Democracy Alliance Challenges Right-Wing Think TanksThe Washington Post
By Thomas B. Edsall
At least 80 wealthy liberals have pledged to contribute $1 million or more apiece to fund a network of think tanks and advocacy groups to compete with the potent conservative infrastructure built up over the past three decades.
[The Democracy Alliance is] the brainchild of longtime Democratic strategist Rob Stein, who spent years studying conservative groups - in particular their success in sustaining GOP politicians and achieving many of their policy goals. Simon Rosenberg, president of the New Democrat Network, is working with Stein and is a leading promoter of his effort.
Financial commitments totaling at least $80 million over the next five years generated by the Democracy Alliance…suggest that the group is becoming a player in the long-term effort to reinvigorate the left. The group has a goal of raising $200 million.
"To be effective in the 21st century in promoting your beliefs, it is necessary to have a financially secure institutional infrastructure that has the capacity to promote consistently and coherently a set of ideas, policies and messages," Stein said. "We understand that it's very hard to promote a belief system and to be operationally high performing if you don't have multi-year funding."
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