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Tue 11 Mar 2008 11:27
by Kevin McGehee
49° and cloudy
in Coweta County, GA
[Our Times]
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I’m not sure if I just hadn’t heard this, or maybe I did and—not rolling that way myself—didn’t pay attention at the time.
About 18 months ago, the national umbrella organization for what was the Christian Coalition accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars from backers of MoveOn.org to serve as the “conservative voice” in their campaign for regulation of the Internet.
And as a result of that scandal, a number of state “Christian Coalition” groups quit the national organization, renaming themselves and serving autonomously.
“It was embarrassing that they sold themselves for 30 pieces of silver on an issue that free marketers were fighting against,“ says a former national board member of the Christian Coalition. “They aren’t the group the Democrats and MoveOn make them out to be. They don’t speak for Republicans or anyone else.“
Sources at the RNC say that the national organization has not been active in this election cycle on any level, anywhere in the country.» Ghosts from the Past
And you may ask yourself </Talking Heads> “Of what is this apropos?“ </never end a sentence with a preposition>
You can’t blame Rep. John Conyers and the Democrats for not keeping up with Republican politics, but it appears they are more out of touch with reality than many people thought.
On Tuesday Conyers and his staff are doing a favor for their friends at MoveOn.org by holding a hearing on “Net Neutrality,“ a catchy word for government regulation of the Internet. Along with ending the war in Iraq, it is one of the top political issues for MoveOn and its satellite organizations.
Also set to testify: an organization called the “Christian Coalition.“
I wonder if they’ll have Terry Kiser representing the coalition?
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