Bill Post: Willamette Valley Vineyards caught up in Bus Project fiasco
Special message from Bill Post,1430 KYKN Salem
Bill's blog here.
Willamette Valley Vineyards, which has a history of being a strong supporter many free market and Republicans candidates in Oregon was found being the bus sponsor for the extreme liberal hyper-partisan Bus Project. It came as a shock to Salem Radio Host Bill Post who received pictures of the sponsorship on the bus itself. Since Bill Post's radio show, many of the Willamette Valley Vineyard's connection to the Bus Project has been pulled. Has the legendary local winery decided to side with a the far-left?
-- From Bill's Blog 8/12:
The show was supposed to be our usual "Wednesday Whine" which is an open line day for any topic. So, thinking in that direction, we had one little follow up story that just blew up into a Huge story. We were told by a listener that there was a bus at the McMinnville David Wu Town Hall meeting Monday night that was, as the listener described, "filled with Obama Health Care supporters with ACORN connections and the bus was sponsored by Willamette Valley Vineyards". We carefully asked for the caller to prove that in some way. Well, just minutes before we went on the air, he emailed pictures of the bus and boy did that start a firestorm.
"THE BUS" is part of an offshoot of ACORN called: The Bus Project and Politicorps which are extreme left wing groups which on their own website say: "to elect Progressives to the offices in swing areas". As the show continued the CEO of Willamette Valley Vineyards called in to us. He was on vacation and apparently his employees called him to let him know what was going on.
In short, he defended his purchase of the bus and donation of the bus to "a group of young people who are getting out the vote". You can hear the whole interview and all of the show at: www.thebillpostradioshow.com click on the "Listen to Latest Show" button. We started getting more and more calls and emails after his call and so we had to go an extra hour. We found out that he was not quite as innocent as we at first suspected.
Here are some of the evidences:
1: Bus project photo pulled off from Willamette Valley Vineyards website after radio show: On their web blog at and underneath the two pictures of the bus with Jim Bernau proudly standing next to it is this sentence: "To learn more about The Bus Project visit their website http://busproject.org/." This post was pulled off their website before our show was over!
2 - Facebook support: He is a supporter of the Bus Project on his own Facebook page: (The support list may have been taken down).
3 - Jim Bernau's choice of donations: He is a huge Democrat supporter in his giving: This link shows that he gave 100% to Democrat campaigns just last year. If he was involved with Republicans at one time, he doesn't appear to be any more. Just be honest about it, Jim, that's all we ask.
4 - Twitter Post: During the show Jim posted http://twitter.com/WillametteVV/statuses/3271845348">Twittered the following post "Why can't we all just get along?"
I need to tell you a little more about this "Bus Project" but I think a video that they did will explain better.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-WfhSm8Ulw&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fbusproject.org%2F&feature=player_embedded
At the top of the page are the pictures of the Bus including pics with Jim Bernau, the CEO of Willamette Valley Vineyard proudly standing by the Bus. Click on them for full size and you decide, radical left or just "young people out to get the vote?"
The show was supposed to be our usual "Wednesday Whine" which is an open line day for any topic. So, thinking in that direction, we had one little follow up story that just blew up into a Huge story. We were told by a listener that there was a bus at the McMinnville David Wu Town Hall meeting Monday night that was, as the listener described, "filled with Obama Health Care supporters with ACORN connections and the bus was sponsored by Willamette Valley Vineyards". We carefully asked for the caller to prove that in some way. Well, just minutes before we went on the air, he emailed pictures of the bus and boy did that start a firestorm.
"THE BUS" is part of an offshoot of ACORN called: The Bus Project and Politicorps which are extreme left wing groups which on their own website say: "to elect Progressives to the offices in swing areas". As the show continued the CEO of Willamette Valley Vineyards called in to us. He was on vacation and apparently his employees called him to let him know what was going on.
In short, he defended his purchase of the bus and donation of the bus to "a group of young people who are getting out the vote". You can hear the whole interview and all of the show at: www.thebillpostradioshow.com click on the "Listen to Latest Show" button. We started getting more and more calls and emails after his call and so we had to go an extra hour. We found out that he was not quite as innocent as we at first suspected.
Here are some of the evidences:
1: Bus project photo pulled off from Willamette Valley Vineyards website after radio show: On their web blog at and underneath the two pictures of the bus with Jim Bernau proudly standing next to it is this sentence: "To learn more about The Bus Project visit their website http://busproject.org/." This post was pulled off their website before our show was over!
2 - Facebook support: He is a supporter of the Bus Project on his own Facebook page: (The support list may have been taken down).
3 - Jim Bernau's choice of donations: He is a huge Democrat supporter in his giving: This link shows that he gave 100% to Democrat campaigns just last year. If he was involved with Republicans at one time, he doesn't appear to be any more. Just be honest about it, Jim, that's all we ask.
4 - Twitter Post: During the show Jim posted http://twitter.com/WillametteVV/statuses/3271845348">Twittered the following post "Why can't we all just get along?"
I need to tell you a little more about this "Bus Project" but I think a video that they did will explain better.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-WfhSm8Ulw&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fbusproject.org%2F&feature=player_embedded
At the top of the page are the pictures of the Bus including pics with Jim Bernau, the CEO of Willamette Valley Vineyard proudly standing by the Bus. Click on them for full size and you decide, radical left or just "young people out to get the vote?"
Piss WVV. You whole berry select cuvee Pinot Noir will never cross my libs again.
Please give us a hint where we can dine and support good people at the same time.
When you recommend wines on the basis of anything other than the quality/price you are being dishonest with your customers, unless you inform them of the real reason for your recommendation.
Oh well. There are plenty of vineyards within a few miles of my house that I will be more than happy to support.
No one is AFRAID of the Bus, we want folks to be aware that the Libs are sending out masses of PAID folks to disrupt these meetings and not a word of that makes the mainstream media.
I searched and there is no direct link to Acorn but Politicorps IS affiliated with acorn at their site. read the small print at the bottom of their page.
"PolitiCorps is co-sponsored by the 501(c)4 BusProject and 501(c)3 Bus Project Foundation. Learn more about our tax status."
Sorry, I'm not seeing ACORN there.
And, I think busy Bill should have to answer his flippant accusations. He has time to blog, he has time to cite where he gets his information.
The Bus Project is a Bus Federation partner (http://www.busfederation.com/)
The Bus Federation, along with ACORN is part of Health Care For America Now. Health Care for America is just another MoveOn/Soros front - very nicely documented at http://sweetness-light.com/archive/meet-obamas-healthcare-lobbyists. One of the people at McMinnville identified himself as being with MoveOn.org. I’m assuming he came on the bus. This same person was photographed at the Town Hall in Portland carrying a Health Care For America Now sign. I have the photograph.
As for the Oregon Bus Project (http://busproject.org/) - Their web site says "We’re building a movement. Not left, not right, but forward.", but then as Bill noted in his blog, they say "The affiliated BusPAC works to elect the best progressive candidates in the Oregon swing districts."
I thought Acron was an Eastern, Southern, Mid-America movement.
Only when the left moving far left Democratic party is crushed will the USA shine again.
And with any economic civil war the entitlement class of the left will indeed be crushed by the producing class on the right.
I couldn't agree more. Since the red states consistently receive more in federal tax dollars than they contribute and the blue states consistently contribute more than they receive, let all the states that voted for McCain/Palin secede peacefully and see how well they can make it on their own. I'm tired of my taxes going to support these red-state welfare queens.
Is Obama a bridgemaster?