REFERENCE In the run-up to the passage of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 — a.k.a. McCain-Feingold — Pew spread around more than $40 million to grass-roots front groups like Common Cause, the Campaign Finance Institute and the inaptly named Center for Public Integrity.
Several other major liberal foundations — including the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Ford Foundation and George Soros' Open Society Institute — colluded with Pew to give $123 million between 1994 and 2004 to promote the regulation of political speech.
"serve as an independent voice working to strengthen the foundations of our democracy""champions the national interest by formulating and advocating meaningful reform in vital areas of public policy, including:
- campaign finance and election reform
- climate stewardship
- homeland security
- immigration reform
Through Cecilia Martinez (paid Executive Director of McCain's institute), they seem to be closely aligned with the Indian Movement, possibly tying into tribal gaming expansion but also used to advance the whacked out environmental agenda.
So, can we just take McCain's leadership sins in CFR and Shamnesty and factor them up by a factor of 2+ ?
My guess is there is a whole lot more to know if we keep digging--and I don't expect the left to help expose the mission that both McCain and the Left seem to embrace.
So what now?