Jun 12 2008
Obama, MoveOn, HTC, DNC
It turns out, that Tom Matzzie, the pro-Obama blogger on Huffington Post, is also the director of MoveOn’s Washington Division, while being on loan at the Americans Against Escalation in Iraq (AAEI) for which he lobbies in the capital.
MoveOn co-founded AAEI with Hildebrand Tewes Consulting (HTC) as an attempt to create a liberal coalition against the Iraq war.
much of the anti-war group’s leadership hails from a consulting firm called Hildebrand Tewes [rolling stones]
Since most of AAEI’s leadership hails from HTC and MoveOn, AAEI is best described as a co-project of the two outfits.
Curiously, Obama’s Deputy Campaign manager, is non-other than HTC co-founder, Steve Hildebrand. He has an extra paid staff member on Obama’s team, helping him with his work. Paul Tewes, the second HTC co-founder, is looking to become the head of the Obama controlled Democratic party. As Fox put it,
Barack Obama is quietly planning to take over the Democratic National Committee and assemble a multistate team for the general election, the latest sign that he is putting rival Hillary Rodham Clinton and the nomination fight behind him. Top Obama organizer Paul Tewes is in discussions to run the party, several Democratic officials said Tuesday. [fox]
Fox calls Tewes one of the-
leading architects of Obama’s success in the marathon Democratic primary race. [fox]
Importantly, Tewes was Obama’s state director for the Iowa primary. Along with Steve Hildebrand, Tewes also played an important role in Obama’s Minnesota campaign, since both he and Steve are natives of the state, and have considerable ties to its Democratic Political Machine. So far, the Obama camp has spent more than $50,000 on HTC’s services (not counting Obama camp employee salaries)
While two other HTC staff command prominent positions on Obama’s team, Nathan Peterson was the chair of Obama South Dakota run, and Anne Filipic was his State Director for Utah, HTC work with MoveOn goes back many years. Of course MoveOn has contributed more than a million dollars to the Obama campaign, while raising countless millions more through its donor networks, but HTC claims that it only
runs the communication and research arms of the powerful anti-war coalition AAEI [HTC]
The reality reveals a far deeper relationship. HTC and MoveOn does not end with simple formalities in AAEI’s structure, nor the $50,000MoveOn paid HTC for media consulting in the 2008 Primary on behalf of Obama.
As one of its 22 issues focused interest groups, HTC co-organized “Americans United for Change,” to fight Bush’s proposed Social Security Plan back in 2005 with MoveOn. Today, Americans United for Change is listed among AAEI’s core members. while shelling out $263,000 to AAEI, and funneling countless other moneys into AAEI via Americans United for Change, Vote Vets, USAction and nearly all of the other “coalition members” which serve like countless masks for both MoveOn’s and HTC’s control of the organization. All of them, without exception, are lobbyists. All are more or less finance by MoveOn in a coalition controlled by HTC.
Why do I discuss this connection between the Obama camp and MoveOn? Obviously because organizations such as HTC and MoveOn and AAEI are single issue lobbyist groups. As Obama moves significant parts of the DNC to Chicago, Tewes is poised to head the new Party. Like Jeff pointed out in his preceding article, MoveOn is not mainstream, and represents the radical aspect of Obama’s foreign policy. It is poised to take over the Democratic Party, and leave little room for Clinton’s centrist politics.
All this probably means more - but I guess only insiders can decipher its ultimate meaning and implications.
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At least Bill Richardson is now paying a price, it seems, for his disloyalty:
I guess people are saying NO DEAL to Bill Richardson!
Meanwhile, all is not happy in Bill Richardson land of disenchantment…
“Bill Richardson’s Star is Falling with a BIG THUD (Not on VP Shortlist, State Legislators FED UP with Him)”
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The big phony is finally getting it all back as his poll numbers wane…And I can’t say I’m not happy about it!!!
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That’s great news about Bill Richardson. I’ve never really cared for him, but after endorsing Obama I shifted over to actual dislike. Way to be a politician Richardson.
Moveon sent their famous “vote” ballots only to people who polled before that the war was their #1 issue. I was one of them - but voted for Hillary. Som not inly did they sample 1% of membership - but the sample was skewed. Like this entire kabuki theater of a primary.
check out this Israeli newspaper article about Obama. No Obama on any ticket.
Sorry, forget the website post
http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Politics/12918.htm
The person behind Obama is Howard Dean and the organization behind Dean is the Democracy Alliance and the person behind Democracy Alliance is George Soros. They’re on a mission to destroy the Clintons and the DLC and restructure the Democratic party from centrist to liberal.
There’s no doubt in my mind that Soros was behind Obama’s interference in Kenya’s election just like there’s no doubt in my mind that Soros is behind what we’re paying at the gas pumps. This is how he understands bringing about political change. In Kenya you overthrow the government by inciting an ethnic cleansing in order to threaten the stability of their economy which scares off unwanted international investors so Soros can do whatever it is he does in Africa. Charity work I hear. In the United States, you screw with the price of gas to help get your political party in the White House.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20061016/berman
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0304-27.htm
The government is not screwing around with the price of oil. If anything the Feds are just as suspicious as the consumers are, which is why they’ve been investigating hunches of price fixing for the past 7 months. I, for one, can;t wait to read what they unearth.
Gregory, has you considered that large sums of cash are the likely incentive for the DNC to be so obliging to Obama?
If the DNC faces financial issues (which I’ve either read on this site or others), and Obama’s got $200 mil, then one conclusion must be that the DNC will benefit monetarily from this new cozy relationship.
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Soros is an Hungarian Jew who escaped the Holocaust by sidling up to the right people. He is now a British citizen or backer who is heading the European oligarchies. His goal is to oust the Democratic Party of FDR and the Clintons and turn it into an oligarchy as well, with BO and co. as puppets. Global economics with billionaires in power have been taking over countries–America is next if we don’t organize and speak up.
The more we publicize this via blogs, media and especially to the many local papers and tv stations across the country, where the 18 million and more who support Hillary live, the better chance we have of blocking this fascism.
“Global economics with billionaires in power have been taking over countries–America is next if we don’t organize and speak up.”
Karen’s got it!!
Oh the irony…
Moveon.org was formed to fight against the impeachment of Bill Clinton. I think they have done plenty for the Clintons. They turned folks who were the ring leaders of the impeachment out of office. It was the Clinton supporters who let down Clinton by not representing for her on Moveon.org. The majority of Moveon.org members voted for Obama. It would have been weird for Moveon.org to not endorse Obama. It is the same for caucus states — Clinton supporters could have come out for her in greater numbers than Obama, but they didn’t.
I think the whole anger at Moveon.org backfired on Clinton, because of the attack on “party activists” who are the ones who actually do the work — the hard work. It was disappointing that she would dump on the very people who stood behind her and her husband and stood for everything she supposedly cherishes.