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"Since we launched in the fall of 2006, we have engaged in eighteen races and have backed the winning candidate in ten states, including: California, Iowa, Ohio, Oregon, Montana, Nevada, Minnesota, Missouri, New Mexico, and West Virginia. We lost in Michigan (twice, once by a small margin), Ohio (won once, lost once), Iowa (won once, lost once by a small margin), Colorado (lost there by a small margin both times), and South Dakota.

2010 was a tough year. We helped re-elect Mark Ritchie in Minnesota and Debra Bowen in California, but our candidates in other states — incumbents and challengers alike — were all defeated in the Republican wave election.

In 2008, we ran a sophisticated, highly targeted campaign in Montana which made the difference in a major upset – ousting the incumbent Republican Secretary of State. Most analysts anticipate a tough 2012 Senate race in Montana, and it is critical to have a fair Secretary of State in place. In Oregon we helped beat back a late unexpected surge to capture a critical open seat.

We are proud of our 2006 victory in Minnesota, where long time reformer Mark Ritchie pulled off a major upset with our support. He was later under fierce media and legal scrutiny as he oversaw the recount of the Franken/Coleman senatorial race. Ritchie operated with transparency and integrity, such that the Minnesota Supreme Court unanimously ruled to uphold the extremely close election results, finally sending Franken to the Senate where his vote has been much needed.

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Soros Eyes Secretaries By Matthew Vadum on 12.4.09 @ 6:08AM

History's most notorious Georgian-turned-Russian, the politically astute Joseph Stalin once remarked, "The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."

The lesson has not been lost on the increasingly notorious Hungarian-cum-American George Soros.

A group backed by Soros is gearing up to steal the 2012 election for President Obama and congressional Democrats by installing left-wing Democrats as secretaries of state across the nation. From such posts, secretaries of state can help tilt the electoral playing field.

This is, of course, the same Soros, the same hyperpolitical left-wing philanthropist who makes no secret of his intention to destroy capitalism. In an interview with Der Spiegel last year, Soros said European-style socialism "is exactly what we need now. I am against market fundamentalism. I think this propaganda that government involvement is always bad has been very successful -- but also very harmful to our society."

The vehicle for this planned hijacking of democracy is a below-the-radar non-federal "527" group called the Secretary of State Project. The entity can accept unlimited financial contributions and doesn't have to disclose them publicly until well after the election.

It was revealed during a panel discussion at the Democratic Party's convention last year that the Democracy Alliance, a financial clearinghouse created by Soros and Progressive insurance magnate Peter B. Lewis, approved the Secretary of State Project as a grantee. The Democracy Alliance aspires to create a permanent political infrastructure of nonprofits, think tanks, media outlets, leadership schools, and activist groups -- a kind of "vast left-wing conspiracy" to compete with the conservative movement. It has brokered more than $100 million in grants to liberal nonprofits, including ACORN.

The latest fundraising appeal from the SoS Project warns:

In the 2000 and 2004 elections, we saw the results of extreme Republican tactics to intimidate voters and steal the presidential election -- the disastrous presidency of George W. Bush. Today, we watch as Republicans go to even greater extremes -- even carrying guns to town hall meetings. If they are willing to go to such extremes now, how far will they go on November 6, 2012 to steal the election from President Barack Obama? [emphasis added]

At the top of the SoS Project's slate of candidates for state-level secretary of state positions in 2010 is Minnesota's radically left-wing Mark Ritchie, a former community organizer whose cavalier attitude toward electoral fraud and whose shamelessly partisan conduct during the recount process cleared the way for Al Franken to steal last year's U.S. Senate election from then-Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.). Ritchie was first elected Minnesota secretary of state in 2006. Franken and Obama, by the way, were endorsed last year by ACORN Votes, ACORN's federal political action committee.

In 2006, the Minnesota ACORN PAC endorsed Ritchie, a longtime ACORN ally, and donated to his campaign. According to the Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board, contributors to Ritchie's campaign included liberal philanthropists Soros, Drummond Pike, and Deborah Rappaport, along with veteran community organizer Heather Booth, a Saul Alinsky disciple who co-founded the Midwest Academy, a radical ACORN clone that breeds Marxist agitators. One article on Ritchie's 2006 campaign website brags about the fine work ACORN did in Florida to pass a constitutional amendment to raise that state's minimum wage.

