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<blockquote data-quote="oldngray" data-source="post: 1429206" data-attributes="member: 45230">MoveOn.Org Changes Its Contest Rules After Conservative Group’s Video Takes Commanding LeadMoveOn and MAYDAY’s call for citizens to “make a 30-second ad to wake up America to the crisis of big money in our politics” was met by the conservative group American Commitment, which <a href="https://www.wishpond.com/vd/354253?entry_id=6526795&amp;scid=293770&amp;type=Merchant" target="_blank">submitted a video</a> highlighting progressive donor and climate change alarmist Tom Steyer’s role in the 2014 election cycle.American Commitment’s submission currently has about 15 times as many votes as the second-place competitor. MoveOn and MAYDAY changed the rules Thursday to allow for another day of voting.“Pretty funny that liberal groups who pretend to hate money in politics are driven to panic and willing to embarrass themselves with a last-minute rules change to forestall the possibility that a submission about by far the biggest donor in America might win their contest,” American Commitment’s Phil Kerpen told The Daily Caller. “Steyer has spent $42M+ this year, more than the top 31 Republican donors combined.&nbsp; But he’s a liberal, so they love him.”<a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/10/16/moveon-org-changes-its-contest-rules-after-conservative-groups-video-takes-commanding-lead/" target="_blank">http://dailycaller.com/2014/10/16/moveon-org-changes-its-contest-rules-after-conservative-groups-video-takes-commanding-lead/</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="oldngray, post: 1429206, member: 45230"] [SIZE=6][B]MoveOn.Org Changes Its Contest Rules After Conservative Group’s Video Takes Commanding Lead[/B][/SIZE] MoveOn and MAYDAY’s call for citizens to “make a 30-second ad to wake up America to the crisis of big money in our politics” was met by the conservative group American Commitment, which [URL='https://www.wishpond.com/vd/354253?entry_id=6526795&scid=293770&type=Merchant']submitted a video[/URL] highlighting progressive donor and climate change alarmist Tom Steyer’s role in the 2014 election cycle. American Commitment’s submission currently has about 15 times as many votes as the second-place competitor. MoveOn and MAYDAY changed the rules Thursday to allow for another day of voting. “Pretty funny that liberal groups who pretend to hate money in politics are driven to panic and willing to embarrass themselves with a last-minute rules change to forestall the possibility that a submission about [I]by far[/I] the biggest donor in America might win their contest,” American Commitment’s Phil Kerpen told The Daily Caller. “Steyer has spent $42M+ this year, more than the top 31 Republican donors combined. But he’s a liberal, so they love him.” [url]http://dailycaller.com/2014/10/16/moveon-org-changes-its-contest-rules-after-conservative-groups-video-takes-commanding-lead/[/url] [/QUOTE]

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