[firebrand]

I think you two are missing the danger here. These are not government-paid workers, but this is deep pockets being used to influence legislators, something the founders sought to avoid. For their trouble, they get access to administration officials.

See Even the NY Times thinks this is out of bounds

[lacrew]

Oh I certainly see the danger. But thanks for the article. If this ‘social action group’ shares information with future democrat campaigns, that would be illegal....at least for a Republican candidate it would be.

I also still believe that many of the astro-turfers at these rallies will be government employees. And, I believe they will be union leaders, who will fill out their time cards as ‘official union business’, and literally get paid to be there...and they may get paid again by these wealthy donors.

BTW, why do I have a feeling that one of the $500k donors will be Bloomberg?

[OKRA2012]

Perhaps, bit I doubt it is illegal.

And like it or not, the spending of money on a political cause is in fact a form of First Amendment expression.