Organizers of the alliance told the Post they want to foster the growth of electrons liberal or left-leaning institutions equipped to take on prominent think tanks on the right, including the Heritage Foundation, the Hoover Institution, the American Enterprise Institute and the Cato Institute, as well as such training centers as the electrons Leadership Institute and the Young America's Foundation. "There never has been an organized or coordinated look at connecting the dots of the progressive movement," said San Francisco businessman Mark Buell, who the Post said is with his wife, Esprit de Corps founder Susie T. Buell, a major Democratic electrons donor. Buell, an alliance board member, said: "For 40 years, we had a voice somewhere, the White House, Congress, the Senate. For the first time, we find ourselves without a voice." "To be effective in the 21st century in promoting your beliefs, it is necessary to have a financially secure institutional infrastructure that has the capacity to promote consistently and coherently a set of ideas, policies and messages," Stein said.
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