I need links to inform a Democratic growing leader the dangers of DLC

She is the Chairperson of the Democratic Party Latino Caucus for the State of California
I talked to her last night when we looking at the election returns at my place,
she trusts my judgement,

she wants short defined briefs, with further links
that she can read quickly.
She is new to politics at a State and National level.
But street savvy on the local level and is raising her statute very quickly within the party

Most know of my feelings on the DLC, so this is not to educate me.
I need briefs that I can e-mail her today.

Thanks for your help

Here is a link to his most famous article:

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050103/sirota

I would recommend searching David Sirota's blog:

http://www.davidsirota.com/

It is extremely imporant to point out how the DLC constantly smears the Democratic Party in the mainstream media whether it is Will Marshall of the DLC's progressive policy institute denouncing Democrats as unpatriotic or Al From, DLC CEO constantly denouncing the Democratic Party and making up wild lies about the Democratic Party being full of fringe far leftist.

I alway pose the question who? and what positions does any significant Democratic Party figure advocate that are by any wild stretch of the imagination "far left, "fringe left" or "ultra-liberal"
Of course, they never ever have an answer. Because they just made it up.

But, I have found Dave Sirota to be one of the best writers on this topic. He always has a long list of references to support his material.

Oh yes here is a good link that list several other links:

http://rightweb.irc-online.org/org/ppi.php

douglas,

bookmarked and I am creating a folder on my computer so I can send it off today.

Tell this person to READ what's there, not just look at the pictures or who is on their membership roster. READ WHAT THEY HAVE WRITTEN THERE.

If they are not sincerely frightened of the similarity and air of "simpatico" with the Republicans, then they'll never understand.

If you need more links, Google is your friend.

TC

I'm hoping this thread will provide new stuff in one place.


thanks for the response

here, that would be helpful for those DUers who would like to do some additional reading on this topic.

Italics mine, as well as the Note regarding John Edwards in first paragraph.

http://www.prospect.org/print-friendly/print/V12/7/dreyfuss-r.html

The New Democrats, who helped bring about this shift, have surged in power and influence. The DLC and its think tank, the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI), have blossomed into a $7-million-a-year operation. The New Democrat Network (NDN), which provides funds to dozens of certified co-thinkers in federal, state, and local races, raised nearly $6 million last year. Twenty U.S. senators and 70 members of the House of Representatives have formally affiliated themselves with New Democrat caucuses, and hundreds of state and local elected officials are signing on. The three men who've dominated the last three presidential tickets, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, and Joseph Lieberman, the DLC's most recent chairman, are all quintessential New Democrats. So are many of the party's rising stars, such as Senator John Edwards of North Carolina; Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana, the DLC's new chairman; and Maryland Lieutenant Governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend. (Note: Al From did not list John Edwards as "one of our DLC candidates"--only Clinton, Vilsack, Warner and Bayh--in his recent C-Span appearance in late October, 2005. Video of From's appearance available at C-span.org.)

Though the DLC offers a nominal $50 membership to anyone interested, its mass base is minuscule. "There's a New Democrat audience of about 5,000 to 10,000 people who get our stuff on a regular basis," says Matthew Frankel, the DLC's spokesman. And with a nonexistent grass-roots presence, the DLC is generally unknown except to practitioners of "inside baseball" politics. Yet the affiliation of scores of members of Congress has enabled the DLC to establish alliances with Fortune 500 corporate supporters, particularly along the so-called K Street corridor of Washington-based lobbyists and in high-tech enclaves such as California's Silicon Valley.

Once, the Reverend Jesse Jackson disparaged the DLC as "Democrats for the Leisure Class." But no one should underestimate the DLC's role in remaking the Democratic Party. Disciplined and single-minded, working tirelessly to forge alliances between individual Democratic elected officials and business groups, zealously promoting the political fortunes of their stars, and publishing a dizzying array of white papers and policy proposals, the DLC has given strategic coherence to what otherwise would have remained an inchoate tendency within the party. It has become a forum within which like-minded pro-business Democrats can share ideas, endorse one another, and commiserate about the persistence of the Old Guard.

<>Of course, it is easier to be contentious when you are well financed. And the DLC message of pro-market moderation is just what organized business wants to hear. From its modest beginnings--with a start-up budget of just $400,000 in its first year, cobbled together at fundraisers starring Robb, former President Jimmy Carter, and K Street Democratic eminence Bob Strauss--the DLC patiently cultivated wealthy individuals and corporate backers. By 1990 the combined DLC-PPI operation boasted revenues of $2.2 million, a big chunk of which came from a single source, New York hedge fund operator Michael Steinhardt, who pledged $500,000 a year for three years. (Steinhardt, whose actual donations came to half that in the end, was named chairman of the newly formed PPI's board of trustees, before falling out with the DLC in the mid-1990s.)

One by one, Fortune 500 corporate backers saw the DLC as a good investment. By 1990 major firms like AT&T and Philip Morris were important donors. Indeed, according to Reinventing Democrats, Kenneth S. Baer's history of the DLC, Al From used the organization's fundraising prowess as blandishment to attract an ambitious young Arkansas governor to replace Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia as DLC chairman. Drawing heavily on internal memos written by From, Bruce Reed, and other DLCers, Baer says that the DLC offered Clinton not only a national platform for his presidential aspirations but "entree into the Washington and New York fundraising communities." Early in the 1992 primaries, writes Baer, "financially, Clinton's key Wall Street support was almost exclusively DLC-based," especially at firms like New York's Goldman, Sachs.