I have long been confused by the structure in downtown Austin on 4th and Congress. Indie, said the font chosen by committee, splashed across a vanity project on some of the priciest real estate in Texas.
I had heard rumors about an old friend, but I hoped they were not true.
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Side Bar 1
Dear Russia,
Old friends, can y’all kindly remove yourself from Texas politics? I get what you are doing, we have done this ourselves. Trying to cause a plurality crisis by vote clipping the election below 50%.
I get it, very clever.
You don’t care who wins, you just want to undermine the authority of the winner with the electorate.
Please stop.
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Mueller is right, there is ongoing foreign involvement in our current election cycle. Appears to be happening in Texas, that’s why I am here.
I am here because I want to be wrong.
Let’s start here:
www.bloomberg.com/…
I trust Bloomberg right along with Hoovers when it comes to business intelligence. I double checked this was the correct Global Trust Group.
Global Trust Group is a broad-based consortium of business leaders formed to create economic partnerships between the United States and Russia.
Oh dear me. In my blessed Texas?
I hope Texas Tribune can verify, because they are on this as well.
A third party trying to crash the Beto O’Rourke and Ted Cruz race is actually a for-profit corporation
BY JAY ROOT JUNE 13, 2018 | Texas Tribune
www.texastribune.org/…
It’s got a high-tech evangelist for a founder, $6 million in private equity investments, even its own crypto-currency.
No, it’s not a driverless car start-up or some new, life-changing app.
It’s the Indie Party — billed as a “movement” to end the “two-party duopoly” in the United States but built more like a political consulting and technology firm with profit in mind. Its first target — and at this point its only target — is the high-stakes U.S. Senate race featuring Republican Ted Cruz and Democrat Beto O’Rourke.
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Indie Party spokesman Mitch Allen identified one of the investors as Las Vegas-based Global Trust Group, and said William Attinger, a former Morgan Stanley derivatives specialist, “led the initial investment” on behalf of the group. Attinger is managing director of venture management for Global Trust Group and is on the board of Raise The Money Inc., an online platform for political fundraising, according to his online bio. Calls and emails left with the Global Trust Group were not returned.
Neither Jenkins nor the Indie Party would identify the three other investors who contributed. Nor did Jenkins or the party say how much Jenkins was paid during his stint as CEO of the Indie Party Co., although Jenkins said his compensation was considerably less than the $600,000 the Indie Party estimated in a U.S. Securities and Exchange filing it would pay officers or directors. At the time of the filing Jenkins was the only disclosed officer or director.
Bold by me
I highly suggest reading this article and consider the full implications of a untraceable crypto-currency-backed for-profit corporation fielding their own candidates.
That is something new. Without or without the foreign investors.
Secondly, we should really get clarification on who the other investors contributing to this social experiment are, what mad scientists are they?
I hope I am proven to be a complete idiot and the seller of red herrings.
Considering our current issues with foreign entanglements, and Bloomberg saying the Global Trust Group literally is an USA-Russia organization, is there any support common from abroad?
Someone should really follow up with Global Trust Group until someone does answer the phone and return an email.
The Lone Star needs to know if we are being mess with.
We don't enjoy that.
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Side Bar 2
In an interview with The Texas Tribune, Jenkins, 35, says he got into the race because people are hungry for an alternative to the stale talking points and gridlock of the mainstream party candidates. He said he’s “100 percent confident” he will turn in enough voters’ signatures by the June 21 deadline set by the state — and plans to spend some of his own money to pay for the effort.
Point of order:
www.sos.state.tx.us/…
If you are a member of a new party or if your party's candidates for statewide office in the last general election received less than five percent of the vote, your party must qualify for ballot access. Tex. Elec. Code Ann. §§ 181.0041, 181.005. Your party must register (PDF) with the Secretary of State's Office by January 2, 2018, and needs the support of 47,183 qualified voters. If you hope to become the nominee of a new party for a particular office, you must file an application for nomination (PDF) with the county or state party chair, as appropriate (see chart). The application must be filed no later than 6:00 p.m., December 11, 2017. Tex. Elec. Code Ann. § 181.033.
Tex. Elec. Code Ann. §§ 181.0041, 181.005.
statutes.capitol.texas.gov/…
(i) On signing the petition, the person becomes ineligible to affiliate with another party during the voting year in which the petition is signed.
(g)) The following statement must appear at the top of each page of the petition: "I know that the purpose of this petition is to entitle the _______ Party to have its nominees placed on the ballot in the general election for state and county officers. I have not voted in a primary election or participated in a convention of another party during this voting year, and I understand that I become ineligible to do so by signing this petition. I understand that signing more than one petition to entitle a party to have its nominees placed on the general election ballot in the same election is prohibited."
(g) A person who has voted in a primary election or participated in a convention of another party during the voting year in which the petition is circulated is ineligible to sign the petition, and the signature of such a person is invalid.
You also have to have these notarized. Good luck on finding 47,000 Texans who agree to the above terms and will sign that notarized petition. Spoiler alert, they will have to know and present their voter id number! So good luck with that.
And post-date that petition to last January.
This is exactly why I haven’t started the Texas Party, the system made 3rd parties almost impossible in Texas.
These guys are just sowing chaos and were angling for 5% so they could run state-wide next election cycle.
They forget to read the rules.