Burns refuses to concede, wants more ballots counted

Missoulian State Bureau ^ | November 08 2006 | CHARLES S. JOHNSON and JENNIFER McKEE,

[proudpapa]

Can you imagine how freaked out the left will be if Dick Cheney has the final say!

[proudpapa]

I'm a conservative who could easily support a libertarian, if (s)he had a chance of winning.

In a close race you should pick the best candidate who has a chance of winning.

Montana had 10,000 yahoos who couldn't figure this out.

I wonder how they will feel when the democrats proposes new infringements on their 2nd amendment rights?

[Mo1]

Well there's the connection

Thanks kcvl . I knew you'd find it

You Rock!

[george76]

Thanks kcvl

Good find !

[Mo1]

interesting how the purest trues let themselves get bought and paid for from the likes of George Soro's

[Mo1]

FYI
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1735129/posts?page=140#140

[george76]

They will sell out for a very cheap price.

[Grampa Dave]

Excellent kcvl!

Many of us have felt this about some of the old trolling moles on Free Republic, who hate GW more than the DUers do. The newer ones are so obvious, they get bounced quickly. The older $oreA$$ whores er libies just stay around to spread their poison like the L nuts with Rockwell and his babe of choice, Cindy.

They have tried to dominate many threads since election day with outright gutting and blood letting of our president while pretending to be great conservatives.

If we ever get documentation that these scumbags were paid by George $oreA$$, I can't say what I want to say.

[Mo1]

If we ever get documentation that these scumbags were paid by George $oreA$$, I can't say what I want to say.

I can say it .. I just can't type it

I am furous at this finding

[onyx]

Busy, busy soros ---- where's our Richard Mellon Scaithe?

Good sleuthing, kcvl!!

[Mo1]

whi is this guy?

Howard Rich
http://www.thenation.com/docprem.mhtml?i=20061106&s=schrag
You won't find Rich's name on any official political contribution records. The estimated $11 million to $14 million he's kicked in (so far) for state initiative campaigns in Arizona, California, Idaho, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, Oklahoma, Oregon and Washington comes through a cluster of organizations almost as obscure as he is. Among them: .

[Mo1]

Whoever this guy is .. his name keeps popping up whenever I research George Soros

http://www.howierichexposed.com/players.php

Howard Rich, Chairman
New York real estate investor.
Board of Directors, Social Security Choice.org. Note Social Security Choice.org is the social security privatization subsidiary of the Club for Growth.
Board of Directors of Cato Institute.
President, US Term Limits.
Board of Directors, Club for Growth.
Longtime Libertarian Party activist, reportedly aligned with Ed Crane.
Listed in Court filings as owner of votenet.com
Spouse of Andrea Rich, longtime Libertarian Party activist, reportedly affiliated with Ed Crane. Former owner of Laissez Faire Book Store. Home sometimes serves as salon for libertarian gatherings.
Address is used for registration of Arizona at its Best, an anti tax/conservative advocacy group. Tracy Thomas, a major contributor to Club for Growth in Arizona is the other officer.
Internet Registry for stopthepork.net with NY address and phone number associated with Laissez Faire Books, and Howard Rich.
Along with Richard Gilder's $50,000, Rich made a major contribution ($100,000) to the "New Yorkers to Change Albany" committee, which opposed a 2005 state referendum to undo changes to the budgetary process that favored Gov. George Pataki. Note this campaign is where ALG's 800-pound Styrofoam pig "Porky" made its first recorded appearance.

[Grampa Dave]

This link will get you started re Howie:

http://www.howierichexposed.com/

[kcvl]

Anthony Gregory(Lew Rockwell.com)is a writer and musician who lives in Berkeley, California. He is a research analyst at the Independent Institute.


The Independent Institute (TII) is a think tank that was founded in 1986 by David J. Theroux, who is also the president of the think tank.

TII has been a vocal opponent of the "war on drugs", immigration restrictions, corporate welfare, censorship, the neoconservative ("Bush Doctrine") of pre-emptive war, restrictions on reproductive rights, and the death penalty. It also contests the dominant view of scientists of the need for urgent action to curb greenhouse gas emissions.


Funding
On its website the Institute states that it "receives no government funding. Instead, it draws its support from a diverse range of foundations, businesses and individuals, and the sale of its publications and other services." [9] The Institute does not list which foundations or corporations it receives funding from on its website.

However, some funders of the Institute have been identified. These include:

Philip Morris contributed a donation of $10,000 in 1997 [10] and a donation of $25,000 in 1998. [11]

Exxon donated $10,000 in 1998 [12]; $5,000 in 2000 and 2001, $10,000 as Exxon Mobil in 2002 [13]; $10,000 in 2003 and $30,000 in 2005. [14]

The San Francisco Foundation contributed $10,000 in fiscal year 2000 (July 1, 1999-June 30, 2000) ([15])

According to Media Transparency, TII has received $678,000 (unadjusted for inflation) between 1995 and 2005. [16] Grants have included those from:

The John M. Olin Foundation gave in 1996 to The Independent Institute $40,000 for "The promotion of two books: The Diversity Myth, by David O. Sacks and Peter a Thiel; and The Melting Pot, by Richard K. Vedder and Lowell E. Gallaway" and in 1998 another $25,000 for "The Institute's book program".

