Hi Dan,
This is an open letter, which will
be published widely.
I have known Michael Emerling (his
born name) Cloud (the name he began using when the name Emerling became MUD the
first time) since 1978. It took many
incidents of discovered dishonesty along with other behavior even more egregious
than simple lies for me to entirely withdraw trust. Emerling is a practiced liar. How would I know he is not lying to you or
has gulled some credulous soul to do so on his behalf?
Emerling worked through Howell for
years. This was either tolerated or
enabled by those hired or elected to positions of power in the LP.
My question is: Why is he doing
this? Could it be for the money
generated by the campaigns – or is the motive to ensure no campaign uses the
media tools which would make it possible to break through the MSM?
I think that is the more likely answer.
I looked over your own background
briefly and it appears your background does not include any use of TV media. Computers,
yes, media, no. No one in a position of management in the LP appears
to possess such knowledge.
No Libertarian Presidential
campaign from 1992 on has used satellite and other distribution to television. No
acknowledgement was every received, with one exception, of the proposals for
Interactive TV sent, often several times and to every person at the National
Office. Why is that? Radio seems to be too much for the LP to cope with,
too. Individual libertarians use radio –
but not the Libertarian Party. Why?
Introduction
Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Melinda Pillsbury-Foster and I am
CEO of Freedom Interactive TV Networks, Association, inc. See my Linkedin
featured document FiTNA’s 62 Tasks and
Task Teams to create Interactive TV.
This is an alliance of the most power and independent media and tech
companies around. Surprise, they do not
like censorship. Our board includes three people either in the TV industry now,
or who have worked in TV. These are Robert Starling, Lance C. Williams,
and Brock
d’Avignon (scroll down to his resume).
Daniel “Brock” d’Avignon
received his education at BYU from such experts as Tad Danieleski, Immediately
after graduating with a combined major in Organizational Communications &
PR, and a minor in Film & TV Production, d’Avignon produced ten of the segments
for Housing the American Dream in 1988, the original now copied widely
by others, including This Old House.
Combined, our board has about
200 years of TV experience.
In 1992 Brock was back and
forth from Orange County to the Keystone Satellite Communications studio on
Sunset Blvd., working on the newly launched, PhoneVoter TV Network.
Rodney King - 1992
On May 1, 1992,
the Los Angeles Police brought out Rodney King to speak to the rioters then
attacking businesses and setting fires in Los Angeles. King had something he wanted to say.
Brock d’Avignon
was alone in the Keystone TV Studio on Sunset Blvd., watching smoke rising, and
vehicles burning through the window. The
employee normally there had asked him to stand in for ‘just a few minutes’. Standing at the master control panel for 22
networks nation-wide, Brock knew exactly what was happening in LA and across
the country.
Risk comes in many
kinds. If he took 22 TV networks offline and cut
commercials Keystone would be docked $22,500 for each one missed; he could also
lose the uplinker, costing $500k.
Watching intently, the moment King opened
his mouth to speak Brock took 22 networks offline; Rodney King was live, speaking
to all Americans.
Brock’s Degree is
in Organizational Communications and Public Relations with a minor in TV &
Film Production and Screenwriting conferred by BYU December 1984.
From 1986 – 1987
Brock directed 10 of 21 episodes for Housing the American Dream, the
first TV show to build a mass-audience - around the rebuilding of a 1910
pioneer mansion, reclaimed from demolition in Sandy, Utah. This Old House copied the show format.
Brock knew TV could
provide interaction; people, enabled to communicate, could move America toward
freedom and free markets.
His first political
show began January 21, 1992; with some fellow libertarians, PhoneVoter TV
Network was founded in Santa Ana, CA.
By May 1st, services were being provided to four presidential
candidates. Brock was at Keystone prepping for a PhoneVoter TV Network
interview with one of candidate Jerry Brown’s campaign managers.
Brock watched both
King, as he opened his mouth to speak; Brock hit the button; 22 stations across
the country were broadcasting King’s short statement. Then, King said twice, “Can’t we all just
get along?” Brock hit the switch,
returning to the regular schedule.
Brock knows his way around TV; he
also understands Interactive technologies.
He just does not brag about what he has done.
The Libertarian Party & Media
So, why has no one from the
Libertarian Party expressed any interest in responding to our proposals for
using television to win campaigns for the last 28 years?
Print media is the horse and wagon
in comparison to television; what we grew up with as TV is now silent films
compared to what is coming with Interactive 2-Way Mass Audience Participation
TV. Think Fortnite for Activists.
