The 'Offended' 911 Group “Peaceful Tomorrows” is funded largely by Teresa Heinz

various sources, mostly Tom Randall of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | 3/5/04

[dead]

“Peaceful Tomorrows” is being portrayed as an independent group of relatives of victims of the 911 attacks. They are getting a lot of press claiming to be outraged over the new Bush ads.

Call me insensitive if you like, but I wonder if this outrage could possibly be a tad overblown, and more likely attributable to the millions and millions of dollars this group has received from endowments chaired by Teresa Heinz, wife of Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry.

According to their own contribution page, “Peaceful Tomorrows is a project of the Tides Center, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.”

According to an article in the Pittsburgh Review, “Between 1995 and 2001, $4.3 million of that money came from the Howard Heinz Endowment. In 2002, it and the Vira Heinz Endowment blessed The Tides Center, a San Francisco spin-off of the Tides Foundation, with another $190,000 while the two endowments gave $1.6 million to the new Tides Center for Western Pennsylvania.” (The Heinz Endowments have teamed up with a secretive left-wing group)

The money that flows into The Tides also flows out. They have given grants totaling $489,000 to the Iraq Peace Fund, who used that money to fund the anti-war marches and media costs of 27 groups, including MoveOn.org, whose purpose is to defeat George W. Bush.

Other Tides Center projects include The Youth Gender Project, which seeks to "empower and support transgender, gender-variant, intersexed and gender-questioning youth and young adults."

They also shoveled $200,000 towards The Ruckus Society - founded in 1995 to train activists in violent protest against biotechnology, globalization and the World Bank. It incited property destruction in the Seattle riots of 1999 and Washington, D.C., the following year.

Now, if you really want to get mad, you should also know that $8,000,000 in taxpayer money flowed into the Tides Center in the form of federal grants made by eight different agencies between 1997 and 2001.

[Ditto]

I guess that makes Kerry the Prince of Tides.

LOL. I love it.

[sauropod]

Fenton Communications was the outfit that pushed the "roadless area initiative" really hard in 1998-1999. I used to receive e-mails from them.

[Grampa Dave]

Madame Kerry and her Tides Foundation bought out these whiners a long time ago to be able to have them ready when 9/11 became campaign issue.

Who else have they bought out. My money is on the various mediots in TV land and fish wrap land, and the pseudo conservatives who hate GW more than the Kerry's do.

[Grampa Dave]

You have a great memory. I had forgotten about them.

[Mo1]

If we don't get the word out far and wide, we aren't doing our jobs. E-mail everyone you know.

Already Done ... the liberal media/press can try and ignore the truth .. but the news WILL get out to the people

[calljack]

interesting stuff here

http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=12187

[Argh]

WOW!!

[Headfulofghosts]

SOmething I do not understand, why is it that nobody in the news media seems to mention anything about the CIA in the 90's and what happened, you want to pass the blame-fine, you have nobody else to look to except for yourself. The media and these families are " outraged" fine, will I don't hear them calling for the old Clinton Administration to hand over " terror 2000," or " Deutch report." Bunch, of hyprocrates that is what they are. Why did we screw up in Iraq, because of WMD, because of intelligence. Nobody asks this question. Who was in charge of the CIA before Tenet? John Deutch. What happened to him? He was fired, for illegally storing classified material. What happened to Wen Ho Lee? He was tried, humiliated, Deutch, was pardoned by Clinton.

[Headfulofghosts]

Nobody gave a damn when Clark perjured himself at the Hague, either.

[bayourod]

Heinz hinted a couple days ago that she would spend her own money on political ads "to respond to attacks against her.

You probably just cost that poor woman a couple million.

Good research. I'm Greatful dead.

[RightField]

bump for later read

[Hon]

Turns out Rita Lazar claims to be the founder of "Peaceful Tomorroww":

You can read more about here here:

Clinton Worker Behind Trashing Of Bush 9/11 Ad http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1091629/posts?page=35

[Happy2BMe]

Pass this on to Matt D.

[abner]

Ping!

[aculeus]

Let's re-bump this on Monday after the Martha stuff has cooled down.

This really should get a lot of attention.

[Mo1]

PING

[Peach]

Great! I sent to my address book and FNC, CNN, ABC et al.

[FairOpinion]

Thanks for the info on Rita Lazar:

"She then was a volunteer and then paid worker in the first Clinton campaign. After that she ran the office of a candidate for a seat for the New York City Council. Recently she was a volunteer in the New York City Schools program where she taught 1st and 2nd graders to read on a one to one basis. Rita's brother Abe Zelmanowitz was killed in the World Trade Center attack."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1091629/posts?page=35

[JennysCool]

Hey, dead -- Super work!

[Shermy]

Heinz hinted a couple days ago that she would spend her own money on political ads "to respond to attacks against her.

Kerry himself plays himself the victim in order not to appear the first one to "go negative."

Indeed, victimology ("you're challenging my patriotism") seems to be the elite liberal mantra since they aren't offereing the people much but a few crumbs.