Still no dice.
Vance gives money across the board to both endorsed
and non-endorsed candidates.
He's backed winners and losers.
He is putting his money and influence in action
against Bush. Kelly came out for Bush, this would seem
to innoculate Vance being behind this or whatever you
were trying to drum up.
In that last few years, Vance has also given money to:
Wellstone, Bob Kerry, Forbes for President, Steve
Novak, Thune for Congress, Chris Coleman for Congress,
ND Senator Kent Conrad, ND Congressman Earl Pomeroy,
Hillary Clinton for Senate and HillPac, Montana
Democratic Party, NY Senator Charles Schumer, Bill
Luther for Congress, RI Congressman Pat Kennedy, MN
Womens Campaign, Vt Senator Pat Leahy, SD Senator Tom
Dashle, John Kerry for President,ND Senator Byron
Dorgan, Herseth for COngress(SD), Lisa Quigley for
Congress(CA), Mark Dayton andPatty Wetterling for
COngress.
He may have given Kelly a few bucks- big deal. He
gives money to a lot of candidates.
His company was sold a few years ago, so he is not the
heir to West Publishing. It appears you have a problem
with him because he's rich.
I'm starting to get Shove and his ilk. It's the old
blame game in reverse, the rich are to blame for
everything and the conspiracy rolls on until one day
the masses will rise and overthrow them.
You failed this time to make a DFL conspiracy out of
this.
Eric Mitchell
Eastsider
What Party endorsed the bigotted anti-Semite for US
Senate in Minnesota?
--- David Shove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Info on Vance Opperman:
>
> Here are a few quotes from past local articles. Not
> much - perhaps enuf to
> make some points without violating the ban here on
> complete articles or
> even long quotes:
>
> City Pages 3/4/98
> The Player [Vance Opperman]
> by Britt Robson
>
> >From West Bank radical to White House insider, he's
> remained the most
> powerful man you've never heard of.
> ...
> He counts Vice President Al Gore among his friends
> and has enough
> clout to get President Clinton to return his phone
> calls.
> ...
> Opperman has become known as the ruthless corporate
> fighter who steered
> Eagan-based West Publishing Inc. through an industry
> revolution. He is
> also recognized as the big-time donor who promised
> large sums to Democrats
> at a crucial point in the 1996 campaign--two weeks
> before the Justice
> Department cleared the way to a corporate
> acquisition that would make him
> fabulously wealthy. One Washington-based advocate of
> campaign-finance
> reform considers Opperman "a perfect example of what
> is wrong with the
> political process."
> ...
> But in Minnesota, it is hard to find people with a
> discouraging word to
> say about Opperman. Off the record, people from both
> ends of the political
> spectrum say that his wealth and power deter any
> honest criticism.
> ...
> As state Sen. John Marty, Minnesota's self-appointed
> conscience on matters
> of campaign finance, puts it: "I am not accusing
> Vance of being corrupt,
> but he knows money talks. He's got a lot of money,
> and it really talks."
>
> -----
>
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