This guy is quite the media darling in California…
Jeb Eddy joins thousands of demonstrators to protest the war in Iraq on Saturday.
The only problem is that he’s a complete fraud. Here’s the information on his political contributions, from the FEC (via Newsmeat):
NEWSMEAT – JEB EDDY’s federal campaign contributions
Eddy, Jeb
Palo Alto, CA 94301
self/Software Author KERRY, JOHN F (D)
President
JOHN KERRY FOR PRESIDENT INC. $250 05/23/04
Eddy, Jeb Mr.
Palo Alto, CA 94301
Compton Fdn/Executive Director
DNC SERVICES CORPORATION/DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE (D) $250 02/25/04
Eddy, Jeb Mrs.
Palo Alto, CA 94301
Compton Fdn/Executive Director
DNC SERVICES CORPORATION/DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE (D) $250 02/25/04
Eddy, Jeb Mr.
Palo Alto, CA 94301
DNC SERVICES CORPORATION/DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE (D) $500 08/11/03
Eddy, Jeb Mrs.
Palo Alto, CA 94301
DNC SERVICES CORPORATION/DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE (D) $500 08/11/03
EDDY, JEB
PALO ALTO, CA 94301
DNC SERVICES CORPORATION/DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE (D) $500 03/17/99
EDDY, JEB
PALO ALTO, CA 94301
DNC SERVICES CORPORATION/DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE (D) $250 09/25/98
Data Provided by the Federal Election Commission as of 11/1/04 — 11,139,673 records
It’s the same story at OpenSecrets.org…
Crockspot at Conservative Underground was the one who first used a little Google-fu to debunk this guy’s con job. The San Francisco Chronicle has fallen for this guy’s act on more than one occasion, which should hardly come as a surprise.
Shock & Blog has more links to the Google evidence against Eddy.
Update: In case you’re wondering Jeb Eddy is not a fake identity. See the photo (first picture in the third row) on this page for proof.
Update 2: Vlae Kershner, news director for the San Francisco Chronicle web site, responds to a reader inquiry about the Eddy’s identification, “Thanks for writing. It’s an Associated Press photo. I removed it from the two articles where I could find it on the website.. No word on wether a correction will be issued for this February 24, 2005 article. The other suposed Republican in that article, Margaret Garvin, she’s a Democratic plant too…
Update 3: (April 24, 2006) He’s back!!!
Open Secrets
An obvious fraud that did not require inquiries into his political donations.
Come on, the man has no tie–look closely behind the sign. I don’t see a tie! How on Earth could he be a real Republican if he doesn’t own or can’t knot a tie?
And let’s not even start on the sign font type …
FWIW, I’m an increasingly reluctant DLC Democrat who voted for Gore in 2000 but Bush in 2004. I occasionally feel genuine shame at the behavior of my party’s activists and leaders, but I would never march in a far-right rally of, say, black helicopter, who-killed-vince-foster types. If that day were ever to arrive, I would have long before it ripped up my Dem registration.
Jeb Eddy is a fake.
Maybe he’s just a Republican for a Day.
I have it!
He isn’t saying he is a Republican. He’s holding up that sign because he made a gross of them and cannot seem to sell any. That is why his face is so sad.
I suppose he could be a “registered” Republican for some reason.
As a matter of fact, I am a registered Democrat in NY City (no good reason, just to vote in mayoral primaries).
In reality, I am a political independent w/ Republican / conservative leanings on some issues, and voted for W, Reagan, Giuliani etc.
I should probably change my registration, b/c it is embarrassing to be even associated with the Democratic party of leftist lunatics and special interests.
So, to make a long story short, this dude could technically be a Republican, but only if I am a Democrat, which I am NOT.
thibaud,
There are a lot less of the black helicopter militia types around then there are moonbats on the left. When is the last time we saw the militia dudes put together a meeting of more than fifty or so people? They are truly WAY out on the fringe and in very small numbers. I live in Michigan and have met a few of them, they are uneducated goofballs that don’t belong to either party. They just REALLY don’t like hippies and peaceniks so we get stuck with them. They mostly waste their time drinking beer, playing “soldier” and paintball.
