Soros could just be getting started with $2 million to boost to the left
5/11/12 By Dan Gainor
Occasionally, even George Soros steps out of the shadows. He did so in 2004 when he spent at least $32 million trying to prevent George W. BushÂ’s reelection. Now heÂ’s come off the sidelines and is throwing his millions at Democratic grassroots groups to bail President Obama out of a jam.
Soros, the moneybags of the left, has spent $38 million in the last several years funding politicians and the left’s political machine. He also gave $550 million to liberal causes in 2000 through 2009 – covering a wide range of issues from abortion to gay rights to immigration. It's safe to say that pretty much anything conservatives support has an opposition group or several funded by Soros.
While he had made noises about not getting involved this election, no one really believed him. According to the May 8, New York Times, “Soros will contribute $1 million each to America Votes, a group that coordinates political activity for left-leaning environmental, abortion rights and civil rights groups, and American Bridge 21st Century, a super PAC that focuses on election-oriented research.”
This isnÂ’t much of a shock.
Though Soros is disappointed in Obama, thereÂ’s no politician he likes better than our commander in chief.
The Democratic president has received more money from Soros and his kin than any other political candidate in the last 11 years – $16,000 and counting. They also gave an additional $250,000 to the inauguration fund, with five members of the family each giving the maximum contribution of $50,000.
Given the financial limits on donations, thatÂ’s an impressive amount of support.
Obama leads a list of the most doctrinaire liberals running for office – all funded by Soros and his family. Those include former comic-turned Sen. Al Franken, lefty Calif. Sen. Barbara Boxer and new “progressive” darling and Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren.
Admitting Soros is an election power broker, of course, messes with the liberal ballot propaganda.
The Nation’s Katrina vanden Heuvel delivered one recent rant complaining about the power of “the Koch brothers, Citizens United, and a right-wing activist Supreme Court ready to roll back decades of New Deal jurisprudence.”
ThatÂ’s only one of an endless stream of such lunacy.
The Kochs arenÂ’t an election problem, no matter how much the left tries to demonize them. If anyoneÂ’s money is impacting American politics, itÂ’s George SorosÂ’s.
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