heh... Here's their (ACT) website below...Notice they neglected to mention Soros and Lewis...The Democratic Party is being replaced by a new group called "Americans Coming Together," which has been launched with two $10 million donations from financier George Soros and Peter B. Lewis, chairman of the Progressive Corporation. The new organization wants to raise $94 million to finance a massive campaign against Bush -- all with soft money.
Tax cuts to benefit the wealthy … More arsenic and mercury in the water; fewer parks, wildernesses and forests for our future … Turning back the clock on civil rights, on women’s rights, on workers’ rights.
It’s time to fight back against the extremist Bush agenda. It’s time for America Coming Together (ACT).
America Coming Together (ACT) will conduct a massive voter contact program, mobilizing voters to defeat George W. Bush and elect progressive candidates all across America.
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What We Will Do
In seventeen battleground states America Coming Together (ACT)
will listen to voters’ concerns about issues that affect them and their families;
will communicate with voters about those issues, highlighting the extremist positions of the Bush agenda and discussing positive, progressive alternatives;
will coordinate with progressive organizations so we will all be more effective and efficient, working together to mobilize millions of voters who will say NO to the Republican agenda by voting to defeat George W. Bush and elect progressives up and down the ticket.
Worst loss of jobs since Herbert Hoover was President … Massive deficits that threaten Medicare and Social Security and mortgage our children’s future … Alienating the United States from the international community … Right-wing judges … Underfunding of Homeland security … More arsenic and mercury in the water.
There are so many reasons for America Coming Together (ACT).
Please help us launch America Coming Together (ACT) by contributing today. Together, we will create the largest turnout of voters in history, voters who will say NO to the extremist Republican agenda, defeat George W. Bush and elect progressive candidates from the school boards to the White House.
Who We Are
America Coming Together (ACT) was started by grassroots and political leaders who share a vision of a progressive America and are committed to defeating George W. Bush and electing progressive candidates across the country. The Executive Committee of ACT includes:
Ellen R. Malcolm, President of ACT, who began EMILY’s List to elect pro-choice Democratic women candidates and built it into the largest political action committee in the country. Malcolm will lead the effort to build ACT’s membership and raise $75 million to support ACT’s voter contact program.
Steve Rosenthal, Chief Executive Officer of ACT, was Political Director of the AFL-CIO from 1996-2002, where he developed a groundbreaking voter contact program that increased voter turnout of union members by 4.8 million during a time when nonunion turnout decreased by 15 million. He will design and execute ACT’s voter contact program.
Gina Glantz, Treasurer, has a distinguished 30-year career in campaigns and grassroots organizing. She was National Campaign Manager for the Bill Bradley for President campaign.
Minyon Moore heads Dewey Square’s state and local practice. She was formerly Chief Operations Officer of the Democratic National Committee and before that Assistant to the President of the United States and Director of White House Political Affairs.
Carl Pope is Executive Director of the Sierra Club, an organization of 700,000 environmental activists. Pope has spent 30 years in the environmental trenches, and worked to enact such statutes as the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts, the Superfund and California Desert Protection Act.
Cecile Richards is President of America Votes, a coalition of 17 national organizations working together to educate and mobilize voters in the 2004 elections on a broad range of issues including the environment, civil and human rights, women’s rights, choice, education and labor.
Andy Stern is President of the Service Employees International Union, the largest and fastest growing union in the country.
We are ready to fight back and defeat Bush in 2004. We are ready to defeat right-wing Republicans and elect progressive Democrats across the country. We are ready for America Coming Together.
Are you ready to fight back … and win?
Please help us launch America Coming Together (ACT) by contributing to ACT today.
More News About ACT
Bloomberg, October 28, 2003 [PDF, 26k]
Fortune, October 27, 2003 [PDF, 28k]
NOW with Bill Moyers, Transcript of David Brancaccio interview with George Soros, September 13, 2003 [PDF, 90k]
Associated Press, August 8,2003 [PDF, 72k]
Washington Post, August 8, 2003 [PDF, 71k]
Wall Street Journal, August 8, 2003 [PDF, 70k]
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