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   From: mberry@dont-email.me   
      
   September 23, 2014- The Democratic Congressional Campaign   
   Committee’s newest email spam, asking their recipients to sign a   
   petition calling for sponsors to end their relationship with The   
   Rush Limbaugh Show, is based on the two-year-old Stop Rush   
   political protest as it’s inspiration. After an investigation,   
   The Rush Limbaugh Show has discovered a far darker story to Stop   
   Rush, and is today releasing the hidden story of the people and   
   motives behind the Stop Rush conspiracy.   
      
   The Stop Rush group claims to be made up of ordinary consumers   
   unhappy with Rush Limbaugh’s comments. The group claims to be   
   “grassroots,” just concerned consumers who won’t shop at   
   businesses that advertise with Rush Limbaugh. In truth, however,   
   there are no potential customers here, just a small number of   
   hardcore political activists founded by Angelo Carusone, EVP of   
   Media Matters for America.   
      
   It’s remarkably tiny. Only 10 Twitter users account for almost   
   70% of all StopRush tweets to advertisers, amplified by illicit   
   software. In addition, almost every communication from a   
   StopRush activist originates from outside the State of the   
   advertiser. Thus, these activists are not and never would have   
   been customers… their only role is to harass small businesses in   
   an attempt to interfere with their operations, as long as they   
   are advertising with Rush.   
      
   “A small number of politically motivated out of-state activists   
   are distributing target lists indiscriminately, and annoying   
   small businesses until they give up the advertising deals that   
   help them grow, or risk being unable to conduct business at all.   
   It’s not even activism… it’s blackmail,” according to Brian   
   Glicklich, Rush Limbaugh Show spokesperson.   
      
   How does this small group make themselves look so much bigger   
   than they actually are? Stop Rush has deployed custom automated   
   tweeting software, in violation of Twitter’s rules, that lets   
   their activists send tweets at a rate far faster than any   
   unassisted person could do manually. They send barrages of   
   thousands of messages through this software until advertisers   
   are bullied and harassed into cancellation.   
      
   These activists have long operated in secret and anonymously.   
   But now, The Rush Limbaugh Show has the results of an   
   investigation that names the people tweeting, facebooking, and   
   emailing small businesses with harassing and bullying messages   
   over and over until they surrender. These names are surprising,   
   and include a tenured professor at Kent State University using   
   her official email account to badger advertisers.   
      
   Meet The Top Members of The Stop Rush Conspiracy   
      
      
   This list was developed so that advertisers and others can judge   
   the credibility and motives of the activist bullies anonymously   
   behind Stop Rush. Any other use is not endorsed.   
      
   Name: Matthew Mitchell   
   Location: Altamonte Springs, FL   
   ID: Captain Murdock/@CaptMurdock   
      
   Name: Nancy Padak   
   Location: Kent State University   
   ID: npadak@kent.edu, facebook.com/nancy.padak   
   Fun Fact: Emails advertisers with harassment from her official   
   Kent State email address. Gives businesses she has no   
   relationship with 1 star ratings if they advertise on Rush.   
   Friend of Cherie Richards   
      
   Name: Jason Rey   
   Location: Georgia   
   ID: Frantic Quark/@FranticQuark   
      
   Name: Lauren Reynolds   
   Location: Los Angeles, CA   
   ID: Lauren Reynolds/@chloesty, lonelydays46@gmail.com,   
   facebook.com/lauren.reynolds.946179   
   Fun Fact: Gives businesses she has no relationship with 1 star   
   ratings if they advertise on Rush   
      
   Name: Cherie Richards   
   Location: Powell, Ohio   
   ID: Kitty Fitzgerald/@KittyFitz50 kittyfitzgerald@gmail.com,   
   facebook.com/cherier1   
   Fun Fact: Regularly changes online identity to hide anonymously,   
   gives businesses she has no relationship with 1 star ratings if   
   they advertise on Rush   
      
   Name: Sarah Smyea Rivers   
   Location: Whittier, CA   
   ID: SueBryce/@eurekasue49   
   Fun Fact: Changes ID frequently with different numbers to remain   
   anonymous, has sent over 96,000 tweets   
      
   Name: Dennis William Rohner   
   Location: Gainesville, FL   
   ID: Shawtoo@Shawtoo   
      
   Name: Linda Kotsenburg Swanholm   
   Location: Covina, CA   
   ID: CMMorgan/@socallks, lswanholm@aol.com   
   Fun Fact: Develops, administers, and distributes target lists   
   indiscriminately, gives businesses she has no relationship with   
   1 star ratings if they advertise on Rush   
      
   Name: Carol Kernahan Wallin   
   Location: Anaheim, CA   
   ID: Uses @Flushfools and @hrhprincess,   
   facebook.com/carol.kernahan.7, flushfools@gmail.com   
   Fun Fact: Writes for DailyKos under both identities, long   
   bullying/harassing pieces about political opponents.   
      
   http://bit.ly/ZQMJ0Q   
      
        
      
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