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o n T H e P R o w L nection to its founder, the Rev. Pat Robertson. strange Bogus Respect The Christian Coalition proudly quotes Ronald Reagan on the front page of its website: “The...
...There are potentially 21 seats now held by House Democrat freshmen in districts that were won by President Bush in 2004, and that look promising for McCain in 2008...
...By comparison, Focus on the Family spends more than $123 million on conservative and profamily issues, and less than 7 percent on fundraising...
...Former Bill Clinton senior adviser Paul Begala is also believed to have a role in the organization...
...Sperling, along with Soros, is believed to be one of the larger o n T H e P R o w L backers of the organization now known as Progressive Media USA, which is being fronted by former 2004 election cycle, and includes Susan McCue, a former chief of staff of Senate majority leader Harry Reid...
...epitomized Greatness Regardless of the outcome of the Democratic primary season, look for additional focus to be put on the emerging relationship between Minister Louis Farrakhan and Sen...
...It lost control of the House by what amounted to 85,000 votes out of more than 80 million cast throughout the country...
...That group will have to report its funding sources...
...Sperling’s PoliPointPress was the publisher of The Real McCain, a highly negative profile of Sen...
...1 0 T H e a M e R I c a n s P e c T a T o R J u n e 2 0 0 8 Yet, Combs and others have been testifying on Capitol Hill as late as May of this year, claiming to be the vanguard of conservative grassroots organizations...
...John McCain...
...It’s a long fall from grace for the Coalition, which today barely registers on the conservative movement radar...
...Progressive Media Moguls The Christian Coalition is but one facet of the growing “LeftWing Con spiracy” that is being put in place by billionaires George Soros and, more recently, John Sperling, who’s been very active and visible in the past year or so...
...Because, according to insiders in the “Save the Internet” coalition and MoveOn.org, the Christian Coalition is now essentially a “grass tops” organization for MoveOn and its supporters working to have Congress impose federal government regulation of the Internet...
...Some popular stats: • Even though the GOP was outspent in 1994, 2000, and 2004, it managed to gain control of the House and hold it...
...Illinois Sen...
...Chuck Schumer, according to aides, have had ongoing discussions about the failings of Reid and the Democratic leadership on Capitol Hill...
...Groups like Focus on the Family, the Family Research Council, Concerned Women for America and the Traditional Values Coalition have all passed the CC by...
...Both men laid out plans for PMUSA to wealthy leftists in New York earlier this year...
...It’s kind of sad to see what has happened...
...To ensure that he can tap into union funding, Brock has created a 527 offshoot of the 501(c)(3), Progressive Media Action...
...Barack Obama...
...Farrakhan supporters have been actively supporting Obama, and Farrakhan churches have been providing volunteers at Obama events around the country...
...Both have their sights set on taking the reins of Senate leadership after the 2008 election cycle, though Schumer might be willing to take the whip post under the right circumstances, surrendering the leadership post to Durbin...
...o n T H e P R o w L nection to its founder, the Rev...
...Democrats this year are a gift that keeps on giving, and that is energizing our base a bit...
...We’re going to be more than competitive, I think...
...Brock has said that the new organization is designed to unify the left-wing movement around the Democratic Party and mobilize in the fall for whomever the nominee may be...
...Rejecting Reid The battle over the federal farm bill has created additional fissures in an already heavily cracked Democratic leadership in the Senate...
...Soros, a visible supporter of Sen...
...Durbin and New York Sen...
...It’s true that donor numbers and donation numbers are down, but you can’t dwell on that now,” says a senior GOP House leadership aide...
...Barack Obama, is believed to have committed millions to the project, in part to ensure that his America Votes organization, which was set up to ensure Democrats have a state-by-state get-out-the-vote operation on par with Republicans in 2008, gets the underwriting and the support it needs to succeed...
...The coalition has testified on Capitol Hill and sent out fundraising appeals on behalf of Internet regulation, claiming to be the nation’s largest grassroots conservative organization...
...It’s run by Roberta Combs and her family, with no offices in Washington, D.C., and no conIt now operates on about $1.5 million per year, spending almost half of that on direct mail fundraising, according to its latest tax filings...
...American Spectator writer David Brock, who is the group’s chairman...
...strange Bogus Respect The Christian Coalition proudly quotes Ronald Reagan on the front page of its website: “The most terrifying words in the English language are ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’” So why is the organization’s second highest priority government regulation of the Internet...
...Sperling made his billions from the University of Phoenix, and what he is spending politically, he is spending on far-left groups...
...Boehner has been making a presentation to donors, as well as House Republicans, that focuses on what his staff calls “good news through number crunching...
...Dick Durbin was said to be extremely angry at his boss, Sen...
...That title, of course, belongs to groups such as the Family Research Council...
...Beyond Soros and Sperling, Hollywood producer and real estate heir Stephen Bing is also believed to be a financial backer...
...The leadership of the organization reads like a who’s who of MoveOn.org, the group founded with Soros money prior to the Good news Republicans House Republican leader John Boehner is pushing hard to raise funds for the Freedom Project, a PAC set up a decade ago to help Republicans make gains in Congress...
...Progressive Media USA will not...
...The wild card in their planning, say aides, is Hillary Clinton, who may still want to take on a leadership role should she not be handed the Democratic presidential nomination...
...The Christian Coalition, by all accounts, was a moribund organization as late as 2005, when it received an injection of cash to serve as the “conservative voice” to balance out the “Save the Internet” coalition’s other grassroots members, including MoveOn, and such companies as Google...
...The Christian Coalition] just isn’t what it was two decades ago,” says a former national board member...
...Harry Reid, for allowing a series of DurbinJ u n e 2 0 0 8 T H e a M e R I c a n s P e c T a T o R 1 1 backed amendments to be cut from the negotiated bill...
Vol. 41 • June 2008 • No. 5
