Posted on 04/06/2005 5:46:33 AM PDT by Quilla
This wasn't the first time that secret campaign material 'found' its way into the hands of Dem operatives.
Don't forget the TV ads that were given to the Dems by an employee of the company in Austin that was hired to do a Bush campaign.
EXCERPT:
The Southampton Meeting
To the extent that the Shadow Party can be said to have an official launch date, July 17, 2003 probably fits the bill.[10] On that day, a team of political strategists, wealthy donors, leftwing labor leaders and other Democrat activists gathered at Soros’ Southampton beach house on Long Island. Aside from Soros, the most noteworthy attendee was Morton H. Halperin. Soros had hired Halperin in February 2002, to head the Washington office of his tax-exempt Open Society Institute – part of Soros’ global network of Open Society institutes and foundations located in more than 50 countries around the world. Given Halperin’s history, the appointment revealed much about Soros’ political goals.
Halperin has a long and controversial track record in the world of Washington intrigue, dating back to the Johnson Administration. Journalists sympathetic to Halperin’s leftwing sentiments give him high marks for blowing the whistle on the Vietnam War, but his activism helped undermine America’s war effort and contributed to the Communist victory.
Put this in there somewhere:
O'Reilly Factor - Left-wing "reporters" met with John Kerry in Al Franken's apartment
03.22.04
Posted on 03/22/2004 10:13:09 PM EST by kcvl
In an effort to galvanize the message Kerry wants to deliver in the time remaining, he convened a powerful roster of journalists and columnists in the New York City apartment of Al Franken last Thursday. The gathering could not properly be called a meeting or a luncheon. It was a trial. The journalists served as prosecuting attorneys, jury and judge. The crowd I joined in Franken’s living room was comprised of:
Al Franken and his wife Franni;
Rick Hertzberg, senior editor for the New Yorker;
David Remnick, editor for the New Yorker;
Jim Kelly, managing editor for Time Magazine;
Howard Fineman, chief political correspondent for Newsweek;
Jeff Greenfield, senior correspondent and analyst for CNN;
Frank Rich, columnist for the New York Times;
Eric Alterman, author and columnist for MSNBC and the Nation;
Art Spiegelman, Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist/author of ‘Maus’;
Richard Cohen, columnist for the Washington Post;
Fred Kaplan, columnist for Slate;
Jacob Weisberg, editor of Slate and author;
Jonathan Alter, senior editor and columnist for Newsweek;
Philip Gourevitch, columnist for the New Yorker;
Calvin Trillin, freelance writer and author;
Edward Jay Epstein, investigative reporter and author;
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., who needs no introduction.
We sat in a circle around Kerry and grilled him for two long hours. In an age of retail politicians who avoid substance the way vampires avoid sunlight, in an age when the sitting President flounders like a gaffed fish whenever he must speak to reporters without a script, Kerry’s decision to open himself to the slings and arrows of this group was bold and impressive. He was fresh from two remarkable speeches – one lambasting the PATRIOT Act, another outlining his foreign policy ideals while eviscerating the Bush record – and had his game face on. He needed it, because Eric Alterman lit into him immediately on the all-important issue of his vote for the Iraq War Resolution. The prosecution had begun.
16 posted on 10/06/2004 10:34:54 AM PDT by Howlin (What's the Font Spacing, Kenneth?)
Go ahead and believe what you want.
You're wrong.
The facts as are I say.
A T-Shirt is better than what Tareeezzaa Heinz got....she probably spent many millions...and she still has Kerry!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1190718/posts
Top Individual Contributors to 527 Committees(list of 22)
2004 Election Cycle click HERE
(here are the top three:
1- Peter Lewis-Peter B Lewis/Progressive Corp- Cleveland, OH- $14,030,000
2- George Soros-Soros Fund Management- New York, NY- $12,600,000
3- Steven Bing-Shangri-La Entertainment- Los Angeles, CA- $8,086,273
*note: if you follow the above link and click on the individual's name, you'll find a list of the 527 groups contributed to; for example, here's Peter Lewis' list:
Joint Victory Campaign 2004- $7,750,000
America Coming Together- $2,995,000
MoveOn.org- $2,500,000
Marijuana Policy Project- $485,000
Young Democrats of America- $250,000
PunkVoter Inc- $50,000
15 posted on 08/13/2004 2:04:06 AM PDT by Susannah (Kerry has a flexible message--it changes with each campaign stop and audience.)
Actually, they managed to make the election tighter than it was predicted because this was not a tinfoil trap but a real breach that was not intentional.
Thank you!
I remembered that meeting but not the date.
The Democrats will embrace any socialist, communist, or hate America leftist that will give them money. This is the end of an era from the Democratic party, but they still havent figured it out yet. Until they take their party back from the radical left like George Soros and Michael Moore that have hijacked it, they will continue to be only a regional party appealing only to the rabid radical left.
I was thinking that was a purloined tape of then Gov. Bush practicing for the upcoming debates with Gore. Of course, my memory's not what it used to be.
