Funding
Funded with "more than $2 million in donations from wealthy liberals." "Among Mr. Brock's donors is Leo Hindery, Jr., the former cable magnate; Susie Tompkins Buell, who is co-founder of the fashion company Esprit and is close to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, and Ms. Buell's husband Mark; and James C. Hormel, a San Francisco philanthropist whose appointment as ambassador to Luxembourg was delayed for a year and a half in the late 1990's by conservative lawmakers protesting what they called his promotion of a 'gay lifestyle.'
Sounds like Hindery's right tight with the Toons.
I know Mr. Hindery from the fact that he races with the British-American Motorsports team in the American Le Mans series. You can google him and find out that he is from San Francisco, that he is worth half a billion according to records available, and that he is very active in AIDS prevention and cure in the former Soviet Union.
He's also a very personable man, very intelligent and intellectual, extremely well connected and able to make diamonds out of coal.
He was apparently targeted for a high position with the Kerry Administration if such a thing had come to pass; he planned to give up racing for 2005 to go to Washington and work as an insider.
Check him on Google and find out for yourself, rather than repeating knee-jerk remarks about what you imagine him to be, coupled with the usual "Democrats are Stupid" chorus, repeat ad infinitum.
Now that the Right are in control, we need to learn reasoned discourse, even among ourselves.