Posted on 10/23/2020 5:25:24 PM PDT by little jeremiah
When Hayden Ludwig and a colleague showed up at the Civic Participation Action Funds (CPAF) Washington, D.C., office in 2019 seeking copies of the groups most recent tax returns, they were greeted by an angry Stephen McConnell.
McConnell, then-CPAFs president, demanded to know who paid his inquisitors salaries. Ludwig identified himself as an investigative researcher for the Capital Research Center (CRC), and his colleague as an intern there.
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Theyre not used to being in the limelight, Ludwig laconically told The Epoch Times on Oct. 22.
Indeed, throughout its carefully planned five-year lifespan, CPAF flew under the radar even as it spent millions of dollars from anonymous overseas donors on campaigns to boost Democratic registration and voting in highly-targeted neighborhoods in the 2018 and 2020 campaigns.
The CPAF story illustrates how hundreds of billions of anonymous dollars have been poured into a galaxy of liberal Democratic causes and campaigns in recent years via nominally non-partisan philanthropic foundations and advocacy groups.
CPAF is best described as a $50 million secretive conduit for moving Atlantic Philanthropys foreign dark money dollars into U.S. left-wing infrastructure groups doing Get Out The Vote (GOTV) and voter registration campaigns that help Democrats, Ludwig said.
Atlantic Philanthropy is an offshore complex of closely related foundations based in Bermuda and established by American entrepreneur Chuck Feeney, who made his fortune with the Duty Free Shoppers line of retail stores. Atlantic received $1.6 billion when Feeney sold his interest in the stores in 1997.
Atlantic Philanthropy channeled nearly $50 million to CPAF in 2015 via Atlantic Advocacy Fund, one of its associated groups. McConnell was Atlantics U.S. Director before starting CPAF. The group also received funds from other liberal Democratic sources, including $367,000 from George Soros Open Society Foundation.
(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...
The projections also pointed to the prospect that the additional voters would be sufficient to change previous election outcomes in nine of the dozen key states.
In addition to encouraging voter registration in heavily Democratic neighborhoods, CPAF also made grants to activist groups closely aligned with Democratic candidates.
One such group, Arizona Wins, which got $437,675 from CPAF, played a major role in Sen. Kyrsten Sinemas (D-Ariz.) narrow win over Republican Martha McSally in 2018.
Thenator Theldon Whitehouthe, please pick up the hotel courtesy phone!
>nominally non-partisan philanthropic foundations
One big reason I oppose all inheritance taxes is the incentive they create to will money to “philanthropic” organizations that inevitably end up in the hands of left wing political activists. I would rather see the money pissed away on drugs and parties by blood heirs and former mistresses.
Every one of these get out the vote groups is a dark political organization paid with dark money. There entire purpose is to steal elections and commit vote fraud. They should all be illegal. My guess is that 95% of vote fraud can be tied to these groups. End them already.
The media and Leftist corporations are well aware of this. Their big problem,
is getting people who don't give a hang about voting, to show up.
So when you see these entities encouraging people to vote, it isn't altruistic.
It's them trying to get out the demonicRat vote, almost exclusively.
The Demshevik party is the party of crime and corruption. Some Rs are corrupt, and many corrupt R congressmaggots retired early/didn’t seek re-election in 2018. With the Demsheviks, it’s like a party platform. And of course no God.
Ping.
I had trouble getting the link to work, so I found a cached version; here’s the text:
McConnell, then-CPAFs president, demanded to know who paid his inquisitors salaries. Ludwig identified himself as an investigative researcher for the Capital Research Center (CRC), and his colleague as an intern there.
Ludwig also reminded McConnell that federal regulations require groups like CPAF and CRC to provide the documents on request. At that point, Ludwig said McConnell cooled down and produced the documents.
Theyre not used to being in the limelight, Ludwig laconically told The Epoch Times on Oct. 22.
Indeed, throughout its carefully planned five-year lifespan, CPAF flew under the radar even as it spent millions of dollars from anonymous overseas donors on campaigns to boost Democratic registration and voting in highly-targeted neighborhoods in the 2018 and 2020 campaigns.
The CPAF story illustrates how hundreds of billions of anonymous dollars have been poured into a galaxy of liberal Democratic causes and campaigns in recent years via nominally non-partisan philanthropic foundations and advocacy groups.
CPAF is best described as a $50 million secretive conduit for moving Atlantic Philanthropys foreign dark money dollars into U.S. left-wing infrastructure groups doing Get Out The Vote (GOTV) and voter registration campaigns that help Democrats, Ludwig said.
