NYT:
Nearly 10,000 of the biggest donors to Republican candidates and causes across the country will probably receive a foreboding “warning” letter in the mail next week. The letter is an opening shot across the bow from an unusual new outside political group on the left that is poised to engage in hardball tactics to prevent similar groups on the right from getting off the ground this fall.
Led by Tom Matzzie, a liberal political operative who has been involved with some prominent left-wing efforts in recent years, the newly formed nonprofit group, Accountable America, is planning to confront donors to conservative groups, hoping to create a chilling effect that will dry up contributions. ...
The warning letter is intended as a first step, alerting donors who might be considering giving to right-wing groups to a variety of potential dangers, including legal trouble, public exposure and watchdog groups digging through their lives.
How typical of the American left to resort to intimidation in an attempt to silence their opponents.
I went to college during the Woodstock-era ascendency of the left, and found that liberals have a tremendous fear of free speech, except of course when it is their free speech, and liberals can have a nasty little fascist streak when they are losing the debate.
Why sink to their level? I would think that most Americans would be so disgusted by a campaign like this that they would step up their donations to Republican causes. Remember the letters from Europeans saying that we should vote for John Kerry? That went real well.
If a spotlight is placed squarely on “Accountable America,” methinks they’ll slink back under whatever rock they slithered out of.
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Someone with a national presence ought to keep a website chronicling the activities of Accountable America, as well as the donors to the Democrat party.