Here's a barrel.
That's you down there, scraping the bottom of it.
Posted on 10/09/2005 3:42:02 PM PDT by Cautor
In response to a congressional inquiry, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) provided a list of documents detailing the record of political donations by SCOTUS nominee Harriet Miers from 1980 to the present. (It should be noted that the list provided includes two donations recorded by the FEC that do not in fact belong to Ms. Miers). The document provided by the FEC can be linked from the Republican Study Committee (RSC) web site http://johnshadegg.house.gov/RSC/
Page 7 of the document provides Miers' contributions for the 1999-2000 election cycle. On 28 Apr 2000, Miers donated $1,000 to the Bush-Cheney 2000 Compliance Committee, Inc., listing herself as an attorney employed by Locke Liddell & Sapp. Soon after, on 17 May 2000, Ms. Miers donated $415 to the Locke Lddell & Sapp LLP PAC listing herself as a "self employed attorney." Following that, on 1 Jun 2000, she donated $1,000 to Jon Newton For Congress, listing herself simply as an "attorney." Then, the next month, on 13 Jul 2000, Ms. Miers donated $500 to the Good Government Fund, listing herselfy as an employee of "Locke Liddell & Sapp."
Wikipedia has a bio for Ms. Miers. Among other things it says: "Miers worked in private practice for the Dallas firm of Locke, Liddell & Sapp (and predecessor firms prior to mergers) from 1971 until 2001...When the merger that created Locke, Liddell & Sapp took place in 1999, she became the co-managing partner of a lelgal business with more than 400 lawyers." From this, it would seem Miers was an attorney/co-managing partner with Lock Liddell when the above contributions were made.
It is instructive to look at the "Locke Liddell & Sapp LLP PAC" to see what the PAC did with its money. This information is available by conducting an on-line search of FEC records for Committees and Candidates Supporter/Opposed. The query is: http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/com_supopp/1999_C00117861 You can get to this by searching for individual contributions by Miers and then for the one to this PAC, click on the Report # C00117861.
The list shows a number of Republicans who received money from this PAC.
But, the list also shows contributions to the following Democrats: Kenneth Bentsen; John Breaux; Hillary Rodham Clinton [Hillary Rodham Clinton for US Senate Committee, Inc.]; Regina Montoya Coggins; Lloyd Doggett; Chet Edwards; Martin Frost; Richard Gephardt; "Gene" Green; William Jennings Jefferson; Nicholas Lampson; Mary Landrieu; Sheila Jackson Lee; and Max Sandlin.
I count 11 contributions to Republicans/Republican groups but 14 or 15 for Democrats/Democrat groups.
It appears this Lock Liddell & Sapp PAC was operating during the time Harriet Miers was co-managing partner of the firm.I do not know who decided where to put the money she and many other individuals contributed to the PAC or whether she had any part in the decision.
Dump her
"Hillary Rodham Clinton [Hillary Rodham Clinton for US Senate Committee, Inc"
Hmmmm.
She plays both sides of the street. I don't trust her.
I should have given this thread a different name. Not many are probably that familiar with the name of her law firm. Thanks for the reply.
ping
why not ask for the thread to be pulled or simply re-post it with miers in the name?? say "Miers law firm" or something like that. this is important info.
this doesn't matter.
What matters is that she made cookies for sunday school and voted for reagain in 1984 along with nearly every other adult in the U.S.
Harriet Miers isn't "one of us." She isn't "one of" anyone---just a fence-straddler "lookin' out for ol' No. 1." Thanks for the post.
don't forget the one about how she shares M&M's that have GWB's autograph on them!
you should start posting this among various threads :)
you know that if I did that, we'd just get more contradictions.
"she has experience running a law firm" is what they cite when they want to make her look good, but they'll probably say "she doesn't really have control over where the law firm donates money" if the hillary donations are brought up.
"why not ask for the thread to be pulled or simply re-post it with miers in the name?? say "Miers law firm" or something like that. this is important info."
It seems to me the first time anyone has looked into the activities of the firm's PAC itself. It surprised me they were so heavy on Democrap support. Not good they were supporting Hillary Clinton IMO
"Harriet Miers isn't "one of us." She isn't "one of" anyone---just a fence-straddler "lookin' out for ol' No. 1." Thanks for the post."
I've listened carefully to both Bush and how others have described Miers. I haven't heard Bush use the word conservative although I may have missed that characterization of Miers. I hear him say that she "won't legislate from the bench." To me, that's an ambiguous comment. Certainly, we want Miers and the SCOTUS to knock down unconstitutional laws. Would that be legislating from the bench? I want something more substantive. So far, everything I've heard in her favor comes down to the TRUST ME argument. Reagan said trust but verify. In this case, by the time we verify, it's going to be too late if we don't like the answer.
"What matters is that she made cookies for sunday school and voted for reagain in 1984 along with nearly every other adult in the U.S."
It's pretty bad when the first act by the RNC is to put out talking points to convice us of her credentials. And, yes, when they tell us things like being hard working, and making cookies or whatever, you know you have a stealth candidate on your hands. I want a candidate with a known and proven conservative record.
"Yep company pacs have a way of donating to politicians of all stripes. That is why I never would donate to a company pac when I was an employee. I gave my donations to the candidates of my choosing."
In the Miers case, I'd say there's a very good probably she helped decide where to put the money--she was managing co-partner of the law firm. Did you get to decide whether to support Hillary Clinton or not?
Here's a barrel.
That's you down there, scraping the bottom of it.
ping
"don't forget the one about how she shares M&M's that have GWB's autograph on them!"
Yes, that should seal the deal for her. Except I hear that her "progressive" record also includes information about her testimony in a 1990 voting rights lawsuit that suggests that she would vote like O’Connor on affirmative action. If you add that to her reported advice on the Michigan Supreme Court case, and the feminist lecture series she helped start, that could help balance out the M&M evidence in her favor.
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