Courtesy of Moe Lane at Red State, apparently a group called the Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) had a pledge they wanted candidates to sign on to. This petition was to show support for Net Neutrality rules. For those not versed, Net Neutrality is another left wing Utopian nightmare spun as fairness, and promoted by the big players like Google, who stand to benefit from it. Think of it simply as the path to a corporate socialist internet. Google has donors to the PCCC PAC, and is even listed as a major expenditure by the PAC. Google would win big if this crap ever saw the light of day.
The PCCC itself is co-founded by it’s treasurer Adam Green a professional left winger, and is powered by MoveOn.Org and big labor. It’s goal is to elect progressives to replace anyone to their right including moderate democrats, though it looks like they started with open seat contests at first with an eye on "progressing" toward unseating Blue Dogs later on.
A left wing observer explained the PCCC like this…
The organization is for real, composed of former campaign staff, MoveOn.org staff, and labor organizers. It is also on track to raise $650,000 this year, and has MoveOn.org backing. It should hit its fund-raising targets no sweat, and it’s experienced team knows what it is doing in a campaign setting.
That was from January, 2009 in an article by Chris Bowers at Open Left. They raised close to 2 million and are wired into the Sorosphere which is only interesting to me because of their campaigns recent use the Net Neutrality as a tool to fund-raise for democrats who signed on to the petition I mentioned above.
The week before the election they dropped this juicy piece of red-meat ‘governmental control over the internet" pledge and went trolling for last minute signatories. Two happy little socialists you may know signed on; Paul Hodes, and Ann McKluster. They might now be thinking that this wasn’t such a good idea.
According to The Hill, everyone who signed on to this PCCC pledge lost on Tuesday. That’s 95 signers, all of them beaten in their respective races. That has to be some kind of record.
As Moe points out, it was a congressional career killer. Of course we know that was not the only factor, that it may not have been one at all–most voters probably had no idea about the pledge. But that the same folks who would jump on this kind of stunt at the last minute are also the same candidates who got flushed out by the electorate is very telling. These are government first progressives, constitutional threats whose first response is to enact sweeping federal control to solve everything. (Carol must not have known the list existed, I can’t explain why she’s not on it.) But everyone who signed up lost.
The upswing of course is that ninety five ‘progressives,’ the kind of people most likley to support this bad idea and every other one like it, have been removed from power or the threat of being in power.
Sounds like an act of God if you ask me.
