It looks like a number of left wing organizations is gong to be short on cash this year to include the anti-war crowd:

The American Civil Liberties Union has lost a quarter of its yearly donations after a major donor cut off $19 million in annual donations because of economic difficulties.

David Gelbaum, a wealthy California conservationist, said he was indefinitely stopping the donations that had made him the New York-based group’s largest anonymous donor.

“For a number of years, your organization has received very substantial charitable contributions from me,” Gelbaum said in a statement. “My investments in alternative, clean energy companies have placed me in a highly illiquid position as a result of the general credit crisis in the American and world financial systems.”

Gelbaum also announced he was halting some $12 million in yearly gifts to the Sierra Club Foundation and about $50 million a year that he’s been giving to an organization serving veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Gelbaum has given a total of $389 million to the groups from 2005 to 2009.

The New York Times named Gelbaum in a story published in the newspaper Wednesday. Gelbaum had previously funded those organizations anonymously.  [Fox News]

Read the rest, but I just though it was ironic that this left wing donor lost a bunch of his money due to investments in the clean energy sector.  I hope I read about Al Gore going illiquid in the near future as well.

The veteran organization that lost $50 million donations is speculated to be either IAVA or Vote Vets.  I personally hope it is VoteVets that took the hit because I can’t stand this fraudulent veterans group.

For those that don’t know VoteVets is not really a veterans group.  It is a really a liberal advocacy group that claims to speak for the military. The VoteVets.org site, just like the Amnesty International fraud Appeal for Redress group was formed before the 2006 Congressional elections. This site was backed by former Democratic Presidential Candidate General Wesley Clark and the group of retired generals that made headlines before the 2006 Congressional elections by running ads funded by the site speaking out against former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld as well as a change in strategy in Iraq by sending in more troops.

Interestingly enough even though Rumsfeld had been removed and the new surge strategy in Iraq brought an increase in troops there, VoteVets was still not satisfied.  Instead of this group recognizing the changes it had advocated for, it instead become an anti-war organization calling for the removal of US troops in Iraq. Since then none of the retired generals has been heard from, but the person we have continued to hear a lot from (for no good reasons) is VoteVets President Jon Soltz who was one of the people willfully fooled by fraud veteran Rick Strandlof.  Incredibly the media still calls this group a grassroots movement despite its George Soros connections.

IAVA is also another left wing veteran group that pissed me off when they released a score card before last year’s Presidential election claiming Obama was better for veterans than McCain.  What they failed to disclose was that IAVA’s co-founder Phil Carter was the Barack Obama campaign veterans advisor.  After the election he was awarded a job at the Pentagon which he ultimately was removed from.

The big thing I am wondering is what were these people doing with that $50 million a year in funding?  These groups do next to nothing for the troops and basically exist to promote themselves and their left wing causes.  Imagine what the Fisher House or Soldiers Angels could do with a $50 million dollar donation to help the troops?