Zuniga of The Daily Kos and the DLC pollster, Mark Penn...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1682524 madfloridian (1000+ posts) Sun Aug-07-05 12:32 AM
22. Two groups actually...more on them.
I posted this in GDP earlier. One is NPI being formed by Simon Rosenberg. The other is the Democracy Alliance or Phoenix group. Here is an article.
http://www.ndnblog.org/archives/001086.html
"The New Politics Institute is a think tank for politics. It has been established by people from across the country and across the political spectrum to help progressives succeed on the dynamic new battlefield of 21st century politics. NPI's founding team includes Sergio Bendixen, Jamie Daves, Gina Glantz, Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, Mark Penn, Cecile Richards and Joe Trippi. Simon Rosenberg is NPI's founding President. Bay Area philanthropists Andy and Deborah Rappaport, as well as The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) are major partners in the start-up phase of this exciting new venture." (I have noticed that there has been tendency among some of these to be critical of the DLC, so we will have to see. I notice the DNC is working heavily with the hispanic community, so does this group)
WHO: Danny Goldberg, Air America CEO David Brock, Media Matters Simon Rosenberg – NDN President Jamie Daves, NPI Fellow
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Here is more about the Democracy Alliance, I believe Rob Stein. Harder to find stuff on it, but it is separate....though many of the same people are involved. From April:
http://ff.org/centers/csspp/library/co2weekly/2005-04-2... xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Here is more about Democracy Alliance also called the Phoenix Group:
"Rob Stein, a veteran of President Bill Clinton's Commerce Department and of New York investment banking, convened the meeting of venture capitalists, left-leaning moneymen and a select few D.C. strategists on how to seed pro-Democratic think tanks, media outlets and leadership schools to compete with such entrenched conservative institutions as the Heritage Foundation, the American Enterprise Institute and the Leadership Institute.
Senior Democratic National Committee (DNC) officials were quietly briefed about the meeting in recent weeks. DNC Chairman Howard Dean was aware of it, in part though his friendship with Stein, but one senior DNC source said the organizers "kept that list kind of tight."
Sarah Ingersoll, de facto spokeswoman for Stein's Democracy Alliance, said it was "a very preliminary meeting of committed donors interested in building a community to support progressive infrastructure."
The Democracy Alliance will act as a clearinghouse and is expected to channel much of its money to new organizations and existing ones such as John Podesta's Center for American Progress and David Brock's Media Matters for America.
The money details are several weeks away. "There aren't dollar figures at this point," Ingersoll said."
This article from The Hill mentions both groups. http://www.hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Fro...