Posted on 11/23/2001 11:37:33 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
During this holiday season, we Democrats have plenty to be thankful for. Our Party is as strong and vibrant as ever. During elections earlier this month, millions of Americans freely chose their leaders in a ritual as old as the nation itself.
This week, we are thankful that we live in a society where the rule of law prevails, where power is transferred peacefully, where ballots and not bullets are the ultimate arbiter.
This week, we can also be thankful that our armed forces and our nation's leaders are up to the task of defending us against a vicious and hateful enemy, one who does not and cannot understand our values. We can be thankful for the courage and selflessness of our law enforcement and emergency medical personnel, who showed such courage on September 11 and every day before and since.
As we enjoy the bounty of Thanksgiving, let us remember the American servicemen and women who are away from their families so that we can be with ours. Let us remember the families that are incomplete this Thanksgiving, because they lost a loved one as a result of the September 11 attack on our nation. Let us also remember the people for whom there will be no bounty, the less fortunate men and women whom our Party has historically fought for.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your families.
4. "Thank you President Bush for...
Try to steal another one, a$$hole. Then all bets are off.
Now here's *a* real chance to make this guy's Christmas card list, ChaseR.
*If* you were to just send him a short note thanking him for caring?
:o)
Do you, Mr. Liberal, mean the finest who BOOOOOed your liberal senator from NY?
No mention of any "thanks" to God in his "thanksgiving".
But then, this is Terry McAuiffe, the head of the DNC,... so, what would one expect? He stymied Terry in his plan to steal the last election. Why should he thank Him?
And the hospitals which supported the care? Medical systems which paid for the damage? Physicians and nurses who donated their time? Everyday people sacrificing their lives to assist the struggle to locate any left alive?
Were these people risking death for their party?
What did Hillary do? What has she done?
Happy Freepin' Thanksgiving...
GRRRRRRollin'
I looked around the site and found "draft one" posted..
This week, we are thankful that we live in a society where the rule of law prevails, where power is transferred peacefully, where ballots and not bullets are the ultimate arbiter... Except when the SUPREME COURT Jumps it's butt in there and hands the whole election to another candidate, who doesn't deserve it becase he didn't get the popular vote but instead rules by fiat, like some kind of third world, plastic bananna dictator and steals everything we earned from us! It's not fair! It's never fair! Waaaaah!
Sincerely, Terry Mcauliffe. Chairman for the Democratic National Committe.
(I think they are almost "over it")
Until the next election.
"This week, we are thankful that we live in a society where the rule of law prevails..."
"At 40,the boyish-looking Terence R.McAuliffe is the reigning king of Democratic fund-raising. Says mentor Tony Coelho, a former Democratic lawmaker who gave McAuliffe his first big fund-raising job in 1982: "He's got the best Rolodex in America." No kidding. As finance chairman for the Clintont/Gore Reelection Committee, McAuliffe pulled in a staggering $43 million in eight months. That made him the front runner to head the Democratic National Committee-a job he turned down.
Instead, McAuliffe has turned his attention to his home building, insurance, and marketing businesses.
But McAuliffe is finding that it's not easy putting politics behind him. His name has been linked to the fund-raising scandal that resulted in the disqualification of Teamsters President Ronald Carey. The U. S. Attorney's Office in Washington is trying to learn more about how McAuliffe earned a lucrative fee in helping Prudential Insurance Co. of America lease a downtown Washington building to the government. Prudential just settled a civil case involving that lease for over $300,000 without admitting any liability…… And Labor Dept. probers are looking at possible conflicts of interest in at least two of McAuliffe's Florida real estate deals that were bankrolled by International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers pension money.
Investigators want to know why McAuliffe got what look like very sweet deals…..Take his relationship with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. In 1991, McAuliffe formed a partnership with a pension fund jointly operated by the IBEW and the National Electrical Contractors Assn., a management trade group…..
