed new rules— to cut off ActBlue (or anyone else’s) ability to illegally launder money this way.



Bless James O’Keefe, for blowing up this story about the little blue smurfers.

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