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.
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Very nice find.
Yes, it does have all the earmarks—if you’ll excuse the expression. This faux consensus model seems to be in play on just about every liberal cause, too.
That was probably the plan for the “immigration reform” end, too, but creating the illusion of overwhelming grassroots support is much harder when normally apolitical people are exposed to the issue at every step of their daily lives and have already formed opinions; from the emergency room to the workplace, to local crime, to every automatic phone menu that makes you sit through Spanish language options before you can get on with business.
The jpeg. Crist has no behind too busy tanning to eat. Lindsey Graham has a rino behind and McCain’s behind will be behind in November. Crist is NEVER in Tallahasee. To save money, close the Fla gov mansion cuz he’s not there.
RON PAUL’s out. He said he’s definitely NOT FOR MCCAIN. Now I have something in common with Dr. Paul.
REFERENCE In the run-up to the passage of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 — a.k.a. McCain-Feingold — Pew spread around more than $40 million to grass-roots front groups like Common Cause, the Campaign Finance Institute and the inaptly named Center for Public Integrity.
Several other major liberal foundations — including the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Ford Foundation and George Soros' Open Society Institute — colluded with Pew to give $123 million between 1994 and 2004 to promote the regulation of political speech.
If there's a ping list please put me on it. The text alone will be worth it. : )
Yeah - he can see what the rest of the GOP can’t or refuses to see nor will he bow to their wishes. Along with Hunter. Politicians with spines - how rare!
Special interest domination of the political realm is a symptom of interventionist economic policy - and as we see here, things like campaign finance reform are akin to shuffling the deck chairs on a sinking ship. The levers of government control over private enterprise need to be severed - there is no other solution.
More broadly, the Keynesian/Fabian/Marxist orthodoxy needs to be extinguished before global communo-fascists control American enterprise, politics, the legal system, and the borders; and before they usurp our natural liberties.
And it goes beyond America - western civilization itself will be destroyed under the auspices of internationalism, where the third-world, socialist Europe, and useful idiots here in America will claim vast global authority and transnational powers; the justifications for the elimination of national sovereignty and individual liberty will span from global warming/climate change, to poverty, terrorism, energy resources, and "human rights". Opposition will eventually be considered a hate crime against humanity.
There is a line in the sand, with individuals either welcoming this utopia dystopia, or opposing it. Those politicians on the wrong side of the line are traitors, and all are indistinguishable regarding the most important long-term interests of America. None deserve the support of patriots and lovers of liberty, and all deserve our scorn.
You may not support these anti-American policies, viewing as sane pragmatism the support of politicians with globalist intent (voting moreso against their opposition). The trouble is that your pragmatic support will be taken as implicit support of these policies. When less than 2% of voting Americans are estimated to oppose continuation in the internationalist direction, it will be taken as a mandate, and as a guarantee of stability in the face of anti-American reforms.
"serve as an independent voice working to strengthen the foundations of our democracy""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
- immigration reform
Through Cecilia Martinez (paid Executive Director of McCain's institute), they seem to be closely aligned with the Indian Movement, possibly tying into tribal gaming expansion but also used to advance the whacked out environmental agenda.
So, can we just take McCain's leadership sins in CFR and Shamnesty and factor them up by a factor of 2+ ?
My guess is there is a whole lot more to know if we keep digging--and I don't expect the left to help expose the mission that both McCain and the Left seem to embrace.
So what now?
Nah, the spiked story is another one about corruption like the Keating 5. In addition to being anti-American and a totally owned subsidiary of Soros, Lewis, Heinz, etc., McCain is a thief who has been lining his pockets at taxpayers expense for the past 25 yrs. His role in the Keating scandal only slowed him down for a little bit; then he went right back at it. All this will come out as soon as the Democrats know he has the nomination in the bag.
OK now, that's it.
He's no genius, but he's been on the take since he arrived in Congress 25 yrs. ago and when Soros offered to feather his nest, he said sure. What's so difficult to understand about that or the timing? He's the one who carried the water for Soros so that Soros et.al. could buy the Democrat party, not to mention a large number of Republicans on the take, willing to sell out not just the Republican party, but also their country. How do you think Soros got control of the Democrat party? McCain-Feingold, that's how.
You don't have to be genius to figure this out, but you can wait until McCain has the nomination firmly in the bag, and then the MSM will be only too happy to spell it out in great detail for you and all the others who pay no attention until election eve.
