Posted on 05/06/2014 2:45:24 PM PDT by Dqban22
New Democracy Alliance Donors Revealed
By Arnold Ahlert On May 6, 2014 @ In Daily Mailer,FrontPage
The highly secretive Democracy Alliance (DA), which takes great pains to keep its work disbursing millions of dollars to left-wing causes beyond public scrutiny, has made a foolish mistake. According to the Washington Free Beacon, a document left on the floor following the DA’s latest meeting at Ritz Carlton hotel in downtown Chicago reveals the names of a number of wealthy individuals committed to moving U.S. policies to the left.
Wealthy might be an understatement. The document has a list of new DA “partners” who must each contribute $30,000 in dues per year, plus an additional $200,000 in spending to groups supported by the DA. It also reveals the identities of DA “advisors,” foundation participants and other individuals who are getting a “sneak peek” at the DA’s activities. These partners include top labor, financial and business leaders as well as heirs to billion dollar fortunes, all of whom are recognized as large Democratic campaign contributors.
The event was rife with hypocrisy. Despite Democrats’ regular pronouncements about the lack of transparency in political funding, the four-day meeting was closed to the media and the public, and participants are barred from discussing the details of the proceedings. Moreover, most of those invited were barred from the “Partner’s Only” room.
Politico reporter Ken Vogel attempted to interview some the participants, but people like Obama White House aide Valerie Jarrett, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Kentucky Democratic Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes ignored questions about the double-standard. DA staff even grabbed a reporter’s arm to prevent him from talking to George Soros’s son Jonathan, founder of the Friends of Democracy PAC that aims to spend between $5 million and $6 million in 2014 on candidates who support campaign finance reform. Other attendees removed their name tags when Beacon reporters approached them.
On the other hand, such reticence didn’t prevent attendees from demonstrating a sense of moral superiority with regard to how their own closed-door gathering differed from those of conservatives. “The people who are giving money into politics here are interested in changing the system,” said former Stride Ride president Arnold Hiatt. Hiatt donated $1.9 million to Democratic super PACs in 2012, a number that doesn’t include gifts to nonprofit organizations not required to disclose their donors. “They’re not interested in getting return on investment. You can focus on the irony, but it’s not hypocrisy because we’re not trying to get something for our donations.”
Former Obama campaign coordinator David Axelrod doubled down on the unctuous self-aggrandizement. “Most of these people would love to put themselves out of business,” he declared. “Most of these people would prefer a country in which big donors didn’t play as large a role in our politics. But so long as money in politics is required, there are going to be people on both sides who are willing to step up and provide it.”
The Democratic Alliance is one such organization. And while it does not accept direct contributions, it serves as a pass through organization for millionaire and billionaires devoted to causes promoted by left-wing entities such as the Center for American Progress, Media Matters for America, and the Democratic Super PAC Priorities USA.
The rest of the scandal
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/arnold-ahlert/new-democracy-alliance-donors-revealed/print/
Why cannot meetings like this occur at the site of a comet impact.
“The people who are giving money into politics here are interested in changing the system,” said former Stride Ride president Arnold Hiatt. Hiatt donated $1.9 million to Democratic super PACs in 2012, a number that doesn’t include gifts to nonprofit organizations not required to disclose their donors. “They’re not interested in getting return on investment. You can focus on the irony, but it’s not hypocrisy because we’re not trying to get something for our donations.”
There in one paragraph he claims to want to “change the system” yet denies that he wants anything for the money he has donated. The hypocrisy and lies of the left never ends.
Can I buy it for $15.64 and a can of soda?
Nonetheless, LaMarch offered the same kind of sanctimonious rationale for leftist fund-raising that supposedly puts it on a higher moral plane than its GOP counterpart.“George Soros isn’t trying to get a tax break or relief from regulation or whatever. He is basically saying, let’s have a system where somebody like me would be taxed more heavily,”
Any time George Soros wants to write a check to the Government and pay more in Taxes he can pull out his damn checkbook. Just like all the other liars who give this line... if he want to pay more - PAY MORE. What these blowhards want is for OTHERS to pay more... Against their will... forced... people below them on the ladder.
Nonetheless, LaMarch offered the same kind of sanctimonious rationale for leftist fund-raising that supposedly puts it on a higher moral plane than its GOP counterpart.“George Soros isn’t trying to get a tax break or relief from regulation or whatever. He is basically saying, let’s have a system where somebody like me would be taxed more heavily,”
Any time George Soros wants to write a check to the Government and pay more taxes he can pull out his damn checkbook and write a check... if he wants to pay more - PAY MORE. What these blowhards want is for OTHERS to pay more... Against their will... forced... people below them on the ladder.
Philosophically, I am opposed to inheritance taxes. However, when I see the number of those who inherit millions of dollars for doing nothing other than being born into rich families, and then are so ignorant of the system that allowed their parents to earn their wealth, it sickens me.
A fool and his money are soon parted...
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