Bill Gates, Ted Turner and George Soros to Create Mega $$ 'Vast Left Wing Conspiracy' Think Tank

The Wall Street Journal ^ | June 19, 2002 | David Bank

[codebreaker]

Silicon Valley entrepeneur Steve Kirsch is only partly joking when he reveals the code name for his next start up: The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy.

Mr. Kirsch has committed $1 million a year to launch the Washington D.C. political advocacy group, and claims to have lined up other donors willing to put up an additional $10 million or more.

[codebreaker]

We are really winning if the liberals are this scared.

Text is subsriber only..hmm the mission statement is 'finding legal ways to influence policy' which includes pressing the White House-not surprised.

[Black Agnes]

ping!

[lormand]

Why should they waste their money? The left has already infested just about every institution in the US.

[Carry_Okie]

Why Bill Gates is letting these creeps bend his brain I don't understand. Socialism doesn't work for anybody in the long term.

[codebreaker]

This ought to be hilarious watching these billionaire fools flush their money down the toilet.

[goodnesswins]

On the one hand....This should be VERY interesting....these are BIG CORPORATE AMERICA - what the Democrat's deride......how they team with them will be fun to watch....ON THE OTHER HAND.....nothing here will help the squeezed out Middle Class to whom these people do NOT belong. Going AGAINST "tax reform" does not bode well for US.

[JDGreen123]

He He! What's different? The limousine liberals have been following this so-called "new policy" for the last 60 years. Been there, done that. That approach failed miserably and America will not ever buy it.

[dead]

Wait for the editorials in the NY Times, lauding this “excercise in free speech and social awareness”, written by the same group of "non-partisan" editors that excoriate people like Scaife.

[Constitution Day]

We are really winning if the liberals are this scared.

ALL THEIR BASE ARE BELONG TO US!!!!

[Texaggie79]

Gates apparently doesn't know who his friends are. If he wants to be left alone, and to pursue capital, he best join the Right Wing Conspiracy

[B Knotts]

Bill Gates always been a liberal. For some reason, many
FReepers seem to be in denial about that.

[JDGreen123]

Probably the Rockefeller syndrome. In 3 generations they went from the king of capitalism (John D.) to the ultimate liberal RINO, Nelson Rockefeller.

[B Knotts]

His friends are Volvo-driving lawyers. The truth is the other way around: most conservatives don't realize that Bill Gates is not their friend.

[antidisestablishment]

Billie Boy has always been a lib. His "charitable foundation" is the largest promoter of abortion in the world. Owning a business doesn't make one conservative, regardless of some Freepers insistence.

[codebreaker]

'Billionaires for the DemonRATS' club, from what I can tell from the article on Page B1 their big issues are increasing foriegn aid for AIDS, a law against international womens discrimination.

Issues that are almost off the radar screen, this is a cover for a fund to embarass the White House with legal counsel on staff to 'press them.'

[Seeking the truth]

He got married.

[Askel5]

HANK REARDEN BUMP!!

[ChadGore]

Freedom loving Americans against "BIG LIB".

[Hostage]

Socialism works for the ruling class by setting controls and limitations on the underclass.

[caltrop]

You think these guys are scared? The administration expands the Department of Education, advocates increases in Foreign Aid, refuses to tighten immigration, panders to minorities and bars the nation's pilots from arming themselves. What exactly do you think these guys won't get if they just wait. Almost everything is going their way. IMHO, this is an effort to accelerate the trend in their direction. The only thing that threatens their objectives is someone like Ronald Reagan who knows the government is the problem and not the solution. Since their isn't anyone remotely like Ronald Reagan prominent on the national stage they've nothing to worry about.