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Almost two weeks ago, Lee Doren and I reported on the new website TheTeaPartyisOver.org and its funding by unions, through a front group calling itself the American Public Policy Committee. Fox News picks up where we left off in a report today that exposes even more shady union funding of the astroturf effort against the Tea Party grassroots movement: A new Web site targeting the tea parties is a part of a complex network of money flowing from the mountainous coffers of the country’s biggest labor unions and trickling slowly into political slush funds for Democratic activists.A seemingly grassroots organization...

The website "The Tea Party Is Over" is run by: American Public Policy Committee. As can be seen here, American Public Policy Committee is run by Craig Varoga. Ed Morrissey did a piece on Varoga back in 2005 when Varoga was working for NARAL and was collecting financial dossiers on judges and justices around the country. This article details Varoga's work in MA: “A special-interest group repudiated by Deval Patrick after it lobbed attack ads from the shadows at the GOP’s Kerry Healey is funded and supported by Democratic insiders and Patrick backers, new records show.” “The Patriot Majority Fund,...

On May 5, the U.S. Judicial Conference in Washington received a request from a Mike Rice of Oakland, Calif., for the financial disclosure records of U.S. Appeals Court Judge Edith Jones (5th Circuit) of Houston. A 20-year veteran on the bench, Jones is a perennial possibility for the U.S. Supreme Court. The demand for her personal records is part of a major intelligence raid preceding momentous confirmation fights in the Senate. Jones was not alone as a target, and Rice is not just a nosy citizen. He and Craig Varoga, a former aide to Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, are...