Posted on 09/10/2012 7:49:24 PM PDT by Nachum
Barack Obama’s leading polling expert is also a member of an elite, invitation-only collection of liberal moneymen.
Paul Harstad is a member of the Democracy Alliance, according to documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. The Alliance steers tens of millions of dollars to campaigns and groups backed by the White House, including the president’s Super PAC, Priorities USA, as well as to liberal nonprofits such as the Center for American Progress and Media Matters for America.
Harstad is the closest direct tie between the administration and the secretive group, which does not disclose its members or donors. He has worked for Obama since the future president’s Illinois Senate primary in 2002. Obama’s meteoric rise to the highest office in the land meant a generous payday for Harstad.
The pollster pocketed $94,000 in 2007 for his work in Iowa and other battlegrounds—nearly 90 percent of Obama’s total spending on pollsters that year. He has since become a mainstay in the Oval Office. Obama meets with Harstad and a group of “core” advisers every Wednesday to “discuss [the] latest polling and how to use the results to advance their ambitious agenda,” according to reports. Harstad’s advice played a large role in shaping Obama’s FY2010 budget. He was the chief public apologist of Obama’s big-spending efforts at the start of his term.
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It is against the law for Obama to coordinate with those PACS (as if that matters any longer since he has yet to follow the law anyway). Besides, the lying corrpt media isn’t about to report anything negative on him. They’re all sickening!
If it is against the law then why isnt something being done about it? cheating and law breaking seem to be the accepted norm today.
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