Saturday, October 29, 2005

IS NEWSGNOME WRONG ABOUT BUFFETT BEING A LIBERAL

You Decide....is Buffett a liberal?

A comment on my blog took exception to the fact that I called Warren Buffet a liberal pointing out that he owns lots of American businesses and his father was a GOP Congressman.

Liberal Salon.com “Politically, he seems to be a liberal. In the late 1960s, he became involved in abortion rights issues and worked to integrate Omaha's segregated country clubs.”

The American Enterprise Online By Bill Kauffman: Congressman Buffett’s son, while revering Pop [his father] as a tower of integrity and honesty, seems not to have inherited the old man’s libertarian streak. Warren Buffett is a liberal Democrat whose favorite political causes are legalized abortion and population control.

When determining a person’s politics....FOLLOW THE MONEY! The following list speaks for itself.


WARREN BUFFETT Political contributions:

Data Provided by the Federal Election Commission as of 10/24/05 –starting in 1985

Democrats: $41,000 (total of 20)

Tom Daschle, (D) $2,000
Nancy P Thompson, (D) $2,000
Benjamin E. Nelson, (D) $2,000
John F Kerry, (D) $2,000 (president)
Erskine B. Bowles (D) $2,000
Wesley K. Clark, (D) $2,000 president
Tom Daschle, (D) $2,000
Bob Graham, (D) $2,000
Tom Harkin, (D) $1,000
John D.Dingell, (D) $1,000
John D.Dingell, (D) $1,000
Richard J Durbin, (D) $1,000
Hillary Rodham Clinton, (D) $1,000
Hillary Rodham Clinton, (D) $1,000
Mel Carnahan,(D) $1,000
Shelley Kiel, (D) $1,000
Bob Kerrey,(D) $1,000
Bill Bradley, (D) $1,000
Russ Feingold, D (D) $1,000
Pat Moynihan, (D) $1,000
Dorothy Lamm, (D) $1,000
Chris Dodd, (D) $1,000
Peter Hoagland, (D) $500
Pat Moynihan,(D) $1,000
Bob Kerrey, (D) $1,000
Peter Hoagland, (D) $1,000
Bob Kerrey,(D) $1,000
Bob Kerrey, (D) $ 1,000 president
Richard Lamm, (D) $1,000
Peter Hoagland, (D) $1,000
Bob Kerrey, J(D) $1,000
Bob Kerrey, (D) $1,000
Nebraska Democratic State Central $500
Nebraska Democratic State Central $500
Nebraska Democratic State Central $500

Republicans: $6,900 (total of 4)

Christopher Shays, (R) $2,000
Christopher Shays, (R) $1,000
Tom Osborne, (R) $300
Tom Osborne, (R) $300
Christopher Shays, (R) $1,000
Tom Osborne, (R) $300
Christopher Shays, (R) $1,000
Nancy Kassebaum, (R) $1,000
Bob Dole (R) $1,000 president

I rest my case.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

Great stuff NG!

NewsGnome said...

Thanks RR. Have been running...didn't have much time to get into others elements such as his contributions to soft money organizations.

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