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Democratic civil war update: MoveOn raises $3.6 million to attack party moderates
Washington Examiner ^
| 11-6-09
| Byron York
Posted on 11/06/2009 3:29:00 AM PST by radioone
A few days ago, the left-wing activist group MoveOn.org began sending out emails seeking contributions to fund primary challenges against any Democratic senator who does not fully support "health care reform with a public option."
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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: democrats; healthcare; moveon; moveonorg; obamacare; politics; socializedmedicine
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Strange...the LSM is only reporting on the "problems" in the Republican party.
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posted on
11/06/2009 3:29:02 AM PST
by
radioone
To: radioone
The “moderates” from both parties should form their own party.
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posted on
11/06/2009 3:32:35 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
To: cripplecreek
With the Liberal Democrats working harder than ever before to get the blue dogs out, and the conservative Republicans working harder than ever to get the RINO’s out, I think its safe to say that Obama is the most polarizing President in American History.
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posted on
11/06/2009 3:37:10 AM PST
by
RatsDawg
(At least we don't have to worry about riding in Ted Kennedy's car anymore...)
To: cripplecreek
The Moderate Party, “We believe whatever you want us to”
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posted on
11/06/2009 3:38:11 AM PST
by
RatsDawg
(At least we don't have to worry about riding in Ted Kennedy's car anymore...)
To: cripplecreek
“Moderate” has no meaning as far as I am comcerned, particularly as applied to Republicans. Have you ever heard any Republican referred to as a liberal? Many so-called moderate Republicans are are just this side of being radical liberals or socialists.
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11/06/2009 3:40:14 AM PST
by
monocle
To: monocle
What the SEIU had to say about Michigan's newest "republican" state senator.
The SEIU Michigan State Council announced at a press conference on August 17th that it has endorsed Republican former State Representative Mike Nofs for State Senator for the 19th state senate district, which includes Calhoun and Jackson counties and the cities of Battle Creek and Jackson. SEIU represents more than 2,000 members in the district.
An SEIU endorsement comes with a commitment to help our candidate win and then work together afterward to improve the lives of working people, said Phil Thompson, executive vice president of SEIU Local 517M and president of the SEIU Michigan State Council.
Mike Nofs has a proven track record of aggressively advocating for issues that he believes will move our state forward. Mike Nofs believes in collective bargaining and was a proud union member during his time with the Michigan State Police. Nofs believes that the current healthcare system is broken and the answer lies with both private industry and the government working together. Nofs opposes privatizing state services because he understands that there are ultimately no costs savings.
Its being touted as a win but I'm struggling to see it.
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posted on
11/06/2009 3:44:43 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
To: cripplecreek
I lost any respect I ever had for Newt Gingrich after his performance in the NY 23rd election. Gingrich played all the language tricks that Alinsky liberals employ and played average people for fools.
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11/06/2009 4:00:24 AM PST
by
monocle
To: radioone
* Wes Boyd : Wes Boyd, the California-based founder of MoveOn.org-------------------- "Salon.com Announces Election-Year Initiative With MoveOn, The Guardian and Air America ," by Timothy Karr , MediaChannel.org , March 13, 2004 Dateline NEW YORK, March 9, 2004 , http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1097243/posts#6
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11/06/2009 4:20:33 AM PST
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piasa
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To: piasa
1. MoveOn.org - Launched September 22, 1998
Launched not long after the bombing of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, and at a time we were having a particular bout of trouble with Iraq.
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posted on
11/06/2009 4:23:28 AM PST
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piasa
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To: piasa
SEPTEMBER 22, 1998 : (MOVEON.ORG IS LAUNCHED BY WESLEY BOYD & HIS WIFE JOAN BLADES —see SHADOW PARTY’S ‘SEVEN SISTERS’) MoveOn.org
Launched September 22, 1998
...High-tech entrepreneur Wesley Boyd and his wife Joan Blades created MoveOn. Their software company Berkeley Systems Inc. of Berkeley, California made a fortune in the early 90s with its After Dark screensaver, featuring the famous animated flying toasters. When the screensaver market peaked in 1994, Berkeley Systems rolled out a successful line of CD-ROM computer games.[3] Company sales had reached $30 million annually by the time Boyd sold Berkeley Systems in 1997 for $13.8 million.[4]
Idle, wealthy and still full of fight, Boyd and Blades sought new challenges. Angered by the Clinton impeachment, the couple wrote a one-sentence petition and e-mailed it to friends, who then e-mailed it to others in chain-letter fashion. It said, Censure the president and move on to pressing issues facing the nation. At the same time, Boyd and Blades launched a Web site enabling people to sign their petition electronically. To their astonishment, 100,000 supporters registered in the first week.
