The Foundations behind the Left

Red State ^ | Jan 19 2016 | Jon Henke

[grey_whiskers]

Over a decade ago, the New York Post's Ryan Sager published a blockbuster story, showing that "campaign finance reform has been an immense scam perpetrated...by a cadre of left-wing foundations and disguised as a "mass movement." Based on the astonishing testimony of Sean Treglia, who ran the campaign finance reform effort for Pew Trusts, Sager reported that...(continued at link)

[grey_whiskers]

Read the whole thing (TM).

[DBrow]

bfl

[phothus]

A lot of good information there. I don’t think people realize the power that these organizations have. Over time they grow to first protect their own turf and position, and to espouse ideals and activities that are almost always harmful.

[jaydee770]

“...showing that “campaign finance reform has been an immense scam perpetrated...by a cadre of left-wing foundations and disguised as a “mass movement.”...”

It used to be that an honorable reputation and pride in a job well done was personally paramount and one would be mortified otherwise. Nowadays? It seems it is honorable to be dishonorable. Find me ten people off the street who give a hoot (most would likely have no problem and/or approve). Heck - Would they even be able to understand what you were telling them - or care that they couldn’t comprehend it?

[Jack Hydrazine]

Don’t forget about the Feds behind those foundations, also!

Modern art was CIA ‘weapon’
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-weapon-1578808.html

So, unknown to the Tate, the public or the artists, the exhibition was transferred to London at American taxpayers’ expense to serve subtle Cold War propaganda purposes. A former CIA man, Tom Braden, described how such conduits as the Farfield Foundation were set up. “We would go to somebody in New York who was a well-known rich person and we would say, ‘We want to set up a foundation.’ We would tell him what we were trying to do and pledge him to secrecy, and he would say, ‘Of course I’ll do it,’ and then you would publish a letterhead and his name would be on it and there would be a foundation. It was really a pretty simple device.”