The Sullivan 501(c)4, as yet unnamed, we are still talking to powerful people in DC, boy-oh-boy you’re gonna be sorry you messed with us, non-profit has not made any recent news but that is no reason not to discuss it anyway. And we should discuss it because it looks like we know who the secret donors are going to be. (like it was even hard to figure out)
In case you missed it, Sullivan is still mad that Maggie Hassan couldn’t ram through her kitchen table ‘speech killing’ bill in the New Hampshire legislature last year, designed to make political speech by business so dangerous as to intimidate anyone, even the self employed, from having a political opinion in public even after filling out all the forms, paying a fee, and risking massive fines. She was then unable to corral a cadre of additional left wing leaning, pro-democrat business groups (aka: liberal billionaires) to counter the pro-growth business efforts by the chamber of commerce and other third party unaffiliated entities, and has hence forth declared that she can play by those rules as well. She’s setting up a group just like we have (like Cornerstone of Josiah Bartlett) to fight back.
(Yawn)
Just to clarify, the Democrat party in New Hampshire already had plenty of out of state money from liberal billionaires, and a host of fringe groups and non-profits, the same ones who have been funneling millions into the state since 2006 when Sullivan, and then Buckley took advantage of 527’s and the weird tax code rules to more than double their party take from 2004.
We also have to remember that any company could set up a 527 or non-profit, or any quantity of numbered entities or PAC’s to do all the same political "dirty" work that they can now do without them. The difference of course is that with groups like the chamger of commerce, small business can play in the deep end of the pool with the democrat friendly unions.
Sullivan and Buckley…(that’s getting tedious; in the spirit of "Brangalina" lets just call them "Suckley") were already ass deep in "legal" campaign funding hi-jinks, making their expression of distaste for the Citizens United Ruling on par with a coffee shop patron getting mad because someone is now making them pay full price for something they had been getting for free on the sly all along.
Suckley also broke ground locally on another idea, to use dozens of groups to funnel money directly into the party coffers where it could be stirred up and redistributed without fingerprints. While you could track down the group, get an idea of who supported them, you could never trace that money to a local candidate because Suckley was laundering it through NHDP headquarters.
The Right came late to this party, but now that they are here Suckley is pissed off that they are no longer the queen of the ball. (losing complete control of the state might have helped that frustration along)
Then there is the rhetoric about combating groups like Cornerstone Action, whose recent growth and success is entirely a result of the nonsense by democrats to hide out of state donations in the millions so they could safely squawk at their opponents like an angry buzzard on a sh*t wagon with less fear of public exposure as the raging hypocrites we now know they are.
So what about the secret donors? I think we can see that they have always been about secret donors, but in the context of a new 501(c)4, it looks like Media Matters and the the same old ruling class Soros/liberal, anti-American heavyweights will have fewer hoops to jump through to get out of state money to Suckley’s new endeavor.
They say sarcastically, "we’re just following their rules." Our response. (Yawn).
