Apparently, the liberal attack machine is in full swing hunting down an alleged “secret meeting” of wealthy, right-wing donors. Leading the charge is self-proclaimed purist, Common Cause.
These groups claim that the Koch brothers, who are wealthy donors to conservative causes, are meeting with other deep-pocketed politicos to discuss how best to use their money to impact elections nationwide. As luck would have it, this meeting is allegedly taking place at Beaver Creek this weekend.
Non-partisan Common Cause will join other hacks ProgressNow and MoveOn.org to protest the event. Common Cause attempts to stretch its purpose to include zero attacks on the middle class. But according to its web site, CC is tasked with pursuing “open, honest and accountable government” and to “strengthen public participation.” First, this protest appears to chill the Kochs' public participation and as a private group, they are obviously not subject to open government.
If that isn't enough to give pause about CC's motives, for the past decade CC Executive Director Jenny Flanagan has been totally silent on the efforts of the Colorado Democracy Alliance (CoDA). In her email plea to protest the Koch event, Flanagan claims, “…they will host an invitation only discussion between corporate titans and political operatives to plot a secret plan to spend tens of millions of dollars of corporate money on the 2012 elections.” Does that sound familiar?
For years, Colorado liberals have held secret meetings with millionaires Tim Gill and Pat Stryker. These meetings drew Democrat operatives from the unions and the liberal hit squad of ProgressNow and Ethics Watch. I'm wondering now if Common Cause was part of these meetings. If not, why wasn't Flanagan showing a similar faux outrage and protesting these secret meetings?
This whole charade is silly at best. In fact, I have news for Flanagan. What do you think the NRCC and the DCCC do? Guess what, they hold secret meetings to determine how best to spend their corporate cash to have the greatest impact. It's also how ProgressNow and Ethics Watch were allocated money from CoDA.
It's time to protest Flanagan and CC and tell them to stop hiding their donors and be honest with the people of Colorado about their true motivations.
you mean like when they say “we need more women and minorities in elected positions” then they viciously attack any Conservative woman or minority that runs?
you mean like when they say “we want women protected from sexual harrassment” then defend Clinton and demean and slander all the women he sexually assaulted when they come forward?
you mean like when they say “we want FAIR taxes” and then continue to try soak working Americans for more and more while we are at a point where almost 50% pay no federal tax – just not “FAIR” enough yet?
you mean like when they say “we want the best education for our children” and then sue anyone who tries to give parents educational choices for their children?
you get the point…
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if their groups didn’t operate in the exact same fashion. There are rumblings that the Fab Four are getting fed up with how little of their agenda has been implemented in the last 8 years especially when the legislative leadership has been largely very liberal (i.e. no moderate Dems or competitive seat Dems) and they’ve had the Governorship since ’06. They may sense their golden goose is about gone and they’re trying a Trumpka-esque move to attack political spending.
The hypocrisy is only one issue. The referenced meeting is not occurring in violation of any law and any money spent will (at some point) be reported to either the state or the feds. Furthermore, open and accountable government is great, but the groups at the meeting are not subject to the open meetings laws of the state. If Colorado WINS, with a relevant state interest, is not subject to the open records laws then private industry is definitely not subject to them. Finally, what does it matter how the money is spent? Without the awful campaign finance laws drafted and pushed by Common Cause there would be fewer issues with where the money comes from and where it goes.
What do you propose?