Posted on 06/11/2008 7:51:09 PM PDT by kristinn
The mainstream media and Republican operatives are finally starting to notice the connections between presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama (IL) and the terrorist supporting group, Code Pink.
The Politico reporter Jonathan Martin has an article this evening on the scandal:
A co-founder of the anti-war group Code Pink, which has made a name for itself by interrupting hearings on Capitol Hill, is a fundraising bundler for Barack Obama.
Jodie Evans has pledged to raise at least $50,000 for Obama, according the Democrat's campaign site.
According to research being circulated by GOP sources, Evans has a record of inflammatory statements such as saying that women were better off in Iraq under Saddam Hussein, "Men are dying in their Hummers in Iraq so you can drive around in yours" and, my favorite, that the invasion of Iraq amounted to "global testosterone poisoning."
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That an activist liberal is raising money for Obama isn't all that surprising. But in a campaign that has been dominated as much by the associates of candidates as the candidates themselves (Jeremiah Wright, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush), Evans is a reminder that what may not have mattered much in a primary has the potential to be resonant in the general.
The Hollywood political gossip site Wilshire and Washington quickly picked up the item:
GOP Oppo Research Targets Code Pink Co-Founder
Republicans are apparently targeting Jodie Evans, the co-founder of Code Pink, in their opposition research, as she is a bundler for Barack Obama.
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Evans is well known in Democratic politics in California, and, along with Max Palevsky, co-hosted Obama's first big Hollywood fund-raiser in February, 2007, at the Beverly Hilton. Much of the attention to that event, however, went to the three other co-hosts: DreamWorks partners Jeffrey Katzenberg, David Geffen and Steven Spielberg.
The Obama-Code Pink scandal first broke six months ago with a press release by the D.C. Chapter of FreeRepublic.com demanding Obama renounce Evans' $2300 contribution to his presidential campaign:
The D.C. Chapter of FreeRepublic.com, an independent grassroots group comprised of veterans, military families and other patriotic Americans, is urging Senator Barack Obama to renounce a $2300 contribution to his residential campaign by terrorist supporter Jodie Evans of Venice, California.
The Washington City Paper reports in its current issue that Ms. Evans is co-founder of a group that publicly supports the terrorist-led insurgency in Iraq against Americans and free Iraqis:
Drawing perhaps the most fire is Code Pink's support for the Iraqi insurgency that has killed more than 3,700 American soldiers and wounded nearly 30,000 since post-combat operations began there in May of 2003.
The group's co-founder, Jody (sic) Evans, was an international observer at the World Tribunal on Iraq in June 2005. The Tribunal culminated in a statement signed by ativists (sic) from 10 countries that characterized the insurgency as "legitimate and justified" and called for war crimes charges against Bush and other world leaders who backed the U.S. invasion. (Washington City Paper, issue of January 11-17, 2008)
Ms. Evans, who markets herself to the media as a peace activist, issued the following statement regarding her support for the terrorist-led insurgency in Iraq while at the tribunal: "We must begin by really standing with the Iraqi people and defending their right to resist. I can remain myself against all forms of violence, and yet I cannot judge what someone has to do when pushed to the wall to protect all they love. The Iraqi people are fighting for their country, to protect their families and to preserve all they love. They are fighting for their lives, and we are fighting for lies." (AlterNet, June 26, 2005)
The tactics of the insurgency that Ms. Evans supports has included chlorine gas truck bombs, massacres of civilians, using children as suicide bombers, hideously torturing freedom-seeking Iraqis, and assassinating police, judges and other duly appointed civilian officials of the freely elected Iraqi government.
The Iraqi insurgency Ms. Evans supports without judgment has murdered, mutilated and booby-trapped the bodies of American servicemen they have captured.
Code Pink has sent hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and humanitarian aid to what the group has described as 'families of the other side' in Iraq since 2004. As the recent film about the insurgency in Iraq, Meeting Resistance, showed, family members of the insurgency are intimately involved in aiding terrorist activities.
Code Pink has also waged a campaign of psychological warfare against America's wounded warriors and their families by protesting at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, targeting them with signs bearing messages such as "Maimed for a lie" and "Enlist here and die for Halliburton."
Evans and other Code Pink leaders have traveled the world visiting state sponsors of terrorism including Cuba, Syria and Iran in their efforts to undermine the United States in the global war on terror. She has also paid her respects to Fidel Castro acolyte Hugo Chavez in Venezuela.
