Posted on 08/24/2004 2:04:12 PM PDT by kcvl
Zach Exley - Former director of special projects for the MoveOn PAC is now the online communications director for the Kerry campaign. He’s also the one who started the Bush cocaine smear in 2000.
Jim Jordan - John Kerry’s former campaign manager is now a spokesperson for America Coming Together, which is helping to sponsor anti-Bush concerts and is famous for using convicted felons to including sex offenders, to try and register voters door to door.
George Soros - A direct contributor John Kerry’s campaign, he has donated literally, tens of millions of dollars to MoveOn.org, ACT, and The Media Fund. He is also the largest contributor to The Center For American Progress, which just happens to back Media Matters Whores For America. The Center for American Progress is run by John Podesta who also is a direct contributor to John Kerry.
ACT was formed by Steve Rosenthal, the former political director of the AFL-CIO, and Ellen Malcolm of Emily’s List, both of whom have contributed directly to John Kerry’s campaign.
Harold Ickes - Former deputy White House chief of staff for Bill Clinton is the head of The Media Fund, another anti-Bush 527. He is also a direct contributor to John Kerry.
Stephen Bing, a Hollywood producer, who in the past has donated money to John Kerry has donated millions of dollars to various 527’s as has Peter Lewis, head of Progressive Insurance.
Environment 2004 is anti-Bush environmental 527 that was started by Bruce Babbitt, Bill Clinton’s former Interior Secretary and Carol Browner, the former head of the EPA. Babbitt has contributed directly to Kerry’s campaign. In fact many of the board members of Environment 2004 are Kerry campaign contributors.
Top Contributors
Progressive Corp/Peter B Lewis $7,750,000
Shangri-La Entertainment/Steve Bing $6,964,846
Sustainable World Corp/Linda Pritzker $5,000,000
Soros Fund Management/George Soros $4,550,000
Retired $1,613,775
Agvar Chemicals $1,500,000
Investor $1,034,550
Lois and Richard Rosenthal Foundation $1,000,000
Susie Tompkins Buell Foundation $1,000,000
Investor/Anne Getty Earhart $1,000,000
Carsey-Werner-Mandabach $1,000,000
Cullman Foundation/Cullman Ventures $1,000,000
Center for Middle East Peace/Econ Coop $750,000
HBJ Investments $600,000
Louise Gund Foundation $500,000
Boar's Head Provisions $500,000
Jonathan Lewis Assoc $500,000
TechTarget.com $415,000
Sea Studios Foundation $400,000
Roll International $300,000
Sillerman Companies $250,000
RRD Holding Corp $250,000
Maritime Overseas Corp $250,000
Shari Foos/Psychotherapist $245,000
Loral Space & Communications $200,000
Blum Capital Partners $200,000
Brainerd Foundation $195,000
Costco Corp $190,000
*Actor $126,000
Alta Partners $105,186
Consultant $101,500
Monterey Bay Aquarium $100,024
Bergman, Senn et al $100,000
Paloma Partners $100,000
National Bedding Co $100,000
Builder $100,000
Perry Capital $100,000
Time Warner $100,000
Paul's Tv & Video $100,000
Glenborough Realty Trust $95,000
Toll Brothers Inc $95,000
Homemaker $84,000
Lawyer (Peter Goldman) $75,000 2/4/2004
Psychologist (Gail Furman) $50,000 3/12/2004
Private Investor (G James Roush) $45,000 12/31/2003
Author
Adam Hochschild $25,000 5/19/2004
Adam Hochschild $20,000 3/3/2004
University of California/Berkeley $45,000
Oak Hill School $45,000
Conservationist (Cynthia Wayburn) $45,000 12/31/2003
Tishman Realty & Construction $45,000
Certain Software
Douglas E Goldman $25,000 5/19/2004
Douglas E Goldman $20,000 5/5/2004
*Attorney $37,500
Philanthropist David Rockefeller Jr $10,000 4/8/2004
