Lite för dem som vill rota lite i kaoset i Iowa och the money trail bakom det. En non-profit firma dyker upp vid sidan om
Shadow som programmerade den infamösa appen nämligen
Acronym. Här lite om de kopplingarna:
NEW DETAILS SHOW HOW DEEPLY IOWA CAUCUS APP DEVELOPER WAS EMBEDDED IN DEMOCRATIC ESTABLISHMENT
/.../Kyle Tharp, a spokesperson for Acronym, released a statement on Monday night downplaying his company’s affiliation with Shadow.
“ACRONYM is an investor in several for-profit companies across the progressive media and technology sectors,” Tharp said. “One of those independent, for-profit companies is Shadow, Inc, which also has other private investors.”
David Plouffe, a former campaign manager to Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential bid who joined Acronym’s board, also distanced himself from the company during an MSNBC panel last night. “I have no knowledge of Shadow,” said Plouffe. “It was news to me.”
But previous statements and internal Acronym documents suggest that the two companies, which share office space in Denver, Colorado, are deeply intertwined
https://theintercept.com/2020/02/04/iowa-caucus-app-shadow-acronym/
Acronym sedan har bildats för att möta Trumpkampanjens marknadsföring genom att köpa annonser och reklam på sociala media. Tyvärr kommer man inte åt finansiärerna bakom firman men dess super-PAC-tvilling
Pacronym är tvungen att offentligt redovisa finanserna. Där dyker en hel del intressanta namn med en "kändis" i toppen:
Who’s Behind Dems’ New $75 Million Ad Campaign?
The campaign is run by Acronym, a dark money group, but here are some clues as to who’s funding it.
/.../Founded in 2017, Acronym is a 501(c)(4) “social welfare” nonprofit, meaning that it’s not required to disclose its donors, so we don’t know who is providing the $75 million that Acronym plans to spend. And Acronym did not respond Sludge’s multiple attempts to ask about its contributors.
We do, however, know about the funding behind Pacronym, which as a super PAC is required to report its funders to the Federal Election Commission.
In the 2018 election cycle, Pacronym received the bulk of its funding ($2 million) from the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, a political nonprofit led by Obama’s first attorney general, Eric Holder. Acronym and Pacronym were largely focused on state legislative races during that cycle.
Pacronym also got $300,000 from Acronym and $50,000 from Dollar Shave Club CEO Michael Dubin, who was an Acronym board member as of mid-2018. Dubin is also on the board of Papa John’s, a company with a rightwing CEO who opposes LGBTQ rights and has co-founded free-market academic centers with the Charles Koch Foundation.
Since 2017, the National Democratic Redistricting Committee has received six- or seven-figure amounts from 23 donors, most of whom are unions or corporate executives, according to Sludge’s review of IRS documents. Billionaire hedge fund manager George Soros ($2.6 million) and media executive Fred Eychaner ($1.5 million) sit atop the funders, while unions American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME; $572,000), Air Line Pilots Association PAC ($300,000), and Service Employees International Union COPE ($200,000) have also contributed large sums.
Donors to Pacronym Funder NDRC, 2017-June 2019
Twelve donors have given the National Democratic Redistricting Committee $200,000 or more since 2017.
Kod:
Employer/Job Amount
George Soros Soros Fund Management $2,600,000
Fred Eychaner Newsweb Corporation $1,500,000
United Food And Commercial Workers Union ABC $1,350,000
AFSCME $572,105
S. Donald Sussman Paloma Partners $500,000
James C. Hormel Equidex $300,000
Air Line Pilots Association PAC $300,000
Martha S. Samuelson Analysis Group $275,000
SEIU COPE $200,000
Jon Stryker Architect $200,000
Donald Mullen, Jr. Pretium Partners $200,000
Anne G. Earhart Investor $200,000
https://readsludge.com/2019/11/06/whos-behind-dems-new-75-million-ad-campaign/
Wow! Den såg man inte komma!