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HEINZ ENDOWMENTS: HARDLY EXTREMIST
NY Post ^
| 3/12/04
| Maxwell King
Posted on 03/12/2004 10:59:31 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:20:10 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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Your allegation ["(Mrs.) Kerry's Cash Connection," Editorial, March 9] that an organization called Peaceful Tomorrows has received funding from foundations directed by Teresa Heinz Kerry is flat-out wrong.
The allegation rests on a false assumption - that Heinz Endowments funding of the Tides Center for projects in western Pennsylvania is "fungible," as you state in your editorial, and so can be redirected to other causes.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: 2004; fundingtheleft; heinz; kerry; peacefultomorrows; pittsburgh; teresaheinz; tidesfoundation
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but King nowhere directly denied that Heinz foundation money ever went to Peaceful Tomorrows.
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posted on
03/12/2004 11:01:46 AM PST
by
dirtboy
(Howard, we hardly knew ye. Not that we're complaining, mind you...)
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Seems like Mr. Maxwell is inviting closer scrutiny of the Heinz (socialist) philanthropy ... I say we take him up on the offer.
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posted on
03/12/2004 11:01:52 AM PST
by
mgc1122
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
like Heinz, with strong centrist agendas
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When she says that, you know she is lying. This is a B.S. denial. The outrage was a setup from the beginning.
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posted on
03/12/2004 11:02:11 AM PST
by
doug from upland
(Don't wait until it is too late to stop Hillary -- do something today!)
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
For a money man, he doesn't know what the term "fungible" means.
Suppose I give $100 to a group specifically to be passed on to a group supporting gun rights. My intention is to increse the funding of that group by $100 dollars, right?
But what if the group I give the money to reduces the amount they are already giving to that group by $100, then adds my $100 to the total. Technically, they have followed the agreement, but the group I am supporting doesn't get any more money.
Then, what if they take the $100 they saved on the gun rights group, and give it to an abortion rights group, which I violently oppose...
My giving them the money for one purpose allowed them to use an equal amount for another purpose. That is what is meant when they say money is fungible. Even though they can technically say my money was not used for the abortion group, my giving it to them for purpose I supported allowed them to use other money for a purpose I oppose.
To: dirtboy
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but King nowhere directly denied that Heinz foundation money ever went to Peaceful Tomorrows.No correction is needed.
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posted on
03/12/2004 12:40:06 PM PST
by
randog
(Everything works great 'til the current flows.)
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
He is purposely misconstuing the explanation of the fungible transfer of money. Of course the Heinz money was used to fund the greeney interests in Pa., but that doesn't mean that other money that would have been spent on those projects wasn't spent on the Peaceful tomorrows campaign. More likely though, it's simply a quid pro quo situation that is totally untraceable.
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posted on
03/12/2004 1:23:28 PM PST
by
Eva
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
A non-denial denial from a money launderer, who is pretending that he doesn't know what fungible means.
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posted on
03/12/2004 1:25:58 PM PST
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Click
here for the
NYP's reply to this which also appeared on today's op-ed page :)
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posted on
03/12/2004 1:26:20 PM PST
by
mewzilla
To: dirtboy
The Post replied to this letter on the facing page.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
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posted on
03/12/2004 1:27:11 PM PST
by
Criminal Number 18F
(JFK Lite says: "Who you gonna believe, me or your lyin' eyes?")
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Kerry seems to like well-endowed women ......
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posted on
03/12/2004 6:53:55 PM PST
by
festus
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