John McCain funded by Soros since 2001

WND ^ | February 12, 2008 | Jerome R. Corsi

[Tigen]

Candidate's Reform Institute also accepted funds from Teresa Kerry

As Sen. John McCain assumes the GOP front-runner mantle, his long-standing, but little-noticed association with left-wing donors such as George Soros and Teresa Heinz Kerry is receiving new attention among his Republican critics.

In 2001, McCain founded the Alexandria, Va.-based Reform Institute as a vehicle to receive funding from George Soros' Open Society Institute and Teresa Heinz Kerry's Tides Foundation and several other prominent non-profit organizations.

McCain used the institute to promote his political agenda and provide compensation to key campaign operatives between elections.

In 2006, the Arizona senator was forced to sever his formal ties with the Reform Institute after a controversial $200,000 contribution from Cablevision came to light. McCain solicited the donation for the Reform Institute using his membership on the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. In a letter to the Federal Communications Commission, he supported Cablevision's push to introduce the more profitable al la carte pricing, rather than packages of TV programming.

[calcowgirl]

Apologies in advance for the 'all caps.' It is cut-and-pasted.

http://www.guidestar.org/pqShowGsReport.do?npoId=679906

The Reform Institute:

Mission

THE REFORM INSTITUTE, INC. PRIMARY EXEMPT PURPOSE IS TO SERVE AS AN INDEPENDENT VOICE WORKING TO STRENGTHEN THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR DEMOCRACY. THE INSTITUE CHAMPIONS THE NATIONAL INTEREST BY FORMULATING AND ADVOCATING MEANINGFUL REFORM IN VITAL AREAS OF PUBLIC POLICY, INCLUDING CAMPAIGN FINANCE AND ELECTION REFORM, CLIMATE STEWARDSHIP, HOMELAND SECURITY AND IMMIGRATION REFORM.

[LADY J]

From the article: "Yet, the Reform Institute still employs the McCain campaign's Hispanic outreach director, Juan Hernandez, as a senior fellow of its Comprehensive Immigration Reform Initiative."

Dirty - dirty - dirty!!!!!

[floriduh voter]

At this point, radical islamists are taking hispanic names and some hispanics are taking muslim names. No doubt Homeland Security is on top of this w/the FBI.

(in my dreams).

[pissant]

All with a liberal worldview.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Ping. ;)

[Rob112586]

Big surprise.... the GOP is running a dead horse. That’s the only explanation I can come up with. A left wing and a right wing on the same decrepit bird. We want border security, gun rights, ect but the GOP screws us over time and again by “comprimising.” The liberals want out of Iraq, want Gitmo closed, ect but the DNC screws them over by “comprimising.” Did you ever get the feeling we’re all being laughed at? I know, I know... I’ll put my tinfoil back on now.

[sagmanagain]

Don’t we have any billionaires on our side? Why are most of the deep-pocket guys (Buffet, Soros, Gates) lefties? Any political science PhD candidates looking for a thesis topic? How about, “The Silver Spoon: Daddy Warbucks Lists to Port”?

[floriduh voter]

A work of art!

[isrul]

will Limbaugh, Hannity, or Levin address this tomorrow? How about the schmuck BOR? Beck? Ingraham?

[Just mythoughts]

B T T T

[floriduh voter]

Soros and McCain “Me and my shadow (govt).”

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

[Just mythoughts]

This thread is for you .... read and learn....

[redstateconfidential]

[Gator113]

Not me...I voted for Romney.

[redstateconfidential]

[littlehouse36]

“Don’t we have any billionaires on our side...”

Romney. But he was practically lynched because of it.

[floriduh voter]

The Reform Institute got it wrong. WE ARE A REPUBLIC being screwed by the dems and the gop.

[matthew fuller]

"little-noticed association with left-wing donors such as George Soros and Teresa Heinz Kerry"

If this doesn't send him into a complete 'roid rage hissy fit, nothing will.

[pissant]

I reckon. But one thing about the article that is troublesome, he makes a case without showing what donations Soro’s group or TeyRaysuh’s Tides Foundation actually gave to McCain’s institute.