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"We will not be silent. We are your bad conscience. The White Rose will give you no rest."
Posted on 10/25/2007 7:52:37 AM PDT by wagglebee
Florida GOP voters made a HUGE mistake in voting for Crist rather than Gallagher.
I hope some good will come from this when they realize their mistake, and research candidates better after this.
this via e-mail:
“The following data was published Sept.3, 06 St. Petersburg Times (Fla.) on the 2 Republican and 2 Democratic Candidates for FLA. GOVERNOR and the question on voting for or against AMNESTY:
In today’s St. Petersburg Times, there was an article in which four main contenders for Florida Governor were asked a series of questions. I direct your attention to the two questions the paper asked the candidates about immigration:
State: 20 questions for the candidates for governor:
“IMMIGRATION
15. Do you support a federal proposal for illegal immigrants who learn English and pay fines and abide by the law to earn citizenship?
Jim Davis: Yes ——— Rod Smith: Yes ——— Charlie Crist: Yes ——— Tom Gallagher: No
16. Should we license illegal immigrants to drive?
Jim Davis: No ——— Rod Smith: Yes(with guest worker program). -——— Charlie Crist: Yes (in limited circumstances) ——— Tom Gallagher: No”
The Republican Party of Florida boosted his (Crist) campaign with a donation of over $275,000.
http://www.thestraights.com/news/charlie-crist.htm
In 1995, the newsletter of a group called Choice in Dying listed seven organizations in a “Guide to Right-to-Die Organizations.” At least four of them (Compassion in Dying, Death with Dignity Education Center, the Oregon Death with Dignity Legal Defense and Education Center, and Choice in Dying itself) have attracted funding from large foundations.
One such foundation is George Soros’s Open Society Institute (OSI). The OSI, through its Project on Death in America, gives millions of dollars for enhancing end-of-life care and none of the Project’s money is used for assisted suicide purposes. But the OSI provides grants for assisted suicide advocacy through OSI’s President’s Fund in its U.S. Programs office.
http://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/magazines/2001/january/marker.html
They are crooks:
http://energycommerce.house.gov/Investigations/MedicarePred.050707.NYtimes.article.pdf
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"We will not be silent. We are your bad conscience. The White Rose will give you no rest."
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WellCare Health Plans of Tampa, a firm which has made scads of money administering government health care, and huge profits for George Soros, who was once its largest shareholder, has been raided by the FBI and shuttered. The St. Petersburg Times reports:
The company, which went public in July 2004 at $17 a share, has had a meteoric rise, with its stock more than doubling in the past 12 months. On Wednesday, WellCare's shares dropped $6.77 or 5.5 percent, to $115.50 before trading was halted about 11 a.m. It ended the day down $7.10 at $115.17.............................................
Soros-related firm raided by FBI (updated)
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Crist raised sixty million and there's no way it was from Floridians. We're still waiting for prop tax and insurance reform.
I wonder how Wellcare patients made out. Maybe they’ll let us know.
bttt
When Crist was Fla AG, there were 94,000 cases of Medicaid Fraud. I guess he shredded those before he became our globally warmed governor. He’s been with Bubba.
The donations were probably done to make sure no one investigated the organization. ...ha ha ha....PSYCH, we caught you anyway!
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The Human Life Foundation's Defender of Life annual award dinner this month was an eye opener. The award recipient was Rep. Chris Smith of New Jersey, and in the brochure noting his accomplishments I learned that the congressman is co-chairman of the bipartisan pro-life caucus. Bipartisan? In amazement, I asked him if there really are pro-life Democrats in Congress. "Oh yes," he assured me, "about 30." He went on to name one, but I'm not going to repeat the name because he and the others probably get enough grief from other congressional Democrats.
A senior editor for National Review, Ramesh Ponnuru, introduced Mr. Smith. In his book, "The Party of Death" Mr. Ponnuru makes no bones about which political party deserves that description. I'm not sure whether it's wise to use such hyperbolic language about the nation's majority political group, and yet maybe strong words are overdue in describing the culture that's being promoted today. Abortion on demand, embryonic destruction, euthanasia, and animal rights now displace human rights. It wasn't the GOP pulling the plug on the disabled Terry Schiavo.
My sisters are Democrats, and one refuses to vote for any Republican. They are also Catholics, and Catholics have traditionally voted Democrat. I'm still amazed by how loyal Catholics are to a political machine that champions causes directly opposed to church teaching. Although I have never been a registered Democrat, I've voted for and campaigned for that party because it once fought for basic human rights. That is no longer the case. Senator Miller, who formerly represented Georgia in the upper chamber, had it exactly right when he wrote his book, "A National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat." He frequently says that he did not leave the Democratic Party. It left him. The Human Life Foundation, based in Manhattan, publishes a review of essays and reprints of articles exploring all aspects of respecting life. A self-described Jewish atheist, Nat Hentoff, was honored by the foundation a few years ago, and he declared that respect for life is not a religious issue: It is a fundamental human rights issue that has been clouded and deliberately distorted for a left-wing political agenda. The real horror of the Terry Schiavo case, Mr. Hentoff insists, is the danger it unleashed to the rights of the disabled................