Boyd and Blades realized they were onto something. They launched MoveOn.org on September 22, 1998. One month later, on October 23, they rolled out MoveOn PAC, a federal political action committee designed to siphon political contributions from MoveOns fast-growing membership. -———— ?”The Shadow Party: Part II,” Front Page Magazine.com ^ | October 7, 2004 | David Horowitz and Richard Poe?
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11/06/2009 4:25:14 AM PST
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piasa
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To: piasa
A lot of foreign influence here:
OCTOBER 7, 2004 : (MOVEON) Today, MoveOn boasts an e-mail list of more than 2.2 million members in the USA and over 800,000 abroad.[5] The lean-and-mean operation rents no office space. Its ten full-time staffers work from home, staying in touch via e-mail, instant messaging and weekly conference calls.[6] ---------- ?"The Shadow Party: Part II," Front Page Magazine.com ^ | October 7, 2004 | David Horowitz and Richard Poe?
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11/06/2009 4:27:08 AM PST
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piasa
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To: piasa
SEPTEMBER 17, 2003 or later : (SOROS & SON, PETER LEWIS, PETER BING {see MAFIA} & LEWIS CULLMAN POUR MONEY INTO MOVEON — See SHADOW PARTY, PROGRESSIVE INSURANCE CO.) In the meantime, George Soros had incorporated MoveOn into his Shadow Party. Following the September 17, 2003 meeting between Soros and Boyd mentioned in Part 1, Soros and his associates poured nearly $6.2 million into MoveOn over a period of six months, according to the Center for Public Integrity. The contributions include $2.5 million from George Soros personally; $2.5 million from Peter B. Lewis of Progressive Insurance; $971,427 from Peter Bing of Shangri-La Entertainment; $100,000 from Benson & Hedges tobacco heir Lewis Cullman; and $101,000 from Soros 34-year-old son Jonathan T. Soros, an attorney and financier recently promoted to deputy manager of Soros Fund Management LLC. ————— ?”The Shadow Party: Part II,” Front Page Magazine.com ^ | October 7, 2004 | David Horowitz and Richard Poe?
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11/06/2009 4:28:17 AM PST
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piasa
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To: piasa
1994 : (TX : SMEAR CAMPAIGN ON W BUSH’S NATIONAL GUARD SERVICE — See GLENN SMITH, ANN RICHARDS— SEE TEXAS VETERANS FOR TRUTH {see MOVEON, TANG }) [See Glenn Smith,Texas Veterans for Truth, John Kerry, John Edwards, Ann Richards; VERSES SWIFTVETS]
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Have you noticed that no one has mentioned the most obvious suspect? The one whose involvement must be kept secret at all costs? The 527 which was specifically set up and funded by MoveOn ($400,00) for the purpose of countering the SwiftVets by attacking Bush’s National Guard service? Doesn’t it seem improbable that they would not have any role in this?
Add to that the fact that their founder was the original person to attack Bush’s Guard service in 1994? That prior to 1994 he had access to National Guard files via his boss Ann Richards? That as campaign manager for their last gubernatorial candidate and head of the largest Dem organization in Texas that every Democrat operative knows him well.
Tie Glenn Smith and Texas Veterans For Truth into the story and you get unlawful coordination.
233 posted on 09/20/2004 6:22:40 PM PDT by bayourod
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11/06/2009 4:30:07 AM PST
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piasa
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To: piasa
DECEMBER 2003 : (JONATHAN SOROS & THE INFAMOUS MOVEON BUSH=HITLER AD) Jonathan Soros has become personally involved with MoveOn.orgs activities. In December 2003, he collaborated with techno-rocker Moby to organize Bush in 30 Seconds, an online contest for the best 30-second anti-Bush TV ad. MoveOn agreed to air the winning commercial on national television. Among the 1,500-odd submissions to the contest were two ads juxtaposing footage of George W. Bush and Adolf Hitler. MoveOn posted these ads on its site. Under pressure from Jewish groups and Republicans, MoveOn pulled the Hitler ads and apologized for them. [10]
Despite such gaffes, MoveOn need not worry about its media image. Major networks and newspapers pour forth an endless flood of free publicity for the group. Calculated in terms of equivalent advertising fees, the millions MoveOn raises in political contributions doubtless pales in value beside the worshipful profiles and saccharine coverage which major media never tire of bestowing upon [Wesley] Boyd and [his wife Joan] Blades Web site and political campaigns....-—————The Shadow Party: Part II
Front Page Magazine.com ^ | October 7, 2004 | David Horowitz and Richard Poe
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11/06/2009 4:31:17 AM PST
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piasa
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To: RatsDawg
>> The Moderate Party, We believe whatever you want us to
The Moderate Party: Doing WhatEVER We Have To Do So We Can Party In DC.
