Thanks a lot, John.
Posted on 12/08/2006 11:25:57 AM PST by Dumb_Ox
"The Rocky Mtn News calculated that Dems raised $4 million for friendly 527s, compared with $2.9 mil raised by Republicans."
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"Three millionaire liberals are working the state's electoral levers. "They're trying to buy the political structure of the state," says Governor Owens. "Everywhere we look, we see their money and their resources." The ringleader is Tim Gill, the founder of Quark, a software firm; over the last decade, he has donated tens of millions to gay and lesbian causes.
His political activism dates back to 1992, when Colorado voters amended the state constitution to restrict certain gay-rights laws. "Nothing can compare to the psychological trauma of realizing that more than half the poeple in your state believe that you don't deserve equal rights," he once told the Chronicle of Philanthropy. Gill's allies are heiress Pat Stryker and dotcom entrepreneur Jared Polis. "If you were to put a gun to the head of most Dems, they couldn't tell you who their state chairman is," says one Colorado insider. "But they all know about these millionaires--each is like a mini-George Soros for Colorado.
"The mini-Soroses of Colorado aren't merely dabbling in elections--they're building a permanent infrastructure. "We are finally realizing that how we win is by creating an environment of fear an drespect," boasted Gill adviser Ted Trimpa--described by one politico as "the Karl Rove of Colorado"--to the Bay Area Reporter, a gay newspaper in San Francisco earlier this year.
They've established several websites, including ColoradoPols.com, that have started to shape political coverage in the state. "I can't tell you how often reporters would call 36 hours after something appeared there," says Owens. They've also founded Colorado Media Matters, an offshoot of David Brock's national group of left-wing watchdogs. It currently employs about a dozen people. "That's more media critics than there are in the rest of the Colorado media combined," says David Kopel of the Independence Institute. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a liberal group that tries to publicize GOP scandals both real and fake, has a Colorado field office as well. Gill would even like to influence the GOP: He hired former Owens staffer and conservative-movement veteran Sean Duffy to work on the domestic-partnership referendum, and convinced Patrick Guerriero to resign as head of the Log Cabin Republicans in order to run the Gill Action Fund.
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Potentially more important is Gill's determination to export the Colorado model. "If I can make a difference in Colorado, you can make a difference in your home state," he said earlier this year in Miami, at a meeting of financial heavyweights in the gay-rights movement, according to the Rocky Mtn News. To liberals, that may sound like a hope. Conservatives should hear it as a threat.
Liberal 527s include "Coloradoans for Life" and "Clear Peak Colorado"
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And they keep saying only 2% of the populace is Homo.
This is very disturbing. Money rules more than any single factor in US politics. It is so odd to me that it is now the left that is apparently dominated by super-wealthy oligarchs while the right is more grass-roots and dependent upon small donors. Though it does not appear to me that these people are trying so much to advance their business interests (though I don't doubt that this factors in) but that they want to push some special interest like "gay rights". It seems to me that pushing these agenda items is worse than simply trying to squeeze every advantage to make more money. People with these agendas want to control thought and therefore must stifle open debate and criminalize their opponents. This is aimed at EVERYONE whereas the guy who wants to make more money aims his efforts primarily at his competitors and doesn't much care what people think as long as his bank account is expanding.
argh!
Thanks a lot, John.
Of all the things that Mr. Bush has done his signing off on CFR may be the worst. Everyone involved in this - McCain, Feingold, the congressmen and senators who voted for it, the president who signed it and the supreme court justices who ratified it showed a disdain for the rule of constitutional law that is truly breathtaking. If we lived in normal times with Americans who had a respect for the Constitution and who understood just how vital to our freedom and the continuance of our free republic the Constitution is this travesty would never have gotten out of committee (assuming it would have been written at all). But we don't and they don't and now we have seen all three branches ratify a blatantly unconstitutional law that allows fines and jail time for those who dare exercise free speech during a political campaign. And there are some who say this hasn't gone far enough and more restriction of political speech is needed.
I put Bush's signing of this thing at the beginning of this post because of all those who acted to approve this thing his was the most shocking to me. I had figured him as a man who understood the vital importance of our Constitution and who takes his oath of office seriously. I was wrong.
Well said. CFR is an assault on COTUS.
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