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To: cajungirl

There was a three-billionaire meeting before the last election, I believe. Unfortunately I now forget who the other two were, but they leaked out. The very fact that these meetings are taking place is kept pretty quiet, because it doesn't fit terribly well with their image of being the "party of the people."


16 posted on 10/28/2006 6:34:45 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Cicero

The meeting’s organizer was Peter B. Lewis, the seventy-year-old reclusive chairman of the Progressive Corporation, an insurance company based in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Flying in from Arizona was John Sperling, an octogenarian businessman who in 1976 created the for-profit University of Phoenix.

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Herb and Marion Sandler, a California couple in their seventies, came to Aspen looking for ways to give back to a country that had allowed them to prosper. The founders of Golden West Financial Corporation, a savings-and-loan company worth seventeen billion dollars...

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The wealthiest participant at this meeting of hard-core partisans—and the one whose presence was the most surprising—was George Soros...

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http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/041018fa_fact3?041018fa_fact3



17 posted on 10/28/2006 8:12:47 PM PDT by rogue yam
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