Posted on 02/11/2008 8:01:48 PM PST by Tigen
Candidate's Reform Institute also accepted funds from Teresa Kerry
As Sen. John McCain assumes the GOP front-runner mantle, his long-standing, but little-noticed association with left-wing donors such as George Soros and Teresa Heinz Kerry is receiving new attention among his Republican critics.
In 2001, McCain founded the Alexandria, Va.-based Reform Institute as a vehicle to receive funding from George Soros' Open Society Institute and Teresa Heinz Kerry's Tides Foundation and several other prominent non-profit organizations.
McCain used the institute to promote his political agenda and provide compensation to key campaign operatives between elections.
In 2006, the Arizona senator was forced to sever his formal ties with the Reform Institute after a controversial $200,000 contribution from Cablevision came to light. McCain solicited the donation for the Reform Institute using his membership on the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. In a letter to the Federal Communications Commission, he supported Cablevision's push to introduce the more profitable al la carte pricing, rather than packages of TV programming.
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McCain & Soros. Shows John McCain is a bad choice for this country.
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I never though I would asy this:
Go Huckabee!
But, alas, it is too late.
Not only is Cookie a conservative, she plans to send all shelter and unadoptable pets to the border, where they will do the job elected Republicans refuse to do!
Looks like McCain isn't overly picky where his money comes from... at a minimum.
Don't you think it is high time you start re-phrasing that remark?
Ron Paul has never blamed "America", but he has blamed our "leaders".
There is a BIG difference, IMO, between patriotic Americans such as ourselves and the globalist elite establishment who have been setting our foreign policy for the past 75 years or so.
Now you can decide who you fall in with, but there is absolutely NO connection between me and the globablists.
I accept NO blame for our FAILED foreign policy that has created the mess we are in now.
Spike doesn't let any other dogs in the yard. Ever.
Remember the months we had to put up with some people here trying to taint Ron Paul with Soros and his ilk?
Pardon me while i gloat...</gloating>
Still, it makes you wonder if this isn't just a ploy to discredit any Republican nominee doesn't it?
In all seriousness, i'm going to reserve judgement on this until i get confirmation from other sources.
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Donors said the institute had become more aggressive in recent months in its push for money. Though it is not required to do so, the institute lists all its donors on its Web site. This year, the organization began breaking them down by ranges of contributions, which showed the vast majority of its hundreds of contributors gave $500 or less. About 40 gave between $500 and $5,000, 8 gave up to $50,000 and 12 contributed above that level.
One donation in that category came from an elected Republican official who insisted on remaining anonymous, even to Mr. McCain, Mr. Davis said. Some donors, though, are communications industry giants who had business before the Commerce Committee when Mr. McCain was its chairman. Echosphere, a communications company started by Charles Ergen, a founder of EchoStar Communications and the DISH Network, gave $50,000 or more to the institute. So did CSC Holdings, a subsidiary of the Cablevisions Systems Corporation, headed by Charles F. Dolan, and the Chartwell Foundation, the charitable group funded by A. Jerrold Perenchio, the Univision billionaire.
Mr. Davis and Mr. McCain, who is not currently raising money for his own political purposes, said they saw no problem in accepting donations of that magnitude from foundations associated with people and companies with interests on Capitol Hill.
“Sure it does. There was no declaration of war, which the Constitution requires before war may occur except for specific circumstances which did not exist.”
You are talking process not principle. There hasn’t been a declaration of war for decades, by either liberals or conservatives. The principle is to have congress’ permission before going to war. We had that.
“Except that there is no evidence that foreign contributions created such an inflation. You want to assume a negative because it fits your predisposition. Strangely, you seem to have no problem with the big money contributions that ‘inflated’ the funding of the other [Republican and Democrat] campaigns and routinely seems to buy undue influence. I should think that your indignation would go there first.”
You assume as much as he does. Just because donations came in $200 at a time doesn’t mean that it all didn’t come from one huge donation. I see the loophole as a huge one that is easily exploited.
“He didn’t blame America or imply that we deserved what happened, or that it was justified, or that we shouldn’t hunt down those responsible. All he did was point out that our actions abroad can have unintended consequences.”
No, he said our actions CAUSED an attack. That is blaming america sir. spin away, but that is obvious.
“You can’t deny that such presence has been used as a rallying cry to recruit followers by the terrorists, regardless of whether that is OBL personal motivation.”
You assume once again. Recruiting jihadists has never been a problem. The cheers from the muslim world on 9/11 were loud. That was long before the war. These empty claims that we are creating recruiting tools are baseless. And furthermore, strategy isn’t and shouldn’t be created in fear of enemy propaganda. Hell, we would never win a war by that logic.
