Posted on 07/30/2004 1:19:37 PM PDT by GarnetGirl04
Slightly less interesting than Michael Moore in the booth with Jimmy Carter, but still:
From left to right: Hillary, Willie Nelson, Stephen Bing.
Did Willie melt? Or dessicate or something?
Fo shizzle.
That's the best quality I have, alas. Willie has always looked a little haggered, though
Better save that picture before Bing mysteriously disappears.
...whose T-shirt says, "Vote or Die." Brilliant.
So, you read on Instapundit too about how the ABC story is gone?
Doesn't this cast doubt on the claimed non-partisan nature of P. Diddy's "Vote or Die" initiative to get young people to vote?
Interesting slogan for a party that loves to use dead voters.
What story? (sarcasm)
more like "Die, and then vote"
Mummeeee!
Precisely.
Stephen Bing is an interesting guy....
From today NY Post / Page Six: http://www.nypost.com/gossip/pagesix.htm
July 30, 2004 -- A SCANDAL might be brewing in John Kerry's camp over revelations that his biggest donor, billionaire playboy Steve Bing, has close ties to a Mafia hitman.
Bing, who inherited a $600 million real estate fortune courtesy of his grandfather, Leo Bing, has amassed over $16 million for the Democrats. He has donated $8.1 million to groups that are creating and airing anti-George Bush TV ads, according to Variety.
Now, ABC News reports that one of Bing's close friends is Dominic Montemarano, a.k.a. Donnie Shacks, a New York-based Mafia hit man who did 12 years in prison on racketeering charges and is currently serving four years for domestic violence.
The L.A. Times has reported that Bing paid Montemarano's legal fees the last time he had a brush with the law. ABC described Montemarano as Bing's "business partner" and "employee" — although Bing's lawyer, Marty Singer, says that's not the case.
Former NYPD investigator Joe Coffey told ABC, "Donnie Shacks' main activity was murder, no question about it. That was his main function for the Colombo family and for organized crime in general. He was one of the top hit men in the New York area."
Bing was in Boston this week for the Democratic convention, where he was lunching with vice-presidential nominee John Edwards, when ABC confronted him with a photo of himself, Elizabeth Hurley and Montemarano. Bing refused to answer questions about his wise guy pal.
Montemarano starred in 2002's "Night at the Golden Eagle," a pulp fiction-style flick co-starring Natasha Lyonne about a career criminal. The picture, financed by Bing, was described by movie maven Leonard Maltin as a "grim, distasteful melodrama."
Singer says that Bing and Montemarano are "friendly," but insists the movie was the extent of their business dealings.
"That's the only business relationship they have," Singer says. "He was not an employee of Mr. Bing's. We are demanding a retraction and correction from ABC."
Bing, who has fathered children with Elizabeth Hurley and fellow billionaire Kirk Kerkorian's ex-wife Lisa Bonder, has refused to discuss his donations. The Democrats have said they know nothing of the Montemarano connection.
Continue Reading PageSiX...
The Hood, The Sad and the Fugly
There is a posting from a couple days ago that states that Bing is friends with a Mafia hit man that is in prison.
Veryt interesting read.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1180718/posts
Sorry Willie, you once were great.
Bing is Hillie and Willie's go-to guy when they want someone Fostered. It is a message to Berger to keep his mouth shut, to McAuliffe to remember who he belongs to and to a hundred others who may be taking Gigilo John seriously. They are saying, "Don't get too wrapped up in the moment; the chair must be vacant in 2008 when Hillie wants it and anyone who doesn't understand, or, at least, the first one who doesn't understand, will wind up like Jim McDougal."
You can't disrespect the Bing!
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