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  Dead men had outed homosexual politician - National - www.theage.com.au
Mr Lewis said both men alleged homosexual activity of a man they believed was a current state politician.
Mr Lewis said the men, and six others who met with him about the state ward inquiry, alleged one such person was a politician.
Mr Lewis told the newspaper he believed the recent deaths of the men should not be dismissed as "just coincidental".
www.theage.com.au /news/National/Dead-men-had-outed-homosexual-politician/2005/03/02/1109700507578.html?oneclick=true   (441 words)

  
  Peter Lewis (politician) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Peter Lewis, Australian politician, was the Liberal member for the South Australian House of Assembly electorate of Hammond from 1979 until about 2000, then the Independent member for Hammond until 2006.
Lewis was first elected in 1979, as a Liberal candidate.
Lewis resigned as speaker on April 4, 2005, only 20 minutes before Parliament reconvened and he would have faced a dismissal motion.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Lewis_(politician)   (538 words)

  
 sa.3.3.05abc
PETER Lewis has admitted his standing in the office of Speaker has "probably" been damaged by the revelation the key witness in the MP pedophile scandal is a convicted child abuser.
PETER Lewis resigned as speaker of the South Australian parliament yesterday over his unsubstantiated pedophile allegations as the Rann Government took the unprecedented step of temporarily suspending parliamentary privilege to stop the MP at the centre of the claims being named.
PETER Lewis promised to uphold the rights and dignity of members of parliament when he was sworn in as speaker of South Australia's parliament.
www.gaiaguys.net /sa.3.3.05abc.htm   (15819 words)

  
 Keyword   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Peter Lewis, also a multimillion-dollar backer of attempts to liberalise America's marijuana laws, spent eight months fighting the Herald's attempts to name him when he was caught importing drugs here during the America's Cup.
Lewis was discharged without conviction, after customs officers found cannabis in his luggage at Auckland Airport, and on his luxury converted tug Lone Ranger.
Lewis is one of thousands of Americans from across the political spectrum who have contributed to independent political committees, known as 527s, in this election cycle.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=peterlewis   (4007 words)

  
 PM - SA Speaker says death threats made over paedophilia comments
Mr Lewis says the threats came as a direct result of his comments last week linking the suspicious deaths of two gay men in Adelaide with a story that they'd told him about a serving politician who'd been involved in paedophile activity in Adelaide's South Parklands.
PETER LEWIS: Judging by the reaction of my wife, it was significant.
PETER LEWIS: No, not at all, if it were I'd never have sought election in the first place.
www.abc.net.au /pm/content/2005/s1318870.htm   (744 words)

  
 The Probert Encyclopaediat
He emigrated to North Carolina in 1752 and proceeded to Kentucky in 1769 where he was capyured by Indians whilst on a hunt.
Daniel D T Farnsworth was an American politician.
Daniel Webster was an American politician and lawyer.
david-pye.com /probert/C4.php   (4308 words)

  
 PAW February 15, 2006: Notebook
Peter B. Lewis ’55 has donated $101 million to fund a broad arts initiative at Princeton that is expected to include additional faculty and courses, an administrative center for the arts, an artists-in-residence program, and new studio, performance, and exhibition spaces, the University announced Jan. 20.
Lewis’ gift is the largest in University history, surpassing the $100 million given by Gordon Y.S. Wu ’58 in 1995.
Lewis, a University trustee and the chairman of the Progressive Corp., an Ohio-based auto insurance company, has given a total of $220 million for projects at Princeton that include the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics and the Frank Gehry-designed science library currently under construction.
www.princeton.edu /~paw/archive_new/PAW05-06/08-0215/notebook.html   (4749 words)

  
 MSFT - Posts by Peter Cohan at BloggingStocks
Though August's market volatility is now a distant memory for some investors, it could be a spur to seek out assistance from financial planners.
And it also appealed to Wall Street which made hundreds of billions off securitization -- a fraction of which found its way to the president's re-election campaign.
Until the costs of bad credit decisions are born by those who create the securities, Greenspan's bundle of contradictions will continue to make no sense for the global economy.
msft.bloggingstocks.com /bloggers/peter-cohan   (4622 words)

