Posted on 02/11/2008 8:01:48 PM PST by Tigen
Candidate's Reform Institute also accepted funds from Teresa Kerry
As Sen. John McCain assumes the GOP front-runner mantle, his long-standing, but little-noticed association with left-wing donors such as George Soros and Teresa Heinz Kerry is receiving new attention among his Republican critics.
In 2001, McCain founded the Alexandria, Va.-based Reform Institute as a vehicle to receive funding from George Soros' Open Society Institute and Teresa Heinz Kerry's Tides Foundation and several other prominent non-profit organizations.
McCain used the institute to promote his political agenda and provide compensation to key campaign operatives between elections.
In 2006, the Arizona senator was forced to sever his formal ties with the Reform Institute after a controversial $200,000 contribution from Cablevision came to light. McCain solicited the donation for the Reform Institute using his membership on the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. In a letter to the Federal Communications Commission, he supported Cablevision's push to introduce the more profitable al la carte pricing, rather than packages of TV programming.
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Tuesday, March 08, 2005
Mark Tapscott
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1.) Are you an investigative reporter?
2.) If not... then: WHY?!? ;)
Great quotes, huh? UGH!
I’d like to trace the folks from the Reform Institute directly to their other activities and see who they hang out with.
Cecilia Martinez seems to be on the Environmental Team.
The two guys mentioned above seem to be on the Immigration Team.
So... who was on the Campaign Finance Reform team and what actions did they take to support it? There has to be something—a study, some propaganda, Congressional Testimony, other?
Same for the Institute’s fourth category of “Homeland Security”—but I’m not so sure that wasn’t just a feel-good addition to make them sound broader based.
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LOL!
Not if we can help it. Tomorrow morning, on our weekly trip, we are both changing registrations at the County Court House to Dem, then voting for Hildabeast in the Dem Primary this June.
IF enough Conservatives, in the states that haven't voted yet, would swallow the knee-jerk bile against Hitlery, there is a chance to derail Obama, then defeat Hillary in the General.
True, we would still have McCain, but we wouldn't have Obama.
fyi -
Not off the top of my head, but I do have a new question.
I read the other day that McCain authored the Indian Gambling Regulatory Act, IGRA (I think that is the accurate name). Now that I am seeing the representative of his Institute (Cecilia Martinez) citing Ward Churchill, that she authored the chapter "The Circle of Life: Preserving American Indian Traditions and Facing the Nuclear Challenge," and note that she is "a professor of ethnic studies at the Metropolitan State University (Minnesota) and a research associate of the American Indian Research and Policy Institute," I am wondering what role these groups may have played in the recent expansion of Indian Gaming across the country--or, in approval of new tribes or transfer of lands.
Inquiring minds want to know!
You keep opening one can of worms after another! Good Work!
Sorry Billmor... I missed this one before. I need to track back through the thread.
I hit a goldmine and just couldn’t stop followin’ the threads! Too many now so I need to stop and take a breath, LOL.
There were a bunch of groups back in John Kerry’s VVAW days that set up shop to act as central repositories of information to feed all the lefty groups with propaganda, writings, etc. It seems to me that you’d need to have either a lot of folks, or a whole lot of data, to justify spending thousands on servers as the RI has done. It doesn’t strike me as a semi-dormant organization with a clerk or two.
Thanks for the links... I’ve followed Soros before, but I’ll check those out tomorrow for anything new.
Travis—do you recognize any of these names from khnyny’s post?
These 2 guys are on the Business & Finance Advisory Committee of the Reform Institute....
Al Zapanta
President and CEO
U.S.-Mexico Chamber of Commerce
Col. Eric Rojo
U.S.-Mexico Chamber of Commerce
He’s the true Manchurian candidate for the Republican Party.
Do you think some of the posters on FR were a little over the top too?
