http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=237801By Aaron Klein
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COPENHAGEN, DENMARK - DECEMBER 10: George Soros announces during a press conference a plan to generate additional 100 billion US dollars for climate change relief during the fourth day of the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 on December 10, 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Politicians and environmentalists meet for the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 that runs until December 18. (Photo by Miguel Villagran/Getty Images)
Minnesota Gov.-elect Mark Dayton says he will pay for a recount challenge that he was facing by holding a fundraiser in the home of left-leaning billionaire George Soros.
WND previously reported Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, who was overseeing the recount initiated by Dayton's Republican challenger, is himself backed by Soros. Ritchie received donations from the Soros-funded Secretary of State project.
In addition, Ritchie was listed by the Communist Party USA as an official "friend." He also attended a confidential meeting of the organization, according to the communist party's own correspondence.
That followed WND's earlier report that Ritchie was funded – and apparently continues to be supported – by a "Who's who" of the radical left.
He counts among his campaign donors members of the Democratic Socialists of America, founders of the socialist New Party, members of the Communist Party USA, or CPUSA, and even a former associate of the Weatherman domestic terrorist group founded by Bill Ayers.
Personalities from several Soros-funded think tanks and the terrorist-supporting Code Pink also show up on Ritchie's donor list.
Meanwhile, Dayton is preparing to assume office after Republican challenger Tom Emmer conceded the race on Tuesday as Ritchie was overseeing a recount that questioned some 9,000 ballots.
Last week, Minnesota Public Radio reported Soros will host a fundraiser in his home to help Dayton cover the costs of the recount challenge. The fundraiser will be headlined by Bill Clinton. It is unclear whether the fundraiser will proceed now that Emmer conceded.
Two weeks ago, WND reported evidence has emerged Ritchie attended a high-level confidential meeting of the Communist Party.
The KeyWiki website posted confidential correspondence by Tim Wheeler, the national political correspondent of the CPUSA's newspaper, People's World.
The documents, labeled "Not for publication" were official summaries of a CPUSA "farm meeting" in Minneapolis on Dec. 5, 1999.
Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) attends a reception honoring Jewish-American Heritage Month in the East Room of the White House in Washington on May 27, 2010. UPI/Alexis C. Glenn Photo via Newscom
It was Ritchie who watched over the 2008 senatorial race recount in which the incumbent Republican led following the vote count, but the seat was given to ex-comedian Al Franken after a recount that later was revealed to have included hundreds of probably illegal votes. A long list of court cases over fraudulent voting has resulted because of that election.
Related the CPUSA document: "Mark Ritchie, a non-party friend, executive director of the Minneapolis-based Institute on Trade and Agricultural Policy, had chaired the farm-agriculture rally of over 5,000 people in Seattle. He opened our meeting with a report on Seattle and gave us an in-depth analysis of the current farm crisis. He spent the entire morning session with us."
The document went on to summarize Ritchie's address to the closed-door Communist Party meeting.
"His main points: The powerful new coalition in Seattle based on farmers-labor-environmental-religious and other human rights organizations 'stopped the WTO. It was a tremendous victory,'" the report said.
At the time, Ritchie was one of the main leaders of controversial mass riots against the World Trade Organization's Ministerial Conference of 1999, which was to be the launch of a new millennial round of global trade negotiations. Some reports claimed rioters used violence against police.
Meanwhile, a review of donors to Ritchie's 2006 and 2010 campaigns found a shocking list of radicals that reads like a "Who's who" of the far-left world. And he was a beneficiary of the George Soros-funded Secretary of State project.
"We helped re-elect Mark Ritchie in Minnesota," declares the project about Ritchie's 2010 race.
His 2006 donor list, reviewed by both WND and the New Zeal blog, includes:
* Barbara Baran, a member of Democratic Socialists of America.
* Harriet Barlow, a founder of the socialist New Party. WND previously reported on evidence suggesting President Obama was a New Party member in the 1990s.
* Jeff Blum, a former supporter of the Weathermen domestic terrorist group.
* Heather Booth, a founder of the Midwest Academy, which has trained thousands of "community activists" in the tactics of radical organizer Saul Alinsky. WND previously reported the executive director of Booth's group was part of the team that developed and delivered a group of volunteers for President Obama's 2008 campaign.
* Paul Booth, a member of Democratic Socialists of America.
* Cynthia Brown, a vice president for education policy at the Soros-funded Center for American Progress.
* Dan Cantor, a co-founder of the socialist New Party, now leader of New York's ACORN and the socialist and communist-dominated Working Families Party.
* Dan Carol, a member of the Soros-funded Tides Center board, also a founder of the Apollo Alliance, which is led by a slew of radicals, including former Weatherman terrorist Jeff Jones and Obama's former "green jobs" adviser and avowed communist Van Jones.
* Doris Marquit, a veteran leader of the Minnesota Communist Party USA.
* Erwin Marquit, a veteran leader of the Minnesota Communist Party USA, whose wife is Doris Marquit.
* And Max Palevsky, a former trustee of the Marxist-oriented, Soros-funded Institute for Policy Studies.
Radicals who supported Ritchie's 2010 campaign included:
* Jodie Evans, leader of the radical "Code Pink," which has sided with the Taliban and Saddam Hussein and has led marches in support of Hamas in Gaza. She is also a member of board of trustees of the Marxist-oriented, Soros-funded Institute for Policy Studies.
* Margery Tabankin, an Alinsky-trained former member of the radical Students for a Democratic Society from which the Weatherman terrorist group splintered.
* Patricia Bauman, a member of the Soros-funded, pro-Palestinian J Street Advisory Council.
* And Martin Bunzl, a member of the J Street Advisory Council.
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