From Captains Quarters (more links to sources at website):
* The Proteus Fund, which also opposed the Yucca Mountain repository, spending $75K to stop it. That pales in comparison to the $935K they spent on supporting gay marriage initiatives, which McCain strongly opposes. They have also spent over $800,000 funding nuclear-disarmament and antiwar causes in each of the last two years. Their Security Policy Working Group contains nothing but left-of-center groups like Project on Defense Alternatives, which calls the Iraqi elections "faulty" and predicted disaster for the Bush administration's "program of coercive transformation throughout the region."
I’ll be :) and you all have been telling me that Ron Paul was the one funded by Soros.
Inside McCain's Reform Institute, March 9, 2005Screaming Hypocrisy, March 8, 2005 [McCain, Cablevision, and the Reform Institute](snip)
As the Times notes, the Reform Institute helps keep McCain's staff gainfully employed between campaigns, allowing McCain to do less fundraising while retaining the best of the available talent. For instance, Carl Hulse and Ann Kornblut note that Rick Davis managed McCain's presidential campaign in 2000 before founding Reform Institute. Now its president, he gets over $100,000 a year from RI for "consulting services". That money allows Davis to remain available for McCain's future campaigns, and the funding he raises for RI gives him inroads for building support.
However, with Cablevision, Davis and McCain got sloppy. In an eerily reminiscent action which hearkens back to the Keating 5 scandal, McCain essentially attempted to intervene on Cablevision's behalf by writing a letter to the FCC supporting Cablevision's regulatory agenda of a la carte cable services. Less than a fortnight before, Cablevision made a six-figure donation to RI through a subsidiary, CSC Holdings, directly as a result of Davis' solicitation. Nor is that the only conflict that McCain has had with the communications industry through Davis and RI:
One donation in that category came from an elected Republican official who insisted on remaining anonymous, even to Mr. McCain, Mr. Davis said. Some donors, though, are communications industry giants who had business before the Commerce Committee when Mr. McCain was its chairman. Echosphere, a communications company started by Charles Ergen, a founder of EchoStar Communications and the DISH Network, gave $50,000 or more to the institute. So did CSC Holdings, a subsidiary of the Cablevisions Systems Corporation, headed by Charles F. Dolan, and the Chartwell Foundation, the charitable group funded by A. Jerrold Perenchio, the Univision billionaire.The stink gets worse with each new revelation. Based on my research yesterday, Davis already has many strange bedfellows for a man who is the closest political advisor to a supposedly conservative Republican. Now it appears that McCain has a track record of using RI to allow donors a roundabout way to buy influence: keeping his staff employed and this bootlicking "independent" policy group afloat.
Yes we do. All contributions are accounted for and filed with the FEC.
Additionally, on-line donors must a verify that they are eligible to contribute to Ron Paul's presidential campaign fund. They must be U.S. citizens, age 18 or over, etc.
You think there is some hidden source of funds, and that's what's keeping Dr. Paul's blimp afloat?
Have fun, and when you're done be sure to let us know who the leftists and Soros stooges are. </s>
Bufordp, Keep looking you might see it soon.
What was it we said in third grade? It takes one to know one?
Perhaps that's a true statement after all.
What am I looking for?
You said you had to look into the issue of this thread.
LOL! What is the difference? The fact that our globablist "leaders" decided to insert their influence in the ME by placing military bases there does not absolve them from blame.
Nor does it coincide with the will of the American people.
The policy has proven to be a failure, in spote of their stated "good intentions". Interfering with the internal affairs of other nations, even with "good intentions" is highly suspect, and goes contrary to the best interests of U.S. citizens.
"Using OBL’s logic to begin with is ridiculous, but to justify the jihadist actions by citing this fact is irresponsible and frankly sad."
FYI: We, or me, or even Ron Paul is not trying to justify anything.
The fact that the jihadists claimed it to be the reason makes it so, not anything we say.
"And it is absolutely a blame america attitude."
You can "blame America" if you want to, but I don't.
BTW: the word "America" is capitilized in my dictionary.
"Our country which has done so much to help the world."
Such as?
Do you mean trying to import "democracy" where nobody wanted it in the first place?
"It’s just disgusting."
By that I presume you mean the fact that foreign countries are not appreciative enough of our "good intentions"?
Why..For Shame!! They ought to KNOW that our "good intentions" are extremely valuable, and that they should fall on their knees and give thanks instead of trying to kill us. Harrumph!!!
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