Center for American Progress releases list of corporate donors after founder moves to White House

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Daily Caller:

WASHINGTON — In a late Friday afternoon news dump, The Center for American Progress published a list of their 2013 corporate donors, who each contributed $10,000 or more to CAP’s $42 million budget.

 

Chicago native and founder John D. Podesta — former President Bill Clinton’s final chief of staff — will join the Obama administration early next year as a special senior advisor, prompting calls for CAP to release the full list of its corporate donors.

 

CAP was quick to play down the donors’ influence on research projects.

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Well, I guess Soros doesn't have to visit the WH anymore, he has his own representative there now.

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Podesta Will Peddle Green Agenda

 

The White House’s newest staffer is John Podesta, the 64-year-old founder of the Center for American Progress (CAP), the head of President Obama’s 2008 transition team, a former chief of staff to President Clinton, and a former lobbyist and co-founder, with his brother Tony, of the Podesta Group. You know: an outsider.

 

Podesta is joining the administration for one year as a White House counselor specializing in energy policy. And despite the fact that he has done more than any other unelected official to shape the policies of cap-and-trade and green-energy subsidies, and to employ and place the talent that has attempted to implement those policies during the Obama presidency, the White House assures us that he will never, never have any say in whether the Keystone pipeline, slow-walked by this president for years, is approved or denied.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/366305/podesta-will-peddle-green-agenda-matthew-continetti

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Who Funds the Far Left? Youll Be Surprised

John Hinderaker

12/13/13

 

The Center for American Progress is a left-wing organization that is closely associated with the Obama administration. Its principal product is a web site called Think Progress. Think Progress is part of the internet cesspool that modern liberalism has become. Written by hack left-wing bloggers, it is bitterly hostile to free enterprise. It is a low-rent site that traffics in the most absurd smears and conspiracy theories. Many have wondered for some years who finances far-left web sites like Think Progress. As of today, we know at least part of the answer, as CAP released its corporate donor list for the first time.

 

CAP says that individuals and foundations account for more than 90% of its funding, and corporations only around 6%. It would be interesting to see the individual and foundation donor list; my guess is that left-wing foundations, most of which spend money left by dead conservatives, would loom large. But what corporations fund Think Progresss anti-free enterprise propaganda? The full list is here; it includes:

 

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I doubt that there is any conservative organization that can boast a remotely comparable list of corporate supporters. CAPs disclosure is a timely reminder that large corporations are not, in general, supporters of free enterprise. Many of them love to partner with government to suppress innovation and competition. Koch Industries stands alone, as far as I know, as a relatively large company that actually supports free enterprise as a matter of principle. Which is why corporatist America, through disreputable organizations like the Center for American Progress, has waged unremitting warfare against Koch.

 

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Walmart! Oh Yes.

 

 

C-Span: Book Discussion on The New Leviathan

Jun 22, 2012

 

David Horowitz argues that the Left has used their finances to promote a progressive agenda that has transformed the political landscape. The author contends that tax-exempt organizations of the political left, who present themselves as more aligned with the concerns of the poor and working class than conservative groups and the Republican Party, have assets over 100 billion dollars and outspend conservatives seven to one. Topics included the use of labels that distort the language. David Horowitz responded to questions from members of the audience at the Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles. This was a Wednesday Morning Club meeting of the Freedom Center.

 

1 hour, 4 minutes

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Ha! Just clipped that and came here to post it!!!