Posted on 08/10/2003 3:34:38 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP
Democratic group gets a $10 million boostMultibillionaire Soros pledges money to defeat Bush next year
08/09/2003
WASHINGTON – Making a major foray into partisan politics, multibillionaire George Soros is committing $10 million to a new Democratic-leaning group aimed at defeating President Bush next year.
Mr. Soros, who has donated on a smaller scale to Democratic candidates and the party, pledged the money to a political action committee called America Coming Together, spokesman Michael Vachon said Friday.
The group plans a $75 million effort to defeat Bush and "elect progressive officials at every level in 2004," targeting 17 states: Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin.
"The fate of the world depends on the United States, and President Bush is leading us in the wrong direction," Mr. Soros said in a written statement. "ACT is an effective way to mobilize civil society, to convince people to go to the polls and vote for candidates who will reassert the values of the greatest open society in the world."
Mr. Soros has been better known for his philanthropy and a $1 billion effort to try to prevent the proliferation of Russian nuclear weapons after the Soviet Union's collapse. He announced earlier this summer that he was scaling back his Russian spending after finding it was subsidizing programs such as education reforms better paid for by the government.
Mr. Soros helped finance an ad in The New York Times two Sundays ago accusing Mr. Bush of using intelligence "exposed as exaggerated or even false" to justify the U.S.-led war in Iraq.
ACT said it plans a large-scale effort to register voters and mobilize them to go to the polls. It has $30 million in commitments so far and plans a national fund-raising drive starting next month.
Online at: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dallas/nation/stories/080903dnnatsoros.61b12.html
Is Soros even a US citizen?He claims he is ...
As an Immigrant and naturalized United States citizen, I have a deep sympathy for all those who come to America in search of a better life.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Connie Bruck, The World According to Soros, The New Yorker, 23-Jan-1995, p. 57.
Isn't this standard for most rich dumbocrats? The kennedys and others are just foaming at the mouth, because the economy is tanking and hope it stays taht way until 04.
Soros is a hedge fund guy... meaning he is short on stocks. He gets richer if the economy goes to hell.Google Search finds this little exchange between Soros and Ted Koppel regarding Zero-Sum games ...
RINOs are a cancer to a Free Republic
Yep! Freeper SerpentDove did that ...
No, hedge fund just means he can go in any direction, with any vehicle (stocks, bonds, currencies, etc.)
Regards,
I guess the DemocRATs who were preaching "campaign reform" have no problem accepting a $10 million contribution. Watch them go postal when a conservative contributes that much to the Republicans.Oh, yeah. I should cross-reference this article here I think ...
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I still remember when "progressives" were called what they actually were: communists, Trotskyites and Marxist-Leninists.Yep ! I think it is yet another tactic used by the biased Liberal media to keep from raising red flags. It gets less attention that way ...
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