Posted on 10/19/2004 5:59:37 PM PDT by Notch
Breaking News from NewsMax.com
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.
The key agenda items for the Sandlers has been "preserving progressive income taxes and inheritance taxes," the magazine reported.
The wealthiest and most notable of those attending the meeting was George Soros, the 74-year-old Hungarian immigrant who desperately wants to defeat George Bush and has even compared him to the likes of Adolf Hitler.
Apparently, all was not roses at the billionaire confab, according to The New Yorker.
"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.
There was disagreement about some of the issues and policy positions the group should take.
Sperling, for one, argued that the main target of their efforts should be Wal-Mart. He wants to push for unionizing the giant retailer.
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.
The magazine said Soros had planned to keep a low profile in the closing months of the election, but suddenly changed course this summer when he decided to "jettison the strategy in favor of waging his own media-grabbing political campaign."
Soros hired a publicist and began a 12-city, $3 million personal crusade to defeat George Bush.
According to the magazine, Soros has nothing but contempt for Bush, who he considers "an ignorant fool."
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.
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As others have said....LINK PLEASE.
Make no mistake, these druglords are all working on behalf of the Clintonistas, imho.
Amazing how Clintonista Ickes is the only DNC guy mentioned... hmmm
Someone should forward this article to Ralph Nader.
q.v.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammany_Hall
Some things never change.
Wonder how many of these a$$hole$ gave back their tax refund??
Kerry was getting a facial with the other spouses of billioniares.
Actually I'd like to know all of the attendees financial interests so that I can avoid them.
Hey, billionaires: What will you do on the day of Judgement, when even what you think you have will be taken from you?
A lot of the left wing billionaires wish their money would mean more. That is they wish they could live in a world where morality did not constrain their use of money to buy the things and people that they want.
Bush is a man guided almost exclusively by morality. His followers are much the same. A triumph of morality is a constraint on the power of money. This is why Soros and the other European money men despise Bush.
I know male ego and I know this to be true.
Soros is the biggest capo of all. Literally.
Thank you.
That was an excellent read.
Why why why does this always happen when my mink is in the cleaners....
I don't know if I even believe this article. They've been able to throw a lot of garbage at each other during this whole election.
"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!"
So we shall use their own words against them!!!
"I'm amazed that with all the money, lies, and hatred thrown at Bush that he is even still in the race. "
God is obviously protecting Bush.
DOT !
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