Who Is Financing The Progressives? … You?
January 23, 2010For some time I have been wondering who provided the money that elected Obama. Most Revoistas know about George Soros, the Hungarian-born billionaire and his front agencies. But he can’t be the only one, can he?
Actually, no, he isn’t the only one. Here is an excerpt from Wikipedia:
Peter B. Lewis
Peter B. Lewis (born 1933) is the Cleveland, Ohio-area based chairman of Progressive Insurance Companies. Lewis currently resides in Coconut Grove, Florida.
Donations
With an estimated net worth in excess of a billion dollars, Lewis frequently donates money to charities and political groups. He is a patron of the arts and supports many artistic pursuits. Lewis’s personal and corporate contemporary art collection is well known—the corporate collection is displayed at Progressive Insurance offices. Lewis has made donations to:
• Princeton University (A Gehry designed science library, $60 million; the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, $55 million; arts initiative, $101 million. Total $233 million to date.)
• Case Western Reserve University (The Weatherhead School of Management Peter B. Lewis Building, another Gehry design, $36.9 million, out of $61.7 total building cost)
• Marijuana Policy Project (Donated $3,000,000 to MPP in 2007.)
• The Guggenheim Museum ($50 million)
• America Coming Together and MoveOn.org (with George Soros matching his $10 and $2.5 million, respectively)
• American Civil Liberties Union
• The Democratic Party
• MAPS-sponsored MDMA/PTSD Research in the US, Switzerland and Israel $750,000 [www.maps.org]
• Menorah Park (Peter B. Lewis Aquatic & Therapy Center)
• Traction
Lewis is a trustee of Princeton University, former chairman of the board of directors at the Guggenheim Museum (resigned January 19, 2005), and serves on the board of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Although Lewis often gives substantial gifts to artistic and educational organizations, he also has a reputation for — often forcefully — insisting that such organizations be financially accountable and financially sound; as of late 2004, Lewis has said he will no longer give to Case or Cleveland’s University Circle neighborhood due to poor leadership and management.[citation needed] He has said that those funds might instead be diverted to Cleveland State University.
Lewis is an advocate of taxing and regulating the use and sale of marijuana and is one of the main financial backers of the recent, partially successful, campaign to legalize the use of marijuana for medical use in the U.S. In January 2000, Mr. Lewis was arrested and charged in New Zealand for possession of marijuana. Lewis pleaded guilty to three charges and paid a substantial fine, though under New Zealand law he was not required to serve time in jail or prison. According to his lawyer, Marie Dyhrberg, Lewis used the marijuana on the advice of his doctor for pain relief after the partial amputation of his leg in 1998.[3]
Traction (organization)
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Traction is a progressive non-profit organization promoting civic engagement, based in the city of Durham, North Carolina. Traction’s goal is to inform, inspire and connect a growing social network of left-leaning 20- and 30-somethings. The organization focuses on raising awareness of progressive issues including civil rights, health care, the environment, electoral fairness, economic justice and education. These topics are integrated into activities such as movies, dodgeball, art exhibitions, sushi-making workshops, potluck dinners and parties to create issue-based events which inform and mobilize the community for social action.
Traction was founded in 2005 by Lanya Shapiro[1] and became a project of the San Francisco-based Tides Center[2] in early 2007. The group’s funding sources include the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, Jonathan and Peter Lewis, and the Open Society Institute[2].
Progressive is a natural name for the insurance company which is helping to fund the progressive movement. Where are you buying your insurance?
notamobster :
Date: January 23, 2010
Holy shit! I had ABSOLUTELY NO CLUE! I’m usually quite careful in making my decisions on a socially conscious basis. I don’t buy from companies who push the gay agenda, abortion, illegal amnesty – or hire illegals.
I have my motorcycle policy through Progressive. My normal company Geico wouldn’t wouldn’t give me a policy unless I already had one on it. Because it was uninsured – I bought it that day – they told me to get a policy through someone else and switch it. I just never bothered to switch it.
Thanks for this info. I promptly went to the googles and researched it. Yuck. I feel dirty for having given him my money.
fletcher :
Date: January 23, 2010
USAA
MadBrad :
Date: January 23, 2010
There ya go. Information like this helps change things. I will now never consider doing business with this company.
I wonder how many other companies don’t deserve having good people like us as customers. We have to deny resources to scumbags like these. This is something that must be refined over time.