Editorials

Billionaire Ballot Bandits

Greg Palast - Articles - Sat, 2024-04-27 20:11

They're stealing it again.

In 2000, my team uncovered how Katherine Harris illegally purged thousands of African-Americans from Florida's voter rolls.

In 2004, for BBC, we uncovered the Karl Rove GOP "caging scheme" that swiped that election.

In 2008, we uncovered, for Rolling Stone and BBC, with co-investigator Bobby Kennedy, the GOP attack on voters who lost their homes to foreclosure.

This year, there's a new danger: Behind the election games are billionaires Super-PAC-ing the ballot box.

But we have something they fear: deep file cabinets filled with confidential information on the billionaires behind Restore Our Future and other PAC-rats.

(We broadcast the first investigative report of the Koch Brothers in 1996. And they're not the worst. We MUST get this information out and soon.)

Now, our team is prepared to dig in again, to write about and to film the scams against our civil rights -- and this time, we have TV networks and major print outlets ready to take our reports.

BUT, they can't finance the basic detective work that gives our reports their powerful weight of undeniable facts.

For that, we count on you.

Please, right now, make a tax-deductible donation to the Palast Investigative Fund for our Billionaires and Ballots investigation.
If you join up with us to help fund the completion of our investigation, for your tax-deductible donation, we'll be happy to send you, in thanks:

- $150 - The Billionaires & Ballots Pack: includes a signed copy of Palast's latest, highly acclaimed book, Vultures' Picnic, the Election Files DVD and 5 copies of the Steal Back Your Vote comic plus the new Elections Games film when released. - $75 - Get two DVDs: Election Files and Palast Investigates: from 8-Mile to the Amazon (which includes the 2008 election shenanigans), both signed by Palast - $25 - Get 5 print copies of Steal Back Your Vote: The Graphic Election Guide (one SIGNED by Greg Palast).

Would you consider becoming an Associate Producer (minimum donation $500) or an Executive Producer (minimum donation $1000) of our film on the election games of 2012?

Producers will get a film credit, a dozen signed copies of the new Election Games: Billionaires and Ballots DVD and companion book when released in July. And copies of the book, film, and comic book election guides to the activist or civil rights group of your choice (we have suggestions).

We have lots of film from all over the USA already in the can. We have the files on the billionaire boys club. What we need are the funds to complete the work to get it on the air, into the hands of policy-makers, voters, the voting rights movement and waiting media outlets.

We don't come to you often. Now is the moment.
And we can't tell you how much we appreciate your support.

Yours,
Greg Palast and the team

****

Greg Palast is the author of Vultures' Picnic: In Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates and High-Finance Carnivores, released in the US and Canada by Penguin.

You can read Vultures' Picnic, "Chapter 1: Goldfinger," or download it, at no charge: click here.

Support the Palast Investigative Fund and keep our work alive.
Subscribe to Palast's Newsletter and podcasts.
Follow Palast on Facebook and Twitter.

GregPalast.com

ShareThis

Romney's Michigan Coalition

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2024-04-27 20:11
Identifying the voters who helped Romney win Michigan.


The Dependency Crisis

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2024-04-27 20:11
OUTSIDE THE BOX By Pete du Pont More Americans live off government, and the Obama administration is encouraging the trend.


Romney's Rebound

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2024-04-27 20:11
He won in Michigan on the economy.


Lawrence Lindsey: Geithner and the 'Privilege' of Being American

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2024-04-27 20:11
The Founders argued that life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness were rights that preceded government—not things to be granted by it.


Jenkins: Conservatives and the Mandate

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2024-04-27 20:11
ObamaCare is a specific instance of a broader truth about America's health-care policy: It's grossly regressive.


Max Boot: Afghans Don't Hate America

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2024-04-27 20:11
They also don't want a return of the Taliban, despite the recent protests over the burning of Qurans.


The Values Clash With China

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2024-04-27 20:11
Beijing's support for dictators is rooted in its domestic ideology.


The Other GM Bailout

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2024-04-27 20:11
The $18 billion tax gift Obama didn't mention.


Protecting Endangered Farmers

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2024-04-27 20:11
A tale of modern California.


Ruth Wisse: Harvard's Latest Assault on Israel

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2024-04-27 20:11
Promoting the Jewish State's destruction at a school dedicated to 'democratic governance.'


Sallie Krawcheck: Money-Market Funds Aren't What You Think

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2024-04-27 20:11
As recently as last summer, the largest ones averaged 45% of their investments in European bank paper, with one major player at just under 70%.


John Kerry: The Conservative Case for Foreign Aid

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2024-04-27 20:11
Reagan knew that diplomacy and development policy neutralize threats before they become crises.


Notable & Quotable

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2024-04-27 20:11
Joel Kotkin and Shashi Parulekar on America's demographic and therefore economic advantage.


Best of the Web Today: Unthinkable Thoughts

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2024-04-27 20:11
How feminism deforms intellectual culture.


The Man in the Middle

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2024-04-27 20:11
"Walther Rathenau" tells the story of a prominent industrialist and statesman whose assassination marked a turning point in the turbulent life of the Weimar Republic.


Rubio's Early VP Vetting

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2024-04-27 20:11
The Florida senator is an attractive GOP running mate, so it's especially important that he disclose any surprises now—however small.


Syndicate content