Sarah Palin has two fund-raising organizations. SarahPAC is her political action committee, and the Alaska Fund Trust (AFT) is the official legal defense fund set up for Alaska's governor and staff members named in complaints filed by her political opponents. While SarahPAC has received a great deal of media attention, AFT has not. What coverage it did receive only lasted for a few days and then tapered off. The legal debt remains and is actually still accumulating as her enemies look for new ways to hit her with even more of their frivolous complaints. Money cannot be legally transferred from SarahPAC to AFT, so it's up to Sarah's supporters to make some noise and raise some cash. This is a great opportunity for the grassroots movement behind Sarah Palin's popularity to flex its muscles.
C4P decided to sponsor a Webathon from June 15 – 22, 2009, and other blogs and bloggers are joining with our "ordinary barbarian" colleagues to make it a success and give a big boost to AFT. Simply follow the instructions in the "Grassroots Webathon" banner to the right. Please remember to report your donation so there will be an accurate account of how much the grassroots movement was able to contribute. If we can make a difference, it will demonstrate that there's no limit to what the grassroots can do. Even better, just imagine the look on the ankle-biters' faces when they realize that their campaign to take down Gov. Palin had the opposite effect and only made support for her stronger and better organized. Each person who joins the Webathon ruins another ankle-biter's week. Let's do it!
- JP
Hi Josh: Great announcement post. But the dateline seems a bit off. Or did you do that on purpose?
ReplyDeleteYes, hrh, I did that so that the Webathon post would stay at the top and not get pushed down the page by more recent posts.
ReplyDeleteBlogger allows you to change the date on a post after you post it. You have to edit the post, then click on "Post options" in the lower left of the edit window frame. This causes a small window in which you can change post date and time to pop to the lower right of the edit window frame.
- JP
Thanks for the tip. I may do that on my blog as the week goes on. :)
ReplyDeleteJosh:
ReplyDeleteThe video is not working well for me. It doesn't work well even on C4P website. Any suggestions in what I need to do to make it go without stalling, go alittle bit and stall again. I do have DSL.
Thanks.
I don't know, Betsy. The video plays just fine for me.
ReplyDeleteIt could be your browser and/or the way memory is being allocated by your computer causing the problem. Sometimes even DSL slows down, especially if a large number of users of the same service are located in the same area.
- JP
I donate a little this morning--no indication that I did.
ReplyDeleteWhere is the money actually going?
To the Alaska Fund Trust, the Governor's defense fund. It's in Anchorage, I think.
ReplyDelete- JP
The money goes to the actual fund which has not posted any information about the amount donated. Some day they will.
ReplyDeleteThe webathon is c4p encouraging people to donate to the actual fund. c4p is a blog unconnected to the fund except as supporters. A fan site, sort of.
The number posted on c4p is the amount that people say they donated to the actual fund - if you tell c4p. There is no need to tell them.
I gave and emailed the data to c4p to support the fund, and c4p's effort to support the fund.
c4p has an amount on their site. t4p's image is not linked to the updated image so it still shows 0.
So far, one day, one update in the evening.
$54,645 now. A nice start. Far better than 0.
The $500,000 billed is also an old amount.
More may be needed.
A sizable balance might discourage frivolous attacks so I hope there is enough to pay all bills and cover many more.
The maximum gift limit is very low so it will take lots and lots of people giving a little.
These are the official Sarah approved entities.
http://www.thealaskafundtrust.com/
See also: http://www.sarahpac.com/