In the 1991 deal that McAuliffe packaged and brought to the fund, the fund put up $38.7 million in cash for five apartment complexes and a rundown shopping center near St. Petersburg. McAuliffe got a 50% equity stake, even though the fund put up all the money……The pension plan was acquiring the properties at $10 million below their appraised price. Why such a deal? Because the seller was the Resolution Trust Corp., which had taken control of the properties from Orlando-based American Pioneer Savings Bank. McAuliffe packages and promotes affinity credit cards and related products to labor unions and trade associations...
McAuliffe is president of American Heritage Homes, a Florida homebuilder acquired in 1996 with Carl Lindner of American Financial Group….. McAuliffe owns Jefferson Capital Holdings, a Florida-based title and casualty insurance company……McAuliffe is Washington representative of, and an investor in, Pacific Capital Group, a Los Angeles venture-capital firm owned by a former Drexel Burnham Lambert investment banker. …..McAuliffe and father-in-law Richard Swann formed American Capital Management to buy Florida properties that the RTC took over after putting Swann's S&L into receivership. Some of the properties were acquired using union pension money……The IBEW not only financed McAuliffe's ventures, but it also helped boost his stature as a Democratic fund-raiser by contributing $6 million to party candidates from 1991 to 1996…… In a letter signed on Mar. 18, 1993, Prudential agreed to pay McAuliffe $375,000 if the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. (PBGC) signed a 15-year, $187 million lease to occupy a downtown Washington office building owned by the insurer. The U. S. Attorney for the District of Columbia charged that Prudential falsely certified, after it won the lease, that it had not hired anyone to help influence the bidding process, which is illegal under the Competition in Contracting Act. ….As the Prudential matter drags on, McAuliffe isn't out of the woods yet on the Teamsters case, whose central figure, campaign consultant Martin Davis, is a friend of McAuliffe. Davis has pleaded guilty to masterminding an illegal scheme to raise $1 million for Teamsters President Carey's 1996 reelection. Davis told McAuliffe he could help raise $1 million for the DNC from the Teamsters, but McAuliffe denies he knew any details of how Davis intended to do this. Davis, in his guilty plea, says his plan was to launder Teamsters donations through the DNC in an effort to hide the source of Carey's money. ….."
September 21, l994
A Letter was sent from the DNC's Terry McAuliffe to Yah Lin "Charlie" Trie inviting Trie to become a member of the National Finance Board of Directors.
January 6, 1995
A memo from Janis Enright to Ickes re: McAuliffe's memorandum summing up requests that emerged from his one-on-one with POTUS. Attached to the Enright memo is Nancy Heinrich's copy of McAuliffe's memo to her outlining what he and President agreed to in their recent meeting on which Heinrich has hand-written "overnights." Enright memo tells Ickes "Nancy has asked us to follow up on this at the President's direction, and his note indicates 'promptly.'" President's handwritten note indicates he is "ready to start overnights right away." - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/scandal/inside/cron.html
April 14, 1997
The White House released a list of donors and fund-raisers who were allowed to fly on Air Force One and Two with President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore. In 1995 and 1996, the Clinton Administration allowed 56 contributors who donated $5,000 and more and fund-raisers raising $25,000 or more for the DNC or the Clinton-Gore campaign to fly on the taxpayer-financed Air Force jets. Among the contributors flying on Air Force One: New York businessman Maurice Templesman, labor leaders Lane Kirkland and John Sweeney, Washington lobbyist Tommy Boggs, and Washington lawyer Vernon Jordan. Numerous trips aboard Air Force One were taken by Clinton-Gore chief fund-raiser Terry McAuliffe and DNC fund-raisers Marvin Rosen, Laura Hartigan, Richard Sullivan and Scott Patrick. None of the contributors or fund-raisers were asked to pay for the costs of their airfare on Air Force One and Two for official trips.
55 Posted on 07/19/2001 14:56:31 PDT by Alamo-Girl
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