Three Kerry friends

Pittsburgh Tribune Review ^ | 10/24/04 | Dateline D.C.

[Jean S]

Steven Bing, Peter Benjamin Lewis, George Soros

It is late in the day, but there is still time to ask the Kerry-Edwards campaign and the Democratic National Committee about their financing sources. Equally important to ask is just what do these ridiculously rich and strange people expect to get for their millions of dollars.

Let's look at three of Kerry's friends, probably responsible for at least $30 million in donations.

• Steven Bing: Our Victorian ancestors had the right words to describe Bing. He would have been known as "a cad and a bounder," while today he is dismissed as a "poor little rich boy." Born in 1965, Steve is approaching his midlife crisis with all the arrogance of having inherited on his 18th birthday a $600 million New York real estate legacy created by his grandfather Leo. Steven's doctor father, Peter, worked in the White House during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations.

  Bing dropped out of Stanford in his junior year and directed the 1993 erotic thriller, "Every Breath," characterized by critics as "pointless and nasty." His production company, Shangri-La Entertainment, sold a number of film projects over the years, but none were produced.

[Mr. K]

and roughly half the morons in this country will vote for these alleged 'people'

[sarasota]

I see the Tides (Heinz) Foundation is now supporting ads featuring Jennifer Anniston encouraging single women to vite. Saw the first one last night.

[sydbas]

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