Just have that crazy imbecile Soros write a check for...a billion dollars.
Farewell to liberty's glory'
Farewell even to our American name,
So famed in freedom's story.
Now UN blue runs over the land,
And red runs into the ocean,
To show where Kofi's province stands:
Such a parcel of rogues in a nation!
What force or guile could not subdue,
Through many warlike ages,
Is now wraught by a coward few,
For a hireling-traitor's wages.
The Marxist steel we could disdain,
Secure in valor's station,
But Soros' gold will be our bain:
Such a parcel of rogues in a nation!
I would or I had seen the day,
When treason thus could sell us;
Mine auld grey head had lain in clay,
With Washington and Jefferson.
By pith and pow'r, till my last hour,
I will make this declaration:
We were bought and sold with Soros' gold:
Such a parcel of rogues in a nation.
They bury the Soros connection in the middle of the story, and give it a sentence or two. The rest of the article laments the liberals' position.
What a pile of tripe. When you've got a billionaire donating millions, you're in pretty good shape.
We won't hear about Soros' too much, though--not from the mainstream press like the NY Slimes.
Uh, shouldn't that respectfully be President Bush?
NEWS RELEASE CONTACT: Gretchen Wright
August 8, 2003 202/371-1999
New Political Action Committee to Launch Unprecedented Get Out the Vote Campaign to Defeat Bush
WASHINGTON, DC - A new political action committee, America Coming Together (ACT), will undertake a substantial effort in 17 key states to defeat President George W. Bush and elect progressive officials at every level in 2004, and to engage and mobilize millions of voters on key public issues. ACT will have a budget of $75 million to create and coordinate massive registration and get-out-the-vote efforts.
ACT already has commitments from business leaders, philanthropists and unions for $30 million. In September, ACT will launch a national fundraising campaign to raise the remainder of its budget. ACT was formed by: EMILY's List President Ellen Malcolm; Partnership for America's Families President Steve Rosenthal; Service Employees International Union President Andy Stern; Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope; America Votes President Cecile Richards; and Gina Glantz, Assistant to the President of SEIU and former National Campaign Manager for Bill Bradley for President. "President Bush is taking this country in the wrong direction," said ACT President Ellen Malcolm. "ACT's creation is further evidence that mainstream America is coming together in response to President Bush's extremism - on the environment, reproductive choice, workers' rights, civil rights and other critical issues."
Next month, ACT will have organizers on the ground in top tier states to create a dialogue with voters on issues of concern to Americans and to share information about the Republican record. The 17 states ACT will target are: Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin.
"ACT is launching the largest field operation this country has ever seen," said Andy Stern. "We will be going door-to-door to let people know what the Administration's record really is on the breadand- butter issues that voters care about."
Steve Rosenthal, Chief Executive Officer of ACT, will manage its political program. Rosenthal directed the political program at the AFL-CIO from 1996-2003, when he helped increase union turnout by 4.8 million voters at a time when turn-out by non-union members decreased by 15 million. "The Bush Administration has rolled back environmental protections to a point that is intolerable to most Americans," Carl Pope added. "The jobless rate has soared while civil rights and women's gains are being assaulted every day. Americans do not want four more years of reckless, irresponsible policies that put our future at risk."
Ellen Malcolm will manage ACT's fundraising effort and administration while continuing to serve as President of EMILY's List. Steve Rosenthal will continue to serve as President of the Partnership for America's Families. Gina Glantz will serve as Treasurer. All three will make major time commitments to ACT.
ACT's founding donors include: Ann Bartley; Patricia Bauman; philanthropists Lewis and Dorothy Cullman; Peter Lewis, philanthropist and Chairman of the Board of the Progressive Corp.; Rob McKay, who was the major funder of a California initiative to allow Election Day voter registration; and financier and philanthropist George Soros.
# # # # NOTE: For information about George Soros, please call his spokesperson, Michael Vachon, at 212/397-5526.
Small numbers of fat cat elitists control the Democrat purse strings.
Does this give Hollyweird, Soros and other elitists the "say" in policy? Bet on it.
In last year's elections, Republican committees still outraised Democrats, but the parties raised soft money in roughly equal numbers, $264.5 million for the Republicans to $240.8 million for the Democrats, according to PoliticalMoneyLine, which tracks campaign finance. But Democrats were more dependent on it, relying on soft money for 56 percent of their contributions. For Republicans, it was 39 percent.