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How do stocks stay on breakout board? EFFI
EPGL EEGI EFFI
We need to stay on the breakout board. EEGI is a winner!! So Legit!!
I saw this when it was #2 on breakout board and I was able to scoop some under .01. Looks like a no brainier. EFFI
Is this share structure fore real???
Wow! go EFFI
Looks good over here. This one could hit .04 in no time. Looks legit and undervalued. EFFI
Hi, I bought a little today. Are we expecting news and what's it about?
EFFI
12,000,000 asking 0009 lol!! CK is gone because he wants nothing to do with this.
someone asked him who is dumping. and he said not him instead of not us.
Read his tweets. His sentences are broken up. Like he's not telling the truth imo.
i wouldn't even buy this at .0000001 .
I'm assuming what ever they have in the pipe and or acquiring is already revenue generating and worth .01 pps. Do you really think he can just fluff us to a penny. Yates sounds pretty confident and I believe it. NSEH
Ronn, CK, murph, Yates. I believe that there is something big here. I don't think there would be this kind of pump by a CEO if it was fake. I have a feeling the "icing" will be jaw dropping. Yates said definitely revenue generating. A lot of people are very interested here because it makes sense. Don't let the bashers discourage you they sold and want in Cheeper. They are usually the ones with chump change. NSEH
This is a good sign folks the Ba$$ers are out in full force. NSEH
"RIP" Was our hint! People need to do a little more DD! NSEH
Jaime, PR came Wed and 8k was supposed to be today but came out yesterday. From my understanding that's all we were going to get this week. Correct me if i'm wrong. NSEH
NSEH HAS MONEY AND CONNECTIONS. NSEH
I really feel like they have big big plans and they have the money to do it. NSEH
Does anybody else have the feeling that NSEH is going to be that stock that hits 10 to 20 cents and more? NSEH
FOLLOW THE MONEY FOLKS!!! CK, RONN, MURPH, YATES!!!!!!! NSEH
Can you imagine the connections C.K. Williams has??? $$$NSEH$$$
Who Really Runs Texas?
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The seven major donors who spend the most on, and get the most from, Texas politics.
by Dave Mann Published on Tuesday, October 2, 2012, at 5:19 CST
ILLUSTRATION BY GREG HOUSTON
IT’S HARD TO OVERSTATE THE POWER OF MONEY in Texas politics. If you’re wealthy, the state offers numerous ways to buy influence and implement policy.
Texas has no limits on campaign contributions. Unrestrained spending—in a state with extremely low voter turnout—means very rich people can donate a lot of money to influence a few voters and swing a state election. But that’s just the beginning. Rich individuals and corporations can spend unlimited cash on lobbyists, too, and use the legislative session to fete state lawmakers—who earn a measly $7,200 a year—with food, drinks and gifts. They can contribute to the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF), a conservative think tank with close ties to Gov. Rick Perry, that’s largely funded by the corporate interests that benefit from the free-market policies it advocates. And thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling, wealthy individuals and corporations can now fund third-party groups that influence elections without ever disclosing their donors.
Behind the scenes of many Texas political debates, there’s a wealthy individual or company feeding huge amounts of money into the system. When they get their way, as they often do, the policy they’ve purchased impacts people’s lives.
Who are these donors? We’ve compiled a list of the seven individuals and companies that spend the most and get the most in Texas politics. During the first 18 months of the 2012 election cycle—from January 1, 2011, to June 30, 2012—these seven donors have contributed a combined $10.3 million to state candidates, according to an analysis by the watchdog group Texans for Public Justice. There are many other powerful people in Texas, including elected officials, lobbyists and advocates. But these seven mega-donors essentially run the state. In Texas politics, money rules.
TIM DUNN
TIM DUNN IS OUT TO PURIFY the Republican Party, and he’s bankrolling the tea party group Empower Texans to do it. Fronted by provocative activist Michael Quinn Sullivan, the group pushes for extremely limited government and has tried to defeat any Republican who strays from its orthodoxy.
