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<h1 class="diaryTitle"><a class="diaryTitle" href="http://www.bluehampshire.com/diary/10942/sean-mahoneys-million-dollar-investment"> Sean Mahoney's Million Dollar Investment </a><a href="http://www.bluehampshire.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=4CF1BF690E7D075CA1D5F0C9DFB1CEAF?diaryId=10942" class="diaryTitle"> </a></h1>

<h2 class="author">by: <a href="http://www.bluehampshire.com/user/Kathy%20Sullivan%202"> Kathy Sullivan 2</a></h2>

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<p><i>( - promoted by Dean Barker</i>)

In today's Times, there is an excellent story about Americans for Job Security, the secretive political operation that gets away with spending millions on political ads without disclosing the source of its funds by expoliting weaknesses and loopholes in campaign finance laws, and also because neither the FEC nor the IRS are diligent in enforcing the laws regarding campaign finance and poltiical activity by "non-profits".</p>

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David Carney is a long time "consultant" to AJS, so he is prominently mentioned. Something I didn't know about Carney is that he is a principle of Crossroads Media, a political media company. I had never heard of Crossroads, but thought, hmm, Carney was a consultant to Sean Mahoney, Mahoney did lots of tv ads but little grassroots activity. Coincidence?

If you look at Mahoney's July quarterly report at the FEC website, Mahoney paid Crossraods Media, as of the end of June, $336,000 for advertising.  In addition, he paid Norway Hill, another of Carney's companies, nearly $20,000 in fees. This does not include anything spent starting on July 1, 2010, and if you were watching tv in the last four weeks before the primary, you know that Sean Mahoney was buying a lot of tv time.</p>

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<h1 class="diaryTitle"><a class="diaryTitle" href="http://www.bluehampshire.com/diary/9565/sergeant-schultz-david-carney-patrick-hynes-ajs">Sergeant Schultz, David Carney, Patrick Hynes & AJS </a><a href="http://www.bluehampshire.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=4CF1BF690E7D075CA1D5F0C9DFB1CEAF?diaryId=9565" class="diaryTitle"> </a></h1>

<h2 class="author">by: <a href="http://www.bluehampshire.com/user/Kathy%20Sullivan%202"> Kathy Sullivan 2</a></h2>

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<td><i>( - promoted by Dean Barker</i>)

John DiStaso's follow up on the attack by Republican front group Americans for Job Security on Republican US Senate candidate Kelly Ayotte is fascinating for too many reasons, so I'll only pick up on a few.

<a href="http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=John+DiStaso%27s+Granite+Status%3a+Ayotte%2c+Lynch+hit+back+at+%27attack+group%27&articleId=2a49cc0f-e490-4972-8932-fa81e730e739">http://www.unionleader.com/art...</a>

<p>Kelly Ayotte called AJS "shady", with a "demonstrated record for false and sleazy attacks". Two prominent NH Republican strategists, long time Sununu family intimate David Carney and Republican operative Patrick Hynes, are involved with that shady organizaton: Carney as a consultant (and former e.d. of the group), and Hynes as a board member. But when it comes to the activities of AJS in their home state, Carney and Hynes are making like Sergeant Schultz.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34ag4nkSh7Q">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...</a>

Hynes denied having anything to do with the effort. Sort of. Hynes said, "The first I heard about this was in the Granite Status...I didn't have any decision making authority in this at all."  Hynes loves to parse statements by Democrats, so let's parse what Hynes just said.

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