Posted on 02/11/2008 8:01:48 PM PST by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
---snip---
The Institute works at the state level as well to implement key election reforms that will help open up the political process. This includes promoting open primaries, fair redistricting, public campaign funding, lowering barriers to voter registration, facilitating ballot access, and encouraging an independent judiciary.
Thanks! (but I think I goofed—big time!)
Did I say PageMaker? It should have been File Maker (sorry!)
FWIW, they got 2 copies of “File Maker Pro 6” in June 2003 for about $500 bucks.
Then, in August 2003, they purchased “FM Pro Unlimited” for $864.
There sure is no shortage in the sleazy-history file, is there? Kinda reminds me of Rudy.
Thank you, jellybean—but I goofed.
I should have written File Maker, not PageMaker. (See post above).
Are they the same/similar—or totally different?
IGRA...Indian Gaming Regulation Act...
Wonder if we can think of that as an underground funnel of funds from the Indian Gaming establishments back thru various channels, back to the Reform Institute, or OSI, i.e., back to Soros, and thru Soros’ various entities, back to McLame in the form of donations, contributions, payroll funding of his ‘volunteer’ workers etc...This is all just conjecture, but you never know when that ‘smoking gun’ might accidentally go off...LOL....You know that when things happen at the very top levels, it is never a straight line from A to Z..It is a very complicated trail..this could be on to something but it could take a long time to really know...
Wikipedia has an article with a notation that the FBI hjas very limited resources applied to Indian Gaming...No wonder- it is a separate Nation within a Nation...Made for Soros !
BTW, Indian Gaming has nor far surpassed all the income generated by Atlantic City and Las Vegas combined, per the Wiki article...
Wikipedia article URL
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Gaming_Regulatory_Act
WHOAH! So McCain's little institute has been working hard to change the primary process, change the districting (California attempts have been to move it behind closed doors and shut out conservatives), and make sure that only big money talks. I wonder what he's been doing in the balloting access department.
What the heck does "encouraging an independent judiciary" mean?
I wouldn’t doubt that California alone will top Las Vegas at the rate we are going. The people of California just passed ballot measures that approved an additional 17,000 slot machines at only 4 casinos (of 53 in the state). It was reported that those four now exceeded the slot operations at the five largest casinos in Vegas.
All done on soverign land with limited regulation or oversight. They also got exemptions from some of the environmental laws. And I’m wondering if those exclusions will also apply to whatever crazy global warming caps will be placed on industry (causing average-joe-businessman to close his business while a competing business is opened on the reservation with an Indian front-man).
Yeah... conjecture... but it all seems to be leading this way.
Republican presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., left, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-SC., and Florida Republican Gov. Charlie Crist stand on a balcony of McCain's Phoenix, Ariz., home as the sun begins to set Tuesday evening Feb. 5, 2008. McCain waited out Super Tuesday election returns with friends, supporters and advisors at his home
Indian gaming phony sovereign nations is a wall to wall scam. I’ve posted this many times. Now it seems McCain helped start this whole mess
Locally the tracks are taxed at 65% on their slots and Indians nothing. Crist just signed a pathetic new compact with the Seminoles that gives Florida minimal taxes
“....encouraging an independent judiciary.”
Since everything else seems to be slanted towards the liberal way, i’d take it that an independent judiciary means a judiciary divorced from the moderates and conservatives who may have put it in place, only to become a liberal and activist judiciary bent on promoting social change....They don’t want constructionist Judges, they want activist ones, who are willing to use the Constitution as the basis for change...
I have an inquisitive mind. It's a curse, I tell ya!
;-)
FileMaker Pro is a cross-platform database application from FileMaker Inc. (a subsidiary of Apple Inc.), known for its combination of power and ease of use. It is also noted for the integration of the database engine with its GUI-based interface, which allows users to modify the database by dragging new elements into the layouts/screens/forms that provide the user interface. This results in a "quasi-object" development environment of a kind that is still largely unique in the "industrial strength" database world.-------------FileMaker was one of a handful of database applications released for the Apple Macintosh in the 1980s.
FileMaker has compatible versions for both the Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows operating systems and can be networked simultaneously to a mixed Windows and Mac OS X user base. FileMaker is also scalable, being offered in desktop, server, web-delivery and mobile configurations.
This sounds like it would be useful to sort out the McCain Connections:
Databases organize your information in lists (like spreadsheets) but, unlike spreadsheets, you can view your information as forms. A form can look like a paper form or can be designed as an online form. Forms provide a great way to get at the details. View all your projects in a list, and with a click see the details on a particular project in a form view. Forms also help with data entry.Databases ensure your information is accurate. Attractive pop-up lists, auto-complete fields, and other features make data entry fast and consistent.
That's kind of where I ended up considering the folks we've sound so far. An "independent judiciary"... meaning a judiciary independent of the Constitution. I'm wondering what actions they would be taking to accomplish this, or whatever their goal is for "independence." Filing (or setting up) landmark lawsuits?
They can run, but they can't hide. Wayback Machine archives
The Clinton Machine never sleeps. But to answer your question, first Tuesday in November, 2008.
Errr...that's when the nightmare begins.
Hmmm... so what kind of major database effort was the Reform Institute doing?
More questions!
Thanks, jellybean!
<< “lowering barriers to voter registration, facilitating ballot access...”
And these two mean: Making it easier for crimigrants and criminaliens, to VOTE!
DG
p.s. And dead people, too.
I’d call this a “Cha Ching” Ping....
;-)
Now do people realize why McCain pushed the Amnesty of Illegals so hard????
I had heard this a long time ago....but its good to see it out in the open.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.