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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DavesM who wrote (340547)	1/8/2003 9:31:46 PM
From: greenspirit	Respond to of 769670

This is a classic! CBS’s Expert Bush Tax Cut Basher a Democratic Donor mrc.org A Monday CBS Evening News story supported the liberal premise that Bush’s tax cut helps the rich while abandoning the poor by featuring expert comment from a CPA who declared that "when you go to the lower brackets, there is no savings," and: "If you went to summarize this tax proposal as we see it today, the winners are the wealthy." But it turns out that accountant, Avery Neumark, has a personal political agenda of his own which CBS failed to note. The MRC’s Rich Noyes went to OpenSecrets.org and discovered that Neumark has made large contributions to the Democratic National Committee and liberal Democratic Congressman Jerrold Nadler. As recounted in the January 7 CyberAlert, on the January 6 CBS Evening News Byron Pitts set out to demonstrate how the Bush plan helps only the rich. Pitts focused on the views of “a middle class wife” who saw Bush’s plan as “little more than a feel-good gift that won't give much to most Americans -- especially the middle class." Pitts supported her jealousy: "We asked accountant Avery Neumark to do the math. Under the President's overall tax plan, a person earning $175,000 per year could save $3,500. Someone earning $50,000 could expect to get back an extra $1,000. Anyone earning $25,000 -- zero." Pitts let Neumark proclaim: "If you went to summarize this tax proposal as we see it today, the winners are the wealthy." For more about that story: mediaresearch.org Using the Center for Responsive Politics' OpenSecrets.org Web site, Rich entered the name “Neumark, Avery” in the state of New York and came up with these recent donations from someone with that name whose employer is the accounting firm of Rosen Seyomour Shapps Martin: -- 6/6/1996: $500 to Nadler, Jerrold -- 6/17/1999: $500 to Nadler, Jerrold -- 10/6/2000: $1,000 to Democratic National Committee -- 2/23/1996: $1,000 to Democratic National Committee

To: DavesM who wrote (340547)	1/8/2003 10:21:37 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 769670

The Greens will not come out in 2004. Most learned their lesson. Put the worst environmental president in history in the White House. Real smart. I tried to warn them but not that many listened.

To: DavesM who wrote (340547)	1/9/2003 12:08:46 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Like I said, you could say the same thing about Perot's influence on the national elections, to... only more so. What do you think about this voting "fusion" issue, which could get away from those type of 'spoiler' problems: Message 18420867