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	Howard Ahmanson - Avenging Angel of the Religious Right
		Meanwhile, young Ahmanson was tended to by an army of servants and ferried to and from school in a limousine.
		Ahmanson claims, was not politicized until 1979, when the Orange County Rescue Mission, a Christian homeless shelter where he played piano once a week, was condemned when the city of Santa Ana failed to issue it a conditional use permit.
		Ahmanson recounts, her husband was outraged by what he considered an act of government tyranny; as he stood on a picket line outside the doomed shelter, he became an ardent believer in God-given property rights and the spirit of capitalism.
	www.yuricareport.com /Dominionism/AhmansonAvengingAngelOfReligiousRight.html (5130 words)

	BCSE - Main - HowardAhmanson
		Ahmanson is a member of the secretive Council for National Policy, an elite group of politically conservative national leaders who meet several times a year to coordinate their efforts on a common agenda.
		Ahmanson is also a major funder of the effort for computerized voting, and he and several other prominent Reconstructionists have close ties with Diebold, the company that would manufacture the computerized voting machines if they were used.
		Ahmanson is well known for his apparent opposition to the ordination of gay clergymen in the Episcopalian church in the USA.
	www.bcseweb.org.uk /index.php/Main/HowardAhmanson (3391 words)

	Howard Ahmanson, Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ahmanson is the son of the American financier Howard F. Ahmanson, Sr (1906-1968).
		Ahmanson is a board member of the John M. Perkins Foundation and (along with his wife) the Claremont Institute.
		The Ahmanson Foundation was a contributor to the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) from 1990 to 1993.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Howard_Ahmanson,_Jr (2008 words)

	Howard Ahmanson, Jr Information
		Ahmanson is the son of the American financier Howard F. Ahmanson, Sr (1906-1968).
		Through Fieldstead, Ahmanson is a primary backer of the Institute on Religion and Democracy and has supported groups such as the American Anglican Council on projects to resist efforts to liberalize mainline Protestant churches, particularly with respect to issues concerning homosexuality.
		Ahmanson is also a major backer of the Discovery Institute, whose Center for Science and Culture opposes the theory of evolution and manages a public relations campaign promoting Intelligent Design.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Howard_Ahmanson,_Jr (1803 words)

	Freedom Writer - May 1995 [ref001] California's Education Alliance By Jerry Sloan Soon aft
		In November, 1994, Ahmanson was the chief financial backer ($40,000) of a pilot project in Orange County which raised $63,221 and gave $61,671 to 36 endorsed candidates for school boards in 15 districts through a PAC known as the Education Alliance.
		Howard F. Ahmanson Jr., the scion of the Home Savings fortune, has been a member of the board of trustees of the leading Christian Reconstructionist think tank, Chalcedon, since the mid-1970s.
		With the help of Ahmanson and Crean, the Education Alliance hopes to expand its efforts state-wide by 1996 with the additional goal of sponsoring an initiative to ban public employee unions from materially participating in elections for public-employer trustee positions on school boards, city councils, county supervisors, water districts and so on.
	www.skepticfiles.org /fw/alliance.htm (810 words)

	Caroline Leonetti Ahmanson; prominent Southern California philanthropist; 83 \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Ahmanson was friends with some of California's most powerful figures and used her contacts to improve life for Southern Californians.
		Ahmanson was a board member of some of the largest companies and arts institutions in Southern California at some point in her life, including the Walt Disney Co., the Fluor Corp., the Carter Hawley Hale Stores and the Music Center.
		Ahmanson was appointed by Ronald Reagan to a post on the president's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050625/news_1m25ahmanson.html (408 words)

	Howard Ahmanson, Jr at AllExperts
		Ahmanson has said, "I resented my family background, [my father] could never be a role model, whether by habits or his lifestyle, it was never anything I wanted." Howard Ahmanson, Sr.
		Ahmanson is a board member of the John M. Perkins Foundation and (along with his wife) the Claremont Institute.
		Ahmanson has been the major funder for the Capitol Resource Institute, the California political front of Focus on the Family; the Western Center for Law and Religious Freedom, the Reason Foundation, an offshoot of Reason Public Policy Institute (RPPI); and the California Pro-Life Council.
	en.allexperts.com /e/h/ho/howard_ahmanson,_jr.htm (1852 words)

	HOWARD AHMANSON, JR FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Howard Fieldstead Ahmanson, Jr (born 1950) is an American millionaire philanthropist who funds the causes of Christian fundamentalism.
		Ahmanson is the son of the American financier Howard Ahmanson, Sr (1906 — 1968) and his wife.
		Despite the trappings of wealth, he was a lonely child "I resented my family background, father could never be a role model, whether by habits or his lifestyle, it was never anything I wanted." Howard Ahmanson, Sr died when his son was 18, and Ahmanson Jr inherited a vast fortune.
	www.feefriend.com /Howard_Ahmanson,_Jr (311 words)

