Major Corporate Donors to Leftist Think Tank

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Revealed: Major Corporate Donors to Leftist Think Tank Center for American Progress
The Clinton-allied Center laughs all the way to the bank.

12.13.2013 Paul Bois 1
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On Friday, Ryan Grim of The Huffington Post reported on left-leaning think-tank Center for American Progress (CAP) and their elusive corporate donor list that has come under scrutiny in recent years.

Think-tanks like the liberal-minded CAP have come under fire recently for lack of transparency in regards to funding, since they've garnered a reputation for lobbying politicians without labeling themselves lobbyists. CAP has especially been singled-out due its relationship with the Obama administration on the Affordable Care Act and Obama's Green Jobs initiative. Hillary Clinton has also been noted to have had a long history with CAP.

In response to the criticism, President of CAP, Neera Tanden, stated the following:

The fact is that the Center for American Progress has always been fiercely independent -- our views are shaped by what we think the best solutions are to improve the lives of all Americans. Donations, be they from individuals or corporations, do not guide or determine our work. Period. Indeed, we have advocated numerous policies that would impinge on corporate interests -- from tax policy to government subsidies; our interests are simply to provide ideas to solve the country's problems.

After news broke that CAP founder John Podesta will be joining Obama's inner-circle to help salvage his disastrous second-term, Politico announced Thursday that CAP would reveal their corporate donor list to relieve pressure. On Friday, they did just that. Among the donors: Wal-Mart, Google, AT&T, GE, PepsiCo, Facebook, and dozens more.

Here's the full donor list from Huffington Post:

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
The Albright Stonebridge Group
American Beverage Association
American Iron and Steel Institute
America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP)
Apple Inc.
AT&T
Bank of America
Blackstone
Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
Blue Engine Message & Media
Blue Shield of California
BMW of North America
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield
Citigroup
The Coca-Cola Company
Comcast NBCUniversal
Covanta Energy
CVS Caremark Inc.
Daimler
Monitor Deloitte
DeVry Education Group
Dewey Square Group
Discovery
DISH Network
Downey, McGrath Group, Inc.
DRS Technologies
Eli Lilly and Company
Facebook
Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas
GE
Genworth Financial
The Glover Park Group LLC
Goldman Sachs
Google
Health Care Service Corporation
The Ickes and Enright Group
Japan Bank for International Cooperation
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
Livingston Group
McLarty Associates
Microsoft Corporation
Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)
MyWireless.org
Northrop Grumman
Pearson
PepsiCo
PG&E Corporation
Quest Diagnostics
Samsung
Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States (TECRO)
Tata Sons Limited
Time Warner Inc.
T-Mobile
Toyota Motor North America
Visa Inc.
Walmart
Wells Fargo

This is the extent to which corporate America, supposedly conservative and capitalism-oriented, has capitulated to the top-down governmental power of the American left. Corporate America, apparently, is highly complicit in forwarding the very legislation that shrinks American freedom.

I'm sure we can trust these fuckers

The Ickes and Enright Group....http://www.ickesenright.com/firm.htm...http://www.ickesenright.com/

huh? ... http://www.pearson.com/

I'm going to sleep good tonight...McLarty Associates .....http://www.maglobal.com/

YUP... no problem...http://www.albrightstonebridge.com/

WE ARE FUCKED, PEOPLE

Poor Whiffy

Hey it is either pay up or be a target. That is the way these groups work.

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Why voting irregularities could swing the Virginia AG recount to Republicans
9:50 AM 12/12/2013

Matt K. Lewis

If you’re wondering why Virginia Republicans are willing to fight over the attorney general’s race, it’s because the post has become almost as important as the governorship. Not only could the outcome impact continuing legal issues surrounding the Affordable Care Act, it would likely impact the number of Republicans in the U.S. Congress.

Right now, Virginia has eight Republicans and three Democrats in the U.S. House. Prior to the redistricting — which was controlled by a Republican General Assembly and signed by Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell — Republicans held just a six-to-five majority. (Note: A couple of those races actually switched in 2010 — right before McDonnell signed the redistricting bill into law. But those seats are now presumably locked in place by redistricting.)

Democrat Mark Herring — should he become the attorney general — would most likely argue the lines were unconstitutional and must be redrawn. One could easily imagine that when the defendant (the state) agrees with the plaintiff, that the three-judge court panel currently litigating the case would be hard-pressed to disagree.


That explains why the stakes are so high, but it doesn’t explain why Republican Mark Obenshain — who is currently down by just 165 votes (in what was the closest statewide race in Virginia history) — might still become Virginia’s next attorney general.

“The suspected problems in this race are many and growing every day,” said a source familiar with the recount process.

There were three major irregularities that could swing the outcome — two of which occurred in Fairfax County.

First, Fairfax kept polls open for three extra days for provisional ballots. It is the policy of the Board of Elections that Virginia voters who aren’t on the rolls may cast a provisional ballot. But they must then prove their eligibility between Election Day and the following Friday at 5 p.m. (Fairfax kept the process open through Tuesday of the following week.)

Obenshain came into Fairfax up by about 60,000 votes, and Fairfax “just happened to be the one county where Mark Obenshain lost by 60,000 votes,” said the source.


The second problem is that every ballot is supposed to be filed with the clerk of the court by the day after the election. And all were, except in Fairfax county. “And again, it is Fairfax that keeps finding ballots,” says a source who is an expert on Virginia election law. “No one knows the chain of custody now.”

The third problem: Each year the state board of elections provides each locality with a list of voters to purge from their lists (this is to remove the names of people who moved, died, became felons, etc., in the last year or so.) Most counties largely complied with that directive, but some Democratic bastions — like the cities of Hampton and Charlottesville — allowed these names to remain on the books.

More than 1,800 names that should have been purged in these two cities alone, weren’t. That constitutes more than 10 times the current margin of difference between the candidates.

(Note: A judge just ruled that Obenshain’s campaign has the right to the polling books, which show who voted. The Herring campaign opposed this. But it’s one of the reasons Obenshain could actually pull off the recount.)

The good news for Republicans is that there are a couple ways they could still win. Obenshain could 1). win the recount — or, at least get closer (Suppose, for example, if Fairfax’s provisional ballots are thrown out), or 2). Pursue what is called the contest option.

In the second case, Obenshain could simply file a petition of contest with the Virginia General Assembly. The House and Senate would then be obliged to meet and hear the evidence. They could then award the election to one of the candidates — or (most people don’t know this) — they could order another election. This would require a simple majority of both bodies, and Republicans have a majority.

Now, should Obenshain pull this maneuver, one can be sure Democrats would cry foul and raise holy hell. They would say he “stole” the election. They would say it’s Florida 2000 all over again. Were it not for the voting irregularities in Fairfax County, and the fact that Congressional redistricting is on the line, this would probably not be a serious option. But my sense is that this is a very real possibility.

“It depends entirely on the narrative you put out,” Bob Roberts, a James Madison University political scientist told the Washington Post. “Clearly the Obenshain campaign is trying to create this narrative that somehow the election is entirely flawed. If you can sell that to the voters, that somehow all these registrars have messed up, then you’ve got a case you can take to the legislature.”

The recount starts on December 16th in some of the large jurisdictions, and the 17th on the rest. The judges meet on the 18th and 19th. By the 20th, they would likely declare a winner of the recount. If Obenshain wants to kick it to the Legislature, he would have to file by December 23rd.

It looks like it’s going to be an interesting Christmas in the commonwealth.

This post has been updated.



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