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To: pissant; Interesting Times; Fedora
Donors:... Mr. Max Palevsky

Interesting name, rearing it's ugly head again funding McCain's Reform Institute. Where have I seen Max before?:

Goodfellow’s Bedfellows

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The VVAW’s Winter Soldier Investigation originally began in January 1970 as part of the CCI’s inquiry... Fonda raised funds for WSI through a speaking tour at 54 colleges, through appeals to United Auto Workers and Detroit attorneys, and through benefit concerts involving fellow celebrities Donald Sutherland, Dick Gregory, Barbara Dane, Phil Ochs, David Crosby, and Graham Nash. Also contributing significant funding was the United States Servicemen’s Fund (USSF), whose funding in turn came from sources such as Cora and Peter Weiss’ Fund for Tomorrow, Philip Stern and David Hunter’s Stern Family Fund, Anne Peretz, and Democratic Party antiwar wing financier Max Palevsky (cofounder with businessmen Harold Willens and Henry Niles of an antiwar group called Business Executives Move for Peace in Vietnam aka BEM, founded in 1967 and changed in 1975 to Business Executives Move for New National Priorities). ...


274 posted on 02/12/2008 12:59:16 AM PST by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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To: calcowgirl
Nice catch.

Looks like McCain isn't overly picky where his money comes from... at a minimum.

325 posted on 02/12/2008 8:22:45 AM PST by Interesting Times (ABCNNBCBS -- yesterday's news.)
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