I’m sure you can see why this is
perplexing for us. Back to
Emerling.
Beginning at least a year ago, Emerling
begin looking for a candidate for the nomination who would, reliably, allow him
to control the narrative. I know he was,
because I received a call from a woman named Anne, who asked me, rather breathlessly,
what I would do if I knew Craig Franklin, my former husband, was going to run
for president. I immediately told her that,
in that case, Emerling was looking for a candidate so he could manage the
campaign. She also asked what I would
do. I told her. She said, “Oh, in that case, he will not run.” I responded that this would be wise of
him.
And, you wonder, what would I do? I will do better than tell you, I will show you what I do to individuals when I discover they lie to obtain goals which violate the well-being of others, especially when those individuals are children. Craig Franklin, I discovered to my horror, only after he left me, is a sexual pervert whose fantasies revolve around raping little girls about 8 - 12 years old who have come to trust him and call him, 'Daddy'. And I had married this man and let him adopt all of my children. I would find out through Anne and another party that after his son, Jonathan Scott Franklin was arrested for hiring a hitman to kill his wife, his first call was to his attorney, who he demanded get him unsupervised visitation to his 8-year old grand-daughter.
I contacted Scott's estranged wife and sent a declaration to the court, informed by Kathy she was fighting him having unsupervised visitation. Children cannot give informed consent. If you are a libertarian and disagree, tough.
Notice that Craig is not a
candidate for president. No FEC filing took place for any of the variations he
uses for his name.
Michael went looking for another
candidate. As you admitted, Emerling was
associated with the Jorgensen campaign a year ago, likely at the time she decided
to run. Jo first filed to run for the
office of president of the United States on August 19, 2019.
Personally, I think the likely
explanation for Emerling’s continued attention to the LP is money being paid to
him to limit LP effectiveness. Through
Craig, Emerling is connected to the same people who put George W. into office
with underhanded manipulations. Nothing
Emerling has ever done points in any other direction. The last 28 years of Libertarian Party action
has been curiously unproductive for freedom; that is an understatement. We have lost ground in every direction.
Is Emerling the only cause? Likely not, but he is significant in this. It is likely Emerling is a psychopath. And his activities in the Libertarian Party included eliminating activists he thought might be wary enough to see through him. I would likely have been one of these. But another activist he eliminated was Tamara Clark.
Tamara would have been elected to the State Senate in Nevada, 2nd District Seat but for the mysterious arrival of 30,000 absentee ballots, more than had ever before been cast in this way. Reason wrote an article on this occurrence in 1993 titled, Fouled Out? by Charles Oliver.
Did Emerling have something to do with this? He might have. He was also behind
Now, The Saga of PhoneVoter TV Network
In 1992, a stunning event took
place which political pundits could not explain, though they babbled a lot, and
tried.
1992 was the year when the most
credible candidates from the Democratic Party declined to seek their party’s
nomination. Additionally, an outsider, a
cranky businessman, H. Ross Perot, emerged as a creditable threat to sitting President
George H. W. Bush before the primaries.
Independent of the Perot Campaign,
which effectively did not exist and was not being funded by Perot, but paid for
by a group of grass-roots people who identified themselves as Owners of America,
Inc., who began selling Capitol Calling Cards for $20 each, allowing the
purchaser to vote YES or NO question on an issue they heard when they called. This
was a Telepoll. These responses were
tabulated and sent both to the media and to the congresspersons of the respondents. This was having a slight impact. Brock d’Avignon, a voluntarist libertarian who
had founded PhoneVoter TV Network on January 21, 1992, and because he had
a proposal to the Perot Campaign, had reached both Owners of America (OOA) and
Gary Tomlinson’s Telepoll 700/800/900 to formulate the questions.
To goose up the power of this
program, Brock suggested a question aimed at women voters be asked next. The two ladies from OOA suggested Abortion,
then and still, a hot topic. The
question was asked in two parts to Capitol Calling Card Owners, one on a topic;
and one on any force-of-law or military action. This question produced a
statistical anomaly of 4%.
The first question was, “Would
you condone an abortion in your own family? Yes/No.
77% said No. –
The second was “Would you favor
a legal penalty for a woman or her doctor for performing an abortion?” Yes/No.
73% said No.
Because Brock had the phone numbers
of card owners, he called those in the 4% range asking why they had not
answered the second question. Brock
discovered those who did not answer, did not approve of using force. Several of these individuals told him there
should be an option for providing sponsored monetary incentives for bringing
the baby to term, and pre & post natal care. The option was offered that
week with 20% supporting the incentives first time asked.