Stick around. We need your vote in 2008.
I wonder how many times that guy’s emails have appeared on the main page at Andrew Sullivan’s blog.
Why would it matter if he was registered as an R?
Do you think he sent donations to Kerry and voted for Bush?
According to Open Secrets, Eddy and his wife contributed $14,500.00 to democrats since ’98.
Funny this is, if you do a public records search for this guy in CA he does not exist. Either that or he is rich enough to hide.
Phinn, “I can’t tell if this Oliver guy really believes in the Rovian double-fake conspiracy, or if, in an extra-sneaky-triple-ironic way he is making fun of people who would believe such a thing.”
I’m voting for extra-sneaky-triple-ironc. 🙂
-Julie
It is interesting, to some extent, that it takes some research to determine that this guy is not a Republican. Older, white, male…he MUST be a Republican. Now if he had been young, female, and butch, the instant response would have been “yeah right.”
Meanwhile, this sign also calls into a question I’ve oft wondered…if one has never contributed to a political campaign or never voted, how does one determine whether one is a Democrat or a Republican? What if one is socially liberal and fiscally conservative? Democrat or Republican? What about the person who contributed to a Democratic Senator’s campaign in one state and a Republican Senator’s campaign in another?
I was at the rally in S.F. and saw this “Republican” dude doing his thing. As soon as I got near him his whole being and shtick screamed “fake!” And not just to me, either. During the time I was checking him out he got a lot of laughs, thumbs-up, etc. from passing lefties, none of whom, it was easy to tell, took him at face value. This “former Republican” routine has become a cliche. It should simply be numbered (as in the old joke about jokes in prison being retold so many times that they are numbered) so that in the near future when the next super-clever leftie drags it out again, we can all just say to each other “77” and be done with it.
Steve Brady,
So, you’re saying he became DISILLUSIONED in ’98, but seven years later he’s still a Replublican?? BTW, how’s Marcia and Jan doing?
I notice the guy has the crappy hair-do and grizzled, slightly drug-weathered look of a grumpy leftie.
While uncovering this fraud was a legitimate bit of investigative journalism, and while it leaves me with a uncharitable view of Mr. Eddy, contrary to some of your commenters it says exactly nothing about Democrats, liberals, or opponents of the war in Iraq, as such. Angry people sometimes turn to sleazy tactics, dishonest tactics, or both; this reality is a nonpartisan, unhappy fact of life in America.
One defender of this fake ‘Republican’ asked, “What could have happened in the fall of 1998…”
What happened in the fall of 1998 was that the Left demonstrated to America that for them, lying, up to and including felony perjury in the courts and before federal grand juries, wasn’t just acceptable, it was something to be publicly admired and celebrated.
And some of us will never forget that.
Why the next thing you know people will be accusing Democratic operatives of posing as Republicans to get access to their credit reports. As if they would stoop to commit a felony. People who would do that would release sealed court records about divorce petitions. And we all know the Dems wouldn’t stoop to that level.
The man is from California. (Affluent Palo Alto, no less) Protesting in San Francisco. What do you expect? No ID required
Hmmmm.
“The purposes of the Compton Foundation are “peace, environment and population”.”
Pity there isn’t a “Eat red meat, wear fur, drive big cars, own guns and shoot Bambi” foundation.
Andrew,
That person would be called an Independant or else Swing Voter rather than a Republican or a Democrat.
OTOH, I voted almost a straight Republican ticket last election but I’m not a Republican. I’m a (bad) libertarian and registered this year, after a few years of not voting, as a Libertarian. In a way I’m in the sort of limbo that you were asking about.
“Pity there isn’t a “Eat red meat, wear fur, drive big cars, own guns and shoot Bambi” foundation.”
