Murphy Right to Rise

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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; line-height: 1.4; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In January 2010, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations could spend unlimited amounts of dough on political activities, so long as it’s done independent of a party or candidate. (As an aside, we’d like you to know that you can contribute as much as you want to the ProPublica snack cache. We would never be influenced by money, or pretzels, but I know investigative reporters on full stomachs are more likely to investigate that thing you are sure is important but that everybody else thinks is lame. Just saying.) One of the concerns about the so-called “Citizens United” ruling was that foreign corporations would find ways to influence elections. And now they have. Japanese corporation Nintendo has ensured 30-and-under voting will be nonexistent at polling stations that don’t harbor a Pokemon. But also possibly of interest: An <a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/08/03/gop-lawyer-chinese-owned-company-us-presidential-politics/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; line-height: 1; color: rgb(34, 98, 204); text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">investigation</a> by The Intercept found that California-based investment company (it’s really hard to tell what it invests in beyond real estate) American Pacific International Capital Inc., owned by a Chinese couple, found a way to contribute $1.3 million to the Jeb Bush Super PAC Right to Rise USA. But, actually, so? That alone isn’t really the interesting part. Your three Ws:<h3 style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; line-height: 16px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">What is the interesting part?</h3><div class="sidebar-inject" style="margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; line-height: 16px; float: left; z-index: 2; background: white;" /><div class="callout-ad ad" id="google-callout" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; line-height: 16px; clear: none; float: right; z-index: 2; width: 150px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; line-height: 1.4; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Well, according to The Intercept, that the contribution may well have violated the law, which bars foreign owners from any involvement in the political donation decision-making of their U.S.-based companies. According to a <a href="https://theintercept.com/document/2016/08/03/right-to-rise-usa-memo-on-foreign-owned-corporations-donating-to-super-pacs/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; line-height: 1; color: rgb(34, 98, 204); text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">memo</a> obtained by The Intercept, the Chinese owners were following a strategy laid out for them by a politically powerful American lawyer. (The lawyer told The Intercept that his memo was meant “to ensure compliance with the law.”) But actually, that’s still not the most interesting part.<h3 style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; line-height: 16px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">What, for goodness sake, is the most interesting part?</h3><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; line-height: 1.4; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">To me, the most interesting part is how one of the Chinese owners — Gordon Tang — offered an Intercept reporter 200,000 dollars (not sure what country’s dollars he meant) if she didn’t mention unverified claims on Chinese-language websites that accused him of criminal activity. (It’s also interesting that the reporter <a href="https://vimeo.com/177295919/7a27b09b32" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; line-height: 1; color: rgb(34, 98, 204); text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">recorded</a> the convo.)<h3 style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; line-height: 16px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">What’s most important, though?</h3><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; line-height: 1.4; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Overall, the multi-part Intercept investigation is basically the first, published, step-by-step account of how the <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: oblique; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; line-height: 1; background: transparent;">Citizens United ruling allows foreign-owned businesses to use domestic companies or subsidiaries to attempt to influence the American political process. Am I worried about that? I dunno, there’s a Pokemon under my desk, so I can’t pay attention right now.<h3 style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; line-height: 16px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">They Said It</h3><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; line-height: 1.4; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“I don’t even know why you want to be a reporter, reporters make so little money.” — Gordon Tang, to the reporter he offered money. I’m sure she hadn’t thought of that.158 families<h4 id="subhead-4" class="story-subheading story-content" data-para-count="13" data-total-count="2518" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.8125rem; font-weight: 300; margin: 33px 0px 14px 135px; width: 532px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mystery Money</h4><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="895" data-total-count="3413" itemprop="articleBody" id="story-continues-4" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px; line-height: 1.4375rem; width: 532px; max-width: 540px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Some of the largest donations came from donors whose backgrounds and occupations were difficult to determine from public records. A man named Chen Shu Te gave $500,000 to Right to Rise USA, a super PAC backing Mr. Bush, which told the Federal Election Commission that Mr. Chen lives in Hong Kong. But public records reveal almost nothing about him, or even if he is an American citizen. (Green card holders may contribute, but other foreign nationals may not.) Hundreds of thousands of dollars in other contributions came from limited liability corporations whose ownership is unclear. Among them is TH Holdings L.L.C., which shares a New York City office suite with Neuberger Berman, an investment management firm headed by a cousin of Mr. Bush’s. More than a dozen of the firm’s other employees or executives have given to Mr. Bush’s campaign or the super PAC, but under their own names.=Michael Ellis MurphyBorn: <a href="http://www.nndb.com/lists/961/000105646/" class="proflink" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">1962</a>
Birthplace: <a href="http://www.nndb.com/geo/481/000069274/" class="proflink" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">Detroit, MI</a>
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publicans have long struggled to catch-up to Democrats on high-tech voter outreach as well as courting younger voters. Jeb Bush may have found a way to kill two birds with one stone.

The former Florida governor has tapped the co-founder of Hipster.com as his chief technology officer, according to his LinkedIn profile. Ethan Czahor, a Santa Monica-based technologist, will run the preparations for Bush’s presidential run at his political action committee, Right to Rise.

Last week Czahor developed the microsite jebspeech.com, which accompanied Bush’s address to the Detroit Economic Club domain registration records show.

Hidden in the website code was a message to would-be Bush coders: “Want to work on the greatest political tech stack ever created?”

Right to Rise PAC

Czahor served as the CTO of Ready to Win, the for-profit company founded by investor and former J. Crew CEO Dick Boyce to boost the Republican Party’s technological efforts before the 2016 presidential campaign.

He co-founded the short-lived local Q&A and photo-sharing site Hipster.com, which was purchased by AOL in 2012. He also was the vice president of engineering at The Honest Company, the Jessica Alba-backed non-toxic diaper and consumer goods company.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_Rise Right to Rise is a political action committee (PAC) created to support Jeb Bush in the 2016 presidential election. A Super PAC, Right to Rise is permitted to raise and spend unlimited amounts of corporate, union, and individual campaign contributions under the terms of the Citizens United Supreme Court decision.[1] The creation of the Super PAC was announced on January 6, 2015 by Bush.[2] According to Bush, the name was inspired by Congressman Paul Ryan and 1996 Republican vice presidential candidate Jack Kemp.[2]Bush officially announced his candidacy in June 2015, at which point Mike Murphy took over leadership of Right to Rise.[3] Bush personally raised money for the Super PAC prior to the official announcement of his candidacy.[1] By August 2015, Right to Rise had raised over $100 million.[4] The Bush campaign plans to leave Right to Rise in charge of television and digital advertising efforts, while the Bush campaign will take charge of voter outreach.[1]Contributors[edit]The following contributors have donated over $1 million to Right to Rise.