Thread: Univision Giving $1M to Tea Party Patriots?

Organized as a "social welfare" group under section 501(c)4 of the tax code, the Tea Party Patriots is not regulated by federal campaign finance laws and is not required to make its funding sources public.

Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 10:45 am

Tea Party group gets $1 million anonymous donation

http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-213001.html

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TPP statement about Mark Williams' claim
Mark Williams posted the following on his blog:

“Report: Tea Party Patriot Million $ donor is Univision founder. Jerry Perenchio. He’s a National Finance Co-Chair of the McCain 2008 campaign and the billionaire founder of Spanish-language media conglomerate, Univision.â€

I am very concerned about the lack of transparency as to which states and what groups received the grant money. Something is not right here. We must have more information before we blindly send off e-mail addresses to a third party. I agree with Mandy!

Originally Posted by PaulRevere9

This money does NOT come without strings attached...Now it is time to investigate just what those strings are.

I am quite concerned about the lack of transparency in stating who DID receive the money as well. This just smells bad.

Originally Posted by MandyMorello

Quick clarification: The FEC stuff was posted by a commenter on the report. I am still looking how to find stuff on the FEC site. this was a third party investigation, not mine. The comment was made on this page: http://politics.newsvine.com/_news/2010 ... #c17756163 the comment was #91.

Even if Perenchio was not the donor it does show that we have no clue who fronted the money and who's pocket TPP is now in along with all the email list.

What if the anon donor was a democrat? this article says that they will take Obamas offer on working with Tea Parties....now just before election Obama has direct connection with the largest email/Tea Party network across the nation. we are now set to automatically jump and do the calls whenever the ACTION ALERTS get sent to our inbox.

We need to get the message out that people need to focus back on their local Tea Party Groups and stop blindly trusting (like we did with the Republican Party that is now full of RINO's.) Once again the "national" organization has become corrupt. We have no idea who's pocket National TPP is in. Names are flying around like crazy on who this donor is and none of them sound good.

I would be suspect of the National "alert" Emails also. People are now set on auto pilot to jump to the email or phone their elected leaders because the national emails say to do so. This gets distributed nationwide. Can we trust that this money is not some sort of buy-off? This is the exact reason why we keep saying, "FOCUS LOCAL" and stay there, we have to rebuild this government from the ground up.

If this donor really wanted to remain anonymous he or she could have had a staffer send a $357 to all 2800 Tea Parties Listed on the national site, instead they negotiated with the National TPP to bring the focus back to a national level. there is something not right here.

I am very concerned about this whole grant issue. I am very nervous about not knowing who or what has their hand in Tea Party Patriots works, and what the effect will be. What made it more troublesome is that Tea Party Patriots refuses to provide a list of what states and groups received the funds. Where is the TRANSPARENCY that we all insist upon??????