It could just be that the primary is winding down and I have had a few minutes to sit, ponder, and look at the pieces with much more gravitas. You know, for about three hours I thought we were done with the pumadness, but- man, oh, man, does it look like I was wrong.
Do you love voting?
I love voting!
How about voting in primaries?
I LOVE voting in primaries!
Guess who can't say the same- Diane Mantouvalos. She has lived in Florida for over a year, and this "die-hard Clinton Democrat" isn't even registered to vote!
Hope(yikes!)fully Mantouvalos, co-founder of "just say no deal" went back to the state she IS registered in, Massachusetts, to pull the lever for Hillary (HEY! Mass is where Darragh lives!weeeiiiirrrddd). Otherwise, this whole "count every vote.. she is better.. I love Hillary" argument is moot.
From Gay City News:
She has lived in Florida for a year, but is not registered. Previously,
Mantouvalos lived in Boston, but no one by that name has been
registered to vote in that city for the past 11 years for which records
are kept, according to election officials there.
Gay City News
spoke with Mantouvalos by phone while she was in Denver making her case
and giving media interviews in which she is described as one of the
"Clinton die-hards" or a "Hillary die-hard."
Mantouvalos said
she was registered in Massachusetts, but, explaining she had received
death threats and been harassed, declined to say where she used to live
so Gay City News could not confirm her voter registration and party
affiliation.
Strange, right? How can you tout your love for a candidate, make noise on Fox, and start an entire coalition based on a campaign that you haven't even supported enough to vote for? I think it's safe to assume that Mantouvalos is a fluke. That, or she was so busy shopping for shoes that she missed the primary (if you've ever been to her site, hireheels.com you know of what I speak). Hmm.
In other PUnews:
Did you all see any buses in Denver? I didn't see any buses in Denver. Are you asking what buses in Denver?
DENVER UPDATE, July 3, 2008 at 12:35pm:TRAVEL UPDATE!Puma
PAC will be providing buses from New York, Chicago, Los Angeles,
Dallas, Jacksonville, and Washington DC to bring Pumas from all across
the country to Denver, starting on August 24th. Please help pay for
these buses. Many Pumas will find it difficult to pay for getting the
time off, motels, food etc. Let’s help as many Puma PAC members as we
can join us in Denver. This is a special BUSES TO DENVER FUND. All
donations made here will go EXCLUSIVELY to paying for buses. If we can
raise enough to hire 100 buses, then hell yes we’ll do it. If 20,000
members each throw in $10 bucks for a free ride to Denver for a fellow
Puma we’ll have enough for 500 buses. Grab your fanny packs and get
your days off from work Pumas. We’ll have a mighty convoy to Denver
rolling on August 24th!
Those buses in Denver.
Turns out, those buses never quite made it to Denver (but garychapelhill from freakshow Riverdaughter/Confluence is having a blast driving around in that RV). Instead of delivering on their promise, they subsidized payments for individual pumas to come to Denver and spend the week with Darragh & Co!
What a week!
Now, as you probably know- some people just didn't make it. So did they get a refund? This is a question I have been asking since their little "Denver Bus Scam" started. A source (not Tommy) tells me that many people haven't received their refunds yet- and they are growing tired of always donating and seeing so little in return.
As KnoxvillePUMA wrote, when leaving PUMApac:
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">So
where are the television ads? Or how about placing newspaper ads?
Murphy has continually cited figures about how much money it would cost
to place an ad in a newspaper, which would be a faster and
less-expensive way to get the Party Unity, My A~~ message out to the
public. It can be done today. So why hasn’t she produced a newspaper ad
and placed it yet? I have two potential newspaper ads on this site. She
can have them. She can change them. She can use them to advertise PUMA
PAC. I’ll help her do it. Just use the money to run an ad in a major
newspaper. Please.
</div>
And remember the ads Darragh Murphy promised? Yeah, some people are mad about that too. A refresher:
559 hotsky on 08.04.08 at 1:26 pm Alright there are only a few weeks
left until the convention. MURPHY, where are the newspaper ads that you
promised? Denver group has published two full page ads one of which got
national coverage. Where is the money going?
I ran a story on August 4th, 2008 about PUMAs beginning to ask questions regarding where their money is going (the comment above is cited there). You can read the story here.