	POLITICAL AMAZON: CR Sugar-Daddies, Politics, and You (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Meanwhile, young Ahmanson was tended to by an army of servants and ferried to and from school in a limousine.
		Ahmanson claims, was not politicized until 1979, when the Orange County Rescue Mission, a Christian homeless shelter where he played piano once a week, was condemned when the city of Santa Ana failed to issue it a conditional use permit.
		Ahmanson recounts, her husband was outraged by what he considered an act of government tyranny; as he stood on a picket line outside the doomed shelter, he became an ardent believer in God-given property rights and the spirit of capitalism.
	www.politicalamazon.com /cr-ahmanson.html (15551 words)

	Takings Initiatives Project - The ‘Other’ Howard
		Ahmanson, 56, is the son of the late Howard Ahmanson, Sr., the founder of Home Savings of America, which was the nation’s largest thrift before its acquisition in 1998 by Washington Mutual.
		Ahmanson went on to say: “Oregon, of all places, instituted a regulatory compensation law [in 2004] and the world didn’t come to an end there.
		Ahmanson’s activities on behalf of the Christian Reconstructionism movement have caught the attention of watchdog groups.
	www.takingsinitiatives.org /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=73&Itemid=62&entry=feed (1073 words)

	News: Loyal Donors Deliver Despite McClintock Dislike of Asking
		Ahmanson, a major financier of free-market and religious think tanks, and his wife, Roberta, have given McClintock $202,000 since 2000, making them among his largest donors, campaign finance reports show.
		Ahmanson and a political action committee he founded with three others have given McClintock at least $400,000 in the last decade, making McClintock one of the largest beneficiaries of its money.
		Ahmanson's patronage benefits several nonprofit think tanks, including the Claremont Institute, where McClintock worked for two years after losing his 1994 run for state controller, and the Chalcedon Foundation, which promotes a brand of Christianity known as Christian Reconstructionism.
	pewforum.org /news/display.php?NewsID=2694 (542 words)

	Fat-cat theocrat funds creationism crusade Church & State - Find Articles
		Ahmanson served for over two decades on the board of directors of the Chalcedon Foundation, Rousas J. Rushdoony's Reconstructionist think tank that serves as the intellectual center of the movement.
		As for Ahmanson's interests in opposing evolution, his relationship with leaders such as Johnson raises a series of questions about how the movement to "defeat" evolution is paid for and what the larger agenda might be.
		Ahmanson's opposition to evolution remains part of his larger agenda of establishing a fundamentalist "Christian nation:' In the coming years, as different groups step into the anti-evolution fray, Ahmanson's role bears watching.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3944/is_200007/ai_n8912391 (620 words)

	Following the Money: Part 1
		Ahmanson and his teenaged son David are members of St. James, Newport Beach, one of three parishes in the Diocese of Los Angeles that declared itself part of the Anglican Church of Uganda because of differences with its bishop, the Rt.
		Ahmanson is a member of the secretive Council for National Policy, an elite group of politically conservative national leaders who meet several times a year to coordinate their efforts on a common agenda.
		Ahmanson's relationship with the AAC began in 1997, when he passed a gift through the AAC to the Ekklesia Society, which had been founded the previous year by the Rev. Canon Bill Atwood to foster international alliances within the Anglican Communion.
	www.edow.org /follow/part1.html (3488 words)

	Howard Ahmanson, Jr.
		He is the heir to the Home Savings and Loan fortune, a California bank purchased by Washington Mutual in 1998, and manages his philanthropy through the private corporation, the Fieldstead Institute.
		Ahmanson suffers from Tourette's syndrome, so most of his public statements are made by his wife, Roberta.
		In 1985, Ahmanson told the Orange County Register, "My goal is the total integration of biblical law into our lives."
	www.nndb.com /people/374/000058200 (162 words)

	Episcopal Forum of South Carolina
		The fact is Howard gave no money to the recall and did no behind-the-scenes string-pulling to make it happen.
		Howard has never advocated the death penalty for homosexuals and does not do so now.
		Roberta and Howard Ahmanson point out several factual errors in our story; Salon has corrected those errors in the text and published a correction.
	www.episcopalforumofsc.org /readingsbody.html?file=readings/VBL/VBL-AhmansonResp.txt (1299 words)

	Episcopal Forum of South Carolina
		Ahmanson told me, her family is captivated by J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” trilogy—by her count, her husband has read “The Hobbit” six times.
		Ahmanson, moreover, is on the board of the Institute of Religion and Democracy, a right-wing Washington think tank that shares ideas—and an office in Washington—with the Anglican Council.
		Howard Ahmanson’s wife, Roberta Ahmanson, denies that the family makes anonymous donations, and said that she and her husband gave only $15,788 to the institute in 2001.
	www.episcopalforumofsc.org /readingsbody.html?file=readings/VBL/VBL-AvengingAngel.txt (5349 words)

	Takings Initiatives Project - Howard Ahmanson, Jr.
		According to records filed with the California Secretary of State, Ahmanson’s Fieldstead and Company gave $200,000 on April 6 to the Protect Our Homes Coalition, the committee pushing the passage of Proposition 90.
		The so-called Ahmanson ranch property was owned by H.F. Ahmanson Company, the public company that was founded by my father.
		I was never an officer of H.F. Ahmanson Company, and I was never involved in the plans to develop this property or in the decision to sell it to the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy.
	www.takingsinitiatives.org /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=120&Itemid=51 (591 words)

