The 'Offended' 911 Group “Peaceful Tomorrows” is funded largely by Teresa Heinz

various sources, mostly Tom Randall of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | 3/5/04

[dead]

“Peaceful Tomorrows” is being portrayed as an independent group of relatives of victims of the 911 attacks. They are getting a lot of press claiming to be outraged over the new Bush ads.

Call me insensitive if you like, but I wonder if this outrage could possibly be a tad overblown, and more likely attributable to the millions and millions of dollars this group has received from endowments chaired by Teresa Heinz, wife of Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry.

According to their own contribution page, “Peaceful Tomorrows is a project of the Tides Center, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.”

According to an article in the Pittsburgh Review, “Between 1995 and 2001, $4.3 million of that money came from the Howard Heinz Endowment. In 2002, it and the Vira Heinz Endowment blessed The Tides Center, a San Francisco spin-off of the Tides Foundation, with another $190,000 while the two endowments gave $1.6 million to the new Tides Center for Western Pennsylvania.” (The Heinz Endowments have teamed up with a secretive left-wing group)

The money that flows into The Tides also flows out. They have given grants totaling $489,000 to the Iraq Peace Fund, who used that money to fund the anti-war marches and media costs of 27 groups, including MoveOn.org, whose purpose is to defeat George W. Bush.

Other Tides Center projects include The Youth Gender Project, which seeks to "empower and support transgender, gender-variant, intersexed and gender-questioning youth and young adults."

They also shoveled $200,000 towards The Ruckus Society - founded in 1995 to train activists in violent protest against biotechnology, globalization and the World Bank. It incited property destruction in the Seattle riots of 1999 and Washington, D.C., the following year.

Now, if you really want to get mad, you should also know that $8,000,000 in taxpayer money flowed into the Tides Center in the form of federal grants made by eight different agencies between 1997 and 2001.

[HenryLeeII]

No, dead, you can't be seriously implying that this organization would allow money to color its perceptions, could you? You're not series, are you? This would be a hugh conflict of interest on Peaceful Tomorrows' part! I'm sure Senator Kerry knows nothing about this and would feel bad if it were brought to his attention.../hurling chunks>

[OXENinFLA]

Bill Clinton's remarks 8-29-96 (Fighting terrorism )

[WV Mountain Mama]

F'in unbelievable!

[CheezyD]

Great find, thanks! I knew this phony outrage was manufactured and now we have the proof.

[EggsAckley]

John Heinz is in full spin by now.

[boxerblues]

This posts deserves an atta boy, nice catch

[IrishCatholic]

Nothing to see here. Move along. Move along. If there was even a hint of impropriety the media would have been all over it.... It is only through the rise of the Internet that we get any info at all. The cold war was only a battle. The war is here now. The left will do anything to win for socialism.

[Green Knight]

Ping

[aculeus]

Great find!

[kayak]

WOW!

[Republican Red]

good job

[StriperSniper]

Great job!

[Dog]

Great find!

[CheezyD]

I've emailed this thread to Drudge and Sean Hannity.

[kayak]

PING

[Hoboken]

I won't hold my breath until the national media picks up on this. Fox News maybe, but the NY Times. CNN, CBS etc. pigs will fly first.

Those S.O.B's are complicit in this loathsome scheme. I knew this reaction was spring loaded and set to go off as soon as W mentioned 9/11.

Great catch, Dead!!!

[Puppage]

O'Reilly had one of these upset family members on last night...funny, but they never said where their funding came from.

[Dog]

This needs media coverage.

[Blood of Tyrants]

As I suspected the minute I heard them. Now, what is the chance that Tom Brokaw will reveal the "offended persons" anti-Bush roots in the interest of full disclosure?

[FairOpinion]

Excellent research!

The Democrats are the ones who are trying to politicize 9-11.