Obama now loves Citizens United, his new rich guy group funded by secret cash, agenda includes climate terror despite scientific fact that US CO2 at 20 yr. low. Will saturate rubes with propaganda making dissent impossible. GOP goal is also to silence dissent so they're fine.

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1/25/13, "Barack Obama’s new ‘grassroots’ group isn't quite" Politico, Vogel,  Parti, Tau

"When President Barack Obama rolled out his new political outfit last week, he and his allies declared it would be powered by grassroots activists and change politics from outside Washington.Not exactly.

In its first days, Organizing for Action has closely affiliated itself with insider liberal organizations funded by mega-donors like  

George Soros and 

corporations such as  

Lockheed Martin, 

Citi and 

Duke Energy.

(PHOTOS: 2012 mega-donors)

And it has quietly sought support from the same rich donors who backed Obama’s campaigns, asking for help from Democratic donors and bundlers in town for the Inauguration at a closed-door corporate-sponsored confab that featured Bill Clinton as the keynote speaker.

In fact, invitations for the Saturday meeting at the Newseum where Organizing for Action was unveiled for the liberal big-money set came from Obama’s National Finance Committee (one member of which gave a transferable ticket to POLITICO), as well as the Presidential Inaugural Committee,  

the Center for American Progress and 
Media Matters.

Dubbed the “Road Ahead” meeting, the conference was sponsored by a White House-allied trade association called Business Forward, which is funded by major corporations including 

Microsoft, 
Walmart and 
PG&E – 

each of which sent senior executives to participate in a panel on how to boost American economic competitiveness.

Jim Messina, Obama’s 2012 campaign manager and the Organizing for Action national chairman, and OfA Director Jon Carson, pleaded with invited big donors to support the new group. “We need you. This president needs you,” Messina said, adding Organizing for Action was “building a national advisory board filled with people in this room.”

Carson told the donors, who were treated to cocktails and light hors d’oeuvres after the day’s sessions, “there’s going to be a place for each and every one of you.”

Grassroots activists? They got their own pitch the next day at a bigger, no-invitation-necessary gathering called the “Obama Campaign Legacy Conference” held at the Washington Hilton. There, Carson told reporters that OfA would “absolutely” be funded mostly by grassroots donors like those Obama highlighted in his campaign, rather than big corporate donors.

An OfA spokeswoman declined to comment on the group’s presentation at the Newseum, its fundraising or relationship with other deep-pocketed liberal groups.

The initial fundraising push highlights the tricky path Obama’s allies face in starting the new group. 

Consider: Obama, who long cast himself as an ardent opponent of big money in politics, is to some extent tying the fate of his populist second-term agenda to a non-profit group registered under a section of the tax code – 501(c)4 – that allows the secret, corporate donations he spent months decrying after they were unleashed by a 2010 Supreme Court decision.

At the Newseum, Messina noted OfA’s strengths, including the “20-some-million” email list, and cast the new group as a means to harness both grassroots energy and sophisticated — and expensive — campaign infrastructure.

“We’re not going to shut this thing down,” he said. “We’re going to turn it into a 501(c)4. 

The country simply needs it.”

And despite it’s pledge to allow local activists to chart its course in their communities, OfA also seems poised to become the center of a constellation of mostly secret-money nonprofit groups.

At the Newseum, Messina name-checked the Common Purpose Project, a non-profit which convenes weekly meetings of such groups regularly featuring White House officials, as “the model that we’re basing this off.”

That group, which POLITICO has learned is considering merging with Organizing for Action, is run by Erik Smith, a Democratic operative who also sits on the board of OfA and Business Forward.
Smith once worked for a pioneering liberal nonprofit group that tried to oust George W. Bush in 2004, took a leave from Common Purpose to work for the Obama campaign, which paid his firm $109,000 for “media consulting,” and then served as creative director for the inaugural committee.

Smith, who records show visited Carson and Messina often in the White House, declined to comment.

But he represented Common Purpose at Saturday’s Newseum meeting on a panel about “distributed action” activism with other liberal groups, including the Center for American Progress, Media Matters and Democracy Alliance.

Carson, who until recently worked in the White House, has represented Obama at a couple meetings of the Democracy Alliance, a club of rich liberals that says it’s steered “hundreds of million dollars” in donations from its members to liberal groups since 2005. A spokesperson for Democracy Alliance signaled a willingness to work with the new group, but added “it’s too early to say what our relationship will be.”

