Freeper Research - Richard Clarke campaign contribs - ONLY TO DEMOCRATS!

opensecrets.org ^ | 3/25/04 | adam_az

[adam_az]

I searched on OpenSecrets.org, and it shows that Clarke gave $4000 over the last couple years... ALL TO DEMOCRATS. (detail below)

So much for his claims of being a "Republican."

This guy can't tell the truth about ANYTHING! Looks like Kerry found the perfect VP candidate.

CLARKE, RICHARD ARLINGTON,VA 22207 SELF-EMPLOYED/CONSULTANT 9/15/2003 $2,000 Metzl, Jamie (D-MO)

CLARKE, RICHARD ARLINGTON,VA 22207 U.S. GOVERNMENT/CIVAL SERVANT 11/7/2002 $1,000 Andreasen, Steven Peter (Democratic Farmer-Labor Party of Minnesota)

CLARKE, RICHARD ARLINGTON,VA 22207 U.S. GOVERNMENT/CIVAL SERVANT 7/22/2002 $1,000 Andreasen, Steven Peter (Democratic Farmer-Labor Party of Minnesota)

[adam_az]

Newsmax picked it up

http://www.insightmag.com/news/2004/03/30/National/Records.Show.Richard.Clarke.Gave.Only.To.Democrats-641404.shtml

Records Show Richard Clarke Gave Only to Democrats
Posted March 25, 2004
By J. Michael Waller

Former counterterrorism czar Richard A. Clarke insists his attacks on President George W. Bush have nothing to do with politics, but an Insight check of Federal Election Commission (FEC) records shows that his only political contributions in the last decade have gone to Democrats.

Clarke is suspected of using his former post in the Bush White House as a weapon with which to slash and wound the president during his re-election campaign against Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.). The Kerry campaign's coordinator for national security issues, Rand Beers, has described Clarke as his "best friend." According to the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where Clarke and Beers are adjunct lecturers, they teach a course together about terrorism. Clarke's detailed Harvard biography specifically mentions his service under President Ronald Reagan and the elder President Bush, but says nothing about his eight years working for President Bill Clinton.

During the 9/11 commission hearings this week, Clarke denied any partisan leanings. "Let me talk about partisanship here, since you raised it," he told Commissioner John Lehman, pointing out that he, like Lehman, had served in the Reagan administration. "The White House has said that my book is an audition for a high-level position in the Kerry campaign," he said. "So let me say here, as I am under oath, that I will not accept any position in the Kerry administration, should there be one." He said he was a registered Republican in 2000.

But what about this presidential election year? According to FEC records, Clarke has been giving his money to Democratic friends -- not Republicans -- running for national office.

In 2002, while still on the Bush National Security Council (NSC), Clarke gave the legal maximum limit of $2,000 to a Democratic candidate for Congress, Steve Andreasen, who tried to unseat Republican Congressman Gil Gutknecht of Minnesota. Andreason had been director for defense policy and arms control on the Clinton NSC. In making his donations of $1,000 on July 22 and another $1,000 on Nov. 7, 2002, Clarke listed his occupation as "U.S. Government/Civil Servant," according to FEC records indexed with the Center for Responsive Politics.

Clarke maxed out again in the 2004 election cycle, donating $2,000 to another Clinton White House veteran, Jamie Metzl, who is running as a Democrat for Congress from Missouri. Metzl was a staffer on the Clinton NSC and worked for Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.) as deputy staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. With that donation, made on Sept. 15, 2003, after his resignation from the Bush NSC, Clarke listed his occupation as "Self-Employed/Consultant."

FEC records show that Clarke reported no political contributions when he worked in the Clinton administration in the electoral cycles of the 1990s and 2000, when he said he was a Republican.

J. Michael Waller is a senior writer for Insight. An in-depth story about Clarke will be posted at Insightmag.com on Monday.

[hoosiermama]

What Kristinn did yesterday just proves how much influence one person can have! Had been following the thread and when Kerry went off on FOXnews.....just sat back with a really BIG grin on my face. KR/FOX really got to him. What a FREEP!

