{"id":8578,"date":"2010-02-10T07:36:55","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T12:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=8578"},"modified":"2013-01-09T10:36:57","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T16:36:57","slug":"foxnews-com-anti-tea-party-web-site-part-of-scheme-to-funnel-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=8578","title":{"rendered":"Turf This"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember Berg’s Seventh Law<\/a>?\u00a0 “When a Liberal issues a group defamation or assault on conservatives\u2019 ethics, character or respect for liberty, they are projecting.”<\/p>\n

Or is the word I’m looking for “transference”?<\/p>\n

At any rate – remember when the left insisted the Tea Parties were “astroturf”, or fake grass-roots?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Oh, what do you think?<\/a><\/p>\n

A Web site popped up in January dedicated to preventing the tea party’s “radical” and “dangerous” ideas from “gaining legislative traction,” targeting GOP candidates in Illinois for the firing squad.<\/p>\n

“This movement is a fad,” proclaims TheTeaPartyIsOver.org<\/strong><\/a>, which was established by the American Public Policy Center (APPC), a D.C.-based campaign shop that few people have ever heard of.<\/p>\n

But a close look reveals the APPC’s place in a complex network of money flowing from the mountainous coffers of the country’s biggest labor unions into political slush funds for Democratic activists.<\/p>\n

Here’s how it works: What appears like a local groundswell is in fact the creation of two men — Craig Varoga and George Rakis, Democratic Party strategists who have set up a number of so-called 527 groups, the non-profit election organizations that hammer on contentious issues (think Swift Boats, for example).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lefties would insist that the Tea Parties themselves would be the same.\u00a0 Notwithstanding the fact that other than Dick Armey’s think tank’s high-level message-mongering and a few approving pieces on Fox news, nobody’s come up with the faintest<\/p>\n

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Varoga and Rakis keep a central mailing address in Washington, pulling in soft money contributions from unions and other well-padded sources to engage in what amounts to a legal laundering system. The money — tens of millions of dollars — gets circulated around to different states by the 527s, which pay for TV ads, Internet campaigns and lobbyist salaries, all while keeping the hands of the unions clean — for the most part.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The system helps hide the true sources of funding, giving the appearance of locally bred opposition in states from Oklahoma to New Jersey, or in the case of the Tea Party Web site, in Illinois.<\/p>\n

And this whitewash is entirely legal, say election law experts, who told FoxNews.com that this arrangement more or less the norm in Washington.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Such a shame that the Supreme Court opened poltics up to big money, huh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember Berg’s Seventh Law?\u00a0 “When a Liberal issues a group defamation or assault on conservatives\u2019 ethics, character or respect for liberty, they are projecting.” Or is the word I’m looking for “transference”? At any rate – remember when the left insisted the Tea Parties were “astroturf”, or fake grass-roots?\u00a0 Oh, what do you think? A […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,79],"tags":[243],"class_list":["post-8578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-slander-files","tag-bergs-7th-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8578"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8583,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8578\/revisions\/8583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}