Culture of Hooliganism…Obama Goons Threatened 10K Donors W/Legal Trouble for Donating to Republicans

Gateway Pundit ^ | May 24, 2013 | Jim Hoft

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In 2008 the American Issues Project released an ad tying Barack Obama to domestic terrorist Bill Ayers. “Barack Obama launched his political career with the direct assistance of Bill Ayers.”

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The Obama camp used the DOJ to demand an investigation and prosecute American Issues Project

That’s not all… Obama goons threatened 10,000 GOP donors with legal trouble and public harassment if they continued to support Republican candidates. The Wall Street Journal reported, via Jammie Wearing Fool:

On Aug. 21, 2008, the conservative American Issues Project ran an ad highlighting ties between candidate Obama and Bill Ayers, formerly of the Weather Underground. The Obama campaign and supporters were furious, and they pressured TV stations to pull the ad—a common-enough tactic in such ad spats.

What came next was not common. Bob Bauer, general counsel for the campaign (and later general counsel for the White House), on the same day wrote to the criminal division of the Justice Department, demanding an investigation into AIP, “its officers and directors,” and its “anonymous donors.” Mr. Bauer claimed that the nonprofit, as a 501(c)(4), was committing a “knowing and willful violation” of election law, and wanted “action to enforce against criminal violations.”

AIP gave Justice a full explanation as to why it was not in violation. It said that it operated exactly as liberal groups like Naral Pro-Choice did. It noted that it had disclosed its donor, Texas businessman Harold Simmons. Mr. Bauer’s response was a second letter to Justice calling for the prosecution of Mr. Simmons. He sent a third letter on Sept. 8, again smearing the “sham” AIP’s “illegal electoral purpose.”

Also on Sept. 8, Mr. Bauer complained to the Federal Election Commission about AIP and Mr. Simmons....

[BuckeyeTexan]

Maybe so.

[Wurlitzer]

“The Democrat Party should be named the Communist-Democrat Party.

We’ve been socialist for a long time now, since before WWII, and both parties bought into it.”

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What you posted is not hyperpole!

The DSA (democratic socialist of America) used to have on their web site a list of members in the house/senate who belonged to their Progressive Caucus (Progressive being the term recommended by the CPUSA). A vast majority of democrats were on that list along with a handful of RINOs.

Shortly after I found my Reps name on that list and wrote him that “I wanted my handshake back” (we had met previously) because real Americans died fighting these socialist/communist, that list was pulled from the web. Now I don’t think it was my letter which caused that but my Rep, John Lafalse, wrote back with a very telling letter.

In the first paragraph, the dishonorable Lafalse wrote that he at no time was a member of the Progressive Caucus. Ok, fine but his next paragraph is a look into the progressive mind.

In his second paragraph, and I quote exactly he stated: “I joined the Progressive Caucus to see what they were about”.

Only in a liberal, Saul Alinsky defective mind could those 2 thoughts be contained simultaneously without the brain going into meltdown.

It would seem the mental disorder known as liberalism can create a brain with no ability to recognize it is contradicting itself.

[kcvl]

He was formerly a partner at Perkins Coie. In November, 2009, he was named to be the next White House Counsel, upon the resignation of Gregory Craig.

Bauer was President Obama's personal attorney and the general counsel of the Obama for America presidential campaign prior to his appointment as White House Counsel.

He has also previously served as the general counsel to the Democratic National Committee, and had advised President Obama since Mr. Obama came to Washington, D.C. in 2005 as U. S. Senator.

On Thursday, June 2, 2011, the White House Press Office stated that Bauer would be returning to private practice at Perkins Coie, and that Principal Deputy Counsel to the President Kathryn Ruemmler (his deputy, in that office since January 2010 and before that since January 2009 as Principal Associate Deputy U.S. Attorney General) would succeed him. The position, because it is part of the Executive Office staff that personally advises the President and is not an agency or Cabinet department or military head, does not require Senate confirmation despite the prominence of the office.

Bauer returned to private practice to again represent the president’s election team and the Democratic National Committee. “Bob was a critical member of the White House team,” Mr. Obama said. “He has exceptional judgment, wisdom and intellect, and he will continue to be one of my close advisers.”

Bauer is married to Anita Dunn, the former director of communications at the White House. Together, they were described as Washington's new "power couple" in Newsweek magazine.

