New Carol Same As The Old Carol

Just cleaning Up the CSP detritus so let us call this Carol-SEIU Saturday morning.

This tidbit fell in my lap while I was looking for the photo in a previous post.  It is a clip of the top six donors to Carol's 2012 re-election campaign from OpenSecrets.org.  While it is still early in the funding season you may notice some similarities to all her previous efforts. Unions!

I realize this is another captain obvious moment for activists who pay attention to such things but we are all quick to forget; not how Democrats demonize opponents they claim are owned by some special interest but who owns them and how much they will work to distract us from that.

One other point the left obsesses over when it comes to funding election: 53% of Carol's dollars in this cycle are already from out of state.

Pass the popcorn please.

Cross Posted: New Carol Same As The Old Carol

Two Of A Kind

John Lynch has a lot in common with governor Chet Culver of Ohio.  Chet said he would protect marriage as between a man and a woman and then Chet got all squishy.  Then he stood by and let the courts define marriage for him.

Want to know some other interesting coincidences?  Chet was receiving money from Tim Gill while he was saying he'd defend traditional marriage.  Another familiar donor Ohio and New Hampshire share is Jon Stryker.

Chet Culver was one of the four Governors invited to Tim Gill's secret donor confab in Chicago, just like John Lynch.  I don't know if Chet gave a speech, or if he was just there to beg for money, and help John and Tim with Governor O'Malley of Maryland's conversion to the church of I used to be for protecting marriage but I got bought out by the gay lobby.

By the way Governor.  Where's the speech?  It's still not on your press page?

What exactly are you hiding from New Hampshire?

Cross posted at Granite Grok

A Smudge On The "Teflon" John

John Lynch made a big stink about the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) calling him out on his lie about same sex marriage (one of several actually).  He seemed awfully upset about someone from out of state spending $200K to advertise the fact.  So mad, that had the amended version of HB 1459 passed the House he said he’d sign it (without any regard for the affects that the threat of litigation could have on political speech.) 

Why? 

Someone spent money to expose our feckless governor.  Free speech had hurt the Teflon John so speech must be punished!  

Mr. Lynch also wants to assure you that NOM’s out of state influence should not be taken seriously.  He is just concerned about out of state money affecting local politics.  But what he’d rather you not discuss is how much out of state money he’s been using for political speech to keep himself ensconced in the governor’s office up in Concord. 

In 2004 John Lynch primarily self funded spending 2 million of his own money out of roughly 3 million dollars.  It is worth noting that $300,000.00 of that was from outside the state, a wee bit more than the 200K he’s gnashing his rhetorical teeth on these days. 

When we jump to the totals for the 2006 and 2008 gubernatorial campaigns, we find that John Lynch collected $1,800,000.00 dollars from outside the state.  That 1.8 million represents almost 40% of all the contribution used by Governor Lynch to affect local politics right here in New Hampshire. 

For those counting that puts NOM at $200K out of state dollars, and John Lynch at $2.1 Million out of state dollars.  

So while Lynch says “we’re working together” and he’s whining about a paltry $200k ad campaign, Teflon John “the Liar” Lynch has scored over $2,000,000.00 (million) from out of state interests—some of them very special—to convince you he’s Mr. Hearth and Home.  

Backing him up is the New Hampshire Democrat party which was more than happy to bitch about the $200K right along side the governor, and why not?  Since 2004 the NHDP has supported your local candidates with about 2,000,000.00 (that’s another 2 million) out of state dollars as well.  Of the 3.9 million the NHDP has collected since 2004, 56% of it came from outside the state? 

John Lynch gets 40% of his millions from outside the state.  The NH Democrat party has been getting 56% of its millions from outside the state.  All “outside” money affecting local in state politics.

Follow the money, and other related articles I've posted recently on the subject here, here, here, and here)

John Lynch Goes Gay (Sort of)

The Ray and Kathy Show has this gag they do all the time, where they complain about outside money, or special interests on the right affecting local elections.  It’s a serious gas because everyone knows it’s actually a projection of their own involvement with deep pocketed outside interests with which they exert pressure upon the local worker bees doing Yeoman’s work at hiding their radical left wing agenda, but they think it works so we try to play along.   Case in point: Governor John “Liar” Lynch, who was recently taken to task for saying one thing and doing another on the not uncontroversial subject of same sex marriage.  Lynch flip flopped and plenty of us asked if someone put the thumb screws on our diminutive chief executive. 

No, no.  Lynch is his own man concerned about equality and civil rights, Blah blah blah. 

Enter into the debate this article by Lou Chibbaro Jr. from The Washington Blade, which bills itself as "the lgbtq community resource."  The article is titled, “Rare Peek behind closed doors of secret gay donor confab.”  In the article Lou Chibbaro jr reveals for us the internal happenings at an event on May 15^th to May 16^th (just two weeks ago).  It's was..

“…the annual Political OutGiving conference, a highly confidential event for a network of more than 200 big-stakes LGBT contributors to political campaigns.” 

Among those in attendance at this secret, confidential event with more than 200 big stakes LGBT contributors (according to Chibbaro) were a select number of democrat Governors including Martin O’Malley of Maryland, Chet Culver of Iowa, Edward Rendell of Pennsylvania  and John Lynch of New Hampshire.

Must have missed this on the governors calendar.  Big country, more than 200 big stakes LGBT contributors to political campaigns, very short list of invitees, and John Lynch is one of the few.  So what does Governor Lynch's host, OutGiving do? 

