The information below is from 2013.
Did
you know that in 2012, the State of California
“contributed” more than any other state to President Obama’s reelection campaign? And most of
California’s campaign contributions came from the Los Angeles-Long Beach metro
area (think Hollywood), second only to Washington, D.C. and New York City.
Playing
an important role in California’s campaign contributions to Obama is a secret, invitation-only
group of leftist moneybags who call themselves the Democracy Alliance (DA), which
funneled some $100 million into the 2012 election.
Given the group’s leftwing ideological
proclivities — pro-Obama, amnesty for illegals, gun control, climate change,
abortion, gay “rights” — it should more appropriately be called the Lucifer
Alliance. And that’s how
I’ll refer to the group in this essay.
Although
the DA discloses neither its members nor its beneficiaries, information
has leaked out over time. Three of its members are very well known. They are:
1.
The old goat, George Soros: billionaire
international currency speculator and backer of Obama and Hillary. On April 9,
2007, Soros, to the right of the stairwell, held a fund-raiser for
Obama where this picture was taken:
2. Below is a picture of Chris Hughes: The 29-year-old co-founder of
Facebook.
3. Peter Lewis, chairman of Progressive Insurance, which
is why you should not buy your auto insurance from Progressive because it
is truly a left wing progressive company.
In
early May of 2013, the group held a 5-day semi-annual conference in a
luxury ocean-front resort in Laguna Beach, Calif., to which the Los Angeles Times was granted exclusive access.
Matea
Gold reports for
the L.A. Times, May 4, 2013, that the DA is an influential network of some of
America’s wealthiest “liberal” political donors. Comprised of roughly 100
members who pay annual dues of $30,000, the Alliance itself does not make
donations. Instead it requires its members to contribute at least $200,000 a
year to organizations in the Alliance’s portfolio.
The
group intentionally has a low profile and “carries significant sway on the
left,” with deep-pocketed members like Soros, Hughes, and Lewis. Rob
McKay, a San
Francisco-based philanthropist is the DA’s chairman.
Since its founding by strategist Rob Stein, pictured above, in 2005, the DA has contributed some
$500 million toward leftwing candidates and causes, including the
“liberal” think tank Center for American
Progress; Media Matters for
America, which aims to debunk conservative claims; and Catalist, which maintains a voter
database used to help campaigns target potential supporters.
At
the Laguna Beach conference, the
group selected the pro-Obama Organizing for Action (OFA) and immigration reform
groups such as the National Immigration Forum as some of its top 2013 funding
priorities.
OFA
is a nonprofit group formed by Obama’s’s top political aides that has been
pressing for Congress to pass a universal background check for gun buyers,
among other issues. The DA has brought in about $5 million for OFA in the
first quarter of 2013, with a goal to raise a total of $50 million by year’s
end.
The Laguna Beach conference drew more
than 150 donors and activists for sessions on topics such as the economy, gun control and climate change. Among the
activists pitching to the donors was OFA executive director Jon
Carson, who is pictured below. He was Obama's national field director in the 2008 campaign.
Speakers at the conference included California Gov. Jerry Brown, California Lt. Gov.
and former San Francisco mayor Gavin
Newsom, and Robert Reich,
Secretary of Labor in the Clinton Administration.
By
the end of the conference, members
had pledged to distribute $50 million this year to an array of groups on the
left, a sum leaders said was particularly impressive in light of last
year’s costly election campaign.
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