Left Watch

We’ve written about this in the past, but it’s good to see a major mainstream information outlet finally pull out the media guns and start firing. In this case, it was Fred Barnes and the Weekly Standard.

Last January, a “confidential” memo from a Democratic political consultant outlined an ambitious scheme for spending $11.7 million in Colorado this year to crush Republicans. The money would come from rich liberal donors in the state and would be spent primarily on defeating Senate candidate Bob Schaffer ($5.1 million) and Representative Marilyn Musgrave ($2.6 million), who are loathed by liberals for sponsoring a proposed constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. The overarching aim: Lock in Democratic control of Colorado for years to come.

As Barnes points out, Tim Gill and three other super wealthy Liberals are pretty much looking control the Government in the state of Colorado with almost $12,000,000 in cash. It’s interesting to note that Tim Gill is now sticking his fingers into Oklahoma politics as well, so Oklahomans should be aware of what might be coming.

And let this be a warning to virtually every other free state in the union as well.

The Democratic surge in Colorado reflects the national trend, but it involves a great deal more. There’s something unique going on in Colorado that, if copied in other states, has the potential to produce sweeping Democratic gains nationwide. That something is the “Colorado Model,” and it’s certain to be a major topic of discussion when Democrats convene in Denver in the last week of August for their national convention.

Have no doubt, the super wealthy, far left, anti-free market crowd is looking to dominate state and local governments. Once they have control they will empower unions even further, pile on the tax increases, cause significant damage to the economy, and pretty bankrupt the American dream.

Be warned.

Tags: Colorado Model, Democrats, Tim Gill

The far left money machine has now resorted to election fraud, internet message manipulation, media assassination, and blatant attacks on the 1st amendment via petition blocking.

With this in mind it shouldn’t come as a surprise that their next target is the US Constitution. As if having law hungry attorneys dominate Congress, chomping at the bits to bend legal documents to suit their political agendas, the left is now launching a law firm that will likely spend most of its time taking the words of the Constitution out of context, and using activist courts to get away with it.

a new liberal think tank and public interest law firm launched in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, hoping to catch a progressive wave in both election politics and scholarly research on the meaning of the nation’s founding document.

“There’s nobody out there systematically making the argument that the Constitution’s text and history are on the progressive side,” says Douglas Kendall, founder of the new Constitutional Accountability Center. “The Constitution is, in its most vital respects, a progressive document.”

Well, the reason nobody is making that argument is because it’s absurd. The “progressive side” stands for everything the founding fathers went to war with England over.

To spread the word and take it into court, Kendall has assembled liberal stalwarts — and liberal money — to back his effort and support his view that, unlike unsuccessful liberal efforts in the past, his approach of embracing the Constitution’s text has the best shot of recapturing the constitutional high ground from conservatives. Yale Law School’s Akhil Amar and Jack Balkin and Duke’s Walter Dellinger are advisers, and George Soros’ Open Society Institute is a major funder. Ron Klain, former chief of staff to Al Gore and now an investment adviser for progressives, is also on board. Startup money totals nearly $2 million.

Kendall’s 10-year-old public interest group Community Rights Counsel, which used text-based arguments to fend off constitutional attacks on environmental laws, will close and morph into the new organization.

“We should embrace the Constitution rather than conceding it,” Amar says. “It is not the unique inheritance of conservatives.” Amar thinks the conservative Federalist Society has been “hugely successful” in shaping the debate over the Constitution for years, and the time is right to fight back.

The American Constitution Society, the liberal counterpart to the Federalist Society, is also supporting Kendall’s new organization. “He is taking on conservatives on their own terms,” says the society’’ executive director, Lisa Brown. “It’s absolutely time to reclaim this debate.”

Get ready freedom loving friends, the left is waging an all out war on America as we know it.

Tags: left wing, Money, Politics, Soros

Via Think Progress Exposed

More than 2.5 million people read pages of Think Progress every month. Quite a staggering number, and something free-market minded Americans should pay close attention to.

