his website MillionsOfAmericans.com and his mailing list in March, 2004?
Mar 10, 2004
An important message from Bruce Eberle to MillionsOfAmericans.com Activists
I have some good news for you. As someone who opted-in to receive communications from www.millionsofamericans.com you have been receiving regular updates on conservative and Republican issues from me. You're one of nearly 250,000 patriotic Americans who have opted into the MOA web site and have taken action on behalf of important conservative projects and programs.
The good news is that www.millionsofamericans.com is now combining forces with www.gopusa.com to bring you even better reports and news on hot conservative topics. Bobby Eberle (of what you might call the "Texas branch" of the Eberle clan) founded www.gopusa.com several years ago. With news sources across the nation and in key places, Bobby Eberle has created one of the best outlets for conservative news and insight in the nation and today www.gopusa.com has some 50,000 opt-in subscribers.
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Did Bruce decide to join ranks with Bobby and merge websites? Bruce's site and mailing list has got to be worth a fair bit of money.
So did Bobby buy this site and list from Bruce? Or did Bruce just suddenly feel like being a generous guy and just hand this stuff to Bobby out of the kindness of his heart? Either way there must have been some money transacted? Is Bruce Eberle the money man behind GOPUSA and Jeff Gannon?
Here's some info about Bruce. Bruce goes way back and seems to have been involved in all sort of stuff over the years. I think there is a lot of dirt to uncover here.
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Eberle, who got his start raising money for Ronald Reagan in the mid-1970s, describes his company as "one of the oldest and largest direct-mail fund-raising operations in America." In 1999, his firms mailed more than 40 million solicitation letters, mostly on behalf of conservative causes.
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Eberle's fund-raising activities have also drawn repeated charges of ethical misconduct, the most notorious of which was a campaign in the 1980s that used phony prisoner-of-war sightings to solicit money from veterans for former Air Force Col. Jack Bailey's
"Operation Rescue," which claimed to be on the verge of saving American POWs still being held in Vietnam. One solicitation took the form of a "handwritten letter" signed by Bailey, who claimed to be writing from aboard his rescue ship, the Akuna III. "Please excuse the handwriting. But I'm writing at a makeshift desk on the deck of the Akuna III," the letter read. "The China sea is tossing and rolling." In reality, the letter had been written by Eberle, not by Bailey, and the Akuna III (which was not even seaworthy) had been docked for more than two years.
Eberle's direct mail appeals enabled Bailey's group to raise $2.2 million between 1985 and 1995, of which 88% was actually spent on "fund-raising expenses" instead of rescue missions (and of course, no rescue mission ever actually succeeded in rescuing anyone). When these facts surfaced during a Senate committee hearing, the revelations prompted outrage from Vietnam veterans on the committee including John Kerry, who termed the operation "fraudulent, disingenous and grotesque."
Republican Senator John McCain offered similar sentiments. "In my opinion they are criminals and some of the most craven, most cynical and most despicable human beings to ever run a scam," McCain said. "They have preyed on the anguish of families, and helped to turn an issue which should unite all Americans into an issue that often divides us."
Eberle simply shrugged off these charges, claiming to have "one of the highest reputations for integrity in the business."
(Thanks to theorist for the link on the Bruce Eberle story)
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