The Left Coaster: Comment on Group W Advisors Employees

Comments: Group W Advisors Employees

Shouldn't their home town be 'PoWay'?

I love the nasty sneer in last year's letter! Just goes to show that some people don't know how to be gracious winners!

Posted by pessimist at December 11, 2005 04:04 PM

It's really hard to stop thinking it's an Arlo Guthrie song.

Posted by the Robot Vegetable at December 11, 2005 04:22 PM

I believe that over at atrios another "connection" has surfaced. In a post about a billboard that has appeared in Atlanta attacking democrats as "cuttign and running" the billboard's company is co-owned by slade gordon, I believe or else its that the company paying for the attack billboard is co-owned by slade gordon. They may be nervous but they are still on the attack.

aimai

Posted by aimai at December 11, 2005 04:24 PM

maria - melissa dollaghan's bio at GroupW is the source of the slade gordon reference. (ive updated my post with the link)

Posted by lukery at December 11, 2005 05:17 PM

lukery - thanks! I appreciate your work on this.

Updated the hometown of Group W Advisors to "Poway". Thanks, Pessimist.

Posted by Mary at December 11, 2005 05:27 PM

good post, but in case anyone's googling it, the former senator's name is gorton, like the frozen seafood guy.

Posted by benjoya at December 11, 2005 05:30 PM

Great work on this story all of you.
Keep it up, and the stings witll eventually become a rope. and ropes are good for hanging things.

Posted by PwapVt at December 11, 2005 05:51 PM

thanks, benjoya. yes, it needs to be "google-able". :-)

Posted by Mary at December 11, 2005 05:54 PM

oops - thats mary, not maria. my bad.

one curious thing about Mack is that he was working at GroupW at the same time that he was Chair of YRNF, yet neither of his bios mention his other gig.

Posted by lukery at December 11, 2005 05:56 PM

nice work.

nice reporting.

just digging up the potatoes

row by row.

thanks

Posted by orionAATL at December 11, 2005 07:18 PM

"Frighteningly brilliant eRiposte of the Left Coaster". I don't believe I have heard that description of anyone in the MSM.

Posted by Judith at December 11, 2005 11:20 PM

Wow! Just when you think you've heard it all....they outdo themselves! Culture of corruption doesn't begin to do justice in describing the current crop of Republican machinery leading this countyr. It all truly is amazing! Republi-CON Crime Syndicates. Republi-CON Mob! Outside of a some excellent reporting as mentioned..where are the major News Networks journalmalist covering any of this? Oh yeah I forgot, to busy worrying about their access and republican invite to the next Holiday party instead doing any serious reporting.

Posted by emal at December 12, 2005 04:58 AM

2004 copies of the Group W Advisors web page are archived at the Wayback Machine, http://www.archive.org/ - I plugged in the URL you gave for the bios page and up it popped.

Posted by Alex at December 12, 2005 05:01 AM

In addition to using Google cache to find the web pages they have removed, you may want to try:

http://www.archive.org/

Then insert the weg page you are looking for:

http://web.archive.org/web/20040630001533/http://www.groupwadvisors.com/company/bios_mdm.asp

Posted by at December 12, 2005 09:02 AM

Jus posted this comment over at 'Lukerys'

ALL of the companies that Group W registered as lobbyist for are also Wilkes companies- some even sharing the same address either in Poway , VA or DC.

( from Senate.gov - Group W Advisors registered as lobbyists for the following Wilkes companies/fronts)

PerfectWave technologies
ADCS
Optimum Composite Design
Archer Defense
Mailsafe Inc.
Acoustical Communications Systems
GTS Globalift
Pure Aqua technologies

..ad how do we know they are Wilkes fronts...just do a whois search at the IP address for any of these companies and you'll see there are in total some 37 fronts/dummies registered to the same IP at Wilkescorp.

The 37 domains registered at "Wilkes" IP are

12.22.219.140 - IP hosts 37 Total Domains ...
Showing 1 - 37 out of 37

Domain Name
1 ACOUSTICALCS.COM.
2 ADCS.COM.
3 AKAMAIINFOTECH.COM.
4 ARCHERDEFENSE.COM.
5 ARCHERLOGISTICS.COM.
6 ASAP-CATERING.COM.
7 AZTECCLASSIC.COM.
8 AZTECGOLF.COM.
9 BBQRANCH.COM.
10 CDPSA.COM.
11 EDGE-CATERING.COM.
12 ELECTHARMAN.COM.
13 GROUPWADVISORS.COM.
14 GROUPWEVENTS.COM.
15 GROUPWHOLDINGS.NET.
16 GROUPWMEDIA.NET.
17 GROUPWOUTFITTERS.COM.
18 ICT-SA.COM.
19 LIBERTYDEFENSETECH.COM.
20 MAILSAFEINC.COM.
21 MIRRORLABS.COM.
22 OCDLLC.COM.
23 PEFECTWAVETECH.COM.
24 PERFECTWAVETECH.COM.
25 PKMI.COM.
26 POWAYMAFIA.COM.
27 POWAYSC.COM.
28 PRIMEVECTOR.COM.
29 PUREAQUATECH.COM.
30 SANDIEGOHEROES.ORG.
31 SDHEROES.ORG.
32 W-CATERING.COM.
33 WILKESCLAN.COM.
34 WILKESCORP.COM.
35 WILKESFOUNDATION.COM.
36 WILKESFOUNDATION.ORG.
37 WILKESTECHNOLOGYGROUP.COM.

( Source http://whois.webhosting.info/12.22.219.140)

So there are 5 "catering companies" - all associated with his wife Regina. There are 6 "charities". ...and a bunch of front companies

Posted by PKDU at December 12, 2005 04:23 PM

Group W?!!!?!!

like "Group W bench"??

as in 'father stabbin, etc...'?

Listen to Alices Restaurant (the whole thing), better yet, see the movie.

Posted by mdhåtter at December 12, 2005 05:25 PM

#26 is a little chilling, POWAYMAFIA.COM?

Posted by yikes at February 20, 2006 11:40 PM