Posted on 12/20/2023 5:42:49 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Someone needs to check that guys hard drive.
WIKI
Politico wrote that Brock’s newly announced involvement with CREW was a “major power play that aligns liberal muscle more fully behind the Democratic Party” and that CREW would add a “more politically oriented arm, expand its focus into state politics and donor targeting and will operate in close coordination with Brock’s growing fleet of aggressive Democrat-backing nonprofits and super PACs—Media Matters, American Bridge, and the American Independent Institute.” Prior to Brock’s involvement with CREW, the group had aggressively targeted Republican public officials as well as some Democrats. The Center for Public Integrity wrote that “Many key staffers left soon after Brock became its chairman, and since then, the organization has almost exclusively pursued Republicans and conservative organizations through federal complaints and its own investigations.” In April 2016, Bloomberg reported that Republicans had faced the vast majority of CREW investigations in recent months.
Brock left CREW’s board of directors in December 2017, but did not cut ties with the group and continued to fundraise for it. He was replaced by former George W. Bush White House ethics lawyer Richard Painter, “lending the group a bipartisan air,” according to Politico. Painter took a leave of absence from CREW to run as a Democrat in Minnesota’s 2018 U.S. Senate special election.
CREW aggressively targeted the Donald Trump administration, filing its first lawsuit against Trump three days after his inauguration as U.S. president. According to New York magazine, “Since then, it has been launching actions against the administration and its allies in Congress at a rate of about one a day, filing lawsuits and public-record inquiries and lodging complaints with authorities like the Office of Government Ethics.” In June 2017, New York wrote that “CREW is officially nonpartisan, but it’s a thin veneer. For the last few years, it has been loosely aligned with a network of organizations, including the super-PAC American Bridge, run by Democratic operative David Brock. After the election, Brock promised to ‘kick Donald Trump’s ass,’ saying in a fund-raising document that CREW’s litigation strategy would assure Trump would be ‘afflicted by a steady flow of damaging information.’”
In February 2018, Environment & Energy Publishing wrote that Painter was “at the center of more than 180 legal challenges to Trump and his administration as vice chairman of the left-leaning Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.”
In 2006, Congressional Quarterly reported, “Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has taken aim almost exclusively at GOP members of Congress. Since its founding in 2003, it [helped] investigate 21 lawmakers, only one of them a Democrat” (Senator Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, in a complaint that also targeted Senator Bill Frist (R-TN), then Senate Majority Leader). A report by McClatchy News Service called CREW “a Democratic-leaning watchdog group”.
In 2007, Ms. Magazine quoted longtime Democratic pollster Celinda Lake as saying, “Corruption was a top issue in the [2006] midterm elections, and CREW was critical to the Democrats’ success.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_for_Responsibility_and_Ethics_in_Washington
HSAC was started in GWB’s first 4 year term. For 19 of its 23 year existence it has been under GWB, Obama, and Biden. 4 year were during the Trump admin. From this article, sounds like it does more harm than good. My take is it’s a quasi-government entity with loyalty to the deep state. Bookbinder is in HSAC and CREW, which pushed the Colorado ballot effort.
when they say democracy
they mean democrat rule
As a young person it never occurred to me the President of Harvard would be an antisemitic plagiarizer with a degree in grievance studies. A woman who obviously got her job because of the color of her skin...Everything democrats touch turns to sh*t.
The Democrat Party and all of its acolytes are domestic enemies of the United States of America. Period.
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When i was young i read the constitution. Why do people insist on calling our republic a democracy. There is a difference. No democracy in America.
I remember reading about an incident during the Constitutional Convention. Someone accused another attendee of wanting a democracy. They almost had a duel over it. Everyone knew democracies were a disaster.
nymag.com
12/18/23
The Alarming Calm in the Biden Campaign
Aides feel 2024 is under control despite Biden’s negatives
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/joe-biden-2024-election-strategy-trump.html
The fix is apparently in.
Sadly “watchdogs” are useless without their master aiming and shooting.
So as an experiment, I ventured into the pro CO spin sites.
The statement going around is “The 14th amendment says nothing about being Convicted, just participating!”
So they are claiming that Trump has no need to be tried or convicted of anything, he and all other J6/election deniers are barred from office and should be treated as felons.
Interesting take. Connivant even.
Words are cheap - it’s actions that matter. And the term is commonly used. If perverts and DC thugs can call a man a woman then it’s OK with me to use the terms Republic and democracy interchangeable... What matters to me is we get the totalitarian thugs out of office ... vote them out to the dust bin of history.
CREW ping.
bookbinder
Bookbinder: groomed by Leaky Leahy.
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