Who is The Progressive Slate?
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Articles on The Progressive Slate:
NY Times - The Progressive Slate keeps a deserved cancer organization from receiving funding. Their "partnerships" they organized and made sure to win, won it
all. HERE
NY Times - The Progressive Slate keeps a deserved cancer organization from receiving funding. Their "partnerships" they organized and made sure to win, won it
all. HERE
The Center for Progressive Leadership:
AKA The Progressive Slate HERE
Political Operatives: HERE
Sad stories from deserving organization that needed funding but was kept from receiving anything because of The Progressive Slate's planned partnerships:
HERE
AKA The Progressive Slate HERE
Political Operatives: HERE
Sad stories from deserving organization that needed funding but was kept from receiving anything because of The Progressive Slate's planned partnerships:
HERE
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“We’ve built a grass-roots effort to tell our families and friends to vote for us, and now we learn that we’re up against a political machine.” said John K. Bartosz, a lawyer representing the charity, Arms Wide Open Childhood Cancer Foundation, whose son has neuroblastoma, a cancer that develops in the nervous system and mostly affects infants and children. The Progressive Slate beat out this legit organization for $250,000.
Through Pepsi Refresh, Pepsi is giving more than $20 million to charities this year, allowing 1,000 organizations to compete for grants of $5,000, $25,000, $50,000 and $250,000 each month. Online voters decide who wins.
The complaint is another example of concern over nonprofit groups using tax-exempt dollars for political purposes in the current election cycle.
On Wednesday, Senator Max Baucus, Democrat of Montana and chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, sent a letter to the I.R.S. asking it to investigate the use of tax-exempt groups for political purposes. The contest rules state that applications cannot be for projects that would advance, lobby or expand membership for a political party, candidate or cause.
Groups belonging to the Progressive Slate, many of which are skilled at voter registration and community organizing, are collectively working to help each other win the contest. The strategy is proving successful: as of Thursday evening, eight of the top 10 contestants in the $50,000 category were Slate members, and two members were among the top five contestants vying for $250,000.
Many of their Web sites promote liberal agendas, featuring comments from MoveOn.org, recommending LeftyBlogs.com, and displaying membership lists that include labor unions.
They are led by the Center for Progressive Leadership, a nonprofit group whose eight-member board includes two Democratic members of the House of Representatives;Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, a Democrat and the former lieutenant governor of Maryland; Matt Dunn, a Democrat who failed to win the party’s nomination to be governor of Vermont; and Mike Lux, a Democratic political operative who helped found the organization.
“We’ve built a grass-roots effort to tell our families and friends to vote for us, and now we learn that we’re up against a political machine.” said John K. Bartosz, a lawyer representing the charity, Arms Wide Open Childhood Cancer Foundation, whose son has neuroblastoma, a cancer that develops in the nervous system and mostly affects infants and children. The Progressive Slate beat out this legit organization for $250,000.
Through Pepsi Refresh, Pepsi is giving more than $20 million to charities this year, allowing 1,000 organizations to compete for grants of $5,000, $25,000, $50,000 and $250,000 each month. Online voters decide who wins.
The complaint is another example of concern over nonprofit groups using tax-exempt dollars for political purposes in the current election cycle.
On Wednesday, Senator Max Baucus, Democrat of Montana and chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, sent a letter to the I.R.S. asking it to investigate the use of tax-exempt groups for political purposes. The contest rules state that applications cannot be for projects that would advance, lobby or expand membership for a political party, candidate or cause.
Groups belonging to the Progressive Slate, many of which are skilled at voter registration and community organizing, are collectively working to help each other win the contest. The strategy is proving successful: as of Thursday evening, eight of the top 10 contestants in the $50,000 category were Slate members, and two members were among the top five contestants vying for $250,000.
Many of their Web sites promote liberal agendas, featuring comments from MoveOn.org, recommending LeftyBlogs.com, and displaying membership lists that include labor unions.
They are led by the Center for Progressive Leadership, a nonprofit group whose eight-member board includes two Democratic members of the House of Representatives;Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, a Democrat and the former lieutenant governor of Maryland; Matt Dunn, a Democrat who failed to win the party’s nomination to be governor of Vermont; and Mike Lux, a Democratic political operative who helped found the organization.