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Contributions to Political Committees

SHRIVER, MARIA
SANTA MONICA, CA 90405

SHRIVER, MARK KENNEDY
VIA CITIZENS FOR MARK SHRIVER
11/04/2002 -1000.00 23990296985

SHRIVER, MARIA
SANTA MONICA, CA 90405
NBC

KENNEDY, PATRICK J
VIA FRIENDS OF PATRICK J KENNEDY INC
04/24/1998 1000.00 98033340136

SHRIVER, MARIA
SANTA MONICA, CA 90405
NBC NEWS/NEWS CORRESPONDENT

SHRIVER, MARK KENNEDY
VIA CITIZENS FOR MARK SHRIVER
04/14/2001 1000.00 21990355046
11/13/2001 1000.00 22990305847

SHRIVER, MARIA
SANTA MONICA, CA 90405
NBC/BROADCAST JOURNALIST

KENNEDY, PATRICK J
VIA FRIENDS OF PATRICK J KENNEDY INC
03/01/2002 1000.00 22990708500

You need to clean up that post. I'm not terribly interested in what Maria Shriver did, even if I wish she didn't. I'm interested in whether ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER, himself, gave money to Democrats.

BTW, let's just pause a moment to see how far adrift you've gone in your efforts to bash Arnold:

You (or was it Roscoe?) stated that Arnold and Riordan were equally lefty.

I responded to that by saying neutrally, IMO Arnold is a touch to Riordan's right, because at least Arnold hasn't endorsed Democrats running vs. Republicans.

Then the dissembling by you two began.

First I was advised that Buffett's being on Arnold's advisor team is an "endorsement" of a Democrat.

Second, I was told that, although it's different than endorsing a Democrat, it's WORSE.

Then the reductio ad absurdum continued with wondering whether Arnold had ever donated $$ to a Democrat running against a Republican.

It looks like I was wrong that he'd never given a Democrat a political donation. But so far all I've seen are contributions to Mark Shriver in a (failed) Democrat primary for a House seat in Md., and to Patrick Kennedy in 1998 and 2000.

I note that you added some more to Mark Shriver, including one in November '01. He lost his primary, so perhaps that was a help-you-pay-off-your-campaign-debt-cousin contribution. In any event, it isn't good for Schwarzenegger.

I don't like 'em. But I still maintain that they're excusable given the following mitigating circumstances:
- that they're going to Maria's family, as RARE favors;
- that they're not going to Ted but to low-level folks;
- that the Patrick contrib went to a guy with a very safe seat; and
- that Mark Shriver didn't even get past the party primary.