The Center for American Progress confirmed it’s already working with Organizing for Action, and sources say Media Matters founder David Brock during the panel offered to do the same.

The founder of Business Forward – which sets up meetings with Obama administration officials for leaders of dues-paying businesses which don’t trigger lobbying rules – also sat on the panel. But Business Forward has positioned itself as a centrist trade group, despite participating in Common Purpose’s weekly liberal group meetings and sponsoring the Road Ahead conference.

Told of the meeting, Fred Wertheimer, head of the money-in-politics watchdog group Democracy 21, expressed concern.

“This is the worst possible way for President Obama to start his second term in office,” Wertheimer said. He urged Obama to “immediately” shut down Organizing for Action, calling its creation “an inexplicable action by the president that directly contradicts the message President Obama has been taking to the country for years about the dangerous role played by corporate and special interest money in influencing the way business is done in Washington.”

In a nod towards the president’s early positioning as a crusader against special interest money in politics, Organizing for Action has said it will not accept money from lobbyists or political action committees, and has indicated it will voluntarily disclose information about its donors, a move in line with Common Purpose’s approach. But Organizing for Action has not ruled out accepting corporate donations.

Alan Solow, an Obama bundler and national campaign chair who attended the Newseum meeting and said he intends to donate to the new group, rejected criticism.

“The notion that it’s hypocritical for the president to ask for — or have people on his behalf ask for — significant contributions is just political nonsense,” he said. “If this organization ends up creating more political activism, more people are committed to this country, more people are involved in promoting good government, then it’ll be money that will be well invested for the political system as opposed to money that poisons the political system.”

And Solow added it makes sense for Obama’s allies to approach big donors first. While small donors ultimately will support the group, Solow predicted, he conceded it’s easier to raise start-up money from big donors — and said that’s the approach Obama’s campaigns followed en route to record-shattering fundraising.

“I think that many of those people will want to be supportive of this type of organization because it’s going to continue to enable the president to be effective in implementing the policies that we worked so hard to elect him to undertake,” he said.

OfA is also getting fundraising advice from Obama campaign finance director Rufus Gifford, who made his reputation in finance circles as a big-donor fundraiser.

And it can’t hurt being associated with fundraising powerhouses like CAP – which also accepts cash from corporations like Walmart – and Media Matters.

Combined, CAP and Media Matters alone had a 2010 budget of $60 million, according to tax filings.

Of course, Obama’s operation has also set new standards for small-dollar fundraising. Campaign officials told donors at the Newseum that the average donation it received in 2012, when it raised a record-shattering total of $1.1 billion, was $65.89.

And Carson told the big donors at the Newseum that they were only part of the formula.

“From the grassroots volunteers, to every one of you,” he said, “we need you in this fight to reduce gun violence.

In finally holding Republicans accountable for being climate deniers. In everything from tackling these budget issues to immigration, we are going to put this army to work.”" via Breitbart

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8/16/12, “AP IMPACT: CO2 emissions in US drop to 20-year low,” AP, Kevin Begos
 

“In a surprising turnaround, the amount of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere in the U.S. has fallen dramatically to its lowest level in 20 years, and government officials say the biggest reason is that cheap and plentiful  natural gas has led many power plant operators to switch from dirtier-burning coal.

Many of the world’s leading climate scientists didn’t see the drop coming, in large part because it happened as a result of market forces rather than direct government action against carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that traps heat in the atmosphere."...

 

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6/4/12, “Climate change stunner: USA leads world in CO2 cuts since 2006,” Vancouver Observer, Saxifrage





“Not only that, but as my top chart shows, US CO2 emissions are falling even faster than what President Obama pledged in the global Copenhagen Accord.… 

 

Here is the biggest shocker of all: the average American’s CO2 emissions are down to levels not seen since 1964 --over half a century ago. …Coal is the number two source of CO2 for Americans. Today the average American burns an amount similar to what they did in 1955, and even less than they did in the 1940s. …It is exactly America’s historical role of biggest and dirtiest that  

makes their sharp decline in CO2 pollution so noteworthy

and potentially game changing at the global level.”... 

 

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