Posted on 06/23/2011 7:11:49 PM PDT by jazusamo
A small tax-exempt political group with ties to wealthy liberals like billionaire financier George Soros has quietly helped elect 11 reform-minded progressive Democrats as secretaries of state to oversee the election process in battleground states and keep Republican “political operatives from deciding who can vote and how those votes are counted.”
Known as the Secretary of State Project (SOSP), the organization was formed by liberal activists in 2006 to put Democrats in charge of state election offices, where key decisions often are made in close races on which ballots are counted and which are not.
The group’s website said it wants to stop Republicans from “manipulating” election results.
“Any serious commitment to wresting control of the country from the Republican Party must include removing their political operatives from deciding who can vote and whose votes will count,” the group said on its website, accusing some Republican secretaries of state of making “partisan decisions.”
SOSP has sought donations by describing the contributions as a “modest political investment” to elect “clean candidates” to the secretary of state posts.
Named after Section 527 of the Internal Revenue Code, so-called 527 political groups — such as SOSP — have no upper limit on contributions and no restrictions on who may contribute in seeking to influence the selection, nomination, election, appointment or defeat of candidates to federal, state or local public office. They generally are not regulated by the Federal Election Commission (FEC), creating a soft-money loophole.
While FEC regulations limit individual donations to a maximum of $2,500 per candidate and $5,000 to a PAC, a number of 527 groups have poured tens of millions of unregulated dollars into various political efforts.
SOSP has backed 11 winning candidates in 18 races, including such key states as Ohio, Nevada, Iowa, New Mexico and Minnesota.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
They dance circles around us.
Always have and always will.
We couldn’t even get 1 state to require being a US Citizen to run for President.
Not one!
Correct, and it’s darn sad.
Sadly, the sheeple care more about American Idol than this.
We had ample warning that soros was doing this way back in 2010. While we focused on electing conservative Republicans, soros was electing S of Ss. I was literally SCREAMING warnings about it. It’s not who gets the votes, it’s who counts the votes.
Concerning Secretary of State’s, there is a big brouhaha in Indiana concerning their SOS - Charlie White. I wonder how much Soros money is going into this sham to unseat him ?
That this coup d’etat was planned overseas,
and HELPED by the American MSM and American RINOs,
who coveredup Pelosi’s and Reid’s perjury, is
outrageous and treason.
That would be an interesting question. I wonder where else the funding is coming from to try to unseat Charlie??? Have you seen anything about it in the local news?
I look at the Indy paper online and seen nothing on Soros or any 527 concerning Charlie. I personally knew Charlie from H.S. being from the area. IMHO, it is a sham and will be a show trial. He got tripped up by some technicality !
> That would be an interesting question. I wonder where else the funding is coming from to try to unseat Charlie??? Have you seen anything about it in the local news?
It bears watching; will keep on eye on the trial if any info comes out. Expect you are right about Charlie and the technicality. Thanks for posting.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.