As a Libertarian you may recognize
this option. It is a form of NOTA, None
Of The Above. The Telepoll was modified after
this, to always let people express their objection to the use of force by
government on whatever topic.
This was the moment in time when Perot
began his rise in the polls with women, eventually to 39% approval, since Perot
also held this point of view
PhoneVoter TV had sent proposals offering free
satellite airtime through a program funded as a loss leader by Keystone
Satellite Communications, Inc. The
amount of airtime was, cumulatively, about $500,000 for all candidates
participating.
Because it is likely you know
nothing about the satellite industry even today, I will explain why Keystone
was motivated to give away airtime.
In 1992, the satellite industry had
20 million customers. 10 million were
bars and restaurants; 10 million were to home dishes, mostly where no other
distribution was available. Keystone was
willing to spend money to build its potential base of customers.
The program Brock had put together
for candidates, included several which were never used. You can read about these on PhoneVoter.us The one which was used
was Unedited Candidates
Speeches. Two of the four candidates for whom PhoneVoter TV
provided services, including consulting in 1992, participated.
Since 1992, all Libertarian candidates
have received offers for the same program offered in 1992, this becoming more
powerful each year, along with the changes in interactive technologies.
We have never received even
acknowledgement these offers were made, with the single exception of Lee Wright
in 1992, who decided he was not up to the challenge. I am well aware I have been maligned by any
number of you and your associates, including Michael Emerling.
Therefore, we are providing below
two short clips which aired in 1992 on satellite and were picked up by some of
the 1,200 news directors who used them on their TV News shows. This use of the services provided, drove each
of the candidates up at a rate of 2 points a day until the primaries were over.
Presidential Candidate, Governor
Jerry Brown, accepted the offer from PhoneVoter TV because he was badly
behind, had not intended to run, but could not stomach the idea of Bill Clinton
even being the nominee of the Democratic Party.
If Brown had started a week earlier, he would have been the Democratic
nominee, given the trajectory provided by the services of PhoneVoter TV. Pat Buchanan ran to gain support from the
public for the Line Item Veto, not to keep Bush from a second term. Buchanan dropped out at the GOP Convention.
The two clips show the Unedited
Speeches by Brown and Buchanan which ran 16-hours per day for 6-weeks
nationwide. The second, shows our
opening graphics and the beginning of an interview with one of Brown’s campaign
managers by d’Avignon.
Unedited
Candidates Speeches is first, followed below by the clip of the opening graphic and clip of
the intro. I must share that I was shocked to see this finally
in 2016 as I had followed, ‘the news’ and believed I was getting the facts. I was not, which I admitted to myself only
after reading all the material d’Avignon provided, which you now see on PhoneVoter.us
Brock’s team for PhoneVoter TV
included people well-known to you, both Libertarians and Voluntarists: Samuel E.
Konkin, III (deceased), Lawrence Samuels, Howard Hinman, Ron Fink, William Coussert,
Francesca Collins-Allen (deceased), and Kent Hastings. Of course, you can’t
call Sam, but we will be happy to provide you with contact information for
those still living.
So why has the Libertarian National
Committee (LNC) and presidential candidates nominated by the Libertarian Party continued
to refuse to use the standard tools common to running elections? Who on National Committee or elected to
National Offices discouraged this?
Most recently, Gary Johnson, as you
recall, was your presidential candidate 3x, 2008, 2012 and 2016, who raised
millions of dollars, yet refused to even respond to a dozen offers
quadrennially for a “Live Free TV Network” at a cost of about $350,000 for everything and $1M in ’16 when
making more from his unlibertarian lawsuits to force his way onto a lame
soundbite-a-thon of a private 501(c)3 organization self-commissioned by the
demopublicans as the Commission on Presidential Debates, in reaction to
the 1992 PhoneVoter TV Network invitation to 64 candidates to debate in
a tournament on 4 satellites.
It is likely that, not knowing much
about media, you also did not know TV runs on income from advertising. For $100,000
paid to advertising agencies, most any TV show will generate $3,000,000 in sponsor
funds which pays for the costs of distribution, creation of content, interactivity
(like phone tallies starting 1992), marketing, and more. Salaries like at the
LNC are not present.
Yes, Bill Clinton was the fourth
candidate who responded to the offer PhoneVoter TV sent out. Clinton and his Media Consultant, Frank Greer,
faxed back and phone in late February into March of 1992, asking for advice. See
the Clinton Proposal with Brock’s
handwritten notes. Incidentally, COS,
unless this escaped you for decades, stands for Campaigns On Satellite.
