George Soros Only
Funder of ‘Immigrant Voters Win PAC’
Soros has poured millions into campaign to mobilize
Latino voters
BY: Joe Schoffstall
April 20, 2016 5:00 am
Liberal billionaire George Soros is the only person funding a new
super PAC aimed at getting Latinos out to the polls to vote for Democrats
in 2016, recent Federal Election Commission filings show.
The Immigrant Voters Win
PAC was launched last month as part of a campaign, called “Families
Fight Back,” organized by immigration activist groups opposed to the Republicans
running for president.
The super PAC received a $3 million check
from Soros on March 11, 2016—the only donation the group has received to this
point. The group’s goal is to register 400,000 new Hispanic voters before the
November elections.
Soros said at the beginning of March that the
“anti-immigrant” and “anti-Muslim” rhetoric in the Republican primary should
come with consequences.
“The intense anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim rhetoric that
has been fueled by the Republican primary is deeply offensive,” Soros told
the Hill. “It is harmful to our democracy and our national interests.
There should be consequences for the outrageous statements and proposals that
we’ve regularly heard.”
The Latino Victory Project, another group involved in the
campaign, was co-founded by
actress Eva Longoria and San Antonio-based entrepreneur Henry R. Muñoz III, who has worked as the chair
of the DNC’s
national finance committee since 2013.
Muñoz came under fire last year for helping raise money
for Hillary
Clinton’s campaign despite rules
saying officers must remain neutral in presidential primaries, Politico
reported. Longoria was an early supporter of Clinton and provided
a $2,700 contribution to her campaign in May 2015.
The super PAC is not the first project that Longoria and
Muñoz have worked on together. The duo also ran
the Futuro Fund, a former arm of President Obama’s reelection campaign, which
pulled in $32 million for Obama’s campaign in 2012.
The Latino Victory Project has not disclosed any
contributions, and expenditures by the group only appear in 2014, according to data
compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics. The group put $179,600 toward
media and $147,100 toward salaries in 2014.
Waterfront Strategies, a political consulting group
located in Washington, D.C.’s Georgetown area, received
$179,575 from the Latino Victory Project, the largest amount the group
dispersed that year.
Waterfront is
an internal branch of GMMB Strategies, a major media consultancy firm that made
President Obama’s ads during his reelection campaign and represents a number of
high-profile Democratic politicians.
The group was the highest-grossing political vendor in
2012, recording payments
of $435 million. That same year, Waterfront made
an additional $96 million worth of payments on behalf of Democratic super PACs.
One partner at the group, Jim Margolis, is a former top consultant to President
Obama and is now a senior
adviser to Hillary Clinton.
Deepak Bhargava—the executive director of the Center for
Community Change, another organization involved in the launch
of the Immigrant Voters Win PAC—sits on the advisory board of Soros’s
Open Society Foundation.
The Center for Community Change
has received more than $2.9 million in funding since 2010 from the
Advocacy Fund, a liberal lobbying shop associated with the Tides Foundation, a
donor-advised fund that has received millions from Soros.
America’s Voice, the third group in the coalition,
carries a stated mission of fighting
for “[a] direct, fair and inclusive road to citizenship for immigrants in the
U.S. without papers” and for “channels for future legal immigration that are
flexible and functional.”
America’s Voice received funding from the Advocacy
Fund in the amount of $450,000. America’s Voice gave a $75,000 grant
to the Campaign for Community Change in 2013.
In addition to funding the Families Fight Back campaign,
Soros is also fueling
the campaign challenging voter identification laws in numerous
states with the help of Marc Elias, an attorney at the Washington, D.C.-based
Perkins Coie law firm.
Elias is Hillary Clinton’s top campaign lawyer, although
he is working independently of the campaign on the voter ID law challenges and
in his capacity as a partner at Perkins Coie.
None of the groups involved with the Families Fight Back
campaign returned a request for comment.
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Rodham
Clinton is the candidate for the 2016
Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign, and was a director at the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton
Foundation.
Note: Ready PAC (Ready For Hillary) supported the 2016 Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential
campaign.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, and the Economic Policy Institute.
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, a co-chair, national finance council for
the Ready PAC (Ready For Hillary), was
the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, and a contributor
for the Immigrant Voters Win.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Economic Policy Institute.
Raul Yzaguirre
was a director at the Economic Policy
Institute, a co-chair for the 2008
Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign, and the president & CEO
for the National Council of La Raza
(Latino).
Pritzker
Family Foundation was a funder for the National Council of La
Raza (Latino), and the Bill, Hillary
& Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
Mary Kathryn
Pritzker is a director at the Pritzker
Family Foundation, a fundraiser for the 2016 Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign, and married to J.B. Pritzker.
J.B.
Pritzker is married to Mary Kathryn
Pritzker, the president of the Pritzker
Family Foundation, and Donald
Pritzker’s son.
Donald Pritzker
was J.B. Pritzker & Penny S. Pritzker’s father.
Penny S. Pritzker
is Donald Pritzker’s daughter, married
to Bryan Traubert, a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, the
secretary at the U.S. Department of
Commerce for the Barack Obama administration, was the national finance chair, fundraiser
for the 2008 Barack Obama presidential
campaign, a co-chair for the 2009
Barack Obama inaugural committee, a fundraiser, national co-chair for the 2012 Barack Obama presidential campaign,
a contributor for the 2013 Barack Obama
inaugural committee, the host for the Barack
Obama fund-raising dinner, 7/2/2008, and Craig M. Robinson’s basketball coach for the children's team.
Bryan Traubert
is married to Penny S. Pritzker, and
a director at the National Park
Foundation.
Henry R. Munoz
III is a director at the National
Park Foundation, and was a fundraiser for the 2012 Barack Obama presidential campaign.
Robert F. Bauer was
general counsel for the 2012 Barack
Obama presidential campaign, Barack
Obama’s personal counsel, White House counsel the White House counsel for the Barack Obama administration, is a
co-chair for the Presidential Commission
on Election Administration, the general counsel for the Democratic National Committee (DNC),
and a partner at Perkins Coie.
Barack
Obama was the candidate for the 2012
Barack Obama presidential campaign, and an intern at Sidley Austin LLP.
R. Eden Martin is
counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, and
the president of the Commercial Club of
Chicago.
Commercial Club of Chicago, Members Directory A-Z (Past
Research)
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Newton N. Minow
is a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, and a senior counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP.
Michelle Obama
was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP, an
advocate for the ONE Campaign, and
is Craig M. Robinson’s sister.
ONE Campaign is
a partner with Keep a Child Alive.
Alicia
Keys is a global ambassador for Keep
a Child Alive.
Alicia Keys: I Vote Love (PAST RESEARCH)
Monday, October 31, 2016
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