"It was just the three of us guys handing the phone back and forth--me with the numbers, one of them a governor, the other the president-elect. Now that was cool." ---John Ellis, Bush cousin, working the Fox News Channel election desk on November 7, 2000, as the network unilaterally proclaimed a Bush win at 2:16 am.
Yeah, they got it alright. Right after they purged the voter rolls and now in 2016 they are pushing Voter ID.
New Super-PAC to help Central Valley GOP congressmen(click here)
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The federal political action committee will be known as Empower Central Valley. Pombo is the chairman — and its public face. As with so many other such independent organizations, everyone else — including donors — will remain anonymous....
Then I paid attention to the fact California is used as a donor state to the rest of the GOP interests. The money raised in California helps them out a great deal. Well, Issa is a California Representative. Mr. No-Credibility himself.
Realizing how California is going to be raising a lot of funds for the 2016 Presidential Races, I noticed the name of the author to this article. Now, it could be coincidence, but, it reminded me of a Bush victory of 2000.
Remember John Prescott Ellis?
John Prescott Ellis was the man at FOX that stated Florida was going for Bush. Remember that?
He is venture capitalist now. He runs a firm called "Sand Hill Partners." (click here)
The website for this Silicon Valley venture capital firm, Sand Hill Partners, is very sparse in information. Very sparse. According to Linkin this is the description of it's mission. And it is an LLC, too.
Sand Hill Partners LLC in Silicon Valley provides seed capital, mentoring, and experienced, hands-on help for early stage technology startups in Silicon Valley.
We show entrepreneurs how to quickly nail the product that will sell and build a repeatable, scalable business model. We create smart, fun startups that are great places to work and will forever ruin you for working in a big company again.
Specialties
determining the minimum product feature set needed to sell, testing the problem you are solving to see if its truly monetizable, maximizing learning about customers with minimal expense and time, building ideas into fundable startupsI find it more than interesting that a lot of the funding for the GOP comes out of California and there sits John Ellis with his venture capital firm. I thought it was interesting.
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