leftist ankle biters blowing progressive bubbles. I love it when the cannibals start biting each others ankles. Ankle biters unite! LOL
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.
Hope this is not a double post or posted befor nowJust by typing "billionaires" in the search box you would of gotten this:
many dupes of this article
So they are using billions of dollars to give crack cocaine to the homeless and pay rent a mobs to not have their french fries.
traitors.
How about insurance? ( Progressive )
Legalize or De-Criminalize Pot..( promoting drug use )
Get in an accident... ( having used drugs or associated with people smoking pot )
Insurance Co. won't pay out because..
You were driving under the influence.. ( common drug-detection procedures find MJ in your hair, blood, on your clothes, etc.. )
You are still "required" by state law (in every state I know of ) to have Auto Insurance..
But use of any number of drugs, legal or illegal, will invalidate any payment of damages..
Money in, NO money out.. more profits..
Thanks. I knew this, but in my excitement to post I lost my way. Bad Me !
I am not sure what this is about, truly, but it sure seems sinister. I doubt it concerns the Clintons. They have certainly subverted the whole intent of campaign finance reform and are not very far away from supplanting their views for the rule of the people. I think some of these people should be jailed, before it is too late. See David Horowitz, Front Page Magazine. Also, don't change from Progressive to Geico. It is owned by a crocked billionaire, too.
Soros also broke the currency in England and also has been involved in financial disasters in Malaysia and Russia. One of the few good things France did was convict Soros for inside trading.
"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!"
LIAR.
"Another billionaire who attended was John Sperling, founder of the online University of Phoenix."
Ruh Roh scooby doo... I use to get a Univ. of Phoenix pop window ad on my screen. Do you think it's a way for them to spy on pro Bush folks? (gets under the cover with flashlight)
Ickes runs a 527... he leaves the 527 to be involved with the Kerry campaign... while in the Kerry organization, he secretly meets with the biggest 527 donors to plan strategy... but there is no coordination between the Kerry campaign and the Dem 527s... puleeeze.
hmmm. i'm getting a new car in the next couple of weeks, and i was going to get an insurance quote from progressive. not now. supporting limosine liberals is not on my todo list.
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MAy be time to seriously consider relocation camps for Traitors; 5th-columnist's; seditionists and certain towel-heads. At least till after this here "WAR" is settled.
There will come a day when it is to little to late .
I thought all rich people liked Republicans. The Democrats keep telling us that the rich are the only ones who benefit from Republican policies. I guess these guys didn't get the memo.
"insurance quote from progressive"
I've always made it a point to research a business I intend to utilize if they seem too generic(vague), too culty. Progressive.. yeah uh nice alternative to Agressive Insurance Co.
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.
I believe you're right. I've been wondering why so many wealthy and influential people who have made their fortunes under our form of government are so eager to destroy the very form of government that allowed them to become rich. It doesn't make sense.
On a more positive note: FReepers may want to become San Diego Chargers fans (at least for the next few weeks), as Chargers owner Alex Spanos is helping to bankroll the Progress for America Voter Fund which made a $14 Million ad buy to air "Ashley's Story" in nine battleground states.
It joined from a location that is east of the US. Probably Eastern Europe or Asia.
/john
I have Progressive. No other underwriter will have me.
So there.
And .. who's problem is that ..??
leftist ankle biters blowing progressive bubbles. I love it when the cannibals start biting each others ankles. Ankle biters unite! LOL
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