Tides and McCain-Feingold
Posted by Moonage on 31 Jul 2004 | Tagged as: 2004 Presidential Election, 527's, Government
The Tides Foundation is something I don’t like.
The current situation ( pre-2004 Presidential Election ), is that the wife of a candidate for President donates heavily to The Tides Foundation. The Tides Foundation in turn donates to some very radical organizations along with moveon.org, who has made it their mission to get the incumbent president out of office. Their message is very mean-spirited and tasteless, attempting to run advertisements comparing Bush to Hitler. IMO, the money moveon.org receives should be considered political contributions and regulated by Federal Election Commission. The candidate would then be held liable for their content if they receive money from them.
All in all, I really think the Heinz-Kerry / Tides / Moveon.org relationship smells BAD and is borderline illegal and Teresa Heinz-Kerry is dangerous as the primary influence on the President of the United Statues.
Why people aren’t asking more questions about this is beyond me. If I were working for Bush, I’d be hammering the Kerry / Tides / moveon.org relationship every single day.
Here are the most recent financials of The Tides Foundation, see if you can connect any dots between who the Heinz Foundation claims to have supported and where that money went: tides.pdf ( Adobe PDF file )
This ain’t right, and in conjunction with 527’s in general, needs to be eliminated. If a candidate donates to people like Tides, and Tides subsequently contribute to that candidate, it needs to be illegal.
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