Re: Lamont being JP Morgan's great grandson

[LittleClarkie]

Someone on the radio here was having a mini rant about how if the Republicans are supposed to have all the rich backers, then what about all the rich celebrities who back Dems, or the fact that Leiberman's opponent is the great grandson of JP Morgan.

There's a problem with that logic re Lamont. I know there has to be. And I would guess that although his grandson is running as a Democrat, ol' JP was probably a Republican. Right or wrong?

[atreides1]

1. Does it really matter

JP Morgan is kind of dead, isn't he?

[LittleClarkie]

2. Well, I'm just looking into this whole thing about Dem big money vs

Republican big money.

Can we compete with our celebrities? Or is this a bogus argument. I would reckon that the big money on our side is nothing compared to theirs, considering what I think I know about how much they raise vs how much we raise, but I haven't got the numbers to prove it.

[calico1]

3. JP Morgan has been dead for almost

100 years. Lamont is wealthy but has given a lot back to the community. I don't think it matters who he is related to and don't think it will make a difference to voters.

[Jack Rabbit]

4. So what?

I'm not one to believe in the Doctrine of Original Sin. I do not believe that the sins of parents are inherited by the children.

I don't think G. W. Bush is a card carrying Nazi because his grandfather lent money to the Third Reich.

We all have somebody on our family tree we'd rather were not there.

[glitch]

5. That's not why I think lil bush is a nazi either.

:P

[LittleClarkie]

7. I think the insinuation they were trying for was that Lamont had big money

behind him.

Or maybe they just didn't logic it out that far, and stopped at the shallow. Wouldn't be the first time. So is Lamont rich or not so much?

[Jack Rabbit]

8. They could be trying to insuate that

After six years of Karl Rove's dirty campaign tactics, we should be used to it. At least Lamont really is rich. Wait until they stoop to just making it up.

[RB TexLa]

6. Don't know what political affiliation he was

but the man built a cornerstone of the world's finical industry, provided greatly for New Yorks museums, and pretty much created GE.

[DinahMoeHum]

9. Ned is NOT a descendant of JP Morgan, but of Thomas W. Lamont:

who chaired JP Morgan & Co.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_W._Lamont

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/29/AR2006042901030_pf.html
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Mild-mannered and thoughtful, Lamont has a pedigree that blends old money with noblesse oblige. His great-grandfather Thomas W. Lamont, a chairman of J.P. Morgan & Co., commuted to Wall Street by yacht and helped to negotiate the Treaty of Versailles. His family tree also includes Corliss Lamont, a socialist philosopher and civil libertarian, and an assortment of ministers and adventurers. Lamont served as a Greenwich selectman during the 1980s and lost a 1990 state Senate bid.
(snip)

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/2/19/161612/858
(snip)
Making a difference was emphasized from an early age in the Lamont household, which despite its patrician leanings - his great-grandfather Thomas Lamont was chairman of J..P. Morgan, the Wall Street investment bank, and a benefactor of Harvard's Lamont Library - had its fair share of those who subverted the status quo.

A grandfather, for example, spent his career working on a sailboat in Puerto Rico, eventually marrying a Catholic missionary stationed there. And great-uncle Corliss Lamont's ardent Socialist beliefs prompted the ire of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy.
(snip)

:kick:

[LittleClarkie]

10. Thank you for the good information

Just what I need to counter this shit.