Celebrity Donations to Dem candidates listed on CNN

[Woodstock]

This is just for the third quarter (people who gave the max in other quarters won't be listed):

http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/10/16/mgrind.day.money/

Actress-singer Barbara Streisand contributed $1,000 to the Clark campaign. Streisand has now donated to the campaigns of Clark, Dean, Kerry, Edwards, Gephardt, Graham and Sharpton, leaving Lieberman, Braun, Kucinich and President Bush out in the cold.

Celeb contributors, Q3:

Wesley Clark

Ted Danson and Mary Steenbergen, $4,000; Alda Alan and his wife, $4,000; film director Barry Levinson, $3,000 (the limit is $2,000); TV producer Steven Bochco, $2,000; TV producer Norman Lear:, $2,000; "West Wing" creator Aaron Sorkin, $2000.

Howard Dean

Country singer Emmylou Harris, $500; Carly Simon, $1,500; Eagles singer Glenn Frey, $2,000; Billy Baldwin, $1000; Jim Belushi, $500; Morgan Fairchild, $250; "Star Trek" star Leonard Nimoy, $2,000; Robin Williams, $2,000; comedian Janeane Garofalo, $600; Helen Hunt, $2,000; Rene Russo, $2,000; Glenn Close, $1,000.

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ps. so I guess this picture would not be inappropriate:

[ComerPerro]

1. Holy sh*t, Glenn Frey gave to Dean?

Maybe I had the wrong impressoin, but I thought he was fairly conservative.

This is a good list. Good people on it.

[Bombtrack]

11. I'm pretty sure Dean get's a healthy chunk of his donations

from conservatives. From the Bush base. I don't have any evidence it's a conspiracy of any kind, but that conservative republicans are crafty enough to do it on there own.

After all, if this was a GOP primary, filled with candidates we didn't like, and it looked like Jerry Falwell or John Ashcroft had a great shot at winning the nom from stronger general election candidates, I'm sure that liberals would be sending them money.

[AWD]

18. Sigh....

Never an ounce of proof, but ALWAYS with the bullshit accusations.

[Josh]

15. Actually the whole band is liberal -

they endorsed as a group Jerry Brown in 1992.

[Michael Harrington]

16. "Get Over It" aside...

Glen's fairly Liberal. He's active in trying to preserve Walden Pond and he's a strong environmentalist. So according to Hannity, he's also an arsonist.

[Zomby Woof]

23. Wasn't that Henley?

Of course, Frey could have helped, but I remember Henley was a major contributor to the preservation of Walden.

I don't know much about Frey, but Henley proved his liberal creds with the title track to "The End of the Innocence". The best mainstream pop song to skewer Reagan and that era.

In any event, I am sure Frey, as were/are the rest of the Eagles, pretty good libs.

[La_Serpiente]

2. Wholly shit

Baaaabara didn't give to Liberman? Isn't she Jewish?

I remember she made a comment that Jews and Blacks should team up together to take down Bush.

[Skittles]

4. UM

Barbara likes DEMOCRATS

[Woodstock]

8. good one

:)

[blondeatlast]

22. I'm a Christian, does that mean I have to send a donation to

Bush 2004?

Free your mind, and the rest will follow . . .

[Woodstock]

7. A Jewish friend said this

he doesn't want a Jew to run for President

why?

because then the persecution would be worse than now - people would blame Jews for what the Jewish president does

he was serious, and another Jewish guy came up and agreed with him

(BTW, I'm not saying this holds for all Jews, just sharing a story)

[abcdan]

20. huh?!

For Barbara to say the Jews and blacks should take down Bush doesn't imply that she wants someone Jewish or black to necessarily be the candidate. It just means that she wants Jewish and black people to VOTE Bush out of office.

I'm Jewish and Lieberman's my least favorite candidate. His self-serving insidious attacks on the other Democrats make me sick!

[stevedeshazer]

3. So CNN lists 'celebrity donations'

Wouldn't it be nice if they listed 'corporate upper management donations' as well?

