Posted on 04/22/2005 6:31:14 PM PDT by CHARLITE
A hush-hush meeting of 70 leftist fat cats heard billionaire George Soros lay out a five-year plan designed to build a network of think tanks, media outlets and training schools promoting Soros' brand of Marxism. Meeting in Scottsdale Ariz., last weekend, the assemblage of multi-millionaires, whose identities were kept secret by the meeting's organizers, planned to start the process of building an ideas production line for liberal politicians.
They wwant to begin what organizers hope will be a long dialogue with the "partners," many from the high-tech industry, a group that backed John Kerry in last year's presidential election. According to Hans Nichols, writing in Front Page Magazine, the participants have begun to refer to themselves as the Phoenix Group.
Soros warned the group that if they want to realize long-term political and ideological yields from an expected massive investment in "startup" progressive think tanks, they will have to be patient.
The meeting of venture capitalists, left-leaning moneymen and a select few D.C. political strategists was convened by Rob Stein, a former official of the Clinton Commerce Department.
He advised the participants on how to seed pro-Democratic think tanks, media outlets and leadership schools to compete with such established conservative institutions as the Heritage Foundation, the American Enterprise Institute and the Leadership Institute.
Nichols reports that senior Democratic National Committee (DNC) officials were quietly briefed about the meeting in recent weeks. He says that DNC Chairman Howard Dean, a friend of Stein's, was aware of it, but one senior DNC source said that otherwise the organizers "kept that list [of attendees] kind of tight."
Sarah Ingersoll, spokeswoman for Steins Democracy Alliance, which will act as a clearinghouse and is expected to channel much of its money to new organizations and existing ones such as John Podestas Center for American Progress and David Brocks Media Matters for America, said it was "a very preliminary meeting of committed donors interested in building a community to support progressive infrastructure."
The money details are several weeks away, she said. "There arent dollar figures at this point," Ingersoll told The Hill newspaper. Soros, a Hungarian-born financier who donated more than $23 million to pro-Democratic 527 groups in the 2004 election cycle, gave the main presentation, said Ingersoll, who declined to name the other presenters.
"Primarily, were looking at making recommendations and thinking through with these donors on how they can form an alliance," she added. "This is about creating a network of individuals to share information to be effective in whatever they do going forward."
Among those present were former White House press secretary Mike McCurry and New Democrat Network president Simon Rosenberg.
One source at the DNC with direct knowledge of the agenda told The Hill that the Phoenix Group had three specific goals at the outset. To create:
Liberal think tanks
Training camps for young progressives (FYI, Democrats repackaged for the new millennium are call progressives)
Media centers
Oups! My previous post was about Soros, not Bin Laden. My apologies!
what is the deal with communist totalitarians and their love of five-year-plans???
hey, pal: our mutual enemy, Sore-ass, is stirring.
You're RIGHT! I hadn't thought of that. Nice observation.
Thanks, King Prout! Excellent addition to the discussion!
Char :)
lol He lost millions and hes going to teach other how to do the same or is he scaming them to get his money back?
It gets worse:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1389300/posts
Oops, I should have read your next post.
He is Hungarian.
Boycott Progressive Insurance Co., Lewis's cash cow. It's been a Marxist outfit since his Dad established it years ago. He dontates nearly as much cash as Soros.
Just paste to FrontPage to find out. :-)
Just paste to FrontPage to find out.
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Don't forget the Project on Death in America!
LOL. Totally missed that!
I just didn't read your original post properly and thought you say George Soros was a millionaire by birth. Sorry, I should probably cut down on grappa :-)....
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