While some in mainstream communication realms might not see this as a significant story, many more of us are starting to uncover the dark agenda that drives the left wing propaganda machine at Think Progress.

What are the Origins of Think Progress?
Here is what we know… Continue Reading »

Tags: clinton, George Soros, Media Matters, think progress

Eddie Wong, former media and social justice investment consultant to the Democracy Alliance, has decided to move over to the Historic preservation realm.

Eddie Wong takes over the effort to convert the immigration station - often called the Ellis Island of the West - to a place where visitors can learn about the history of immigration to the western United States.

“I’m delighted to be the new executive director, particularly since my own father passed through the immigration station as an immigrant to the United States in 1928,” said Wong, 57. “The preservation and restoration of the Angel Island Immigration Station will allow the site to take its rightful place as one of America’s most important historic landmarks.”

The barracks are undergoing a $15 million restoration and there are plans to reopen them to the public in the spring of 2009, complete with interpretive exhibits.

This isn’t huge news by any means, but we here at Left Watch always try to keep an eye on the movements of those heavily involved in the far left money machine.

Wong previously served as a media and social justice investment consultant to the Democracy Alliance, a network of progressive donors. He was also the executive director of the National Asian American Telecommunications Association from 1996 to 2006. Prior to that, he worked as the western regional director of the National Rainbow Coalition.

Tags: Democracy Alliance, eddie wong

Tim Gill, a man who’s mission is to “Stop the Rick Santorums of tomorrow before they get started”, is dabbling into politics at the state level… all the way over in Oklahoma!

Jim Roth continues to lead in raising money for his bid to win a full six-year term on the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, campaign reports show.

Contributors include Tim Gill, a top gay and lesbian equal rights movement fundraiser, who gave the maximum donation of $5,000.

Gill, an entrepreneur and software developer from Denver, was among those identified by state Rep. Sally Kern, R-Oklahoma City, as helping contribute $30 million in 2006 to local and state races to help defeat conservative candidates.

Tim GIll has been said to be “the nexus of an aggressive new force in national politics”, so his involvement in Oklahoma races has to make you wonder what his special interest is in this particular candidate.

Roth, a former Oklahoma County commissioner, raised $100,141 during the first quarter of this year, according to his campaign committee’s report filed with the state Ethics Commission. He had $112,482 at the start of the reporting period. He spent $44,298 during the reporting period from Jan. 1 through March 31, his reports show. He has $174,475 on hand.

In addition to Gill, major contributors listed on Roth’s report include Edmond attorney Reggie Whitten, Denver entrepreneur Jared Polis, and Fort Lauderdale, Fla., retiree James Stepp, $5,000 each; El Reno attorney Mark Henricksen, $3,000; and Ronald Ansin, a business executive from Harvard, Mass., $2,500.

Food for thought…

Tags: Money, oklahoma, Tim Gill

You just have to love it when someone from the left claims there is a “vast right wing” conspiracy to take over the world via huge corporate funding schemes. Especially when it is the left who is guilty of doing just that.

Take The Blue Fund Group for example…

The Blue Fund invests in companies that both “act blue” and “give blue.” We build our portfolios on core progressive values like environmental sustainability, community participation and respect for human rights. And then we go a step further, investing only in those companies whose political contributions demonstrate a sincere commitment to these values.

Our “Blue Companies” are screened rigorously, evaluated regularly, and verified by an independent research firm. So you can rest assured that you are aligning your investments with your values.

Ironically, the Blue Fund Group is not doing so well.

So far this year, that fund has underperformed both its large-cap growth category and the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index, according to Chicago investment-research firm Morningstar Inc.

You can read quite a bit more about this at the WSJ’s story here.

Tags: blue fund group, funding, left, Money

The Center for Public Integrity has an interesting column out titled Stealth Campaigns.

