Is there strife in the Scaife household?

[HFishbine]

What do you think Richard Mellon Scaife thinks of his wife making a contribution to the Kerry campaign? Do you think it just blended in with her contributions to Gerge W. Bush, Rick Santorum, The Republican National Committee, Pat Toomey, and Saxby Chambliss?

SCAIFE, RITCHIE
PITTSBURGH,PA 15232
SELF-EMPLOYED/HOMEMAKER
4/25/2003
$2,000
Kerry, John



http://www.opensecrets.org/indivs/search.asp?NumOfThou=0&txtName=Scaife&txtState=%28all+states%29&txtZip=&txtEmploy=&txtCand=&txt2004=Y&txt2002=Y&txt2000=Y&Order=N

http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/speakout/scaife.html

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

1. Hello people? Isn't it OBVIOUS what's going on?

So Kerry has PNAC people and now the Scaife family behind him. Could it BE more obvious?

[stickdog]

2. Is Kerry the richest politician in DC? (nt)

[LuminousX]

5. If not the richest, one of the top 5.

[lancdem]

3. Nothing is "obvious"

Please calm down and think logically.

[blm]

4. Scaife is a SWORN ENEMY of Kerry and Teresa.

No doubt this was a revenge tactic against Scaife by a family member.

Kerry Shows Courage In Challenging Bush
Thursday, August 8, 2002 By: Joe Conason
New York Observer

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But it was John Kerry who delivered the most interesting, substantive and challenging message. His subject was George W. Bush's shortcomings as a world leader.
The New York Times reported that Mr. Kerry "offered a long attack on Mr. Bush's foreign policy," although the paper gave short shrift to the details in the Senator''s speech. What he began to articulate was a Democratic critique of this administration''s blunt and myopic unilateralism, and a vision that restores international alliances to the center of American diplomacy.
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There is, however, at least one benefit for Mr. Kerry in speaking out on those faraway places and problems. While his rivals sound as if they''re campaigning for the offices they already occupy, he sounds as if he is running for President.

In a sense, Mr. Kerry enjoys an unfair advantage that mitigates the burden of his home state. He''s a decorated Vietnam veteran whose Navy service may help shield him from attacks on his patriotism. Throughout his years in the Senate, that credential has allowed him to investigate and criticize disturbing excesses of American policy abroad, as he did when he probed U.S. aid to the contra gangsters in Nicaragua. (That rather lonely crusade made him a target of the notorious Arkansas Project, funded by Republican billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife to bring down President Clinton.)

Whether Mr. Kerry can engage the electorate in a discussion of America''s global responsibilities is far from certain. His own dispassionate style may hinder him. Yet he deserves great credit for reclaiming international leadership for his party when others cannot or will not.
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[economic justice]

8. Thanks....

I didn't know that. If you say it, BLM, I believe it. Your posts are always VERY good. Thanks again!

[Must_B_Free]

6. Must be a 'Picksburg' thing

I know a Heinz, and I believe he was from Pittsburgh. Scaife is from Pittsburgh, as well as Mellon is he?

Hey - Will Pitt is was and is a Kerry supporter - does that mean hes a mole too? (- I jest) :)

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[maddezmom]

9. Isn't his wife named Sara(h)? n/t

[HFishbine]

12. Post

is sourced with links for your convenience.

[Caution]

10. More info on this one

http://slate.msn.com/id/2092293/

<snip>Is Kerry's presidential campaign a diabolical plot by the hard right to divert early Democratic cash into a losing campaign? Is any of this connected to the deaths of Ron Brown and Vince Foster?

Actually, no. The donation comes from Scaife's wife of 12 years, Margaret "Ritchie" Battle Scaife. Ritchie Scaife has worked and socialized with Kerry's wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, on Pittsburgh's charity ball circuit—they co-chaired a capital campaign for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and just this year worked together on the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy's Spring Hat Luncheon. So, chalk this one up to the conspiracy of social class.<snip>

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

13. Nothing like a fact checker in the house ;-)

FOr a minute I thought Kerry was gonna sell us all out for $2,000 when his detractors had me convinced he would do it for free. *wipes brow* Whew!

[rucky]

11. Ritchie?