Pat Stryker $25,000 6/29/2004
Regis Hair Corp $30,000
Film Producer
Jane L Rosenthal $25,000 3/31/2004
Nick V Wechsler Jr $2,500 2/25/2004
Silverton Construction $25,000
905 Wpr Llc $25,000
Apax $25,000
Rustic Canyon Group $25,000
Author/Lecturer Regis P McKenna $25,000 3/31/2004
Museum of Modern Art $25,000
Bear Stearns $20,000
Act III Communications $20,000
Journalist Elaine M Attias $20,000 3/5/2004
Council on Foreign Relations Sierra Burnett $20,000 12/9/2003
Lainer Development $20,000
Actress
Blythe Danner Paltrow $500 1/28/2004
Nancy Stephens $500 12/31/2003
Heather Thomas $15,000 4/15/2004
Therapist Leonore Clow $15,000 6/4/2004
Anne B Mize $250 5/19/2004
Vote Solar Initiative
David R Hochschild $15,000 4/8/2004
Metalsmith Catherine Raphael $11,000 3/18/2004
Chartoff Productions $10,000
Hellman Friedman $10,000
Real Estate
Nora T Jaffe $10,000 3/5/2004
Wenner Media $10,000
Rancher/Oil Producer
Ruth M Bowers $10,000 4/30/2004
Miken $10,000
AKT Development Corp $10,000
Chapman Bird Grey $10,000
Sculptor Renata Schwebel $10,000 5/19/2004
Real Estate Developer
Martin Z Margulies $7,500 5/19/2004
MTV Networks Tom Freston $7,500 3/18/2004
Writer Robert M Cabot $2,500 3/31/2004
Pepper A Edmiston $500 2/25/2004
Delia Ephron $500 2/11/2004
Jay Kogen $1,250 5/19/2004
Craig Shapiro $250 5/19/2004
Jamie R Wolf $2,000 12/19/2003
Self-Employed Madeline Brine $1,000 3/31/2004
Melinda Farrelly $2,500 2/11/2004
Michael Ogiens $250 3/31/2004
JaMel Perkins $2,500 3/29/2004
Natural Resources Defense Council Ruth Hunter $5,000 2/25/2004
Gina Solomon $250 2/25/2004
Songwriter Producer Mike Stoller $5,000 2/25/2004
Jps International (Blue Mountain Greeting Cards) Jared Schutz Polis $5,000 2/11/2004
Third Millennium Online Products John R Koza $5,000 5/19/2004
The Gap Millard Drexler $5,000 2/23/2004
St Matthew's Episcopal Day School Katherine Orr $5,000 12/5/2003
Fact Services Co Diane V Feeney $5,000 2/24/2004
Grantmaker Elaine Nonneman $5,000 1/30/2004
First Washington Corp Floyd U Jones $5,000 2/25/2004
Director Jonathan Demme $500 1/28/2004
Jill Iscol $1,250 2/19/2004
Linda Sandrich $1,250 2/23/2004
Michael Simon $500 3/31/2004
Artist Eric Fischl $500 2/19/2004
Josephine A Merck $2,000 2/19/2004
Janet Salter $500 3/31/2004
Us Venture Partners $2,500
CUE Consulting Llc $2,500
Nonprofit Consultant James A Babson $2,500 6/4/2004
20th Century Fox $2,500
Covenant Mortgage $2,500
Screenwriter Director Richard LaGravenese $2,500 2/25/2004
Valor Elecom $2,500
Producer Thomas P Lassally $250 5/19/2004
Ken Miller $500 2/9/2004
Peter K Simonds $500 5/19/2004
Lucinda M Ziesing $500 4/8/2004
Roller Coaster Film Co $1,250
Physician John P Curtis $500 5/21/2004
Sally Goodwin $500 1/30/2004
Irwin Solomon $250 3/3/2004
Oxygen Media (Oprah's Company) Geraldine B Laybourne $1,250 3/18/2004
Publisher Gerald Galison $1,000 4/30/2004
Virginia Mudd $250 3/3/2004
William Morris Agenecy Suzanne Gluck $500 3/3/2004
Wayne S Kabak $200 2/19/2004
Jennifer Walsh $500 3/31/2004
Walt Disney Co Brian G Roskam $1,000 3/31/2004
Iconoculture Inc Victoria D Abrahamson $1,000 5/19/2004
Freedom Productions $1,000
Ignacio Valdes Md Pc $1,000
Roitenbert Investments $1,000
Director Actress Margaret Whitton $500 4/28/2004
Margaret Whitton $500 2/23/2004
Writer/Director Nora Ephron $500 2/23/2004
David Goyer $500 3/31/2004
* Joint Victory Campaign 2004 is a joint fund-raising committee run by America Coming Together and the Media Fund. Money raised by JVC is divided between these two beneficiaries. Combining receipts for these three groups would result in double-counting.
