Planned Parenthood Sought Soros Cash to Protect Federal Subsidies

http://freebeacon.com/issues/planned-parenthood-sought-soros-cash-protect-federal-subsidies/



Documents detail $1.5 million grant and Soros network’s rapid response lobbying strategy

August 22, 2016

George Soros’ dark money group planned a seven-figure cash infusion for a Planned Parenthood fund that spent millions lobbying to preserve its taxpayer subsidies after videos showed the abortion provider negotiating the sale of fetal body parts, internal documents reveal.

Soros’ Open Society Policy Center, his vast political network’s 501(c)(4) “social welfare” arm, sought a $1.5 million boost for a Planned Parenthood legal, lobbying, and rapid response operation it called the Fight Back Campaign.

The money would enable the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, the group’s lobbying arm, “to mobilize grassroots and grasstops supporters and lobby Congress to counter attempts to defund Planned Parenthood at the federal and state levels,” an internal OSPC document said in language designed to brief its board on the grant.

It is not clear whether the funds were ever actually disbursed. OSPC is required to report its grants annually, but its most recent filing with the Internal Revenue Service cover grants only through 2014.

Planned Parenthood and the OSPC did not respond to questions about the Fight Back Campaign grant proposal.

The document outlining it was one of thousands of hacked files from Soros’ political and policy network released on the website DC Leaks. Metadata indicates it was written by Victoria Choong, an Open Society budget analyst until 2015.

The grant summary and other documents released by the hackers reveal the extent not only of Soros’ work to preserve subsidies for Planned Parenthood, but also how the Hungarian-born billionaire’s network of advocacy groups has honed its ability to address unforeseen and time-sensitive policy fights with sudden infusions of cash designed to sway specific policy decisions.

According to OSPC’s summary of its Planned Parenthood grant, the Fight Back Campaign’s budget was projected to reach as much as $8 million. “Countering this offensive requires an enormous amount of resources and staff time, which is the intent of the opposition,” OPSC wrote.

The campaign was a response to undercover videos filmed by Operation Rescue, a pro-life group that exposed Planned Parenthood’s sale of fetal organs and tissue for medical research. Operation Rescue says it amounts to a significant revenue stream for the organization. Planned Parenthood denies that it makes any money from the sales.

The videos led to congressional votes to eliminate federal funding for Planned Parenthood, which receives more than $500 million from taxpayers each year.

Efforts to keep that money flowing put an immense strain on Planned Parenthood’s lobbying and advocacy budget, the OSPC document reveals.

“In the several weeks since the attack began, leading up to the Senate vote [to defund the group in December 2015], Planned Parenthood used up nearly all of its lobbying resources, so its greatest need for the campaign outlined above is an immediate infusion of c4 funding,” OSPC wrote.

Planned Parenthood had no trouble securing funding for its 501(c)(3) educational arm, but that nonprofit designation precludes it from doing the legislative lobbying and issue advocacy it needed to ensure a continued stream of federal funding.

“Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood, has recently secured a commitment for $2 million in c3 funds, with strong prospects for more on the c3 side. Funding for lobbying activities, however, is much harder to come by,” Soros’ group noted.

The Soros network has worked in the last few years to cultivate a funding arm that can provide sudden cash infusions to address unforeseen challenges and policy opportunities, and do so with specific policy goals in mind.

Open Society’s Opportunities Fund functions as a rapid response funding mechanism for groups in its giving portfolio, such as Planned Parenthood, that are faced with sudden funding shortfalls or specific needs due to developing policy opportunities.

“These funds emerged from one aspect of George Soros’ view about how OSF should run and what makes us distinct as a philanthropy,” an internal document explained.

“Rather than be exclusively wedded to the advancement of pre-conceived and long-term strategies, we should have the capacity to respond to unexpected events as they unfold, including using OSF funds to leverage other dollars.”

The Opportunities Fund’s budget has grown from $6.25 million in 2013—when it was known as the Reserve Fund—to $20 million this year, according to documents handed out at Open Society’s board meeting in May.

“We are aware that many issues will arise that we cannot anticipate but where an immediate infusion of funds can significantly advance our goals,” Open Society said in a 2014 strategy memo. “We will continue to devote 20-25% of our [U.S. Programs] budget to this opportunistic capacity.”

Soros’ son Jonathan, a top Open Society executive and OSPC board member, must sign off on all C4 grants from the Opportunities Fund, according to internal documents. That role dovetails with Open Society’s push to address a lack of C4 grantmaking capacity among left-wing foundations.

“OSPC’s capacity to make c4 grants will be of even greater significance given the wind-down of Atlantic Philanthropies, the only other major philanthropic entity with significant c4 capacity,” the 2014 strategy memo noted.

Its unique role as a lobbying grantmaker made support for Planned Parenthood of particular importance. “OSPC is uniquely situated to provide a critical resources PP will have a hard time finding anywhere else,” the group wrote.

In seeking to beef up funding for Planned Parenthood’s Fight Back Campaign, OSPC teamed up with the Democracy Alliance, a powerful network of Democratic donors whose president, Gara LaMarche, also sits on OSPC’s board.

Both houses of Congress ended up passing legislation to defund Planned Parenthood, but President Obama vetoed the measure. Despite defunding measures at the state level, OSPC described its efforts as a success.

