The Soros-Kerry Nexus

FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | 10/19/04 | Rachel Ehrenfeld and Shawn Macomber

[kattracks]

While George Soros and John Kerry were vacationing in neighboring mansions in Sun Valley, Idaho, the two men chatted on the phone but avoided a personal meeting, “because,” as Soros told USA Today, “of how it would be interpreted.”  

For Soros, who has put down at least $18 million to defeat Bush this year, keeping up appearances is essential. Coordination between the 527 groups Soros has been raining money down upon and the Kerry campaign, after all, is strictly verboten in the age of McCain-Feingold. Is it plausible the Dems’ billionaire benefactor and the candidate avoided talk of the election campaign strategy entirely? The facts on the ground suggest otherwise.

Soros major anti-Bush donations have gone to MoveOn.org, the group infamous for its over the top, hate-laden ads; and to former Clinton chief of staff John Podesta’s new think tank, the Center for American Progress (CAP); and to America Coming Together, a get-out-the-Democratic vote operation headed by former AFL-CIO political director Steve Rosenthal and Ellen Malcolm, president of the pro-abortion EMILY’s List.

ACT steadfastly denies it is violating federal law by coordinating with the Kerry campaign, but brags on its website that it is currently, “laying the groundwork to defeat George W. Bush and elect Democrats.” Maybe the group is thinking of some Democrat other than John Kerry? Perhaps, but then the fact that former ACT staffer Rodney Shelton is now Kerry’s Arkansas state director seems a bit odd. Isolated incident? Nope. Kerry’s former campaign manager Jim Jordan is now on staff at ACT. And techno-whiz Zach Exley left the upper echelons of MoveOn.org to work for Kerry.

 

“It's inevitable that Exley is going to be using MoveOn folks and information for the Kerry campaign. The guy was their opposition research guy,” a Bush campaign staffer told the Washington Prowler. “The RNC has been saying all along that these guys have been working together, so now the guy responsible for all those anti-Bush ads on TV and the Web is essentially doing the same thing for the Kerry camp? Soros probably has an office in Kerry campaign headquarters by now.”

 

Harold Ickes,

the widely acknowledged driving force behind Americans Coming Together and the Media Fund, is also a member of the executive committee of the Democratic National Committee. Ickes recently admitted to Business Week that “he occasionally tells the Kerry camp what he's up to.” That magazine also noted that ACT and The Media Fund were briefing journalists just down the hall from the DNC Finance Committee's hospitality suite at Boston's Four Seasons Hotel during the Democratic National Convention. These are activities that Soros’s vast resources clearly made possible.

So was Soros being facetious when he signed off on a 2000 Open Society Institute report that claimed one of the group’s major goals was to get, “states to experiment with various approaches to reduce the pressure of money on elections and legislation, ranging from improved disclosure to full public financing of campaigns”? His 1995 book Soros on Soros contains a clue as to what he may be thinking: “I do not accept the rules imposed by others...I am a law-abiding citizen, but I recognize that there are regimes that need to be opposed rather than accepted. And in periods of regime change, the normal rules don’t apply.” Clearly, Soros considers himself as someone who is able to determine when the “normal rules” should and shouldn’t apply.

Democrats, hungry for a 2004 win, don’t much care whether George Soros is following the “normal rules” these days or not. One “Democratic operative” told U.S. News & World Report, “[Republicans] don’t accept the legitimacy of political opposition. These people will do anything to gain and hold power. So I’m not exactly feeling full of ethical scruples as we fight for survival.”

Aside from desperately attempting to make John Kerry president, what other cause has George Soros bankrolled? One joint venture between the Tides Foundation, one of potential first lady Teresa Heinz-Kerry’s favorite charities, and Soros’s Open Society Institute is the Democratic Justice Fund, which FrontPage Magazine’s Ben Johnson has noted, “seeks to ease restrictions on Muslim immigration to the United States, particularly from countries designated by the State Department as ‘terrorist nations.’”

 

Long term, if Soros has his way, the United States won’t even remain territorially intact. He funds both the National Council of La Raza and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, two groups that want to essentially eliminate America’s borders. In a much hailed 1997 speech to the National Council of La Raza, former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo said that he “proudly affirmed that the Mexican nation extends beyond the territory enclosed by its borders and that Mexican migrants are an important – a very important – part of this.” As FrontPage Magazine reported earlier this year, OSI has likewise contributed $65,000 to the Malcolm X Grassroots movement, which wants to establish an all-black homeland in the Southeastern United States, from South Carolina to Louisiana. It would be communist, of course.

In September 2003 Soros was invited to speak at one of the State Department’s Open Forums, where he laid out his hyper-internationalist aspirations for American society, including his proposed “modification of the concept of sovereignty” which is needed because “sovereignty is basically somewhat anachronistic.”

 

Someone ought to ask John Kerry where he stands on all of this. We deserve to know what these two fabulously wealthy power brokers have been planning for us over these vacation phone calls.

Rachel Ehrenfeld is author of "Funding Evil; How Terrorism is Financed–and How to Stop It" (Bonus Books, 2004); Shawn Macomber is a staff writer at The American Spectator and runs the website, www.ReturnofthePrimitive.com.

[narses]

Ping.

[rudyudy]

I never could understand why the RNC failed to run a commercial with this guy in it. There is nothing more powerful that can get a person to vote than to hear a foriegner say something like "theese is vy vee must get Boosh out of office vefore eet ees too late".

[Fedora]

Has any evidence of a Soros/Oil-for-Food nexus emerged?

