The 'Offended' 911 Group “Peaceful Tomorrows” is funded largely by Teresa Heinz

various sources, mostly Tom Randall of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | 3/5/04

[dead]

“Peaceful Tomorrows” is being portrayed as an independent group of relatives of victims of the 911 attacks. They are getting a lot of press claiming to be outraged over the new Bush ads.

Call me insensitive if you like, but I wonder if this outrage could possibly be a tad overblown, and more likely attributable to the millions and millions of dollars this group has received from endowments chaired by Teresa Heinz, wife of Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry.

According to their own contribution page, “Peaceful Tomorrows is a project of the Tides Center, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.”

According to an article in the Pittsburgh Review, “Between 1995 and 2001, $4.3 million of that money came from the Howard Heinz Endowment. In 2002, it and the Vira Heinz Endowment blessed The Tides Center, a San Francisco spin-off of the Tides Foundation, with another $190,000 while the two endowments gave $1.6 million to the new Tides Center for Western Pennsylvania.” (The Heinz Endowments have teamed up with a secretive left-wing group)

The money that flows into The Tides also flows out. They have given grants totaling $489,000 to the Iraq Peace Fund, who used that money to fund the anti-war marches and media costs of 27 groups, including MoveOn.org, whose purpose is to defeat George W. Bush.

Other Tides Center projects include The Youth Gender Project, which seeks to "empower and support transgender, gender-variant, intersexed and gender-questioning youth and young adults."

They also shoveled $200,000 towards The Ruckus Society - founded in 1995 to train activists in violent protest against biotechnology, globalization and the World Bank. It incited property destruction in the Seattle riots of 1999 and Washington, D.C., the following year.

Now, if you really want to get mad, you should also know that $8,000,000 in taxpayer money flowed into the Tides Center in the form of federal grants made by eight different agencies between 1997 and 2001.

[Smartass]

Kerry hasn't quit spinning since 1971.

[nutmeg]

Wow, excellent work, dead! I haven't heard anything on the lamestream media about this...YET

[nutmeg]

MAJOR ping!

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[Coleus]

Teresa Heinz Kerry, Drummond Pike and the Communist TIDES FOUNDATION
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1091129/posts

[nutmeg]

ping!

[Diddle E. Squat]

Good job

[SuziQ]

Why am I NOT surprised?

[SuziQ]

This is really BIG, this needs to be sent to all media outlets

The basic info, that Mrs. Heinz-Kerry's group is funding these people who are all over the media, should be included in Letters to the Editor in papers all over this nation!

[Libertina]

My my my! Now isn't this interesting...

[freebilly]

Having worked with Teresa for almost 13 years, and her late husband John Heinz for three years prior to that, I can attest to Teresa’s integrity and professionalism. She is a gifted and caring person who uses her philanthropy to develop pragmatic solutions to some of the most difficult problems of our time. That’s what drives her, a genuine passion to make the world a better and safer place—an impulse that eludes the understanding of her critics.

Jeffrey R. Lewis

Take it from me, John Lewis, Mother Teresa would never do the illegal things she's done....

[freebilly]

Maybe legal, but certainly unethical....

[Jimbaugh]

good story

[SunkenCiv]

This could go on the "not too @#$%^&*! surprising" list, if there were one. ;')

[SunkenCiv]

:'o

[Mia T]

thx!

It is candidate heinz.. er...kerry and the rest of the dems who are politicizing 9/11 and the war on terror even as they accuse Bush of doing so in an attempt to maginalize Bush's amazing accomplishments fighting terror.

Heinz..er..Kerry is trying to obscure the plain fact that he and the rest of the Ds are national-security utter failures.

Heinz..er..Kerry is utterly despicable. The plodding senator will do anything to win the White House (or line his pockets--the cadaverous gigolo).

We must expose him.

[backhoe]

FYI, just posted this:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1091961/posts
The Prince of Tides- Bush ads, Kerry ads, the Tides Foundation, and so much more...
various FR links | 03-06-04 | The Heavy Equipment Guy

[MeekOneGOP]

[leadpenny]

Heinz..er..Kerry is utterly despicable. The plodding senator will do anything to win the White House

Now that f'n Kerry is locked into the nomination, there is, of course, another senator who is even more despicable. What I can't get out of my head is that Hillary! is behind these and other revelations. She will keep him in the race, and at the same time, ensure that he loses.

Hard to believe but, "The enemy of our enemy is our friend."

[savedbygrace]

Who is he and what would you suggest I write?

[savedbygrace]

For the record, I posted #90 for your information only, not because I was buying it.