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Dr. Tim Ball, Senator Barbara Boxer

Gore-boosting Barbara Boxer solicits donation from Canadian climatologist

By Judi McLeod

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

It's not likely that Canadian climatologist Dr. Tim Ball will ever contribute to Senator Barbara Boxer's leadership political action committee, but that's what the California senator is asking.

Boxer's staff somehow has Dr. Ball on the senator's mailing list. Even though Canada Free Press (CFP) has written about Boxer's previous correspondence to the nonplussed Canadian climatologist, his name has not been removed from the list.

Last month Boxer wrote to Ball, care of CFP asking the scientist to sign a card congratulating former U.S. Vice President Al Gore for his work on the Global Warming front.

Ball takes the opposite viewpoint to Gore stating that Global Warming is not man-made.

Boxer's most recent letter to Ball asks him to contribute to her leadership political action committee, and asks him to invite his "friends and family" to "join PAC For A Change today."

"As you well know, we have to compete with our small contributions against those who can give millions to independent expenditures that aim to destroy our candidates, twisting them into unrecognizable stereotypes," Boxer wrote.

Even if Dr. Ball wanted to contribute to PAC For A Change, he couldn't. FEC compliance number one on the Boxer letter states, "I am not a foreign national who lacks permanent residence in the U.S."

PAC For A Change was formed because Boxer and Company want to "change the direction of the radical extremists in Congress".

But PAC did include "a sneak preview of 2008" along with its donation request.

"The good news is that many of the huge number of Republican incumbents up for re-election in 2008 are far too conservative for their respective states."

Targeted seats include Gordon Smith of Oregon; John Sununu in New Hampshire; Pete Domenici, New Mexico; and. Norm Coleman, Minnesota.

In a blurb about John Sununu, Boxer wrote, "After winning this seat in one of the closest Senate races of 2002, Senator Sununu has voted like a red-state Republican while his state has taken a sharp turn to the left. In 2004, New Hampshire cast its electoral votes for John Kerry after going for President Bush in 2000, and last November both House seats switched over to the Democratic side of the aisle--marking the first time since 1994 that either one of these seats has been held by a Democrat."

And of the targeted Gordon Smith in Oregon: "It's clear that Senator Smith is already feeling the heat as he prepares for his re-election bid in Oregon, a state that has voted for a Democratic president in each of the last five elections. After marching in lockstep with his fellow Republicans, squarely supporting the Iraq war on every vote since the beginning, he has suddenly changed his tune and begun expressing his disappointment with the war. But it's a little too late--and in 2008, Oregon voters will be looking for a new Senator who shows good judgment when it matters, not 5 years after the fact."

Boxer, the first woman to chair the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, is on a role.

As a contemporary Democrat, she's also high on the social register. The senator's daughter, Nicole, married Tony Rodham, brother of then First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton in a ceremony in the White House. The couple divorced in 2000.

It seems that PAC For A Change is run on an all-in-the-family basis.

According to www.noagenda.org, "Disclosure statements also show that Barbara Boxer directed $15,000 from her PAC in 2003 to a consulting firm run by her son.

"Roll Call also reported in May of 2003 that Barbara Boxer (D-Calif) funneled $115,000 last cycle to Douglas Boxer & Associates, a company run by her son, from PAC For a Change, her leadership political action committee."

Meanwhile, perhaps Boxer's staff now has good reason to strike Dr. Timothy Ball off their mailing list.

Canada Free Press founding editor Most recent by Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com


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