The 2010 slate also includes California Secretary of State Debra Bowen, whom the group describes as "one of the most progressive Secretaries of State in the nation." Bowen was endorsed in her previous run by California ACORN PAC.

SoS Project is also endorsing Jocelyn Benson, candidate for secretary of state in Michigan, whom it lauds as an "[e]lection law scholar and community organizer."

Benson is a candidate ACORN would love. The bio SoS Project provides credits Benson with running a 2004 "voter protection campaign in 21 states, deploying 17,000 trained election law lawyers." Last year in Michigan, she helped to lead the fight to stop the Republican secretary of state "from disenfranchising voters who were victims of home foreclosures."

Assuming the desperately mismanaged Michigan continues to exist through Election Day next year, count on the desperately evil ACORN endorsing Benson.

To the Secretary of State Project, Republican secretaries of state are always Snidely Whiplashes trying to undermine progressive Dudley Do-Rights. SoS claims to advance "election protection" but only backs Democrats, religiously believe that right-leaning secretaries of state helped the GOP steal the presidential elections in Florida in 2000 (Katherine Harris) and in Ohio in 2004 (Ken Blackwell).

Harris in particular is presented as the poster child for GOP election-stealing and vote suppression as the left tries to keep alive its fantasy that George W. Bush stole the 2000 election in Florida with the creative collaboration of Bull Connor, the Ku Klux Klan, Diebold, Blackwater, and the CIA.

The secretary of state candidates the group endorses all sing the same familiar song about electoral integrity issues that we routinely hear from ACORN: Voter fraud is largely a myth, vote suppression is used widely by Republicans, cleansing the dead and fictional characters from voter rolls should be avoided until embarrassing media reports emerge, and anyone who demands that a voter produce photo identification before pulling the lever is a racist, democracy-hating fascist.

The group was co-founded in July 2006 by James Rucker, formerly director of grassroots mobilization for MoveOn.org Political Action and Moveon.org Civic Action. Rucker is also a co-founder of Color of Change, a race-baiting left-wing hate group.

Its website claims, "A modest political investment in electing clean candidates to critical Secretary of State offices is an efficient way to protect the election." Indeed. Political observers know that a relatively small amount of money can help swing a little-watched race for a state office few people understand or care about.

The strategic targeting of the SoS Project yielded astounding results in 2008 and 2006.

In 2008, SoS Project-backed Democrats Linda McCulloch (Montana), Natalie Tennant (West Virginia), Robin Carnahan (Missouri), and Kate Brown (Oregon) won their races. Only Carnahan was an incumbent. The Center for Public Integrity reported that the group performed this electoral feat in the 2008 election cycle with a mere $280,000.

In 2006, along with Minnesota's Ritchie, SoS Project-endorsed Jennifer Brunner (Ohio), who defied federal law last year by refusing to take steps to verify 200,000 questionable voter registrations, trounced her opponent, 55% to 41%. Democrats supported by the group also won that year in New Mexico, Nevada, and Iowa. The group claims it spent about $500,000 in that election cycle.

Talk about return on investment! Stalin would be impressed.

1 posted on 11/12/2010 2:06:55 PM PST by STD
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To: STD

There’s no doubt a borderless, nationless world and communist world gov’t is his goal.

Btw his name is spelled Soros, not Soro’s.


2 posted on 11/12/2010 2:12:21 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: STD

Is it bad Karma to wish Soros an impending meeting with his maker?


3 posted on 11/12/2010 2:12:49 PM PST by Danae (Anail nathrach, orth' bhais's bethad, do chel denmha)
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To: STD

How do you propose he “be stopped?”


4 posted on 11/12/2010 2:17:53 PM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: STD

Ivory Coast’s Prime Minister Guillaume Soro

5 posted on 11/12/2010 2:19:45 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: STD
Assuming the desperately mismanaged Michigan continues to exist through Election Day next year, count on the desperately evil ACORN endorsing Benson.

She went down in flames to courageous fraud fighter Ruth Johnson.
6 posted on 11/12/2010 2:23:34 PM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: STD

anyone making a move to stop him.