Wow amazing stuff! Especially when you consider that it caused the democrats to shoot themselves in the foot. By emulating the Rove strategy they put their liberal wackos in the spotlight and showed the voters what they really are. This strategy works for conservatives because our message is sane and rational whereas the liberal message is flawed and will not stand up to close scrutiny. I can picture a typical american household being continually approached and contacted by some liberal political activist and becoming increasingly annoyed and disgusted with democrats. They don't have a good foot to put forward to be able to use this strategy effectively!
I don't know why I should be, but I'm still amazed that they always get away with this crap. Just once I'd like to see large scale Watergate type consequences for their crimes. However, considering the republican senate can't even stand up and fight for judicial nominees, I'm guessing a senate appointed investigative panel on election/voter fraud is out of the question.
I didn't see the interview, with Brit, but thinking back on the election, it's pretty obvious that both parties were employing the same agressive grassroots style campaigns. Well, except that republican activists weren't registering Mary Poppins or channeling the "dearly departed" in an effort to help this sorely overlooked voting bloc to cast their ballots. Thank God for the Swifties, they were the one thing the Dems couldn't anticipate or mount a counterattack against.
Cindie
EDITOR'S NOTE: NR White House Correspondent Byron York's new book, The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy, details how MoveOn.org, George Soros, Michael Moore, 527 groups, Al Franken, and other Democratic activists built the biggest, richest, and best organized political movement in generations. The book reports that in 2003, as Democratic operatives were planning the campaign against President Bush, they obtained a copy of a top-secret Republican strategy plan authored by top White House political adviser Karl Rove. The following excerpt details how those operatives, as part of the effort to woo Soros and other multi-million dollar contributors, showed Soros the secret Rove plan during a crucial planning session at Soros's Hamptons estate. After the meeting, Soros became the biggest campaign donor in American history, giving more than $25 million to the effort to defeat George W. Bush.
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Dems Showed Soros Secret Rove PlanExcerpt:EDITOR'S NOTE: NR White House Correspondent Byron York's new book, The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy, details how MoveOn.org, George Soros, Michael Moore, 527 groups, Al Franken, and other Democratic activists built the biggest, richest, and best organized political movement in generations. The book reports that in 2003, as Democratic operatives were planning the campaign against President Bush, they obtained a copy of a top-secret Republican strategy plan authored by top White House political adviser Karl Rove. The following excerpt details how those operatives, as part of the effort to woo Soros and other multi-million dollar contributors, showed Soros the secret Rove plan during a crucial planning session at Soros's Hamptons estate. After the meeting, Soros became the biggest campaign donor in American history, giving more than $25 million to the effort to defeat George W. Bush.
In June 2003, Soros announced he was pulling back from the pro-democracy work that his main foundation, the Open Society Institute, did in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union so that he could focus his attention on the United States. The change was necessary, Soros told reporters in Moscow, because the political scene in America had become "quite dangerous." In the Bush administration, Soros explained, "the executive branch has come under the influence of a group of ideologues who have forgotten the first principle of an open society: that they don't have a monopoly on truth."
"What really got him energized was the foreign policy of this administration," Soros's chief of staff and political advisor, Michael Vachon, told me. "He was motivated by his conviction that the Bush administration's foreign policy was leading the U.S. in a disastrous direction." So Soros decided that Bush had to go.Of course, Soros, a Hungarian-born naturalized U.S. citizen, had just one vote. But he had a lot of money. Still, even a man of Soros's wealth and reach didn't know quite how one went about toppling a president. So he called in the experts, or,more accurately, he had his expert — Vachon — call in the experts. Vachon told me he got in touch with two Democratic political consulting firms, TSD Communications, based in Washington, D.C., and M&R Strategic Services, with major offices in D.C. and in Portland, Oregon, and asked them to come up with suggestions for a Soros-funded anti-Bush campaign.
I asked Mark Steitz, the "S" in TSD Communications, what Soros wanted. "He said, 'I am concerned about the direction our country is going under this guy [Bush],'" Steitz, a former communications director for the Democratic National Committee and top advisor to Jesse Jackson, told me. "'I want to know what are the strategies that could be used to change this. Are there investments that could be made that could make a difference? How would you do this?' He approached it in a way that, I might imagine, he approaches investments."
Steitz and his colleagues, along with a separate team from M&R, studied the issue. Should Soros pour a lot of cash into anti-Bush television advertising? Should he pour it into Democratic efforts to win back Congress? Would the new McCain-Feingold campaign finance law, which Soros had vigorously supported, be a significant handicap in the effort?
Both groups of consultants came to the same conclusion. Rejecting an old-style, big-money TV campaign, Steitz and his colleagues argued that Soros could have the most impact by concentrating his donations in what is called the "voter contact" area. Much more than the old idea of getting out the vote, "voter contact" means an intensive effort to identify and profile potential voters in every voting district in critical swing states, getting in touch with them long before the election, and then keeping up with them, nurturing them, and making sure they get to the polls on Election Day. In July 2003, the consultants' team combined their research to make a presentation to Soros at his home in Southampton, the same Long Island estate where, a few months later, the billionaire would receive a fund-raising appeal from MoveOn's Wes Boyd.
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Thanks for the ping, JJ. "Vast Left Wing Conspiracy"?? Naaaahhhh.....
Sounds like that should be written on a tablet somewhere.
I couldn't help myself.
Thanks for the ping!
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