List of Diebold execs that contributed to bush campaign **UNBELIEVABLE**

here's a link to all the people in ohio that contributed to bush's campaign so far. do a search on diebold...you won't believe this. on second thought, i'll do the search for you....here's the current list (notice how walden o'dell tried to illegally give $4000 but he was refunded $2000):

D' AMICO, THOMAS R. MR.CANTON OH 4471809/03/2003 2000.00 DIEBOLD INC.23992052437

FRAZZITTA, BART MR.AKRON OH 4433306/26/2003 1000.00 DIEBOLD INC./VICE PRESIDENT23991418976

FRAZZITTA, BART MR.AKRON OH 4433309/29/2003 1000.00 DIEBOLD INC.23992053563

GESWEIN, GREGORY T. MR.BENTLEYVILLE OH 4402206/26/2003 2000.00 DIEBOLD INC./CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFIC23991419127

HILLOCK, JENNIFER L MRS.MASSILLON OH 4464608/27/2003 2000.00 DIEBOLD INC.23992054740

HILLOCK, MICHAEL JAMES MR.MASSILLON OH 4464606/26/2003 2000.00 DIEBOLD INTERNATIONAL INC./PRESIDE23991419667

INGRAM, LARRY DEAN MR.MASSILLON OH 4464606/26/2003 1000.00 DIEBOLD INC./VICE PRESIDENT OF GLO23991419860

INGRAM, LARRY DEAN MR.MASSILLON OH 4464609/15/2003 1000.00 DIEBOLD INC.23992055094

O' DELL, WALDEN W. MR.CANTON OH 4470806/12/2003 4000.00 DIEBOLD INC./CHAIRMAN23991421480

O' DELL, WALDEN W. MR.CANTON OH 4470808/08/2003 -2000.00 DIEBOLD INC.23992057764

SCHEURER, CHARLES B. MR.CANTON OH 4470808/27/2003 2000.00 DIEBOLD INC.23992060037

VAN CLEVE, JEFFREY J. MR.NORTH CANTON OH 4472006/26/2003 500.00 DIEBOLD CREDIT CORPORATION/VICE PR23991423135

VAN CLEVE, JEFFREY J. MR.NORTH CANTON OH 4472009/03/2003 1000.00 DIEBOLD CREDIT CORPORATION23992061413

PAGING ANDY STEPHENSON!! PAGING BEV HARRIS!! COME IN, SEATTLE...DO YOU COPY??

can you believe this is happening in our area? Is the local media aware of this?

if we look close enough, we'd probably find that the media people are contributing to chimpy's campaign as well.

Virtually every jounalist is savvy to FES public posting of data, so it appears they do not contribute.

However, media moguls do indeed contribute. Here's a few:

Rupert Murdoch
Sumner Redstone
Mel Karmazin
Robert Wright
Michael Eisner
Ted Turner

and for fun...
Hugh Hefner

anybody have more suggestions?

You know the influence of the Timken's. Good to hear from you.

William E Rosenberg
Corporate Development
Disbold, Inc. George W. Bush
$2,000 1597 Pilgrims Knob Se
North Canton, OH 44709



Judy Scheurer (wife of above, same address)
retired George W. Bush
$2,000 5377 Fitzjames Drive N W
Canton, OH 44708

I didn’t include Timmy Timken and wife. Tim is on the Board of Directors at Diebold. Add on another $4000 for the pair.

VAN CLEVE, JEFFREY J.
http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?city=North+Canton&st=OH&contributor=VAN+CLEVE

D' AMICO, THOMAS
http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?city=CANTON&st=OH&contributor=AMICO

FRAZZITTA, BART
http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?city=Akron&st=OH&contributor=FRAZZITTA%2C+BART

GESWEIN, GREGORY
http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?st=OH&contributor=GESWEIN%2C+GREGORY

HILLOCK, JAMES AND JENNIFER L
http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?city=MASSILLON&st=OH&contributor=HILLOCK

INGRAM, LARRY DEAN
http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?city=Massillon&st=OH&contributor=Ingram

O' DELL, WALDEN
http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?city=Canton&st=OH&contributor=Walden+Dell

SCHEURER, CHARLES B.
http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?city=CANTON&st=OH&contributor=SCHEURER

ES&S is Hagel's company..

