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If I can wreck CREW’s day, then I will consider today a definite success. Let’s jump back onto their biography. Let me first say that reading this post will help because that’s where I laid the footings for this post. Here’s more illustrative information from Discover the Networks:

Other CREW officials have similarly deep ties to the political Left. For example, Deputy Director and Communications Director Naomi Seligman Steiner was formerly the Communications Director of Media Matters for America. CREW Special Projects Associate Lida Masoudpour was once a staffer at Media Matters and served as an intern in the office of Senator Hillary Clinton. CREW Senior Counsel Tim Mooney previously served as Senior Counsel at Alliance for Justice (AFJ). CREW Counsel Dan Roth was formerly the Dorot Judicial Selection Fellow at AFJ. CREW Research Associate Robin Powers is a former Program Associate of AFJ who interned with Vital Voices Global Partnership and the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois. CREW Counsel Kimberly Perkins once worked as the Assistant General Counsel for the National Office of the NAACP, where she led the “Voting Rights & Redistricting Project” and “Election Protection” efforts. CREW Executive Assistant Melissa Cuerdon, who previously worked in the pharmaceutical industry, served internships at the Sierra Club and the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN).

Couple this information with the information about CREW’s list of the most corrupt politicians and Sloan’s history of gleefully representing the Wilsons and you’re left with the impression that George Soros and Theresa Heinz (Tides Foundation) are getting a good return on their investments.

One thing that’s obvious: CREW’s touting themselves as nonpartisan isn’t just laughable; it’s a bald-faced lie. Another thing that’s obvious: we need to expose this political hatchet team before they gain any credibility. That’s what I intend to do here.

CREW pursued further investigations of DeLay, and in May 2005 those efforts paid dividends when Texas State District Judge Joseph Hart ruled that the treasurer of Texans for a Republican Majority Political Action Committee (TRMPAC), a PAC founded by DeLay, had violated Texas campaign laws by failing to report some $600,000 in campaign contributions. “The House Ethics Committee has run out of excuses for avoiding an investigation into Rep. DeLay’s involvement with TRMPAC,” said Melanie Sloan. That same month, Sloan told the Wall Street Journal: “Since I started [with CREW], “the main thing I wanted to do was to go after [Texas Republican and then-Majority Leader] Tom DeLay. DeLay is my top target.”

If Ms. Sloan is as nonpartisan as she claims, why wasn’t her first target John Murtha? Certainly, Murtha’s past was littered with indiscretions, scandals, influence peddling (through the selling of earmarks). It’s certainly reasonable to ask why she’d single out DeLay for her mission. Based on the information that I’ve already covered, the answer is because she’s a well-paid liberal political hatchetman.

Here’s a sampling of headlines from CREW’s webpage:

• CREW Files FEC Complaint Against Sen. Martinez Campaign Committee
• CREW Calls for Rep. Lewis to Step Down from Appropriations Committee
• Melanie Sloan, Legal Counsel for Joe and Valerie Wilson, Responds to Bush Decision to Commute Libby Sentence

Simply put, these read like a liberal’s ethics violations wish list. Certainly, we’ve seen CREW pursue these issues with great zeal. It’s a shame that they don’t pursue the ethical lapses of Democrats with the same vigor. Here’s some questions I’d love getting honest answers to:

• Why hasn’t CREW spent a minute investigating Harry Reid’s shady land deals?
• Why hasn’t CREW investigated Harry Reid’s sons and his son-in-law for lobbying Dear Old Dad?
• Why hasn’t CREW investigated the lobbying deal that Nancy Pelosi’s son just got?

The simple fact is that they aren’t interested in these ethical lapses because their puppeteer, George Soros, won’t pay for those investigations because he wants to buy a Democratic majority in the House and Senate and the White House.

CREW isn’t a nonpartisan watchdog group. They’re another wholly owned subsidiary of Soros Extremist Politics, Inc.

Technorati Tags: CREW, George Soros, Theresa Heinz, Tides Foundation, Melanie Sloan, Joe Wilson, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, John Murtha, Culture Of Corruption, Tom DeLay, ACORN, Radical Liberalism

Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

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