Harriet Miers contributed to Hillary's election in 2000

On Feb. 20, 1999, while Harriet Miers was managing the law firm of Locke Liddell from the firm's Dallas office, she contributed $415 to the law firm's political action committee. Federal Election Commission reports show that on May 19, 2000, Locke Liddell's PAC contributed $1,000 to Hillary Rodham Clinton's Senate Campaign Committee. For an unexplained reason, Harriet Miers listed herself as a "self-employed attorney," according to the FEC Report on her 1999 contribution to the Locke Liddell PAC.

FEC records also show a $500 contribution on Feb. 15, 2000 by the Locke Liddell PAC to Democrat Nicholas Lampson, who ran unsuccessfully against Tom DeLay. No Locke Liddell contributions to Congressman DeLay appear in the FEC records.

Locke Liddell's contributions also reached out to out-of-state Democratic congressmen. According to FEC records, on July 27, 2000, the Locke Liddell PAC contributed $1,000 to Richard Gephardt's congressional re-election campaign in Missouri. Locke Liddell also supported Democrats in Louisiana, contributing $1,000 to Mary Landrieu, on Dec. 4, 2004, and $1,000 to the campaign of Louisana Congressman William Jennings Jefferson on June 6,2008.

Locke Liddell's PAC contributed to the re-election campaign of Houston Democratic Congressman Kenneth Edward Bentsen Jr., nephew of Congressman Lloyd Bentsen. The law firm also supported the congressional campaigns of Texas Democrats Lloyd Doggett, Chet Edwards, Martin Frost, Sheila Jackson Lee, and Max Sandlin. In 2000, three separate contributions were made to the campaign of Texas Democrat Regina Montoya Coggins, who ran unsuccessfully against Congressman Pete Sessions – the records also reflect two contributions to Pete Sessions in 2000.

Of the 24 candidates supported by Locke Liddell's PAC in the years 1999-2000, a majority of 14 were to Democrats. These were years in which Harriet Miers was co-managing partner of the law firm.

Harriet Miers has already indicated that she switched from Democrat to Republican, suggesting she voted for Ronald Reagan, despite making campaign contributions to Al Gore and Bill Clinton in the 1990s. Until now, there had been no discussion that Harriet Miers' campaign contributions had also ended up supporting Hillary Clinton, as well as opposing the re-elections of Majority Leader Tom Delay and Republican Texas Congressman Pete Sessions.

The records came to light over the weekend, in an FEC response to a request by the Republican Study Committee to see Harriet Miers' campaign contributions, dating back to 1980. Searching the FEC records for the contributions made by Locke Liddell's PAC brought to light the 2000 contribution to Hillary Clinton's campaign and the contributions made to oppose the re-election of Majority Leader Tom DeLay.

The Republican Study Committee is a group of over 100 conservative House Republicans, chaired by Representative Mike Pence of Indiana.

From Cautor's other post, you can see that donations were made to Dick Gephardt, Shiela Jackson Lee, etc.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1499592/posts

Locke Liddell PAC Contributions to Democrats
Republican Study Committee/FEC ^ | October 3, 2005 | Cautor

Posted on 10/09/2005 5:42:02 PM CDT 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.

Did you also know about this:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1498195/posts?q=1&&page=201
"Miers' time on Dallas City Council provides some insight"
Miers was one of 10 Dallas council members to unanimously approve a 1989 agenda item that revised minimum height, weight and vision requirements for Dallas firefighters to facilitate "promotion of certain ranks in the Fire Department," particularly women.

The agenda item's title: "Implementation of Fire Department Affirmative Action Plan."

It is very interesting. Which goes hand in hand with this:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1498109/posts

In the late 1990s, as a member of the advisory board for Southern Methodist University's law school, Ms. Miers pushed for the creation of an endowed lecture series in women's studies named for Louise B. Raggio, one of the first women to rise to prominence in the Texas legal community ...Ms. Miers, whom President Bush announced on Monday as his choice to fill the Supreme Court seat being vacated by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, not only advocated for the lecture series, but also gave money and solicited donations to help get it off the ground ... A feminist icon, Gloria Steinem, delivered the series's first lecture, in 1998.

There are certain individuals here that are actively trying to discredit any sort of information...

There sure are, and you're one of them.

This article was posted four hours ago and thoroughly discreded then and 2 or 3 days ago when it was first posted.

And I am waiting for the hearings; in the meantime, I'm watching who's stirring the pot by posting bogus stories about the nominee -- and wondering why they are doing it.

BTW, "certain individuals" around here are gutless wonders and don't have the nerve to say things to people faces.

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