Now, when Knoxville began speaking out against Darragh's failed promises- he was accused of everything under the sun (much like I have been). Darragh Murphy even spoke out, claiming this:
UPDATE AUGUST 11th AT 3:09PM: It has come to my attention that the
so-called Puma formerly known as Knoxville (aka Knoxville Puma,
Knoxville Brian, and Brian Carniello) has been incessantly blogging
lies and misinformation about Puma PAC and me personally all around the
internet, specifically in regard to Puma PAC’s finances. As our members
and most readers know, Puma PAC is a political action committee
registered with the Federal Elections Commission. This means we must
follow very strict and specific campaign finance laws, and that our
financial disclosure forms are a matter of public record. In June of
2008 we raised just over $22,000. In July we raised approximately
$20,000. Our July disclosure forms will be submitted this week and made
public by the FEC soon after that. As of July 31st Puma PAC had spent
about $8,000 on our documentary and youtube clips, $2,000 on printing
and shipping, $5,000 on web hosting and development, and $2,500 on
legal fees. The remainder being safe and sound and untouched in Puma
PAC’s own bank account with Bank of America. Our budget for Denver is
close to $20,000. That means we are frugal, cautious, and will soon be
flat broke. ALL of our contributions come from individual donors, the
VAST majority of them $25 or less. Please help spread these facts far
and wide. Brian Carniello’s attacks are not merely damaging to me they
are an attack on ALL of us and on the Puma Movement itself. Please
email me at murphy@pumapac.org if you have more specific or further
concerns. Thank you — Darragh Murphy.
I am sure not ALL PUMAs are like Danceswithpumas, a definite captain in the platoon of PUsoldiers. Here they are, advocating Darragh pocket the money:
What do they call it when someone takes money from an organization, pockets it, and spends it on themself?
Oh, I think it's called fraud.
So danceswithpumas is okay with fraud. Well, if they are okay with Darragh being fraudulent with their hard-earned dollar, I guess they won't mind if, maybe, Darragh Murphy had a past with funneling money from a business and giving it to herself? Or maybe, her mom?
Are you saying, "why do you ask" yet?
Well, Dems, I got my hands on some silly little case law file that MAY just MAY be connected to miss always victimized Darragh Murphy. It It goes a little something like this:
JOSEPH BRAUNSTEIN, CHAPTER 7 TRUSTEE
FOR THE ESTATE OF ROWANOAK CORPORATION,
Appellant,
v.
ANN WALSH,
Appellee.
On January 8, 1999, Rowanoak filed a voluntary petition
for Chapter 7 relief. During the course of the bankruptcy
proceeding, the Trustee requested that Rowanoak turn over all of
its books and records, as well as its canceled checks and bank
statements. In response, Rowanoak turned over only canceled checks
and bank statements. In reviewing these documents, the Trustee
discovered that from March 5, 1997, through May 20, 1997, Rowanoak
made six payments from its bank account to Murphy's mother, Ann
Walsh. The checks totaled $63,344. (3)
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3. The six checks were as follows: (1) check number 1235 dated
March 5 for $12,000; (2) check number 1237 dated March 6 for
$14,000; (3) check number 1282 dated March 21 for $10,000; (4)
check number 1306 dated April 7 for $18,244; (5) check number 1308
dated April 7 for $4,100; and (6) check number 1371 dated May 20
for $5,000.
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Having affirmed the bankruptcy court on all issues
pertaining to its finding Rowanoak's transfers to Walsh were
fraudulent under Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 109A, � 5, we need not discuss
the bankruptcy court's finding that Rowanoak's transfers to Walsh
also were fraudulent under � 6(a). (7) For the reasons stated, we
conclude the district court erred in reversing the bankruptcy
court. Accordingly, the judgment of the district court is
REVERSED.
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7.In reversing the bankruptcy court, the district court
appeared to confuse the elements of claims under these two
sections. The district court incorrectly identified the bankruptcy
court's finding that the payments to Walsh rendered Rowanoak
insolvent as an element of a � 5 claim. But this finding goes to
the Trustee's claim under � 6(a). See Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 109a,
� 6 (transfer is fraudulent under � 6(a) "if the debtor made the
transfer or incurred the obligation without receiving a reasonably
equivalent value in exchange for the transfer or obligation and .
. . the debtor became insolvent as a result of the transfer or
obligation."). Even if the bankruptcy court's finding that
Rowanoak's payments to Walsh rendered Rowanoak insolvent was
clearly erroneous, Walsh still must reimburse the payments as
fraudulent transfers under � 5.
So, this is a decision by a Federal court stating that a Darragh Murphy (possibly the PUMApac founder Darragh Murphy) engaged in fraudulent loans and monetary transfers from her company to her mother.
Kind of like what danceswithpumas was advocating. Ironic. I don't know about you but do you really want your money going to someone who has may have a history of sticking their hand in the cookie jar?
I have confirmed from a source(Tommy Christopher from AOL) who was IN DENVER, who met face to face with Darragh's mother. Her name is Ann. What more do we need?
To see more of my almost exemplary detective skills, go to yestodemocracy.com
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