Posted on 10/10/2005 7:26:23 AM PDT by Conservative Coulter Fan
On Feb. 20, 1999, while Harriet Miers was managing the law firm of Locke Liddell from the firm's Dallas office, she contributed $415 to the law firm's political action committee. Federal Election Commission reports show that on May 19, 2000, Locke Liddell's PAC contributed $1,000 to Hillary Rodham Clinton's Senate Campaign Committee. For an unexplained reason, Harriet Miers listed herself as a "self-employed attorney," according to the FEC Report on her 1999 contribution to the Locke Liddell PAC.
FEC records also show a $500 contribution on Feb. 15, 2000 by the Locke Liddell PAC to Democrat Nicholas Lampson, who ran unsuccessfully against Tom DeLay.
Locke Liddell's contributions also reached out to out-of-state Democratic congressmen. According to FEC records, on July 27, 2000, the Locke Liddell PAC contributed $1,000 to Richard Gephardt's congressional re-election campaign in Missouri. Locke Liddell also supported Democrats in Louisiana, contributing $1,000 to Mary Landrieu, on Dec. 4, 2004, and $1,000 to the campaign of Louisana Congressman William Jennings Jefferson on June 6,2008.
Locke Liddell's PAC contributed to the re-election campaign of Houston Democratic Congressman Kenneth Edward Bentsen Jr., nephew of Congressman Lloyd Bentsen. The law firm also supported the congressional campaigns of Texas Democrats Lloyd Doggett, Chet Edwards, Martin Frost, Sheila Jackson Lee, and Max Sandlin. In 2000, three separate contributions were made to the campaign of Texas Democrat Regina Montoya Coggins, who ran unsuccessfully against Congressman Pete Sessions – the records also reflect two contributions to Pete Sessions in 2000.
Of the 24 candidates supported by Locke Liddell's PAC in the years 1999-2000, a majority of 14 were to Democrats. These were years in which Harriet Miers was co-managing partner of the law firm.
Harriet Miers has already indicated that she switched from Democrat to Republican, suggesting she voted for Ronald Reagan, despite making campaign contributions to Al Gore and Bill Clinton in the 1990s. Until now, there had been no discussion that Harriet Miers' campaign contributions had also ended up supporting Hillary Clinton, as well as opposing the re-elections of Majority Leader Tom Delay and Republican Texas Congressman Pete Sessions.
The records came to light over the weekend, in an FEC response to a request by the Republican Study Committee to see Harriet Miers' campaign contributions, dating back to 1980. Searching the FEC records for the contributions made by Locke Liddell's PAC brought to light the 2000 contribution to Hillary Clinton's campaign and the contributions made to oppose the re-election of Majority Leader Tom DeLay.
The Republican Study Committee is a group of over 100 conservative House Republicans, chaired by Representative Mike Pence of Indiana.
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I didn't see that on Newsmeat.com!
All I saw was that sometime after 1988 she started giving to only Republicans.
The title is a little misleading. She gave to a PAC that then gives money to both sides just to hedge their position. It's the reason I won't give to my companies PAC (although it's frowned on for not doing it).
which could be used for some interesting senatorial questions. let the process play out.
This was already posted and discredited.
several times
Was this a "company" donation? Was there also a donation to the GOP candidate?
Repeat Repeat Repeat.........already discredited
The title is a bald faced lie. This Miers bashing has gone far beyond disgusting.
"She gave to a PAC that then gives money to both sides just to hedge their position"
Good point. I'm a part of an licensed organization whose board of directors gave money for a county initiative. I didn't give any money, nor did probably 80% of the members. But however, it was reported locally that the organization fully supported it becasue the board voted to do it. Not because members voted on it. Same with certain PACS. Contributing members have little control.
Link or URL to that discrediting, please.
There is just a bit too much and too recent "Democrat smoke" floating around Ms. Miers political track record for me to have a high comfort zone that she will be a "reliable conservative" in the mode of Scalia and Thomas.
The sad part is that the wholly unreliable and irresponsible WND is the only one even trying to find information about this nominee.
This has already been discredited several times.
She gave to a company PAC which did what most company PACs do, which is contribute to several candidates on both sides.
It wasn't a personal contribution and considering she was GW Bush's personal lawyer at the time, I seriously doubt she would have done this personally.
World Net Daily is NOT exactly a reliable source and is kinda tabloid.
Then it's accurate, not discredited, if you get past the sensational headline and read what actually took place.
Let's start looking into the background of those in the media who discredit Miers.
I suspect it could be an intricate campaign to impune her, by the democrats.
Just suppose that Ann Coulter, or Michelle Malkin, or Michael Savage were long-time democrat media plants. Think of the damage they could inflict within the Republican Party. They might just be stirring dissatifaction with the President on Purpose.
I saw the article posted last night. Just search for it.
WorldNutDaily is being intentionally misleading with this title. If you're uneasy about her because you don't know her, fine - but please don't fall for this sort of "journalism".
Companies donate to political campaigns all the time, often to both sides, to cover all their bases. That cannot fairly be interpreted as HM personally making a donation to Hillary Clinton's campaign.
The truth is, if you look up any big-wig for a national company you'll see that they often give to both candidates in a race...Lazio and Hillary, or Bush and Gore, or Bush and Kerry...unfortunately when you give to a company PAC that's what you get.
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