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John McCain funded by Soros since 2001
WND ^ | February 12, 2008 | Jerome R. Corsi

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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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 110th; 2008; 527groups; anyonebutmccain; corsi; elections; fundedbysoros; fundraisingtheleft; georgesoros; heinz; kerry; mccain; mccaintruthfile; mcmexico; opensocietyinstitute; reforminstitute; rmsp; soros; tidesfoundation
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To: FBD
Apologies in advance for the 'all caps.' It is cut-and-pasted.

http://www.guidestar.org/pqShowGsReport.do?npoId=679906

The Reform Institute:

Mission

THE REFORM INSTITUTE, INC. PRIMARY EXEMPT PURPOSE IS TO SERVE AS AN INDEPENDENT VOICE WORKING TO STRENGTHEN THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR DEMOCRACY. THE INSTITUE CHAMPIONS THE NATIONAL INTEREST BY FORMULATING AND ADVOCATING MEANINGFUL REFORM IN VITAL AREAS OF PUBLIC POLICY, INCLUDING CAMPAIGN FINANCE AND ELECTION REFORM, CLIMATE STEWARDSHIP, HOMELAND SECURITY AND IMMIGRATION REFORM.


81 posted on 02/11/2008 8:41:24 PM PST by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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To: Tigen
From the article: "Yet, the Reform Institute still employs the McCain campaign's Hispanic outreach director, Juan Hernandez, as a senior fellow of its Comprehensive Immigration Reform Initiative."

Dirty - dirty - dirty!!!!!

82 posted on 02/11/2008 8:42:22 PM PST by LADY J
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To: NonValueAdded
At this point, radical islamists are taking hispanic names and some hispanics are taking muslim names. No doubt Homeland Security is on top of this w/the FBI.

(in my dreams).

83 posted on 02/11/2008 8:42:37 PM PST by floriduh voter (TERRI'S DAY MARCH 31, 2008 ...JUAN MCCAIN wants me to calm down. LOL LOL)
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To: calcowgirl

All with a liberal worldview.


84 posted on 02/11/2008 8:42:59 PM PST by pissant (Time for a CONSERVATIVE party)
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To: Bear_Slayer

Ping. ;)


85 posted on 02/11/2008 8:43:44 PM PST by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle ("John McCain is to conservatism what Cindy Sheehan is to the Miss Universe Pageant.")
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To: Tigen

Big surprise.... the GOP is running a dead horse. That’s the only explanation I can come up with. A left wing and a right wing on the same decrepit bird. We want border security, gun rights, ect but the GOP screws us over time and again by “comprimising.” The liberals want out of Iraq, want Gitmo closed, ect but the DNC screws them over by “comprimising.” Did you ever get the feeling we’re all being laughed at? I know, I know... I’ll put my tinfoil back on now.


86 posted on 02/11/2008 8:43:44 PM PST by Rob112586 (All I ask is a tall ship, and a strong wind to steer her by)
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To: Tigen

Don’t we have any billionaires on our side? Why are most of the deep-pocket guys (Buffet, Soros, Gates) lefties? Any political science PhD candidates looking for a thesis topic? How about, “The Silver Spoon: Daddy Warbucks Lists to Port”?


87 posted on 02/11/2008 8:43:54 PM PST by sagmanagain
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To: PhilDragoo

A work of art!


88 posted on 02/11/2008 8:44:18 PM PST by floriduh voter (TERRI'S DAY MARCH 31, 2008 ...JUAN MCCAIN wants me to calm down. LOL LOL)
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To: Tigen
will Limbaugh, Hannity, or Levin address this tomorrow? How about the schmuck BOR? Beck? Ingraham?
89 posted on 02/11/2008 8:44:34 PM PST by isrul
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To: calcowgirl

B T T T


90 posted on 02/11/2008 8:45:06 PM PST by Just mythoughts (Isa.3:4 And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.)
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To: sheik yerbouty; PhilDragoo

Soros and McCain “Me and my shadow (govt).”


91 posted on 02/11/2008 8:46:28 PM PST by floriduh voter (TERRI'S DAY MARCH 31, 2008 ...JUAN MCCAIN wants me to calm down. LOL LOL)
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To: calcowgirl

92 posted on 02/11/2008 8:47:20 PM PST by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle ("John McCain is to conservatism what Cindy Sheehan is to the Miss Universe Pageant.")
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To: Dane

This thread is for you .... read and learn....


93 posted on 02/11/2008 8:47:30 PM PST by Just mythoughts (Isa.3:4 And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.)
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94 posted on 02/11/2008 8:47:39 PM PST by redstateconfidential (If you are the smartest person in the room,you are hanging out with the wrong people.)
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To: littlehouse36

Not me...I voted for Romney.


95 posted on 02/11/2008 8:48:38 PM PST by Gator113 (America just traded away the possibility of a dream, for what is certain to be a nightmare.)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
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96 posted on 02/11/2008 8:48:57 PM PST by redstateconfidential (If you are the smartest person in the room,you are hanging out with the wrong people.)
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To: sagmanagain

“Don’t we have any billionaires on our side...”

Romney. But he was practically lynched because of it.


97 posted on 02/11/2008 8:49:05 PM PST by littlehouse36 (Don't blame me, I voted for Romney)
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To: calcowgirl

The Reform Institute got it wrong. WE ARE A REPUBLIC being screwed by the dems and the gop.


98 posted on 02/11/2008 8:49:50 PM PST by floriduh voter (TERRI'S DAY MARCH 31, 2008 ...JUAN MCCAIN wants me to calm down. LOL LOL)
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To: Tigen
"little-noticed association with left-wing donors such as George Soros and Teresa Heinz Kerry"

If this doesn't send him into a complete 'roid rage hissy fit, nothing will.

99 posted on 02/11/2008 8:50:01 PM PST by matthew fuller (COMPLETE THE FENCE NOW, McCAIN!)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

I reckon. But one thing about the article that is troublesome, he makes a case without showing what donations Soro’s group or TeyRaysuh’s Tides Foundation actually gave to McCain’s institute.


100 posted on 02/11/2008 8:50:35 PM PST by pissant (Time for a CONSERVATIVE party)
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