Need help re: Ralph Reed

[burythehatchet]

As you may know he will be running for state wide office n GA. I am going to devote a lot of time to beat this guy (don't know yet who the Dem candidate will be). My reasearch is ongoing but I would like to solicit any info that you may have on Reed.

Thanks and please kick this thread. Defeating Ralph Reed is very important as he is tied to the televangeli$t$. Please help if you can.

[madfloridian]

1. Christian Coaltion.

Think Falwell and Robertson and search on those names. I will see what I can find.

[burythehatchet]

2. Oh I'm very familiar with him..

been watching him since '86. I want to compile everything there is on him in one source.

[HockeyMom]

6. Reed Quote

from Larry King several years ago. I will never forget it. "You must be a good CHRISTIAN in order to be a good CITIZEN." King looked like he was going to have a coronary. But then that was LONG BEFORE our media became CONTROLLED.

As my husband said at the time, substitute Nazi and German.

[burythehatchet]

18. you can imagine how awful it would be to see him elected

to a state-wide office.

[charlie]

3. Indian casinos

He and his buddies Scanlon and Abramoff had Texas Republicans shut down the state casinos -- they were secretly being paid by competing tribes in other states to do so. Then they fleeced the Texas tribes by promising to get Congressional Republicans to allow the casinos to reopen. A real con job, netted them mega-millions.

[burythehatchet]

8. approx. 4.1 million

and his "family values" platform was strictly against gambling. He reeks of bullshit and hypocricy, but he is incredibly smart, therefore dangerous.

[yellowcanine]

23. Here ya go - The Ralph Reed - Indian Casino connection from The Nation

http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20040712&s=newfield

[BOSSHOG]

4. Casinos in Louisiana and a Tom Delay Connection

Don't know the particulars, but certainly a direction to look. Yes, let's bury the hatchet. And oh my, I wonder if there is a jeff gannon, ralph reed "connection?" I appreciate your enthusiasm and urge you on. If I find what I'm looking for, I'll put it on the Georgia site. BTW, the casino thing in Louisiana is still an open case. Good luck.

[Goathead]

7. You are talking about the Tigua casino scandal

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50258-2004Sep25.html

[dhinojosa]

12. That's right....put many Native American's out of work.

and the money went to Lobbyists beach front homes. It was disgusting.

[Goathead]

5. Is he running for state or a U.S. congressional seat?

Or something else. I can't stand him. He is part of that whole College Republican movement during the eighties. He looks like an embryo and his devotion to Christ is false. He realized, like *, that you have a power voting block in the Christian Right as long as you get them on board with issues like abortion and so called "family values".

[burythehatchet]

10. Lt. Gov.

A Dem, Mark Taylor is the Lt Gov now and he has been a pain in sonny purdue's side. Taylor is going to run against purdue for Gov

[Freddie Stubbs]

13. He is running for Lt.Governor

Ralph Reed running for Ga. lt. governor

By CHARLES T. GAY
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 02/17/05

Ralph Reed, the former Christian Coalition leader and whiz-kid Republican stategist, announced Thursday he will step into the political arena himself and run for Georgia lieutenant governor in 2006.

Reed, who earlier this month quietly set up a fund-raising committee, declared his candidacy in an e-mail to supporters.

"After much prayer and reflection, and with a heart filled with anticipation for the bright future for our state, today I write you to announce my candidacy for the office of lieutenant governor of Georgia," Reed wrote.

Reed committed to be a "grassroots candidate will work tirelessly for Gov. Perdue and our Republican team." Reed, a national figure due to his leadership of the Christian Coalition and work for President Bush's campaigns, cited his Georgia roots: his upbringing in Toccoa, where he graduated from high school; attendance at the University of Georgia and Emory University; and current status as owner of a political strategy firm in Gwinnett County.

more: http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/0205/17reed.html

[Al-CIAda]

9. Coushatta Indian tribe -Louisiana Lobbiest/hitman for a

competing tribe. Payoffs, bribes, and shady dealings for the former 'moral' man who rails against gambling when leading the Christo-fascist organization from which he came.

[burythehatchet]

11. and, of course, the obligatory enron tie

Ralph Reed, the hard-ball political organizer and brilliant PR strategist behind the rise of the powerful Christian Coalition, went to work for Enron just as George Bush began his drive for the presidency. According to sources in the New York Times, top Bush political advisor Karl Rove recommended Reed to Enron (where he received ten to twenty thousand dollars a month) "to keep Reed's allegiance to the Bush campaign." We report in our book, Toxic Sludge Is Good For You, how Reed and his Christian Coalition worked on campaigns in legally questionable ways. Today Ralph Reed lives in Atlanta where he is Chairman of the Georgia Republican Party and runs a public affairs firm, Century Strategies, that specializes in corporate-funded "grasstops" lobbying. His website brags: "few know that he's good friends with Karl Rove, George W. Bush's chief strategist, and ... it was Reed's grass-roots efforts that helped Bush win several key primary victories."


from http://www.prwatch.org/node/1002

[DinahMoeHum]

14. Reed looks like he's one wing short of a fairy. . .

aside from the Indian casino kickbacks, if we can find anything sexually deviant about him, well, so much the better.


:evilgrin:

[burythehatchet]

15. he doesn't seem like a "top"

but ya never know

[Lexingtonian]

24. yep, he strikes a lot people as that

I think that's the angle- everything about him seems to reflect that he's one of the closeted rage-defined immoralist sorts. The other thing is that he's not someone to think Lt. Gov. is a meaningful job- it's a jumpoff position for e.g. Senator. If Lindsey Graham can fool the rubes and cut a deal with the Christian Right, why not himself....

So as first thing I'd get the full, exact, bio/timeline on Ralph and make very sure to look into marriage and opposite sex relationship details. Look for people who happen to be on his staff/consultant lists- remarkable coincidences may lie out there right in the open. There will be ex-CC'ers around to get more info from.

Oh, yeah, a long compendium of everything he's ever said in public or is said to have said in private is also a good idea.

[dhinojosa]

16. and if the going gets tough, just say Ralph Reed wants to outlaw beer,

and that he hates our freedoms. Even if it isn't true.

:evilgrin:

[dhinojosa]

17. Oh, and guns

[DinahMoeHum]

25. or music, sex and football (ala Hunter Thompson)

:evilgrin:

[tanyev]

19. Don't forget the Rev. Moon connection.

[burythehatchet]

20. was not aware..not surprised

thanks

[tanyev]

21. It may mostly be through the Christian Coalition,

but I just googled Ralph Reed Rev Moon and a whole bunch of things popped up.

Oh, you are probably aware of this, but I think I read somewhere that he may have organized the John McCain smear in the 2000 Republican primaries. And I think he was still with Christian Coalition then. Very Christian of him, eh? Talk about a wolf in sheep's clothing. That sweet baby face of his hides a lot of evil.

[burythehatchet]

22. bush got him a 20,000 per month "consulting" gig at Enron

in order to be the South Carolina hit-man.