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| Democracy Alliance Network Behind a Third of 2014 Super PAC Spending |
| 2014-11-09 |
| [FREEBEACON] The network of political and policy groups backed by the shadowy liberal donor club the Democracy Alliance was responsible for more than one of every three dollars spent by super PACs during the 2014 election cycle, public records show. Members of the Democracy Alliance network that disclose political spending dropped more than $250 million on the midterms, according to data reported to the Federal Election Commission. That included more than $180 million in expenditures by super PACs, more than a third of the $515 million spent by all such groups during the 2014 election cycle. The groups' extensive involvement in Democrats' political efforts undercuts common media characterizations of the Democracy Alliance, which generally present the array of groups it supports as less involved in electioneering than those of similar collaborative donor networks on the right. Such reports frequently downplay the scale of the Democracy Alliance network, commonly reported as consisting of fewer than two dozen organizations. While DA's 21 "aligned network" and "dynamic investment" groups form the core of its collaborative fundraising efforts, the Alliance in fact backs a far larger array of liberal political and policy groups. As Democracy Alliance president Gara LaMarche told attendees of its April 2014 conference in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... , DA now encourages its donors to support groups on its "Progressive Infrastructure Map," which, LaMarche said has "now grown to 180 organizations," in addition to its 21 primary beneficiaries. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 One of the Tea Party/Libertarian guys at Chicagoboyz blogged a couple of months ago about how he did some quiet outreach to the Occupy-Chicago kids. He reasoned - rather fairly, I thought - that some of the issues that the Tea Partiers were PO'ed about, like a bloated and over-intrusive big government, crony-capitalism and an existing oligarchy calling the shots and subverting the constitution - the Occupy kids were also PO'ed about. He reasoned that the Occupy kids just needed a little nudging in the right direction. He found them to be actually rather receptive, as long as one went about it tactfully. I think that the Occupy kids that he encountered were basically kids ... not the professional Leftard protesters. |
| Posted by: Sgt. Mom 2014-11-09 18:27 |
| #1 If the Republicans want to be the party of the present & future then this is the target they need to shoot at. The biggest selling point for the Tea Party that resonates with the younger voter is the point that crony capitalism, the fascist oligarchs whatever you choose to call them has to be reined in. The Beltway Bandits buy and sell government. The way to get noticed is to shrink the ability of government to payoff their campaign donors with grants, laws and billions of dollars. The Democrats use this system to grow their own power and wealth, and to grow the control of their progressive government over everyone and everything. The Republicans use the system to grow their own wealth and that of their buddies while ignoring the ideological bits. If the 'pubs can fight their urge to reward their buddies AND push the core principles of individual liberty and responsibility they can make huge gains by making the plutocrats responsible for their damage. Stop privatizing the gains and socializing the costs. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2014-11-09 10:04 |