Soros Money Funding John Kasich’s Presidential Bid

[MikeWB]

As new reports break that a George Soros-linked group is taking credit for efforts to violently disrupt GOP frontrunner Donald Trump's campaign rallies, the Center for Responsive Politics reveals that another George Soros-linked group is coordinating another furtive operation to stop Trump by financing the campaign of John Kasich.

According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Soros Fund Management is one of John Kasich's top financial contributors.



George Soros–a liberal progressive donor– has been a top funder of the push to open America's borders. According to a 2013 CNS News report, "Soros's Open Society Foundation proudly claimed to have given $100 million dollars to 'immigrant rights' projects in the United States." According to the report, those that have been the beneficiaries of that $100 million include La Raza (Soros funding $2.4 million), the Immigrant Legal Resource Center (Soros funding $1.6 million), as well as Amnesty International (Soros funding $844,088) and Immigration Equality (Soros funding: $301,667).

In addition, Soros has been financially linked to the National Immigration Forum—the group behind the "Evangelical Immigration Table (EIT). As Breitbart reported in 2013, the Evangelical Immigration Table "is actually a front group for players on the institutional left including billionaire George Soros... EIT is running a $250,000 advertising campaign in favor of the Senate's "Gang of Eight" immigration bill."

Soros money is frequently tied to groups with innocuous sounding names that promote radical agendas– such as the Evangelical Immigration Table.

Interestingly, as Breitbart News has previously reported, John Kasich has made a series of extreme statements on immigration that place him to the furthest leftward reaches of not just the GOP Presidential field, but the Democratic Presidential field as well. For instance, Kasich has said that enforcing our immigration laws and deporting the illegal immigrants is not "humane." Kasich likened deportations to the Japanese internment camps of World War II. Kasich has also pledged that he will enact amnesty within the first 100 days of his hoped-for Presidency– in effect, meaning that those who support John Kasich's presidential campaign are voting to enact the largest amnesty in U.S. history by April 30, 2017.

The Washington Times reported in January of 2015, George Soros was also behind the funding of the Ferguson protests, "Mr. Soros gave at least $33 million in one year to support already-established groups that emboldened the grass-roots, on-the-ground activists in Ferguson, according to the most recent tax filings of his nonprofit Open Society Foundations."

As the 2013 CNS report documents, "Soros has aided hundreds of left-wing groups in America since 2000 under the auspices of his Open Society Foundations. In just 10 years, he gave more than $550 million to liberal organizations in the United States. This has included money going to fund liberal agenda topics like Earth Day, gun control, government funding of student loans and even the IRS targeting of conservatives."

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/03/14/report-soros-money-funding-john-kasichs-presidential-bid/

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John Kasich was a managing partner for Lehman Brothers when Lehman's
collapsed in 2008  :

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2016 Election

John Kasich's Wall Street ties could haunt 2016 bid
By MJ Lee, CNN Politics and Finance Reporter
Updated 1454 GMT (2154 HKT) June 8, 2015
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/06/08/politics/john-kasich-2016-lehman-brothers-wall-street/

"(CNN)Ohio Gov. John Kasich loves talking about his record in office,
   his knack for balancing the budget and his controversial decision to
   back Medicaid expansion.
   
   But there's one part of his resume he's less inclined to discuss: the
   years he spent as a senior executive at Lehman Brothers.
   
   Kasich joined Lehman's investment banking division as managing director
   in 2001, working there until the firm's collapse in September 2008
   unleashed global panic and served as the catalyst for the financial
   crisis.
   
   The Republican governor's past work at arguably the most deeply
   vilified Wall Street firm -- so despised that in the aftermath of the
   crisis, some people referred to the bank simply as the "L word" -- is
   likely to serve as rich fodder for political attacks if Kasich were to
   become a serious contender for the GOP's presidential nomination. His
   banking background is particularly ripe for scrutiny and criticism in
   the 2016 cycle, as populist, anti-Wall Street sentiment is fueling
   support for a number of candidates on both sides of the political aisle.
   
   Lehman is back in the news with its disgraced former CEO, Richard Fuld,
   ending his years of silence with unapologetic and at times feisty
   remarks ("Why don't you bite me?" Fuld replied when a moderator at a
   conference in New York asked why he didn't simply ride into the sunset
   after Lehman's fall).
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   While Kasich has not yet made a decision on 2016 and is barely
   registering in national polls, the former congressman of 18 years is
   nevertheless viewed as a potentially formidable candidate because of
   his deep familiarity with the workings of Washington and his stature as
   the governor of a critical swing state. Wall Street watchdogs are
   already on high alert.
   
