American Bridge, Top Liberal SuperPAC, Had Secret Ties To Bain Capital

[laserhaas]

Source: Huffington Post reprint of BuzzFeed story


BuzzFeed:

A top liberal SuperPAC in the 2012 election had undisclosed financial ties to the private equity firm Bain Capital — something that some people close to the group say interfered with its core mission of attacking Bain veteran Mitt Romney’s business record.

(as HuffPo links to BuzzFeed which continues the story)

American Bridge 21st Century PAC was launched in 2012 as part of a multi-pronged Democratic effort to define and defeat the Republican nominee, a project of David Brock, a former conservative reporter best known as the founder of the liberal media monitoring group Media Matters. By last January, it had amassed a vast store of opposition research, most of it focused on Romney’s tenure at Bain Capital — and on the hard-edged private equity practices that would help define the Republican as an out-of-touch millionaire.

But in January, as Romney’s nomination — and the line of attack — became clear, American Bridge’s top fundraiser took a stand. In a series of meetings through the first half of 2012, several people close to the group confirmed, fundraiser Mary Pat Bonner demanded that the group avoid any public attacks on Bain. That’s because, two sources said, two top Bain executives are key contributors to the network of organizations maintained by Brock and Bonner, which includes Media Matters and American Bridge. And some familiar with the group’s work say it deliberately pulled public punches against Bain — though not against Romney — through much of the year.

“Anything that was discussed doing publicly in regard to Bain, even if it were just a quote piling on, was either shot down immediately, or there was a question, ‘Could Mary Pat be OK with this?’ And the answer was always no,” said one person privy to the group’s internal conversations. The group’s political staffers were “unhappy” about the conflict — but accepted it and tried to work around it, the source said.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/20/american-bridge-bain-capital_n_3310094.html

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The reason I linked to HuffPo linking to BuzzFeed - is HuffPo has a neat picture series. If one pic paints 1000 words - then there are 42,000 of them at HuffPo.

Here's the link to BuzzFeed story direct (also found on HuffPo)

http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/liberal-super-pac-had-secret-bain-ties
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Some of you are now following my Romney the Racketeer Chronicles. Now you can see why, even with confessions of lying under oath, intentional frauds on the court and ironclad proof that Romney's Bain Capital beat a federal investigation; because they possessed their very own corrupt federal prosecutor (Delaware United States Attorney Colm Connolly).

American Bridge is a SELL OUT!

[Hubert Flottz]

1. I worked for US Steel American Bridge Division and

it makes me sick to see these fuckwad enablers using that name.

[laserhaas]

3. Bain Capital is a Racketeering enterprise that steels our money and

then utilizes the ill gotten gains to bury scrutiny.

Do you see why it is so hard to get the big story out?

DAMN......

[siligut]

9. This suppression of the press goes back to Joseph Smith

"[When Smith's opponents] founded a newspaper to denounce [him] from inside the holy city [of Nauvoo] itself, Smith took the fatal step of ordering the press destroyed. Two weeks later Smith, who had predicted his demise, was jailed . . . along with his brother . . . The jail was soon attacked, and Smith and his brother were shot to death.”

http://exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,452548

Of course now they just use coercion and money.

[Kelvin Mace]

2. So, we can no longer trust, nor support

David Brock and Media Matters?

Great, just fuckin' great.

[laserhaas]

4. Thank G-d for DU, Matt Taibbi, PoliticusUSA.com and BLT etc

Though we are a smaller media realm;
without such - we'd have NO voice whatsoever.

I agree - DAMN!

[formercia]

5. When someone says: "The Game is rigged.."

They're not exaggerating.

[laserhaas]

6. It's easy to do - you steal billions and billions

and hand back a couple of hundred million to SELL OUTS.

They were helping an organized criminal to steal the White House

[Octafish]

7. Protecting the Money Interests

"Profits over people," mantra of the New Democrat.

[laserhaas]

8. I wouldn't go so far as to say "New Democrat" - HOWever

it would be apropos to reflect that the systemic and incestuous corruption of the RW has spilled over to our public servants (such as NY Senator Sampson who tried to publicize corruption, was threatened by them and gave up joins the dark side when he realized he couldn't do anything about them).

American Bridge is a seditious usurper who sold U.S. out for material gain;
and they were assisting a RICO boss Romney succeed in Racketeering.

[center]That's duplicity....

[siligut]

10. Sorry, but maybe people are learning not to do business with known liars

Money isn't everything and guys like Mitt always get more than they give, always.

[laserhaas]

11. You are plausible in your conclusions; but the probability factors are

now - do not bode well for Romney and his RICO gang getting away with it all.

Justice is coming....

SOON....

[siligut]

12. My eyes teared up a little when I read this

I hope you are right.

[laserhaas]

13. Awh - don't cry, be sad for the state of our country; but not for me.

I'm in a noble battle against a horde of ebol Robber Baron's

and I've got them on the ropes - with the inflexible sword of truth slaying their bad faith acts.

Be happy in the hope that justice may come!

[siligut]

14. Tears of joy, laserhaas

Joy that there are some people who still believe in truth and justice and haven't been bought-off or destroyed by people like Mitt.

[laserhaas]

15. It's good people like you that make the battle worth it.

to this day - for the life of me - can't understand why I turned it down;
instinctively.

It is why they raised the stakes with Michael Glazer and let him steal $18 million in Kay Bee Toys case.