State Political Blogs

On March 14-16, the New Organizing Institute hosted 40 lefty bloggers at a “Blogger Summit” in Washington, D.C. As it says, “All expenses will be paid for during the Summit - including , travel, meals and accommodations.” Most of the invitation-only bloggers focus in their states on state-level political blogging.

The co-sponsors of the “Summit” were:

These sponsoring groups are known to have the same donors, the group known as Billionaires for Big Government.

Check out the list of participating bloggers.

Now, here’s the interesting thing. I clicked through to a few of the participating bloggers, Left in the West and Oliver Willis. What I found were two bloggers who blog and blog and blog and blog…but (unless I missed it) didnt say one word about the conference, or their participation in it.

How odd. What’s up with that? Is it that whole “I don’t want people to know I’m part of the VLWC thing”?

A new website, LeftSurge is about helping local and state bloggers build the picture of where the Democracy Alliance (George Soros, Peter Lewis, Tim Gill, etc.) is putting its money at the state level.

Investors Business Daily did a good review article earlier this week about the political projects George Soros is funding:

The Soros Threat to Democracy.

Soros is not, it appears, big on transparency. State-level bloggers can keep up with Soros-funded projects in their state, and compare notes across state lines.

This article from October 2006 says:

State-based donor collectives modeled after the Alliance have started in Washington, California, Ohio, Wisconsin and Colorado.

Have state-based blogs in those states dug in and covered what exactly that looks like in their state? If not, what a great service that would be.