A watershed moment in George Soros’ long and stealthy effort to capture control of the Democratic Party and change the course of American politics came in August 2008 at the Party’s presidential nominating convention in Denver, Colorado. One of a series of panel discussions staged for the media VIPs and moneymen, all of them euphoric at the growing prospect of Barack Obama’s victory in the upcoming elections, featured a man named Rob Stein.2 An aide to Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown during the Clinton administration, Stein was not well known to the public but was locally famous among “progressive” Democrats as a key operative in the network of institutions designed by Soros in an effort to create what they only half jokingly referred to as a “vast leftwing 1 columbiamissourian/stories/2008/10/30/obama-speaks-crowd-40000/ 2 discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2388 2 conspiracy.” The subject of the panel discussion Stein staged for Party movers and shakers in 2008 was “The Colorado Miracle.”3 Everyone in the room knew that the phrase referred to a stunning political development generated virtually overnight by a chain of Soros-funded state organizations. The lineup of state office holders told the tale. In October 2004, Republicans held two U.S. Senate seats, five of seven congressional seats, the governorship, the secretary of state’s office and both houses of the legislature. When the 2008 election scarcely two months away ended, the exact opposite would be true, and Colorado would have been changed from a red state to a blue one in one brief election cycle.4 Some political commentators would see this transformation as an expression of Western independence and contrarianism or of changing demographics, which had given the state a growing Hispanic population. These and other factors had 3 nrd.nationalreview/article/?q=ODJmYWRlMDkxMzYxMzM1NTY3YmMwZDc1MzZmMmYzMGU= 4 nrd.nationalreview/article/?q=ODJmYWRlMDkxMzYxMzM1NTY3YmMwZDc1MzZmMmYzMGU= 3 played a role. But as Stein pointed out in his discussion of the Miracle then just nearing its apotheosis, Colorado had been given a political makeover primarily as a result of a relentless political ground war waged by the Colorado Democracy Alliance, an organization created out of his vision and Soros’ money.5 The Colorado Democracy Alliance had created, in record time, a progressive political infrastructure with one purpose: taking over Colorado politics from the precinct to the statehouse. It had accomplished this by putting together a relentless political blitzkrieg.6 And best of all, Stein assured his audience, what had happened in Colorado was an exportable model that could be replicated in dozens of other states across the country. The election of Barack Obama might be the immediate goal before them, Stein concluded, but the long-term objective was to take control of the American political system. “The reason we’re doing what we’re doing…” he said, “and the way we get progressive change is to control government.”7 Rob Stein was speaking for his patron as well 5 discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7151 6 capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/v1228145204.pdf 7 capitalresearch.org/news/news.html?id=677
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