Puzzling Over Why Catholics Back Democrats
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Now what does this all mean about the anointed candidates? The mantra of the far left purports that most Americans wanted innocent Terri to suffer the death she received and that those were bad who thought an innocent should be helped. We have seen this mantra applied time and again in thinly veiled phrases so we don't make this stuff up.
Now how does this comport with elite candidates saying the very same thing? Say it ain't so, candidates! Tell Bobby Schindler you were mistaken and didn't really want his sister killed!
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 (UPI) -- Former U.S. Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., joined other GOP front-runners this week in saying Congress should have stayed out of the case of Terri Schiavo.
Thompson had already left the Senate in 2005 when many Republicans voted to get the case into federal courts. Florida courts had ruled that Schiavo's husband had the right to have her feeding tube removed, 15 years after she lapsed into an apparent vegetative state.
While a number of Republican politicians and pundits embraced the cause of Schiavo's parents and siblings at the time, most have moved away from the case, The Boston Globe reported. Few office-seekers or attendees at the "Values Voters" Summit in Washington last weekend mentioned Schiavo, even though her brother, Bobby Schindler, was there.
Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kansas, who backed the Schindlers in 2005 and continues to support their position, ended his presidential campaign last week.
U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., voted with other Republicans on the case in 2005 but started backing away from that position quickly and now says it should have been a state matter. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani say they agree.
Republicans back away from Schiavo
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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- With Fred Thompson becoming the latest Republican presidential candidate to say that the federal and state government shouldn't have been involved in trying to save Terri Schiavo's life, her brother says he wants to talk with the GOP hopefuls.
He says they would be more likely to support the actions Congress and the Florida legislature took to try to help his family prevent her former husband from subjecting her to a painful euthanasia death if they knew more about her case.
"I want to personally talk with them about Terri's case," Bobby Schindler told the Boston Globe. "They need to be fully informed. There obviously exists a lot of confusion about my sister's situation."
Schindler told the newspaper that he plans to write each candidate a letter about Terri's circumstances and the painful 13-day starvation and dehydration death her former husband Michael made her endure.................
Terri Schiavo's Brother Wants to Talk With GOP Candidates About Her
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Giuliani, Romney and McCain earlier this week at a debate sponsored by Fox News Channel and the Republican Party of Florida said they disapproved of the decision by Congress in 2005 to become involved in the Terry Schiavo case, an indication of a "sharp departure from past Republican strategy" on end-of-life care for patients, the Boston Globe reports. According to Giuliani, the decision on care for Schiavo should have remained with the family. Romney said that the "decision of Congress to get involved was a mistake," and McCain said that Congress "acted too hastily." Huckabee said, "I wasn't sure how the federal government had a role in all that" (Kranish, Boston Globe, 10/25).
Republican Candidates Discuss End-of-Life Care
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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Rudy Giuliani continues to drop in national and state polls following a seminal survey issued just two weeks ago by the Des Moines Register. That poll was the first to show Giuliani's campaign hurting as more Republicans recognize his pro-abortion view and newer polls show his numbers continuing to drop.
National, State Polls Show Support for Pro-Abortion Rudy Giuliani Dropping
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May 6, 2005
Ownership switch
The proxy also disclosed that financier and philanthropist George Soros no longer is involved with WellCare. Soros Private Equity Investors had owned about 80 percent of WellCare at the time of the IPO.
In December, Soros Private Equity Investors sold 5.6 million shares for about $170 million.
In April, Soros spun off the $1.3-billion private equity group and the new firm was renamed TowerBrook Capital Partners. TowerBrook is headed by Neal Moszkowski, who previously led Soros Private Equity. Moszkowski also is chairman of the WellCare board.
TowerBrook is now the single largest shareholder in WellCare, with 16.7 million shares or 43.2 percent of the stock outstanding on April 25.
Gov. Jon S. Corzine on Tuesday marked the start of construction on what he hailed as a world-class research facility many hope will make the state a global leader in stem cell work. "The Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey will serve as the nexus of cutting edge scientific breakthroughs that will improve and save the lives of millions of our fellow citizens," Corzine said in an afternoon ceremony near the construction site.
Corzine hails start of stem cell facility
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This just in from the WSJ. Could it be WellCare will be on WelFare?
I get so confused because I keep mistaking soros for a contageous disease.
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WellCare Health Plans Inc.'s market value was cut by more than half when the stock reopened Thursday following news of a government raid of the managed-care provider's Florida headquarters.
On Wednesday, state and federal law-enforcement agents armed with a federal search warrant raided WellCare's headquarters in Tampa, Fla.
The New York Stock Exchange subsequently halted trading of shares in WellCare, which provides managed-care plans for 2.3 million Medicare and Medicaid participants nationwide. Before the halt, shares had fallen 5.8% Wednesday to $115.17...........................
WellCare Stock Plummets Following Raid on Headquarters
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Great column by Colon. Thanks for posting the link.
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