[kcvl]

www.DiscoverTheNetwork.org Date: 5/24/2013 1:00:40 PM

ROBERT BAUER

•Has served as counsel to the Democratic Senatorial and Congressional Campaign Committees for many years
•Became Barack Obama’s private attorney after the latter was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2004
•Was appointed as President Obama’s White House Counsel in November 2009

A graduate of Harvard University (1973) and the University of Virginia School of Law (1976), Robert Bauer worked on energy issues for the Jimmy Carter administration in the late 1970s. He has served as counsel to the Democratic Senatorial and Congressional Campaign Committees for many years.

In 1999 Bauer was counsel to Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, working with the South Dakota Democrat to defend President Bill Clinton against impeachment charges. Bauer also was general counsel to the Bill Bradley for President Committee in 1999-2000.

In his role as attorney for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2000, Bauer filed a racketeering lawsuit against then-House Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-Texas) and three affiliated political groups, charging that DeLay had engaged in extortion and money laundering. In 2004 Bauer served as general counsel to the Democratic National Committee during the presidential campaign of Senator John Kerry.

Today Bauer heads the political law group at Perkins Coie, the powerful, Democrat-aligned Seattle law firm that represents, among others, Tom Daschle, John Kerry, Richard Gephardt, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Bauer became Barack Obama’s private attorney after the latter was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2004. In 2007 Bauer was appointed as general counsel for Obama’s presidential campaign, a project dubbed “Obama For America” (OFA). In January 2009, when OFA merged with the Democratic National Committee and became known as Organizing for America, Bauer retained his position as the entity’s general counsel.

During the 2008 presidential campaign, Obama, who had never made his original birth certificate available for public scrutiny, hired Perkins Coie to defend him in court cases challenging his status as a “natural born” U.S. citizen — a status upon which Obama’s eligibility to hold the office of President was contingent. According to Federal Election Commission records, OFA paid Perkins Coie $1,352,378.95 for its legal services in those cases.

Also in 2008, Bauer was intimately involved in Obama’s controversial decision to break the pledge he had made to accept public funding for his presidential campaign. Bauer and Obama based that decision on their calculation that the candidate was a fundraising powerhouse who would be able to collect far more money via his own efforts than he could ever get from the public financing system.

While Obama campaigned against Democrat rival Hillary Clinton, and then against Republican opponent John McCain, Bauer quietly wrote letters to television-station managers and to Assistant Attorney General John Keeney, contending that Federal Election Commission (FEC) rules forbade the airing of any anti-Obama television ads that made any mention of the Senator’s well-documented association with former Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers. Bauer filed FEC complaints against groups that were seeking to run such ads, and he intervened on Obama’s behalf to prevent the American Leadership Project — a pro-Hillary Clinton organization — from running TV spots exposing the strong support Obama had received from the notoriously corrupt Service Employees International Union.

In early 2009 President Obama hired Bauer as legal counsel to represent him in a criminal probe investigating allegations that former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich may have sought — with Obama’s (or Rahm Emanuel’s) knowledge — to sell to the highest bidder the U.S. Senate seat Obama had vacated when he assumed the presidency.

Bauer also has worked on issues related to Obama’s ties to Tony Rezko, a corrupt, Chicago-based real-estate developer who was one of the first major financial contributors to Obama’s political campaigns in the 1990s. By 2005, Rezko was facing at least 12 lawsuits and was under federal investigation on charges that he had solicited kickbacks from companies seeking state pension business under his friend, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich.

In November 2009 President Obama named Bauer to be his White House Counsel, replacing Gregory Craig, who resigned abruptly on November 13 (after having repeatedly denied, for weeks, that he had any plans of stepping down).

In addition to his work with Perkins Coie, Bauer is also general counsel to the Democratic National Committee.

Bauer contributes regularly to the Huffington Post and is the author of MoreSoftMoneyHardLaw.com, a blog site where he writes about campaign finance and other political issues. He also serves on the Journal of Law and Politics’ National Advisory Board; the Election Law Journal’s Editorial Board; and the American Bar Association’s Advisory Commission on Election Law.

Bauer has authored several books — United States Federal Election Law (1982, 1984); Soft Money Hard Law: A Guide to the New Campaign Finance Law (2002); and More Soft Money Hard Law: The Second Edition of the Guide to the New Campaign Finance Law (2004). In 2006 the National Law Journal named him as one of the “100 Most Influential Attorneys” in the United States.

Bauer is married to Anita Dunn, President Obama’s former White House communications director.

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2435

[itsahoot]

What are the republicans doing about this???

So far they have denied that voter fraud is a problem. Likely because they are progressive statists themselves.