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Nearly two months ago, I hosted Michael Giuliani and Michael Brady at our weekly Conservative Bloggers’ Briefing. They had big ambitions for their brand-new Majority Accountability Project and weren’t afraid to talk about their lofty goals.
Based on their early returns, they shouldn’t be underestimated. In just two months, the Majority Accountability Project has forced Democrats to make changes big and small. Giuliani and Brady’s latest triumph came last week when freshman Rep. Jerry McNerney (D.-Calif.) called for the ouster of the head of the freshmen class’ fundraising committee. The investigative report about lobbyist William Oldaker broke on MajorityAP.com and was subsequently picked up by the Washington Times (here and here).
Other successes include forcing the House Democrat Caucus to change its website after MajorityAP.com exposed that Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D.-Ill.) couldn’t find a single issue to feature in the “Democratic Agenda” section. MajorityAP.com was also responsible for the Democratic Freshmen PAC’s having to remove all official House photographs. Three Democrat freshmen — Reps. Jerry McNerney (Calif.), Tim Walz (Minn.) and Joe Sestak (Pa.) — also changed their House websites after MajorityAP.com caught them using taxpayer resources for their campaigns.
Not bad work for a couple former House staffers who aspire to break news on par with the regularity of veteran Washington journalists.