New Democrat Michael Steinhardt gave $2,000 to Bush-Cheney '04 Inc

[Classical_Liberal]

http://www.prospect.org/weblog/

WHEN YOU'VE LOST THE NEW REPUBLIC . . . Tapped's new favorite thing is the Federal Election Commission database where you can type in anyone's name and see if he or she has donated money to political candidates or parties. (Tapped's old favorite thing was The Washington Post's home buyer database, where you could learn how much your neighbors spent for their apartments.) So check out this nifty little listing (go here and search for "Steinhardt, Michael") that we discovered while trying to see which big-shot New Democrats were supporting which Democratic presidential candidates: According to this list, Michael Steinhardt, former Democratc Leadership Council stalwart and part-owner of The New Republic, gave $2,000 to Bush-Cheney '04 Inc. on June 20, 2003.

Now, we know that there's often little direct relationship between a magazine owner's politics and the views of its writers, but it is a notable thing when one of the more prominent New Democrats around starts financing the continuation of the Bush administration.

[poskonig]

1. DLCers supporting Bush?

Never would have fathomed it. :mad:

[ShaneGR]

2. Probable, BUT...

A country as big as this, what are the odds that two guys have that name?

[w4rma]

7. Here is are two of his recent contributions

STEINHARDT, MICHAEL MR.
NEW YORK, NY 10029
STEINHARDT MANAGEMENT L.L.C./MONE

BUSH, GEORGE W
VIA BUSH-CHENEY 04 INC.
06/20/2003 2000.00 23991422740


STEINHARDT, MICHAEL
NEW YORK, NY 10022
NOT EMPLOYED/RETIRED

LIEBERMAN, JOSEPH I
VIA JOE LIEBERMAN FOR PRESIDENT INC.
03/31/2003 2000.00 23990743509
http://herndon1.sdrdc.com/fecimg/norindsea.html

[Classical_Liberal]

16. He also gave money to Giuliani, D'Amato, and Rick Lazio

STEINHARDT, MICHAEL
NEW YORK, NY 10029
STEINHARDT PARTNERS LP


GIULIANI, RUDOLPH W
VIA FRIENDS OF GIULIANI EXPLORATORY COMMITTEE
02/15/2000
1000.00
20020120922

STEINHARDT, MICHAEL H
NEW YORK, NY 10029
STEINHARDT MGMT LLC


D'AMATO, ALFONSE M
VIA FRIENDS OF SENATOR D'AMATO (1998 COMMITTEE)
11/19/1997
1000.00
98020042889

LAZIO, RICK A
VIA LAZIO 2000 INC
07/18/2000
1000.00
20020271398
07/18/2000
1000.00
20020271397

[diplomats]

3. Maybe that's why

he's a FORMER DLC stalwart.

[Classical_Liberal]

5. I believe that alot of dlc will do this

including active members.

[charlie]

8. Not merely a stalwart

Former chairman of the DLC and PPI until 1995.

[w4rma]

9. "part-owner of The New Republic" (n/t)

[Cha]

4. That might have something to do with the reason I cancelled

my subscription to the new republic. I didn't like the tone of it.

[David Zephyr]

6. Thank You Classical_Liberal for Bringing This Here!

Thank you very much indeed.

I hope any who still put faith in that relic called the DLC read this.

Also, any progressive who subscribes to the dismal "New Republic" should take their reading over to "The Nation" immediately. The Nation needs support, deserves support, and I urge all DU'ers to pitch in.

[Cha]

10. This michael steinhardt doesn't sound like a very intelligent

foresighted person. Can you imagine giving $2000 to the bushwa campaign to help them continue their plunder on America? There's no way this man wants the best for our Country!

[hedda_foil]

12. Holy SCHEISS!

Not surprised, but I am so fucking sick of these moles that I want to hurl.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

11. Federal Election Commission Database is a great tool THANKS

i had had this site in my puter but lost it in a crash..many thanks for the reminder...here's the link...enjoy people

http://www.tray.com/

[Classical_Liberal]

14. A Bruce Reed of Philadelphia gave money to Arlen Spector

http://herndon1.sdrdc.com/cgi-bin/com_detail/C00280206

REED, BRUCE D
PHILADELPHIA, PA 19102
BERWIND CORPORATION


SPECTER, ARLEN
VIA CITIZENS FOR ARLEN SPECTER
09/03/1997
250.00
98020030935

[Toots]

13. Have we been blacked out

Everything is blacked out on my screen except for these side threads. Am I alone?

[ElsewheresDaughter]

15. nope you're not alone...

:shrug:

[charlie]

17. Geez, this dilettante once chaired the DLC and PPI?

Steinhardt chaired the DLC for six years but left in 1996 in disgust, not over Whitewater or women, but because in his first two years in office, according to Steinhardt, Bill Clinton "went wandering back to his historic, ultra-left-wing home"...

...

As a self-styled contrarian who grew up in a "very liberal" Brooklyn household, Steinhardt voted for Barry Goldwater in 1964, couldn't bear John Lindsay, and only started inching leftward when Richard Nixon came along. When Al From launched the DLC in the 1980s, a relationship seemed natural. "Steinhardt liked things like the earned-income tax credit," From said. "You know, no one who works full-time ought to be poor. He always used to come around to that principle."

...

...And though he likes to debate ideas, he seems to have little interest in politicians, and little taste for politics. He claims he didn't cast a vote in the 2000 presidential election, but he speaks glowingly of Bush's presidency...

...

It may be premature to say that what these "velvet conservatives" are doing with The New Republic and the Sun will become something bigger; on the other hand, it's already something bigger than it was this time last year. Hertog, Steinhardt, Peretz, and Lipsky have the money, the acumen, and the forums to do whatever they wish. "I'm not sure this represents anything more than these two guys getting together to do something," said Weekly Standard editor William Kristol, a friend of Hertog's for a decade. "But yeah, the tectonic plates are due for a shift, and there's a reform Republicanism that can marry up fairly comfortably with the sort of center-right Democrat."

http://www.prospect.org/print/V13/8/tomasky-m.html