   "Kasich's close ties to Wall Street should raise concerns for everyone
   who suffered due to the collapse of our financial system caused by
   those very same banks," said Craig Holman of the advocacy group Public
   Citizen. "This is not a responsible businessman, and strongly suggests
   he would not be a responsible president."
   
   Kasich spokesman Chris Schrimpf said Kasich's tenure at Lehman gave him
   critical firsthand experience of the dark side of unchecked "Wall
   Street ambition."
   
   "He learned how good businesses make decisions and what it takes for
   job creators to be successful," Schrimpf told CNN in a statement.
   "Attempts to somehow use this experience against him failed miserably
   six years ago."
   
   Kasich has practice fielding the Lehman backlash.
   
   In the 2010 gubernatorial race, then-sitting Democratic Gov. Ted
   Strickland seized on Kasich's time at the bank, casting it as a
   distasteful and questionable part of his GOP challenger's private
   sector experience.
   
   Strickland and his Democratic allies homed in on the hundreds of
   thousands of dollars that Kasich made in bonuses on top of his salary.
   They accused Kasich of lining his own pockets while everyday Ohioans
   saw their retirement savings and pensions go down the drain.
   
   "John Kasich got rich while Ohio seniors lost millions," one attack ad
   said.
   
   Kasich's defense at the time was that he was based in a two-man office
   in Columbus, Ohio, and one of some 700 managing directors at Lehman --
   hardly responsible for the reckless decisions that led the firm to
   declare bankruptcy.
   
   In an election cycle that handed the Republican Party sweeping
   victories across the country, the assault on Kasich's tenure at Lehman
   ultimately wasn't enough to help Strickland fend off his challenger.
   
   To this day, Kasich supporters point to the governor's victory in 2010
   as proof the Lehman attacks didn't work then -- and wouldn't work in
   2016.
   
   "His opponents in 2010 threw everything including the kitchen sink at
   him to try to make a false issue stick," said Doug Preisse, chairman of
   the Franklin County Republican Party and a veteran Kasich ally. "To try
   to say that somebody working out of a two-man office in Ohio bankrupted
   the country -- people laughed at it then, and I think people will laugh
   at the charge again."
   
   READ: Can conservatives find their footing in Hollywood in 2016?
   
   But even as the country has taken significant strides since the
   financial crisis and the economy is finally starting to show signs of a
   real comeback, Wall Street nevertheless remains a favorite political
   punching bag.
   
   In the last presidential election, Mitt Romney, the GOP's nominee, was
   a victim of the widespread anti-Wall Street sentiment that lingered
   from the 2008 financial crisis.
   
   President Barack Obama and his campaign seized on Romney's work at the
   private equity firm Bain Capital, highlighting specific companies that
   shuttered and laid off employees under Bain's watch.
   
   Matt McDonald of Hamilton Place Strategies, who worked on Bain-related
   messaging for Romney's campaign, said the 2012 race underscored just
   how difficult it is to clarify misconceptions about complicated
   business and financial transactions.
   
   "These candidates are going to have to figure out a good, quick answer
   on what their role was, what they did, and how they account for their
   time during the financial crisis," McDonald said of Kasich and any
   other GOP candidates with ties to Wall Street. "Kasich wasn't trading
   residential mortgage backed securities in New York. That's not what he
   was doing."
   
   (Jeb Bush has also advised Lehman, and Chris Christie lobbied on behalf
   of the securities industry before going into public office.)
   
   Some of the most fierce attacks against Kasich's time at Lehman could
   come from the other side of the political aisle.
   
   Heading into 2016, former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley and Vermont
   Sen. Bernie Sanders -- who are challenging former Secretary of State
   Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination for president -- are both
   advocating for tough Wall Street regulations and vowing to promote
   policies to rein in the big banks.
   
   O'Malley, who launched his presidential campaign May 30, used
   particularly aggressive language against what he called the "bullies of
   Wall Street" in his announcement speech, even singling out Goldman
   Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein.
   
   "What you're hearing from Martin O'Malley and Bernie Sanders on our
   side of the aisle" will help attract attention to Kasich's Lehman
   background, said Chris Redfern, the Ohio Democratic Party's former
   chairman. "He's going to get questions that he will find difficult to
   answer."
   
   Ray Glendening, who served as senior strategist at the Democratic
   Governors Association during Kasich's first campaign for governor, said
   Kasich is likely to experience scrutiny over tenure at Lehman as his
   candidacy for president picks up momentum.
   
   "People that are not even really dialed into political stories, they
   know what Lehman is," Glendening said. "Because he's running for the
   highest office in the land, he's going to have some explaining to do."

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