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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGoodbye, Richard Mellon Scaife
Richard Mellon Scaife, the Pittsburgh philanthropist and reclusive heir to the Mellon banking fortune, whose support for right-wing causes laid the foundations for Americas modern conservative movement and fueled the 1998 impeachment of President Bill Clinton, died on Friday. He was 82.
Mr. Scaifes death was reported by the The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, a newspaper he owned. No cause of death was given.
Decades before David and Charles Koch bankrolled right-wing causes, Mr. Scaife and Joseph Coors, the beer magnate, were the leading financiers of the conservative crusade of the 1970s and 80s, seeking to reverse the liberal traditions of Franklin D. Roosevelts New Deal and Lyndon B. Johnsons Great Society.
Mr. Scaife (pronounced Skayf) inherited roughly $500 million in 1965, and with more family bequests and income from trust funds and investments in oil, steel and real estate, nearly tripled his net worth over his lifetime. But unlike his forebears, who were primarily benefactors of museums, public art collections, education and medicine, he gave hundreds of millions to promote conservative political causes...
Mr. Scaifes death was reported by the The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, a newspaper he owned. No cause of death was given.
Decades before David and Charles Koch bankrolled right-wing causes, Mr. Scaife and Joseph Coors, the beer magnate, were the leading financiers of the conservative crusade of the 1970s and 80s, seeking to reverse the liberal traditions of Franklin D. Roosevelts New Deal and Lyndon B. Johnsons Great Society.
Mr. Scaife (pronounced Skayf) inherited roughly $500 million in 1965, and with more family bequests and income from trust funds and investments in oil, steel and real estate, nearly tripled his net worth over his lifetime. But unlike his forebears, who were primarily benefactors of museums, public art collections, education and medicine, he gave hundreds of millions to promote conservative political causes...
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/05/us/richard-mellon-scaife-influential-us-conservative-dies-at-82.html
also: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Richard_Mellon_Scaife
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Goodbye, Richard Mellon Scaife (Original Post)
blogslut
Jul 2014
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shenmue
(38,506 posts)1. Buh-bye
Hugin
(33,222 posts)2. It would be best if I leave this news conspicuously uncommented upon. n/t
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)3. One down, a shitload to go.
UTUSN
(70,762 posts)4. R#3 & K for, ding frickin' DONG!1 n/t
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)5. Good riddance!