RTM opposition to the Soros money is growing

On January 5th, I reported on our two Registrars of Voting accepting a $500,000 grant from a liberal dark-money group; now a large number of RTM members are stirring up opposition to accepting that money; I should have realized, but didn’t, that the RTM has to approve donations like this; it’s time to call your representatives.

Two letters opposing the grant have been published, one by Greenwich’s Betsy McCaughey (former Lt. Governor of New York) individually, and the second by dozens of current RTM members.

Naturally, Greenwich Democrats have responded by howling that this is “free” money, no strings attached, from an innocuous, non-political group of Samaritans; that’s as believable as the claim by the Democrat’s Invisible Ladies of Greenwich that they were “non-partisan” opponents of Trump, when they seated 100 of their members in our RTM.

One large question that the Democrats won’t answer: why do we need this money at all? Are we so broke that we need outside funding from third parties, let alone groups with undisclosed members, and undisclosed sources of funds? Let’s just hold a bake sale instead.

From my previous post:

The Alliance for Election Excellence primarily is a project of the Center for Tech and Civic Life, or CTCL, which distributed $350 million in grants from a foundation run by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerber and his wife to local election offices. Critics say that money primarily benefited Democrat turnout in the 2020 election. 

The Center for Tech and Civic Life teamed with several other technology and election organizations for the alliance. It includes the Center for Secure and Modern Elections, a project of the liberal New Venture Fund, a nonprofit funded by the “dark money” group Arabella Advisors. Arabella is known for bankrolling various groups on the Left. 

More on Arabella Advisors here