Since When Does Kathy Sullivan Even Have the Moral Authority? - Granite Grok

Since When Does Kathy Sullivan Even Have the Moral Authority?

Kathy Sullivan seems to think she has the moral authority to attack Mike Biundo and Citizens for a Strong New Hampshire on ethical grounds, accusing them of hiding behind a 501(c)4 filing status so they don’t have to disclose donors who help them then expose the questionable policy decisions and the hypocrisy of elected Democrats.

But this is the same woman who insists there is no voter fraud but housed a vote-stealing sign stealing campaign rat while she was chairman of the State Democrat party.

This is the same woman who tried to put a stranglehold on paid political speech in New Hampshire and then proceeded to create her own 501(c)4, organized with the help of high-powered DC donors and run by a professional political operative, under whose hidden folds we’ll probably find cash from Democracy Alliance, Open Society, and scores of the same monied out of state influence peddlers who have been priming Sullivan’s progressive New Hampshire pump since at least 2006.  We might.  But we won’t.  Why?  She intentionally concealed her donors.

Sullivan was also implicated in a Democrat party scheme to use 527’s to hide corporate money to fund local law firms that would then exercise “independent” challenges against the nomination papers of Ralph Nader’s 2004 Presidential campaign to get him off the ballot in 18 states including New Hampshire.  It was thought that the Kerry Edwards campaign would suffer in these key states if Nader was allowed on the ballot.  Nader challenged on campaign finance grounds, but an eventual summary judgment did not relieve his duress.

But this was the same year out-of-state Kerry campaign worker Geoff Wetrosky was living in Sullivan’s house, got busted by the police with a trunk full of Frank Guinta for Mayor campaign signs (I believe Mike Biundo was Guinta’s campaign manager, by the way) and who then voted illegally from Sullivan’s house before escaping back to his home state.  Does it sound to you like the same woman who would keep the company of a sign-stealing vote-fraud felon during the 2004 Kerry-Edwards Presidential election could have taken part in an underground DNC cabal to finance the disqualification of Nader so that Kerry-Edwards might not lose critical votes in a very tight race with a left-leaning third-party wheel?

Speculation, but worthy of consideration in the context of a professional leftist willing to tolerate almost any action to expand the power of her political party.   (Though you must admit it would be ironic for Sullivan to have been party to a 527 scheme to funnel money to undermine an adversary, given her bloviating about 501(c)4’s and the fact that she started one of her own rather than make those donors public.)

In the broader context of the Sullivan Biundo feud, this is also about Jeanne Shaheen, her strange relationship to the IRS scandal targeting TEA party groups that kept them from having an impact on what could have been a close election in 2012 (Shaheen demanded it before the IRS got caught doing it; Sullivan must be having flashbacks to 2004.)   And of course, Jeanne Shaheen’s critical vote for Obama care, complete with all the deceptions, distortions, kickbacks, and backroom deals that had to be made to squeeze that unpopular turd of a bill past the Senate’s august sphincter.

And yet Sullivan still feels she has the integrity and moral authority to judge others on anything?  She’s a Democrat.  Of course she “thinks” she does.  So here are her closing remarks from the Op-ed.

As the 2014 election campaign starts to heat up, there will be more pundits writing columns, groups pretending to be grass-roots organizations running ads, and political consultants making money off the process. We should start insisting on full disclosure of the financial relationships of all those involved.

And no, I am not being paid to have this opinion.

Well, I think Kathy Sullivan, the professional Democrat committeewoman, high-ranking DNC operative, and former New Hampshire State Democrat Party Chair,  (somehow still unpaid for her opinion), should go first.  That would show some sliver of what is otherwise a void of integrity on this and many issues.

I’d like to see the donor lists for Granite State Priorities, the New Hampshire Citizens Alliance for Action–both the 501(c)3 and the (c)4, Granite State Progress, and a few others (I can send you a list) who have been stuffing their cheeks with out of state nuts from liberal millionaires and special interests for years.

I’d also like to see all the partisan union dollars used to support Democrats in New Hampshire and their work to influence local elections.   Unions spent billions tax-free, and I think voters deserve to know where it all came from and how much got spent here.  And while we’re at it, you did have a 501(c)4 of your own, Ms. Sullivan.   If you are so keen on transparency, why did you intentionally hide your political donors after you’d tried to force everyone in New Hampshire to show you theirs?  Since you are such a re-born born again, again (I lost count) disciple of financial disclosure, then start disclosing.

Otherwise, shut the hell up, hypocrite!

Until we see your complete list of donors and the donors to unions and these other left-wing “…groups pretending to be grass-roots organizations running ads, and political consultants making money in the process…” seems to me you have no moral authority to ask for anything from anyone else.

 

 

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