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<p>Donors with ties to project gave funds to '02 council hopefuls, disclosures show.</p> <p>Campaign contributors with ties to a Roseville development proposal gave at least $21,300 to City Council candidates two years ago, an initial review of disclosure statements shows.</p>

(CNSNews.com) - Billionaire financier and philanthropist George Soros, who has pledged $15.5 million to liberal interest groups, said Monday he would likely up the ante in his quest to oust President Bush from the White House this November. Speaking before the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C., Soros declined to say how much he would give or when he might make the next donation. But he said the attacks he has endured from conservatives -- the Republican National Committee and the Bush campaign are two of his biggest critics -- have fueled his restlessness. "I've been really quite...

Group to Challenge Schwarzenegger at Fundraiser with Contribution of 21,200 Jelly Beans; Price Gouged HMO Consumer, Injured Worker to Demand Equal Access to Governor 12/17/03 8:15:00 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: State and Assignment desks Contact: Jerry Flanagan of FTCR, 415-497-1710 (cell) SACRAMENTO, Calif., Dec. 17 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR) will once again join an injured worker and a priced gouged HMO consumer in an attempt to buy their way into a Governor Schwarzenegger fundraiser with a different type of green -- 21,200 green jelly beans -- challenging the Governor's pledge to allow equal...

Freeper Investigation Exposes Direct Coordination Between MoveOn.org and the DNC (Foreign $$$ funneled to DNC Petition Drive)We have discovered a direct link between the Democrat National Committee (DNC) and MoveOn.org, the organization of choice for donations and activism of the Democrats. Recently there was a Joint Petition Drive to protect America's Courts by DNC and MoveOn.org. This directly links MoveOn.org to the DNC. Drudge revealed this week (below) that foreign money is flowing into MoveOn.org. With the direct link between DNC and MoveOn.org established, MoveOn.org money from foreign sources is funneled to DNC. Nov 13, 2003 More than 300,000...

I have come across, (in the Japanese language), the directing of Japanese in Japan (foreign nationals/small contributions) to stateside contribution websites for the HOWARD DEAN FOR PRESIDENT campaign.The Japanese site is located located at:http://web.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~lune1978/mt/archives/000218.htmlThe post is from mid-August, but is still up. You will need a font/browser and Japanese language comprehension capabilities to understand the solicitation. This report follows research provided to FREE REPUBLIC in August 2003 [ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/953876/posts ] also exposing the DENNIS KUCINICH campaign (which is still openly soliciting in Japanese FOREIGN CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS), on the internet in Japan. This also follows Matt Drudge's recent expose on...

Late Final December 06, 2003Does Howard Dean Have An "Enron" Problem? Excerpts: Did then-Gov. Howard Dean's administration approve a $180 million sweetheart deal to the boys at Entergy, at the same time utility executives were pumping campaign contributions into his then-fledgling campaign for president? And did that deal wrongfully stick Vermont taxpayers with high electricity rates for ten years? They are questions Dean may find himself having to answer on the campaign trail, as he repeatedly invokes the Enron scandals in an effort to link the Bush Administration to "Ken Lay and the boys at Enron." The Dean Administration's Public...

Judgment day for the NEA. The nation's largest teachers' union may soon come to regret the educational-policy buzzwords "accountability" and "testing." The Internal Revenue Service is currently auditing the National Education Association and students of the NEA's political practices are betting that the powerful union's "new math" approach to its returns will flunk under long-overdue examination. A convincing stack of documents collected by the Landmark Legal Foundation reveals that for the past ten years the millions of tax-exempt funds that the 2.7-million-member union spends on political activity has wound up amounting to "zero" on its tax returns. "The IRS is...

I'm starting to feel like Frank Gilbreth, the father in Cheaper by the Dozen. While his wife took his twelve children to church, Mr. Gilbreth sat outside smoking a cigar and reading the Sunday papers. Since the consecration of Gene Robinson, openly and actively a homosexual, as Episcopal bishop of New Hampshire, I just haven't felt much like sitting in our regular pew. A lot of Episcopalians feel the same way. The Robinson consecration marked only the latest in a long series of fallings-away by the increasingly dweebish, peevish, leftish, and -- it must be said -- gay-ish Episcopal clergy....

WASHINGTON– The Pentagon's top money manager today praised the nations of the international community that pledged billions for the reconstruction of Iraq at the Oct. 23-24 donors' conference in Madrid. About $13 billion was pledged, DoD Comptroller Dov Zakheim told reporters at a Pentagon press conference. That amount, he said, is in addition to the $20 billion earmarked for Iraq reconstruction contained within the $87 billion supplemental budget proposal for Afghanistan and Iraq that's now before Congress. The amount of money pledged for Iraq in Madrid proves "the international community feels that it is terribly important that there be a...

