Posted on 10/19/2004 2:07:29 PM PDT by jstolarczyk
Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2004 1:09 p.m. EDT Billionaires Secretly Met in Aspen to Defeat Bush
In the days following the Democratic National Convention in Boston this past August, several billionaire Democratic activists secretly met at the famed Aspen Institute in Colorado. The purpose of their clandestine meeting was "to use their fortunes to engineer the defeat of President George W. Bush," The New Yorker magazine reports in its most recent edition. Details of the meeting remain sketchy, but the magazine described the Aspen conference this way: "Five billionaires joined half a dozen liberal leaders in a lengthy conversation about the future of progressive politics in America." For sure, there were differences of opinion in the group, but they all shared one goal: to get George Bush this November. The Aspen meeting was supposed to have been a top secret within Democratic Party circles. When The New Yorker inquired about the meeting, an assistant to one of the attendees was surprised by the call. "No one was supposed to know about this," the aide told the magazine. "We don’t want people thinking it’s a cabal or some sort of Masonic plot!" Apparently the leader of the secret cabal is billionaire Peter B. Lewis, chairman of the Cleveland, Ohio-based insurance company Progressive Corporation. Like another attendee, wealthy financier George Soros, Lewis has poured millions into Democratic 527 groups, including Americans Coming Together and MoveOn.org. One of Lewis’ top agenda items has been the decriminalization of marijuana, a policy position also shared by Soros. Another billionaire who attended was John Sperling, founder of the online University of Phoenix. Also present were Herb and Marion Sandler from California. The couple founded Golden West Financial Corporation, a California bank reportedly worth $17 billion.
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But the Republicans are the party of the rich. Surely those would want the President to win...,</sarcasm>
"The key agenda items for the Sandlers has been "preserving progressive income taxes and inheritance taxes," the magazine reported."
Keep the people down so you have control over them.
"The billionaires spent much of the time moaning the superior powers of the GOP," the magazine said, and the group even needed some cheerleading from Harold Ickes, a former top aide to Bill Clinton who is involved in the 527 efforts."
Hehehehehe!
"Sperling, for one, argued that the main target of their efforts should be Wal-Mart. He wants to push for unionizing the giant retailer."
Hey, alot of freepers would like that! They can't bad mouth Walmart enough. They too want you to pay HIGHER PRICES and do not like anyone who sells Christian stuff.
"That idea was apparently vetoed by George Soros, who reportedly told the group he had no desire to support union initiatives and that his only single goal at this point was "ousting Bush." "
"Though not the leader of the group, Soros holds the largest bank account and as such is the 800-pound gorilla, having given more than $18 million to the 527s in an effort to defeat Bush."
"Soros hired a publicist and began a 12-city, $3 million personal crusade to defeat George Bush."
It isn't going to work!
"According to the magazine, Soros has nothing but contempt for Bush, who he considers "an ignorant fool.""
I'd hate to know what Bush thinks of him!
"More than that, he sees Bush as the face man for a secret cabal. "Bush was just chosen as a figurehead, an acceptable face for a sinister group," Soros told The New Yorker, adding, "Cheney is the Capo." "
"Clearly, Soros knows a thing or two about secret cabals and capos."
Talk about HYPOCRISY!
Billionaire activists? Then TUR-AY-ZAH must have been at the front of the line.
Soros, Sperling and Lewis are also the major funders of the pro-drug initiatives and the pro-drug websites. They know how to saturate the search engines such that if a person (particularly a student) tries to research a drug issue, he may never get past all the pro-drug sites and their propaganda.
ping
These guys are the true neo-Nazi's. The big industrialists are combining with the socialists to permanently suppress the middle class drones.
Boycott..all of these business's depend on Republican dollars.
They also need to be outed as to their support for higher taxes on the middle class and lower taxes or subsidies for their companies.
Include Gates in this crew..he is funding the drive for higher sales tax in WA and lower corp. tax.
And why wasn't I invited? An oversite, MY A$$!
Bilderbergers in sheep's clothing?
I have heard that George Soros is also a big backer of Phoenix University which has campuses in most big cities.
I have also heard that Soros uses the university to promote his legalization of marijuana agenda.
I heard this in San Diego. Anyone else heard similar comments.
Remember the Soviet woman journalist who predicted 9/11 and said that there were powerful people trying to bring down the dollar and that they had $XXXXXXXXXXX assets?
This reminds me of that.
billionaire Peter B. Lewis, chairman of the Cleveland, Ohio-based insurance company Progressive Corporation. ... One of Lewis’ top agenda items has been the decriminalization of marijuana ... ."
Now, I ask you, do you think Lewis' Progressive Insurance Company will pay claims for a stoned driver? Would be interesting to see their advertising on using drugs and driving.
At one point we carried Progressive, thru AAA no less. They really should be looked into.
Progressive insurance is a pay weekly insurance program. Not insurance of the middle class or wealthy
Wish somebody would.
I hate being made a chump.
I would NEVER put Bill Gates in the same category as Soros. Soros is evil. I tried to find out more about Gates and the sales tax but was unable. It seems odd.
...and they're done dirt cheap. ; )
Hmmmmm ..... Aspen. I wonder if Bill Joy had anything to do with this? ......
In this temporary, passing world we live in money is the ultimate power, it buys mansions, fame, politicians, judges, women, yachts, islands and the best medical care on earth. And these billionaires have ascended to the pinnacles of earthly power with their uncountable wealth. With this in mind, I wonder what the people who attended this meeting really want to accomplish?
They've done the same thing with the "Fourth Reich." Search on that and it's all "Bush is Hitler" and "Amerikkka is the 4th Reich", blah, blah, blah.... of course, this situation prevents one from getting to articles postulating under which circumstances and where the real Fourth Reich might arise. Clue - it ain't here. Clue 2 - where there is anti Americanism as national policy, the conditions may be ripe. Now why, I ask, would Soros & co not want me and others to be able to read the writings of people who share in concerns regarding the rise of anti American, anti Western procrustean mentality overseas? What is Soros' agenda vis a vis overseas despotism? (As if I needed to ask.....).
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