Posted on 03/11/2005 8:59:18 AM PST by edcoil
Edited on 03/11/2005 7:46:18 PM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]
Senator John McCain's Reform Institute has suffered some bad press recently due to its involvement in an influence-peddling scandal with Cablevision. As usual, however, mainstream media have failed to go to the root of the matter.
Founded on June 26, 2001, McCain's Reform Institute for Campaign and Election Issues has long served as a nerve center for the so-called "campaign finance reform" movement – a movement which has done nothing to clean up campaign finance, but has done a great deal to empower federal judges and government bureaucrats to regulate political speech, in defiance of the Bill of Rights.
Now here's the kicker. The list of donors published on the Reform Institute's Web site reads like a veritable Who's Who of radical, leftwing foundations, including the Tides Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Proteus Fund and George Soros' Open Society Institute. (hat tip, Winfield Myers)
Not surprisingly, in view of the above associations, Arianna Huffington serves on the Reform Institute's Advisory Board. Huffington has long acted as a front for George Soros' "campaign finance reform" efforts. In 2000, she organized the so-called Shadow Conventions which provided John McCain with a bully pulpit to stump for his now-infamous McCain-Feingold Act. George Soros shouldered about one third of the cost of the Shadow Conventions.
You forgot something...
Thanks Ernest, but all, check out Richard Poe’s post:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1360852/posts?page=33#33
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Group’s publication offers perspectives on immigration
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Sierra Vista Herald, December 28, 2007
By Jonathon Shacat
BISBEE — A nonpartisan public policy group has compiled a collection of essays that it hopes will better inform the public on the immigration debate and set the stage for fixing the system.
The 47-page anthology was recently released by the Reform Institute. It is called “Many Voices, One Dream: A Collection of Insights and Recommendations for Achieving Meaningful Immigration Reform.”
During a phone interview, Chris Dreibelbis, communications director for the Reform Institute, said the immigration debate is “important,” but it has been reduced to “talking points and slogans.”
“People are throwing words out like amnesty and border security, and there is not much scratching beneath the surface to really look at the fact that at the heart of all this is a very badly broken immigration system,” he said...
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From the Sierra Vista Herald:
Group’s publication offers perspectives on immigration
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He said there is “no easy solution.” Building a fence and holding workplace raids are not “a silver bullet,” he said.
The Reform Institute hopes the publication will allow some different perspectives to be heard.
“If you look past the slogans and name-calling and if you look at the whole situation, then that is a good starting point for finding real solutions to the problem,” Dreibelbis said.
The publication has four chapters. They cover the topics of “The Human Element in Immigration,” “Securing our Borders; Protecting our Values,” “Sustaining Economic Growth Requires Maintaining Our Commitment to Immigration” and “Moving Forward.”
There are 14 short essays from those who are personally touched by immigration, as well as experts in fields like demographics, economics, health, history, religion and security.
It also contains the winning entries from a “Design Your Own Portion of the Border Fence” campaign.
“The task of fixing our broken immigration system is daunting. In the end, solving the problem will require the kind of unity and shared commitment that have served us so well in the past and have made this nation the shining beacon that it is,” says the conclusion of the anthology.
Dreibelbis said additional stories will be added to the publication in the future.
“This is essentially a living document,” he said.
herald/review Reporter Jonathon Shacat can be reached at 515-4693 or by e-mail at jonathon.shacat@bisbeereview.net
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From the Right, Both Acceptance and Distrust of McCain
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RINO McPain is a disaster. If that’s all the Pub Party has to offer, forget about the WH.
The conservative party.
Do we want this man as president?He’s not only accepted cash from GSoros,but his “Reform Institute for Campaign and Election Issues...also received funding from ultra-leftist sources such as the Tides Foundation,the Proteus Fund,Echosphere,etc.....” Also worth noting:”Almost all of McCains funders who have contributed more than $50,000 are left-wing foundations.”Page 143-”The Shadow Party”-Horowitz-Poe.
BTTT
I doubt that he would accept it.
You can bet if McCain is getting money from Soros, so is Huckabee.
Hillary and Romney may be the cleanest , with regard to Soros’s money....he (Soros) definitely is trying to buy the White House.
Why? What happened to it? I just got here???
Just found out the man I voted for who barely lost in my winner-take-all CONgressional District has bailed out on even his reluctant voters!!!
Ernest! What are you doing to all these R/C's and Non R/C's? (Republican Conservatives)(grin)
Probably too late now - though I’m still voting for Romney on Tuesday. I think I’ll write in Hunter in the general.
There is nothing on this earth that will get me to vote for McCain.
Probably too late now - though I’m still voting for Romney on Tuesday. I think I’ll write in Hunter in the general.
There is nothing on this earth that will get me to vote for McCain.
Now it seems that Romney has withdrawn....
nightmare scenerio?
how well does Condi Rice get along with McKane?
I hope everyone sees what has gone on here. The establishment DC Republicans managed to get rid of all the candidates but McCain, their man.
They intended to run this whole campaign as a anybody but Hillary campaign. Well Obama is going to win the Dem nod and we are now set up to lose. And...we will.
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