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Taking Down the Tea Party Ten a Leftist Super PAC Smears Conservatives to Safeguard “Progressive Change” by Matthew Vadum and Charles Dickenson Stopping Juvenile Detention: Taking Down the Tea Party Ten A Leftist Super PAC Smears Conservatives To Safeguard “Progressive Change” By Matthew Vadum and Charles Dickenson Summary: Using its for-profi t business to generate left-wing political donations, Credo/Working Assets has launched a new campaign aimed at unelecting 11 (not 10) Tea Party members of Congress. Even as the group protested super PACs, it formed a super PAC of its own to accomplish this goal. ut-of-control government spend- ing, a crushing national debt, op- Opressive anti-business regulations, a stagnant economy, the very existence of the country—none of these things are important to Credo Super PAC. The far-left political action committee is focused instead on de- feating prominent Congressmen associated with the Tea Party, the grassroots movement that sprang up in opposition to Washington’s socialist juggernaut. Tea Party star Michele Bachmann is the only woman targeted by Credo Super PAC. Community organizer Becky Bond, president Party wave in 2010 that was funded of Credo Super PAC, described the commit- on just buckets of super PAC money tee’s mission: from the Koch brothers and from October 2012 people like Karl Rove. And we’ve For over 25 years Credo has been seen a lot of history, and we know CONTENTS involved in progressive politics. this is bad. And as good people of We’ve been fi ghting former House conscience, we’ve decided that Speaker Newt Gingrich since the Taking Down the Tea Party Ten we need to strike back, and it’s Page 1 mid ’90s, and we’ve been pushing time to fi ght back, and we need to for progressive change. And let me take down some of these Tea Party Philanthropy Notes just tell you, in our history we have Republicans who are destroying Page 8 never seen extremism in the Con- our democracy. gress like we’ve seen since the Tea FoundationWatch The fact that the super PAC retained a cor- licans—Mike Coffman (Colo.), Jim Renacci are most likely to switch parties. In addition, rupt Marxist in Chicago as a consultant says (Ohio), and Michele Bachmann (Minn.)— Bachmann’s campaign and her leadership a lot about the organization. The committee bringing the total to 11, not 10. Presumably PAC have together raised an impressive $17 paid $50,417 to Strategic Consulting Group, Bachmann, a high-profi le former presidential million this election cycle, according to the the fi rm of convicted swindler and tax cheat candidate, made the cut so Credo could use Center for Responsive Politics. Robert Creamer. An admitted fan of radical her star power to bring in donations from godfather Saul Alinsky, Creamer has report- angry left-wingers. Bachmann “has said more As Credo tells it, members of what the com- edly visited the Obama White House nearly hateful and downright crazy things than just mittee still calls the “Tea Party Ten” threaten 60 times since he was let out of the hoosegow. about anyone else in Congress,” said Bond. the existence of the republic: In prison he wrote a book widely hailed by In selecting her, Credo jettisoned an earlier leftists that later served as a blueprint for pledge not to target any female congressional “It’s astonishing that every one of these Obamacare. Creamer, who is married to candidate in the upcoming election. actual, elected representatives to the United far-left Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky States Congress have voted to redefi ne rape, (D-Ill.), also used to be a lobbyist for George But back in June Credo was very reluctant to to gut the Clean Air Act, to reject the sci- Soros’s Open Society Institute. add Bachmann to the list. The PAC declined ence of climate change, to let women die, at that time to gun for the conservative cham- and to abolish Medicare. But that’s just the At the beginning of this year Credo Super pion and Tea Party leader, out of deference beginning of the racist, sexist, anti-science, PAC added the initial eight Tea Party law- to the Left’s phony narrative that the GOP hypocritical, and downright crazy things makers (all Republicans) to its list. They was waging a “war on women.” that have been said and done by some of the were Allen West (Fla.), Steve King (Iowa), most odious members of the most extreme Dan Lungren (Calif.), Mike Fitzpatrick “There’s no shortage of Tea Party women, but Congress in history.” (Penn.), Joe Walsh (Ill.), Frank Guinta (N.H.), if you look at this picture, one of our main Sean Duffy (Wisc.), and Chip Cravaack themes, and most of our volunteers, frankly, Sounds like scary stuff, doesn’t it? But that (Minn.). are women,” Credo Mobile president Mi- statement misrepresents the current Con- chael Kieschnick said during a June 18 panel gress. Republicans only control the House; In August Credo added another three Repub- discussion at the Campaign for America’s Democrats, the Senate. Almost