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Left's Hollow Victory JANUARY 2021 THE LEFT’S HOLLOW VICTORYPage 13 STRIKE STRIKE STRIKE STRIKE ONE! TWO! THREE! FOUR! SPLIT SENATE BALLOT MEASURES HOUSE LOSSES STATE LEGISLATURES ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: The Billionaire Political and Policy- The Niskanen Shelby Steele and Eli Steele Dragging Hollywood Oriented Giving After Center Discuss What Killed 5 (Even Further) Left 21 Citizens United 25 33 Michael Brown? www.CapitalResearch.org WE’VE REACHED OVER 1 MILLION USERS AND 2 MILLION PAGEVIEWS IN 2020 ALONE. We’re already competitive with our left-wing competitor’s websites that have been up for 20 years. InfluenceWatch profiles often appear as Featured Snippets like this: Check out these select profiles added since the last issue: Trump Accountability Project National Bail Fund Network BlackOUT Collective Choose Democracy Trafalgar Group InfluenceWatch Outperforms on Google From January through September 2020, InfluenceWatch profiles appeared nearly 40 million times when people searched Google; nearly 14 million of those results were on the first page. 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ORGANIZATION TRENDS InfluenceWatch profiles often appear as 3 Featured Snippets like this: 5 The Billionaire Dragging Hollywood Check out these select profiles COMMENTARY (Even Further) Left added since the last issue: What Is Mark Zuckerberg’s By Ken Braun Election Money Doing in Trump Accountability Project Georgia? National Bail Fund Network By Scott Walter BlackOUT Collective SPECIAL REPORT Choose Democracy Capital Research is a monthly publication of the Capital Research Center (CRC), a The Left’s Hollow Victory Trafalgar Group nonpartisan education and research orga- 13 nization, classified by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) By Michael Watson public charity. CRC is an independent, tax-exempt insti- InfluenceWatch Outperforms on Google tution governed by an independent board of trustees. 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CapitalResearch.org DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP By Joseph (Jake) Klein ‘18 ‘19 ‘19 ‘19 ‘19 ‘19 ‘19 ‘19 ‘19 ‘19 ‘19 ‘19 ‘19 ‘20 ‘20 ‘20 ‘20 ‘20 ‘20 ‘20 ‘20 ‘20 [email protected] Internship inquiries are welcome. Total Impressions Publisher, Scott Walter Editor-in-Chief, Kristen Eastlick Editor, Jon Rodeback Photo Editor, Gayle Yiotis Cover design: Lori Schulman COMING IN 2021! COMMENTARY WHAT IS MARK ZUCKERBERG’S ELECTION MONEY DOING IN GEORGIA? By Scott Walter The biggest question the Georgia legislature should ask is whether a California billionaire should be allowed to waltz into the Peach State and finance aspects of their elections. Imagine if a billionaire of conservative or libertarian lean- ings—Charles Koch, say—had given $350 million to a nonprofit run by Republican operatives who previously worked at a “dark money” outfit tied to Karl Rove where they trained digital activists and campaign workers. Then imagine this nonprofit group re-granted the millions of dollars to local election officials to “help” them carry out the 2020 election—buying drop boxes for ballots, hiring https://bit.ly/3shkRkO. License: Quintano. Anthony Credit: temporary staff, conducting “voter education,” and the like. Finally, imagine that in 2020, a state that usually voted for the other party in presidential elections narrowly flipped to the donor’s preferred party, and counties receiving “help” In November, Capital Research Center documented a scheme were disproportionately ones that helped the Republican by left-leaning out-of-state donors Mark Zuckerberg and win the state, with many counties shifting dramatically from wife Priscilla Chan to give $350 million to an allegedly their historical patterns in a red-ward direction. “nonpartisan” nonprofit, the Center for Tech and Civic Life Even supposing there were perfectly ethical and legal reasons (CTCL), which in turn re-granted the funds to thousands of for all this, because of the appearance of election influ- governmental election officials around the country. ence from private parties with deep pockets, it would be front-page news. The New York Times would be outraged a nonprofit gave the appearance of acting in a partisan basis in an electoral process. Elected officials in the disfavored party state studies of how these funds were used, beginning with would be loudly objecting, threatening lawsuits, demand- Georgia (Pennsylvania is next). As I testified Friday to the ing investigations of the election officials who accepted the Georgia state Senate, the Georgia data are startling. funds, and insisting election laws be changed to prevent any We can’t specify all funding CTCL gave to Georgia counties, such effort in the future. because the Center isn’t disclosing that information to the As head of Capital Research Center, a watchdog on the use Associated Press or anyone else, even though they’re required and abuse of nonprofits, I would sympathize with the angry to reveal it in their next IRS filing (which conveniently won’t politicians and happily critique the scheme publicly. But I appear until a year from now). But using local government know of no such effort by right-leaning donors or nonprofits. records and news accounts, we’ve uncovered many of the largest grants, mostly given to the largest urban areas, and I do know, however, of a scheme by left-leaning out-of- CTCL has disclosed which counties received grants, though state donors Mark Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan to not the amounts. Notably, CTCL funded less than one-third give $350 million to an allegedly “nonpartisan” nonprofit, of all counties. the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL), which in turn re-granted the funds to thousands of governmental election officials around the country. CRC has begun state-by- Scott Walter is president of Capital Research Center. CAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER 3 We’ve correlated the grants with the official vote totals for the counties involved. Here are some notable discoveries The New York Times would be outraged we’ve found: if a conservative nonprofit gave the • Nine out of ten of CTCL’s largest known grants went to counties Joe Biden won. appearance of acting in a partisan basis • Of the ten counties with the greatest shifts to the in an electoral process. Democratic presidential candidate (comparing 2016 to 2020 votes), nine received CTCL grants. Do these numbers sound nonpartisan? If not, shouldn’t the • These nine grantees averaged a 13.7 percent shift authorities in Georgia and other battleground states, and toward the Democrat. Two, Cobb and Gwinnett, authorities in Washington, start investigating what hap- were among the four counties that delivered Biden pened, and whether CTCL, which is legally forbidden to act the most votes. as a partisan in elections, overstepped the law? There may • Although CTCL funded more counties won by be perfectly ethical explanations for all this that involve zero Donald Trump than by Biden in raw numbers, it electoral influence by outside parties, but public trust in only funded 21 percent of all Trump counties versus elections requires avoiding even the appearance of conflicts 55 percent of Biden counties. So a Biden county of interest. was more than two-and-a-half times more likely to receive funding.
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