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Ashes of ACT: after defeat in 2004, progressive turnout groups mount the horse again.(CAMPAIGN '06)(America Coming Together)
American Prospect, The, March, 2006 by Goldberg, Mark Leon
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IN THE SUMMER OF 2005, THE Director of the largest voter-mobilization organization that progressives have ever seen, sent e-mails out to most of its 30 staffers warning them that their paychecks would be cut off by the end of August. America Coming Together (ACT), the flagship progressive "527" organization, headed by former AFL-CIO political director Steve Rosenthal, was running out of cash.
Its major backers, George Soros and Peter Lewis, who together put $38.5 million into ACT (and a partner organization, the Media Fund), declined to sustain their commitment following ...
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