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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnonymous Funder of Wisconsin Voter Suppression Billboards Revealed
http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/2012/10/29/anonymous-funder-of-wisconsin-voter-suppression-billboards-revealed/
Madison A joint investigation by theGrio news service and One Wisconsin Now has uncovered that Milwaukees Einhorn Family Foundation is the private family foundation that anonymously funded voter suppression billboards in Wisconsin in September 2010 and again this year. A review of IRS documents also showed Milwaukees Bradley Foundation, headed by Scott Walkers campaign co-chair Michael Grebe, and one of the largest sources for right wing funding in America, gave the Einhorn Family Foundation a $10,000 grant, at the time the 2010 suppression billboards appeared, to support a public education project.
Madison A joint investigation by theGrio news service and One Wisconsin Now has uncovered that Milwaukees Einhorn Family Foundation is the private family foundation that anonymously funded voter suppression billboards in Wisconsin in September 2010 and again this year. A review of IRS documents also showed Milwaukees Bradley Foundation, headed by Scott Walkers campaign co-chair Michael Grebe, and one of the largest sources for right wing funding in America, gave the Einhorn Family Foundation a $10,000 grant, at the time the 2010 suppression billboards appeared, to support a public education project.
Emphasis mine.
Not really shocking and sadly, nothing will come of it I'm sure.
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Anonymous Funder of Wisconsin Voter Suppression Billboards Revealed (Original Post)
justiceischeap
Oct 2012
OP
So what do we boycott here? I see all the charities Milwaukee’s Einhorn Family fronts with...
Kurovski
Oct 2012
#2
Are there any businesses we can boycott or badger following this ugly revelation?
Snarkoleptic
Oct 2012
#7
lunasun
(21,646 posts)1. biomed venture capitalist
Kurovski
(34,655 posts)3. so they're leeches.
Nothing to boycott?
Kurovski
(34,655 posts)2. So what do we boycott here? I see all the charities Milwaukee’s Einhorn Family fronts with...
but where did they get that money originally, prior to venture capitalism?
SharonAnn
(13,780 posts)9. "Every great fortune was created by a great crime" or something like that.
Can't remember the exact quote or author. Sorry.
From Wikipedia:
A variant, "Behind every great fortune there is a great crime," has appeared as a quotation of Balzac; but it may have originated in a paraphrase in The Oil Barons: Men of Greed and Grandeur (1971) by Richard O'Connor, p. 47: "Balzac maintained that behind every great fortune there is a great crime."
Scuba
(53,475 posts)4. Thanks for posting. More here ...
Squinch
(51,043 posts)5. How can that be legal?
justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)6. We seem to be asking that question a lot these days
when it comes to politics and elections.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)11. ...and Republicans.
Snarkoleptic
(6,002 posts)7. Are there any businesses we can boycott or badger following this ugly revelation?
Wisconsinites care to provide details?
Kurovski
(34,655 posts)10. it looks like a lot of people get a lot of money from them.
non-profits and such. the silence may have been bought!
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)8. Sleazy
Nice going Gov. Walker. You look guilty.