Soros slithers into Michigan politics (The Michigan View 10.23.10)

Posted by hpayne on October 23, 2010

The heavy hand of George Soros has been back in the headlines this week with his nearly $2 million contribution to NPR and alleged meddling in the Juan Williams firing. His influence is being felt in Michigan in a key state election as well.

Jocelyn Benson, the ambitious, young lefty running for Secretary of State is one of a handful of races targeted by Soros’ SOS Project this year according to the American Spectator.

Secretary of State races would seem an odd target for the billionaire political mogul, but control the SOS office and you can control close electoral outcomes. Soros learned that in 2000 when a Republican SOS in Florida resisted Democratic efforts to change election rules in midstream, denying “hanging chad” votes and ultimately the chance for Al Gore to steal a presidential election.

Soros is determined that that not happen again.

“At the top of the SoS Project’s slate of candidates is Minnesota’s radically left-wing Mark Ritchie,” reports The Spectator, “a former community organizer whose cavalier attitude toward electoral fraud and whose shamelessly partisan conduct during the recount process cleared the way for Al Franken to steal last year’s U.S. Senate election.”

“The strategic targeting of the SoS Project yielded astounding results in 2008 and 2006,” continues The Spectator’s Matthew Vadum. “In 2008, SoS Project-backed Democrats Linda McCulloch (Montana), Natalie Tennant (West Virginia), Robin Carnahan (Missouri), and Kate Brown (Oregon) won their races.”

SOS has already given $3000 to Benson. She is defensive about Soros, first telling Frank Beckmann she knew little about him (an unlikely claim given her party ambitions and the fact that she was a field director for the 2004 Kerry prez campaign), and then admitting that she had taken the SOS Project money.

But there’s more. “Benson is a candidate ACORN would love,” writes Vadum. “Last year in Michigan, she helped to lead the fight to stop the Republican secretary of state ‘from disenfranchising voters who were victims of home foreclosures.'”

Indeed, Benson has made the foreclosure conspiracy a centerpiece o her campaign even as the current SIS, Terry Lynn Land denies any such plot. The Detroit News editorial board asked Benson where she got her evidence.

Benson cited widespread “media reports.” When pressed on which media she was referring to, she admitted the conspiracy was “reported” by only one publication: The Michigan Messenger. What is the Michigan Messenger? A left-wing propaganda publication funded by George Soros.

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