The NRA?
This is pretty lame as a Moby operation but that is a bit of a redundancy. If you check Oliver closely (not too pleasant, I know) you will see some tell-tale signs that he is a hognose, not a rattler… yes, he is kidding, or he has absorbed some of the most derisive characterizations of the Hard Left from Blogs for Bush and pronounced them apt. But I am with a couple of the posters above, if Eddy IS wearing a tie, he must be truly Republican, otherwise Dem. No Democrat could ever tie a full Windsor.
Do we get any credit for posting about this two days ago? 🙁
RE: California Conservative’s plea (September 27, 2005 07:39 PM)
I have no standing but I’ll hat tip you by proxy:
Nice catch. Keep those eyes sharp. 😉 And did oliver bush post any Rovian “two-and-a-half backflip with a helicopter twist” plots? I haven’t done the math but that almost sounds like a nosedive into a giant pool of wacky.
Well, if what you say is true, I’m a fool. So thank you for catching that.
A few words of wisdom for the moonbat left.
Whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad.
Maybe he claims to be a Republican because of the tax cuts. 🙂
well another thing that is pointless to read, I do have to say that I HATE politics and this is just another peice of carp that everyone could give a rats arse. bush sucks, republicans could to, and who even cares about democrats…
Hey! Update #2 is pretty cool!
Now, if only we could get the truth behind this photo out there:
Anatomy of a Photograph
Sadly, I’ve heard it is a common voter fraud trick too. MD, for example, allows a republican and a democrat judge at each poll – they make decisions about who gets to vote or not. They aren’t law judges, but are appointed by each county (I suppose, see your county’s website for more information). They are in charge of requesting and managing the poll workers. In the 2004 election, people who had signed up as republican volunteers were told they weren’t needed – MD had enough. The problem, apparently, is that liberals have registered as Republicans, been assigned to manage the polls, and have recruited in liberals to be Republican poll workers.
AJ, I vote in MC and my only concern is that if I arrive too early and they are short-handed, I may be drafted to be a voting judge and thus forced to remain at the polls all day. I have never heard of any other problems associated with the voting judge system.
I have noted that there are Republicans who register as Dems just to fend off the most noxious candidates at the primary level, thinking that moonbats only occur in the Democratic Party. Then they vote as they wish in the general election.
Who is Jonathan Eddy? Son? Real name of Jeb? He donated in 1992 and 2002.
http://opensecrets.org/indivs/search.asp?NumOfThou=0&txtName=eddy&txtState=CA&txtZip=94301&txtEmploy=&txtCand=&txt2002=Y&Order=N
http://opensecrets.org/indivs/search.asp?NumOfThou=0&txtName=eddy&txtState=CA&txtZip=94301&txtEmploy=&txtCand=&txt1992=Y&Order=N
This is funny. He’s got the Grimace of Sincere Concern and a I think I see a little Compassionate Head Tilt too.
Do any Dems out there become concerned that lies, fakery, misrepresentation deception, and posing as Republicans on blogs and talk radio shows are so necessary to further their agenda? I doubt it since Dems feel that they are saving the world.
What with the retarded Google cache link for the NewsMeat list?
This is much better and more up to date: http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?st=CA&last=eddy&first=jeb
ps: opensecrets blows. what a waste of time.
Hey I posted this on my blog on Sunday. Glad to see others doing the same. The media just believes anything it wants to be true. Truly pathetic.
http://marcobennett.blogspot.com/
To “oliver bush” and the other libs who even scream on the net (i.e., CAPS), go google “Jeb Eddy” on google images and he’s indeed the same guy that showed up at some chi-chi arts decication in Palo Alto.
Sorry libs. You have to try and pass yourselves off as conservatives because nobody believes your lies anymore. Isn’t it embarassing when you have to hide who you are? I mean even gays are out of the closet and you guys are rushing in.