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Democrats Now Quietly Use Money From Outside Groups Too

Posted by JOE GANDELMAN, Editor-In-Chief in Featured Articles, Politics.
Oct 31st, 2010

The old saying “What’s good for the goose is good for the gander” is now in place — but perhaps it could be rephrased “What’s good for the Republicans is good for the Democrats.” But some (not those on the Supreme Court, though) would argue that’s what’s good for the Republican gander and the previously loud-sqwuaking Democratic goose who seemed mad at the gander is unfortunate for American democracy:

Now Democrats are quietly using money from outside groups shelling out big bucks without identifying the donors, too:

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So talking points have proven to be….talking points. Yet another tidbit about politics that will tend to make independent voters in general more cynical and cause some independent voters to decide more than ever to remain independent. And although it’ll help in key races, this development uncovered by Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff won’t help strengthen a key Democratic argument about the troubling role of anonymous donations in campaign 2010.

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But the role of money hit the political analyst class bigtime earlier this month after Democrats were quoted in various articles as professing optimism. The money started pouring in and the narrative quickly changed. For instance, the Examiner noted:

Republicans are so far ahead in the money race that they continually expand the districts in play, forcing Democrats to go on the defensive; money with unknown origins floating around is seen as a mere dress rehearsal for 2012.

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So it seemed inevitable that the Democrats would enter into the group donations fray big time.

But here is an easy prediction: in 2010 [I think he meant 2012] look for anonymous donations from groups to play an even more extensive role — a role that’ll make this year’s donations seem like a tip at Dennys.

And expect the money to be pouring in from both sides.

Full article @ TMV

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There is NO WAY that Dems can run a campaign under this environment without forming nonprofits and sourcing corporate capital.


I encourage you to look up the funding sources (what little we can find) of Freedom Works, one of the key funding sources of the Tea Party Express (including the Tea Party tour bus, a lot of political and strategy consultation, talking points, advertisements). Most of the Political Advertisements are coming in the name of Americans for Prosperity (AFP) (On Wiki and Sourcewatch)  Citizens for a Sound Economy is the parent organization of FreedomWorks and AFP.

Look up this Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation (which goes straight to ->), Koch Family Foundations.

Patients United Now, The 912 Project, Patients First -- all funded and promoted by the above tax-exempt spenders who are not accountable to anyone.

In May 2009, Americans for Prosperity launched Patients United Now, a website self-described as a project offering information for those opposed to what they describe as "a government takeover of the United States health care system."^[20]



Americans for Prosperity (Sourcewatch) is quite informative - read the whole thing there.

The AFP is the third largest recipient of funding from the Koch Family Foundations, behind the Cato Institute and the George Mason University Foundation. (Sourcewatch)

Koch Family Foundations is funded by Koch Industries. According to Forbes, Koch Industries is the second largest privately-held company, and the largest privately owned energy company, in the United States. Koch industries has made its money in the oil business, primarily oil refining. Presently, it holds stakes in pipelines, refineries, fertilizer, forest products, and chemical technology. Americans for Prosperity is also connected to oil giant ExxonMobil.  (Sourcewatch)



Yes, Hillary's 1994 Healthcare proposal was countered bigtime by big Pharma, Tobacco; so has this one, aided also by Oil, Gas, Chem industry conglomerates.

And, the barrier for Hillary in 2012 is quite high already from the Corporate finance side. This is why we are not hearing much of Hillary's accomplishments... Otherwise, the media would have been constantly covering her now especially this week as her trip to Asia is quite an important mission.


2012 will be ugly.

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Related article: "Covert Operations - The billionaire brothers who are waging a war against Obama." (Jame Mayer, The New Yorker, 8/30/10)

-- Edited by Sanders on Sunday 31st of October 2010 12:57:02 PM