Clinton told Brock his campaign had
only $50,000 left in the bank. How could
he get satellite at a price he could afford?
Brock and Keystone were offering a 24/7 Democracy Channel, The
RepubliCan Channel, an LP TV, Greens, and others on a Grassroots
Channel.
Clinton & Greer’s previous
conversations had made it clear Clinton also intended to participate with the
programs Brock had designed for candidates, beginning with Unedited
Candidates Speeches. Brock had not
thought through until recently what would have happened if Clinton participated
in the ‘Unedited’ program. Clinton could
expect provocative comments from the audience, and also find individuals in
audiences who had more immediate information on his behavior. The Gennifer Flowers expose had taken place just
weeks earlier. Clinton’s history for
sexual misdeeds in Arkansas would also surface.
More accusations would be on the way.
This was his only chance at being elected to the presidency. His character
could not withstand interactivity; because at the time, the Ozark Mountains
were full of satellite dishes and phones.
If the segments from any Unedited
Candidate Speeches, he made were uplinked unedited, he would be toast. But if he could evade, he could control what
was uplinked, he now knew what he had to do.
Therefore, he had to seem like he
was going to participate, extract all necessary information, and then take
evasive action.
One of the suggestions Brock had
made was a Clinton Road Show with Bill as host, as pointed out by Craig
Reese of Keystone Sunset Studio, who had seen Clinton work an audience with a
microphone. Clinton seized on
this. What would this cost? Clinton
wanted to know. Brock did a search for
uplink trucks and discovered the only one left in America due to the use of
these for election events, and arranged for Keystone to option it. The cost
seemed overwhelming to Clinton. The
truck’s rent was $35,000 a month.
How could he afford this, Clinton
inquired of Brock? Brock further told
Bill Clinton the other $15,000 could not be used for gas, as Clinton had thought. It was to be spent on the notifications to
the 1,200 news directors so they could receive Clinton’s content by rotating
their dish. Brock told him not to worry because, “money would rain down from
the skies.” And it did. Money was never again a problem for Bill and
Hillary Clinton.
Clinton had one of his staff find
the uplink truck and rented it directly, evading giving Keystone, or Brock, the
finder’s fee.
All these years the LP could have
been running Presidential Campaigns at a profit, building a TV network with an
advertising and cause-marketing agency specializing in Libertarian businesses
and solutions.
Dan, I promised to tell you about
two other presidential election outcomes which were caused by the failure to
use TV and Interactive options.
The first two took place in 1996
and 2000.
Having learned the hard way, George
H. W. Bush took action beginning in 1993 to ensure the way would be clear for
his beloved son, George W. Bush to be elected to the presidency in 2000.
A cooperative relationship had been
forged after Clinton’s election in 1992 between the Bushes and Clintons. Together, they ensured debates taking place
through their mutually founded Commission for Presidential Debates, would
be under the control of both ‘major’ parties even as their standings continued
to shrink. See Charts available on DebateTourney.com
GOP candidates announcing to run against
Clinton for 1996 were forbidden
by RNC Chairman, Haley Barbour to
use Satellite or PhoneVoter TV. More from PhoneVoter.us
The DNC had signed up for satellite
coverage 24/7/365 for the entire year of 1996 for the benefit of Bill Clinton in
1995. Brock was told this by a contact
in the satellite industry who saw the order. Brock warned all 17 GOP candidates
by Dec 1995 the DNC had broken any pact to not use best tools, but Barbour
threatened all candidates if they broke his orders. Only 4 candidates knew how
satellite TV is accessed: General Colin Powell, Steve Forbes, Phil Gramm, and Lamar
Alexander’s staff that tried two times to inform the candidate, but there was a
problem.
In 1996, a likely GOP candidate was
Lamar Alexander. A Bush operative named
Mike Murphy, who had been part of the 1992 Bush for President Campaign team
was tasked with obtaining the job as Alexander’s Media Consultant, and
preventing Alexander from accepting the offers from PhoneVoter TV and
COS.
Dole, with no satellite, was no match
for Clinton anyway. VP candidate Kemp, who knew, could not make any headway
with the Dole campaign. The RNC’s GOP-TV studio was downsized into a website.
Then in 2000, Mike Murphy decided
he wanted to work for the next likely GOP presidential nominee, John McCain as
his Media Coordinator. Mike blocked receipt
of the PhoneVoter TV proposals 12 times again.