Donations under $500
[3508 names listed]*
Donations under $500
Mrs. Joan Arnow
Ms. Edith I. Blodgett
Mrs. Laura J. Buck
Mr. John Buenz
Mr. Gene F. Calahan, Jr.
Mr. Peter Carman
The Constitution Project
Mr. Charles D. Dickey, Jr.
Mr. Frank A. Donaldson, III
Mr. Robert H. Downing
Joseph Hoyt Foundation
Mr. & Mrs. John N. Kapoor
Mrs. Stephanie Keebler
Miss Vivian L. Kimble
Mr. Albert F. Knight
Mr. Bart A. Krupp
Mr. Rhoady Lee, Jr.
Dr. Don Lessem
Dr. Herbert J. Louis
Mr. Gordon R. Lowham
Mrs. Katharine F. McMillan
Mr. Leroy M. Michael, Jr.
Mr. Eliot Minsker
Mr. Thomas J. Orloski
Mr. & Mrs. R. F. Paschal, Jr.
Mr. John M. Percival
Mr. Feodor U. Pitcairn
Mr. Arnold A. Portigal
Mrs. Charles S. Potter
Mr. David Pottruck
Mr. David B. Rockwell
Ms. Ann Elise Sauer
Ms. Cheryl Scott
Mr. James A. Smith
Mr. David Spatz
Mr. John W. Swatosh
Mr. Jonathan Tratt
Mr. Thomas L. Webb
Mr. William B. Webber
Ms. Emilie S. Welles
Ms. Willy Werby
Mr. & Mrs. Wilson Wilde
Mr. John H. T. Wilson
Donations from $5,000 to $49,999
Mr. Herb Allison
Allison Family Foundation
Mr. Robert Batinovich
Mr. Stephen D. Daley
The David Geffen Foundation
Mr. Crawford Gordon
Mr. Max Palevsky
Mr. Greg Wendt
Donations above $50,000
Mr. William Bloomfield
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Chartwell Charitable Foundation
CSC Holdings, Inc.
Echosphere
The Educational Foundation of America
The JEHT Foundation
Mr. Jerome Kohlberg, Jr. Revocable Trust
McMullen Family Foundation
OSI Constitution & Legal Policy Program
Proteus Fund
Mr. Charles H. Spaulding
Stuart Family Foundation
Tides Foundation
*Just a hunch, but I wouldn't doubt many of these folks got listed for buying a $5.00 ticket to view a showing of Gore's "Inconvenient Truth" or some such nonsense.
Excellent. Thanks
THis stinks to high heaven. What a fraud.
“Ron Paul has never blamed “America”, but he has blamed our “leaders”.”
He blames the presence of our military base which in reality was there to help. Using OBL’s logic to begin with is ridiculous, but to justify the jihadist actions by citing this fact is irresponsible and frankly sad. And it is absolutely a blame america attitude. Our country which has done so much to help the world. It’s just disgusting.
This needs to be hung around his neck like a 2-ton anvil
Perhaps, Congress wasn't "hoodwinked" at all. Perhaps, Institutes like that set up by John McCain were specifically established to sell legislation offered by none other than -- John McCain!New York Post excerpt, March 21, 2005:
A former program officer for Pew, Sean Treglia, was caught on videotape bragging about how the foundation worked behind the scenes to create the false impression that there was a "mass movement" afoot clamoring for campaign-finance reform.
The intent: to hoodwink Congress.
It worked.
Pew did this in the run-up to the passage of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 — a.k.a. McCain-Feingold — by spreading around more than $40 million to grass-roots front groups like Common Cause, the Campaign Finance Institute and the inaptly named Center for Public Integrity.
Pew wasn't alone in its efforts.
Several other major liberal foundations — including the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Ford Foundation and George Soros' Open Society Institute — colluded with Pew to give $123 million between 1994 and 2004 to promote the regulation of political speech.
That sure fits with what Eva outlines in post #315 regarding environmental "justice."
He is rotten to the core. Check out Calcowgirls and Tigereye’s infor here.
So, you then agree with McCain and the efforts of the institute to stifle free speech and control elections through Campaign Finance Reform, to give amnesty to 20 million illegal aliens, to impose destructive global warming regulation on United States businesses (while McCain's buddies fleece the country in carbon trading)?
Admirable? It is admirable to create an institution to falsly portray popularity of the latest commie-driven cause?
I am stunned.
I think you've got it! With a little extra help from left wingers (R).
See also post #331 - Max Palevsky makes the “Donations above $50,000” list.
McCain definitely does not have discerning taste in donors — or maybe he does?
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