Here¹s another excellent article. http://www.alternet.org/story/155076/right-wing_campaign_to_privatize_public _ed_takes_hold_in_pennsylvania/?page=entire
On 4/23/12 12:55 PM, "Amara Rockar" <aroc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Found Muhammad's campaign report: > http://www.philadelphiacontroller.org/2012Cycle2/Reports/20120114-2012-2-83.pd > f > > 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 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 >>> <http://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 >> >>