While the article does a good job of making sure it includes reality… specifically that left wing factions of American politics are spending massive amounts of money, I disagree with a lot of its base argument.

For example:

Financed by many of the nation’s wealthiest investors and business leaders, as well as millions of small donors, these organizations are responsible for a flood of political attack advertising. Their work threatens to drown out the traditional voices of the Republican and Democratic parties and undercut the presidential candidates’ efforts to control their own messages.

For one, I believe the “message” is as diluted as possible in order to ignore the real issues and flood the public with non-essential BS. I also believe the two party system has corrupted American politics, and reform is badly needed.

There for, I’m personally not against the idea of American entrepreneurs spending money on reforming the political landscape. However, I am against the constant attacks from the left screaming that “the right is rich and we are not”, when the left is spending just as much, if not far more than the right.

In Stealth Campaigns, it is made clear that far left groups such as Democracy Alliance are pumping huge amounts of money in to American politics.

Read the rest here.

Tags: american government, Democracy Alliance, Money, Politics

David Brock is certainly no stranger to the left wing money machine. He is, after all, the founder of George Soros funded Media Matters of America, an organization with a sole intention on attacking anything that doesn’t align politically.

And the attacks will come hot and heavy now that Brock has taken on the lead role at “Progressive Media USA”. According to Politico, PMUSA is gearing up to launch a four month, $40 MILLION DOLLAR campaign centered around a plan to attack John McCain.

Wealthy Democrats are preparing a four-month, $40 million media campaign centered on attacks on Sen. John McCain. And it will be led by David Brock, the former investigative reporter who first gained fame in the 1990s as a right-wing, anti-Clinton journalist.

The planned campaign is the product of a shakeup in the top ranks of the struggling independent Democratic groups. Brock, now best known as the ex-conservative founder of the liberal group Media Matters, last month quietly assumed the chairmanship of what’s expected to be the main vehicle for independent Democratic attacks on McCain, now called Progressive Media USA.

Brock recently met with George Soros and others of his ilk to lay out the attack strategy. Apparently, Soros liked what he saw and gave the project his blessing.

Keep your eyes on this one, folks. It’s going to get dirty.

Tags: david brock, George Soros, Media Matters

This is a LONG video (just over an hour), but well worth it if you want to get a glimpse in to the mind of George Soros. You might also find it interesting that Eric Schmidt seems to hold Soros in high regard. Especially considering that Google employees overwhelmingly support Liberal Democrats.

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Tags: eric schimdt, George Soros, Money

The focus of Left Watch is primarily the anti-free market, anti-free society movement lead by the left wing machine money and George Soros. In most cases the money sources and the paper trail lead to far left activities that attempt to appear “non-partisan”. The purpose of this blog is to keep an eye on the flow of funding via Soros and his ilk.

But occasionally, we come across an attempt to manipulate mainstream media in an effort to discredit or damage politicians who do not fit the agenda of the left. In this case, the subject is George Bush and the War in Iraq. Regardless of your opinion on the war, you’ll likely find this scenario disconcerting and completely unacceptable.

So what’s the scoop?

It all started this morning when the Associated Press published a story regarding a study on false comments preceding the war in Iraq. Two major flaws in the story are readily apparent.

WASHINGTON - A study by two nonprofit journalism organizations found that President Bush and top administration officials issued hundreds of false statements about the national security threat from Iraq in the two years following the 2001 terrorist attacks.

#1) The Associated Press NOT ONCE mentions that the two “nonprofit journalism organizations” are funded by George Soros and his ilk.

#2) The Associated Press fails to provide similar statements by MANY politicians on both sides of the isle.

Need proof?

Watch the video…

Then, as if following a script, the New York Times published a version of their own.

Notice the names listed in the NYT article, or rather, the lack there of.

Warnings about the need to confront Iraq, by President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, the national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, and two White House press secretaries, among others, can be combed line by line, and reviewed alongside detailed critiques published after the fact by official panels, historians, journalists and independent experts.

Shameful…

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