12 posted on 11/12/2010 2:27:50 PM PST by dalebert
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To: STD

If they are admitting to his “support” in the Secretaries of State purchases, and the result is fraud (seems they’re admitting he’s had success), then I would submit that our Constitutional rights have been infringed and I would love to see a class action suit against this piece of offal.

How’s about two million Americans suing this b*stard?


19 posted on 11/12/2010 3:56:07 PM PST by Mortrey (Impeach President Soros)
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To: STD

Is George Soros the latter day Ernst Blofeld? I don’t think so.

I think the alarm about Soros is way overdone. He’s a very rich guy with Liberal views who is active in politics. He’s not Darth Vader. I do not think he is plotting a one-world totalitarian state. He did spend a million dollars to try to legalize pot in California, and failed.

If he breaks the law by all means try to get him arrested.

If not, certainly publicize what he is doing, and let people oppose him effectively if they want to. This year Soros backed measures and candidates lost heavily.


20 posted on 11/12/2010 4:09:25 PM PST by devere
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To: STD
Ronald Reagan got the Soviet Union to spend itself to oblivion. As Reagan was to the USSR, Soros is vying to be to America.

What a concept...

24 posted on 11/12/2010 5:42:14 PM PST by C210N (0bama, Making the US safe for Global Marxism)
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To: STD; Liz; namvolunteer

Soros must-read:

The Secret Financial Network Behind “Wizard” George Soros

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2626002/posts?page=39

And an interesting take from Namvolunteer:

To: smokingfrog

I’m going to do this in a few words. Sen. Ted Stevens and Sen. Murkowski saw a way to get more power. Murkowski resigned his office, gave Lisa Murkowski the Senator-job, and ran and won the governor’s race so he could control the gas pipeline while Stevens whacked up oil-man Bill Allen’s Veco graft worth $40 million. You would think that Alaskans would be pissed but 5,000 people worked for Allen.

Enter Sarah Palin. She lost the 2002 Lt. Gov. race and then Frank Murkowski put her on the Gas and Oil Commission. Palin saw the hijinks there and resigned. The scandal cost the Alaska GOP chairman Randy Ruedrich job but he re-surfaces.
Palin challenged Frank Murkowski and beats him, 54-19.
Ruedrich tries to bribe Palin and she shamed him. Somehow, he stays GOP chairman.

She makes amazing changes in the capitol and McCain offers her VP nominee, While she is campaigning, every name above is calling the media and Democrats with their spin. The 400 Journolists poison the public with their incessant false accusations. The radical-Democratic McClatchy Newspapers have a stranglehold on news in Alaska (they did that hatchet job on Curt Weldon) and targets Palin.

Soros finances nuisance lawsuits that Palin must spend her own money to defend these suits. She was almost bankrupt.
Enter Joe Miller. A lawyer, Miller helps her with the suits. Palin helps Miller try to defeat Lisa Murkowski

One of more Washington, D.C., media executives subsidized the Alaska Dispatch publishing two or more anti-Palin, anti-Miller stories a day. One of their “reporters” had to be restrained while Miller was having a campaign event which the local and national media went bats**t.
Miller fights Ruedrich to wrest the GOP chairman, loses, and stupidly ran around his office dialing to vote against Ruedrich in a newspaper poll. Media acts like it’s Watergate.

In conclusion, Palin resigns, rebuilds her wealth, takes the battle to Soros and Obama, Palin recruited dozens of GOP officeholders, Obama’s got nothing, Democrats are routed. Americans start circling around Soros, he takes one last (money) surge at Palin.

Meanwhile in Alaska, Stevens and Allen go to prison, Rep. Don Young is going to prison with 10 other GOP politicians. Eric Holder screws the Alaska investigations, Steven and Young go free.

Stevens dies, Young is re-elected. Lisa probably wins with Democrat, Republican and Communist help.
Alaskans don’t care that the Murkowskis make millions as long as they get a slice.

8 posted on Friday, November 12, 2010 7:16:43 AM by namvolunteer (We draw the Congressional districts this time)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2625982/posts

[Joe] Miller challenged in wrong court, state says


31 posted on 11/12/2010 7:36:14 PM PST by txhurl (If we can shake Congress like a can of pennies, we can uproot voter fraud like a D-9.)
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To: STD

Rico - criminal syndicate.


37 posted on 11/12/2010 10:10:30 PM PST by SaraJohnson
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