Richard Ashooh--One Campaign

Richard Ashooh is pondering a run at Congressional district One.  And at first glance he looks good on paper but there is some potential baggage.  His association with One Vote08 back in 2007/2008 and the One Campaign that drove it, is a problematic smudge on an otherwise impressive resume. 

Back in 2007 Mr. Ashooh was quoted in the Union Leader as wanting to put global poverty at the top of the presidential agenda as part of his association with One Vote 08, but in what context? Presidents and candidates alike are entitled to use the bully pulpit to educate people about global challenges.  Asking people to freely donate time or resources to a cause allows each and every one to measure its value.  But suggesting legislative priorities that would use the power of government to advance some unconstitutional globalist agenda is more like slavery and decidedly un-conservative.

But that is exactly what the One Campaign is looking for.  They prefer revenue streams protected by writ of law and taxation.  So the One Campaign acts like many of the global social justice groups who focus on an issue (in this case poverty) as a vehicle for using government and legislation to redistribute wealth.  The idea of ending poverty is certainly noble, but their willingness to finance it through a government mandated thugocracy—is not.  An odd irony given that this is the primary road block to actually ending poverty; allowing people to earn what they keep, and then spend it on things that they value.

An related issue of particular interest to a business man like Mr. Ashooh is the idea of using mandated climate change legislation as a revenue stream for these groups.   The One Campaign would never object to using cap and trade as a tool for shifting wealth from the United States to them and the third world.  So they can freely wield the idea of environmental justice with governments and religious groups to activate organizations and campaigns at every level to drive and change policy that results in more money for them.   Tax energy use by industrial nations and use that money to right perceived wrongs across the globe--it's a great idea.

We can see some of this subterfuge at work in a recent letter dated December 1st, 2009 from Senator John Kerry (D-Oz), to Sec of State Hillary Clinton. (Cuckold wife of ex-president Clinton.) 

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"As articulated in the Bali Action Plan, a core element of any international climate change agreement must be a substantial climate finance package.

The United States Congress has already indicated its support for such a package. The House of Representatives dedicated 7% of the allowance value from a cap and trade system to international efforts to promote clean energy technologies, reduce emissions from deforestation, and address adaptation needs. The legislation moving through the Senate includes similar levels of funding for these priorities.

However, we face a large gap between the international climate funds committed in the President’s FY10 budget (approximately $1.2 billion) and the expected revenue that will be generated from a cap-and-trade program beginning in 2012."

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In addition, as we approach the Copenhagen climate change negotiations, the global community has agreed that $10 billion is required annually in fast-start financing to support immediate international climate change priorities. The United States must be prepared to contribute its fair share of this obligation.

Therefore, I urge you to include $3 billion in international climate finance in the FY11 budget to support our short-term climate finance obligations and create the necessary glide path to enable our federal agencies to fully and effectively utilize the increased resources Congress will make available to them through climate change legislation."

I'm not sure what my favorite part is but “create the necessary glide path to enable our federal agencies to effectively utilize the 'increased resources' congress WILL MAKE available..." has to be it.  (Emphasis mine).  Kerry uses all the key words for moving cash under the guise of environmental justice like any good socialist would.

But this is but a small portion of the deal making underway to redistribute the wealth of American's away from America by force of law and threat of punishment.   While the One Campaign is neither a lone actor nor a lone beneficiary they are a large and organized piece of this globalist puzzle. 

Equally troubling is the fact that as a Senator Mr. Obama had promised to legislate a government budget line item that would take a percentage of GDP every year and give it to the world, something Joe Keefe of Pax World Management, Mr. Ashooh’s New Hampshire partner on One Vote 08, appears to support.  His actual business model is based on the concept of global giving (which is fine as long as it is voluntary and up front) and he is an ardent democrat and Obama supporter, having personally donated $5,900 dollars to Mr. Obama’s 2008 Presidential campaign.

But no word on whether the cap and trade diversion would replace the Obama line item tax if it passed.

So now we are left with a man (Richard Ashooh) who has a long list of personal and fiscal commitments and accomplishments with Republican candidates and causes.  But then there’s the One Campaign and its dedication to ending poverty by getting democrats and their fellow travellers to pilfer America with carbon taxes or to budget our wealth away with as little knowledge or consent as can be managed.  So while ending poverty also looks good on paper, further investigation reveals priorities that are often confused, un-American and un-conservative. 

Mr. Ashooh seems like an awfully smart guy to not have noticed any of this or made any of these connections on his own.  He is welcome to correct that misunderstanding at his convenience, but we are left wondering what fundamental interests caused him to overlook it in the first place.

Comments

[NH]

Wow, superb bit of research as usual!

Exposing the globalist agenda and their traitorous progressive extremist enablers, one at a time!