{"id":2211501,"date":"2024-04-02T14:58:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T18:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/secretive-left-wing-billionaires-club-promoted-toxic-partisanship-founding-member-says\/"},"modified":"2024-04-02T14:58:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T18:58:24","slug":"secretive-left-wing-billionaires-club-promoted-toxic-partisanship-founding-member-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/secretive-left-wing-billionaires-club-promoted-toxic-partisanship-founding-member-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Founding member accuses secretive left-wing billionaires club of promoting divisive partisanship"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsecretive-left-wing-billionaires-club-promoted-toxic-partisanship-founding-member-says%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2211501&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A Democratic donor network, including George Soros and Tom Steyer, faces criticism from a former \u200dmember for exacerbating political divides and \u2062hindering democracy. The Democracy Alliance, known for secretive support of left-wing policies, is challenged by ex-member \u200bRachel Pritzker for inadvertently fueling partisan gridlock. Pritzker&#8217;s reflection \u200bquestions the impact of the group&#8217;s partisan pursuits on democratic principles.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A founding member of a powerful network of wealthy Democratic donors that has included <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/george-soros\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>George Soros<\/a> and environmental activist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/tom-steyer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Tom Steyer<\/a> is sounding the alarm over how the group contributed to \u201cthe decline of democracy\u201d and \u201cmounting gridlock and toxic partisanship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Democracy Alliance has long kept its operations largely secret as it works to prop up left-wing policies and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/09\/21\/democracy-alliance-no-labels-00117365\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>spends<\/a> millions of dollars <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/11\/10\/us\/politics\/democracy-alliance-house-democrats.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>boosting<\/a> Democratic lawmakers. But at least one former member doesn\u2019t appear to be proud of her time at the Democracy Alliance, according to a Monday opinion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.philanthropy.com\/commons\/a-partisan-warriors-reckoning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>article<\/a> she wrote in the <em>Chronicle of Philanthropy<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwenty years ago, in the mid-2000s, I was a partisan warrior, and my philanthropy was entirely dedicated to pursuing my ideological beliefs,\u201d Rachel Pritzker, the ex-member and heiress to the Hyatt Hotels fortune, wrote in the piece. \u201cAt the time, I served as a founding board member of the Democracy Alliance, a network of philanthropists focused on advancing a progressive policy agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pritzker, who left the Democracy Alliance in 2010, wrote that she \u201ccame to see that my efforts, under the banner of \u2018democracy,\u2019 were actually furthering the decline of democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur passionate advocacy, while aimed at strengthening the country, was contributing to mounting gridlock and toxic partisanship,\u201d she wrote in the piece.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div>\n<blockquote data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;In typical policy fights, advocates seek to build a coalition just big enough to achieve a policy outcome. But when it comes to protecting liberal democracy, \u201cjust big enough\u201d won\u2019t cut it.&#8221; \ud83e\uddf5<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qm9N0BsE9P\">https:\/\/t.co\/qm9N0BsE9P<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 rachel pritzker (@forachelP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/forachelP\/status\/1774965811821859236?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 2, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Pritzker\u2019s negative comments about the Democracy Alliance come on the heels of a November <em>New York Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/11\/10\/us\/politics\/democracy-alliance-house-democrats.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>report<\/a> on how the network planned to spend more than $10 million to help Democrats win back the House of Representatives in 2024. <\/p>\n<p>The heiress has shifted her giving to the Democracy Funders Network, which calls itself \u201ca cross-ideological learning and action community for donors concerned about the health of American democracy,\u201d according to the network\u2019s website. <\/p>\n<p>A <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> review of tax documents shows that the Democracy Funders Network has pulled in checks in recent years from the left-wing William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and other nonprofit organizations. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDemocratic elected officials felt increasingly pressured to adhere to party orthodoxy rather than passing legislation through compromise, lest they be primaried by a progressive group for being insufficiently pure,\u201d Pritzker wrote in the <em>Chronicle of Philanthropy<\/em> article, which was titled \u201cA Partisan Warrior\u2019s Reckoning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Democracy Alliance <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/09\/21\/democracy-alliance-no-labels-00117365\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>told<\/a> <em>Politico<\/em> in September last year that it was warning many donors not to fund the third-party No Labels group, which hasn\u2019t yet nominated a candidate for the 2024 election. <\/p>\n<p>The Democracy Alliance did not return a request for comment. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A key member of a prominent group of Democratic donors, featuring figures like George Soros and Tom Steyer, warns about its role in &#8220;the erosion of democracy,&#8221; fostering &#8220;increasing gridlock and divisive partisanship.&#8221; The Democracy Alliance, known for its secretive workings, faces scrutiny for its impact on political polarization and democratic principles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":381,"featured_media":2211502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP23221458426690-1024x683.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2211501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP23221458426690-1024x683.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/381"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2211501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2211502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2211501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2211501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2211501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}