Bush is going to win. We will not let the former mainstream media/Dims take over OUR country. We may live in the middle of nowhere in a barn....can't march, hand out leaflet, but thanks to ALG ;^) we all have the web and we can certainly encourage others who can.

[spunkets]

Good job. Looks like he's an outed rat op.

[cmsgop]

LOVE IT !!!!!!!!!!

[hoosiermama]

Whoo Hooo You ARE making a difference.....Congratulations!

[adam_az]

Might be a coincidence, could be someone else got the same idea to look up his campaign contribs.

Anyway, I'm just glad the info gets out there! I don't care how.

[BunnySlippers]

Wow, Richard Clarke really IS as dumb as he seems. I wish Drudge would have picked up on this whole thing the last two days. He seems not to care.

[kayak]

Mr. Limbaugh already knows this. During the very first segment of his show today, he mentioned that all of Clarke's donations in the last 10 years have been to 'rats.

[adam_az]

Darn I tuned in late today.

Must have missed the VRWC talking points for the day. See what happens when I don't let Rush do my thinking for me? ;)

(DUh troll readers - that was a JOKE.)

[NYCVirago]

Good job on the research, but I want to clarify one thing that you wrote:

How did he ask for a Republican ballot in Virginia if VIRGINIA DOESN'T HAVE PARTY REGISTRATION?

Because it was for the primary. And according to Sidney Blumenthal, Clarke voted for McCain in the 2000 primary. The thing is, the media is touting that Clarke is a registered Republican, which he is not, because Virginia doesn't have party registration. That doesn't mean he couldn't have asked for a Republican ballot for the primary, like millions of other Democrats did, to vote for McCain. But you are right that this doesn't make him a Republican.

[NYCVirago]

Did Clarke ever say that he voted for Bush in 2000 in the general election? I know the media is touting that he did from his statements, but I have been unable to find that he actually said that.

[IamHD]

"Did Clarke ever say that he voted for Bush in 2000 in the general election?"

Close. Here is his exact quote:

"I will not accept any position in the Kerry administration should there be one," he said, adding that he voted Republican in the 2000 election.

Right here

[kayak]

I don't recall whether he said he voted for Bush or not ... I am sure that he said he voted Republican but the fact that he talked about asking for a Republican ballot implied to me that he was referring to the primary. He also took great pains to elaborate that he was not working for any campaign. Having become used to parsing every word that a 'rat utters, I wondered if that meant he was volunteering for the Kerry campaign rather than being on the payroll.

[savedbygrace]

He is a liar, but in this case, he's being deceptive. Note how carefully he chose his words. A number of deceptive Dims did the same thing in the primaries. Voted for someone other than Bush in the PRIMARY, rather than voting for a Dim..

[ladyinred]

Good news! Thank God for freepers! News media love saying he is a Pubbie, and you know they know this info too! Good work!

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

EXCELLENTE!!!

I'm a FReeper, he's a FReeper, she's a FReeper, we're the FReepers, wouldn't you like to be a FReeper, too?

[dalebert]

This is better than nice. This is a great find. Proves that Clarke will lie about anything.

[NYCVirago]

"I will not accept any position in the Kerry administration should there be one," he said, adding that he voted Republican in the 2000 election.

So, there is no quote about him voting Republican in the 2000 general election (I know what he said about the primary.) Let me get this straight -- this guy has admitted to voting Republican exactly once in his life (for John McCain in the primary) and *this* makes him a Republican in the media's eyes?

[NYCVirago]

I don't recall whether he said he voted for Bush or not ... I am sure that he said he voted Republican but the fact that he talked about asking for a Republican ballot implied to me that he was referring to the primary. He also took great pains to elaborate that he was not working for any campaign. Having become used to parsing every word that a 'rat utters, I wondered if that meant he was volunteering for the Kerry campaign rather than being on the payroll.

Yep. Heck, the media doesn't get paid by Kerry, either, but they're still volunteering for his campaign!

[kayak]

You have certainly hit that nail very squarely on the head!