Dems' Poster Child Faces a Firestorm (FREEPER INVOLVED)

ABC NEWS ^ | 8 OCT 2007 | Rick Klein

[DBrow]

“Manhattan, NY eh? Why do I smell a hillrat?”

I ran his name- he’s wealthy, donates to charity, and has a pretty successful artist for a wife.

I ran opensecrets, and could find no political donations from the dad, the son, the wife, or names associated with them.

A. Corwin Frost

[Izzy Dunne]

We’re not blasting the family

I am. This father is failing his children. Making sure your children stay healthy and can be treated when injured or sick is just as important as buying food for them. IF YOU CHOOSE A JOB THAT DOES NOT ALLOW YOU TO DO SO, that is your responsibility, not mine.

While I agree with your points, I say the bigger issue is the Dumbocrats' insistence that this family deserves your and my money.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

After House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office became aware of the Frosts through a healthcare interest group, FamiliesUSA, Democratic leaders turned to Graeme to deliver the party's weekly radio address Sept. 29.

The 'Rats need to quit whining about getting caught. When they pushed this kid up to the mike and had him deliver their weekly radio speech, they made him and his family fair game for public source research and revelation.

[Eagle of Liberty]

Did a business search on Frostworks in Maryland and got:

Principal Office (Current): 104 SOUTH COLLINGTON AVENUE BALTIMORE, MD 21231

Resident Agent (Current): FREDERICK HALSEY FROST 104 SOUTH COLLINGTON AVENUE BALTIMORE, MD 21231

Status: FORFEITED
Good Standing: No
Business Code: Ordinary Business - Stock
Date of Formation or Registration: 02/16/1994
State of Formation: MD
Stock/Nonstock: Stock
Close/Not Close: Close

Went to Zillow.com and typed in the above address and got this:

[Condor51]

There's one teeny problem with the Dem's ploy here in using this family.

Even if mom and dad made 'only $45K'. Health Insurance for young kids is DIRT CHEAP. I just got a new Blue Cross Blue Shield policy for our 24 yo daughter at $69.00 a month. I can't imagine two pre-teens costing more than $50-$60 stinking bucks -- for both.

There is absolutely NO REASON they were not privately insured prior to this car accident. (guess dad was too busy playing with his lathe)

[wideawake]

The children attend the school on scholarship.

However, they do not own an expensive home on scholarship, they do not own two businesses on scholarship, they do not own commercial properties on scholarship.

Moreover, I find it hard to believe that someone in medical publishing in Baltimore makes a whole lot less than $40,000 per year.

It looks to me like the income they declare for tax purposes is basically her income, and whatever cash they pull out of the business is either unreported or - more likely given the Frosts' social pedigree - carefully sheltered through an LLC structure.

[usmcobra]

I have a simple question?

Does a $40,000 scholarship (two kids remember) have any taxable value or monetary value when it comes to deciding weather or not they should receive government funded health insurance?

Is money unspent due to a scholarship have any value?

[bray]

So, you still write it off as a personal deduction. Its not like he has to pay the full amount.

Pray for W and Our Troops

[shhrubbery!]

I had wondered about whether the kids went to school on scholarship. I know some poorer families whose kids attend a pretty exclusive school because they get scholarships.

So this reporter, on a Dem staffer's words, claims the Frost children are granted almost full scholarships -- for $20,000 per kid, per year?

I find that hard to believe. Exclusive private schools, in my observation, usually will NOT give scholarship money to white kids, no matter how needy. I know this to be true for Ivy League colleges.

Michelle Malkin had a bit on the "scholarship" story on her blog. Malkin --doing the legwork DBM reporters won't do-- paid a visit to the tenant who shares the commercial building the Frosts own. The tenant's name is Reilly.

Reilly told Malkin that he believed the Frost's wealthy parents paid the childrens' tuition at the Park School.

Now the tenant, Reilly, could be wrong about that. But he's friendly with the Frosts; so what motive would he have had to make it up?

I'd also like to know if the tenant (Mr. Reilly) pays rent to the building's owners -- the Frosts.

[teenyelliott]

I say the bigger issue is the Dumbocrats' insistence that this family deserves your and my money

Nothing new there, though. Democrats want everyone's everything, so that they have complete power over who gets what.

Socialists always use emotion, rather than fact, to get people to "see it their way". That is how people fall for this crap.

The fact that they are using an injured child to manipulate the public is despicable, but certainly not surprising.

[wideawake]

Speak for yourself. I am perfectly willing to "blast the family" in this case, if the various bits of information that has been presented by the Democrats and researched here on FreeRepublic are true.

The parents are, at best, liars. However, I don't blame the kids. When I was 12, if my dad told me we couldn't afford something, I believed it. I didn't know enough about my family finances nor did I have enough life experience to question my father.

For one thing, there's a good chance the family has been engaging in some serious tax fraud.

They come from aggressively social-climbing parents, so I am guessing they have had cutting-edge tax advice.

And if not, then they have been clearly gaming the system in order to have their childrens' medical bills paid by taxpayers who are far less well-off than they are.

That, I believe, describes it in a nutshell.

I would guess that few upper middle class folks in Maryland are even aware that there is no means test for free health insurance - and even if they knew, many of them would rather pay their own way that shamelessly comb the system looking for handouts.

[Alberta's Child]

Reilly told Malkin that he believed the Frost's wealthy parents paid the childrens' tuition at the Park School.

Another possibility here (and I don't necessarily present as a criticism, since I've looked into the possibility of doing something like this myself) is that the children go to the school on a scholarship, and their wealthy grandparents make substantial (tax-deductible, of course) contributions to the school every year.

[teenyelliott]

After House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office became aware of the Frosts through a healthcare interest group, FamiliesUSA

"I ran his name- he’s wealthy, donates to charity"

I wonder if one of the charities is FamiliesUSA?

[Eagle of Liberty]

http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1907687/posts

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[Eagle of Liberty]

Also, here for the direct info:

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE7DC1431F933A15751C1A964958260

[MrB]

Leftists ALWAYS snipe from cover - because their ideas can’t stand open honest debate.

Of course, it will be played up as “mean” for anyone to question their “cover victim”.

[Loud Mime]

The focus should be on how the Democrats abused this child.

[jaybee]

I wuld NOT take anyone’s word for it that these kids are going to Park for $500 per year.

It is very rare for that kind of money to be given out at the middle school level.

[DBrow]

Here’s some links for A. Corwin Frost, the granddad. He seems to be a man of means. The grandkids are lucky to have a guy like him! I don’t doubt that he helped his son get going and I also would like to think that he’d have helped with medical as much as he could (I have no evidence either way). Two kids in intensive, with followup therapy, must have run up an horrific bill. With SCHIP, neighbor and family donations, and granddad’s help the kids got the care that they need.

This is wonderful; only in America could this have happened. We have the wealth and power and compassion to help kids, even when their parents don’t insist on seatbelts, or pay for insurance. The original unexpanded SCHIP undoubtedly picked up much of the cost.

http://www.manchesterandmtns.com/carshow/carshow-winners.html Winner with a ‘56 classic car

http://www.risd.edu/trustees_staff.cfm honorary trustee, RISD

http://www.bronxvilleschoolfoundation.org/Donors.htm gave a “foundation level grant”

http://www.christchurchbronxville.com/childcenter/index.html Founded a child care center at a church

http://www.concordia-ny.edu/assets/pdf/who_we_are/publications/newyorker/newyorker_05_fall_02.pdf “Fellow” level donation

[gracesdad]

The scholarships are based on need.