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screen grab from the October 4 “Saturday
Night Live”
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One of liberal philanthropist George Soros’s favorite lefty
groups is in deep financial doo-doo.
The group is Common Cause. It attacks pharmaceutical
companies for opposing government-run health care, demands
federal regulation of drug prices, and pushes for so-called
campaign finance reform and public financing of campaigns for
political office.
Common Cause’s state chapters in Florida and New Jersey are going
out of business, Tampa Bay Online
reports:
After 30 years of advocating campaign finance reform, tougher
ethics laws, election reform and other “good government”
issues, the Florida chapter of Common Cause is shutting down
for lack of funding. […]
The two Common Cause full-time staff members, Wilcox and
development director Alex Chavez of Sarasota, were told
yesterday their jobs were being terminated at the end of March,
along with a total of 20 staffers nationwide, said Chavez. He
said that will include closing at least one other state office,
in New Jersey.
The Florida chapter was opened in 1974, four years after the
national organization was founded by John Gardner, a former
high official of the Lyndon Johnson administration, who
described it as a lobbying group for the common interests of
the populace. […]
Chavez, hired less than a year ago to boost the organization’s
membership and fundraising, called the situation “a sign of the
times - really a sad story, a sad situation for the progressive
movement.”
Wilcox said direct mail fundraising for small donors is drying
up, and “major donors are the ones who were burned by Madoff.
Non-profits are struggling.”
That’s Bernard
Madoff, by the way, the now-jailed liberal embezzler who has
helped to kill at least two big left-wing grant-making charities,
the Picower and JEHT foundations, so far.
Big liberal institutional donors to Common Cause include Arca
Foundation ($1,395,000 since 2000), Carnegie Corp. of New York
($1,360,000 since 2001), Beldon Fund ($1,300,000 since 2005), and
Joyce Foundation ($570,000 since 2002). Before he became U.S.
president, Barack
Obama served on the Joyce Foundation’s board. The Barbra
Streisand Foundation gave $7,500 in 2000.
At least four members of George Soros’s Democracy
Alliance, the billionaire socialists’ club, have also given
big to Common Cause, which suggests that Common Cause is a
Democracy Alliance-approved grantee. The list includes Soros’s
Open Society Institute ($1,225,000 since 2001), Lewis B. &
Dorothy Cullman Foundation Inc. ($75,000 since 2004), Rutt
Bridges Family Foundation ($23,000 since 2004), and Gill
Foundation ($20,000 since 2004).
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steve| 3.23.09 @ 4:09PM
I am being overwhelmed by schadenfreude.
Bill Bailey| 3.23.09 @ 4:19PM
Yeah. There is dancing in the streets in conservative circles!
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YAAAAAAAAY! 1 for America, 0 for Soros.
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SNL Skit Watcher| 3.24.09 @ 3:20AM
Did anybody notice Soros' official title is given as "Owner, Democratic Party" in that screen grab? Ha ha! Ain't that the truth!
Jim| 3.25.09 @ 1:43PM
Isn't Mr Inflicting Sorrows the guy who turned in fellow jews in hungary?
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/george-soros-on-helping-the-nazis-during-the-holocaust
Fred007| 3.25.09 @ 3:26PM
Before you throw Common Cause under the bus, consider this: Common Cause pressed for campaign finance reform, which the Congress perverted into something even more evil and sinister (out of sight). Drug safety was an important issue for CC. It still is important. The Feds solved the FDA problem by replacing an honest administrator with a corrupt one. CC could still be a force for good. Maybe not for the Dumth Generation.
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Did anybody notice Soros' official title is given as "Owner, Democratic Party" in that screen grab? Ha ha! Ain't that the truth!
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