Heinz Foundation Bankrolled Group Protesting Bush 9/11 Ads [FR Mentioned]

NewsMax ^ | 3/6/04 | Limbacher

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

The group Peaceful Tomorrows, which bills itself as an independent group of 9/11 victim families and whose members have led the charge to force the Bush reelection campaign to yank ads citing the Twin Tower attacks, has direct financial ties to the Heinz Foundation, the charitable trust administered by the wife of likely Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry.

On its Web site, Peaceful Tomorrows identifies itself as "a project of the Tides Center, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization."

A Dec. 2003 report in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review detailed the financial relationship between the Tides Center and the charitable foundation controlled by Mrs. Heinz Kerry:

"Known as the Tides Center for Pennsylvania, formerly the Tides Center for Western Pennsylvania, it is a creation of the Tides Foundation and Center, headquartered in San Francisco, and two Pennsylvania-based foundations -- the Vira Heinz Endowment and the Howard Heinz Endowment-- chaired by Teresa Heinz Kerry."

According to the Tribune-Review, Mrs. Heinz Kerry funneled millions of dollars into the parent group of Peaceful Tomorrows:

"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 paper revealed.

Though the Tribune-Review report was first unearthed by researchers on FreeRepublic.com within 36 hours of the inception of the Bush ad controversy, the mainstream press has been slow to pick up on Peaceful Tomorrows' anti-Bush pedigree. The group, for instance, has long been active in opposing U.S. involvement in Iraq.

Still, PT's political portfolio escaped the notice of the Washington Post, which described the group as "nonpartisan" on Thursday.

Other mainstream outlets repeatedly quoted PT members without revealing their anti-Bush agenda.

Comments by PT's leader, Colleen Kelly, have been prominently covered by the Associated Press, the Boston Globe and in dozens of other press reports complaining about the Bush ads. None of the reports mentioned PT's money ties to Heinz Kerry.

Andrew Rice, another prominent member of PT, has been quoted in the New York Times and has appeared on MSNBC, again without a single reference to his group's Heinz Foundation funding.

Besides Peaceful Tomorrows, other Tides grant recipients include the Iraq Peace Fund, which has helped bankroll anti-war marches, and MoveOn.org, which featured a campaign ad in November comparing President Bush to Hitler.

[philetus]

spread the word bump

[philetus]

WND has picked it up

Kerry's wife funds
critics of Bush ads
Non-profit group behind 9/11 families
tied to Heinz charitable contributions
--WND

[Interesting Times]

I was just on our local talk station informing the Philadelphia audience about this. Dom Giordano is the host, he was not aware of the tie ins. My first time on 'political' talk radio. VOC said I didn't even register on the schmuck meter...

That's great work. This stuff needs to get out.

[abner]

Kerry's wife funds
critics of Bush ads
Non-profit group behind 9/11 families
tied to Heinz charitable contributions

Priceless.

[Lakeside]

Raptor:" the Rats know they will get away with it if they just ride out the criticism, muddy the waters with a b.s. response, and wait for it to blow over, and our side just gets further frustrated, and the country slips further down the terlet."

Sadly, too true.

cricket: "...like that spelling...looks better, sounds better too"

It's New Orleanese. The natives substitute "er" in place of the "oi" sound in words. Hence, erl (oil), perzon (poison), and terlet for....

Raptor, are you from the Big Easy?

[harpo11]

Disgusting. Wifey uses her deceased former husbands money to work secretly to trash Bush, or at least she thought, until some wise FReeper outted her. Thanks for posting.

[SendShaqtoIraq]

Bagel Bites
Boston Market
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Heinz Products
Jack Daniel's Grilling Sauce
John West
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Polly Mi Chicha
Polly Rice Flour
Poppers
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Salad Cream
Smart Ones
Tinytums
Watties
Weight Watchers
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Some of these may be UK products only. There are a few I've never heard of.

[Fun Bob]

These people are as leftist biased as Kerry's face is long.

miserable failure miserable failure miserable failure miserable failure war criminal

[FranApple]

Is this legal? How can campaign finance laws address this issue?

Question Does anyone have a link to an article about the low turn out of Democtat voters in the 2003 primaries. I have searched and can only find links to state articles. If you find one please send it to me.


Thanks

[AuntB]

Check out this poll at CNN: www.cnn.com/lateedition

It asks if the President was correct to use the 911 images in his ad....and the NO's are way ahead!

[auzerais]

How many people know that in 1984, Kerry illegally used the VietNam Memorial in his senate campaign ads?

See J. Michael Waller's article from InsightMag.com in my thread at
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-campaign2002/1092685/posts

Every Freeper should read Waller's article and call their talkradio hosts, write to Hannity, Boortz, etc and ask them to immediately get this damning info on the air.

[philetus]

BUMP

[Homer1]

doesn't look like even media outlets supposedly on OUR side want o carry this

I'm so mad

If Limbaugh doesn't carry this, I may never forgive him.

[Porterville]

Next we should get a cable news station like CNBC

[breakem]

XLNT

[ladyinred]

This shows the lack of integrity of the JF'n Kerry's. Once again Freepers come through and unearth what the news media refuses to when it comes to rats!

[ravingnutter]

Also:

Freeper metesky just linked the Military Families Speak Out group to September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows group

Military Families Speak Out is currently hitting the media with anti-war statements against Bush.

[ravingnutter]

FYI:

On Friday, the Republican National Committee sent a letter to approximately 250 television stations around the country informing station managers that the ads purchased by the MoveOn.org Voter Fund violate Federal Election Law. The RNC requested that stations either decline to run the ads or pull from the air any ads that may already be airing.

GOP Protests Illegal Political Ads

[FReethesheeples]

Nasty John the Waffling French Undertaker, who is behind the atatacks on GWB's 9/11 ad, per the American Spectator.

Kerry, who is personally endorsed by Haiti's Aristide, Iran's Mullahs, Traitor "Red Jane" Fonda, Kim Jong Il, (& Kim Il Jong), Mugabe, Marxist thug Chavez of Venezuela, Castro of Cuba, & France's Jacques Chirac, is a weapon of mass economic destruction.

He'll destroy the troops in Iraq, the War on Terrorism,

& the U.S. stock market with all his negative talk and whiny-leftist-liberal sour-puss troop-bashing, Bush-bashing, America-bashing talk & self-aggrandizing, ultra-negative sourpuss whiny elitist personality.

[MissAmericanPie]

Excellent idea.