Sullivan may be the face of Empower Texans, but it’s Dunn’s money that makes the operation go. The 57-year-old Midland oilman is chair of the organization’s board and provided nearly $400,000 to the Empower Texans PAC since 2007—more than 40 percent of its total contributions, according to Texans for Public Justice. After tea party victories in 2010, Empower Texans gained new prominence. Pressure from Sullivan (and the threat of Dunn’s money) helped push the Texas Legislature significantly rightward in 2011, contributing to deep budget cuts, especially for public schools, while the $9 billion Rainy Day Fund was left mostly unspent.
The unprecedented education cuts didn’t bother Empower Texans. Dunn is no fan of public ed. A devout Christian, he founded Midland Classical Academy, which, according to the school’s website, offers students an “academic foundation from a Biblical worldview.” If Dunn has his way, many Texas kids will soon use publicly funded vouchers to attend private schools.
To make that happen, Empower Texans and Dunn took aim in 2012 at House Republicans who support public schools or who support House Speaker Joe Straus. Dunn contributed $40,000 toward defeating Straus in the May Republican primary. The speaker retained his seat, but five House committee chairs lost their primaries, thanks largely to Dunn’s efforts. Dunn’s crusade against the speaker—and against public schools—will surely continue.
BOB PERRY
IT’S BEEN A QUIET FEW YEARS for Bob Perry, relatively speaking.
The reclusive owner of Houston-based Perry Homes has been the most prolific and controversial GOP donor in Texas, if not the nation, donating millions every campaign cycle. He famously helped fund the Swift Boat attacks on John Kerry in 2004. He prodded Rick Perry (no relation) and the Legislature to create a state agency in 2003 just for him. OK, not just for him. Other homebuilders benefited, too. But it was Bob Perry’s attorney who wrote the law that created the Texas Residential Construction Commission. The agency was nominally supposed to regulate the building industry and protect homeowners, but it did nothing of the sort. Instead, it favored builders in arbitration disputes with consumers. Eventually the Legislature heard enough consumer complaints and did away with it.
Though he lost his friendly state agency, Bob Perry kept on writing checks, continuing to support the powerful Texans for Lawsuit Reform, a major backer of tort reform. It’s become increasingly difficult for consumers with faulty homes to sue or win claims against homebuilders.
Perry has largely avoided political controversies in recent years, but that doesn’t mean he’s any less influential. In the first 18 months of the 2012 election cycle, Bob Perry contributed more than $4.8 million to Texas candidates.
AT&T
THE PERTINENT QUESTION isn’t who AT&T gives money to, but rather who doesn’t AT&T give money to?
The Dallas-based telecom giant is ubiquitous in Texas politics. Campaign contributions? Check. More than $1.1 million donated to state candidates for the 2012 election through June 30. High-powered lobbyists? For sure. The company spends nearly $10 million a year to employ more than 80 registered lobbyists, including annual contracts ranging from $50,000 to $150,000 for high-powered lobbyists and former lawmakers like Mike Toomey, Buddy Jones, Dianne Delisi and Eddie Cavazos and Tracy King. Corporate sponsorships? Of course. The AT&T logo, and the corporate money that comes with it, backs numerous policy conferences and banquets, both parties’ state conventions, and the recent Texas Tribune Festival. The company also donates money to lawmakers’ favorite charities. As The Dallas Morning News reported, AT&T even bought 700 copies of Rick Perry’s book Fed Up! to give to attendees at a 2010 Washington luncheon.
Still, we don’t know exactly how much money AT&T spends to influence public policy in Texas, since the company also donates corporate money to nonprofits, think tanks and third-party groups that don’t have to disclose their donors. For instance, the Observer has learned that AT&T donated $76,500 to the TPPF in 2010.
What we do know is that in the tangled world of telecom policy, AT&T nearly always gets its way. Think about that next time you look at your phone bill.
WILLIAMS BROTHERS CONSTRUCTION
THOUSANDS OF YEARS from now, what will endure of Rick Perry’s reign as governor? When the remnants of refineries have rusted to dust, and the radiation from West Texas’s buried waste begins to subside, our monstrous highway network—beguiling shamrocks high above the plains, impossibly straight causeways across the swamps—may be our most enduring achievement.