I care a lot more about donations from the radical right than I do about Hollywood, but that's just me.

[Woodstock]

5. They do - guess who gave to Dean

MICRO$OFT!!!

Not sure where the guy who told me (a very reliable guy) he saw this.

[w13rd0]

10. Yes, but you should mention that...

...the Microsoft donations are donations from Microsoft employees, not at all unsurprising given the character of his campaign.

[SahaleArm]

13. You are correct.

Plenty of Microsoft employees are Democrats.

[Woodstock]

28. M$ donations to Bush

ush's report shows big totals from employees at several corporations, including some with executives serving as volunteer Bush fund-raisers. Bush ``Rangers'' raise at least $200,000 each, while ``Pioneers'' solicit at least $100,000 for Bush.

Microsoft employees gave about $137,000 to Bush in the last quarter. Much of the money was given in conjunction with an Aug. 22 fund-raiser Bush held in Seattle; Bush Pioneer John Conners, Microsoft's chief financial officer, was a co-chairman of the event, Microsoft spokeswoman Ginny Terzano said.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-3269410,00.html

[FDRrocks]

6. CNN is corporate...

like all media. It will not list corporate donations (which are the deciding factor in campaign moneys), and they probably won't touch on any donations to the RW. They will never run an expose on the attendees of Bush's campaign fundraisers... cause every major media new sources wants Bush to win, so he can usher in Fascism, and the media sources corporate owners can control us all on thier little fuedal farms.

[ClintonTyree]

9. You mean..................

I've given as much as ......Morgan Fairchild? Yeah........that's the ticket! Me and Morgan Fairchild........

[Bombtrack]

12. Morgan Fairchild donated to Dean and Gephardt but not her Ex.

She had a relationship with Kerry a while back, according to numerous sources.

Maybe he dumped her or something, but that's too bad she couldn't support him. God knows she's made enough from those annoying Old Navy ads

[SahaleArm]

14. Kucinich gets support from Alf:)

"Alf" co-star Max Wright, $500.

[Corgigal]

17. Carly Simon

is VERY friendly with the Big Dog and Hillary. HMMMMMMM

[Woodstock]

24. Did you know

I just read this on Amazon the other day - she is a Simon as in Simon & Schuster publishing?

[soleft]

31. Mary Steenbergen is from Arkansas and a major FOB

[rooddood743]

19. WTF?!?!

So, celebrities giving a few grand is news, but XYZ Corp. gives 40 jillion to the NeoCons, (and gets some regualtion that was reducing their profits by 0.0003% rescinded) and that is'nt news?

I've heard a lot about this liberal media...does anyone have a link or a channel where I can find this liberal media? Getting kind of tired of the conservative one.

[flpoljunkie]

21. Yes, but you failed to mention that the great Uma Thurman donated to JK!

Go, Uma!

[Woodstock]

25. I was trying to stick with the <= 4 paragraph rule

figured people would click on the link

[Hubert Flottz]

26. I'd like to see the one that shows Bush donors that win contracts

in Iraq and from DOD and how much the donate!

[peekaloo]

27. exactly!

Heard yesterday on Democracy Now that the CEO of Halliburton is urging all employees to write letters to local papers extolling the virtues of their company. Seems they've been unfairly slandered as of late and in need of some good P.R. :eyes:

:cry:

[Bridget Burke]

30. Yes. A letter appeared in the Houston Chronicle...

from a Halliburton attorney last week. It came out before the story you reference.

I usually read the paper at lunch--this letter almost made me lose it. There was a thread at DU speculating that it was satire. NOBODY could seriously be so-in-love with Halliburton (& all the wonderful things that they do).

Apparently it was serious.

[Woodstock]

29. more links - Bush's celebs + corporate contributors

Bush Celebs - maybe CNN didn't list the Bush celebs because there weren't any? look at this dismal list from 2K:
http://archive.salon.com/people/feature/2000/09/12/gopstars/

Corporate - not a great list, but some interesting stuff:
http://www.dmregister.com/news/stories/c4789004/22523832.html