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We are the 800-pound gorilla, and we work very actively on elections, including supporting Barack Obama and other Democratic candidates. If you think that is a terrible idea and you’re worried about energy from the movement that you love going into elections then MoveOn is an obvious target.
There is a real concern about what MoveOn is doing and if it is co-optation. … People from (Un)Occupy see MoveOn as heavily part of Democratic Party politics and question what their motives are and how they operate.
What happened in 2007 was complex and the narrative around MoveOn’s role is not accurate.More quotes »
Around the web
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MoveOn warns We might have to pull the plug
important election efforts this year." And our officers might have to (gasp) get a job! The homepage of MoveOn, which helped organize the 2004 anti-war movement, includes a "chip in" button preset at $8. Don't discount the importance of MoveOn to keeping the from Rantburg Read more »
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MoveOn.org: We May Have to Pull the Plug on Elizabeth Warren
Washington Examiner reports today that even the left wing group Moveon.org is admitting they may have to pull the plug on the Elizabeth Warren campaign. Though the article quotes Moveon.org officials as placing their possible abandonment of Warren in the context from Big Government Read more »
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Money in politics: A necessary evil…for now
week a memo was sent out by MoveOn.org on behalf of Lori Saldaña’s campaign excoriating Scott Peters for loaning his campaign $1.2 million out of his own personal funds. In the memo, MoveOn claims that “Peters realized that his only chance was to try to buy from Ocean Beach Rag Read more »
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Swing district may create opening for independent candidate
a chance to see California's new election system up close, and it was an eye-opener. An official with the political organization MoveOn.org, Mintz was in California to work with his group's favored candidates, including a Democrat running for a Ventura County from Los Angeles Times Read more »
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MoveOn Toys With Our Emotions and Accidentally Grants D.C. Statehood
Election Commission, a decision that unleashed a spigot of corporate cash into American politics, the left-wing group MoveOn.org is asking its subscribers to contact their state elected officials to back a constitutional amendment that would ban corporations from DCist Read more »
