Reply #33: O'Keefe started out with Morton Blackwell's [View All]

[sabrina 1]

Leadership Institute, which is where he learned how to be a rabble-rouser on college campuses. Karl Rove, Ralph Reed, and other infamous rightwingers are followers of Blackwell also. O'Keefe received funding from them to start a rightwing publican at Rutgers:

http://www.wheresthepaper.org/Salon05_24MyRightWingDegree.htm

The Rutgers Centurion is a conservative monthly that got off the ground this fall with institute help. Rutgers student James O'Keefe founded the magazine after coming across a conservative publication at Tufts. "I said, why don't we have this?" O'Keefe remembers. He taught himself a page-layout program and got in touch with the Leadership Institute, which dispatched a staffer to take him and his coeditors to dinner at an upscale local brewery. The institute gave O'Keefe books on starting a publication, awarded him a $500 "Balance in Media Grant," and suggested never-fail places on campus to ferret out liberal excess. "They were really excited," O'Keefe recalls.

However, Blackwell supposedly doesn't fund him as he's worried that O'Keefe's 'work' mught compromise the LI's tax status.

I think I did read that he was given some funds from someone, but don't remember where I saw that. However, these groups are all connected to each other, so it shouldn't be hard to figure out who's giving him the money.