  
 The other George | Samizdata.net
He is a machine politician of the kind I have learned to mistrust on principle.
Peter Lewis is the big cheese for Progressive Car Insurance out of Cleveland, Ohio.
Within the context of American politics to even suggest a politician or an organisation is socialist to push them beyond realm of serious consideration.
www.samizdata.net /blog/archives/005002.html   (2173 words)

  
 PageOneQ - Politics, Pride, Power, People » 2005 » March   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Mr Lewis said both men alleged homosexual activity of a man they believed was a current state politician.
Mr Lewis said the men, and six others who met with him about the state ward inquiry, alleged one such person was a politician.
Mr Lewis told the newspaper he believed the recent deaths of the men should not be dismissed as “just coincidental”.
pageoneq.com /news/2005/?m=20050302   (1136 words)

  
 NFIA's Drug Abuse Update Online
Lewis is one of the millionaires/billionaires who fund drug-legalization organizations such as the Lindesmith Center and the Drug Policy Foundation, and of drug-related state ballot initiatives that he, George Soros, and John Sperling have financed since 1995.
Lewis made these remarks at the closing panel of these organizations' 2001 conference.
That's gonna mean bit by bit, taking that piece, step by step, medical marijuana, this city, that state, let's go with that politician, let's move there, let's target our limited resources.
www.nationalfamilies.org /update/dau-050802.html   (2340 words)

  
 Who is Peter Lewis? (Billionaire, Founder Progressive Insurance, Major ACLU Contributor)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
In 2000, while visiting his daughter on her sheep ranch in New Zealand, Lewis was caught by customs officials with marijuana in his brief case.
After spending the night in jail, Lewis, now with a lawyer and having made a massive donation to a local drug-treatment center, was released without a conviction and the case sealed.
Lewis figured out how to create a pool of people who had to have insurance because of laws requiring it and charge those bads risks high premiums.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1375232/posts   (2942 words)

  
 David P. Lewis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
David Peter Lewis (1820 – July 3, 1884) was the Republican Governor of Alabama from 1872 to 1874.
The Panic of 1873 was widely blamed on Governor Lewis and it along with the controversy over Civil Rights lead to his defeat in 1874.
Lewis • Houston • Cobb • E.A. O'Neal • Seay • T.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/David_P._Lewis   (313 words)

  
 City Pages - What's in a Domain?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The domain-name auction business is a burgeoning subgenre of online capitalism: last week, a quick survey of eBay found more than 1,000 names up for bid, including jon-jon.com, and the coveted "absofuckinglutely.com." Asking prices ranged from a couple of hundred to several thousand dollars, though many of the offerings failed to attract bidders.
Peter H. Lewis, for his part, explains that Friend to Friend initially approached him seeking a donation of "several thousand dollars" to itself or charities it supported.
Lewis ultimately ponied up $100, plus an equal donation to the American Diabetes Association in Friend to Friend's name.
citypages.com /databank/20/978/article7923.asp   (1806 words)

  
 PoliticalMoneyLine
Jerry Lewis’ campaign committee reported it raised $262,162 and spent $691,786 during the third quarter of 2006, leaving cash on hand of $1,059,536.
Major donors were Lewis Cullman (NY) $500,000; Frank Brunckhorst (FL) $300,000; S. Donald Sussman (Virgin Islands) $250,000, among others.
The major donors were SEIU COPE $100,000; Peter Lewis (OH) $100,000; Evan Segal $50,000 (previously disclosed in FEC filings); and various Teamster locals $223,000.
www.fecinfo.com   (6755 words)

  
 Discussion: No ‘Choice’ -- In These Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
George Soros and Peter Lewis can only do so much, and this kind of wealth makes their personal fortunes look like chump change.
He was a coward who found a way out of his military service throught the money and power his father had and now he is the comander in chief and he tells kids who weren’t born into his money to go die because he wants to control the Iraqi oil.
Posted by peter chaschowy on Apr 3, 2004 at 10:18 PM can you guys do anyting to get rid of the anti christ.
www.inthesetimes.com /site/main/discuss/717   (10469 words)

