Per an email sent from Jon and Donna Ausman on July 31st 2010,
Nearly six (6) weeks ago I wrote an email suggesting that Florida Democratic Party leaders at the state and county level take a very serious look at the candidacy of Jeff Greene for the United States Senate. I have joined the Greene campaign as a paid adviser and am fully disclosing such to you at the beginning of this note.
Ausman is compelled to inform us of this now yet according...
Per an email sent from Jon and Donna Ausman on July 31st 2010,
Nearly six (6) weeks ago I wrote an email suggesting that Florida Democratic Party leaders at the state and county level take a very serious look at the candidacy of Jeff Greene for the United States Senate. I have joined the Greene campaign as a paid adviser and am fully disclosing such to you at the beginning of this note.
Ausman is compelled to inform us of this now yet according to Tampa bay online, the Washington Post, CREW and a nipping comment from AmericaBlog; Ausman was paid $4000 by Jeff Greene's billion dollar campaign 6 days before he sent out a mass email endorsing Greene for the primary.
Tampa Bay Online reads:
He signed the endorsement e-mail as a DNC member but didn't mention that he was being paid by Greene. He says he provided 35,000 e-mail addresses in exchange for the money.
... "Frankly I liked Greene from the word get go," said Ausman.
Oh, sorry for not tapping into your psyche with my inherent telepathy and omniscience. A person with that caliber of logic would have to be advising a once-republican.
The email then displays 3 charts depicting Meek as losing support marking Greene as the leading democratic candidate. He then goes further to say:
So, I write to ask two things from you. One, is to speak positively of all our candidates for the Democratic nomination (as I have done in this email to you). Two, is to be prepared to support to the fullest whoever our nominee shall be.
Jeff Greene according to Citizens for responsibility and ethics in Washington CREW:
Mr. Greene also has been criticized for amassing his wealth through credit default swaps and subprime mortgages. In fact, Mr. Greene was likely the first individual to trade credit default swaps. Mr. Greene invested millions of dollars betting that the market would fall, and once it did, made $800 million while many Americans were facing foreclosure.
Finally, Mr. Greene paid Democratic National Committee member Jon Ausman $4,000 for political consulting and strategy six days before Mr. Ausman endorsed Mr. Greene for Senate.
In light of my earlier post Meltdown Mogul's Senate Agenda - Through Time, which was nominated this year for the Netroots best post award, it is a moral imperative that I don't support Jeff Greene in the democratic primary; whether he is losing in the polls or not. Ausman is supporting Greene simply because he is already ahead of the game - which says a lot about his initiative since he also works for the campaign.
Just because the chances of getting a progressive in the race isn't as likely doesn't persuade me to take sides with the most corrupted democratic candidate in the state of Florida - much less accept bribes to do so. Thank you Ausman for having the most eloquent way of advising others that they should give up. Next time save that advice for Jeff Greene.
sources:
http://www2.tbo.com/...
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/...
http://www.citizensforethics.org/...
http://www.americablog.com/...
http://leafletdescend.blogspot.com/...