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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In other words, they met toghether to see if they could BUY the election for Kerry.
BTW, I was VERY suspicious when I first heard of Progressive Insurance and steered clear of it. Last yearm my suspicions were confirmed; the name of the company DID reflect the political beliefs of the owner.
And University of Phoenix is one of those ads that keeps popping up on my computer no matter how many times I try to shut it down or how many pop up blockers I install. I'm certain that it is a key logger. Never do business with one of those, and I hoe they jail any company that knowingly advertises that way. Now THAT is a nuisance.
Oh good grief. WA has too high a sales tax already.
I think Repubs could score big with a humorous commercial parodying these creeps. Make an ad with sleazy looking guys in a dark room, talking about how they want to buy the election. Narrator can say something like "don't let billionaires choose for you," or something along that line. Anyone agree?
Speaking from personal experience, the blunt truth will not get you elected. People do not want to hear there is not plenty of money to satisfy their demands for the nanny government to take care of them. Nobody wants to hear Social Security is a scam and is financially unsound in its current form. You'll lose an election telling the truth.
The truth is not comfortable or pretty and Americans want comfortable and pretty.
These corporate interests use the environmental angle to try and go around our "bottom up" structure of government by imposing top down structures that use hydrological boundaries that cross political lines. We are experiencing that on the Klamath where they are trying to establish a new bi-state bureaucracy whereby all natural resource use will be managed under the guidance of agency folks according to "science."
It is also interesting to note that compliance with environmental regulations is so costly that small business owners can't comply. The big companies can afford the licensed biologists, hydrologists, foresters, geologists, archaeologists required to complete the required management plan and accompanying environmental documents and review process. For instance, the CA Dept. of Fish and Game says that the CEQA environmental review process for permits to continue to irrigate land with water where threatened coho live, will be a minimum of $150,000. Who in h#ll has that kind of money if they are a small family farmer, rancher or timberlot owner?
It is clear that these regulations are intended to destroy small business competition and the middle class.
gimme a list, baby....
Progressive canceling bump! Got a better rate from Allstate anyway.
I was at Costco the other day and there was a huge stack of Kitty Kelley droppings. But next to that stack on the book table were seven other anti-Bush titles, many of which were very obscure. There were no anti-Kerry titles.
The only anomaly was the 9-11 report, which, if, you actually read it, provides a compelling basis for re-electing Bush. Costco apparently THINKS this is an anti-Bush book. But how could it be, with its graphic tales of negligence by the clinton crowd. One example. They passed up Massood's offer to attack Bin Laden's base and told him he would have to try to arrest Bin Laden instead of killing him. Two days before 911, Al Queda blew Massood to smithereens.
Good point, what is the difference between Soros and I> G Farben, or Krupp?
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