In a Hillary Clinton aka Debbie Wasserman Shultz style move the uber Wealthy are funneling their money for Conservative Democrats to “End Citizens United”. They have endorsed Alan Graysons conservative opponent in Florida from the Joe Lieberman wing of the party. I guess that will also be pro TPP and pro going to war against Iran.
The Statement of Organization with the FEC "is signed by Brian Foucart, apparently a long-time Dem functionary."
Foucart is described as: " a longtime Democratic financial official whose jobs have included stints with the presidential campaigns of Al Gore and John Kerry" in this article linking him to the rather odious (but a great fundraiser!) a ConservaDem in Florida who is running (along with Alan Grayson) for Rubio's open Senate seat.
Foucart was also CFO and Assistant Treasurer of "Joe Lieberman for President, Inc."
Sadly, Move-To-Amend is a the only real national group fighting to build the coalitions necessary to eliminate the Supreme Courts ruling called Citizens United and it’s documented results of efficiently destroying what’s left of our democracy. The ruling added to a Republican Supreme Court that voted over 90% of the time to hasten the removal of the some of the last few rights, freedoms and protections for individual persons that Billionaires, Wall Street and Corporate CEO’s demanded they remove from our laws.
The 90-99% success rate of the voting block of Republican Judges will certainly accelerate if the corrosive effects of Citizens united continue for much longer. Republican Justices use that awful ruling to protect the Billionaire Class, Wall Street, and Corporate CEO’s to hasten the destruction of the weak, and to further accelerate the tremendous growth in American income inequality.
If the End Citizens United PAC Trojan horse is allowed to continue to launder huge amounts of Billionaire, Wall Street and CEO money to Conservative Democratic Senate Candidates, instead of progressive Democratic Senate Candidates, the power may tip in the primaries to the Billionaires, Wall Street and Corporate CEO’s to determine our candidates. The Federal Judges that Conservative Democrats might recommend would likely be very different from the names that the those Progressive Democrats might put forth. progressive Candidates campaigns are generally bottom up campaigns, while their opponents are run top down, squeeze the base campaigns to squeegee out the minimum number of votes needed by the voters for their scheme to succeed. Democratic party voters actually want to represent the part and who are doing exactly the right thing in working to expand the parties base of voter support where ever they can.
This may be the new DNC-DWS strategy — split the party, attack your fellow candidates and have the parties leadership actively working against progressive candidates for office.
If so this could especially matter if a few Conservative Senators (and it only takes a few) send forward terrible recommendations from their states to fill Permanent lifetime Federal Judgeship appointments may not be much different that the terrible Republican appointments put forth and passed under George W Bushes terms of office.
If you are going to give money on this issue, please donate to Move to Amend at: movetoamend.org note: the diarist in this warning series does not work for Move to Amend and is not working on their campaign.
For more information please the Thursday diary AND great comments on Citizens United:
How "End Citizens United" (a huge fundraising PAC for conservative Democrats) fooled me!