Freedomworks To Profit From Teabaggers At Rally

6:03 pm EST August 18th, 2009 | News | 7 Comments

Bwahahaha! They’re charging other groups $10,000 to join in their rally in September. Hehehehehe!

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7 Responses to “Freedomworks To Profit From Teabaggers At Rally”

  1. geor3ge says:
    August 18, 2009 at 6:20 pm

    But it’s all totally spontaneous.

  2. Calvin Jones and the 13th Apostle says:
    August 18, 2009 at 6:21 pm

    That’s the difference. How many Cons do this stuff with out getting paid? Hardly ever, unless they tell them the Gov’t is gonna kill Granny.

  3. sherifffruitfly says:
    August 18, 2009 at 6:35 pm

    That’s grassroots you can believe in, my friends.

  4. Ian Aleksander Adams says:
    August 18, 2009 at 8:11 pm

    It was only a matter of time until they got back to what they love: money.

  5. Burn says:
    August 18, 2009 at 8:27 pm

    So, if I plunk down $10K, do I get to burn a cross too, or can I sing a duet with Big and Rich?

  6. Dave in SoCal says:
    August 19, 2009 at 3:01 pm

    Freedomworks To Profit From Teabaggers At Rally

    Senior White House advisor to profit from President’s push for Health Care Reform

  7. Dave in SoCal says:
    August 19, 2009 at 3:16 pm

    That’s grassroots you can believe in, my friends.

    Grassroots? You mean like this?

    Several readers have criticized the Citizen Patriot’s coverage of last week’s health-care rally outside U.S. Rep. Mark Schauer’s office, where hundreds came out — both to support and oppose — President Barack Obama’s reform plan.

    The chief criticism was that we failed to mention that some supporters were bused in from around the state.

    It is true, and it wasn’t included in the original story, but not because we were trying to slant coverage. The simple truth is it was a difficult fact to nail down.

    You’re reading this story today because Tuesday I was able to confirm with the Service Employees International Union that it rented vans and encouraged people to carpool to the event. About 100 SEIU members attended, from as far away as Muskegon and Detroit, said Zac Altefogt, a spokesman for SEIU Healthcare Michigan.

    While covering the rally last Thursday, myself and another reporter were told by several opponents of the reform plan that supporters were bused in. But we did not see the buses that night and were unable to pose the question to the supporters’ organizer before our deadline.

    We left it out of the Friday story because we cannot print speculation as fact.

    On Friday, we followed up with Organizing for America, which put out the call for supporters to attend the event. OFA state director Aletheia Henry assured us that her group had not bused people to the rally.

    We wrote a short follow-up Saturday and thought it was resolved.

    Then this week, some readers e-mailed us photos of supporters standing in front of a bus from Trinity Transportation parked several blocks away near Family Video, 1111 W. Ganson St.

    My colleague followed up with Henry. We told her we understood OFA hadn’t chartered the buses, but we wondered if she knew who had. She refused to answer the question and then hung up the phone.

    Seems like an overreaction to a news organization simply looking for a straight answer.

    Because we all know that bringing in people from outside of a representative’s district is a clear sign of astroturfing.