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Paid per signature, mystery money appears for recall effort (against pro-gun-safety CO Democrats)
If you can't win at the ballot box, try the checkbook:
Over the last few weeks, we've been talking about the incipient recall campaigns against several Colorado legislators in the wake of passage of gun safety legislation this year. There hasn't been much good to report on the recall campaigns so far, with public leaders and visible organizing efforts both revealing themselves to be, to put it charitably, less than ready for prime time. Our assessment of the potential success in getting any of these recall campaigns on the ballot has been pretty dim up to now.
That's about to change.
We've just learned that one of the most prominent (and ethically questionable) petition signature gathering firms in Colorado, Kennedy Enterprises, has been hired to take over petition drives for some or all of the recall campaigns presently underway. This new development has not yet been reflected in spending disclosure forms, but should be public knowledge in the next week. It's not known yet which of the recall campaigns that have been filed will be taken over by Kennedy, but this represents a major development: an outside capitalization by unknown funders of what had been an amateur and disorganized effort....
...Here is what we have been tipped to so far on Kennedy's involvement in these recall campaigns: as in 2008 and 2010, they are not conducting background checks of any kind on job applicants, who are being hired as independent contractors.
Signature gatherers are reportedly working on a tiered pay plan, where the earnings of $1.00 per signature can increase up to $2.50 or more per signature depending on the total number gathered. That high payout per signatures means that Kennedy Enterprises will make many thousands of dollars for any of these recall campaigns, and it means whoever is paying for this has little regard for the cost.
Read More: http://coloradopols.com/diary/41248/breaking-mystery-recall-money-arrives-paid-drive-begins
That's about to change.
We've just learned that one of the most prominent (and ethically questionable) petition signature gathering firms in Colorado, Kennedy Enterprises, has been hired to take over petition drives for some or all of the recall campaigns presently underway. This new development has not yet been reflected in spending disclosure forms, but should be public knowledge in the next week. It's not known yet which of the recall campaigns that have been filed will be taken over by Kennedy, but this represents a major development: an outside capitalization by unknown funders of what had been an amateur and disorganized effort....
...Here is what we have been tipped to so far on Kennedy's involvement in these recall campaigns: as in 2008 and 2010, they are not conducting background checks of any kind on job applicants, who are being hired as independent contractors.
Signature gatherers are reportedly working on a tiered pay plan, where the earnings of $1.00 per signature can increase up to $2.50 or more per signature depending on the total number gathered. That high payout per signatures means that Kennedy Enterprises will make many thousands of dollars for any of these recall campaigns, and it means whoever is paying for this has little regard for the cost.
Read More: http://coloradopols.com/diary/41248/breaking-mystery-recall-money-arrives-paid-drive-begins
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