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Heinz Foundation Bankrolled Group Protesting Bush 9/11 Ads [FR Mentioned]
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| 3/6/04
| Limbacher
Posted on 03/06/2004 9:20:03 AM PST by 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.
TOPICS: Free Republic; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2004; 911families; cfr; fundingtheleft; kerry; limbacher; moveon; peacefultomorrows; phonyoutrage; teresaheinz; tidesfoundation
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection; backhoe
Great that FR is credited!
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posted on
03/06/2004 9:22:20 AM PST
by
MEG33
(John Kerry's been AWOL for two decades on issues of National Security!)
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Yep, that info is been floating around FR. I have posted that story and links to other boards on the Internet. We need to get this info out to the public!
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posted on
03/06/2004 9:22:41 AM PST
by
GulfWar1Vet
(Do you believe that Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life?)
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Is this legal??
To: MEG33
Yes, but have you seen this in the mainstream media? I have not.
To: CasearianDaoist
I haven't either.
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posted on
03/06/2004 9:24:17 AM PST
by
Dante3
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Well, isn't that convinient?
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posted on
03/06/2004 9:25:13 AM PST
by
American_Centurion
(Daisy-cutters trump a wiretap anytime - Nicole Gelinas)
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
"Though the Tribune-Review report was first unearthed by researchers on FreeRepublic.com "
YEAH BABY!!!!
To: Dante3
And you know that if tables were turned that Dan Rather would have a special program based on it. The system as become so shamefully corrupt.
To: dead
FYI
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
No wonder Teresa isn't contributing her fortune to the Kerry campaign. She doesn't need to. Just like her husband, her money remains soft.
To: anniegetyourgun
Has anyone emailed this to reporters at Time or Newsweek. Print guys are the ones most desperate for the Pulitzers. The broadcast media will pick it up from them.
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posted on
03/06/2004 9:32:25 AM PST
by
Owen
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
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.
That dang Internet!!!!
Difficult to hide the truth from the public any more.
lol
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posted on
03/06/2004 9:32:41 AM PST
by
TomGuy
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
The evil clowns Behind the media's attack funded by........ Teresa Heinz (Kerry).
The clowns behind the censoring are the New York Times' "Consultant" Emma Gilbey (shared bed with Kerry)
and Chief EditorBill Keller (shares bed with Gibley).
http://pic5.picturetrail.com/VOL92/800445/1417170/46026258.jpg
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posted on
03/06/2004 9:33:45 AM PST
by
Diogenesis
(If you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us)
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Now isn't this just cozy! Teraaaaaaaayza and this organisation? Something stinks here! This MUST get out to the media with ALL the nooks and cranies involved!
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posted on
03/06/2004 9:38:48 AM PST
by
mrtysmm
To: TomGuy
"That dang Internet." Yep....I've been forwarding the story on to friends and family....they can hide, but we'll UNEARTH them!!! I think 2004 is the INTERNET ELECTION year.....and every year more people get on the internet (and find the truth....FIND, not READ)...the better it is!
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posted on
03/06/2004 9:42:36 AM PST
by
goodnesswins
(The Democrat "Funeral" is on.....dum..dum..di...dum.)
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Let's boycott all heinz products. I will not buy any thing else made by Heinz.........
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posted on
03/06/2004 9:52:56 AM PST
by
memaw
([)
To: CasearianDaoist
Problem is, our side rarely does anything about this type of stuff. Sure, those of us on Free Republic and listeners to Limbaugh, Hannity, Savage etc. rail about all this, but there is no concentrated action step ever taken. 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.
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posted on
03/06/2004 9:53:16 AM PST
by
raptor29
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
good news coverage...
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posted on
03/06/2004 9:54:37 AM PST
by
The Wizard
(democrats are enemies of America)
To: Owen
I sent a report to the Village Voice.
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posted on
03/06/2004 9:56:05 AM PST
by
Rudder
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