Betty "Steppy" Casey survives car bomb. Will Rush Limbaugh survive Betty?
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them.
Has there been any verification that ebay received the $2.1 million
from the $294 million Casey foundation? As Trustee, Betty Brown
Casey, can do pretty much as she wants with the foundation grants,
gifts, salaries et al. $2.1 million is minor for Betty. I heard
Limbaugh would present her purchase in a special Halliburton case,
including signed memorability. Ebay wants payment in 3 days. Where can
I see the ceremony? Why was it not mentioned?
James Kallstrom is chairman of the $29 million Marine Corps-Law
Enforcement Foundation. Rush Limbaugh is on the board. That can mean
any number of things, it's internal business. How many on the board
and who? The claim is it's not political. The chairman is in charge,
but there's no way to know how things go down in a board room, how
much operating expenses et al. These multi multi millions don't just
sit in limbo.
Betty Brown Casey as trustee, and sole operator of the Casey
foundation, never mentioned her "charity" was about children. Her
statement:
"The Eugene B. Casey Foundation believes freedom of speech is a basic
right of every citizen of this country. Their purchase of the smear
letter was to demonstrate their belief in this right and to support
Rush Limbaugh, his views and his continued education of us."
I know Limbaugh made claims, but they were embellished, inaccurate and
prevarication. The winning letter was not a smear or to stifle
Limbaugh's free speech. Casey is in her 80's, she was bamboozled,
however willingly. She's rather recluse, does anyone know how well her
mind actually is? Eldery people can sign papers and not have all their
wits. She has quiet a past, if there are any script writers... a
hilarious movie.
"To judge by the recipients of her generosity, the privacy-minded
Casey doesn't think much of the public sector anyway. Casey's
foundation funds a number of libertarian think tanks, organizations
that, broadly speaking, consider government to be a mortal threat to
personal freedom."
She takes on projects that don't always work out.
"In going about her business, Casey often governs by whim. One day she
wants to remake downtown; the next, she wants to re-create Camelot.
But in staying away from the media and other public contact, she shows
little relish for the nitty-gritty of running a prominent
philanthropy."
This February 13, 2004 piece about Betty is a window into her life,
including how her Mercedes saved her life after a car bomb explosion.
https://secure.washingtoncitypaper.com/cgi-bin/Archive/abridged2.bat?path=q:%5CDocRoot/2004/040213/CASEY
She didn't care much for old Gene's children and grandchildren. After
he signed things over to her, Eugene Jr. got the boot . Dad had
groomed him to take on the business. All the accusations from the
family "....maintained that Betty had manipulated the family
patriarch into cutting off his bloodline. It was this titanic legal
battle that committed details of Betty Casey's relationship with her
husband to the public record."
Another sideline to all this is the oddity of Clear Channel giving The
Boss, Born In The U.S.A., the axe, on his new songs and
"Clear Channel seems to have sent a clear message to other radio
outlets that at age 58, Springsteen simply is too old to be played on
rock stations." WTF!! and there's Betty "The Eugene B. Casey
Foundation believes freedom of speech is a basic right of every
citizen of this country."... not mentioning she donated for the
orhans at all.
Bruce: Magic Refused Radio Play (scroll down past Britney)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,306164,00.html
EXCERPTS from the Washington City Paper February 13, 2004"
When she submitted to the strictures of marriage with Gene Casey,
Betty Casey gave up her career in social work. The homemaker role she
sank into was old-fashioned even by '50s standards. Gene boasted to
friends that he made 95 percent of the decisions in the household. He
kept her on a meager allowance. Not until his health failed in the
early '80s, 30 years later, did she resume a measure of independence.
But not even then, when she assumed titular control of Casey
enterprises, was she following her own instincts. "[M]y husband didn't
ask me," Betty later said of her promotion from housewife to
executive, "he told me I had to come into the business."
Betty Casey, who was in her mid-50s at the time, had no previous
business experience. Eugene S. Casey, Gene's oldest son, ran the
company's property-management and real-estate activities, and expected
to take over for his father one day......
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Casey, who is 76 years old, lives on 6 acres in Potomac, Md., at the
end of a street lined with stately neocolonials. Sullivan says her
house "is in an ordinary neighborhood of nice homes that don't show
any sign of the fact that she is wealthy." But in fact the home is
ordinary only when compared with the cardboard castles and horse farms
of Potomac. It's a 7,000-square-foot mansion. Casey calls it
Creekside. It may be the only property in the subdivision that bears
"No Trespassing" signs.
