History of Tom Matzzie...
A New York Times' "source" aka leaker of anything against President Bush (even if he has to make it up).
Tom Matzzie former Online Mobilization Manager at the AFL-CIO, Web Editor, AFL-CIO.
Prior to joining the AFL-CIO he was an activist and organizer at the Campaign for America's Future.
Tom Matzzie is online mobilization manager at the AFL-CIO and rode the bus on the Show Us the Jobs tour. Learn more at www.showusthejobs.com
Tom Matzzie was recently the Director of Online Organizing for the Kerry-Edwards campaign. Prior to joining the campaign he was the Online Mobilization Director for the AFL-CIO.
MoveOn Washington director Tom Matzzie.
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Matzzie is a recycled AFL-CIO hack, who has written for The Dissident Voice a self described "Radical Newsletter in the Struggle for Peace and Social Justice" he bluntly calls President Bush a "son of a bitch" and is a vocal supporter of ex KKK Kleagle/Democrat Senator Robert Byrd.
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Web Activists
Thomas Matzzie, Online Mobilization Manager, AFL-CIO
Joan Blades, co-founder, MoveOn.org
Zack Exley, National Organizing Director, MoveOn.org
Becky Bond, Producer, Working Assets Online
Stuart Trevelyan, Principal, Carol/Trevelyan Strategy Group
Adam Luna, Director of Field Strategy, Campaign for America’s Future
Duane Peterson, True Majority
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Prior to joining MoveOn, Tom was director of online organizing for the Kerry-Edwards campaign - managing an organizing program for the campaign's 2.8 million person e-mail list. From 2000 to 2004 he was online mobilization director at the AFL-CIO building the union movement's Internet program - including the 3.2 million e-mail activists on the lists of the unions of the AFL-CIO. Tom (age 30) is also one of the top Social Security organizers in the country. From 1998 to 2000 he organized the coalition opposing Social Security privatization at the Campaign for America's Future. He has appeared on network and cable television, on nationally syndicated radio and is cited by The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Associated Press and other major daily publications. He holds a degree in Economics and International Peace Studies from the University of Notre Dame.
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Matzzie coordinated list serves for working groups of the so-called Mobilization for Global Justice (MGJ) organization. The MGJ has organized "anti-capitalist convergences" in front of the IMF and World Bank, which it wants to shut down for causing an "economic smallpox."
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The online universe of New Grassroots activists consists of several overlapping email lists totaling perhaps 6,000,000 people: AFL-CIO and affiliates (3,200,000), JohnKerry.com (2,800,000), MoveOn.org (2,800,000 domestic), DNC (~1,000,000), Democracy For America (~600,000), TrueMajority.com (440,000) and other organizations and state Democratic parties.
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Campaign for America's Future, a labor—oriented group with a 527 account, has taken a lead role in a coalition of liberal groups, such as the NAACP, the National Organization for Women, and the Center for American Progress, to campaign against private accounts. On the day of Bush's State of the Union address, CAF helped organize press calls for spokespeople against private accounts.
The Alliance for Retired Americans, a non-profit group associated with the AFL-CIO and other unions, has voiced concern about Social Security reform on its Web site. The Alliance for Retired Americans Voter Mobilization Fund is the group's 527 arm.
MoveOn.org, which opposed George W. Bush during the 2004 election, has begun broadcasting a national television spot as well as placing a full page ad in The New York Times last week against private accounts. Tom Matzzie, MoveOn's Washington Director, says they will use the group's 501©(4) in the campaign instead of its 527, the MoveOn.org Voter Fund. Another branch of the group, MoveOn PAC, plans to remain active for the 2006 mid-term elections by building a ground campaign in every Congressional district to oppose Bush's policies, according to its Web site.
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“Fundraising Online: Cashing In on the Internet Revolution.” It was moderated by Aaron Myers, Director of Internet Operations for Edwards For President.
The panel included Tom Matzzie, Online Mobilization Manager for the AFL-CIO, and Zephyr Teachout, former director of online organizing at Dean for America
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Progressive Majority
To elect progressive candidates to state and local office.
Contact Person: Tom Matzzie
Contact Address: 1025 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Suite 205
Washington, DC 20036
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Tom Matzzie funded, in part, by hate America activist and crook George Soros.
So, is that what it takes now?
In order to get one's message out in the newspapers, one has to buy a full-page ad and then they will take up one's cause. Whatever happened to the good old days when you could just buy them lunch? I guess even the best of them can't eat more than ten lunches a day -- which is how they've gotten their distinctive "shapes" and appearances, disabling them from getting out anymore and tracking down real news stories.
It's much easier to just sit back and rewrite a news story from a full-page ad. No muss, no fuss. Modern journalism.
Their best customers always seem to be the unions with their unlimited budgets for such purposes. The Demagogues just ride their backs.