When that day comes, we can thank Williams Brothers Construction for the monuments. The Houston-based firm is Texas’ biggest recipient of highway contracts, earning just under a quarter billion dollars in 2012. The company built Baytown’s Fred Hartman Bridge, the overpass-rich U.S. 59 Gateway in Houston, and big pieces of the President George Bush Turnpike around Fort Worth.
So who are the Williams Brothers? Look past brothers J.K. and C.K. Williams, each of whom has sold his share of the company they founded in 1955 to third partner James Douglass Pitcock. Today, 84-year-old Doug Pitcock is the sole shareholder in Texas’ biggest road-building enterprise, and he rewards his allies.
Harris County Judge Ed Emmett is a particularly close friend, and the recipient of more than $100,000 in campaign money from Pitcock. In 2010, the Houston Chronicle reported that Williams Brothers had been awarded more than $182 million in toll-road contracts from Harris County during Emmett’s three years in office.
Pitcock keeps a low profile, but he has good friends in Austin, too. In 2007, he loaned his private jet to Gov. Perry for a trip to Israel that prompted the formation of the Texas-Israel Chamber of Commerce. As of 2010, he’d given $400,000 to Perry’s campaigns, and Pitcock was the second-biggest benefactor of the Super PAC Americans for Rick Perry during the governor’s doomed presidential run.
Great news!! I have a good feeling about this one. $$ NSEH $$
Ck williams, Ronn Motor and KY!! This is huge people!! Multiple pennies here!!! NSEH
I believe !!!!!! Great work KY!!!!
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Ronn Maxwell is big name in this industry!!
Excellent news!! I'm going long here.
Pretty damn good for the first deal! Good job Kevin! NSEH
Exactly !! And you notice how the stock price is holding up :)
I believe NSEH has big plans. I've done my DD and I like what I see.
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CK Williams JR. Isn't going anywhere. This is a win win for everyone especially Mr. Williams. The deal that their renegotiating is going to put us into the pennies. NSEH
WAKE UP PEOPLE WE ARE NOT WAITING FOR 20 MORE STATES TO LEGALIZE ALTERNATIVE FUELS AND TECHNOLOGY! LEGAL IN ALL 50 STATES AND WORLDWIDE!! $$$$ NSEH $$$$$$$$$
Lots of people holding. Big plans for this company. NSEH
Desperate fools! NSEH
We are heading to a penny. CK Williams, Yates, and their first deal is with Ronn Maxwell! The buys we're poring in all the way till the end of Friday. We are going up again tomorrow . Smart people are holding.
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I guess we find out Tuesday. I believe there is a plan with the billionaire on board.
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Mr. Ronn Maxwell
The Ronn Motor Group, Inc.
4848 Cactus Rd
Suite 505-225
Scottsdale, AZ 88254
Re: Indication of Intent
Dear Mr. Maxwell:
Pursuant to our conversations pertaining to the preparation of a letter of intent, NuState Energy Holdings, Inc. (“NuState”) is pleased to submit this confidential indication of intent to enter into a license agreement with The Ronn Motor Group (RMG) in relation to the purchase of its IP software, GPSTrax (The “Transaction”). The purchase will include all current documentation and the training will be supported by the Company’s existing management team for the length of the agreement.
The Transaction contemplated in this indication of interest builds on the solid foundation laid by NuState and allows RMG to expand the business within the governmental and commercial markets across the globe.
Are you joking? He never said that . He said he was going to make this business a cash flow bus and revenue generating . I know your probably kidding but keep it a little more professional. New people that read the board might think this is a joke. NSEH
For sure balamidas! This is just the beginning . Lots of people riding free shares and a lot of people taking their starter position when it's up 80%. Today was beautiful and it will continue! The people behind this company want to go big and from the DD that I have done we will easily see pennies in the near future. I'm going to hold a nice chunk for big money. I really like what I am seeing here. NSEH $$$$$$
THIS PUPPIES HITTING A PENNY VERY SOON!!!! $$$ NSEH $$$
HOLD HOLD HOLD!!! CK WILLIAMS DEAL IS NO JOKE!! HUGE!!!$NSEH$