August 26, 2008 (LPAC)--George Soros is the prime mover behind America Votes, an umbrella organization of 48 entities involved in various voter-registration and mobilization drives in 14 states. America Votes received $2.15 million from George Soros and $854,000 from co-conspirator Peter Lewis (total over $3 million) in 2006, and $1.25 million (from Soros), along with $1.25 million from the SEIU and $1 million from (Democracy Alliance) Fund for America, in 2007. The Center for Responsive Politics says that, in 2006, they were the second best-financed election committee behind SEIU. In total, America Votes spent over $7 million in 2007, and has already spent $10 million this year. Reading their website, however, it is very unclear as to exactly what they do with all that money.
The board of America Votes (not to be confused with ACORN's "Project Vote") is loaded with Soros-connected operatives, including: SEIU director Anna Burger; Paul Booth operative Larry Scanlon; Howard Dean/MoveOn operative Arshad Hason; Center for Community Change director and Open Society advisor Deepak Bhargava; ACORN President Maude Hurd; and former senior advisor to Nancy Pelosi, Shamina Singh. Martin Frost, a former long-term Democratic Congressman from Dallas, is the titular President of the operation.
This money-stuffed Soros-ruled apparatus is perched in an advisory and intelligence-gathering role with various Democrat-affliliated entities. With ACORN's "Project Vote," it is to take the place of the moribund regular Democratic Party apparatus.
In May, much was made of Barack Obama's public call to stop funding "outside organizations," which he made following a meeting with his finance committee in Indianapolis. The coverage played this as a loss for David Brock's Progressive Media USA and John Podesta's Fund for America. Reading the fine print, however, this call indicated a Soros-led shift away from the public media, and toward more covert "voter registration" effort, all the time under his control. "We're continuing with our fundraising and things have been going well for us," Frost told an interviewer at that time.
