What has happened to the Democrat Party???? I mean it was bad when we had The Clintons in office, but now it is just scary. We have the anti-war groups that are funded by Communist and Marxists front groups. We have the 2 worst leaders ever in CONgress. But this has got to take the cake. BDS is not good enough for these loons. they are gong to intimidate and harass donors for Conservative causes. This is just sickening. How has a Party gone this low???? What ever happened to the battle for ideas, not scare tactics and intimidation??? I have to agree that this might backfire and enbolden the Conservative movement even more. At a time when the Conservatives are splintered and reeling from infighting, these idiots want to try and stick it to them. I think they might stir up a hornets nest.

And I am wondering where do these Loons get their money?????

Group Plans Campaign Against G.O.P. Donors

By MICHAEL
LUO

Nearly 10,000 of the biggest donors to Republican candidates and causes
across the country will probably receive a foreboding “warning” letter in the
mail next week.

The letter is an opening shot across the bow from an unusual new outside
political group on the left that is poised to engage in hardball tactics to
prevent similar groups on the right from getting off the ground this fall.

Led by Tom Matzzie, a liberal political operative who has been involved with
some prominent left-wing efforts in recent years, the newly formed nonprofit
group, Accountable America, is planning to confront donors to conservative
groups, hoping to create a chilling effect that will dry up contributions.

“We want to stop the Swift Boating before it gets off the ground,” said Mr.
Matzzie, who described his effort as “going for the jugular.”

The warning letter is intended as a first step, alerting donors who might be
considering giving to right-wing groups to a variety of potential dangers,
including legal trouble, public exposure and watchdog groups digging through
their lives.

The group is also hoping to be able to respond if an outside conservative
group broadcasts a television advertisement attacking Senator Barack
Obama, or another Democratic candidate, by running commercials exposing the
donors behind the advertisements.

Judd Legum, who was the research director for Senator Hillary
Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign, has signed on to play the same role
for Accountable America.—NY Slimes

Here is a little bio of Matzzie from Source Watch:

Tom Matzzie is the former Washington Director and lobbyist for MoveOn.org and former Campaign Manager for Americans Against Escalation in Iraq (AAEI) who now runs the AAEI spin-off Campaign to Defend America.

On November 11, 2007, the Washington Post reported that MoveOn’s Tom Matzzie has been hired to run an AAEI spin-off called Campaign to Defend America,
“an independent money machine that will rival or eclipse what they
created in 2004, when donors poured millions into two key
outside-the-party organizations — America Coming Together and the Media Fund.
… Those familiar with overall Democratic fundraising plans for 2008
say that everything is still in a very nascent stage, but party
heavyweights are clearly on the march — setting up various
organizations that may be integrated into a larger uber-fundraising
effort, perhaps under Mattzie’s group. Last week John Podesta, a longtime Democratic operative who runs the Center for American Progress, and Anna Burger, a high-ranking official at the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) formed a soft-money 527 group called the “Fund for America.” Burger is also vice chair of the Democracy Alliance, wealthy liberal funders of various Democratic Party aligned organizations. ^[1]

In February, 2008 journalists Matt Taibbi analyzed how the MoveOn-led Americans Against Escalation in Iraq
has become “a political tool for the Democrats — one operated from
inside the Beltway and devoted primarily to targeting Republicans. …
At the forefront of the groups are [former MoveOn lobbyist] Tom Matzzie and Brad Woodhouse… [M]uch of the anti-war group’s leadership hails from a consulting firm called Hildebrand Tewes Consulting — whose partners Steve Hildebrand and Paul Tewes served as staffers for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
… This is the kind of conflict of interest that would normally be an
embarrassment in the activist community. … The really tragic thing
about the Democratic surrender on Iraq is that it’s now all but
guaranteed that the war will be off the table during the presidential
campaign. Once again — it happened in 2002, 2004 and 2006 — the
Democrats have essentially decided to rely on the voters to give them
credit for being anti-war, despite the fact that, for all the noise
they’ve made to the contrary, in the end they’ve done nothing but vote
for war and cough up every dime they’ve been asked to give, every step
of the way.” [1]

In a February 9, 2008, blog posting on The Nation’s website, professor and activist Tom Hayden wrote: “Tom Matzzie, leader of Americas most well-financed anti-Iraq organization, has resigned his position and dissolved the organization, Americans Against Escalation in Iraq.”
However,after posting this blog Hayden the wrote: “Minutes after this
story was posted, Mattzie sent an e-mail to me claiming ‘the story is
wrong.’ He said, ‘We haven’t quit,’ but are in transition. But the
story is based on Mattzie’s own February 7 e-mail response to a
question from me: ‘I’ve essentially quit anti-war organizing and gone
into politics.’ ” [2]

On May 14, 2008, the Washington Post reported that “Tom Matzzie, a leader of the liberal group MoveOn.org, teamed recently with David Brock, once a conservative journalist who is now a liberal media critic, to form Progressive Media USA, pledging to raise $40 million and lead the attack on McCain. The group has yet to air an ad. [3]

On August 8, 2008, the New York Times reported that [4] Tom Matzzie’s group, Accountable America
has sent a letter to, “to confront donors to conservative groups,
hoping to create a chilling effect that will dry up contributions.” He
has described the effort as, “going for the jugular.” The letter warns
“donors who might be considering giving to right-wing groups [of] legal
trouble, public exposure and watchdog groups digging through their
lives.”