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2006-11-06 Home Front: Politix
Ohio Democrats commit public fraud in attemt to disrupt GOP GOTV
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Posted by OldSpook 2006-11-06 14:46|| || Front Page|| [11130 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Eric Vessels, aka Plunderbund aka InsidePaint.com aka Shakblog, has a Saudi Connection.

Whether it is merely a legitimate business, or something more should be approached with all due diligence. Many people do business with Saudi Arabia; however, it seems a little interesting when that person doing business is a Democratic Operative trying to block a GOP "Get Out the Vote" effort... [Link]

Vessels who is a democratic party precinct official in Columbus Ohio, is listed on the Saudi Site "Saudi Commerce" which lists it's purpose as "matching buyers and sellers".

The contact is clearly Eric Vessels, with his phone number, home address and name listed.

The site to which Saudi commerce links is Eric Vessel's "Shak Blog", where he sells pens made of bamboo. There, he lists his name and contact info. ... [Link]

One Shakblog page directs you to "alternate payments". There one can find the information for payment: [Link]

It is the same contact information for Eric Vessels as the Democratic Party website lists...

In the interest of fairness, I went to pull up what other sites may be linked to shakblog for business. In addition to Shakblog Contact info and a plea for bamboo boxes listed in Arabic on Trade Key,

I found this information linking the Shakblog paypal account to Plunderbund...

[Link]

[Link 2]

Appreciate very much! [Link 3]

I asked the same question a couple days ago. Just delete the hard returns after each line of the form. Example:




should look like this:

[Link]

I'm trying to put up paypal code and it all works fine, but there is some excessive space I can't seem to get rid of. It would be great if I could get some feedback. I'm using a page for this and not a post.

Page is [Link]

I put up the same exact code from Paypal here to show the difference. Spacing not a problem here: [Link]

In truth, the man may very well be merely doing business with the Saudis, or just looking for it. Shakblog/Plunderbund/Eric Vessels is certainly a very busy man and I commend him for his beautiful pens - evidently, they are in high demand in the Middle East. However, I am not as sanguine about that little voter intimidation issue...
AoS note at 1615 CST: Embedded the links so as not to hose our formatting.
Posted by OldSpook 2006-11-06 15:07||   2006-11-06 15:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Hmm,

The perp is now Claiming it was a joke gone bad. Now a Hoax. Now just kidding.


Jon Carry izzat U?
Posted by OldSpook 2006-11-06 15:10||   2006-11-06 15:10|| Front Page Top

#3 They tracked down the ownerhip, and the (self-described) hosting service owner posted this to Freep.

It's time this mess got cleared up.

I'm Paul Ackerman, one of the two partners from Linwood Campaign Services.

Ryan Fissel is my business partner and he does own Chromahost, but it exists pretty much as a hosting company for our campaign consulting business.

Buckeye State Blog began to be hosted at Chromahost in February of this year once it became a statewide blog dedicated to Ohio Progressive Politics.

Russell Hughlock (who is NOT Russell Walters) runs Buckeye State Blog, we do not.

Russell, based on what I've leared since I started hearing about this at 6:15am this morning, is running some sort of hoax trying to get into your heads.

Frankly, I don't care if he thinks it was successful or not, he's an idiot and has been told repeatedly, and forcefully, to own up to this pathetic joke.

He hasn't so we are now doing so. Tom at Bizzyblog has posted Ryan's response and I'm posting this now.

The fun part was calling all of our current clients to let them know that people on the Internet was lumping them together in some sort of keystone cops plot. And the hardest part was telling my wife, Jean Herendeen Ackerman, about this.

You see, she ran and lost by 68 votes in the primary (on May 2nd ... the January 15th reference was LAST January 15th) for state representative. Ryan Fissel acted as her campaign manager.

Russell Hughlock and I aren't exactly on speaking terms right now.
Posted by OldSpook 2006-11-06 15:12||   2006-11-06 15:12|| Front Page Top

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