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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. -- Plato (429-347 BC)

Monday, October 06, 2014

Senate Democrats' Hypocrisy On Money In Politics Detailed By NYT & Mocked by MSNBC

This week brings yet more evidence detailing Democrats’ hypocrisy on money in politics.

The New York Times writes, “With the battle for the Senate tilting toward Republicans and President Obama’s approval ratings hovering near his all-time low, Democrats are more reliant than they have ever been on the very kind of big-money groups they have spent years trying to outlaw.

“They are countering the Republican Party’s expansive and formidable outside spending network this fall with a smaller but more tightly knit alliance of groups that share donors, closely coordinate their advertising and hit harder than their conservative counterparts.

“To hold the Senate, the Democratic outside spending network is working hand in hand with — and is funded by — the party’s traditional ideological allies, including abortion rights organizations, environmentalists and labor unions. They have overlapping board memberships, use the same voter data and even share advertising content. Most of their on-air money is being spent through a small cluster of ‘super PACs,’ which can explicitly advocate the election or defeat of specific candidates. . . . In some races, different Democratic groups have simply run the same ad — a perfectly legal practice because outside groups can coordinate with one another, but one that is rare.”

The Times goes on to describe Democrats’ deep coordination on spending. “The coordination of Democratic groups extends even to their office space. Susan McCue, a founder of Senate Majority PAC, shares a flat-screen-television-lined Washington office suite with American Bridge, the opposition-research hub that provides Democratic groups with the raw material of their campaign attacks. She also sits on the board of American Bridge.

“Senate Majority’s campaigns director, Ty Matsdorf, hangs his hat at the Messina Group, the consulting firm founded by Jim Messina, the former campaign manager for President Obama. Mr. Messina also oversees Organizing for Action, Mr. Obama’s issue advocacy organization, and Priorities USA Action, a super PAC that has turned its energies to support a Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential bid in 2016. In the meantime, Priorities has kicked in $500,000 to help Senate Majority PAC keep Democrats in the Senate — and agreed to hold off major fund-raising until the midterm election is over.

“More than half of all the outside advertising supporting Democratic Senate candidates this cycle has poured through Senate Majority PAC or a set of affiliated super PACs and nonprofit groups, according to the Campaign Media Analysis Group at Kantar Media. Much of the rest has come from environmental organizations, like NextGen Climate Action, and women’s rights groups that donate money to Senate Majority PAC, closely coordinate their advertising with it or do both.

‘When Senate Majority PAC started in 2011, it just seemed like the best and most efficient way to run everything was through one organization,’ Mr. Matsdorf said. ‘A lot of the success we’re seeing this cycle, in fund-raising and from our political donors, is because they realize their money was effectively used by us.’

“Officials from Democratic super PACs have attended meetings of the Democracy Alliance, a clearinghouse for liberal donors who fund an array of research, advocacy and political organizations. Contributions to the super PACs count toward the quota each alliance member must donate each year.

“By contrast, the twice-yearly donor conferences run by the Kochs’ Freedom Partners network are typically limited to groups within the network, like Americans for Prosperity, Generation Opportunity and Concerned Veterans for America. Crossroads runs its own gatherings for donors — and competes aggressively with the Koch network for money.


<“Virtually all of the liberal outside spending groups sit on weekly conference calls and ‘tables’ that coordinate spending in each state. The system allows Democratic allies to not only coordinate advertising, but link it with intensive get-out-the-vote efforts organized by unions and other interest groups. (Dennis Rivera, a senior official of the Service Employees International Union, one of the country’s most politically active unions, also sits on the board of Senate Majority.)”

Even the crew on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” can’t stomach Democrats’ hypocrisy on political spending any more. On Friday, Joe Scarborough said a report from NPR on independent expenditures during the 2014 election cycle set him off: “Senator Reid believes so strongly in this crusade that he’s attacked the Koch brothers repeatedly for their ‘sins against democracy’—that’s right, he calls them ‘sins against democracy.’ In fact, he even called the Koch brothers ‘un-American.’ . . . So I ask, ‘Who are the biggest spenders in America?’ as I’m listening to NPR. . . . Number one group according to NPR and independent groups . . . The number one big spender . . . It’s Harry Reid’s own Senate Majority PAC. . . . We’ve been hearing on and on and on and on and on, how evil the Koch brothers are. . . . This really is unbelievable that the guy that has been using this and calling other people ‘un-American’ has spent more than anybody else in American politics in 2014.”

Scarborough continued, "Harry Reid is the number one spender. . . . Harry Reid should apologize to the American people for using the Senate floor and being such a hypocrite. . . . Harry Reid said the Koch brothers were ‘un-American.’ Harry Reid said the Koch brothers were immoral. He said they were deceptive. And yet, talk about deceptive. Here’s a guy that has raised and spent more money than anybody else in this entire election cycle. . . . He called the Koch brothers ‘un-American’ for doing things that he has done more than they’ve done.” Former Democrat Senate candidate Harold Ford, Jr. (D-TN) also thought it was a little too much saying to Scarborough, “Those who complain about the other side spending money probably should stop, especially if they’re going to do the same themselves. . . . I think it’s wrong for anyone to refer to someone as ‘un-American’ for participating in the political system.”

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Anonymous Jeffrey Locke said...

Hypocrisy is thy middle name "Demonrats." And no I did not misspell the donkey party; I corrected its nomenclature.

10/06/2014  

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