Free Republic

One of Hillary Clinton’s wealthy pals paid $500,000 in an unsuccessful effort to fund women willing to accuse President Trump of sexual misconduct before the 2016 election, The New York Times reported Sunday. Susie Tompkins Buell, the founder of Esprit Clothing and a major Clinton campaign donor for many years, gave the money to celebrity lawyer Lisa Bloom who was working with a number of Trump accusers at the time, according to the paper’s bombshell report. Bloom solicited donors by saying she was working with women who might “find the courage to speak out” against Trump if the donors would...

ne of Hillary Clinton’s wealthy pals paid $500,000 in an unsuccessful effort to fund women willing to accuse President Trump of sexual misconduct before the 2016 election, The New York Times reported Sunday. Susie Tompkins Buell, the founder of Esprit Clothing and a major Clinton campaign donor for many years, gave the money to celebrity lawyer Lisa Bloom who was working with a number of Trump accusers at the time, according to the paper’s bombshell report. Bloom solicited donors by saying she was working with women who might “find the courage to speak out” against Trump if the donors would...

Partisan politics have long taken hold of the sexual misconduct allegations against President Donald Trump, according to a Sunday New York Times report. Multiple donors who funded lawsuits against the president in hopes of holding him accountable for his alleged misdeeds were identified. Among them was Susie Tompkins Buell, the founder of the Esprit clothing brand. She is a close personal friend of Hillary Clinton and a prominent donor of her campaign. Buell also donated to Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign, after speaking with him at an event in 1991. “They asked me what I wanted,” she told the Los...

Left-wing political operatives and Hillary Clinton backers David Brock and Susie Tompkins Buell bankrolled $700,000 allegedly to find people who would accuse then-candidate Donald Trump of sexual misconduct before Election Day 2016. Brock’s American Bridge 21st Century Foundation and Buell, a major donor to the foundation, reportedly donated the six-figure sums to Lisa Bloom’s law firm, which specializes in sexual harassment allegations against public figures, according to a report from the New York Times. Brock gave $200,000, and one of his major donors, Susie Tompkins Buell, gave $500,000. Bloom’s firm capitalized on the sexual harassment allegations against Trump in the...

A founding member of the Ready for Hillary PAC’s Finance Council is a member of George Soros’ progressive donor network, The Democracy Alliance, and has links to controversial progressive organizations Media Matters for America and the Tides Foundation. San Francisco environmentalist Susie Tompkins Buell is one of the key founding members of the Finance Council for Ready for Hillary, a super PAC that hopes to build a strong coalition of donors and online supporters in preparation for Hillary Clinton’s expected 2016 presidential campaign. …Buell, a co-founder of the Esprit clothing line, is a member of the Democracy Alliance, a secretive...

BOSTON (AP) — She's yet to say whether she'll run, but a group working to support Hillary Rodham Clinton's prospective presidential bid raised more than $1 million in June alone. The Ready for Hillary super PAC has accepted donations exceeding $1.25 million since beginning to raise money in earnest this spring, an official with the group confirmed Tuesday. The figure includes more than $1 million last month as the operation begins to ramp up.

"Presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., left, holds hands with Esprit clothing co-founder, Susie Tompkins Buell, right, at a fundraising luncheon in San Francisco, Friday Feb. 23, 2007."

Stunning new video reveals the role that ACORN has played not only in stealing elections but also in stealing billions from the American taxpayer through the sub-prime fiasco. This is the "non-partisan" group for whom Obama was the attorney.

Rank Contributor City, State Total Contributions 1 Peter Lewis Peter B Lewis/Progressive Corp Cleveland, OH $14,030,000 2 George Soros Soros Fund Management New York, NY $12,600,000 3 Steven Bing Shangri-La Entertainment Los Angeles, CA $8,086,273 4 Andrew & Deborah Rappaport August Capital Woodside, CA $2,910,000 5 John A & Lawrie Harris Changing Horizons Fund Berwyn, PA $1,674,000 6 Lewis Cullman Cullman Foundation/Cullman Ventures New York, NY $1,650,000 7 Agnes Varis Agvar Chemicals New York, NY $1,500,000 8 Alida R Messinger Alida Messinger Charitable Lead Trust New York, NY $1,158,000 9 Fred Eychaner Newsweb Corp Chicago, IL $1,150,000 10 Susie...

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s PAC has raised tens of thousands of dollars from wealthy Democrats, including a top President Obama donor and a close friend of Hillary Clinton’s — even as the Bay State lawmaker travels the country blasting big business and the super rich. Among the most recent donors with the deepest pockets who gave to Warren’s PAC for a Level Playing Field, according to its latest federal filing: • Barbarina Heyerdahl, a Democratic activist in Vermont who has given heavily to President Obama. She gave $5,000 to Warren’s PAC last month; Heyerdahl has donated more than $190,000 to...

