Posted on 03/19/2008 12:41:22 PM PDT by kingattax
CNSNews.com) - A coalition of liberal organizations announced plans Tuesday to move "the most expensive mobilization in history this election season."
MoveOn.org, Rock the Vote, Acorn, National Council of La Raza, Women's Voices Women Vote Action Fund, and the AFL-CIO announced plans for a $350 million initiative for the 2008 elections at the Take Back America conference in Washington, D.C., sponsored by the liberal Campaign for America's Future.
Robert Borosage, co-director of the Campaign for America's Future, called it a "sea change election" on Tuesday, "one that we really haven't seen since 1980 when Reagan was elected and conservatives really changed the course of our country for the next three decades."
"The conditions are similar -- that is, a ruinous economy at home and a ... ruinous war abroad," he said. "They have led Americans in large numbers and vast majorities to look for a dramatic change in course."
Borosage said the initiative would focus on voter registration, education and get out the vote drives.
"Needless to say, the stakes can't be higher," said Karen Ackerman, political director at the AFL-CIO. "Working families desperately need a new direction after years of failed policies designed to benefit the privileged few at the expense of the rest of us."
The AFL-CIO is contributing two-thirds of the money for the initiative. Ackerman called it the "most aggressive and ambitious grassroots organization effort in history."
"The union vote will be key on Nov. 4," Ackerman said. She also noted that one in four votes is from a union household. Ackerman's group is working to mobilize more than 13 million union voters.
Page Gardiner, president of Women's Voices Women Vote Action Fund, said her group would be targeting 1.3 million newly registered voters and 7 million other voters for turnout, particularly unmarried women.
Gardiner said this cycle is the first time unmarried women are an equal share of the electorate to married women.
"Unmarried women will be to progressives what evangelicals have been" to the Republican Party, she said.
Ilyse Hogue, communications director for MoveOn.org, noted that they will focus not only on the White House but also on electing 60 Democrats to the Senate.
Hogue said they would be highlighting Republicans' "wrong priorities" through paid advertisements and their field networks.
Due to various tax statuses within the coalition, Hogue noted that "to the extent that we are legally able to coordinate, we will" on efforts targeting different demographics.
Larry Hart, director of government relations at the American Conservative Union, however, told Cybercast News Service that the coalition would have a "marginal effect."
"It depends on how they utilize the money and how conservatives mobilize," he said, calling the groups "pretty far to the left."
Hart added that their message "does not resonate with the center."
He acknowledged, however, that "after eight years of any administration there is so much accumulated dissatisfaction that there is enthusiasm for change." Hart said, for conservatives, it is "harder to get that enthusiasm than it has been in the past."
Wow, that McCain-Feingold really got the money out of politics. Good show, men.
A Motley Crew of Moonbats...
I see it’s come down to having to buying votes than running a candidate with a moral character.
$350 million dollars on the racist DIM Party...It will all be going down the drain!
The best way to get the money out of politics would be to reduce radically the size of the Federal budget. Rather simple, eh?
$2,331 per union member based on 10 million AFL-CIO union member count that I could find.
Where will this money go? Mainly to the lame stream media.
“The conditions are similar — that is, a ruinous economy at home and a ... ruinous war abroad,” he said. “They have led Americans in large numbers and vast majorities to look for a dramatic change in course.”
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SS, DD.
Yet they can’t find 30 million for do-over in MI and FL.
I can’t wait to see what happens when people who believe their own propaganda set out to spend $350 million. I am guessing a lot of wasted money and confused moonbats.
Bookmark.
Ten unions grew by more than 10 percent between 2004 and 2006, and the largest private-sector union victory in recent years came in 2005 and 2006 when 20,000 workers at Cingular Wireless joined the Communications Workers of America.
http://blog.aflcio.org/2007/09/21/workers-joining-afl-cio-unions-at-highest-rate-in-two-generations
This is the final battle. This is the left and all its powers massing for the final thrust. The left is intoxicated with the thought of victory. They want total power! They want the White House and the Congress.
Victory means the end of homeschooling, private ownership of guns by innocent people, free speech, marriage as we know it, and full use of private property.
It means the accelerated demise of people with a European and Jewish or Christian background as the left removes the last few possibilities for getting a job.
Had enough? Vote for the alternative. He’s flawed, but he’s no radical leftist marxist. (McCain)
Anotherwords, George Soros ponied up $350 million for the democratic party, side-stepping campaign finance reform.
Many many federal workers are union members. Time to privatize their functions and de-fang them.
Announcing "plans" means they don't have the $350M yet.
Suggest they ping us when they actually have the money.
Nitwits...
Oh goody!
Now THAT’s an economic stimulus package.
Let’s pray they spend it ALL and still lose.
Soros must be playing both sides of the field.
http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/30556.html
Both parties....bought and paid for.
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