NOTE: This data is based on records released by the Internal Revenue Service on Monday, August 23, 2004.
HOW TO READ THIS CHART: This chart lists the top donors to these committees during the 2004 election cycle.
Contributions may come from the organizations themselves or its individual members or employees or owners, and those individuals' immediate families. Organization totals include subsidiaries and affiliates.
* Actor breakdown
Kevin Bacon $15,000 2/11/2004
Chevy Chase $2,500 2/11/2004
Wendy vanden Heuvel $45,000 5/19/2004
Michael Douglas $10,000 6/1/2004
Paul Newman $50,000 2/11/2004
Tim Robbins $250 3/31/2004
Chris Saradon $250 3/31/2004
Susan Sarandon $250 3/31/2004
Rita Wilson $2,500 4/28/2004
Norm F Woodel $250 3/18/2004
*Attorney breakdown
Morton Goldfein $2,500 2/11/2004
Peter Goldman $25,000 6/29/2004
Michael R Lee $5,000 4/28/2004
William T Pope $5,000 1/30/2004
Bump
Some older links
http://www.democrats.org/blog/display/00010183.html
Picture of Leahy and guy from Moveon.org
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1196067/posts
Dirty doings (527s For Kerry) Washington Times ^ | 8/21/04
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/1196835/posts
NEW "527" Donation Activity INFORMATION topic just added.
Website http://opensecrets.org ^ | Just mined | By Website Open Secrets
http://www.democrats.org/wvc/weekinreview/200305120002.html
Comment of collusion between dims and Moveon.org
http://www.democrats.org/news/200311140002.html
"Nov 13, 2003
The DNC is also conducting a major petition drive in partnership with MoveOn.org. More than 310,000 Americans have signed the petition to protect our courts — with more than 172,000 of those signatures coming in the past 36 hours. The petition calls on Bush and the Republicans to stop nominating judges that are out of step with mainstream Americans and praising the Democrats for standing up for their rights."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1196746/posts
NBC NEWS' BIG LIE: 'Nightly News' Graphic Calls Group "Swift Boat Veterans For BUSH" Media Resource Center ^ | August 6, 2004 | Andrea Mitchell, Tom Brokaw
Don't forget: Zack Exley is the guy behind GWBUSH.com, the website that the 2000 Bush campaign tried to shut down because it was too similar to the official site.
He also was the head guy in charge of the online content at MoveOn.org. It was mere days after the Kerry campaign hired him that the anti-Bush ad contest with those two entries portraying Bush as a neo-Hitler started at MoveOn. I think it's unlikely that his hands were clean of that.
25 posted on 08/22/2004 4:27:03 AM PDT by L.N. Smithee (Hey, KERRY! We said it to Saddam, and now to you -- If you have nothing to hide, QUIT HIDING IT!)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1196614/posts
The "Web of Connections" Between the Kerry Campaign and Dem 527s
http://www.blogsforbush.com/mt/archives/infographicfull.html ^ | 8/21/04 | Blogs for Bush
and Kerry whines................
Media Fund
Top Contributors, 2004 Cycle
Top Contributors
Joint Victory Campaign 2004
$12,775,000
Victory Campaign 2004
$9,025,000
American Fedn of St/Cnty/Munic Employees
$2,000,000
Service Employees Intl Union Local 1199
$1,000,000
American Federation of Teachers
$750,000
AFL-CIO
$525,738
Newsweb Corp/Fred Eychaner
$500,000
Laborers Union
$500,000
Communication Workers of America
$250,000
Plumbers/Pipefitters Union
$250,000
Entercom Communications Corp
$100,000
Sheet Metal Workers Union
$100,000
Boar's Head Provisions
$100,000
Tranportation Communications Intl Union
$100,000
Unite
$50,000
Consultant
Leonard Lieberman
$25,000
5/24/2004
Retired
Ben Heller
$12,500
6/1/2004
Murray D Peek
$250
4/8/2004
Business Loan Express
$12,500
Rosenfeld Bernstein Tannehauser
$12,500
Intl Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
$10,000
Metro Management
$10,000
Attorney
Craig Kaplan
$10,000
3/31/2004
Artist
Andre Gregory
$5,000
5/19/2004
Volunteer
Ruth C Kolbe
$2,500
4/28/2004
Homemaker
Alma O Cohen
$1,000
4/28/2004
Here are some of Moveon.org PAC expenditures.
