>From Friday¹s City Paper: http://www.citypaper.net/blogs/nakedcity/Democrat-backed-by-anti-abortion-ri ch-people-sends-pro-choice-mailer-decrying-GOP-war-on-women.html?text=xlg&c= y
On 4/20/12 1:47 AM, "Kimm Tynan" <kimm.ty...@verizon.net> wrote: > I have been trying to post this to the other list, where a discussion is > ongoing, but I am transitioning between email addresses and can¹t seem to post > to the other list at the moment. But I need to post this. Feel free to > forward to the other list. > > This is fascinating to me. Disturbing, but fascinating in a kind-of > accident-gawker kind-of way. > > So, after being bombarded all week with Ms. Muhammad¹s very expensive flyers > in my door (FOUR today!) I started noticing who is sponsoring them. This > week, several have been from ³Friends of,² but I noticed a number were > sponsored by ³Women for Change,² a lame name if ever this lifelong lefty > activist has seen one. So I wondered . . . . > > I just googled the group, with an Elkins Park address, and came up with > surprisingly little, other than campaign contribution reports. One attracted > my interest for reasons I can¹t articulate moreso than others. The link took > me to, what appears to me to be, a report from the City Controller¹s office on > campaign contributions. It took me a little while to figure it out but it > looks to me like it is a report on contributions made by Students First, the > provoucher PAC ³funded by Pennsylvania hedge-fund managers and American > Federation for Children, a Washington, D.C., pro-voucher group headed by Amway > heiress and major right-wing donor Betsy DeVos . . . . backed by conservative > Bala Cynwyd hedge-fund managers Jeffrey Yass, Arthur Dantchik and Joel > Greenberg,² according to the City Paper article Jim cited. > > I am attaching the pdf of the report, and it can also be found at > http://www.philadelphiacontroller.org/2012Cycle2/Reports/2010165-2012-2-70.pdf > . > > If you can open the pdf, search the document for ³Women for Change.² > > I am completely open to being corrected on this, but it looks to me to be a > report on contributions by Students First to candidates for Philadelphia > office. There are two contributions of 10K each from Students First to Women > for Change on March 21, one at page 6, one at page 12. About when Ms. > Muhammad¹s promotional materials started appearing. I had to do a triple take > on that why make two 10K contributions on the same day, rather than one > $20K, if not simply to make it harder to track? > > I am sickened on multiple levels. First, just that wealthy individuals who > have no relationship to this city or state are pouring phenomenal amounts of > money into the state even just the city, but this is where the strongest > opposition to vouchers lives in this election. > > Which is why she can pay for all of these expensive flyers. She¹s not a > grassroots homeless up-by-her-bootstraps lesbian African-American. Well, she > may be a formerly homeless lesbian African-American. But that does not > necessarily say anything about whose interests she is representing now. She > sold her soul to the suburban hedge-fund managers and Amway heiresses who want > to eliminate public schools. > > And I am sickened by the dishonesty. It would be one thing if Students First > was giving $20K to Muhammad¹s campaign in it¹s own name at least then we > know who they are and what their agenda is. But to channel their money to > astroturfed shell entities pretending to some other agenda it¹s sickening. > > I am also really, deeply disappointed to see that the Liberty City Democrats > endorsed this woman. > > Kimm
