Raleigh, NC — Blueprint North Carolina, a nonprofit organization that claims to be strictly nonpartisan, has apparently developed plans to aggressively undermine newly elected GOP Governor Pat McCrory and other Republican lawmakers to further its agenda.
Blueprint’s blueprint targeting McCrory, House Speaker Thom Tillis, and Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger and perhaps others even includes hiring private eyes to snoop on GOP leaders’ personal lives and following them everywhere with video trackers.
According to a strategy memo from a Blueprint NC-organized meeting leaked to reporters, what it and other groups have in mind for the GOP includes the following, according to the Charlotte Observer :
- Crippling their leaders…
- Eviscerate the leadership and weaken their ability to govern
- Pressure McCrory at every public event
- Slam him when he contradicts his promises
- Private investigators and investigative reporting, especially in the executive branch
According the Observer , the three-page memo and supporting material was forwarded by Blueprint’s communications director to its non-profit allies.
WRAL–TV reports that Democrats have been caught using identical talking points that appeared in the memo.
Blueprint NC, which is tax exempt, receives about 40% of its $1 million budget from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, and that foundation may yank its funding as a result of this memo targeting the GOP. Blueprint NC also receives financial support from George Soros, who contributes large amounts of money to many left-wing organizations.
Blueprint NC executive director Sean Kosofsky claimed it wasn’t his organization’s document, but also said among other things that “I am not going to cherry pick ideas from that draft plan and say which ones we approve of or disapprove of.”
Pat McCrory served seven terms as mayor of Charlotte and worked in the private sector before being elected governor in November 2012. He is the first Republican elected governor of North Carolina since 1988.
Does it surprise you that a self-described nonpartisan organization that claims it is unaffiliated with any political party appears to be coordinating a political strategy with other so-called progressive groups?
[Image credit: Jim Bowen ]
