Trey’s Radical Left-Wing Associations

Accuracy in Media notes:

“Aspen (Institute) is one vehicle whereby left-wing billionaires like George Soros work to influence politicians on Capitol Hill by bringing them to luxurious places, hotels and resorts, and listening to mostly liberal and left-wing speakers.”  Read More

Trey Grayson received a fellowship from the left-wing Aspen Institute, which is largely funded by George Soros. The institute emphasizes a commitment to “bipartisanship,” so Grayson’s receiving of this award was not surprising considering his support for the candidacy of Bill Clinton.

Further demonstrating the leftist viewpoints of this institute, Aspen has also rewarded Anthony Van Jones for his work in the “green movement.” Van Jones was the former Green Jobs Czar for the Obama administration who was forced to resign after the media discovered his radical ideologies. He is a self-avowed communist who has ties to Marxism and black nationalism. Check out this clip from “Fox and Friends” (select transcript below).

BRIAN KILMEADE, co-host, “Fox and Friends”: Phil, we have a czar, he’s a green jobs czar, he’s Van Jones, he’s got a deep history in communism.

PHIL KERPEN, AFP Policy Director: He does. He has a very checkered past. This is somebody who was involved in radical politics out in San Francisco, California. He was arrested during a demonstration/riot following the Rodney King verdict. And he said himself that he was radicalized in jail, that he found communism and anarchism. And then he started a pretty radical, kind of communist, socialist, utopian group that was supposed to end all racism though central planning. And then he decided that the real path the sort of progressive nirvana, was the this green jobs idea.  I think its pretty instructive what his past is, I am not just trying to smear the guy, but I think it’s the same sort of philosophy, the idea that government ought to be reordering society in accordance with some utopian vision that failed with communism and socialism, and will fail with this green jobs idea. We are imposing a top-down vision.

GRETCHEN CARLSON, co-host: And more importantly for America Phil, is the fact that we already have an Energy Secretary, who by the way had to go through Congress to be approved. And the reason that these czars, you don’t know anything about them, is because they don’t have to go through that process. [Read more]

This is not the first time Trey has been associated with Van Jones and radical left-wing organizations, as outlined in Trey’s Environmentalist Ties. It is troubling that any Senate Candidate would maintain such associations.

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