Atlantic Philanthropy is an offshore complex of closely related foundations based in Bermuda and established by American entrepreneur Chuck Feeney, who made his fortune with the Duty Free Shoppers line of retail stores. Atlantic received $1.6 billion when Feeney sold his interest in the stores in 1997.
Atlantic Philanthropy channeled nearly $50 million to CPAF in 2015 via Atlantic Advocacy Fund, one of its associated groups. McConnell was Atlantics U.S. Director before starting CPAF. The group also received funds from other liberal Democratic sources, including $367,000 from George Soros Open Society Foundation.
The plan from the outset was that CPAFa limited life initiativewould complete its mission in time for the 2020 presidential election.
Due to technicalities of American foundation law, since it is organized offshore, Atlantic Philanthropies is permitted to fund 501(c)(4) advocacy activities, which American-based foundations cannot, according to CRCs Influence Watch. Names of individual donors behind funding sources remain anonymous.
Epoch Times PhotoEpoch Times Photo A stack of voter registration forms is shown on July 31, 2020. (Bryan R. Smith/AFP via Getty Images)
Ludwigs outfit, which is on the opposite side of the political spectrum from CPAF, penetrated the secrecy, however, when CRC obtained a copy of the groups organizational plan from 2015.
The author of the plan, Bill Roberts, who was then a member of CPAFs board of directors, had neglected to switch off the track changes function, which allowed anybody subsequently viewing the document to see who changed what, when, and how.
And the tracked changes reveal an entire arsenal of tactics that left-wing non-profits use to conceal partisan intentions behind walls of philanthropy and intentionally milquetoast words such as civic engagement, CRCs Parker Thayerthe intern who had accompanied Ludwigwrote in an October 9 analysis.
Among the changes, for example, was the following:
Although much more work is needed to flesh out a full plan, particularly on the important challenge of program implementation, the quantitative analysis is intriguing and the potential political voter participation outcomes are enormous.
Roberts deleted political and substituted the more equivocal italicized words, voter participation.
At another point, Robertswho was also a principal of the Corridor Group, an influential Democratic consulting firmobserved that voter participation by people of color has improved somewhat in recent years but their continued absence from the political process has almost certainly had a skewed impact on both elections and policy. Here are three illustrative examples from recent elections:
Again, Roberts additions are italicized. It should be noted that all three examples he cited were narrow Republican victories in Florida, Nevada, and Arizona. More voter participation by individuals believed to be likely Democratic supporters would have produced Democratic wins.
In a third edit, Roberts wrote that the program has the potential to impact policies affecting millions of citizens and guide hundreds of billions of dollars in government funding into environment, health, energy and other initiatives.
In other words, the CPAF plan could change election results and the resulting increase in Democrats elected would open up the spigots of federal tax dollars for liberal policy causes.
What Roberts did not change was the plans projection of its impact on 12 key states if properly funded, according to Thayer.
The 2018 projections estimate that the program would generate nearly one million new non-white votes; 293,000 from African-Americans and 520,000 from Hispanic-Americans. The 2020 projections anticipate more than doubling the 2018 numbers to an estimated 2.4 million new votes, Thayer wrote.
The projections also pointed to the prospect that the additional voters would be sufficient to change previous election outcomes in nine of the dozen key states.
In addition to encouraging voter registration in heavily Democratic neighborhoods, CPAF also made grants to activist groups closely aligned with Democratic candidates.
One such group, Arizona Wins, which got $437,675 from CPAF, played a major role in Sen. Kyrsten Sinemas (D-Ariz.) narrow win over Republican Martha McSally in 2018.
In many places around the nation, demonicRat registration figures dwarf
republiCon registrations.
The media and Leftist corporations are well aware of this. Their big problem,
is getting people who don’t give a hang about voting, to show up.
So when you see these entities encouraging people to vote, it isn’t altruistic.
It’s them trying to get out the demonicRat vote, almost exclusively.
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Pinging LS to this for his numbers on party registrations. I don’t go out of my way to look at registration numbers, but what I’ve run into here and there is that D numbers are down and R numbers are up. So wondering about this.
Thanks. Wouldn’t mind hearing his take on it either.
I tried not to be all inclusive with my comment.
Here in California it’s about 2 to 1 democRat registrations
over the Republicans. I haven’t looked at the numbers in
a long time, but traditionally that’s been the case.
I do realize there are places out there where we rule too.
I’ll be the PSA get out the vote adds are a lot fewer in
those markets, knowing the MSM.
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