Who Is The DCCC Selling Your Personal Information To?

You may not remember Dick Gephardt, once a powerful congressman from Missouri with ambitions to be Speaker and vice president and president. None of that worked out for him and he's just a sleazy K Street lobbyist now working for Goldman Sachs and other criminal enterprises… but he was the House Democratic leader from 1989 until 2003. A past chairman of the corrupt Wall Street-owned Democratic Leadership Council, the reason he sunk to that level is because he cosponsored, with Speaker Denny Hastert, the authorization for Bush to invade Iraq and persuaded 80 other House Dems (mostly Blue Dogs and Zionists-- Steve Israel included) to cross the aisle and vote with the Republicans. His deputy, Nancy Pelosi, led the normal Democrats against it. The next year Pelosi replaced him as Democratic leader. He decided to run for president, something that was never taken seriously outside the ridiculous and out-of-touch Beltway bubble.

Anyway, because of a mixup, every Democratic candidate looking at the list of top donors saw a contribution from me to the DNC for $50,000. (I never gave the DNC a dime.) So I started getting phone calls from every Democrat running for president. It's how I had the pleasure of making a raw vegan breakfast for Howard Dean at my house-- and learning about health care policy. But the bad Democrats called me too. One was Dick Gephardt. I was more polite and circumspect back then than I am now, so when he said he wanted to meet me, I didn't laugh in his face or hang up on him. (And, thanks, DNC for giving out my unlisted phone number.) Instead, I told him I was already backing Howard Dean. That didn't stop him and he insisted we get together in person. I told him I was aware of his voting record and that I follow that kind of thing the way normal people follow sports stats. And that he had way too many strike-outs for me. He still insisted. So, foolishly, I agreed to meet him. He brought sleazy Democratic Establishment operative (now Governor) Terry McAuliffe and I forgot about being polite. It didn't end well.

I challenge anyone to read just one week of DWT posts from the last 9 years and not walk away knowing what I think of conservatives, be they Republicans, teabaggers, fascists, Birchers, Blue Dogs, New Dems… whatever they want to call themselves. Who in their right mind would contact me if they're a conservative? And yet, almost every day, I get e-mails from DCCC-backed conservative Democrats asking for money. How strange is that? I even turn some of those e-mails into posts denouncing the corporate whores who sent them. But they keep coming-- even from DCCC candidates who I've written about over and over and urged people to vote against.

One particularly clueless DCCC candidate, empty-suit Pete Aguilar, who Blue America is working hard to defeat, sends me the most content-less and insipid e-mails of anyone. How did this idiot get my e-mail address? He's so stupid and incompetent that he actually managed to lose last year to two Republicans in a D+5 district, the only Democrat in America who managed to do anything like that. The only Republicans in blue districts are David Valadao (D+2), Frank LoBiondo (D+1), Chris Gibson (D+1) and Mike Coffman (D+1). And then there's the San Bernardino/Inland Empire D+5 seat Aguilar and Steve Israel lost in 2012. So, of course, Israel, responding to the clear message from voters that they can't relate to Aguilar in any way, recruited him to run again.

And as it turns out, when the DCCC, endorses a candidate, two of the first things it does is to make their candidate hire some overpriced, often clueless Beltway consultants and then buy the DCCC call list. You know all those petitions the DCCC is always asking everyone to sign? "Sign on so we can tell John Boehner… whatever." Obviously, Boehner has no interest in their bogus petitions and I would bet they never get delivered in any case. All those petition drives are just a fundraising tool to get your name and e-mail address, not only so they can ask you for contributions but also so they can sell your name and e-mail to whoever will pay-- klutzes like Aguilar, of course. But these DCCC lists get around quite a bit. I can't prove that the DCCC itself sells them to non-Jump start candidates, but some of their shady consultants sure do. This week, one of the 2012 candidates told me suddenly his relatives and personal friends, who were on his donor list, started getting e-mails from another candidate. It wasn't that hard to trace it right back to a sleazy DCCC operative-- even though the DCCC itself never even endorsed this candidate and, of course, refused to share any donor lists with him. Word to the wise: until the DCCC gets rid of Steve Israel, this isn't an operation you should even think of trusting with any personal information… ever. Don't say I didn't warn you.