To: sandintoes who wrote (43984 ) 7/28/2004 10:45:45 PM From: Glenn Petersen Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 59480 If you ask me, he sounds a lot like Clinton! Okay, let me apologize in advance for the comment that I am about to make. Bing seems to be attracting a higher caliber of female than Clinton, though I do recall seeing Clinton's name linked with Sharon Stone. ABC is owned by Disney. The Chairman of Disney is George Mitchell, who was formerly the Democratic Senate Minority Leader. Everybody, Kerry included, is fair game for the media now. Bing has quite a history. He apparently got nailed in 2000 for inadequate campaign finance disclosures.ourworld.compuserve.com Stephen Bing Stephen Bing is the grandson of New York real estate magnate Peter Bing, and the son of RAND Corporation trustee Peter S. Bing. (Steve Bing's Hollywood Life. BBC News Online June 20, 2002.) The playboy movie producer is the heir of a fortune estimated to be from $400 million to $600 million. The RAND Gang (Peter S. Bing) Steve Bing's Hollywood Life / BBC News Online 2002 Bing contributed $800,000 to California's Proposition 10 campaign to add an additional 50 cent tax on every pack of cigarettes, to fund anti-smoking hate propaganda and early childhood brainwashing, which they unctiously pretended was "for the good of the children" instead of "for the benefit of the bloodsucking parasites who want to castrate our children's minds by starting on them as soon as possible." (This is how they've already managed to create several generations of cringing, spineless little worms who don't have the guts to resist them.) This was more money than Philip Morris, Brown & Williamson, RJ Reynolds, and Lorillard put together spent to oppose it. (Top 10 contributors to Prop. 10 campaign. By Ross Hanig and Ralph Brave. Sacramento News & Review, Sep. 3, 1998.) Sacramento News & Review, 1998 / tobacco document Bing was the 13th largest campaign donor to the Democratic Party in 1998. In national politics, "In addition to the $759,000 he gave to support Democratic candidates, Bing contributed $1 million to help pay for the party's national convention. "He also gave $1 million to help defeat a California referendum that would have cut cigarette taxes and depleted programs to teach children about the dangers of smoking" [meaning anti-smoker lies]. (Stephen L. Bing. By Pam Smith. Mother Jones, March 5, 2001.) He was fined $25,000 for failing to disclose $500,000 in contributions during the 2000 election. (Producer Stephen Bing fined for failing to file campaign disclosure. AP, Bakersfield Californian, June 25, 2002.) Bing / Mother Jones Bing campaign disclosure fine / Bakersfield Californian, 2002 Bing was a major donor to 2004 presidential candidate John Edwards, a North Carolina Democrat.