John Templeton, Jr.
From SourceWatch
Dr. John M. Templeton, Jr. is the son of mutual-funds pioneer Sir John Templeton and chairman and president of the John Templeton Foundation. [1]
Contents |
Controversy
"The son of renown investor John Templeton, is in charge of the Templeton Foundation, which, last year, poured some $60 million into numerous projects broadly dedicated to 'bringing science under the guiding hand of religion.' Templeton is an evangelical Christian, and his generosity has funded a wide variety of projects dear to conservative hearts, such as the theory of 'intelligent design' and the re-election of George W. Bush. Some libertarians have also been in on the gravy train: the Cato Institute received funding for its Russian-language web site, cato.ru – and presumably to pay for the dubious services of such pro-war blowhards as Cato senior fellow Andrei Illarionov,[2] who has openly called for the West to prepare for a military conflict with Russia," Justin Raimondo wrote August 24, 2007, at Antiwar.com.[3]
Mitt Romney
Templeton "recently joined" Republican 2008 presidential candidate Mitt Romney's "National Faith and Values Steering Committee, a group that includes an antiabortion activist and a fellow from the Heritage Foundation."[4]
Freedom's Watch
Templeton, "a former trauma surgeon and a born-again Christian",[5] is one of several prominent conservatives funding Freedom's Watch, a new White House front group[6] which on August 22, 2007, began "a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign to urge members of Congress who may be wavering in their support for the war in Iraq not to 'cut and run'."[3]
Affiliations
- Trustee, Foreign Policy Research Institute
- Let Freedom Ring
- Renaissance Weekend
- Community of West and Islam Dialogue: Members
Resources
Related SourceWatch articles
- Civic Ventures (John Templeton Foundation)
- Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy (John Templeton Foundation)
- Competitive Enterprise Institute (John Templeton Foundation)
- Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (John Templeton Foundation)
- Manhattan Institute for Policy Research (John Templeton Foundation)
- Northcote Parkinson Fund (John Templeton Foundation)
- Pacific Research Institute (John Templeton Foundation)
- State of the World Forum (John Templeton Foundation)
- Washington Educational Television Association (John Templeton Foundation)
- Wheaton College (Illinois) (John Templeton Foundation)
References
- ↑ About Us: John Templeton, Jr., John Templeton Foundation, accessed August 22, 2007.
- ↑ Google search: Andrei Illarionov.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Justin Raimondo, "Home Front 'Surge'. War Party's ad campaign will boomerang," Antiwar.com, August 24, 2007.
- ↑ Barbara Ehrenreich, "John Templeton's Universe," The Nation, October 10, 2007.
- ↑ "The Devout Donor," BusinessWeek, November 28, 2005.
- ↑ "Adelson runs attack ads against Porter," Las Vegas Gleaner, August 22, 2007.
External articles
- Josh Gerstein, "Political Group Shells Out $1M To Boost Santorum's Popularity With Women," New York Sun, October 2, 2006. re Softer Voices
- John J. Miller, "Big Bucks, Big Minds, Big Hearts. The John Templeton Foundation," National Review (Templeton.org),
- Mike Allen, "Pro-Bush group spends $15M defending war," The Politico (posted by Free Republic), August 22, 2007.
External resources
- John Templeton, Jr. in the Wikipedia.
- Donors: President George W. Bush Inauguration 2001, OpenSecrets.org, updated January 25, 2001. Templeton donated $100,000.
