Frustrated with the lack of domestic support, left-leaning website moveon.org has apparently been reaching beyond American borders to generate cash revenue over the Internet!
The provocative international fundraising strategy threatens to embroil the presidential candidacies of General Wesley Clark and former Vermont Governor Howard Dean. Both men are named on international fundraising websites suggesting donations to moveon.org.
Moveon.org, which has been running ads critical of the Bush Administration, has named an "International Campaigns Director."
It is not clear how much money has been raised from foreign sources, but political websites from London to Portugal have been directing their citizens to stop the American president George Bush by donating to moveon.org.
CAMPAIGN CASH RACE TURNS INTERNATIONAL; MOVEON.ORG CENTER OF INTRIGUE; CLARK SEEKS CANADIAN SUPPORT, WEBSITE SHOWS
LOL
He's such a tool.
Lack of support?
Moveon.org, a Web site that raised $3.5 million for liberal political candidates in the 2002 election, has also raised $1.3 million for large newspaper ads against the war, says Eli Pariser, its international campaigns director. Its legendary fund raising from its 2 million members includes $400,000 raised in 48 hours to fund a Jan. 16 antiwar TV spot that accused President Bush of risking nuclear war. The ad, styled after the notorious Democrat "Daisy" commercial of 1964, shows a girl plucking petals from a daisy, along with a missile launch countdown and a nuclear mushroom cloud.
Moveon.org's operating budget, he adds, is $300,000 a year for four staff and consultants. On average, donors give $35, Mr. Pariser says. But the donor volume has been so high that "we've turned off our log-in [mechanism] because it was blowing out our servers. We must be the only organization in history to have a ratio of one staff member to a half-million members."
Like I said: Tool.