Reply #64: New Media Communications--fascinating octopus of electoral

[Helga Scow Stern]

success. (Republican, of course.) They manage the websites for all of these campaigns and even the Ohio election night website!
All their clients won their elections, no matter how slim the chance.

Looks kinda fishy.......

Thanks to mikelewis.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x201647#top

mikelewis (224 posts) Mon Dec-27-04 08:46 PM
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New Media Comm. - Have we looked into these guys yet?


A post asking for a connection between Datamaxx and Triad led me on a hunt to find a link. In my searching I ran across New Media Communications.

The lead story on these guys is the fact that every candidate they backed won thier election. "Every client who turned to us for online strategy and Internet solutions came out a winner," NMC President Mike Connell said.
http://www.technomania.com/News.asp?Type=latestnews&For...


The company sets up and hosts internet sites for candidates to include:

http://www.kenblackwell.com /

and

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Most notable was the Bush/Cheney '04 Presidential campaign. President Bush won 51.1% of the popular vote, enabling him to start off his second term with a mandate. Bush was the first U.S. President to garner a majority of the popular vote since his father did the same in 1988. He earned a record breaking 58.9 million votes -- more than any other U.S. President .


In his South Dakota Senate race, former Congressman John Thune scored an upset over current Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle in the most expensive Senate race in history. This marked the first time since 1952 that a seated Senate leader has been defeated in a re-election bid.


David Vitter made history as the first Republican to earn a Senate seat in Louisiana since Reconstruction. He gathered a decisive 51.6% of the votes in an unusual three-way "open primary," thereby avoiding a runoff election.


In Ohio, Senator George Voinovich won a second term with a comfortable 63.9% of the votes.

Seven congressional seats went to Republicans whose websites and electronic communications campaigns were created by New Media. Far from shoe-ins, many of these pivotal races were highly competitive to historic proportions:


Minnesota's Mark Kennedy emerged the victor after weathering fierce and blatant attacks from Michael Moore in "Fahrenheit 911."


Geoff Davis of Kentucky faced down Nick Clooney, a former television host, whose campaign was heavily supported by friends of Clooney's son, Hollywood actor George Clooney.


Robert Simmons and Heather Wilson won hotly contested battles in Connecticut and New Mexico, respectively.


Joe Barton of Texas, Mike Turner of Ohio, and Kenny Hulshof of Missouri, rounded out the list of successful candidates who turned to NMC for Internet identity solutions.

In addition to its work for specific candidates, New Media created a number of electronic communications tools for the National Rifle Association, the Republican National Committee and the Ohio Republican Party. The efforts of these groups made a difference in strategic arenas all across the country. New Media also worked for two grassroots groups in Michigan and Ohio to successfully defend traditional marriage. These ballot initiatives to reaffirm the definition of marriage (as the union between one man and one woman) won by a wide margin in both states.

"We have really been blessed in this election cycle," Connell said. "This important string of victories for our clients is nothing short of phenomenal."

They also own another site http://www.govtechsolutions.com/about.asp


They use http://smartechcorp.net/index.php to host the sites


Now Connell has been in bed with the Republicans for quite some time.

"Connell's company has a good reputation among GOP strategists because the former Capitol Hill staffer -- he worked on the elder President Bush's campaign in Iowa in 1988 -- understands politics and technology.

New Media, which started in 1994, designed Bush's site for his 2000 campaign after running a Web site for Florida Gov. Jeb Bush in 1998. It also has won awards for sites created for New York Mayor Michael
Bloomberg, Sen. Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C., and Ohio Gov. Bob Taft.

GovTech Solutions, a spinoff from New Media Communications, was created in 2000 to produce sites for federal lawmakers and agencies. Its clients include 27 members of Congress from House Majority Leader Tom DeLay to Ohio Reps. Bob Ney and Dave Hobson."
http://www.technomania.com/News.asp?Type=latestnews&For...


Now a bit on GovTech which is the same company, they simply service government offices such as

Lamar Smith created for Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX)

Results.gov created for The Council for Excellence in Government for The White House

Election.sos.state.oh.us created for Ohio Secretarty of State Kenneth Blackwell's Election Night Project

Jim Talent created for Sen. Jim Talent (R-MO)



Our Hill Clients Include
U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services Committee
Ways and Means Committee
Majority Leader Tom DeLay
Majority Whip Roy Blunt
Congressman Cass Ballenger
Congressman Joe Barton
(just a partial list)



Nitey-nite, dzika! I need to get some zzz's too and I'm only on the West coast.