Found Muhammad's campaign report: http://www.philadelphiacontroller.org/2012Cycle2/Reports/20120114-2012-2-83.pdf
This article does a good job of breaking down the sources of the funding in context: http://www.talk2action.org/story/2012/4/23/21157/2721 On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Amara Rockar <aroc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Muhammad and most of these PACs have not filed their campaign finance > reports as required by last Friday. > > https://www.campaignfinanceonline.state.pa.us/pages/CFReportSearch.aspx > > It is looking like the constituents of the 188th won't have the full > details of who exactly is funding what until after the primary. > > > On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 1:15 AM, Kimm Tynan <kimm.ty...@verizon.net>wrote: > >> From Friday’s City Paper: >> >> http://www.citypaper.net/blogs/nakedcity/Democrat-backed-by-anti-abortion-rich-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 can’t 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. Muhammad’s very expensive >> flyers in my door (FOUR today!) I started noticing who is sponsoring them. >> This week, several have been from “Friends of,” but I noticed a number >> were sponsored by “Women for Change,” 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 can’t articulate moreso than others. >> The link took me to, what appears to me to be, a report from the City >> Controller’s 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 “funded 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,” 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 “Women for Change.” >> >> 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. Muhammad’s 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. She’s 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 Muhammad’s campaign in it’s 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 – it’s >> sickening. >> >> I am also really, deeply disappointed to see that the Liberty City >> Democrats endorsed this woman. >> >> Kimm >> >> > > > -- > I foster with City Kitties: Rocco and > Red<http://citykitties.org/adopt/adoption-listings/?page=pet&id=4152313&PHPSESSID=c74b70a505f65d618c559709dff12a21> > -- I foster with City Kitties: Rocco and Red<http://citykitties.org/adopt/adoption-listings/?page=pet&id=4152313&PHPSESSID=c74b70a505f65d618c559709dff12a21>