Kristinn Taylor, co-leader of the D.C. Chapter of FreeRepublic.com, issued the following statement regarding Ms. Evans' contribution to Sen. Obama: "Barack Obama has a credible chance to be the next commander-in-chief of America's armed forces. The leader of our military must have the confidence of the American people that he is not in bed with America's enemies. It is therefore incumbent upon Sen. Obama that he immediately repudiate the $2300 terrorist supporter Jodie Evans has contributed to his presidential campaign. Rather than return her blood money to Ms. Evans, the money should be given to a troop support organization of Sen. Obama's choice.
"Should Sen. Obama elect to keep Ms. Evans' contribution, it will tell the American people that he shares her support for the terrorist-led insurgency in Iraq."
All politicians, political parties and political action committees that have received contributions from Ms. Evans are also urged to repudiate her support. Among the recipients of her blood money are the 2008 presidential campaigns of former Sen. John Edwards and Gov. Bill Richardson, and the 2004 presidential campaign of Sen. John Kerry.
Ms. Evans has also contributed heavily to the Progressive Patriots Fund which has funded the campaigns of Code Pink ally Sen. Jim Webb and other senators including Bernie Sanders, Tim Johnson, Bob Casey, Mary Landrieu, and Ben Nelson.
Jeff Gannon was one of the few to pick up on the brewing scandal.
Further research showed that Evans was also a bundler who had brought in between $50,000 and $100,000 for the Obama campaign.
Human Events writer Catherine Moy reported on Evans' bundling and a second demand for Obama to renounce her blood money:
The co-founder of the radical anti-war group Code Pink has “bundled” more than $50,000 for Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, and pro-troops groups are demanding that he return the money.
Jodie Evans, a Code Pink leader, gathered at least $50,000 from friends and associates and donated it to Obama’s presidential campaign, according to information compiled by the nonpartisan watchdog group, Public Citizen.
Evans and her son, a student who lives at her Southern California address, each also gave the maximum individual allowable donation of $2,300 to Obama’s campaign.
The donations have raised questions about Obama’s association with the more radical elements of his base. Code Pink has harassed, vandalized and impeded military recruiters across the United States in a campaign it calls “counter-recruitment.” The group also gave $600,000 to the families of Iraqi terrorists in Fallujah, whom it called “insurgents” fighting for their homes.
Families United for Our Troops and Their Mission, Move America Forward, Military Families Voice of Victory, The Band of Mothers and FreeRepublic.com, issued a statement this week saying Obama should cut ties to his radical bundler.
"Barack Obama's judgment to be commander-in-chief is seriously in question because of his association with Code Pink's Jodie Evans and her war against the American military,” the groups said in a joint statement. "If Sen. Obama wants to earn the trust of the American people to send their sons and daughters in harm's way, he should immediately renounce Evans and return all contributions associated with her."
Obama’s campaign did not respond to repeated attempts to get comment on the latest controversy to hit his campaign.
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Melanie Morgan wrote several columns on the Obama-Code Pink scandal here and here.
Newsbusters wondered when the media would report on the scandal:
...Should a candidate that wants a "new" politics be so happy to take the donations of someone who has led groups that have perpetrated acts of domestic terror? Should Barack Obama be so quick to accept money from a woman who has planned campaigns to harass our wounded soldiers as they try to heal in the hospital?
Another pressing question is, will the MSM report this story? Will the MSM tell the country that their vaunted candidate of "change" and "civility" is working with people responsible for acts of terrorism against Americans?
This writer reported on Evans' trip to Castro's Cuba to protest America just weeks before she co-hosted Obama's Hollywood debut fundraiser.
Last week, Evans gave an interview to Paul A. Ibbetson where she said Osama bin Laden had 'valid arguments' for attacking America on 9/11.
That interview is making waves across the political spectrum of the blogosphere
On the left: Jodie is a creature straight out of central casting: Her entire life seems designed to alienate swing voters. McCain's people would be overjoyed if she became a household name.
She's rich, having earned her money the old-fashioned way: By marrying it and divorcing it. (Her ex- is a billionaire high-tech investor named Max Palevsky.) Her fortune now goes to groups like the Animal Liberation Front, Earth First, and the Rain Forest Action Network. The FBI has described ALF as a terrorist group.
