Did College Republicans get funding from Rev. Moon at one time?

[madfloridian]

I posted this article the other day because of Parry's brilliant essay on Bush's Managed Democracy. It dropped pretty quickly.

Since the College Republicans have become so vocal lately, I remembered this part from the article. I also found an essay with more on this from Arianna Huffington.

The College Republicans are on guard to sue professors who don't toe the line on their view of conversatism. Professors often run scared of them in some areas.

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2005/021205.html
SNIP..."In the 1980s, Norquist was a leader of the College Republicans when they were getting subsidies from the secretive fortune of Sun Myung Moon, a South Korean theocrat whose organization has a long track record of illicit money-laundering. Moon was pumping tens of millions of dollars into American conservative organizations and into the right-wing Washington Times.

Some Republicans raised red flags, citing Moon’s history of brainwashing his disciples and his contempt for American democracy and individuality. In 1983, the GOP’s moderate Ripon Society charged that the New Right had entered “an alliance of expediency” with Moon’s church.

Ripon’s chairman, Rep. Jim Leach of Iowa, released a study which alleged that the College Republican National Committee “solicited and received” money from Moon’s Unification Church in 1981. The study also accused Reed Irvine’s Accuracy in Media of benefiting from low-cost or volunteer workers supplied by Moon.

Leach said the Unification Church has “infiltrated the New Right and the party it wants to control, the Republican Party, and infiltrated the media as well.” Leach’s news conference was disrupted when then-college GOP leader Grover Norquist accused Leach of lying...."

And from Arianna:
http://www.ariannaonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14263

SNIP..."Another early Moon defender was Grover Norquist, who interrupted a 1983 press conference by the moderate Republican Ripon Society as it was warning that the New Right had entered into “an alliance of expediency” with Moon’s organization. Ripon’s chairman, Rep. Jim Leach of Iowa, had released a study which alleged that the College Republican National Committee “solicited and received” money from Moon’s UnificationChurch in 1981. The study also accused Reed Irvine’s Accuracy in Media of benefiting from low-cost or volunteer workers supplied by Moon.

Leach said the UnificationChurch has “infiltrated the New Right and the party it wants to control, the Republican Party, and infiltrated the media as well.” Then-college GOP leader Norquist disrupted Ripon’s news conference with accusations that Leach was lying. (Norquist is now a prominent conservative leader in Washington with close ties to the highest levels of George W. Bush’s administration.)..."END SNIP

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1. A lot of the New Right has had ties with Moon

Terry Dolan was part of the earlier College Republican generation -- from the same period as Morton Blackwell and Karl Rove and Lee Atwater.

http://www.consortiumnews.com/Print/2004/101504.html

The Right's "defend Moon campaign" dated back to the late 1970s when an investigation by a House subcommittee headed by Rep. Fraser, a Minnesota Democrat, discovered that Moon had participated in the "Koreagate" influence-buying scheme. ... In pro-Moon publications, Fraser and his staff were pilloried as leftists. Anti-Moon witnesses were assailed as unstable liars. Minor bookkeeping problems inside Fraser's investigation, such as Fraser's salary advances to some staff members, prompted letters demanding an ethics probe of the congressman.

One of those letters, dated June 30, 1978, was written by John T. "Terry" Dolan of the National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC). At the time, Dolan's group was pioneering the strategy of "independent" TV attack ads. In turn, Moon's CAUSA International helped Dolan by contributing $500,000 to another Dolan group, known as the Conservative Alliance or CALL.

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2. Jack Abramoff may link to Moon through the Heritage Foundation

Abramoff was in the College Republicans in the early 80's, along with Norquist and Ralph Reed. In 1984-85, he served as executive director of Citizens for America, a pro-Reagan lobbying group headquartered at the Heritage Foundation. The Heritage Foundation, in turn, has been receiving Moon money for decades (most of it technically coming from the Korean government), starting in the early 80's.

Especially between the late 70's and the late 80's, Moon's presence was everywhere on the right. Since then, he seems to have pulled away from the New Right somewhat and to be using other channels of influence.

[madfloridian]

3. Also how does Daniel Pipes fit into this...with his Campus Watch.

http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/733
This seems to concentrate on mideast studies.

SNIP..."And here is an article about this group at The Nation from 2002.
"The year since Congress passed the USA Patriot Act has brought an ever-growing enemies list from our nation's thought police. First there was Senator Joseph Lieberman and Lynne Cheney's American Council of Trustees and Alumni report unveiled last November--"Defending Civilization: How Our Universities Are Failing America and What Can Be Done About It." The forty-three-page document purports to advocate the preservation of academic freedom and dissent while being all about suppressing both when the views expressed conflict with blind support for US foreign policy.

In attempting to smear dozens of "unpatriotic" professors, the organization laid the foundation for the Middle East Forum's recent blacklisting project, Campus Watch--a website that hopes to do for students and professors what Project TIPS would have done for mail carriers and plumbers." END SNIP

I am getting concerned about all this. A bill was introduced in Florida to stifle professors, and the legislator was influenced by David Horowitz. This makes me very interested in connections among these groups.

I am going to post that bill as a separate post because it infuriates me so.