Obama pays Paul Tewes and Hildebrand of the firm Hildebrand & Tewes to manage his campaign and represent him at the DNC. This is the same firm that MoveOn and its Americans Against Escalation in Iraq pays to run and manage their pro-Democratic anti-war lobby.

Tom Matzzie is MoveOn's and AAEI's long time lobbyists and strategist and dishes out the tens of millions raised and spent to attack John McCain. AAEI has also spun off Campaign to Defend America, an organization founded by Matzzie and MoveOn's co-founder Wes Boyd. Campaign to Defend America has given $50,000 to Campaign Money Watch, a a project of Public Campaign, to run attack ads against McCain because McCain is beholden to lobbyists. And of course the whole game here is to mobilize as much money as possible for TV ads attacking McCain on the economy and war to win the election in November. All the individuals above are party of an even larger network of Democrat-aligned groups that are able to hide who is giving them money while raising and spending millions on attack ads.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Hildebrand_Tewes_Consulting
SW article on Hildebrand & Tewes

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Barack_Obama/campaign_team
SW article on Obama's campaign team, including Hildebrand and Tewes

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Americans_Against_Escalation_in_Iraq
SW article on AAEI, run by Hildebrand and Tewes, funded by MoveOn, etc.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Campaign_to_Defend_America
SW article on Campaign to Defend America, the AAEI spin-off started by Boyd and Matzzie of MoveOn

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tom_Matzzie
SW article on Moveon, AAEI and Campaign to Defend America's Tom Matzzie, the linchpin strategist and bag man for these groups.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Campaign_Money_Watch
SW article on Campaign Money Watch started today, with link to AP article on Campaign to Defend America funding Campaign Money Watch.