This time, Brock drove to the
Beverly Hills Hotel, on Primary Day, 2000, where McCain was preparing to
concede the election in the GOP Primary to George H. W. Bush, who had enjoyed
his campaign, carried out on trains which included a satellite uplink trailer
on a flatcar in front of the caboose, which Bush W and Dad were using as their
podium. The news directors received a steady stream of content from the Bush
Campaign. Not, however, from McCain with
his Straight Talk Express bus.
In 2000, Papa Bush had reviewed why
he lost in 1992, and took action when he found reference to Keystone Satellite
uplink trucks and trailers. Melodee Paul was contacted and supplied the trailer
with fiber-optic cable running under the caboose to microphones and cameras to
be attached at each stop. This time, the Bushes were seen by 10M+ viewers per
day via news directors receiving their video feed.
Meanwhile, Brock d’Avignon handed
John and Cindy McCain another notebook copy of the PhoneVoter TV
proposal, the 13th of these. Introducing himself, Brock said, “Hello,
I am the Executive Producer of the PhoneVoter TV Network. This proposal includes
a Straight Talk TV Network on a RepubliCan Channel, which I have not shared
with Mr. Bush. I have previously sent you 12 copies by email,
fax, ground mail, certified mail, and FedEx and never had a response. Would you please read this?”
They took the notebook out of Brock’s
hands. There were six different show
formats they paged through; it was edge Interactive TV for an entire network
for him & surrogates.
John and Cindy McCain standing side
by side, bent their heads over the document, leafing through it. They took turns turning the pages. Nothing further was said until Cindy
exclaimed, “John! With this we would
have won!”
McCain looked up at Brock. “You sent this how many times?” “
A dozen,” Brock asked McCain not to concede anything but California that
night, and to take time to study this.
Mike Murphy was standing about 20-feet away next to a rock wall by the
brass doors leading into the Beverly Hills Hotel.
McCain leaving the proposal with Cindy,
strode over to Murphy. Brock could hear
what McCain was saying to Murphy, “Did you know about PhoneVoter TV’s
proposal to my campaign for a Straight Talk TV Network or a RepubliCan Channel?
Murphy backed up. “Why didn’t you tell me?” Murphy responded, “I decided you didn’t
need it. We agreed I would give you a
conventional campaign. I did.” Brock said, McCain clenched his fists by his
sides, turned red in the face, and he had never seen anyone that mad who did
not haul off and hit someone. McCain shook his head in disgust, stomped back to
Cindy and Brock. He told Brock he would do as he requested. John and Cindy
stepped onto their bus that drove them 1/10th mile through two rows
of satellite uplink trucks to an atrium where he only conceded California that
night. Two weeks later, he said nothing about a RepubliCan Channel and
ceded to W.
Murphy had been determined to get
the position as McCain’s Media Consultant, de facto Campaign Manager. On March 12,
2000, an article by Howard Kurtz titled, “Along for the Ride, was published in the Washington
Post. Kurtz
reports on what he sees happening inside the McCain Campaign and mentions Murphy’s
solicitation for the job. “In January 1999, he went to McCain's Senate
office and delivered a 25-minute, 40-slide presentation on how he could win the
nomination. Murphy's pitch: Skip the Iowa caucuses in favor of New Hampshire.” Once in, Murphy was in the position which allowed him to ensure
the use of satellite feed & TV, and PhoneVoter TV, would be blocked.
How
many people who understand TV media have ever been hired to work for the
Libertarian Party? Zero. Clearly, the LP
could afford to have TV media. Why don’t
we have it? Dan, what is your own experience with media?
Brock’s quadrennial dozen proposals
with an uncensoring media tech and connectivity alliance, have been ignored.
Brock at the 2018 CA LP Convention, asked both Governor Weld and Judge Gray, if
either of them had ever been informed by Gary Johnson and Ron Nielson that a Live
Free TV Network had been offered them each campaign a dozen times 2007,
2011, and 2015? Answers: “No” and “No”.
The bottom line is this. Jo’s campaign is effectively reaching 2% on
three threads on Instagram, which is 5% of the four (major) platforms of the
23% of the people that would bother to read them = 4700 views of Jo Jorgensen.
Know that right now Jo could be
reaching 10-million people a day. So,
what would you rather have 4700 people a day – or 10-million? Would you like to help with this effort?
Cordially,
Melinda
Pillsbury-Foster, CEO
Freedom
Interactive TV Networks Association, Inc.
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