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madfloridian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-20-03 02:11 PM
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19. Here.
http://progressivetrail.org/articles/031207Editorial.shtml

To the anger of Republicans, he has also injected large amounts of money into organisations that are deeply involved in the election battle against Bush.

Soros said he had made only "relatively modest contributions" to the Democrats in previous elections.

He has held functions at his New York state home in support of a number of Democratic party candidates, including Howard Dean, John Kerry, Wesley Clark and Richard Gephardt.

But more importantly he has spent 15 million dollars to help activist groups fighting the US president.

Soros gave 10 million dollars to America Coming Together, which campaigns to increase the number of people taking part in elections and 2.5 million dollars to Moveon.org, a mass grass-roots organisation that has opposed the Iraq war and many other Bush policies...."
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