March 06, 2004

Spheres of influence

Those "9/11 family members" who appeared almost instantly to protest the President's mention of 9/11 in an ad, were, as was generally not pointed out, members of a far-left group: "September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows."

Alan points out this article, with info on what's cooking here. Who does "September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows" get most of its money from? From the "Tides Foundation." And who is the head of the Tides Foundation, and donor of millions of dollars? Teresa Kerry.

Posted by John Weidner at March 6, 2004 07:43 PM | TrackBack
Comments

Charming, just charming, but oh so typical of his sleazy style of politicking !!

Posted by: MommaBear at March 7, 2004 04:34 AM

You actually made me do some digging, and no, Teresa's not the head of the organization, but the Heinz foundations (of which Teresa is the head) have given upwards of $10 million to Tides.

Tides, by the way, was founded so high profile left-wing activists could funnel money to their pet causes without anyone knowing.

Posted by: John A. Kalb at March 7, 2004 05:31 PM

Thanks for the digging! Rather peculiar, the "Party of the People" doing all these money-launderings...

Posted by: John Weidner at March 7, 2004 06:07 PM

Yeah. It's also not clear that these things are legal under current campaign finance laws. Using a 501(c) 3 for to support any one candidate is a very dodgy business.

Posted by: John A. Kalb at March 7, 2004 07:04 PM
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