GEORGE SOROS’ INFILTRATION OF CPAC

STATEMENT FOR THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD
CONGRESSMAN MARK E. SOUDER (IN-03)
FEBRUARY 8, 2006

Mr. Speaker,

George Soros, the radical liberal financier who dedicated himself to defeating President George W. Bush in the last election, has taken a lesson from Jack Abramoff.

As much of Abramoff’s pernicious lobbying technique has come to light, we’ve seen how he was adept at manipulating certain conservative organizations to pursue a decidedly anti-conservative agenda, namely the promotion of gambling.  By working hand in hand with the Traditional Values Coalition (TVC), for example, he was able in 2000 to undermine conservatives’ best effort to outlaw on-line gambling.  Proxy organizations played a fundamental role in Abramoff’s strategy.

Since 1974, the American Conservative Union has held the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, which is billed as a three-day meeting for thousands of conservative activists and leaders to discuss current issues and policies and set the agenda for the future.  I myself have addressed the conference in the past.

One can imagine a conservative’s surprise to read on the CPAC 2006 agenda that a representative of the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) is slated to moderate-yes, moderate-a panel Friday discussing drug policy.  For those who are unacquainted with it, the pro-marijuana MPP has been funded by Soros in the past.  Also represented on the panel is the Drug Policy Alliance, which is Soros’ principal pro-drug arm.  Incidentally, the moderator himself is a convicted drug dealer.

What on earth were the CPAC organizers thinking?  Why would the American Conservative Union allow extremist liberals like George Soros and Peter Lewis (who is responsible for most of MPP’s funding) to access a meeting of conservatives?  And, in exactly whose estimation would there be balance in a debate moderated by the MPP?

Thanks to Accuracy in Media Report editor Cliff Kincaid, these are just a few of the questions that the CPAC organizers now face.  I’d like to submit into the record his article of February 7, 2006, entitled “Soros Infiltrates Conservative Movement.”  In exchange for a donation, is this 32-year old conservative conference turning itself into a Soros proxy organization just like Abramoff’s TVC? 

Over the last number of months, we’ve been surprised to learn how one such as Abramoff was able to exploit conservatives for his own purposes.  Surely in this environment we can’t miss seeing it when it’s happening once again.

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