Re: PB Call to Diggz! EMAILS: GREEN BAY’S ‘HIDDEN’ ELECTION NETWORKS
Taking a look at Vote at Home:
Per Influence Watch,
Stephen Silberstein, a member of the liberal mega-donor group Democracy Alliance, sits on the board of Vote at Home. [17] Silberstein was a top-20 donor to presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s super PAC, Priorities USA Action,[18] and also sits on the board of National Popular Vote, a group which aims to implement a national plurality-at-large election of the President of the United States. [19]
Digging around on Silberstein found a 2015 WaPo article on top HRC donors which mentioned Silberstein as co-founder of "Innovative Interfaces". HRC involvment so there's got to be a shady deal in here somewhere. Off to USAspending.gov. Innovative Interfaces has rec'd $16.5 million in USG contracts and prizes. Innovative Interfaces is also associated with Cambridge Information Group in the spending database.
Silberstein has a Foundation bearing his name: Stephen M. Silberstein Foundation which, according to the IRS 2018 filing, had over $88M in net assets and only two officers/directors. Stephen and Paul Silberstein. In 2018, the Silberstein Foundation donated $300K to Media Matters, $225K to Vote at Home and $1.5M to Univ. California, Berkeley. (pages 28, 29 and 34 of IRS Form-990PF). The Silberstein Foundation bought 2,100 shares of Netflix in September 2018 (page 47).
From the Influence Watch Silberstein specific page, "Silberstein advocates for a direct election of the President of the United States, and sits on the board of National Popular Vote Inc., a 501(c)(4) non-profit corporation which aims to reform the Electoral College in order to elect the candidate who gets the most votes in all 50 states by forming a compact among a sufficient number of states representing a sufficient number of Electoral College votes.[17]"
Very long, thorough article from 2014 (Capital Research): The Silberstein Foundation has donated $3.45 million to the Alliance for Justice (AfJ) since 2010. AfJ’s mission is to promote the appointment and confirmation of liberal judges who practice judicial activism in order to achieve social outcomes, i.e., so-called social justice and equality of results. It also works to block conservative judicial nominees who believe it is possible to discern the original content and principles of the Constitution, who support the Madisonian principle of limited federal government, and who believe in the general principle of justice as equality before the law. The AfJ is best known for assisting in the organized publicity campaign to “bork” Justice Robert Bork’s nomination in 1987…
Influence Watch Vote at Home: https://archive.ph/plaU5
Influence Watch Silbserstein page: https://archive.ph/f5l4C
WaPo on Silberstein 2015*: https://archive.ph/G8q7p
*This article contains good digging info on the 18 top HRC donors. Includes a 'family therapist'
Silbertstein Foundation IRS Form-990PF: https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/cor/911852739_201812_990PF_2020011617041308.pdf
Capital Research Center: https://archive.ph/9R2m1
https://gspp.berkeley.edu/about/leadership/board-of-advisors/steve-silberstein