- Gail Furman
Gail Furman is a
child psychologist and a wealthy Democratic party activist and donor.Role in Democracy Alliance
In December 2003, Furman attended a gathering in New York City put together by
Erica Payne in order to watch a screening ofRob Stein 's PowerPoint presentation, "The Conservative Message Machine Money Matrix", together withGeorge Soros ,Peter Lewis ,David Brock ,John Podesta and New Jersey governorJon Corzine . After the presentation, Furman agreed in front of the group to donate more than $25,000 to fund Stein to conduct a research project to determine "what kind of groups the Left needed to fund". [ [http://www.mattbai.com/argument-book "The Argument: Billionaires, Bloggers, and the Battle to Remake Democratic Politics" p. 37] ]At the second meeting of the
Democracy Alliance in October 2005, Furman "demanded to know why the alliance wasn't creating a 'nerve center' that could book progressives on TV news shows". [ [http://www.mattbai.com/argument-book op cit, p. 118-119] ]Furman is a donor to
Media Matters . [ [http://patdollard.com/2007/10/04/once-a-liar-always-a-liar-media-matters-brock-has-zero-credibility/ "Once a liar, always a liar"] ]External links
* [http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?zip=10021&last=FURMAN&first=GAIL Federal campaign contributions]
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