Can you imagine the media scrutiny if George W. Bush had his own secretive propaganda arm?
Via WFB:
President Barack Obama’s advocacy organization Organizing for Action (OFA) raised over $4.8 million from first-quarter donors, including the chairman of a major lobbying firm, wealthy progressives affiliated with the secretive Democracy Alliance, and a member of popular 1990s hip-hop group the Fugees, according to a list of first quarter contributors released by the group today. […]
Disclosed donors include hedge fund billionaire S. Donald Sussman and real-estate mogul Wayne Jordan, contributing at least $50,000 each. Both have been supporters of the Democracy Alliance, an organization backed by major progressive donors that steers donor dollars to dark-money groups that disclose very little about their funding sources.
Michael Kempner, chairman of the lobbying firm MWW, also gave at least $50,000 to OFA. Prakazrel Michel, better known as “Pras” from the rap group the Fugees, contributed $20,000 to the organization.
The organization also accepted a $15,466 in-kind contribution for office space from the National Education Association, which is where OFA has been headquartered.
“[A] note about the NEA donation listed, that was not a contribution, that was in-kinded office space for our temporary start up office in DC,” wrote Hogan.