A Campaign To Protect Our Elections From Dirty Tricks And Dirty Money
Karl Rove created American Crossroads to continue his 40-year history of unfairly manipulating elections on behalf of oligarchs. He joined with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a cabal of corporate barons, and other CEOs that want Big Business to control our elections and our government. Rove’s group plans to amass more than $50 million from companies making secret donations, and spend that money to influence elections and buy candidates who will act on behalf of those companies and their deregulatory policies. These same polices brought us Enron, the collapse of Wall Street banks, Bernie Maddoff, Jack Abramoff, the Gulf oil spill, the recent coal mining disasters, and the corporate controlled Supreme Court.
We are fighting back on behalf of the 87 percent of Americans who do not want corporations to buy politicians and control our government. We are here to tell Karl Rove to keep his dirty politics and dirty money out of our elections. We are here to tell candidates to reject everything about Rove and American Crossroads. We are here to expose this corporate oligarchy of elite insiders who act with little or no regard for constitutional protections.
We need your help!
Politifact: Fact-checking the new Crossroads GPS ad
-By Angie Drobnic Holan
May 17, 2012- An ad from Crossroads GPS attacks President Obama for broken promises, with each broken promise shattering the display of an iPad-like tablet computer.
"President Obama’s agenda promised so much," the ad says, then recounts Obama’s promises on foreclosures, taxes, health care and the deficit.
Crossroads, a group backed by Republican strategist Karl Rove, said the ad is part of $25 million advocacy initiative and will run in 10 states, including Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
Crossroads is not a super PAC, but a 501(c)4. It does not have to disclose its donors.
We’re checking several claims from this ad. Today, we start with the following claims:
Huffington Post: Crossroads GPS Argues Ads Attacking Candidates Aren't Political (Video)
-By Dan Froomkin & Paul Blumenthal
May 7, 2012- WASHINGTON -- Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies, the political ad-buying organization cofounded by Republican strategist Karl Rove in 2010, has officially submitted its first tax forms with the Internal Revenue Service, and as expected, the group is formally requesting that the IRS treat it as a nonprofit operating under section 501(c)(4) of the tax code.
American Crossroads: "Cool"
AMERICAN CROSSROADS ATTACK AD:
Media Matters: 24 Hours Of Fox News' Karl Rove Problem
-by Ben Dimiero & Eric Hananoki
April 27, 2012- Fox News continues to find new ethical lines to cross during this election cycle.
Yesterday morning, the Karl Rove-backed Super PAC American Crossroads released an ad attacking President Obama as the "celebrity president." During an appearance this morning on America's Newsroom Republican strategist Brad Blakeman labeled the ad a "success" because "Karl has gotten more earned media than the amount he invested in the ad." This is due, in no small part, to the help of Rove's colleagues at Fox News.