  
 Posts by Peter Cohan at BloggingStocks
The Associated Press reports that Chrysler's 45,000 workers represented by the UAW are on strike.
Peter Cohan is president of Peter S. Cohan and Associates.
Bloomberg News reports that on August 17th, in the midst of the August credit crunch, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke sought the advice of Citigroup (NYSE: C) Chairman and Former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, mortgage backed securities inventor Lewis Ranieri and hedge fund honcho Ray Dalio of $32.1 billion Bridgewater Associates.
www.bloggingstocks.com /bloggers/peter-cohan   (4620 words)

  
 President Bush slimed by Rupert Murdoch journalist
These five moral giants and outstanding pillars of the community were currency speculator George Soros, that paragon of moral virtue Hollywood mogul Stephen Bing, Progressive Insurance chairman Peter Lewis and the self-righteous — and is that an understatement — California investors Herbert and Marion Sandler.
Perhaps they’ll bear this in mind next time one of them has the gall to state that Brookes should “shut down” because they are doing a far better job.
According to this excuse for a journalist Bush’s business supporters are “barbarians” and the President is a corrupt politician who has been bought and paid for by “polluters”.
www.brookesnews.com /051306ellis.html   (1367 words)

  
 Conference Call Interview With Jon Peter Lewis - Fans Of Reality TV
Yesterday, I had the opportunity to participate in a conference call interview with Jon Peter Lewis, the latest person to leave American Idol.
Whether you like JPL or not, there's no denying that he made his mark on the show this season.
If the music, entertainment or medical industries don't want him I think he would make a great politician.
www.fansofrealitytv.com /forums/showthread.php?t=28451   (3039 words)

  
 Stop Me Before I Vote Again   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Yet another coalition of the self-agreeing enters the ongoing tournament of folly: "name that liberal." Opening shot:
As right-wing politicians and pundits call us stooges for Osama bin Laden, Tony Judt charges, in a widely discussed and heatedly debated essay in the London Review of Books, that American liberals -- without distinction -- have "acquiesced in President Bush's catastrophic foreign policy." Both claims are nonsense on stilts.
[For corporations], selection of political parties is merely a special case of rational portfolio choice under uncertainty; one holds politicians more or less as one holds stocks.
www.stopmebeforeivoteagain.org   (2309 words)

  
 Ian Hunter - The Horse's Mouth
Peter Lewis did the Hereford, Shrewsbury thing and got a pair of Steve's sticks.
It was just that, he'd done such a fabulous job on the arrangement - and on other tracks too, so I thought he should be paid more.
Peter Gruber wants me to help these chaps build houses in Portugal.
www.ianhunter.com /mouth026.shtml   (3176 words)

  
 GOP fears $420M avalanche=The Hill.com=   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Republicans fear left-leaning advocacy groups will raise up to $420 million in unregulated contributions, the kind of soft money that the 2002 McCain-Feingold law prevents the parties themselves from collecting.
While Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie questioned the legality of pledges from wealthy donors like George Soros and Peter Lewis who advocate the defeat of President Bush, Republican groups will use those high numbers to galvanize their own soft money base.
Gillespie told reporters in a conference call yesterday that he was unaware of any Republican groups that are “prepared to spend 360 to 420 million dollars [in soft money] to defeat a candidate for federal election.”
www.thehill.com /news/111803/money.aspx   (647 words)

  
 November 7 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1937 - Mary Travers, American singer (Peter, Paul and Mary)
1639 - Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour, English politician
1642 - Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester, English politician
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/November_7   (1467 words)

  
 CLIC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Compact Linear Collider, a proposed particle accelerator at CERN
Community Leadership Independence Coalition, a party formed by Peter Lewis in the 2002 South Australian legislative election.
This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/CLIC   (98 words)

  
 Wally Sparrow
In Ohio I met with the Musicians Union and as a result the Ohio Country Music Alliance was started which is a mirror image of our Council here in SA.
Politician Peter Lewis organised a stack of SA promotional packages, which I took with me and handed out to multipliers in my travels.
I ended up talking to a lot of schools.
www.saccm.com /artists/sparrow/index.htm   (1165 words)

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