"Mr. Treglia urged grantees to keep Pew's role hush-hush.
"If Congress thought this was a Pew effort," he confided, "it'd be worthless. It'd be 20 million bucks thrown down the drain."
At one point, late in the congressional debate over McCain-Feingold, "we had a scare," Mr. Treglia said. "George Will stumbled across a report we had done. . . . He started to reference the fact that Pew was playing a large role . . . [and] that it was a liberal attempt to hoodwink Congress. . . .
The good news, from my perspective, was that journalists . . . just didn't care and nobody followed up." The hoaxers--a conspiracy of eight left-wing foundations, including George Soros's Open Society Institute and the Ford Foundation--have actually spent $123 million trying to get other people's money out of politics since 1994, Mr. Sager reports--nearly 90% of the spending by the entire campaign-finance lobby over this period."(emphasis mine)
SO that's it in a nutshell. Just a few good ol' liebrals trying to maximize their propaganda dollar -- and save a few million here and there--by shutting the opposition up.
And waaaay to many 'useful idiots' (or collaborators) in Congress.
It's hard to imagine that kind of skulduggery except if you are in the practice of doing it yourself (ala HRC).