Want to know who was keeping the Schiavo case alive for 15 years? Right wing Republicans. Just folllow the money.
From:
http://mediatransparency.org/storyprinterfriendly.php?storyID=56
March 24, 2005
Team Schiavo's Deep Pockets
A host of right wing organizations, many of which are affiliated with the Philanthropy Roundtable -- a consortium of right wing foundations and philanthropists -- have been copiously funding the Terri Schiavo case
If you don't follow the ins and outs of the philanthropy scene you likely have never heard of the Philanthropy Roundtable. Jon Eisenberg, a lawyer working on the Terri Schiavo case wasn't familiar with the organization either until a few months after he filed an amicus curiae brief in the Florida Supreme Court on behalf of 55 bioethicists and a disability rights organization opposing Gov. Jeb Bush's action in trying "to overturn a court order to remove Terri's feeding tube."
Eisenberg, who appeared at a Florida State University public debate with lawyers for Gov. Bush and the Schiavo family two months after filing the suit, was curious as to whether Pat Anderson, "one of multiple attorneys who have represented" Terri's parents, Robert and Mary Schindler, and Wesley Smith and Rita Marker, "two activists whose specialty is opposing surrogate removal of life-support from comatose and persistent vegetative state patients," were doing this work on a "pro bono" basis as he was.
Through Internet searching, Eisenberg discovered that "many of the attorneys, activists and organizations working to keep Schiavo on life support all these years have been funded by members of the Philanthropy Roundtable". For nearly 30 years the Roundtable has been providing a forum for right wing philanthropists who, according to the organization's website, are interested in "promot[ing] greater respect for private, voluntary approaches to individual and community betterment."
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Eisenberg uncovered the fact that "Schindler lawyer Pat Anderson 'was paid directly' by the anti-abortion Life Legal Defense Foundation, which 'has already spent over $300,000 on this case.'" The Alliance Defense Fund, which is involved with the Life Legal Defense Foundation, "collected more than $15 million in private donations in 2002 and admits to having spent money on the Schiavo case 'in the six figures,' according to a recent article in the Palm Beach Post," Eisenberg wrote.
According to Eisenberg, "Wesley Smith and Rita Marker also work for organizations that get funding from [Philanthropy] Roundtable members," particularly the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. "Smith is a paid senior fellow with the Discovery Institute, a Seattle-based think tank that advocates the teaching of creationist 'intelligent design' theory in public schools...Marker is executive director of the International Task Force on Euthanasia [and Assisted Suicide], which lobbies against physician-assisted suicide. In 2001, Marker's organization received $110,390 from the Randolph Foundation, an affiliate of the Smith Richardson family."
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During an October 27, 2003 interview with CNN's Larry King, Schiavo told him that the Schindler's had offered him $700,000 "to walk away" from his wife:
King: They have that kind of money?
Schiavo: They get money from the right-wing activists. The right wing -- the right-to-life groups.
King: The right-to-life group was willing to pay you $700,000 to walk away?
Schiavo: Right.
Read the ful story at the link about the right wing money and get really disgusted at the evil that these people represent. This is today's Republican party in action.
