Move over Moveon.org!

[12 12 2000]

Check out this sleazy, mis-directing and 'subliminable' advertisement that's airing in Iowa by a group, Grassfire.org, that's supposedly grass roots conservative that has come into being to counteract moveon.org.


<http://www.icglobalcentral.com/grassfire/>

[BurtWorm]

1. I'll bet Scaife money is involved.

Or maybe even RNC.

[Myra]

7. Yeah. Scrooge McDuck's web prints are all over this one.

If it walks like a Scrooge McDuck and talks like a Scrooge McDuck...

[laura888]

9. what's Scaife money? n/t

[NJCher]

10. Richard Mellon Scaife

Bankrolled the Clinton witchhunts, for one.


Cher

p.s. on edit, you can go to Democrats.com and poke around there and get the whole background on Scaife.

[BurtWorm]

12. Richard Mellon Scaife, of the Pittsburgh Mellon family

is a right-wing wacko with lots of money. He's the sugar daddy for the Heritage Foundation, The American Spectator and its Arkansas Project, Judicial Watch and many, many, many other right wing conspiracy groups.

[lostnfound]

19. Webmaster "committed suicide" in Scaife's 39th floor bathroom..

Steve Kangas, the webmaster, was believed to have been writing a book about Scaife.

[Catherine Vincent]

2. They're just trying to justify what they are doing to Iraq.

It ain't goanna work.

[laura888]

3. moveon.org is successful becaue their cause is successful

you gotta have some bait to lure people to a website

[SoCalDem]

4. Here's their FAQ link..

http://www.grassfire.org/

[Robin Hood]

5. Ummm?... What about them WMD's?

A dictator is not the reason why we bombed the fuck out of those people. There's plenty of dickhead dictators out there that are worst that Hussein. Why aren't we toppling them? What? They got no oil you say?

[Cooley Hurd]

6. Pathetic...

This'll turn into another "yearly-updated" blog.

[BurtWorm]

8. They're actually part of the Roy's Commandments crowd

so maybe Scaife is not involved.


http://www.renewamerica.us/commandments/rallies.htm

October 10, 2003
GrassFire.net

CARAVAN CONCLUDES TOUR WITH THE PROMISE OF ACTION!

Washington, DC?On Monday morning, the "Save the Commandments" caravan concluded its tour with a rousing news conference and rally that culminated in the delivery of 384,000 citizen petitions supporting the public display of the Ten Commandments.

...

At one point during the rally, president of Grassfire.net, Steve Elliott, announced the final total of the petitions that were gathered, explaining that the original goal of 250,000 was shattered by nearly 150,000! "This issue isn't over with this delivery," said Elliott, "it?s just beginning!"

Following the rally, camera crews clamored for position as a number of citizens hoisted boxes of the petitions and ushered them to the main entrance of the court in a dramatic citizen-led display!

"I?m so encouraged by these petitions," said Elliott. "People are fed up with the secularist agenda of the court, and this is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of what Grassfire intends to do in coming months to pressure our leaders and court justices into returning to the moral foundation of law in our society!"

[alexwcovington]

11. LOL

:P

[bitchkitty]

13. What's that smell?

Could it be the stench of fear?

[Patriot_Spear]

14. We need to find out where their money is coming from.

Reveal a corporate hand and 'grassfire' will become 'mis-fire'.

[Eric J in MN]

15. The original is the best. Keep it going by

The original is the best. Keep it going by making a small donation, and/or by spreading this link around the internet (post on other websites, send to your friends, etc.):

http://www.moveonvoterfund.org/

The Move On Voter Fund.

[DieboldMustDie]

16. Gee! They neglected to mention...

that most of these crimes were committed with at least the tacit support of Reagan, Rummsfeld, Poppy et al.   It must be just an oversight though. :grr:

[CalebHayes]

17. They can have talk radio...

But the Internet is ours. That is why this will never work.

[Coldgothicwoman]

18. This group dates back to 2000

Here is the page I got from their sponsor, grassfire.net, owned by Steve Elliot of The Elliot Group.

http://www.grassfire.net/images/myGrassfire/faq.asp#Q2

Contact information is listed in the WHOIS of grassfire.net from www.networksolutions.com

:)

[ExDeaniacForClark]

20. great name

grassfire: burning the roots one ad at a time.