Mrs Richard Mellon Scaife gave $2000 to Kerry

[bleedingheart]

http://www.opensecrets.org/indivs/search.asp?txtName=scaife&NumOfThou=0&txt2004=Y

Don't know if the link will work but search for scaife on opensecrets.org.

What about Kerry does Scaife like???

ick...I really hate the Scaifes and if I were Kerry I wouldn't have accepted the money.

[lancdem]

1. I doubt they like anything about Kerry

Scaife is a RW nut.

[still_one]

2. Maybe she can't stand her husband

[david_vincent]

8. He's far more than that

[flpoljunkie]

3. That's Ritchie Scaife, homemaker, in different zipcode. Nice try.

SCAIFE, RITCHIE
PITTSBURGH,PA 15232

SELF-EMPLOYED/HOMEMAKER

4/25/2003

$2,000

Kerry, John

According to post below, link to slate article, this is indeed Scaife's wife. Interesting, they are listed in different zip codes.

[Old and In the Way]

7. Thanks flpoljunkie!

You just saved 200 thread starts on the subject.

[bleedingheart]

10. Thread below explains that it is his wife and has a nice link

that helps me feel better about the whole thing...

You do not realize how much Scaife is hated in my neck of the woods.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

4. read this

http://slate.msn.com/id/2092293/

[bleedingheart]

9. That makes me feel better because the Scaifes have done enough

harm in our area...

[Adams Wulff]

5. Never Mind

eom

[xray s]

6. Well...

I read in another DU thread (so it HAS to be TRUE :)) that Mrs Scaife and Mrs Heinz-Kerry have mutual interests in some charities.

Maybe Mrs Scaife is a liberal Democrat? Maybe Mr Scaife pissed her off one night so she wrote a check to Kerry? Maybe its all one big conspiracy that is so dumb they write checks to each other that are open to public scrutiny? :shrug:

[iamjoy]

11. WISH/Mrs. Scaife

how interesting that she did give $2,000 to WISH List. Isn't that the Republican sorry answer to Emily's List?

(Emily's List works to get pro-choice women elected)

[revcarol]

12. It's a GOGN* instead of a GOBN**??

*Good Old Girls Network

**Good Old Boys Network

That's all right then. <sarcasm>

[democratreformed]

13. Do you really think a candidate is aware of every single person's name

who donates to his or her campaign?

[gottaB]

14. Guilt by association--that's icky too

I don't know this family. It seems they routinely give money to Republicans. And at least one homemaker in the family decided that Kerry was worthy of support.

Perhaps it was an awakening.

A serious possibility is that Mrs. Scaife prefers John Kerry's positions on education to those of Mr. Bush. Perhaps she likes his foreign policy credentials. Or his economic policies. If Mrs. Scaife wants to join ranks with the AFL-CIO and the League of Conservation Voters and the whole panoply of liberal interest groups that are lining up against George Bush, and coalescing behind John Kerry, then we should welcome her.

(Hi, Mrs. Scaife. Welcome to the Party).

:party:

[DrFunkenstein]

15. Logical Fallacy #27: Guilt By Association

http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/

You think that 1+1=2. But, Adolf Hitler, Charles Manson, Joseph Stalin, and Ted Bundy all believed that 1+1=2. So, you shouldn't believe it.

[in_cog_ni_to]

17. Richard Mellon Scaife

bankrolled the Republican's in their 8 year attack on the Clinton administration. He was instrumental in funding the investigations in Arkansas where he set up Republican slime to dig up dirt on the Clintons. He spent millions of dollars to destroy Bill and Hillary. The Scaifes do not love the Democratic Party. Trust me.

[chookie]

16. Mrs H-Kerry and Mrs M-Scaife are friends

Both are married into very prominent Pittsburgh families, do a lot for local charities, share some common interests, and are said to be friends.

Teresa is also friends with Paul O'Neill. She also socializes with Dick Scaife -- might (gulp!) even be a friend of his.

Damned decent of Mrs Mellon Scaife to support Senator Kerry's bid for the Democratic candidacy! In honor of this graciousness, from now on, I will pick up my dog's poopoo from Scaife's yard when she shits in it.

[cosmicdot]

18. she probably belongs to the socialite party, and probably abhor 'labels'

:shrug:

[AP]

19. Class loyalty is thicker than blood.