The David H. Koch Charitable Foundation gave in 1995 - 2001 in total $160,000 for "General Operating Support".
The Earhart Foundation gave in 1998 - 2001 in total $46,095 to support editor Dr. Robert Higgs.

The Castle Rock Foundation gave in 2002 for "General operating support" $25,000.


Board of Advisors (includes)

Paul Craig Roberts, Chairman, Institute of Political Economy; former Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy, U.S. Department of the Treasury; Co-Author, The Tyranny of Good Intentions: How Prosecutors and Bureaucrats Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice


http://tinyurl.com/y6anzm



One possible reason for the gentle media coverage of Soros is the influence that Soros exercises over media groups through his money. Our report noted Soros' contributions to the Project on Media Ownership, the Independent Media Institute, the Center for Investigative Reporting, the Fund for Investigative Journalism, Investigative Reporters & Editors, and MediaChannel.org.

Soros has always exercised influence over so-called campaign finance reform groups. Those groups were behind the McCain-Feingold bill to reform campaign spending that also put limits on the ability of independent groups to influence political races. The law included a loophole that allowed Soros to spend more than $20 million to defeat Bush.

Now, Senator John McCain's Reform Institute has been exposed for taking $150,000 from Soros' Open Society Institute. Journalist and author Richard Poe says the McCain group "has long served as a nerve center for the so-called 'campaign finance reform' movement-a movement which has done nothing to clean up campaign finance, but has done a great deal to empower federal judges and government bureaucrats to regulate political speech, in defiance of the Bill of Rights."

http://tinyurl.com/wrtf9


George Soros' $30M Welfare Check
By Jeff Johnson
CNSNews.com | April 26, 2005

The Open Society Institute, a private foundation controlled by liberal billionaire and political activist George Soros, received more than $30 million from U.S. government agencies between 1998 and 2003. Last year, Soros donated at least $20 million of his own money to such liberal groups as Moveon.org, in a failed attempt to block the re-election of President George W. Bush.

Tax records the Open Society Institute (OSI) is required to file with the Internal Revenue Service list "FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES" as "Contributors" of amounts between $4.6 million and $8.9 million over a six year period:


http://tinyurl.com/y4umxn

[kcvl]

Howard S. Rich serves as Chairman of Americans for Limited Government. He has been a leading force in the limited government movement since 1992, when he founded U.S. Term Limits. Fifteen states now have term limits on their legislatures, and the term limits movement is one of the largest grassroots movements in American history.

An entrepreneur in real estate and business since 1965, Rich serves on the boards of various nonprofit organizations, including the Cato Institute, the Club for Growth and the Milton and Rose Friedman Foundation.

Rich, a strong supporter of school choice, has been honored with the Herman W. Lay Memorial Award for his work in the educational arena. In 2000 he founded Legislative Education Action Drive (LEAD), which focuses on enacting school choice legislation across the country. He also serves as Chairman of Parents in Charge Foundation.

In addition, Rich heads the Club for Growth State Action, which establishes and supports state affiliates of the Club for Growth across the nation, and the Fund for Democracy, which provides seed money to state initiative campaigns.

He and his wife Andrea reside in New York City and have two grown sons.

[kcvl]

Howard Rich's heavy-handedness has been getting him into trouble since his Libertarian days back in 1982. He left the party, but not his ideology. And now some conservatives are complaining that Rich's heavy-handed tactics, particularly with regards to term limits, are hurting their efforts. Things really came to a head in 1997 and 1998. Bob Inglis, a South Carolina Republican who disagreed with US Term Limits only on the number of terms, was told, "If you get in our way, we'll mow you down." Don Hodel, president of the Christian Coalition and long-time supporter of term limits, told Rich the Christian Coalition would "openly reject" Rich's irresponsible, ineffective, and irrational approach to term limits.

According to one conservative in Washington, Rich and his group "treat those who disagree with them on tactical matters as apostates." Another says, "They're absolutely inflexible. No good deed goes unpunished." Arne Owens of the Christian Coalition said, "We no longer consider U.S. Term Limits a part of the conservative movement. Nor do most conservative organizations." In fact, it was a disgruntled conservative activist, expressing the same view as Owens, who first brought the Howard Rich story to my attention.

Since 1998, Rich seems to have realized that his tactics will not work with elected representatives, so he is taking his all-or-nothing approach directly to the voters instead.



Rich's Stealth Campaign
Peter Schrag | Howard Rich is pouring big money into leveraging our electoral system to serve his libertarian agenda.
11/6/2006 issue

[Mo1]

Yea .. I've read that .. just could figure out what his name popped up with Soro's

I need to stop using Google .. they really stink these days for researching

[Centurion2000]

Once upon a time you knew by daybreak who won. I'm so tired of this. Election day/April 15. 2 days in a year I dread.

Election day should be the day AFTER the taxes are filed so people can think about it.

[Mo1]

grrr .. my typing stinks too

just could figure = just couldn't figure

[CindyDawg]

What a good idea.