Washington - Democratic presidential candidates have sped across the country aboard the corporate jets of special interests dozens of times, sparing them the hassle of commercial flights while giving union leaders, lawyers and executives a chance to bend the ears of White House hopefuls. John Edwards and his staff have taken $138,000 worth of flights aboard the private jet of a Dallas law firm. Dick Gephardt has gotten a lift aboard union planes. And Wesley Clark took his first campaign trip aboard a government contractor's jet. It's not cheap, but the convenience of having a plane at the ready can...

MoveOn.org- Campaign Finance Law Violation? I received an e-mail from MoveOn.org describing a unique fund-raising campaign by MoveOn's Section 527 organization to fund ads opposing the re-election of President Bush. This in itself seemed a little sketchy to me, considering the solicitation came through MoveOn's normal 501(c) mailing list. I'm not sure if that's a violation, though. Here's what gets me, the campaign claimed that if I contributed, my contribution would be matched if I was in the first $300,000 of contributions. The wording was slightly confusing, so I asked MoveOn whether this meant they would receive a $300,000 contribution...

<p>President Bush's re-election campaign is gathering so much in contributions that some Republicans are wondering why he needs all that money for an uncontested primary, while others wonder why he plans to accept federal financing for the general election campaign.</p>

<p>The Bush administration said yesterday it remains determined to proceed with an international donors conference to help rebuild Iraq, despite divisions at the United Nations over the future of Iraq and paltry pledges to date from leading allies.</p> <p>The White House and State Department yesterday said the Oct. 24-25 conference in Madrid was still on, despite comments from Russia and Germany that it would be better to delay the meeting.</p>

<p>A group of powerful Orange County businessmen frustrated with the candidates and the failures of the California Republican Party pumped nearly $2 million into Arnold Schwarzenegger's upstart campaign – and now expect to have a strong voice in his administration.</p>

Report: More funds needed to counter anti-US hostilities in Arab World Hostility towards the United States has reached "shocking levels” among Muslim populations, according to a recent report by the US Advisory Group on Public Diplomacy for the Arab and Muslim World. The panel called for more money to be spent on advocating US policies. The group revealed that the US State Department spent approximately $600 million last year on programs promoting American policies and an additional $540 million on Voice of America and other broadcasts. Yet, most of the funding was directed to exchange programs, overhead and salaries,...

Bulk of Iraq Reconstruction Monies 'Will Come From Iraqis,' Rumsfeld Says By Gerry J. GilmoreAmerican Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Oct. 2, 2003 -- The American taxpayer will not have to foot the entire bill for rebuilding post-Saddam Iraq, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said here today. The $20 billion for Iraqi security and reconstruction contained within President Bush's $87 billion supplemental budget proposal for fiscal 2004 now before Congress "is not intended to cover all of Iraq's needs," Rumsfeld noted to reporters at a Pentagon press conference. "The bulk of the funds for Iraq's reconstruction will come from Iraqis,"...

<p>WASHINGTON - A Muslim activist whose Virginia home was searched as part of a federal investigation of terrorist financing has been arrested on charges of having illegal dealings with Libya.</p> <p>A criminal complaint unsealed yesterday alleges Abdul Rahman al-Amoudi violated U.S. law by accepting, either personally or through the American Muslim Foundation he heads, $10,700 from the Libyan mission to the United Nations and by failing to disclose numerous trips to Libya on his passport.</p>

NBC11.com Judge: Bustamante Must Try To Retrieve Money Spent On Ads Lt. Gov. Is To "Make A Good Faith Effort" To Get Some Of The $3.8 Million Back POSTED: 9:17 p.m. PDT September 26, 2003 FRESNO, Calif. -- A judge on Friday ordered Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante to "make a good faith effort" to retrieve some of the $3.8 million Bustamante claims has already been spent on airtime for his ads fighting a ballot measure. The amended order comes just four days after Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Loren McMaster ruled the lieutenant governor must stop using a campaign finance...

Governor speeds up open-space land deals PRE-ELECTION RUSH TO BUY WORRIES SOME, PLEASES OTHERSLess than two weeks before the election that could end his political career, Gov. Gray Davis is rushing to approve nearly $300 million in deals for the state to buy land from developers who have given him more than $160,000 in political contributions.The governor's office praises the purchases as rare opportunities to preserve wetlands, a sprawling ranch and redwoods. And some environmentalists would like to see the deals sealed before a possible change in administrations.Yet critics question whether the price for taxpayers is too high -- Davis...

Press Release Source: California Nations Indian Gaming Association Schwarzenegger Far Off the Mark on Tribal Governments Tuesday September 23, 12:56 pm ET SACRAMENTO, Calif., Sept. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Tribal casinos are government enterprises, similar to state lotteries, municipal and county airports and hospitals and other revenue generating government activities, and as such are not required by law to pay taxes. Yet virtually all revenues from tribal government casinos are used to provide government services for tribal members.Film actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican candidate in the Oct. 7 recall election in California, ignores these basic facts in a television advertisement that...