“Grass Roots Outgrown”

Eliza Newlin Carney for CQ Weekly (behind paywall):

Organizing for Action, President Barack Obama ’s advocacy group, is on the spot as liberal activists denounce his plan to trim Social Security benefits. Progressive leaders are already deeply divided over the group, with some hailing Organizing for Action — the tax-exempt successor to the campaign operation Organizing for America — as a welcome new ally, and others calling for it to shut down. Obama’s budget proposal to give Social Security recipients smaller cost-of-living increases based on what’s known as the chained consumer price index puts OFA on a collision course with many of its own grass-roots volunteers.

 

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