New York Post [Page Six] - February 17, 2006
TEXANS STRIKE BACK AT SOROS
CONSERVATIVES in Texas are using liberal activist George Soros as a "boogeyman" to galvanize their base, with the Free Enterprise Committee featuring the Hungarian-born billionaire in television ads.
Soros, who spent over $25 million trying to beat President Bush in 2004, has lately taken aim at disgraced, doubly indicted House Majority Leader Tom DeLay by funding a series of harsh attack ads in DeLay's home state of Texas.
Yesterday, the Free Enterprise Committee - which calls itself the "leading voice in the public arena fighting for the American system of free enterprise" - counterattacked with a commercial running for the next two weeks that gives Soros a small taste of his own medicine.
"George Soros is full of money and liberal ideas, like legalizing drugs, letting felons vote and keeping the death tax," an announcer says ominously in the opening frame of the group's first ad, which aired on Houston broadcast and cable channels.
"He also bankrolled the liberals linked to attacks on Tom DeLay. Maybe that's because Tom DeLay fights for lower taxes and economic freedom.
"So when you see attacks on DeLay, consider the source."
Asked about the latest attempt to discredit Soros and rally support from voters sympathetic to "Hot Tub" Tom, his spokesman, Michael Vachon, didn't mince words. "I guess Tom DeLay must be pretty desperate if he's trying to blame George Soros for his troubles," Vachon fumed.
"Obviously, DeLay has only himself to blame for running afoul of Texas law and running amok with Jack Abramoff's money. I wonder what shadowy funders are backing the Free Enterprise Committee? . . . I asked them, but they refused to tell me. I couldn't find anything in the public record. I wonder why they're hiding.
"As for the substance, anybody who wants to know what George Soros funds should look at www.soros.org and not rely on attack ads funded by anonymous donors."
Soros - who supports legalized drugs and a one-world government - has been identified by Bill O'Reilly as the chief architect of the Democratic propaganda machine propelled by such groups as moveon.org.