[bray]

The Ratner family makes their $$Millions from Real Estate and Lumber Products. They own the largest lumber brokerage house in the country in Forest City Industries. Began as a chain of lumber yards in Cleveland and expanded into Real Estate and I believe they now own the Empire State Building. She is as big a hypocrite as anyone in the Rat Party.

Pray for GW and the Troops

[reformedliberal]

THANX! Albert is the father of Ellen? I knew they were wealthy.

What a hypocrite!

[Darling Lili]

The Ratner family makes their $$Millions from Real Estate and Lumber Products.

Here's a blurb on Ellen's brother, Bruce Ratner:

Bankroller of Bogus Firefighter Statue Tied to Clintons

"The wealthy New York City developer who put up $180,000 for a politically correct statue based on the photo "Flag Raising at Ground Zero" is a heavy Democratic Party donor who spent the night at the White House as a guest of Bill and Hillary Clinton and who was considered a shoo-in for a top White House post early in the Clinton administration.

Bruce Ratner, the CEO of Forest City Ratner Enterprises, who decided to replace two of the three white firefighters captured in a world-famous photo of the flag raising with a more racially diverse duo, spent the night at the White House with his wife, Julie, sometime in 1996. The Clintons have never released the precise dates of their notorious sleep-overs...."

[dennisw]

"Forest City Ratner Companies" Urban Real Estate — New York ...
... Business Editors The New York Times Company Selects Forest City Ratner
Companies as Real Estate Developer BYLINE : NEW YORK, Feb. ...
www.fcrc.com/full_newsrelease.asp?brief=7 - 10k - Cached - Similar pages

"Forest City Ratner Companies" Urban Real Estate — New York
... Section : Business Editors. Headline : The New York Times Company Selects Forest
City Ratner Companies as Real Estate Developer. By Line : NEW YORK, Feb. ...
www.fcrc.com/print_news.asp?brief=7 - 10k - Cached - Similar pages
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Forest City Enterprises, Inc.
... To develop the building, The New York Times Company and Forest City Ratner Companies
(FCRC) have established a joint venture with ING Real Estate, a wholly ...
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