Pretty sweet deal they have.. Completes the circle :(

nt

But it won't, since the republican owned corporte media also contributed to the Bush campaign.

that this type of information is out there. This should be private information.

Of course I would prefer people not be able to bribe (contribute) our candidates at all, but if this is the way it is, we should at least be able to know who's doing it.

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like opensecrets.org, and the fec, and every telemarketing firm on the planet. Face it, privacy doesn't exist in this world.

And it just because it's legal doesn't mean it's not bribery, it's just legal bribery. Politicians do things for groups that give them money, it's common knowledge. The fact that it's legal doesn't make it any more abhorent. In fact I think it proves the point quite well that this government belongs to those with the $$$s and no one else.

....then criminals like bush could take unlimited sums of money from criminals like the executives of diebold and nobody would know.

next question.

and how exactly will you know WHO is and is not following the law with out names?

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

...just think of all the cheating the republicans would get away with then.

what planet are you from?

we should scour the website in the link from my original post and we might find other voting machine company executives giving cash to the chimp.

is it even legal for the people that make the machines that count our votes to give money to a political party? seems to be some sort of collusion here.

I believe they are manufactured in ......................Texas!

... Texas, where some of the programming and testing is done, but the production facilities are in one of the Carolinas (NC, I think).

That was part of the hook that Diebold tried to use on the Ohio Sec. of State's office to get them to award the contract to Diebold--promising that production of Ohio's machines would be moved to Ohio--dangling a few temporary jobs in front of the Sec. of State.

Cheers.

and I cannot find most of my bookmarks.. I think ES&S is in Nebraska..but these people are probably entrenched in conglomerates, so the circle gets ever-wider.

California...

ES&S is in Nebraska

Hart Intercivic is in Austin

Vote Here is in Bellevue Wa.

The election is lost. I didn't believe it until today. There's no way that these people can remain objective when they have a strong commitment to the outcome of the election. If they won't permit paper ballots, then, dammit, let us examine the program code.

"then, dammit, let us examine the program code"

Don't even LET a corporation EVER write election program code. Congress should be chiefly responsible for it. NEVER a private corporation.

The government should be responsible for running the elections. I don't even like the fact that our polling areas are in country clubs and churches. That feels very one-sided too.

people are putting the info to good use. Anyone want to argue the above should be kept secret?

In fact, what suprises me more is they didn't give more.

if the people who wanted secret contributions had their way. They are legally limited on how much they can give.

I am sure.

They sure do. So we should just do nothing about it and make it easy for them?

At least this way they have to be damn careful and will be prosecuted if they are caught.

What makes this interesting is that this could be a case of corporate bundling...where a corporation or their management team decides to fund Bush..but are limited by law on individual contributions...so they bundle the cotnributions in $2K chunks.

Or it could be that old practice of "forced shakedown"...an old pratice where if you are a corporate executive you are 'expected' to contribute to the GOP. no matter what your personal political beliefs. I would be suprised this would be still going on as its sort of "1950s" thing. But then, Diebold is in Canton, where Beatlemania is just about to hit. ;-)

I know for a fact that defense contractors are being shaken down. I worked in one company where the owner was starting a pac and at a managerial meeting told us that we had to shake down the employees for contributions.

it's not showing up on my screen.

From Diebold CORPORATE

Go to http://www.opensecrets.org/indivs/index.asp and type Diebold in the LAST NAME and click all the years and hit search.

How the F*CK can a company that makes ELECTION equipment donate hundreds of thousands of dollars to ONE party?!?!?!?


And other soft money Diebold donations from individuals:
MAHONEY, ROBERT W
CANTON,OH 44708
DIEBOLD INC
6/30/2000
$15,000
Republican National Cmte

O'DELL, WALDEN W
NEW CANTON,OH 44720
DIEBOLD INC
1/30/2001
$3,950

RNC/Repub National State Elections Cmte
O'DELL, WALDEN W
NEW CANTON,OH 44720
DIEBOLD INC
2/14/2001
$2,015
RNC/Repub National State Elections Cmte

Let them know in no uncertain terms how you feel about Diebold machines.