all major Future’s Take Back the American Dream Republican legislation passed by the House Editor: Matthew Vadum conference in Washington, D.C. “We want has been gathering dust in the Senate. The to be able to go after independent women Publisher: Terrence Scanlon current Congress is merely a rhetorical straw [voters] in a year where the [GOP-controlled] Foundation Watch man that the leftists of Credo Super PAC use is published by Capital Research House has been ferociously anti-women. to advance their radical agenda. Center, a non-partisan education and That’s why we’re doing it.” research organization, classifi ed by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) public charity. Evidently something changed, perhaps in In fact it was the previous Congress, the Address: Democratic Party-controlled 111th, that 1513 16th Street, N.W. the PAC’s fundraising. Washington, DC 20036-1480 was among the most radical in the nation’s Phone: (202) 483-6900 Announcing Credo’s assault on Bachmann, history. That leftist-dominated body passed Long-Distance: (800) 459-3950 Bond cited the three-term lawmaker’s Obamacare over the protests of the American E-mail Address: “weak primary showing,” as well as Credo people and by using devious parliamentary [email protected] supporters’ “overwhelming demand” for tricks. It also passed the Dodd–Frank Wall Web Site: Bachmann’s head. In fact Bachmann won Street Reform and Consumer Protection http://www.capitalresearch.org her August primary election with more than Act, which unleashes yet more bureaucratic Organization Trends welcomes let- 80 percent of the vote in a three-way race. red tape on America’s struggling fi nancial ters to the editor. She is also the only one of the 11 targeted institutions, especially the smaller ones. Reprints are available for $2.50 pre- lawmakers whose name does not appear on paid to Capital Research Center. That Senate confi rmed liberal Justices Sonia the RealClearPolitics list of House seats that 2 October 2012 FoundationWatch Sotomayor and Elena Kagan to the U.S. Supreme Court. Origins The well-funded Credo Super PAC was created by Credo Mobile, the wireless reseller that donates part of its profi ts to left-wing groups such as the George Soros-funded Media Matters for America, ACORN-affi liated Project Vote, Color of Change, Oxfam, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, Amnesty International, Planned Parenthood, and the Sierra Club Foundation. Credo is actually a brand name, as Credo’s Becky Bond hard at work targeting Tea Party lawmakers. opposed to a legal entity. The for-profi t telecommunications company behind it Since its founding, Working Assets has made Following the Supreme Court’s landmark is Working Assets Funding Service Inc. its political stances very clear to the public 2010 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Working Assets resells long-distance and and Washington. In 1994, Working Assets Election Commission, which held that mobile telephone service under the Credo offered a free, prepaid calling card to the unions and corporations have the right to brand names and then donates 1 percent of fi rst 10,000 members who called Congress spend unlimited amounts of money for or customers’ charges to liberal and radical and protested then-Speaker Newt Gingrich’s against candidates seeking political offi ce, groups. When customers use its credit card, Contract with America, the reform agenda Credo Mobile led the critics bewailing the the Working Assets Platinum Plus credit of the newly elected Republican majority decision for supposedly opening fl oodgates card, the company gives 10 cents for each in Congress. that would allow “unlimited amounts of transaction to left-wing causes. corporate money to fl ow in to our political According to Credo’s website, Credo dona- system.” And yet Credo itself is a so- Working Assets, based in San Francisco, was tions for leftist nonprofi t groups averaged called “super PAC,” that is, an independent founded in 1985 by Laura Scher, Michael over $2 million a year during the period 2007 political action committee not bound by Kieschnick, and Peter Barnes as a spin-off to 2011, including $326,000 to the American contribution limits. of the Working Assets money market fund, Civil Liberties Union, $158,000 to the Sierra a so-called socially responsible vehicle for Club Foundation, $62,000 to the progressive So although Credo opposes the Citizens investment. Scher is a lecturer at Stanford activist training academy New Organizing United decision that allows independent po- University, teaching “Social Innovation Institute, $76,000 to Citizens for Responsi- litical action committees to accept unlimited and Entrepreneurship” at the undergraduate bility and Ethics in Washington, $204,000 union and corporate funding, the cognitively level, according to her biography on the to Media Matters for America, and $52,000 dissonant company went ahead and created Huffi ngton Post website.
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