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"I was surprised when she gave the gift [of the mansion], given her
feelings about government in general and the District of Columbia
government in particular," says Eugene S. Casey, Betty Casey's
estranged stepson. "I wasn't surprised when she took it back."
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"Today, Casey not only oversees the business, but she almost single-
handedly runs the charitable foundation..."
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"Unlike many other organizations that give away as much-between $7
million and $50 million annually-the Casey Foundation has no paid
staff. Casey keeps it simple. She gives to three dozen charities a year
-mostly causes she has supported in the past."
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"Gene married Betty, his third wife, in 1955. In the years before his
death, in 1986, Gene Casey handed over control of the business to
Betty and gifted her half his estate. Most of the half he was going to
give to his children from his previous marriages he instead willed to
the Eugene B. Casey Foundation. He named Betty, who was childless, the
foundation's sole controlling trustee."
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"She gives to hospitals, hospices, colleges, and private schools.
There's the Eugene B. Casey Diabetes Education Center at Suburban
Hospital. The Eugene B. Casey Swim Center and the Eugene B. Casey
Academic Center at Washington College on Maryland's Eastern Shore. The
Casey Home hospice in Rockville. Casey has also donated tens of
millions from the foundation and her personal funds to the Washington
Opera, which honored her with philanthropy's ultimate title: lifetime
chairman."
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"Casey never spoke with the media about the plan. Nor did she discuss
it at any public forum. The shy, demure Casey is well-insulated, even
within the cocoon that is high society. She shuns publicity in all its
forms. You will never find her name inscribed in a wall-the buildings
she has funded all bear the name of her late husband. She virtually
flees from reporters and declines interview requests even for the puff
pieces that follow her biggest donations. (She also declined to be
interviewed for this article.) If Casey has something to say, her
attorney will say it."
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"To judge by the recipients of her generosity, the privacy-minded
Casey doesn't think much of the public sector anyway. Casey's
foundation funds a number of libertarian think tanks, organizations
that, broadly speaking, consider government to be a mortal threat to
personal freedom."
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The price of consensus is individual creativity. Taxation is
comparable to theft. Affirmative action holds people down. "Freedom
and choice do not threaten women," claims ifeminist.com, a libertarian
feminist group Casey supports. "Government and orthodoxy do." The only
political campaign Casey seems to have put any heart into in the last
14 years was the failed effort to keep Hillary Clinton-pigeonholed as
the matron of many-tentacled government-out of the U.S. Senate.
"I was surprised when she gave the gift [of the mansion], given her
feelings about government in general and the District of Columbia
government in particular," says Eugene S. Casey, Betty Casey's
estranged stepson. "I wasn't surprised when she took it back."
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"In going about her business, Casey often governs by whim. One day she
wants to remake downtown; the next, she wants to re-create Camelot.
But in staying away from the media and other public contact, she shows
little relish for the nitty-gritty of running a prominent
philanthropy."
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The transition into wealth wasn't easy. In 1992, 10 of Gene Casey's 11
grandchildren sued Betty Casey, motivated in part by what they
perceived as bad treatment of Eugene S. Casey. With the support of
their parents, the grandchildren claimed that Betty had exploited her
sick husband's failing health. "Steppy," as Gene Casey's grandchildren
knew her, had given each of their parents $1 million tax-free on top
of the $1 million Gene Casey had willed them. But that didn't appease
the young heirs (and some of their parents), who maintained that Betty
had manipulated the family patriarch into cutting off his bloodline.
It was this titanic legal battle that committed details of Betty
Casey's relationship with her husband to the public record. To try the
case, Betty hired Sullivan, the renowned litigator who had represented
Oliver North during the Iran-contra hearings. Sullivan's strategy was
to play up Betty's meekness and Gene's orneriness.
A videotaped 1993 deposition shows Betty Casey in all her low-key
diffidence. But we can hardly hear her. She wears a fruit-print dress
and large round sunglasses, and cordially responds to the opposing
attorney with "Mister." She won the case.
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Who are these snakes?
Auction of Limbaugh letter raises $2.1 million
http://www.mysanantonio.com/business/stories/MYSA102007.02D.rush.2b34ea2.html
Sean M. Wood
Express-News Business Writer
10/19/2007 10:01 PM CDT
"The letter was addressed to Clear Channel Chief Executive Mark Mays
http://www.clearchannel.com/
and signed by senators including Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama,
John Kerry and Barbara Boxer."
"The proceeds of the sale, along with a matching amount donated by
Limbaugh, will go to the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation.
Limbaugh serves on the board of the organization, which provides
financial support to the children of fallen Marines and federal law
enforcement officers."
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