OPINION/COMMENTARY

Teresa's Favorite Green Groups Using Contributions for Anti-Bush Attacks

Teresa Heinz Kerry’s sizable financial contributions to liberal environmental groups are turning into negative campaign attacks by these very groups in battleground states just days before the election. From her position as a board member on several charitable trusts, she is responsible for having directly or indirectly distributed more than $10 million dollars to League of Conservation Voters (LCV), National Wildlife Foundation (NWF) and several other liberal environmental groups. The LCV is running $3 million of attack ads in Florida and the NWF just published an attack “report” on some battleground states such as Ohio and Pennsylvania critical of President Bush’s record on mercury....