Funding
The DLC and its close associate, the Progressive Policy Institute, are the recipients of grants from many Fortune 500 companies and such right-wing foundations as the Bradley Foundation. Corporate contributors to the Progressive Policy Institute include AT&T Foundation, Eastman Kodak Charitable Trust, Prudential Foundation, Georgia-Pacific Foundation, Chevron, and Amoco Foundation. (17) The Third Way Foundation, an umbrella group of the New Democrats in the DLC, receives funding from the Lynde & Harry Bradley Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, Ameritech Foundation, and General Mills Foundation. According to one magazine report, the DLC enjoys funding from Bank One, Citigroup, Dow Chemical, DuPont, General Electric, Health Insurance Corporation, Merrill Lynch, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, Occidental Petroleum, and Raytheon....
....In fact, both the DLC and the closely associated Progressive Policy Institute have elicited sharp criticism from several centrist and progressive factions of the Democratic Party. One of the most outspoken DLC critics is Jesse Jackson, who once said that DLC stands for “Democrats for the Leadership Class.” (9) Ralph Nader also challenges the DLC’s attempt to define itself as centrist: “So right-wing is the DLC, mounted imperiously on their sagging party, that even opposing Bush's tax cuts for the wealthy, that cause huge federal deficits and program cuts in necessities such as health, education, environmental protection and children’s well-being, is considered ultra-liberal and contrary to winning campaigns.” Nader continues: “If there were a superlative to the word ‘hubris,’ it would come close to describing Al From and his DLC cohorts. With unseemly regularity, they take credit for all Democratic victories as having been rooted in their philosophy of turn-your-back-on-organized labor and open-your-pockets-to-corporations (who fund the DLC, incidentally). All Democratic defeats are explained as owing to losing candidates being too ‘left’ or too ‘populist.’” ....
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1463FWIW, some of the DLC's backers:
"The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation is "the country's largest and most influential right-wing organization." (3) Along with John M. Olin Foundation, Sarah Scaife Foundation, and Smith Richardson Foundation, it is one of the “four sisters” described as the leading foundations of conservative philanthropy. (4) Harry Bradley belonged to the conservative John Birch Society and was a frequent contributor to the National Review. "
"According to the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy’s March 2004 report, Axis of Ideology, the Olin Foundation ranks third among foundations for awarding public policy grants to conservative organizations, after Sarah Scaife and Bradley. This assessment was based on data collected between 1999 and 2001. According to data from Mediatransparency regarding funding through 2003, Olin is now the fourth largest conservative funder (having given a total of $305,353,463 since 1985), after Bradley, Scaife, and the Walton Family"
These folks, behind the DLC, are behind AEI and PNAC. They're the enemy.
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