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WIDOWS PROTESTING ads have ties to kerry organization

#1 Postby rainstorm » Sat Mar 06, 2004 7:14 pm

Saturday, March 6, 2004 12:08 p.m. EST
Heinz Foundation Bankrolled Group Protesting Bush 9/11 Ads

The group Peaceful Tomorrows, which bills itself as an independent group of 9/11 victim families and whose members have led the charge to force the Bush re-election campaign to yank ads citing the Twin Towers attacks, has direct financial ties to the Heinz Foundation, the charitable trust administered by the wife of likely Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry.

On its Web site, Peaceful Tomorrows identifies itself as "a project of the Tides Center, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization."

A December 2003 report in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review detailed the financial relationship between the Tides Center and the charitable foundation controlled by Mrs. Heinz Kerry:

"Known as the Tides Center for Pennsylvania, formerly the Tides Center for Western Pennsylvania, it is a creation of the Tides Foundation and Center, headquartered in San Francisco, and two Pennsylvania-based foundations – the Vira Heinz Endowment and the Howard Heinz Endowment – chaired by Teresa Heinz Kerry."

According to the Tribune-Review, Mrs. Heinz Kerry funneled millions of dollars into the parent group of Peaceful Tomorrows:

"Between 1995 and 2001, $4.3 million of that money came from the Howard Heinz Endowment. In 2002, it and the Vira Heinz Endowment blessed The Tides Center, a San Francisco spin-off of the Tides Foundation, with another $190,000 while the two endowments gave $1.6 million to the new Tides Center for Western Pennsylvania," the paper revealed.

Though the Tribune-Review report was first unearthed by researchers on FreeRepublic.com within 36 hours of the inception of the Bush ad controversy, the mainstream press has been slow to pick up on Peaceful Tomorrows' anti-Bush pedigree. The group, for instance, has long been active in opposing U.S. involvement in Iraq.

Still, PT's political portfolio escaped the notice of the Washington Post, which described the group as "nonpartisan" on Thursday.

Other mainstream outlets repeatedly quoted PT members without revealing their anti-Bush agenda.

Comments by PT's leader, Colleen Kelly, have been prominently covered by the Associated Press, the Boston Globe and in dozens of other press reports complaining about the Bush ads. None of the reports mentioned PT's money ties to Heinz Kerry.

Andrew Rice, another prominent member of PT, has been quoted in the New York Times and has appeared on MSNBC, again without a single reference to his group's Heinz Foundation funding.

Besides Peaceful Tomorrows, other Tides grant recipients include the Iraq Peace Fund, which has helped bankroll anti-war marches, and MoveOn.org, which featured a campaign ad in November comparing President Bush to Hitler.


the problem is the damage has been done. also, the media will not report this. guaranteed. bush should make this public himself, but he wont
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#2 Postby Lindaloo » Sat Mar 06, 2004 7:25 pm

Bush will not back down from those idiots Helen. Please quit posting all this hype here. Save it for the wwbb because they are used to calling you a TROLL.
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#3 Postby rainstorm » Sat Mar 06, 2004 7:30 pm

i said i would criticise kerry and i will. but me pointing out the facts means nothing, bush needs to report this.
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#4 Postby Lindaloo » Sat Mar 06, 2004 7:33 pm

I am sure Bush knows what he is doing. Just because you do not agree with the Bush strategy DOES NOT mean he will lose the election. There is still 8 months to go before election day. Why don't you get on the positive bandwagon and support Bush instead of finding all the negative hype.
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#5 Postby streetsoldier » Sat Mar 06, 2004 7:51 pm

Bush and the GOP have EIGHT MONTHS to hit Kerry where it hurts, Helen; why are you in such a rush?

If you can't see the strategy, I can...fire the broadsides JUST before the election (within 90-120 days thereof), making Kerry try to squeeze out while the voter's minds are still fresh with the WHOLE TRUTH.

Tipping their hand too soon would grant the DNC more time to spin their counter-assault...can y'all gimme a DUH???
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#6 Postby rainstorm » Sat Mar 06, 2004 9:03 pm

soldier, this is when the candidates are defined. look at past elections. the liberal press is going to hammer bush into the ground about jobs.
coming next: interveiws with out of work families with no health insurance, complete with a crying mom and several lovely, but hungry kids.
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#7 Postby Josephine96 » Sat Mar 06, 2004 9:07 pm

There is NOTHING wrong with criticizing a political candidate :wink:

Everybody has their right to an opinion even if others don't agree with it :wink:
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#8 Postby Lindaloo » Sun Mar 07, 2004 12:26 am

Josephine96 wrote:There is NOTHING wrong with criticizing a political candidate :wink:

Everybody has their right to an opinion even if others don't agree with it :wink:



When that person continually posts negative things about Bush who also says she supports him, then yeah, I got a problem with it.
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#9 Postby Lindaloo » Sun Mar 07, 2004 12:27 am

rainstorm wrote:soldier, this is when the candidates are defined. look at past elections. the liberal press is going to hammer bush into the ground about jobs.
coming next: interveiws with out of work families with no health insurance, complete with a crying mom and several lovely, but hungry kids.


That does not matter Helen. I know alot of Democrats because of where I work and they are not voting for Kerry. Voters do not care about all that negative crap. Bush needs to run a positive campaign. NUFF SAID!!
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