{"id":951,"date":"2009-10-18T11:18:24","date_gmt":"2009-10-18T15:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/?p=951"},"modified":"2009-10-18T23:59:14","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T03:59:14","slug":"outing-the-astroturfers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/2009\/10\/18\/outing-the-astroturfers\/","title":{"rendered":"Outing the Astroturfers &#8211; Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Update October 18, 2009: The Union Leader finally figures it out.. <\/p>\n<p>In this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionleader.com\/article.aspx?headline=Illegal+opposition%3F+Who+are+spending-cap+foes%3F&#038;articleId=9ec02b14-70df-4c3b-afa5-5426745ccf49\">Op Ed<\/a>, they state:<\/p>\n<p><em>Opposition to Manchester&#8217;s spending cap is being underwritten by left-wing donors from Berkeley, Calif., and New York City, in the name of an organization that appears to be operating illegally. If Manchester&#8217;s constant tax increases were not enough to anger city voters, that should do the trick. The state Attorney General&#8217;s Office needs to investigate this group to see if it is, as it seems, operating in violation of state law, and whether its city campaign finance reports are proper.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In earlier posts we&#8217;ve shown you proof that many attendees at these protests are paid agitators who are not even from the district or the state.<\/p>\n<p>In the following video, we see the vast network paid radical left-wing agitators (some using money gleaned from our tax dollars) which are being used to infiltrate and destroy NH at all levels.<\/p>\n<p><em>What you are looking at is a Manchester NH Spending Cap informational meeting for residents at which Granite State Progress disenfranchises voters and thwarts democracy.<\/p>\n<p>Zandra Rice Hawkins, resident of Goffstown NH and staffer with Granite State Progress, represents &#8220;Keep Manchester Moving&#8221;, a group comprising labor union officials and MoveOn.org radical Josiette White.<\/p>\n<p>Zandra Rice Hawkins, Josiette White, their radical left-wing groups, aided by labor union officials try to disenfranchise the voters of Manchester NH and thwart the democratic process by blocking a spending cap proposal from reaching the ballot.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mfD_IUP8x9k&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mfD_IUP8x9k&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>In this video you can discover who is behind the large Obama poster with the mustache and you can observe previously outed organizer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/2009\/08\/26\/nancy-pelosis-astroturfers-obamas-army\/\">Israel Pierre<\/a> from Massachusetts, recording the event.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ErzIFtAcDnk&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ErzIFtAcDnk&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/granitegrok.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/paid_activism_its_good_work_i_guess_if_y.html\">Thanks to GraniteGrok.com for the second video and the story at their website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also, according to a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.unionleader.com\/andrew-cline\/\">Drew Cline<\/a> blog post about one of Shea-Porter&#8217;s forums, 24-year old Derek Lemire &#8216;in the purple shirt&#8217; refused to tell Drew where he lived.<\/p>\n<p>After an attempt to infiltrate our eblast, it was easy to find out that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/derek.lemire\">Derek<\/a> lives in Northfield and is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/pdf\/derek_lemire.pdf\">paid regional organizer<\/a> for NH For Health Care (part of Americans for Health Care, a project of the SEIU) as well as affiliated with an additional string of astroturfed groups such as Health Care for America Now, Employee Free Choice Act, <a href=\"http:\/\/action.seiu.org\/page\/event\/detail\/w7f\">SEIU<\/a>, Change That Works, and a friend of John Thyng of Deering, another &#8220;career&#8221;  astroturfer.<\/p>\n<p>Here also is another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=35838&#038;dsq=16098893\">amazing article<\/a> that ties in and wraps up just who provides the funding for much of this left-wing activism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update October 18, 2009: The Union Leader finally figures it out.. In this Op Ed, they state: Opposition to Manchester&#8217;s spending cap is being underwritten by left-wing donors from Berkeley, Calif., and New York City, in the name of an organization that appears to be operating illegally. If Manchester&#8217;s constant tax increases were not enough [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1239,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions\/1239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}