RNC: Campaign For America's Future Falsely Attacks President Bush's Social Security Plan

o Soros Contributed The Most Money ($27,030,105) Of Any Donor To 527s In The 2004 Cycle, And Has Been Called The "Daddy Warbucks" Of . . .

Drug Legalization. (Political Money Line Website, http://www.tray.com -- Accessed 12/8/04; Joseph A. Califano Jr., Op-Ed, "Devious Efforts To Legalize Drugs," The Washington Post, 12/4/96)

Was Sen. John Edwards (D-NC) All-Time Top Donor, Contributing A Total Of $907,000, Including $900,000 In Soft Money To Edwards' 527 Committee, New American Optimists. (Eric Alterman, "The Hollywood Campaign," The Atlantic Monthly, 9/04; Political Money Line Website, http://www.tray.com -- Accessed 7/28/04; Center For Public Integrity Website, http://www.publicintegrity.org -- Accessed 7/28/04)

o Largest Contributors In 2002 Cycle Were UAW ($200,000), AFSCME ($189,000) And AFL-CIO ($130,000). (Political Money Line Website, http://www.tray.com, Accessed 1/8/05)

"What liberal groups"

Here ya go:

GOP: Soros Behind Delay Attacks
Newsmax.com ^ | 3/24/2005

The concentrated assault on House Majority Leader Tom DeLay by Democrats and their media allies haven't just happened - they are largely the work of a shadowy groups of liberal organizations all backed by one man: George Soros.

Billionaire George Soros, working behind the scenes with liberal anti-Bush groups dominated by long-time Democrat activists.

So say Republicans, who have uncovered the sinister Soros-backed conspiracy to undermine one of the GOP's most effective leaders and prevent him from concentrating on guiding his hated conservative "Red State” agenda through the House of Representatives.

According to The Hill newspaper, Republican researchers have connected Soros, members of pressure groups posing as "government watchdog groups" and loaded with Democrat activists, and top Hill Democrats in the attacks on DeLay and the House Ethics Committee.

"The research shows that members of these groups’ boards have contributed tens of thousands of dollars to Democratic candidates and political organizations and several of their staff members have previously worked for Democrats," The Hill reported, adding that they "have also accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Open Society Institute, an organization founded by Soros, who spent millions trying to defeat President Bush in last year’s election."

The latest revelations came in the wake of a series of talking points issued by the Republican National Committee (RNC) last week which named four liberal pressure groups as having "close ties to left wing leaders like George Soros.”

According to The Hill, the GOP research efforts are part of a Republican attempt to put a damper on what the paper described as "a media feeding frenzy" surrounding DeLay and allegations of his alleged improper conduct.
Illustrative of the media's massive coverage fanned by liberals and Democrats, the Hill reported that over a five-
day span:

"TV and radio stations and print publications from around the country featured at least 290 stories either about a controversial junket DeLay took to Scotland in 2000, his response to criticism about the propriety of that trip, or his offer to discuss the matter with the House ethics committee," a survey showed.

Articles about DeLay, by The Associated Press, Reuters, Knight Ridder and The Washington Post, were picked up by news outlets around the country. "The DeLay scandal is getting to the point where House Republicans just won’t be able to withstand much more,” a Democrat aide bragged to The Hill. "With every story that is written, it becomes more clear that House Republicans are risking their political futures by associating themselves with him.

When literally hundreds of stories about the GOP leader’s shoddy ethics are appearing in nearly every local and regional paper across the country, you can’t blame voters for painting them all with the same brush.”

Among the liberal and Democrat lynch mobs focusing on unproven ethics violations by DeLay, all of which he has been able to explain adequately:

The Congressional Ethics Coalition, a group of nine left-wing pressure groups which held a press conference last week blasting what they called the immobilization of the House ethics panel, which the Hill points out has yet to organize solely because of objections by ranking Democrat Alan Mollohan (D-W.Va.) to changes House GOP leaders made to ethics procedure at the start of the new Congress. The groups also used the opportunity to attack DeLay.

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a group that last year assisted former Rep. Chris Bell (D-Texas) in drafting an ethics complaint against DeLay resulting in a mild slap on the wrist for the GOP leader. At last week’s press conference, Melanie Sloan, CREW’s executive director, said that DeLay should step down as majority leader. Not surprisingly, from 1995 to 1998 Sloan served as [Democrat] minority counsel for the House Judiciary Committee under Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich). Before that, Sloan served as the nominations counsel on the Senate Judiciary Committee under Delaware Democrat Sen. Joe Biden. According to The Hill, GOP research also revealed that Mark Penn, a formed pollster for President Clinton, and Daniel Berger, a major Democratic donor, serve on CREW’s board. Spokeswoman Naomi Seligman refused to reveal the membership of CREW’s board, although she admitted that Penn and Berger are members. Last year, Berger made a $100,000 contribution to America Coming Together (ACT), a 527 group that was dedicated to defeating Bush in the presidential election, according to politicalmoneyline.com, a website that tracks fundraising. According to records released by the Internal Revenue Service on Monday, March 21, 2005, and obtained by NewsMax.com Soros Fund Management/George Soros, gave the group a whopping $7,500,000 in the 2004 election cycle.

Democracy 21 is headed by Fred Wertheimer, a long-time liberal activist who once headed the left-wing group Common Cause. The group's board of directors has given "tens of thousands to Democrats,” the GOP research showed. A survey by The Hill of fundraising data on politicalmoneyline.com showed that three members of the group’s board, including Dick Clark, a former Democratic senator from Iowa, gave nearly $20,000 in contributions to Democrats since the beginning of the 2000 election cycle while Republicans received not a cent from board members, according to the survey by The Hill. Lexa Edsall, a consultant to the group, served in the Clinton administration, and Amanda Lewis, the communications director, worked for former Democratic Gov. Mario Cuomo (N.Y.), according to the GOP research.

Democracy 21’s education fund also received a $50,000 grant from Soros’s institute in 2003, the most recent year for which data are available, according to a 990 form filed with the Internal Revenue Service. The GOP research paper states that the group has received $300,000 in total from Soros's Open Society Institute.

Joining in the lynch mob, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) called for a bipartisan panel to review the chamber’s ethics procedures.

Rep. Rahm Emmanuel (D-Ill.), the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and a Clinton White House aide has put together a scheme to use alleged ethics violations as an issue in races against DeLay and Rep. Bob Ney (R-Ohio), The Hill reported last week. Republicans told The Hill that the evidence reveals a coordinated effort between House Democrats and the liberal pressure groups to damage DeLay and the GOP leadership politically.

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