Meet Shrub's Million $ Donor, Univision CEO

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This was from the throwaway blurb at the end of the Yahoo story on the money behind the (not-so) swift anti-JK vets.

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040805/ap_on_el_pr/republican_donor&cid=694&ncid=1963&sid=96378798

.... The biggest known donor so far among pro-Bush groups is Jerry Perenchio, chief executive of the Spanish-language media company Univision, who gave $1 million in June to the Progress for America Voter Fund. ....

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He's one of THOSE (gives to both sides), but MORE to Shrub-CHEENEE:




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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1346/is_7_46/ai_76157787

.... After nearly 50 years as an agent, producer, studio owner, and even boxing promoter, the 70-year-old Perenchio is one of the most powerful and private moguls in Los Angeles. He was listed last year in the Forbes 400 as the 83rd richest person in America, with an estimated worth of $3.1 billion. Although Perenchio doesn't speak Spanish, he is chairman of the board, CEO, and principal stockholder of Univision, the Century City-based Spanish-language television network. Univision's 19 owned-and-operated stations, 33 affiliates, and Galavision cable network reach more than 92 percent of the nation's Hispanic households. Noticias 34, the evening news on Univision's local station, KMEX-TV, is watched by more people in Los Angeles than any other news program--English or Spanish. "Univision is already the dominant force in Spanish-language popular culture in this country," says David Diaz, assistant professor of urban and Chicano studies at Cal State Northridge. "And it is very likely to become the dominant force in Spanish-language politics as well. In the future, no candidate will be able to avoid going on Univision when looking for votes." ....

...naming the building after his old friend and neighbor Ronald Reagan. Perenchio's name almost never shows up on lists of L.A. patrons and benefactors, but, says a well-connected L.A. fund-raiser, "he always gives twice what he's asked."

Politically, he has given generously both to Republicans and Democrats over the years. Last year he contributed $435,000 to the GOP and donated $10,000 to then-state assembly speaker Antonio Villaraigosa's "Assembly Victory Fund." He also gave Gray Davis $275,000, though there was no gubernatorial election; yet Garry South, the governor's senior political adviser and top fund-raiser, claims he wouldn't know Perenchio "if he walked into this room." ....

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http://www.commoncause.org/justwatch/pioneers.cfm?mode=pioneer&pioneerID=23

.... WHAT HE GAVE:
Amount raised for Bush ’04 campaign: At least $100,000
Amount contributed to Bush-Cheney inauguration: $100,000
Amount contributed to Bush-Cheney recount: $5,000
Amounts raised as Republican Regent for Bush 2000 campaign: $506,500
Grand Total: at least $711,500

WHAT HE GOT:
On Sept. 22, 2003, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved a merger between Perenchio’s Univision and the Hispanic Broadcasting Corporation. The $3.5 billion merger will create the nation’s largest Hispanic communications company. After the news broke that the deal would be approved, Perenchio’s holdings in Univision soared by more than $145 million.

COST TO THE PUBLIC:
Less diversity of news and entertainment for consumers, further concentration in broadcast media serving Hispanics, the nation’s largest minority group and the nation’s fastest-growing group of media consumers. ....

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1. "Progress for America Voter Fund"

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http://www.factcheck.org/article.aspx?docID=209

.... PFA calls itself the "conservative 'Issue Truth Squad.'" Indeed, C. Boyden Gray, a former White House counsel for the current President's father, sits on the group's advisory board. But as we've reported before, the claims made in the ad are half-truths at best.

The statement that Kerry voted against a long list of mainstream weapons is misleading. He didn't vote against those weapons specifically, and though he did vote against the entire Pentagon budget on occasion he voted for weapons spending far more often than not. Furthermore, Republicans including Bush's father and Vice President Cheney also proposed cuts or elimination in several of the same weapons at around the same time Kerry supposedly "voted against" them. ....

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2. A Next-day, Last Kick for the Work n/t