Charles Lewis, Ctr for Public "Integrity"

If you read that site, you'll see it's all about bashing Democrats and turning groups like unions into special interests.

Charles Lewis is also the one who broke the Clark is a lobbyist story.

"It was Charles Lewis, author of Buying the Presidency, who made the comments about Gen. Clark as a lobbyist. I just looked it up."

I haven't finished digging into this group or this guy, but it doesn't look good.

http://blog.forclark.com/story/2004/1/10/115217/813

I think Charles Lewis is an honorable guy. He exposes the dirty tricks of the Democrats and the Republicans. There's not a thing wrong with telling the truth.

a Republican but he has pretty well been an equal opportunity basher.
CPI has done some GREAT pieces on weapons, oil, international politics etc.

I didn't see the ABC piece this afternoon, but if properly framed there is no greater abuse of quid pro quo than the Republican party in ALL matters.

Lewis is just doing his job. The only ISSUE I take with HOW he seems to have framed it is if one LISTS their occupation on their contribution, then is that really INDUSTRY money always?

Here's the advisory board. It looks interesting to me anyway.

JAMES DAVID BARBER
An author and professor of political science and public policy at Duke University.


JAMES MacGREGOR BURNS
A political scientist, historian and Pulitzer-Prize winning biographer.


HODDING CARTER
A former newspaper publisher and State Department spokesman, is a columnist, lecturer, television producer and commentator.


JEFF FAUX
A founder and president of the Economic Policy Institute.


GUSTAVO GODOY
A Broadcast journalist and four-time Emmy Award winner, is the executive producer of Vista Magazine.


COLIN GREER
President of the New World Foundation, is an author, professor, and lecturer.


HERBERT HAFIF
One of the leading trial lawyers in the United States.


REV. THEODORE HESBURGH
President Emeritus of the University of Notre Dame, has served on twelve Presidential Commissions.


MOLLY IVINS
An author and columnist, based in Austin, Texas.


KATHLEEN HALL JAMIESON
An author and Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.


SONIA JARVIS
Formerly director of the National Coalition on Black Voter Participation, is now a professor.


BILL KOVACH
Former Washington bureau chief of The New York Times and editor of the Atlanta Constitution, is curator of the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University.


CHARLES OGLETREE
Professor of law and director of the Criminal Justice Institute at Harvard Law School.


ARTHUR SCHLESINGER, JR.
An author and professor, has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for history and biography.


WILLIAM SCHNEIDER
A political scientist and Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research.


PEARL STEWART
A scholar and former editor of the Oakland Tribune.


WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON
An author, professor, and director of the Center for the Study of Urban Inequality at the University of Ohio.

and got fed up with Washington, D.C. and that is how CPI came to be.
It is true our party is NOT without sin and Clinton was the one that got the cash infused into our party.

He promised to get campaign finance reform passed in a more restrictive manner when he was elected but he got a little side tracked by the Gingrich revolution.

The list says it all to me. And the candidates who are and aren't being attacked by this liberal group of journalists.

broke the story about how Ashcroft lied to Congress about whether the sequel to the Patriot Act was being planned. It had been prepared in secret and CPI leaked it. Bill Moyers had Lewis on his show.

Doesn't mean he's not a partisan. Larry Klayman has done some things that look good, but I wouldn't trust him on dem candidates.