	Region funds Episcopalians' move to divide
		Ahmanson attended St. James Church in Newport Beach, Calif., which, until recently, was run by the Rev. David C. Anderson, now president of the American Anglican Council.
		Roberta Ahmanson was recently named to the board of the Washington, D.C.-based Institute on Religion and Democracy, which works closely with the American Anglican Council.
		Roberta Ahmanson's inclusion on the board of the Institute on Religion and Democracy further cements that group's connection with the council.
	www.post-gazette.com /localnews/20030921episcopal0921p3.asp (1188 words)

	Orange County Weekly - The Blotter » GOP $ Man: Stoning No Longer “A Necessity” (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ahmanson and his wife Roberta have been and may still be Christian Reconstructionists.
		This explains Ahmanson’s donation of $310,000 to Proposition 22, the initiative that blocked California’s recognition of same-sex marriage in 2000.
		These days Ahmanson sits on the Board of Directors of the Discovery Institute, of which he is a major financier.
	blogs.ocweekly.com /blotter/gop-man-stoning-no-longer-a-necessity (751 words)

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		The Ahmanson brothers have claimed that they have no ties to their more well-known right-wing cousin.
		But in 2001, the Los Angeles Times reported that Howard and Roberta Ahmanson were important funders of the Discovery Institute, a fount of extremist right-wing publications, including much that pushes creationism in California schools.
		The Ahmanson brothers sold their shares in American Information Systems to the McCarthy Group and the World Herald Company, Inc. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel disclosed in public documents that he was the Chairman of American Information Systems and claimed between a $1 to 5 million investment in the McCarthy Group.
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=9218019&postID=114218553064298334 (1783 words)

	People For the American Way - Individual Donors
		Ahmanson's money, inherited from his father's Home Savings of America, goes chiefly to anti-abortion, anti-gay rights and pro-business state Assembly candidates in California, many of whom beat out moderate Republicans in the June 1992 Republican primary.
		He, Ahmanson, and two other California businessmen contributed a total of $1 million directly to hard-right candidates, and have funneled much more through their contributions to seven right-wing political action committees.
		For example, Ahmanson, Hurtt and their two colleagues were the sole contributors to the Allied Business PAC (approximately $800,000 by September of 1992); about 70 percent of this was used to fund right-wing candidates.
	www.pfaw.org /pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=2062 (1151 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > State -- Catholic Church, Ahmanson oppose stem cell measure
		The contribution was made by wealthy venture capitalist William Bowes Jr., the founding chairman of biotechnology giant Amgen.
		Ahmanson controls the Irvine-based nonprofit Fieldstead and Co., which made a $50,000 contribution to the official opposition campaign group called Doctors, Patients and Taxpayers for Fiscal Responsibility.
		Fieldstead and Ahmanson supported several Republican candidates, including $75,000 in contributions to conservative state Sen. Tom McClintock's unsuccessful run for governor during the last year's recall campaign.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/state/20040902-1635-ca-stemcellopposition.html (793 words)

	Fight Back - Kenneth Blackwell and the Council for National Policy \| Ourmedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ahmanson has also been a chief financier of Rushdoony's Christian Reconstruction movement.Brothers William and Robert Ahmanson, cousins of Howard, infused Data Mark with new capital.
		The Ahmanson brothers have claimed that they have no ties to their more well-known right-wing cousin.But in 2001, the Los Angeles Times reported that Howard and Roberta Ahmanson were important funders of the Discovery Institute, a fount of extremist right-wing publications, including much that pushes creationism in California schools.
		By waving fortunes under their noses, Ahmanson has the ability to cajole candidates into backing his right-wing Christian agenda."Ahmanson is also a chief contributor to the Chalcedon Institute that supports the Christian reconstruction movement.
	www.ourmedia.org /node/217119 (1331 words)

	mousemusings
		The brothers Urosevich obtained financing from the far-Right Ahmanson family in 1984, which purchased a 68% ownership stake, according to the Omaha World Herald.
		Ahmanson, heir to a savings and loan fortune, is little reported on in the mainstream U.S. press.
		Ahmanson is also a chief contributor to the Chalcedon Institute that supports the Christian reconstruction movement.
	www.mousemusings.com /weblogs/2004/11/diebold-electronic-voting-and-vast.html (432 words)

	US millionaire bankrolls crusade against gay Anglican priests \| Special reports \| Guardian Unlimited
		What is known is that in the 1990s Ahmanson, whose family made a fortune in banking, subsidised a number of controversial right-wing causes.
		These include a magazine called the Chalcedon Report, which carried an article calling for gays to be stoned; a think-tank called the Claremont Institute which promoted a video in which Charlton Heston praises 'the God-fearing Caucasian middle class'; and a scientific body which rejects the theory of evolution.
		I know that the Ahmansons are only going to be available to us if we have such a strategy and I think it would be wise to involve them directly in setting it as the options clarify.'
	www.guardian.co.uk /religion/Story/0,2763,1061368,00.html (1310 words)

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