As God said to Moses on the mountain, “Take out your tablet, number one to ten, this is a pop quiz.” Well, I am not, nor do I pretend to be at the level of God, but I am going to ask the readers to take out a pen and paper, this is a pop quiz. There are only three questions; how you answer them is between you and your own conscience. Now if ready, here are the questions. Where were you when our freedoms and rights were being slowly destroyed? Where were you when many people were shouting about Obama’s radical connections? Why did it take you so long to get involved in preserving our country?

Recently, I received an email, the only way I can describe it is a “panic” about ACORN being involved in the up coming elections, particularly the governor’s election in Virginia and New Jersey and maybe the 23^rd in New York. This email suggested that people call their respective Secretary of State, “DEMAND TO NOW IF ACORN OR ANY OF THEIR 300 SUBSIDIARIES ARE INVOLVED IN THE 2009 NEW JERSEY ELECTION IN ANY WAY WHAT-SO-EVER?” Well, the question I asked is why it took so long to realize that ACORN and others were a problem to the election process. ACORN and voter fraud has been covered in many newspapers for a number of years. “ACORN Is A Member Of America Votes, A New 527 Organization Coordinating Election Activity Of Many Liberal Interest Groups Collectively Dubbed The “Shadow Democratic Party.” “Collectively dubbed the ‘shadow Democratic Party,’ American Coming Together, the Media Fund and a handful of other groups work on different key objectives to try to boost the Democratic election machine. While ACT focuses on grassroots voter turnout, the Media Fund, headed by former Clinton administration official Harold Ickes, is focused exclusively on advertising. Overseeing their activities and making sure the two groups don’t duplicate their efforts is a third and smaller 527 group known as America Votes.” (America Votes Website, www.americavotes.net, Accessed 8/6/04; Amy Keller, “Entreaties Lead to Flood Of 527 Input,” Roll Call, 4/7/04” http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/acornbackgro.html (last accessed 8-02-09). Notice the date, April, 2004) Where were you in 2004? Were you living in your comfort zone? Were you enjoying the freedoms of America, while special interests were destroying it? Now, that we have a radical in the white house, you just now getting involved? Do you notice that there is one major organization mentioned in this quote…. “The Shadow Democratic Party”?

As most of us should know, “The Shadow Democratic Party” or to be more accurate, “The Shadow Party” is and outgrowth of George Soros’s success in 2000, he moved to exploit the power of 527s on a much larger scale during the 2004 election cycle. Toward that end, he was a key force in the creation of the so-called "Shadow Party" in 2003. This term refers to a nationwide network of unions, non-profit activist groups, and think tanks whose agendas are ideologically to the left, and which are engaged in campaigning for the Democrats. This network's activities include fundraising, get-out-the-vote drives, political advertising, opposition research, and media manipulation. http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977 (last accessed 11-01-09). Where were you in 2000? Why did you not speak out? Why did you not investigate and try to learn about Soros then?

After the defeat of John Kerry (who served in Vietnam) and the lost of the other elections in 2004, there was an exerted push to have more liberals elected to office. From this push came a little known, quiet organization or project, The Secretary of State Project. Their mission statement sounds harmless enough.

“Since we launched in the fall of 2005, we have engaged in eleven races and have backed the winning candidate in nine states, including: Ohio, Minnesota, Iowa, Oregon, New Mexico, Montana, Nevada, West Virginia and Missouri. We lost only in Michigan and Colorado (and there by a tiny margin).

In 2008, we ran a sophisticated, highly targeted campaign in Montana which made the difference in a major upset – ousting the incumbent Republican Secretary of State. Most analysts anticipate a tough 2010 Senate race in Montana, and it is critical to have a fair Secretary of State in place. In Oregon last year we helped beat back a late unexpected surge to capture a critical open seat.

We are proud of our 2006 victory in Minnesota, where long time reformer Mark Ritchie pulled off a major upset, with our support. He was under fierce media and legal scrutiny as he oversaw the recount of the Franken/Coleman senatorial race, and operated with transparency and integrity, such that the Minnesota Supreme Court unanimously ruled to uphold the extremely close election results, finally sending Franken to the Senate, where his vote is much needed.

With your support, we have made a major difference. We can be sure that the Republicans and the opponents of honest elections will try triply hard to regain lost seats and capture seats held by reformers.” http://www.secstateproject.org/ (last accessed 11-01-09)

Why would anyone want to control or have allies in the states’ office of Secretary of State? Well, think about it; who controls the elections in the various states? Who is responsible for voter registration and the people responsible for obtaining those registrations? The Secretary of State pure and simple. Now, who do you think funded this project? From Terry Franks Blog, Frankly Speaking, http://terryfrank.net/?p=3882 (last accessed 11-01-09), “ ….. As research shows, Soros supports so-called “merit selection” plans. Like the Soros funded Secretary of State Project to take over the Secretary of State positions across the nation, the Soros Plan also likes lawyers picking the judges. Soros knows what system favors liberals….” This was posted April 4, 2009.

Or as Petrarch said in his blog, Col. Blimp Takes Tea with the Republicans, published June 11, 2009, at http://www.scragged.com/articles/col-blimp-takes-tea-with-the-republicans.aspx .”..... This observation is painful because it is so very true. How many times have we seen the Democrats kneecapping Republicans in every possible way? ACORN ran an organized campaign to install far-left hacks into Secretary of State offices nationwide for the purposes of manipulating elections to benefit Democrats; as a result, we see close elections being reported as a tiny victory for the Republican, and then mysteriously changing to the other column after interminable recounts under the supposedly fair authority of these carefully-selected Secretaries of State.”

Finally as Dan Pero, posted on American Courthouse, May 9, 2009. “Readers of American Courthouse know that I (and many others) have often written about the role of groups funded by hedge fund billionaire George Soros in trying to abolish democratic judicial elections across America and to adopt “merit selection” systems that put lawyers in charge of choosing judges. But his influence in American politics doesn’t stop there. Soros and other prominent Democrats are also working to influence the conduct (and therefore the outcome) of elections under the guise of something called the “Secretary of State Project.”

In many states, the Secretary of State is responsible for the conduct of elections; some are elected, others appointed. Ever since the 2000 Florida recount, in which Secretary of State Katherine Harris played a prominent role, the office has assumed a higher prominence, particularly in swing states. As USA Today reported in 2006, “The political battle for control of the federal government has opened up a new front: the obscure but vital state offices that determine who votes and how those votes are counted.”http://americancourthouse.com/2009/05/13/secretary-of-state-watch.html (last accessed 11-01-09)

As in many other circumstances, George Soro’s money and power are really surfacing and coming to light. Why now? Iis it because there are friends in the White House? But, if one takes time and goes back in the real distant past, say to about 1979, when George Soros established his Open Society Institute, you will find that the corruption of the American way of life has been in the works for many years. So close books, take out a pen and piece of paper, number one to three, this is a pop quiz.

1. Where were you when our freedoms and rights were being slowly destroyed?
2. Where were you when many people were shouting about Obama’s radical connections?
3. Why did it take you so long to get involved in preserving our country?

Semper Fi