Posted on 10/03/2006 4:55:11 PM PDT by Dane
Sure looks like a soros/dean/hillary front group.
These with their hubris is amazing.
I can almost predict thier meetings.
""hey let's get those yahoos in flyover country all mad about mark foley, they are so dumb and will lap up the information from our comrades in the media.
Why do theses dirty tricks not surprise me? The president of this group, Michael Lutz, USED TO WORK FOR BJ CLINTON. The Clintonoids are behind this!
Levin says that the leader of this group is Michael Lux, a clintonoid.
American Family Voices
888 16th Street, NW
Suite 303
Washington, DC 20006
(202) 393-4352
afv@americanfamilyvoices.org
Or fill up their voicemail boxes. :)
They know Hastert won't resign. He has no reason to.
The goal is to discourage Republican turnout. Period.
Second: See First!
Isn't that title an oxymoron?
The strategy is for the dems to stay on offense with any charge, any attack. Republicans better start changing the subject, making news and get on offense by attacking dems.
I agree and this group has hillary's fingerprints all over it.
The clinton's and democrats can never win by promoting their issues, they win by suppressing turnout(ala Perot in 92)
Oh, so the man that takes advantage of a young intern has one of his hacks spamming Republican voters to oust Hastert over a Congressman the Dems KNEW was a pedophile and let stay in office?
That is rich. Hey, Bill, what don't you have the guts to attack directly? Afraid what the public will say about the man who claimed he didn't have sexual relations with a girl that should have been protected from a middle aged man's repulsive advances, interjecting himself into this?
July 12, 2002 8:45 a.m.
The Group Behind the Attacks on Bush
The story of American Family Voices.
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"The idea for the ad started a couple of weeks ago when Bush announced that he was going to give a speech on corporate responsibility," says Michael Lux, the man who heads American Family Voices. Lux, a former aide to President Clinton and former political director for the liberal interest group People for the American Way, says, "I was outraged at the idea that Bush was going to do a big speech and pound his chest and say he is in favor of corporate responsibility when he is closer to the corporate world than any president since Ronald Reagan. I started to think about the fox and the henhouse. I was talking to Joe Lockhart [the former Clinton press secretary who now runs an advertising agency in Washington], and he came up with the ad."
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Lux founded the organization in 2000 to be "a strong voice for middle and low income families on economic, health care, and consumer issues." The group got going with $800,000 donated by the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees. To this day, the union remains AFV's largest single contributor, although Lux says the group also receives money from "other progressive groups and a wide variety of donors." In addition to the government employees, Lux says other labor unions that contribute to AFV include the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, the United Food and Commercial Workers, and the International Association of Machinists. Lux declined to name AFV's other contributors, except to say that they are "your classic progressive donors."
In the first months of its existence, AFV used its contributions from government workers to mount a furious effort to keep George W. Bush out of the White House. In September 2000, the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, a pro-campaign finance group, cited AFV as one of the main organizations funding outside ads for Democrat Al Gore. In a study headlined, "Special Interest Groups Flood Key States With Ads For Gore; Group Spending For Bush Virtually Nonexistent," the center reported that American Family Voices spent $640,000 on pro-Gore ads between June and September 2000 (only two groups spent more for Gore: Handgun Control, with $1.3 million, and the AFL-CIO, with $1.1 million). In contrast, the group that spent the most money for Bush, the National Rifle Association, spent a relatively small $257,072.
Still, all that spending wasn't enough to win the White House for Gore, and after his defeat, American Family Voices found itself without a clear mission. Through much of 2001, Lux worked at his Washington consulting firm, Progressive Strategies, while AFV received almost no attention in the press. Then, as 2002 began, the group found a new cause.
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Thank you Kristinn for the extra background information.
PFTAW is, if anything, an anti-family group. The media, however, will duly whitewash this. Won't even call them a liberal group, for sure.
I really hope they call me. I'm going to tell them: "Gee, I never realized how anti-gay the Democrats are. Shame on them."
You're welcome. I wonder what Lux's position was on Clinton's abuse of the help and subsequent crimes covering that up.
Ours is gone. What about yours?
I offer this as a slogan.
Those of us who are old enough to have voted for Richard Nixon against John Kennedy remember this scandal.
http://home.nyc.rr.com/alweisel/outwalterjenkins.htm
Mike Lux is the founder of Progressive Strategies LLC.
According to the Progressive Strategies (http://www.progressivestrategies.net)' web site, prior "to founding Progressive Strategies, Lux was Senior Vice President for Political Action at People For the American Way (PFAW), PFAW Foundation, and the PFAW Voters Alliance. He oversaw lobbying and legal advocacy, field operations, state and regional offices, voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts, and educational activities. He also was responsible for coalition building with other organizations and interest groups. He was also treasurer and CEO of PFAW Voters Alliance, a state and federal PAC launched earlier this year.
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