Reply #59: Rightwing Bradley Foundation funding the DLC?

[IndianaGreen]

The New Black Strategy was first implemented through the political network centered on the Bradley Foundation, of Milwaukee, which is author of much of the Republican Party's social policy positions and funds the network's most aggressive think tanks: Manhattan Institute, American Enterprise Institute, Hoover Institute, Hudson Institute and other, satellite outfits. Bradley works closely with the Olin Foundation, the Walton Family Fund, the Scaife Foundation and other, traditional bankrollers of right-wing causes.

As political organs, these foundations are capable of causing many millions of dollars of cash contributions and other vital electioneering resources to be funneled into targeted contests. They are also extremely influential among the mass media.

Previously, these foundations' direct, Black-related activities were largely limited to funding compliant African American academics, and to subsidizing single-person front organizations such as Ward Connerly's California operations and Robert Woodson's Center for Neighborhood Enterprise. Attempts to legitimize Black Republican vehicles such as the Center for New Black Leadership proved ineffective among the Black populace at-large.

However, the campaign for school vouchers, under the direction of the Bradley Foundation, introduced white conservatives to the possibilities of grassroots and electoral action under non-partisan cover in the heart of urban America. The Hard Right had found an issue that, if generously financed, would make available to it significant numbers of potential minority office-seekers and ambitious local activists. These "stealth" candidates and operatives would not be burdened with the Republican taint.

http://www.blackcommentator.com/12_trojan_horse_watch.html

Third Way Foundation
From SourceWatch

The Third Way Foundation, formerly known as the Progressive Foundation, is an umbrella organization of New Democrats. The Progressive Policy Institute, the affiliated think tank of the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC), is a project of the foundation.

Political Funding
As Third Way Foundation

Bradley Foundation

Third Way Foundation Inc. is funded in part by the Bradley Foundation and received $225,000 between 2000 and 2002, "to support the Progressive Policy Institute."

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Third_Way_Foundation