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Heinz Foundation Bankrolled Group Protesting Bush 9/11 Ads [FR Mentioned]
NewsMax ^ | 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: abner
Oh don't worry about the shower .. my kids thought I was nuts .. but there's nothing new there :0)
81 posted on 03/06/2004 1:21:26 PM PST by Mo1 (Do you want a president who injects poison into his skull for vanity?)
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To: All
...FreeRepublic.com within 36 hours...

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Cold too.
folks who agree have been quiet,
frustrated by a seemingly relentless tide.

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Thanks Mr R.
Will donate, when I get
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82 posted on 03/06/2004 1:23:57 PM PST by pending
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To: MEG33; dead
I believe that "dead" was the first one to sniff this out.
83 posted on 03/06/2004 1:24:19 PM PST by Ben Hecks
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To: Ben Hecks; dead
I think you are correct on that

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1091579/posts
84 posted on 03/06/2004 1:26:33 PM PST by Mo1 (Do you want a president who injects poison into his skull for vanity?)
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To: Mo1
Grateful to Dead, I am.

How did you find it?
Google/anywho etc?

This internet thing could work out, eh?
Ha ha
85 posted on 03/06/2004 1:30:05 PM PST by pending
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To: jmstein7; All
Check this out...

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/2/7/150230.shtml

Saturday, Feb. 7, 2004 2:59 p.m. EST

Media Mum on Heinz Kerry's Enron Connection

It didn't get much attention back when Sen. John Kerry was a cellar dweller in the presidential polls. But now that he's the undisputed, all but certain, presumptive Democratic Party nominee, we're wondering where the coverage is on Teresa Heinz Kerry's Enron connection.

Long after Enron chairman Ken Lay had been demonized as a ruthless corporate buccaneer who had cheated widows and orphans out of their life savings, the man Dems love to invoke to beat up the Bush White House sat on the board of Teresa's Heinz Center Foundation.

In fact, Lay was reportedly a Heinz Center trustee for more than a decade, resigning just last year. That was around the time presidential candidate John Kerry started bashing "special interests" in Washington, zeroing in on Enron by name.

Last July, the Washington Times obtained samples of personal correspondence from the Heinz Center to Mr. Lay, praising him for his management style.

"Ken," wrote one of Teresa's representatives, "Simply stated, your background, expertise and experience make you uniquely qualified [to run our] global-warming [initiative]."

When asked about Mrs. Heinz Kerry's Enron connection, a Heinz Center spokeswoman explained to the Washington Post, "Whatever troubles he had at Enron, Ken Lay had a good reputation in the environmental community for being a businessman who was environmentally sensitive."

"When someone does wrong in one part of their life, it doesn't mean they can't do good in another part of their life," she added.

86 posted on 03/06/2004 1:32:14 PM PST by AuntB (Petition to reform SSdisability: http://www.PetitionOnLine.com/SSDC/petition.html)
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To: Ben Hecks; Mo1; dead
Thanks.Interesting link to Quasi on the Kerry site,too.They did not like that.Great work!
87 posted on 03/06/2004 1:50:31 PM PST by MEG33 (John Kerry's been AWOL for two decades on issues of National Security!)
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To: pending
This internet thing could work out, eh?

Yep and we should send Al Gore a thank you note for inventing it .. HA!

88 posted on 03/06/2004 1:56:52 PM PST by Mo1 (Do you want a president who injects poison into his skull for vanity?)
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To: raptor29
You spent your whole paragraph just complaining about the repubs. That's the problem. All you're doing is confirming what the problem is .. what solution is that ..??

You're either part of the problem or part of the solution. I prefer to send messages, emails, letters, etc.

I recently sent by MAIL 17 letters to repubs in the Senate. Have you done that .. or is your excuse "it doesn't help"?

With that defeatest attitude - nothing will be enough for you.
89 posted on 03/06/2004 2:01:13 PM PST by CyberAnt (The 2004 Election is for the SOUL of AMERICA)
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To: YOMO; jmstein7
#70..Do you have a list?
90 posted on 03/06/2004 2:08:10 PM PST by MEG33 (John Kerry's been AWOL for two decades on issues of National Security!)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Yay FReepers! Nothin' like a well-deserved kudo.
91 posted on 03/06/2004 2:19:03 PM PST by spookycc (Never forgive! Never forget!)
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To: dead
Grateful, Dead! %^)

92 posted on 03/06/2004 3:00:19 PM PST by hoosiermama (Ask Kerry to list the major pieces of enacted legislation he has authored in his career.)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
bump
93 posted on 03/06/2004 3:02:16 PM PST by rwfromkansas ("Men stumble over the truth, but most pick themselves up as if nothing had happened." Churchill)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
I e-mailed the fundamentals of this story (with links) to Jennifer Harper at the Washington Times. She writes the Inside Politics column each weekday.
94 posted on 03/06/2004 3:03:41 PM PST by jackbill
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To: All
Check out this good post on the Peaceful Tomorrows guestbook:

"I like many of you lost my beautiful husband Sept 11, 2001. His name was Daniel Trant. I am a mother of 3. I think this is so rediculous that everyone is making such a big deal about this ad. And just to let you know I protested agaisnt Mr. Bush in front of the Supreme Court in Dec. of 2000. I watch my husband die everyday. Our media shows it over and over. Would all of you prefer that President Bush get into a dirty political fight or remind the world who seem to forget about our love ones and the brave young and women fighting for all our freedom. So we can talk freely without being gased or murdered by a saddam. Lets stop bashing and remember our love ones. Thank You President Bush for not forgeting my unfound hero, Daniel Patrick Trant"
95 posted on 03/06/2004 4:24:29 PM PST by rwfromkansas ("Men stumble over the truth, but most pick themselves up as if nothing had happened." Churchill)
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To: MEG33; GulfWar1Vet; international american; TomGuy; Diogenesis
Realize what's going on with free speech. I don't care what the companies which broadcast Stern decide to do, it's the fact that government is attempting to stick it's fat nose in yet another public matter and define it. Ask yourself how our constitutional rights were affected with CFR.

Free Republic was mentioned here. Who doesn't believe the left realizes this? How long have they been making efforts to limit internet freedom in the same way they have CFR, radio, voting...? Consider your free speech opportunities and realize somebody is watching in anger.

96 posted on 03/06/2004 5:00:30 PM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection (www.whatyoucrave.com)
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To: raptor29
"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."

LOL. . .like that spelling. . .looks better; sounds better too :^)

. . .right; that is precisely what happens; but perhaps not this time. I have emailed links et al and the 'challenge' to go there, to Fox News & O'Reilly, MSNBC. . .a couple others, oh and Drudge as well - with a plea to him to check out story/links and report (yes; one right there in his front yard at WND. . .)

Will do some more later. Hope others will fill up the mailboxes for this. It is a story. . .but, yes, know there are a million out there about the Demrats that never make it.

97 posted on 03/06/2004 6:34:26 PM PST by cricket
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Limbacher is on the Batchelor program right now
(10:15 EST)
WABC radio
reporting this story
and giving credit to FreeRepublic.com for the research.
98 posted on 03/06/2004 7:17:52 PM PST by Allan
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To: GulfWar1Vet; MEG33; CasearianDaoist; Dante3; international american; Owen; raptor29; philetus
Bump
99 posted on 03/06/2004 7:26:10 PM PST by Allan
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
spread the word
100 posted on 03/06/2004 7:26:39 PM PST by The Wizard (democrats are enemies of America)
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