Fenton Communications, San Francisco, CA $45,723 6/11/2004 PR Consulting
Fenton Communications, San Francisco, CA $34,310 7/22/2003 PR Consulting/Advertising
Fenton Communications, San Francisco, CA $26,050 10/20/2003 PR Consulting/Advertising
Fenton Communications, San Francisco, CA $25,000 5/26/2004 PR Consulting
Fenton Communications, San Francisco, CA $18,949 6/28/2004 PR Consulting
Fenton Communications, San Francisco, CA $16,579 5/20/2004 PR Consulting
Fenton Communications, San Francisco, CA $15,000 3/26/2004 PR Consulting
Fenton Communications, San Francisco, CA $15,000 4/6/2004 PR Consulting
Fenton Communications, San Francisco, CA $11,791 4/23/2004 PR Consulting
Fenton Communications, San Francisco, CA $11,600 10/20/2003 PR Consulting-California Recall
Fenton Communications, San Francisco, CA $10,000 2/13/2004 PR Consulting
Fenton Communications, San Francisco, CA $5,869 3/26/2004 PR Consulting
Fenton Communications, San Francisco, CA $2,923 2/5/2004 PR Consulting
Fenton Communications, San Francisco, CA $1,996 3/1/2004 Rent
Fenton Communications, San Francisco, CA $1,692 8/6/2003 PR Consulting
Fenton Communications, San Francisco, CA $192 4/8/2004 PR Consulting
Move On.org, Berkeley, CA $80,163 4/28/2003 List Purchase
Move On.org, Berkeley, CA $53,056 1/19/2004 List Purchase
Move On.org, Berkeley, CA $31,441 3/8/2004 List Purchase
Move On.org, Berkeley, CA $8,776 4/19/2004 List Purchase
Move On.org, Berkeley, CA $5,484 6/18/2003 List Purchase
Texas Senate Democratic Caucus, Austin, TX $25,000 9/9/2003 Contribution
BTTT
bttt
Welcome back. You were missed and are greatly needed!
Has ANYONE in the mainstream media reported on these ties?
We've known for at least a week that Kerry has hired a former MoveOn.org staffer and to my knowledge it hasn't been mentioned even one time on any MS news channel.
By God, I love the Internet.
That's some list!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Okay,here's a HUGE list for you to chew on.Ask you shall receive.:-)
bttt
Jim Jordan
Jim Jordan served as campaign manager for John Forbes Kerry for the U.S. presidential election, 2004 until November 10, 2003, when he was replaced by Mary Beth Cahill.[1]
Jordan, who had run Kerry's campaign "since it began last December", had "also worked in Kerry's Senate office in 1999 when Kerry was contemplating and then rejected a 2000 presidential bid."[2]
Jordan, "a well-known Democratic operative, was a spokesman for the House Judiciary Committee during the impeachment of then-President Bill Clinton. He also worked on the Senate committee that investigated political fund-raising scandals in the 1990s and the 1996 campaign that elected Tim Johnson of South Dakota to the Senate." Jordan is also the former head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.[3]
OH NO! A professed Democrat supporting an anti Bush smear campaign via a 527 group. How unique. Where oh where are the demorats dissing this guy for his connection to the Democratic Party? Silence except for there continued charges of connections between the Swifties and Bush.
