Posted on 01/30/2006 5:57:36 AM PST by ken5050
"This is NOT the home of a party proletarion worker"
DiFi's hubby is an investment banker, on the board of several companies and obviously makes a few bucks.
Richard C. Blum
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Richard C. Blum is an investment banker and the husband of United States Senator from California Dianne Feinstein. A founder of the American Himalayan Foundation, he is a managing partner Blum Capital Partners, LP, an investment firm, and has a net worth of over $50 million. [1]
He attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he received his bachelor's degree and an MBA in 1959.
On March 12, 2002, Blum was appointed by California Governor Gray Davis to a 12-year term as a Regent of the University of California.
Blum serves on the boards of the following companies:
CB Richard Ellis (Chairman) [2]
Newbridge Capital, LLC (co-Chairman) [3]
Korea First Bank [4]
Northwest Airlines
Playtex Products [5]
Glenborough Realty Trust [6]
Kinetic Concepts (jointly owned with Fremont Partners) [7]
In 1992, Feinstein was fined $190,000 for failing to disclose that Blum had guaranteed nearly $3 million in loans to fund her 1990 bid for California governor. In 1997, a Los Angeles Times article stated that while Feinstein was campaigning in the Senate for a lifting of trade sanctions against the People's Republic of China, Blum was managing millions of dollars of investments in Chinese businesses through his firm Newbridge Capital. Following a public debate about whether a conflict of interest existed, Blum announced that he would donate all of his profits from his China investments to charity. Feinstein backers declared that most investment managers have exposure to China and that the wealthy Senator is highly unlikely to have financial motivations behind her political positions.
Blum has a strong interest in Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism. In 1981 he attempted to climb Mount Everest from the Tibetan side with Sir Edmund Hillary. He is the founder of the American Himalayan Foundation, which has given millions of dollars to build hospitals and schools in Tibet and Nepal.
Translation of Clintonspeak: "Not one, but twenty or thirty missiles are targeted to our cities."
Yep, well said. At this point, I really don't care one way or the other about Chaffee. If he loses the primary, so be it. But I believe Pubbies would be better off fighting to win in PA, MN, MD or TN, rather than outright trying to DEFEAT Chaffee. RI is a blue state. Chaffee may be the best we can hope for there.
A left-wing website has published an open letter to a married Senator promising to out him as a homosexual at some "inopportune" time because he voted for cloture today on the Alito nomination. There's no indication whether the senator is a Republican or a Democrat. But the real threat that's posed here is to Democrats, because with a base this out of control, every Democrat that doesn't toe the moonbat line has a reason to be afraid. UPDATE: The site now says clearly it's a Republican senator. The point I made still stands.
Okay, I had to stop and walk away from the computer for a while to think about that.
My first impulse was let them, it will backfire big time.
My second impulse was that that it is a blackmail threat to a sitting United States senator, regardless of who it is.
So I turned it in on the FBI tip line.
I am just stunned by the vitrol from those peole.
Don't forget that as bad as it sounded, the gang of 14 has ruled the day for the Nominees!
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
I came back on this thread to see if there were any new uh developments and here you are MTR with the best caption on this day. No editing needed. :o) The lady behind him has an expression like she already knew what was happening.
Well, I had to get by a minor "head explosion" before I got there, believe me.
I sure shake my head a lot lately.
I just cannot fathom what these people are thinking. (Thank God.)
LOL.
I tried to explain that one to my husband tonight.
He was asking me why they are so freaked out about Bush and I told him he stole the election in 2000 and he said how and I said the Surpeme Court and he said what about 2004 and I said Diebold........and he looked at me like I lost my freaking mind.
I'm behind on this thread. What happened?
Leftwing liberals think it is OK to vote against what is right for personal gain, and are offering a bribe here for a vote.
I'm with the others ... Chris Dodd's father was a Sen from Ct who was censured but for God knows what ... my memory, such as it is, is that he was one of the original opinionated conservatives in the early-to-mid 60s
found this little gem at caucus.org about the older Sen. Dodd:
"I had a sense of deja vu. I'd been a designated hitter myself some thirty years ago on the very same subject before another Senatorial Judiciary Committee, this one chaired by Thomas H. Dodd of Connecticut. Dodd, a former FBI agent and Nuremberg prosecutor, was later to be censured for conduct which brought "dishonor and disrepute" on the Senate for cheating on expense accounts and pocketing campaign funds.
"Senator Dodd, under pressure, suddenly terminated his television investigation into sex and violence, with no explanation, despite the committee's early findings that violence on television had a damaging impact on young people and that these elements had been ordered into Network TV by NBC's President Robert E. Kintner.
"The Senate Ethics Committee censured Dodd for his expense accounting, but many in Washington believed Dodd should have been censured for the larger crime of submitting to network executive pressure to curtail his investigation."
G'Night to you onyx.
Thanks for the info throughout the thread, it's been very helpful, especially since I only had the time to check sporadically.
Just when you think you've seen it all......
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