Code Pink has also tried their hand at mass witchcraft spells. I consider such activities harmless, but I can just imagine how the more Jesus-oriented parts of the country might react to that bit of theater.
The right is assembling a propaganda narrative: Obama as dangerous lefty. Affluent dimwits like Jodie play right into that scenario. Ironically, the true danger he poses goes in the other direction.
Obama bundler Jodie Evans, who co-founded the anti-American group Code Pink, said Osama bin Laden had 'valid arguments' for the 9/11 attacks, gushed over Venezualan dictator Hugo Chavez and bragged about Code Pink's efforts to undermine the war in Iraq in a wide-ranging interview with radio host Paul A. Ibbetson
Jodie Evans' connection to Barack Obama matters for many reasons. But the most important is that when Obama was looking to vault his nascent presidential campaign in to the serious contention he turned to one of the most rabid anti-American, pro-terrorist activists in the country. And she delivered for him.
It is encouraging to this military family member to see that Obama's Code Pink blood money is finally getting noticed beyond the conservative blogosphere.
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Max Palevsky is a long-time Los Angeles Democrat who funds every radical and anti-war cause he can find.
He also was one of the initial big funders of John McCain's Reform Institute.
Code Pink. What a bunch of idiots.
Great post, kristinn.
A book could be published: “Conect the Dots with Obama”
His connection with so many Marxists and whatevers is
overwhelming.
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Jodie has been a community, social and political organizer for the last 30 years. She has used her skills,for the protection of the earth, to give voice to communities and people who go unheard and unseen, in the area of human and civil rights, to protect the rights of women, to raise the minimum wage for farm workers, to protect dolphins, in El Salvador in the early 80’s and with Zapitistas since ‘94.
From 1973 to 1982, she served in administrative capacities in all of Jerry Brown’s campaigns and in his staff and cabinet as Director of Administration. Breakthroughs in wind and solar energy happened while she was overseeing the office of Appropriate Technology.
Along with a group of friends from the Brown administration, she was one of the founding board members of Sand County, a venture capital fund. The purpose of the fund was to invest in start up companies that solved environmental or social problems. This company also spawned a tax-free muni bond fund, The Muir Fund, that was named the fifth best fund in California in 1993. Some of it’s other successes were Working Assets Funding Service and Odwalla Juices. She was also a member of the Social Venture Network, business owners and investors with a commitment to bring social and human values in to the work place.
In 1990, Jodie was very active in the Big Green campaign. After it’s defeat, she, along with her partners Tom Hayden and Cathryn Tiddens, opened the first environmental department store, Terra Verde in Santa Monica. She also served as a board member of People for Parks, which was successful in passing an initiative for more funding to save the public parks in Los Angeles. Her other areas of involvement were supporting activists organizations such as, Citizen Action, Neighbor to Neighbor, Earth Island Institute, Environmental Media Association, Interfaith Task Force on Central America, International Overseas Education Fund, Los Angeles Women’s Foundation, El Rescate, C.A.R.E., etc.
In 1991, she came back together with her friend Jerry Brown to run his campaign for President which was based on political reform and a $100. contribution limit. The innovations she began in his campaign have become the standard in all campaigns.
obumpa
Is there any more room under the bus?
I’m certainly glad that I have a strong stomach....ugh. She didn’t get hit with the ugly stick...she fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down...then the tree fell on her.
One of her sons, Matthew Palevsky, is also active on the anti-war front.
I saw him doing an interview on youtube for some web-based news operation (touting some anti-war propaganda).
Bump for later reading.
Here's a quote I took directly off the CPUSA website: "Thus, every communist should become an active participant in this electoral upsurge, if he or she hasn’t already done so. The avenues are many and the possibilities are nearly limitless." -- Sam Webb, chairman, Communist Party USA (speaking about Obama)
Mainstream media says "Leave Barack alone!"
All of his friends and associates seem to be haters.
GEEZ A LITTLE WARNING!
OMG! You didn’t have to do that!
My heart cries for her.
What is that thing hanging out the bottom of her skirt?
Never mind I don’t want to know.
Awesome work. Is there a photo of Ms. (?) Evans with jack Murtha****er?
Dear Jodie,
Ppppplllllllleeeaaaasssssseeeee
Do not be a bundler for me...
McCain needs you help...
Love,
Barry
**Jodie Evans has pledged to raise at least $50,000 for Obama, according the Democrat’s campaign site.**
UH-OH!
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