Did The Leadership Institute fund James O'Keefe in his recent ACORN project?

http://www.leadershipinstitute.org/news/?NR=1509

Hmmmm, and they train college students to set up groups on campuses - Blackwell himself said in a video on their wesbite that they have provisions in place for all 4-year colleges across the country via their just released CampusReform project. See the project's website here: http://www.campusreform.org/node/5603

Hmmmm, what else do they train for and fund?

Did The Leadership Institute fund James O'Keefe in his recent ACORN project?

"O'Keefe insists that he and Giles's work was done independently and rejects liberal suggestions that the videos were bankrolled by conservative organizations. He does, however, acknowledge receiving help and advice from a conservative columnist and Web entrepreneur."

He's been with the Leadership Institute for some time. The Leadership Institute helped James O'Keefe found The Rutgers Centurion, a conservative monthly magazine.

It would be plausible that the recent ACORN project of his was an effort assisted and funded by the Leadership Institute. Maybe it was even the Institute's own idea. This needs to be researched.

I mean, look what was available to O'Keefe and Giles...

Via Leadership Institute's website:
http://www.listudios.us/rentals/

http://www.listudios.us/services/

http://www.listudios.us/aboutus/

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Morton Blackwell goes way back. This is the man that along with Richard Viguerie & Paul Weyrich, helped form the Moral Majority. Blackwell has been "training" operatives for decades and the tentacles of his treachery are many.

However, I'd bet he was funded from within the same nexus of interests.

get paid, without alerting the IRS. Sort of the way they were asking for advice for the 'pimp' and the 'prostitute'.

This whole thing needs to be thoroughly investigated. If anyone thinks that by walking away from ACORN, as Dems did with Van Jones, that this will end the witch-hunt, they are mistaken. These anti-American thugs have been salivating for another Clinton era where they can put their 'skills' to work.

Democrats better start confronting them NOW. Because I'd be willing to bet they have a long list of targets and this caving in act from the Dems without question, only encourages them.

Nevertheless, seems like the Leadership Institute has many connections and resources that could've helped him, including the fancy editing services.

K and R.

...and your premise makes sense.

Turd Blossom attended The Leadership Institue in the past, as did O'Keefe and his former cohort in the Planned Parenthood sting, as covered in http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=6577190&mesg_id=6584609">these threads.

which actually makes the difference in the election.

The ISI is a kind of a paleocon group with close ties to the Heritage Foundation. It's not generally very visible -- but I saw an article a couple of days ago about a couple of young tea party organizers with links to both ISI and the Leadership Institute. It loves to spread stories of alleged liberal bias on campus and seems to have every qualification for being O'Keefe's financial angel in this stunt.


http://www.collegiatenetwork.org/

Jame's O'Keefe, founder of The Centurion at Rutger's University, is a CN alumnus and one of the filmmakers behind the recent Acorn prostitution scandal video.


http://influx.uoregon.edu/1997/cons

Unlike liberals or progressives, conservatives on college campuses can draw on a national, well-funded network of right-wing organizations. Groups such as the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) with its Collegiate Network (CN) dispense millions of dollars in aid and guidance, raining down scholarships, fellowships, internships and other help on promising students who agree with their conservative, pro-business philosophy. These organizations bankroll conservative journals on college campuses and recruit promising young conservatives to positions of national prominence and influence.

Founded in 1953 as the Intercollegiate Society of Individualists, ISI is the oldest national college conservative organization in the country. The organization has an annual budget of $4.7 million and claims more than 55,000 student and faculty members on U.S. campuses. Its current president, T. Kenneth Cribb, served as chief of domestic affairs for President Reagan. In 1995, the organization assumed control of the Collegiate Network, which funds more than 50 conservative college publications, ranging from the Harvard Salient to the Dartmouth Review to the Oregon Commentator. . . .

With an annual budget of $300,000, CN gives money and training to student editors and writers at its 50-plus conservative publications. Assistance comes in the form of operating grants, scholarships to CN journalistic training conferences, story ideas and editorial resources, year-long internships at national publications and guidance from experienced professionals. Network magazines have a combined annual distribution of more than two million copies.


http://www.digitas.harvard.edu/~perspy/old/issues/1996/mar/madison.html

How Rich Foundations Fund Conservative College Newspapers

Curious readers of Harvard's student publications might wonder how the College's two conservative newspapers, The Salient and Peninsula, continue to operate with only one or two paid ads per issue. Many other publications, including Perspective, rely almost exclusively on advertising to cover their costs. In fact, although the former two papers often tout the unqualified virtue of free enterprise, both have managed to balance their books for years only with the aid of massive subsidies from conservative foundations. While Peninsula has stopped receiving funds this year, The Salient continues to enjoy the cash. Inquiry into the funding sources of these and other right-wing college papers reveals both a hidden hypocrisy and the inadequacy of corresponding liberal funding networks. ...

Both The Salient and Peninsula are members of the Collegiate Network, an association of over 70 right-wing college newspapers from Dartmouth to Stanford which provides its members with substantial subsidies, start-up grants, coordination, and training. The Network also provides editorial input, at least according to former editor-in-chief of The Stanford Review, Lisa Covan: "They help us form our opinions and plan conferences." The Network, administered until last year by the Madison Center for Educational Affairs (MCEA), recently merged into the larger Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI), a group known for its dedication to purging "the pervasive forces of multiculturalism."


http://www.ncrp.org/Releases/PR-03-03-2004.htm

The 10 largest recipients of conservative foundation grants between 1999 and 2001, in rank order, were the Heritage Foundation, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, George Mason University (the Mercatus Center), the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Hillsdale College, Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation, Judicial Watch, the Free Congress Research and Education Foundation, the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, and the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research.


http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=2159

ISI Celebrates 50th Anniversary

The Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI), the creation of which was inspired by an 1950 HUMAN EVENTS article by Frank Chodorov, will celebrate its 50th Anniversary at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, October 23, 2003.

The gala tribute to America’s premiere organization dedicated to instilling in successive generations of college youth an appreciation of the values and institutions that sustain a free society will feature an all-star conservative roster of dignitaries, including Amway co-founder Richard M. DeVos and National Review founder William F. Buckley Jr., who are co-chairing this event.

The celebration includes: A reception featuring Alfred Regnery and the Madison Chamber Players; Dinner (VMI Glee Club Performance); the Premiere of ISI Anniversary Film; comments from Edwin J. Feulner, Jr., William F. Buckley Jr., T. Kenneth Cribb, Jr., Lt. General Josiah Bunting III, and others; anniversary project announced by Richard M. DeVos; post-dinner musical entertainment "Beats Working," featuring FOX News Anchor Tony Snow (invited).


http://llamabutchers.mu.nu/archives/066998.php

Ken Cribb, president of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, once told me this story: A South Carolinian of many generations, he had just decided to attend Washington & Lee, and his grandmother remonstrated, "Why would you want to go to a Yankee school?" "But Grandma," Ken pleaded, "Virginia seceded!" His grandmother stared at him for a moment and then replied, "Mighty damn late."


http://www.freep.com/voices/columnists/qetrev8.htm

The intellectual brain trust of the Federalist Society includes the likes of Robert Bork, whom the U.S. Senate refused to elevate to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1987. Others include Edwin Meese, who was President Ronald Reagan's attorney general and so anti-civil rights that, according to the Washington Post, Reagan aides James Baker and Michael Deaver called him "Big Bigot" and his top assistant, T. Kenneth Cribb, "Baby Bigot."

Maybe serial numbers in the digital files or something.