KARENNA GORE SCHIFF: Get Out, Mr. Nader - You're only fueling defeatism--and you defeated my father

Wall Street Journal ^ | February 28, 2004 | KARENNA GORE SCHIFF

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Watching Ralph Nader declare his candidacy was like having a terrible flashback. Oh no--not this again! I'm not saying we should muzzle independent voices or rule out third parties. Mr. Nader has a right to run for president. And I have a right to say, What an awful idea.

[NYCVirago]

Ralph Nader's main message is a cynical one, more about tearing down than building up.

Ralph Nader, like him or not, has influenced this country throughout his career much more than Al Gore ever has. What exactly has Al Gore "built up" -- his resume?

[kcvl]

The press fawning over these people make me sick. It is just like them telling us how "SMART" Hillary Rodham Clinton was. We all found out that was a lie. Karenna is a ditz just like her mother and as dumb as her father. Watch out, the little witch has "politician" in her blood.

[kcvl]

Karenna Gore Schiff with father Al Gore: “Sometime in my life, I might want to run for elective office.”


http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:BPyjVsZjpakJ:www.hillnews.com/news/042303/goreschiff.aspx+Karenna+Gore+Schiff+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

[Just mythoughts]

"Perseus-Soros BioPharmaceutical"

Is this the SOROS?

[Cincinatus' Wife]

At a glance, the Schiffs are absurdly accomplished.

Ah the self-satifying grandeur of being elite.

Too funny.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

“Sometime in my life, I might want to run for elective office.”

I never would have guessed.

[onyx]

Isn't Karenna Schiff the great granddaughter of Jacob Schiff, the New York banker who gave $20 million to Leon Trotsky and Vladimir Lenin to fund the Russian revolution?

Dang, you're GOOD. Same guy.

[kcvl]

Guess what? Karenna's husband is now a physician-turned-biotech venture capitalist for a fund backed by financier George Soros!!!




“I’ll do whatever I can to help people with strong, progressive voices,” she said. “In terms of sheer volume, the right wing has really outshouted everybody right now. … I want to change that.”

If she wanted to run for Congress or New York City Council, she would have access top-notch strategists: Donna Brazile, who managed her father’s campaign, said Gore Schiff is the brightest, most capable young woman Brazile has ever met.

Rep. Harold Ford (D-Tenn.), who said that he does not remember not knowing Karenna, agreed that she could be a political force. “She’s strong willed and tough … more like her [paternal] grandmother,” he said. Pauline Gore was the first woman to graduate from Vanderbilt Law School in Nashville.

“She not only has a great political sense, but a real fighter’s instinct. Whenever there was a question of whether Gore should take a strong stand, or hit back, Karenna was always pushing her dad to go for it,” said Claire Shipman, who covered Gore during the 2000 campaign.

Then there are her father’s former political advisers, Carter Eskew and Mike Feldman at the Glover Park Group, who can be relied on for advice.

If politics is kept at arm’s length for now it is mainly because New York is a more varied town than Washington.

Her husband, Andrew “Drew” Schiff, is a physician-turned-biotech venture capitalist for a fund backed by financier George Soros. Their relative affluence allows them to live on the city’s Upper East Side, while his job gives her an entrée into the world of high finance.

In New York, Gore Schiff seems to have assembled the ingredients for a political career: a passion for issues, family, wealth, an avenue to broadcast her views in Glamour magazine, a $200,000 advance from Miramax Books for a book on unsung American heroines.

Cindi Leive, editor in chief of the magazine, hosted a party on Gore Schiff’s behalf at the Upper East Side restaurant Jo Jo for an article Gore Schiff wrote in the magazine’s November issue on child-care dilemmas facing working mothers.

In 2001, Gore Schiff wrote a Glamour article criticizing the Bush administration, which led to accusations on conservative websites that she talked down to her audience and proposed government-only solutions to vexing social problems — much like the attacks on her father.

Leive told The Hill that “I think she speaks with great authority about what it is like to be a young mother and a politically concerned young woman today” and that Gore Schiff would definitely write again.

For now, Gore Schiff said, she is focused on persuading her son to eat more than chocolate ice cream and only the pepperoni from pizza.

Until November, she had been working part time as a first-year associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, a prominent New York City law firm. “It just wasn’t for me,” she said, referring to the culture of a big law firm where face time counts as much as billable hours.

She is now working for the Association to Benefit Children (ABC), a nonprofit group with a $13 million annual budget.

[Mo1]

Guess what? Karenna's husband is now a physician-turned-biotech venture capitalist for a fund backed by financier George Soros!!!

Well ain't that just special

Hey Shermy .. check out post #48

[onyx]

Thanks Mo.

Hey Liz, GD, PKM, M2C --- check out post #48

[goldstategop]

I can think of a lot of rejoinders to Karenna's attack on Ralph Nader but the one that's really effective is to point out her father didn't win his own home state. If he had, he would be President today. She should ask him instead of blaming Nader for helping to defeat her father. No, her father did a good job of doing himself in. It was an election he should have won in a cakewalk.

