Reply #35: Swiftboating the Florida Supreme Court Justices with illegal funding

[L. Coyote]

Where Did A Republican Party Operative ... Get $150,000 During The 2000 Recount To Finance A Campaign To Oust Florida Supreme Court Justices?
http://www.buzzflash.com/analysis/03/09/15_recount.html

... one little operation of the vast right wing conspiracy ... an undertaking that took time at a point the Bush Cartel was afraid that the Florida State Supreme Court would succeed in forcing a recount ... they launched some dirty tricks ... the formation of a supposedly Florida-based group that was allegedly going to work toward the defeat of Florida Supreme Court judges for supporting a recount ...

... the Florida Elections Commission fined Palm Beach County Commissioner Mary McCarty $2,000 for violating state election laws ... certified an "incorrect, false, or incomplete" campaign report ... a mysterious $150,000 loan for a direct mail fundraising campaign that by all accounts came from Roger Stone, Jr., a long-time Republican operative who owns the Washington, D.C.-based Ikon Public Affairs.

... Stone did not explain -- and still has not to this day -- is who instructed him to create the committee and who donated the $150,000 ... committee campaign records listed the $150,000 as a "loan" from Creative Marketing in Alexandria, Va., which doesn’t exist, though it does share the same mailing address as the Stone Group, a fundraising and marketing firm run by Republican activist Ann Stone, Roger’s ex-wife ... "Stone ‘or his organization’ actually paid the $150,000 not to Creative Marketing but to a Virginia company called Unique Graphics and Design ... principals Ann Stone and Lora Lynn Jones ...

... Unique Graphics was not a legal entity ... James A. Baker II ... Bush Jr.’s chief post-election strategist, contacted Stone and asked for his help ... Baker aide Margaret Tutwiler ... said, ‘Mr. Baker would like you to go to Florida,’" ...

Stone had previously worked on the brief presidential campaigns of Sen. Arlen Specter ...