Many thanks for the ping. :-)
America Coming Together
Top Contributors, 2004 Cycle
Top Contributors
Joint Victory Campaign 2004
$7,375,000
Victory Campaign 2004
$5,825,000
Soros Fund Management/George Soros
$5,000,000
Progressive Corp/Peter B Lewis
$2,995,000
RealNetworks Inc
Robert D Glaser
$745,000
11/28/2003
Newsweb Corp/Fred Eychaner
$500,000
Service Employees Intl Union Local 1199
$500,000
Cullman Foundation/Cullman Ventures
$500,000
Alida Messinger Charitable Lead Trust
$500,000
Dyson-Kissner-Moran Corp
$250,000
McKay Investment
$245,000
Retired
Nancy C Anderson
$10,000
1/12/2004
Noel R Congdon
$10,000
5/25/2004
Bernard Ecker
$5,000
2/12/2004
Ruth Fox
$5,000
6/4/2004
Ben Heller
$7,500
6/1/2004
Mark C Levy
$7,000
6/15/2004
Leonard Lieberman
$25,000
5/25/2004
Ronald M Mankoff
$5,000
6/29/2004
S M Newpol
$25,000
3/31/2004
Janet Pauli
$1,000
6/23/2004
Richard Rockefeller
$10,000
1/12/2004
Gary D Rose
$5,000
3/23/2004
Robert F Schumann
$5,000
6/29/2004
Marjorie Van Dusen
$5,000
4/7/2004
Jeremy Waletsky MD
$20,000
12/10/2003
Robert R Worth
$5,000
6/22/2004
Time Out Enterprises
$145,000
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
Anne Bartley
$120,000
9/2/2003
Wallace Global Fund
$100,000
Berger Montague PC
$100,000
Price Entities
$100,000
Boar's Head Provisions
$100,000
Falcon Management
$100,000
Partners for Progress
$100,000
Working Assets
Michael Hall Kieschnick
$100,000
3/23/2004
Mugar Group
$95,000
First New York Partners
Michael Ratner (Ellen Ratner's brother)
$75,000
6/18/2004
Michael Ratner
$20,000
5/21/2004
Great Atlantic Real Estate
$95,000
Bauman Foundation
$75,000
Washington Forest Law Center
Peter Goldman
$70,000
12/23/2003
Investor
Gerald Bronstein
$20,000
3/31/2004
Elizabeth M Cheatham
$5,000
4/7/2004
Debra Efroymson
$35,000
1/12/2004
Richard Gunther
$5,000
12/2/2003
Writer
Laurie Benenson
$5,000
2/9/2004
John B Henry
$10,000
3/23/2004
Bokara Legendre
$45,000
9/16/2003
Tufts University
Neva R Goodwin
$55,000
6/25/2004
Goldman Sachs
Philip Murphy
$50,000
6/4/2004
Cedar Street Group
Paul E Francis
$50,000
6/28/2004
Philanthropist
Eileen R Growald
$50,000
6/4/2004
Environmentalist
Paul Growald
$50,000
6/4/2004
Gunt Inc
Bruce S Jacobsen
$50,000
2/24/2004
Entrepreneur
Tom Hormel
$50,000
6/29/2004
Ring Group
$50,000
Leherds Ltd
$35,000
BellSouth Corp
$30,000
Attorney
Donald A Brown
$5,000
6/18/2004
E Marianne Gabel
$20,000
6/22/2004
Apax Partners
Alan J Patricof
$25,000
5/25/2004
Executive
Richard Gunther
$20,000
3/30/2004
Richard Gunther
$1,000
3/9/2004
Sunstone Press
$20,000
Advent Capital Management
$20,000
Quadrangle Group Llc
$20,000
Summit Partners
$20,000
Del Mar Partnership
$20,000
Sheet Metal Workers Union
$15,000
Psychotherapist
$15,000
Consultant
Anne H Hess
$15,000
3/31/2004
Musicianteacher
Judith Drake
$11,000
6/8/2004
Summit Foundation
$10,000
Artist
Olivia Bernard
$2,000
3/31/2004
Ellen Grobman
$8,000
3/23/2004
Falconwood Corp
$7,500
Guana Island Hotel Corp
$7,500
Community Activist
Julia Maher
$100
6/23/2004
Julia Maher
$5,000
6/18/2004
Ceptyr Inc
$5,000
Vyyo Inc
$5,000
Photographer
Lynn Stern
$5,000
5/25/2004
Duberstein Group
$5,000
DE Shaw Co , Lp
$5,000
Real Estate
Stephen Gunther
$5,000
3/31/2004
Passion Food Hospitality
$5,000
EMILY's List
Ellen R Malcolm (Media Fund top fundraiser, ACT (America Coming Together) founder and founder of EMILY'S LIST ( An acronym for “Early Money Is Like Yeast” because it “makes the dough rise)
$5,000
7/28/2003
Homemaker
Olga Mack
$5,000
6/11/2004
Cherbo Publishing
$5,000
George Family Foundation
$5,000
Multiplan Inc
$5,000
Physician
Armar A Strauss
$1,000
6/30/2004
NOTE: This data is based on records released by the Internal Revenue Service on Monday, August 23, 2004.
HOW TO READ THIS CHART: This chart lists the top donors to these committees during the 2004 election cycle.
Contributions may come from the organizations themselves or its individual members or employees or owners, and those individuals' immediate families. Organization totals include subsidiaries and affiliates.
WOW! EXCELLENT work, kcvl!!!!
Don't miss this list, Tonk and y'all!
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