[kcvl]

INSIDE WALL STREET
By Gene G. Marcial

MARCH 8, 2004

What George Soros Sees In Valentis

You might call biotech Valentis (VLTS ) a late bloomer. On Dec. 29, it traded at 2.49 but by Feb. 25 had jumped to 5.72. What happened? George Soros, through his Perseus-Soros BioPharmaceutical Fund, bought more shares in a private deal, upping his stake to 20%. Valentis' lead product, Deltavasc, is a novel angiogenesis -- that is, it's designed to grow new blood vessels in patients suffering from arterial disease.

Dennis Purcell, managing director at Perseus-Soros Fund, says Soros wants to help biotechs with good products complete their clinical trials. Initial results from Valentis' Phase 2 trials, which test for safety, look promising, Purcell says. This should enhance prospects for Phase 3, which tests for efficacy in larger samples. While the clinical test was meant to show Deltavasc's safety, there was evidence of efficacy, too, in certain doses, says Valentis CEO Benjamin McGraw III. Valentis has yet to make money. "We are fighting the big guys, such as France's Aventis (AVE ) and Japan's Daiichi Pharmaceutical [in developing blood-vessel products]," says McGraw.

Note: Unless otherwise noted, neither the sources cited in Inside Wall Street nor their firms hold positions in the stocks under discussion. Similarly, they have no investment banking or other financial relationships with them.


See Gene on Fridays at 1:20 p.m. EST on CNNfn's The Money Gang.

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Dr. Drew Schiff, Associate, Perseus-Soros Biopharmaceutical Fund

Andrew N. Schiff is an Associate of the Perseus-Soros Biopharmaceutical Fund. Over the last ten years, Dr. Schiff has practiced internal medicine at The New York Presbyterian Hospital where he serves as an Assistant Professor of Medicine. He has also been a partner of a family-run investment fund, Kuhn, Loeb & Co., and a consultant for Northwood Ventures, a Long Island, New York based venture group. In these capacities, he has been responsible for identifying investment opportunities and raising additional financing for portfolio companies. Dr. Schiff serves as director of Adams Laboratories. Dr. Schiff is a member of the Board of Directors of the Deerfield Academy and the Henry Street Settlement of New York. He is also a member of the Board of Overseers of the Brown University School of Medicine. Dr. Schiff has a B.S. in neuroscience, awarded with honors, from Brown University, a M.D. from Cornell University Medical College and an M.B.A. from Columbia University.

[Just mythoughts]

Thanks, sure caught my eye hidden in that first article.

So this bunch doesn't really care who gets elected, it is just about getting rid of President Bush.

This sure puts hillry out there on her own.

[Lion in Winter]

YES!! That whole left-wing crowd with money ALL RUN IN THE SAME PACK!

[DentsRun]

Would you give me the names of "history" books that record this?

I got this off the Internet last year and saved it on my hard drive. It's a chapter from a book on the "Origins of Communism." The information I posted can be found at:

http://user.pa.net/~drivera/fw7.htm

It's a long selection so search for Schiff or Trotsky or something to take you to the right place.

[kcvl]

Andrew N Schiff, M.D.

Director at
Myogen, Inc.
Westminster, Colorado
HEALTHCARE / BIOTECHNOLOGY & DRUGS
Director since December 2001

38 years old
Columbia University Master of Business Administration
Cornell University Doctor of Medicine

Dr. Schiff has served as a Director since December 2001. Dr. Schiff joined Perseus-Soros Biopharmaceutical Fund, L.P., a venture capital firm, in September 1999 and currently serves as Managing Director. Since June 1990, Dr. Schiff has practiced internal medicine at The New York Presbyterian Hospital where he is an Assistant Professor of Medicine. Dr. Schiff is a director of Bioenvision, Inc. and Zanett, Inc. Dr. Schiff received his M.D. from Cornell University Medical College and his M.B.A. from Columbia University.

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[Monty22]

"I don't recall Karenna saying the same thing to H. Ross Perot in 1992"

Where was the perot bashing? I seemed to have TOTALLY missed it. Odd, that..

[Cincinatus' Wife]

But, but, we need to get money out of politics....

[Cincinatus' Wife]

I can think of a lot of rejoinders to Karenna's attack on Ralph Nader but the one that's really effective is to point out her father didn't win his own home state.

Bump!

[Blue_Ridge_Mtn_Geek]

"I don't recall Karenna saying the same thing to H. Ross Perot in 1992"

Where was the perot bashing? I seemed to have TOTALLY missed it. Odd, that..

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That could be because in 1992, she would have been about 18 years old, and possibly had other things on her mind. Plus, who would care what some 18 year old kid had to say about the propriety of running for office?