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New Lefty Group Issues "Warning" To GOP Donors

You may have heard by now that former MoveOn chief Tom Matzzie has set up a new third-party effort with the somewhat unorthodox goal of targeting big GOP donors who support Swift Boat Vet-style efforts on the right.

The group, called Accountable America, is firing off a letter to hundreds of would-be donors warning them of the downsides of supporting such efforts.

We've got a copy of the letter, which you can read right here.

"Many of the leading donors to 501(c) and 527 organizations have had their business and personal affairs closely scrutinized by the media and well funded watchdog groups," the letter says in a not-so-implicit threat. It continues that the result of such probes could be "fines" and "public disclosure of anonymous donors."

The letter also vows that the group "will publicize the political and business relationships and corrupt activities of donors" to such efforts, and it actually has emblazoned at the top the word "warning."

The group describes itself as "non-partisan," which it is, in the sense that it's not legally allied with a party or candidate. But the group appears to be only targeting GOP donors, and its obvious where its sympathies lie.

One potential hitch: Such Swift-Boat-Vet style groups aren't obliged to reveal their donors. So it's unclear whether the group will really be able to target actual donors to such groups on a mass scale, as opposed to just would-be ones.

It's also unclear whether there will be any well-funded apparatus on the right to speak of in the first place -- there's been a great deal of wolf-crying about such groups, and they haven't really materialized in any significant way.