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Thursday, March 10, 2005

John McCain Gets Soros Cash

Senator John McCain's Reform Institute has suffered some bad press recently due to its involvement in an influence-peddling scandal with Cablevision. As usual, however, mainstream media have failed to go to the root of the matter.

Founded on June 26, 2001, McCain's Reform Institute for Campaign and Election Issues has long served as a nerve center for the so-called "campaign finance reform" movement – a movement which has done nothing to clean up campaign finance, but has done a great deal to empower federal judges and government bureaucrats to regulate political speech, in defiance of the Bill of Rights.

Now here's the kicker. The list of donors published on the Reform Institute's Web site reads like a veritable Who's Who of radical, leftwing foundations, including the Tides Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Proteus Fund and George Soros' Open Society Institute (hat tip, Winfield Myers).

Not surprisingly, in view of the above associations, Arianna Huffington serves on the Reform Institute's Advisory Board. Huffington has long acted as a front for George Soros' "campaign finance reform" efforts. In 2000, she organized the so-called Shadow Conventions which provided John McCain with a bully pulpit to stump for his now-infamous McCain-Feingold Act. George Soros shouldered about one third of the cost of the Shadow Conventions.

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Posted on 02/15/2005 5:50:51 AM PST by SJackson

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34 posted on 02/15/2008 7:04:42 PM PST by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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To: calcowgirl
The Shadow Party

“I had no idea what we conservatives were truly up against until I read The Shadow Party, and I have recommended this book to every activist and politician I know. The more we know about the Shadow Party, the easier it will be to replicate it and beat them at their own game.”

Tom DeLay
Former House Majority Leader


38 posted on 02/15/2008 7:45:55 PM PST by Alexander Nevsky
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To: calcowgirl

OMG - does Horowitz even read what he writes? Or does he just not care?


47 posted on 02/15/2008 9:21:35 PM PST by PghBaldy (Soros funded Obama AND McCain.)
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