The Moderate Party: Were Fun! We’re Uninhibited! We have NO Principles! We Look Like America! Or At Least, Like America Prime-time Teevee!
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posted on
11/06/2009 4:37:20 AM PST
by
Nervous Tick
(Stop dissing drunken sailors! At least they spend their OWN money.)
To: RatsDawg
>> The Moderate Party, We believe whatever you want us to
The Moderate Party: Doing WhatEVER We Have To Do So We Can Party In DC.
The Moderate Party: Were Fun! We’re Uninhibited! We have NO Principles! We Look Like America! Or At Least, Like America Prime-time Teevee!
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11/06/2009 4:37:28 AM PST
by
Nervous Tick
(Stop dissing drunken sailors! At least they spend their OWN money.)
To: piasa
FEBRUARY 15, 2007 THU : (MOVEON.ORG-ENDORESED MURTHA PROMISES TO UNDERMINE US WAR EFFORT BY CHOKING OFF COMBAT FUNDS TO THE TROOPS) U.S. Rep. Murtha touts way to choke off Iraq war reports, "U.S. Rep. John Murtha, a leading congressional opponent of the war in Iraq, on Thursday said his plans for placing conditions on how President George W. Bush can spend $93.4 billion in new combat funds would effectively stop an American troop buildup."
They wont be able to continue. They wont be able to do the deployment. They wont have the equipment, they dont have the training and they wont be able to do the work. Theres no question in my mind, the Pennsylvania Democrat said."
Now we see what George Soros is getting for the millions of dollars he spent on MoveOn.org, with which Murtha has consorted openly.
"Screw them, Rep. John Murtha said of Republicans in an email sent to the liberal political group MoveOn.org on Wednesday. The Pennsylvania Democrat, who is urging a U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq, added that he needs its members help to throw GOP congressmen out of power as many of them as possible."
-----John Murtha and MoveCongress.org knife the U.S. Armed Forces IsraPundit ^ | 2/16/07 | Bill Levinson
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11/06/2009 4:37:39 AM PST
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piasa
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To: piasa
The Bush administration "won't be able to continue. They won't be able to do the deployment. They won't have the equipment. They don't have the training and they won't be able to do the work," Murtha said in the post on the Democrat-friendly Web site MoveCongress.org. "This vote will limit the options of the president and should stop this surge." --------http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,252216,00.html
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11/06/2009 4:44:40 AM PST
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piasa
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To: piasa
* Senator Patrick Leahy : This FreeRepublic.com thread gives the information and photographs of Democrat US Senator Patrick Leahy meeting with and planning political actions with MoveOn.org MoveOn.org was formed during the first impeachment proceeding against Bill Clinton to defend the Clintons and is now pushing Dean, Gore, Clark, and Hillary. It is now currently involved in soliciting foreign campaign money for Democrat candidates in the USA in direct violation of the very Campaign Finance Reform bill that they pushed thru Congress. After pushing thru CFR the Democrats found they could now only raise about $1 to every the Republicans raised in spite of their control of ABC, NBC, CBS, NYT, WP, LAT, and many other liberal news media outlets. Now they demand FOX, FNC, talk radio, and the internet be silenced as they are losing voters and elections as the Iraq War and growing economy proves their taxation and cut the military schemes brought us the Clinton March 2000 recession and 911. CFR bans you from buying a political ad 60 days before a primary and 30 days before an election. Network TV and newspapers can criticize a political candidate but your US Constitutional Freedom of Speech rights are now null and void. Some people are more equal than others. FreeRepublic article, thread, and FR member comments: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1042838/posts
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11/06/2009 4:47:15 AM PST
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piasa
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To: piasa
* CPUSA & MoveOn.org : ...they can delete it from the website but if it was there then the "way back machine" will have a snapshot of it back then. bwaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhaaaaaaaaaaa! My favorite is the Communist party USA, where for ages, MoveOn.org was listed on the front page as their ACTION wing of the CPUSA. http://web.archive.org/web/20030719052730/http://cpusa.org/ 8 posted on 01/17/2006 8:12:44 AM PST by The Bat Lady | To 1
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11/06/2009 4:48:55 AM PST
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piasa
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