The highly publicized vote recount in the Minnesota Senate race between Democrat Al Franken and Republican Norm Coleman is shining a light on Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, the state’s chief election officer. Ritchie is chairman of the Minnesota Canvassing Board, which on Monday certified that Franken received 225 more votes than Coleman did. Ritchie gave partial credit for his 2006 election to a liberal 527 group, the Secretary of State Project, which says its goal is to “ensure fair, clean elections” by replacing conservative secretaries of state with liberal Democrats. “I want to thank the Secretary of State...

YOO-HOO! followthemoney.org. . . OVER HERE! The Left's Fatally Flawed "Animal Farm" Mentality(Why America Must NEVER AGAIN Elect a Democrat President) WHY JOHN KERRY IS DANGEROUS FOR AMERICA by Mia T, 6.04.04   (viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE) NEW! compleatjohnkerry.blogspot.com NEW! unfitforcommand.blogspot.comjohnkerryisdangerousforamerica.blogspot.com The Bush Doctine is built on two pillars, one -- that the United States must maintain its absolute military superiority in every part of the world, and second -- that the United States has the right for preemptive action. Now, both these propositions, taken on their own, are quite valid propositions, but if you put...

Around Christmas, Hillary Rodham Clinton set off on her annual holiday vacation at Oscar de la Renta's beachfront estate in the Dominican Republic. De la Renta, whose relationship with the former first lady had blossomed from dress designer to close friend, had recently died and Clinton wanted to be there to support his widow. She was also wrestling with a final decision on whether to run for president. By the time Clinton arrived in the Dominican Republic, she had largely settled on running a second campaign, but wanted to make the final determination with her husband, Bill. Friends fret over...

With a crowded presidential field taking shape, top Democratic prospects are seizing on the midterms to distinguish themselves from the pack. The 2020 Democratic presidential road show is already underway. And 2018 is beginning to look like the dress rehearsal. Top contenders are making endorsements, picking sides in party primaries and aggressively working the fundraising circuit on behalf of 2018 candidates, all the while building their own name recognition. With many presidential prospects on the ballot themselves next year, potential challengers to Donald Trump are also stockpiling cash to help run up their reelection margins to burnish their stature for...

The Clinton foundation is now accepting donations from foreign governments, something it stopped doing after Hillary Clinton became Secretary of State in 2009, and the practice is raising eyebrows as the former first lady ponders a White House run. Clinton, who has yet to publicly say she will join the 2016 race for president, has watched as donations from foreign governments have poured in.

Patterico shoots down a promising pro-Kerry Web conspiracy theory--namely that the potential forgery of the CBS Bush guard documents was spotted so quickly on the Web that the person who spotted it ("Buckhead," poster #47 at Free Republic) must have been tipped off in advance. That would suggest that any forgery was planted, presumably by pro-Bush forces. But it seems this whole theory, promoted in this morning's ABC News Note, was based on a misreading of time stamps by ABC. In reality, Buckhead had a couple of hours to come up with his post--something he confirms in an email to...

Fox News just had guest, Derrick Willis from The Center for Public Integrity on the show. He said that 95% of the 527 funds come from Democrats. Nothing new here, but when Mr. Willis mentioned the name of the biggest donor was Peter Lewis CEO of Progressive Insurance Company I thought that conservatives should look closely at donors like Mr. Lewis and the products that they sell. If I had Progressive Insurance as my insurer I would definitely not renew any policies with them and I would recommend that no one obtain insurance coverage from Progressive. The Center for Public...

The $50 million Dems The real VIPs in the fight to oust George W. Bush won’t be on the FleetCenter stage next week. They’re the wealthy funders of progressive ‘527’ groups. BY DAVID S. BERNSTEIN ONE YEAR AGO, conventional political wisdom held that the Democratic presidential nominee would be in trouble right now. After spending all his cash in a tough primary battle, the thinking went, the candidate would have to spend April through June scrambling to raise money for the general campaign. In the meantime, Bush’s team would be free to use that three-month window to define the Democrats’...

The nomination of GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is causing a schism on the feminist left. A group founded by philanthropist Susie Tompkins Buell, a wealthy member of the secretive left-wing Democracy Alliance, accused journalists of sexism in its coverage of Palin and told reporters "to back off," Jonathan Martin of the Politico reports today: WomenCount, a group co-founded by top Hillary [Clinton] fundraiser Susie Tompkins Buell, posted a lengthy item on their blog decrying questions over whether Palin can, as a mother of five, juggle her family responsibilities and still be vice president. "The very notion that Sarah...

CLINTON WHISTLEBLOWER PETER F. PAUL SUES BILL AND HILLARY CLINTON FOR FRAUD, CONSPIRACY, UNJUST ENRICHMENT California Lawsuit Over Post-White House Business Relationship That Never Materialized Federal Government: “We’re Very Much Interested” in Pursuing Campaign Fundraising Violations by Hillary’s Senate Campaign (Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates public corruption, announced today that it filed a lawsuit against Bill and Hillary Clinton, among others, on behalf of Peter F. Paul, the Hollywood entrepreneur who underwrote and produced the August 12, 2000 “Hollywood Tribute to Bill Clinton,” a gala fundraiser that yielded $1.5 million in “hard money” contributions to...