“This emergency funding enabled PPAF to implement its multipronged Fight Back Campaign to mobilize grassroots and grasstops supporters and lobby Congress to counter attempts to defund Planned Parenthood at the federal and state levels, and to continue providing critical reproductive health care services across the country,” OSPC wrote.

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that Swine has his grubby Fingers in every "Progressive" Cause known to the Left!

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Multi-billionaire funder of leftwing causes and groups
Founder of the Open Society Foundations
The prime mover behind the Democratic "Shadow Party" network

Thanks for more links of ' The Monster '

doesnt 'everyone' who gives away millions give some of that to 'questionable' causes,,,kind of like everyone who is a billionaire real estate mogul ends up filing several bankruptcies and having thousands of lawsuits?


lol

the 'monsters' amongst us

I think you had better inform yourself about the Felon Soros!

http://humanevents.com/2011/04/02/top-10-reasons-george-soros-is-dangerous/

Top 10 Reasons George Soros Is Dangerous

Human Events’ readers, in an online poll, recently voted billionaire financier George Soros “the single most destructive leftist demagogue in the country.” Here are the Top 10 Reasons George Soros Is Dangerous:

1. Gives billions to left-wing causes: Soros started the Open Society Institute in 1993 as a way to spread his wealth to progressive causes. Using Open Society as a conduit, Soros has given more than $7 billion to a who’s who of left-wing groups. This partial list of recipients of Soros’ money says it all: ACORN, Apollo Alliance, National Council of La Raza, Tides Foundation, Huffington Post, Southern Poverty Law Center, Soujourners, People for the American Way, Planned Parenthood, and the National Organization for Women.

2. Influence on U.S. elections: Soros once said that removing President George W. Bush from office in 2004 was the “central focus of my life.” He put his money where his mouth is, giving $23.58 million to various 527 groups dedicated to defeating Bush. His early financial support helped jump-start Barack Obama’s political career. Soros hosted a 2004 fund-raiser for Obama when he was running for the Illinois Senate and gave the maximum-allowed contribution within hours of Obama’s announcement that he was running for President.

3. Wants to curtail American sovereignty: Soros would like nothing better than for America to become subservient to international bodies. He wants more power for groups such as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, even while saying the U.S. role in the IMF should be “downsized.” In 1998, he wrote: “Insofar as there are collective interests that transcend state boundaries, the sovereignty of states must be subordinated to international law and international institutions.”

4. Media Matters: Soros is a financial backer of Media Matters for America, a progressive media watchdog group that hyperventilates over any conservative view that makes it into the mainstream media. Now its founder, David Brock, has openly declared war on Fox News, telling Politico that the group was mounting “guerrilla warfare and sabotage” against the cable news channel, and would try to disrupt the commercial interests of owner Rupert Murdoch—an odd mission for a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt educational foundation that is barred from participating in partisan political activity.

5. MoveOn.org: Soros has been a major funder of MoveOn.org, a progressive advocacy group and political action committee that raises millions for liberal candidates. This is the group that had on its website an ad comparing President George W. Bush to Adolf Hitler and ran the infamous “General Betray Us” ad in the New York Times, disparaging the integrity of Gen. David Petraeus.

6. Center for American Progress: Headed by John Podesta, White House chief of staff under President Clinton, the Center for American Progress has been instrumental in providing progressive talking points and policy positions for the Obama administration. There has also been a revolving door between the White House and the Soros-funded think tank, with Obama staffing his administration with many CAP officials.

7. Environmental extremism: Former Obama green jobs czar Van Jones and his leftist environmental ideas have been funded by Soros’ money at these groups: the Ella Baker Center, Green For All, the Center for American Progress, and the Apollo Alliance, which was instrumental in getting $110 billion in green initiatives included in Obama’s stimulus package. Soros also funds the Climate Policy Initiative to address global warming and gave Friends of the Earth money to “integrate a climate equity perspective in the presidential transition.”

8. America Coming Together: Soros gave nearly $20 million to this 527 group with the express purpose of defeating President Bush. A massive get-out-the-vote effort, ACT’s door-to-door canvassing teams included numerous felons, its voter registration drives were riddled with fraud, and it handed out incendiary fliers and made misleading taped phone calls to voters. ACT was fined $775,000 by the Federal Election Commission for violations of various federal campaign finance laws.

9. Currency manipulation: A large part of Soros’ multibillion-dollar fortune has come from manipulating currencies. During the 1997 Asian financial crisis, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohamad accused him of bringing down the nation’s currency through his trading activities, and in Thailand he was called an “economic war criminal.” Known as “The Man who Broke the Bank of England,” Soros initiated a British financial crisis by dumping 10 billion sterling, forcing the devaluation of the currency and gaining a billion-dollar profit.

10. Delusions: Soros has repeatedly said that he sees himself as a messianic figure. Who but a megalomaniac would make these comments? “I admit that I have always harbored an exaggerated view of my self-importance—to put it bluntly, I fancied myself as some kind of god” or “I carried some rather potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood, which I felt I had to control, otherwise I might end up in the loony bin.” If only the loony bin were an option. As it is, one of the wealthiest men in the world is using his billions to impose a radical agenda on America.