“Political OutGiving is a focused, bipartisan state-based strategy that concentrates on delivering resources from dedicated and generous donors to select campaigns in a limited number of states,” 

“Political OutGiving started in 2006 when hundreds of donors contributed around $3 million to targeted campaigns aimed at protecting or increasing the number of pro-LGBT supporters in state legislatures,” she said. “Political OutGiving similarly engaged in elections in 2008 and will be involved in campaigns in 2010.”

The focus of the Article is on Governor O’Malley, who was invited—it appears—to ‘encourage’ him to support same sex marriage, when he is on the record stating that he thinks civil unions are the best Marlynd could hope for.  The Governor of Maryland… 

“He has not supported gay marriage in the past,” he said, adding that while O’Malley doesn’t believe enough support exists to pass a same-sex marriage bill, he feels the legislature “could move and pass legislation on civil unions.” 

Sound familiar?  OutGiving is focused on delivering resources to select campaigns in a limited number of states—to advance the gay agenda.   

How do they do it?  According to Lou Chibbaro Jr.s reporting…

(the) Gill Action Fund assesses candidates running for public office to determine whether they should be supported or opposed. It then sends its recommendations to its “top secret” donor list, according to one source familiar with the group.

The donors then make individual contributions to the recommended candidates. The system makes it difficult to measure which candidates are benefiting from the gay network.

…

 “The fact that it’s being kept out of the public eye — that’s bad news,” said New York gay rights attorney and activist Bill Dobbs. “It’s too much wheeling and dealing behind closed doors.” 

… 

“I think part of it is they don’t want to run the risk that there would be stories that these rich gay people get together and push their agenda and it’s the moneyed gay people that are making things happen,” the donor said. 

But that’s exactly what they’ve been doing, and anyone with the time can probably find the evidence in the donation records of the New Hampshire democrat party and various democrat party campaign arms that have been flooding outside money into the state to affect local elections to sell a special interest agenda.  With more money going to local and state level candidates as well as issue advocay groups and non-profits...?  (2006 out of state contributions were 56% higher than 2004.  2004 -$190,000.00.  2006-$ 427,000.00)

And now, with John Lynch under attack for lying and flip flopping about his position on same sex marriage, and facing declining popularity, he has just spent a lazy May weekend hanging out with a handful of democrat governors and more than 200 big-stakes LGBT contributors to political campaigns. 

How much money do you think they'll give Lynch to try and keep him in office in 2010?  To what length might they go to hide the tracks? And what was that thing the liberals were saying about “out of state influence peddling” affecting local elections? 

More Out Of State Money On The Left

Nothing says “out of state money” like EMILY’s List (EL) a single issue ideological PAC interested in only one thing—women who will support all abortion, all the time, on your dime.  And could you have guessed that EMILY’s List loves New Hampshire democrats?  Would you be more surprised at the qualifications these liberal women must meet to get support from EL?  

Formally, there are only three requirements for a candidate to earn EL's support: The candidate must be a woman; she must be a Democrat; and she must support unrestricted access to taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand. EMILY's List has withdrawn its support from women who vote against even the most extreme abortion positions. For instance, Mary Landrieu, the…Democratic Senator from Louisiana, lost EL's backing when she voted in favor of a ban on partial-birth abortion. 

To be clear, that’s all abortions, all the time.  And none of that namby-pamby “reach across the aisle” crap either.  They demand ideological purity. So who toes the line from New Hampshire?  

Jeanne Shaheen could live at the median income level of the average American for almost 15 years just on the money EL has invested on her two Senate bids. ($793,000.00)And they are her number one all-time cash supporter beating out even Act Blue so I think we know who owns Jeanne Shaheen.  Carol Shea Porter is another favorite rolling in over $41,000.00 EMILY Abortion dollars, with Ann McLane Kuster wielding those righteous forceps of reproductive justice over in CD-2. 

But federal level candidates are not the only influence Big Abortion peddles with out of state cash. 

Of New Hampshire’s 24 State Senate seats, thirteen of them are held by women, which is a remarkable accomplishment in and of itself.  But of those thirteen women, 11 of them happen to be democrats, and according to EMILY’s List all eleven are women EL has proudly helped elect.  So 46% of the entire New Hampshire State Senate is fiscally beholden to a single out of state PAC with a specific ideological agenda—ensure taxpayer funded access to all abortions.  That’s an interesting little factoid now isn’t it? 

I’m intrigued to know if that much of the state has no opinion on when they think life begins?  Would they take the gamble that we are not killing a person at 20 weeks, 30 weeks; and how about born alive abortions where a breathing baby is left to die on a cold metal table because it was unsuccessfully killed?   Would they be comfortable with a funding mandate that requires conscientious objectors—on grounds moral or otherwise—to have their tax dollars used to fund every kind of abortion imaginable?  How about parental notification rights?  Can’t have unlimited access to unlimited abortions if even one girl of child bearing age is unable to get one.  How many Granite Staters think parents have no rights on this matter when it comes to their underage daughters?  

EMILY’s list expects ideological purity on abortion.  Eleven democrat New Hampshire State Senators have received assistance from them to get elected.

If none of that troubles you are you comfortable with outside national and international organizations like EMILY’s List sending money into the state to affect local elections?

One way or another, I suspect that a majority of the Granite States voters might take issue with one or more of these  scenarios.

If you don’t that probably means you are a strident left winger peddling the NH democrat party screed on out of state money affecting local elections.  That would be the harpy like objection to a dime coming in from out of state to support any cause but your own while your party has trolled for millions in donations from anywhere but here.  You are of course entitled to take that position.  But I think it’s getting to be a tough sell.  The truth is there for anyone who looks.  And we are looking.