James O’Keefe to pay $100K over ACORN sting

James O’Keefe to pay $100K over ACORN sting

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The ACORN sting was one of O’Keefe’s first and most successful operations, leading to a congressional prohibition on federal funding for ACORN that caused the group to collapse. But Juan Carlos Vera, a former employee whom O’Keefe and accomplice Hannah Giles secretly filmed in a California ACORN office, said the tape violated a state law against recording someone without their permission, so he sued the two conservative sting artists.

Giles settled this summer, but the suit against O’Keefe is still in federal court.

Now, according to documents obtained by Wonkette, Vera has agreed to drop the case against O’Keefe in exchange for $100,000 and acknowledgment from O’Keefe that the video did not include the fact that Vera had called the police during the sting. The settlement, dated Wednesday, adds that O’Keefe “regrets any pain suffered by Mr. Vera or his family.” He has 30 days to pay up.

In an email exchange with Salon, O’Keefe confirmed the settlement and said a statement was forthcoming.
It’s not the first time O’Keefe has run into legal trouble. He had felony charges against him dropped in relation to a sting targeting Louisiana Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu. He pleaded guilty to a lesser crime and was sentenced to three years probation.

Tea Party Response to State of the Union 2013: Rand Paul

Tea party aka America's party..Col. Allen West for President 2016

msnbc rachel maddow's comments on teabaggers

Am off this morning to the townhall meeting in Hazelwood. Wonder if any of the yellow teabaggers will be around. Kinda hope the yellows are there if truth be told

This is a union event and in the past in St. Louis, teabaggers gone after "soft targets". Today's affair will have many retired union folks, not the more timid old folks they are used to pushing around.

Enough said and folks should watch what Rachel has to say on the teabaggers:
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Note: far too much media attention given to "potential" violence by the teabaggers. These yellow dogs are candies, cowards that hide and showing up if cameras are rolling and they can push around folks. Shut off those cameras and the teabaggers scurry for cover like cockroaches.

Tea Party St. Louis twitter memo

This is from Firedup! Missouri and is "twitter" communications on tea party website:





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Keith on Countdown update St. Louis teabagger injury

St. Louis makes an honerable mention on Countdown today. Appears the teabagger injured has no insurance and collections being made:

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St. Louis Tea Part protesters in front of SEIU office argue with counter-protesters

SEIU headquarters in St. Louis was the scene yesterday of a demonstration by Tea baggers. A little hot weatherwise in St. Louis at noon, but these folks were out in force.

Tea Party folks got out a couple hundred protesters. SEIU got out a handful it appears with most of the counterdemonstrators coming from the liberal West End neighbors (looked like some Washington University folks, some whom live in neighborhood).

Sad about the SEIU and others, I warned them late Friday afternoon myself and left word with several folks. Guess no one in the offices when I left messages. Even sadder, no one appears to have organized a counter demonstration, fully knowing these teabaggers would respond to events of Thursday eveining . On the vids, one of the speakers ask "Where are they At?"; a valid question.

West end area is very liberal and from looking at the varied vids, these counter-demonstrators are the folks of the community; not SEIU folks. Speculation on my part.

In any case, Tea Party organized 200 or so folks in less than 24 hours to demonstrate with full press coverage (and folks posting vids on youtube and other sites). That is better than many union/social agency organizations can do and personally speaking, hats off to them for that feat of organizing.

SEIU is the largest union in the US with over 2 million members. They are part of the Change to Win (as opposed to the AFL-CIO). Teabaggers hitting SEIU headquarters with protests was a clever move on the Teabaggers for a variety of reasons. Will go over some of this politics next meeting if folks wish.

Note: After Obama victory many unions and other dismantled "rapid response" type systems. Perhaps this incident will cause a few to rebuild those response organizations.



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note: Tea Bagger's blog again is at: http://stlouisteaparty.com/

They are proclaimning a victory that one of the Senator's townhalls have been cancelled. At their calender site, they list another of Claire's townhalls; targeted for demonstration tuesday.
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Teabag demonstration against SEIU tomorrow

The following is of note: demonstration against SEIU planned for noon tomorrow.

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Demand Justice! Denounce Violence! Saturday at SEIU Office
by admin on August 7, 2009
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DATE: Saturday, August 8, 2009 (tomorrow)

TIME: Noon

LOCATION: SEIU Headquarters, 5585 Pershing Ave., Suite 130, St. Louis, MO 63112

The St. Louis Tea Party will hold a press conference and peaceable protest at SEIU Headquarters
5585 Pershing Ave., Suite 130, St. Louis, MO 63112 at Noon Saturday, August 8, 2009.


The protest is to demand justice for Kenneth Gladney, an African-American conservative who was brutally beaten by 4 individuals, at least 2 of whom were identified as SEIU representatives. The beatings included racial slurs and required hospitalization of Mr. Gladney.

As videos show, the attack was unprovoked and no one retaliated against the union thugs.

This attack followed hours of taunts and verbal assaults by SEIU and ACORN members upon citizens gathered to express their views under the First Amendment. We believe this brutal beating is part of an organized plan to suppress dissent to the Administration’s planned seizure of the medical industry in the United States.

Anyone who believes in non-violent protest, in the rule of law, in the right of black men and women to express conservative political views, in the right to peaceably assemble, to speak freely, and to petition Congress for a redress of grievances is invited to attend.

The Tea Party specifically requests the NAACP and the ACLU to come out in support of Kenneth Gladney’s rights which were trampled by these hooligans. We call on Representative Russ Carnahan to denounce the beating. We call on President Obama to denounce the beatings. We call on St. Louis County to prosecute the assailants to fullest extent of the law.

Teabaggers--St. Louis Missouri

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Teabaggers are going to do their stuff at the Russ rally in South county today. Their respective website is at: http://stlouisteaparty.com/

These folks intend to disrupt Carnahan and other dems across the state this month. Carnahan tops the list for potential disruptions by the way. Carnahan has also been targeted by Rush Lindbaugh.

Akin up north was cheered by these folks at a recient meeting. Wonder how they would like their "buddies" townhalls and meeting disrupted?

Personally speaking, Carnahan's have been good for the citizens of Missouri and although I do not agree 100% of the time with Russ; he is a pretty good representative and deserves a better crowd reception.

Picture from the teabagger's site.
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another clip from disruption on Claire's healthcare talk from youtube (Fox news clip):


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I wonder if these folks know that most citizens in Missouri believe their disruptions the work of cranks?

Acorn/teaparty demonstration last week

This is a snip of the demonstration and counter-protests in St. Louis at Senator's McCaskill's office last week.

Note: Soar 11-3 supports HR676 and consider the rest of the prosals lame in comparison. We would have attended, but supporting "lame" measures for such an important issue is not our cup of tea.



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