American Bridge, Top Liberal SuperPAC, Had Secret Ties To Bain Capital [View all]

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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!