I mean, I've been around here for a while. I saw a lot of screen names I didn't recognize show up right before each set of primaries, and they would just trash the candidate, or do everything they could to convince you that something was going to happen, or "no one will vote for that person because...blah, blah." This is leaving out the fact that the MSM has been pushing McCain from the start.
It seemed to be more than the usual competitiveness between candidates.
All I know is that somehow, we've come to the point where it looks like the only choice we have, out of all the candidates, is McCain? And I can't name even one person I know, who likes him or will vote for him?
I'm going to be praying for our Republic everyday- We need it.
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You’re going to love this one:
http://www.wmsa.net/People/john_mccain/mccain.htm
The Arizona Republic 1999 articles are particularly interesting.
Tracking back to a name (John Raidt) mentioned in the 2005 RI IRS filing, receiving $143K as “Consulting”:
http://www.reason.com/news/show/36322.html
To run the Natural Resources Stewardship Project, the institute hired John Raidt, who, you guessed it, served 15 years working on “environmental initiatives” for Sen. McCain.
And how is the Reform Institute funded? With contributions, in six figures or more, from individuals and corporations, including the cable company Cablevision. Cable companies are constantly before the Senate Commerce Committee, which Sen. McCain chaired at the time of Cablevision’s contribution. In fact, Cablevision gave $200,000 to the Reform Institute around the same time its officials were testifying before the Senate Commerce Committee. Appearance of corruption, anyone?
Longer excerpt (inclusive of above)
John McCain’s War on Political Speech
How the Arizona senator and other campaign finance reformers use the law to muffle critics and trample the First Amendment.
Bradley Smith | December 2005 Print Edition
(snip)
McCain’s Soft-Money Machine
Here’s another situation reported by The New York Times in March 2005: “In a small office a few miles from Capitol Hill, a handful of top advisers to Senator John McCain run a quiet campaign. They promote his crusade against special interest money in politics. They send out news releases promoting his initiatives. And they raise money—hundreds of thousands of dollars, tapping some McCain backers for more than $50,000 each.”
These advisers work for a group called the Reform Institute, founded in 2001 after Sen. McCain’s failed presidential bid. The chairman of the board of the Reform Institute is...John McCain. If you go to look at the press releases at reforminstitute.org, you will see that virtually every release mentions Sen. McCain in the first sentence. Not paragraph, sentence. Who runs the Reform Institute? Well, the president is Richard Davis, who is paid over $110,000 a year. Who is Richard Davis? He was John McCain’s 2000 campaign manager. The counsel to the Reform Institute is Trevor Potter, whose law firm is paid more than $50,000 a year for the work. Who is Trevor Potter? Why, he was legal counsel to McCain 2000! The finance director of the Reform Institute is a woman named Carla Eudy. She was finance director for McCain 2000. The communications director is Crystal Benton; she was McCain’s press secretary.
Recently the Reform Institute, which bills itself as “a thoughtful, moderate voice for reform in the campaign finance and election administration debates,” launched what it calls the Natural Resources Stewardship Project. And what does natural resources stewardship have to do with “campaign finance and election administration”? As near as I can tell, its only connection to campaign finance and election administration is, as the institute’s site tells us, that “Senators John McCain and Joe Lieberman have introduced the Climate Stewardship Act” in Congress. And, of course, John McCain is planning to run for president again, and his signature issue, other than campaign finance regulation, is global warming. To run the Natural Resources Stewardship Project, the institute hired John Raidt, who, you guessed it, served 15 years working on “environmental initiatives” for Sen. McCain.
And how is the Reform Institute funded? With contributions, in six figures or more, from individuals and corporations, including the cable company Cablevision. Cable companies are constantly before the Senate Commerce Committee, which Sen. McCain chaired at the time of Cablevision’s contribution. In fact, Cablevision gave $200,000 to the Reform Institute around the same time its officials were testifying before the Senate Commerce Committee. Appearance of corruption, anyone?
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Me, too! When the PTB have the will... and the money... and own the media... well, never underestimate 'em! LOL
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