Very interesting. I still did not see a direct Soros/Tides connection in the article. That gives me a bit of caution.
I’m all for caution, but in this case, it used to be on their website and has been written about before from some pretty reliable folks:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1360852/posts
John McCain Gets Soros Cash
DiscovertheNetwork.org / March 10, 2005 | Richard Poe
Posted on 03/11/2005 8:59:18 AM PST by edcoil
Senator John McCain’s Reform Institute has suffered some bad press recently due to its involvement in an influence-peddling scandal with Cablevision. As usual, however, mainstream media have failed to go to the root of the matter.
Founded on June 26, 2001, McCain’s Reform Institute for Campaign and Election Issues has long served as a nerve center for the so-called “campaign finance reform” movement a movement which has done nothing to clean up campaign finance, but has done a great deal to empower federal judges and government bureaucrats to regulate political speech, in defiance of the Bill of Rights.
Now here’s the kicker. The list of donors published on the Reform Institute’s Web site reads like a veritable Who’s Who of radical, leftwing foundations, including the Tides Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Proteus Fund and George Soros’ Open Society Institute. (hat tip, Winfield Myers)