PEWGATE: Soros Seeks To Regulate Political Speech at State Level

The Pewgate scandal continues to unfold, thanks to diligent sleuthing by Ryan Sager of The New York Post. Now Sager informs us that, having succeeded at the federal level in foisting the McCain-Feingold Act on an unsuspecting public, George Soros and his fellow Pewgate conspirators have begun lobbying to regulate political speech which touches on state-level election campaigns as well.

As regular perusers of this blog are aware, Ryan Sager broke the Pewgate story on March 17. He revealed that a cabal of leftwing foundations including the Pew Charitable Trusts and George Soros' Open Society Institute had spent ten years and $140 million in a successful effort to defraud and bamboozle Congress and the U.S. Supreme Court into approving the McCain-Feingold Act. The law gives federal judges and the Federal Election Commission the power to regulate political speech, including the speech of bloggers.

McCain-Feingold affects only those communications which pertain to federal election campaigns. However, the Pewgate conspirators now seek to regulate state-level politicking as well, according to Mr. Sager's latest update ("`Reform' and a Hidden Agenda," New York Post, April 26, 2005).

Currently, an umbrella group calling itself the Illinois Campaign Reform Coalition is lobbying to impose McCain-Feingold-like restrictions on Illinois politics. Mr. Sager writes:

"It turns out that the eight groups under the umbrella (ICPR, the Sunshine Project, the Citizen Advocacy Center, Protestants for the Common Good, the Better Government Association, Common Cause Illinois, Illinois Public Interest Research Group and the League of Women Voters of Illinois) have received about $3 million in grants from George Soros' Open Society Institute and the Joyce Foundation since 1997."

Soros' Open Society Institute and the Joyce Foundation both contributed heavily to the Pewgate conspiracy.