[LeoWindhorse]

" One joint venture between the Tides Foundation, one of potential first lady Teresa Heinz-Kerry’s favorite charities, and Soros’s Open Society Institute is the Democratic Justice Fund, which FrontPage Magazine’s Ben Johnson has noted, “seeks to ease restrictions on Muslim immigration to the United States, particularly from countries designated by the State Department as ‘terrorist nations."

maybe old Geroge Soros is the Devil incarnate ?
it doesn't get much worse than this

[Bellflower]

One of the greatest enemy we have is the media. They let the dems get away with any and everything and pounce on the repubs for the slightest hint of a impropriety. I think one of our greatest mandates is to organize a conservative media that reaches the average person daily (such as a daily nation wide conservative newspaper on every corner). It must also have the backbone to catch and hold to the fire the dems when they break all the rules. We are heading for anarchy if we don't get some breaks put on. Hopefully it is not too late. We know so many things about Kerry that should get him bounced out of the race for President but they are not getting out to the general public.

[stockstrader]

Please don't fly JetBlue. George Soros is the major stockholder in JetBlue. If you fly JetBlue--you're contributing to the Soros fortune.

[NYpeanut]

Hey, Soros sounds a lot like Arianna Huffington!

[Mike Fieschko]

bump

[Helms]

1984:

Addendum 10/08/2004: ABC Theatre Presents and George Soros Directs "Fathers and Sons" ( Old New Leftist and New Tranzis )

Mort Halperin: "In addition to creating these two new agencies, the U.S. needs to work with other nations to invigorate an international regime designed to deter states from developing weapons of mass destruction and providing them to terrorist groups. This regime must be global, and the rules must apply to all nations, not simply those the United States designates as rogue or “evil.”

Morton H. Halperin is a Senior Vice President and Director of Fellows at the Center for American Progress. A George Soros Production, Coins "Safer America" for Kerry-Edwards Mark Halperin is an ABC News Political director and Son of Morton Halperin, infamous 60's era New Leftist

"things out of context in a way that goes beyond what Kerry has done. Kerry distorts, takes out of context, and mistakes all the time, but these are not central to his (ed. ABC-supported) efforts to win.

"We have a responsibility to hold both sides accountable to the public interest, but that doesn't mean we reflexively and artificially hold both sides "equally" accountable when the facts don't warrant that. I'm sure many of you have this week felt the stepped up Bush efforts to complain about our coverage.

This is all part of their efforts to get away with as much as possible with the stepped up, renewed efforts to win the election by destroying Senator Kerry at least partly through distortions."

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"Pigs are equal, but some pigs are more equal than others…"

[nw_arizona_granny]

ping

[docbnj]

This nightmare is partly a result of the McCain-Feingold fiasco.

McCain has a lot to answer for, as does anyone else who voted for that "reform."

[docbnj]

This nightmare is partly a result of the McCain-Feingold fiasco.

McCain has a lot to answer for, as does anyone else who voted for that "reform."

[kevinm13]

Progressive Insurance should also be on the list of boycotts. Peter Lewis, the CEO has contributed almost as much as Soros to the left-leaning 527's but much less vocally than Soros. Lewis still has a business to run while Soros has given his sons the reins of power.

[Don Corleone]

McCain has a lot to answer for, as does anyone else who voted for that "reform."

Including the President who signed it and the SCOTUS who validated it.

[OXENinFLA]

PING.....

[kcvl]

On October 5, Soros will begin a 12-city tour to bolster the sagging Kerry campaign. He's written a pamphlet--with the snappy title, "Why We Must Not Re-Elect President Bush"--that's being mailed to two million voters, and launched a new website, GeorgeSoros.com, where he laments: "I have been demonized by the Bush campaign."

His 12-city speaking tour begins next week in Pennsylvania and continues through the battleground states of Ohio, Florida and Minnesota until Oct. 26, just one week before the Nov. 2 election.

George Soros has been a major force in pushing campaign finance since 1995 by helping to finance it with the help of John McCain.

Billionaire John Kerry supporter George Soros is working through the U.N. to negotiate a treaty that will ban private ownership of firearms on a worldwide basis, says National Rifle Association spokesman Wayne LaPierre.

Soros charges that George W. Bush "feels he was anointed by God" [after September 11] and is "leading the U.S. and the world toward a vicious cycle of escalating violence."

Soros' first bet, in spring of last year, was to commit $3 million over three years to an anti-Bush policy shop headed by ex-Clintonite John Podesta. He followed up with a $10 million grant to launch America Coming Together, a get-out-the-vote effort to help the Democratic presidential campaign. Next he promised $2.5 million to MoveOn.org, which entertains TV viewers in swing states with anti-Bush commercials.

Soros has taken to comparing President Bush to Hitler, and last week the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported that Soros says anti-Semitism is the fault of . . . the Jews and President Bush. "There is a resurgence of anti-Semitism in Europe," Soros, who is himself Jewish, told a conference of the Jewish Funders Network. "The policies of the Bush administration and the Sharon administration contribute to that."

Soros had already compiled a list of specific notions about how to solve the crisis in Iraq which he’d like the next President to consider. He and Leslie H. Gelb, the president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, had worked out a plan calling for summit talks on Iraq, under U.N. auspices, which would include neighboring countries. The two men envisioned that Iraq could be divided along ethnic lines into largely autonomous regions, united by a federal government that would distribute oil revenues. “It’s purely an idea, but one I’d support, and advocate,” Soros said. He also told me that he would push for eliminating Bush’s tax cuts.

Soros told the Washington Post that defeating President Bush is "the central focus of my life."

[Netizen]

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[AmeriBrit]

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