{"id":4210,"date":"2008-02-28T08:55:39","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T15:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/28\/more-democrats-flee-fdd\/"},"modified":"2008-02-28T08:55:39","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T15:55:39","slug":"more-democrats-flee-fdd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/28\/more-democrats-flee-fdd\/","title":{"rendered":"More Democrats Flee FDD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For an update on the exodus of Democrats from the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonindependent.com\/view\/bipartisan-think\">Wednesday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s article by Spencer Ackerman<\/a> on the new <em>Washington Independent<\/em> website and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/116683\/output\/print\">a later piece by Isikoff and Hosenball<\/a> at the <em>Newsweek<\/em> website. It seems that three other Democrats, including Rep. Eliot Engel and Sen. Chuck Schumer (whom I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t mention in Tuesday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s post), have resigned from the group, which last week hastily reorganized its corporate structure \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and gave birth to a new organization, <a href=\"http:\/\/defenseofdemocracies.org\/\">Defense of Democracies<\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d to preserve its 501(c)3 status.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, these Democrats are leaving primarily because FDD has become increasingly partisan in its attacks on specific Democratic lawmakers and leadership, not because of its steady drumbeat of Arabo- and Islamo-phobia that has dominated its work since its inception more than six years ago. I still wonder whether the remaining self-described Democrats, such as former Amb. Marc Ginsberg and, most particularly, James Woolsey and Sen. Lieberman (that will be an interesting test), will also desert the FDD. And what about the Democrats associated with the Committee on the Present Danger, an FDD \u00e2\u20ac\u0153project?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d They include former Reps. Dave McCurdy and Stephen Solarz, and former Amb. Peter Rosenblatt.<\/p>\n<p>May denied to <em>Newsweek<\/em> that the funding for the controversial ads came from telecom companies, insisted they came from individual donors. I would imagine that the likely suspects include the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) donors to Freedom\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Watch, which has set a goal of raising and spending $250 million this year in support of its agenda. The current ad campaign in support of Bush\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s version of the Protect America Act costs $2 million, according to <em>Newsweek<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lobelog.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/lobe\/lobelog.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"70\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"7\" hspace=\"15\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><i>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lobelog.com\">Lobelog.com<\/a> for the latest news analysis and commentary from Inter Press News Service&#8217;s Washington bureau chief Jim Lobe.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For an update on the exodus of Democrats from the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, see Wednesday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s article by Spencer Ackerman on the new Washington Independent website and a later piece by Isikoff and Hosenball at the Newsweek website. It seems that three other Democrats, including Rep. Eliot Engel and Sen. Chuck Schumer (whom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4210"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}