Shadow Party

Shadow Party is a nationwide network of more than five-dozen unions, non-profit activist groups, and think tanks whose agendas are ideologically to the left, which are engaged in campaigning for the Democrats. Their activities include fundraising, get-out-the-vote drives, political advertising, opposition research, and media manipulation.

The Shadow Party was conceived and organized principally by George Soros. Soros gave $13 million to the Shadow party cause in 2004. The Shadow Party emerged from the dense thicket of campaign finance reforms engineered by Senators John McCain and Russ Feingold. This created an imperative that found its inevitable loophole in soft money. McCain-Feingold deprived the Democrats of their soft money, but the Shadow Party has provided an alternate channel for collecting unlimited contributions. Under McCain-Feingold, they may no longer pass that money along to the Democratic Party directly. Instead, they give it to the Shadow Party who supports Democrats.

Books

• The Shadow Party