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Taco Bell is owned by Yum! Brands Inc. They where previous division of PepsiCo. They also own several other fast food chains in America and abroad, such as KFC, Long John Silvers, Pizza Hut, A&W. and Taco Bell.

George Soros owns 398884 shares of YUM at a cost basis of $36.83 per share.

Rob McKay, president of the McKay Family Foundation, is the chairman of the Democratic Alliance. He was elected at the group’s July 2006 meeting in Boulder, Colorado. Heir to the Taco Bell fortune, the 42 year-old McKay is also a director of Vanguard Public Foundation, co-chairman of Mother Jones magazine, a board member of the Ms. Foundation for Women, and a blogger on the Huffington Post website…

(So here we have a man that is involved with Taco Bell, Mother Jones Magazine, Ms. Foundation for Women and the Huffington Post website.)

But that not the only thing he's involved with...

Not only is McKay the chairman of the Democratic Alliance, he was one of the top 4 donors to the Democratic Alliance.

History of the Democratic Alliance:

Determined to bring the Democratic Party back from the political wilderness after the 2004 election, Soros and the others decided they needed a long-term strategy to regain power. Former Clinton official Rob Stein urged them to copy conservatives who had spent four decades investing in ideas and institutions with staying power. Over the next year Stein would become well-known for a PowerPoint presentation called “The Conservative Message Machine’s Money Matrix.”

He used graphs and charts to show how the conservative movement was comprised of an intricate network of organizations, funders and activists. Stein’s presentation was apparently convincing. In 2005 the Democracy Alliance was born. It was an odd name for a loose collection of superrich donors committed to building organizations that would propel America to the left.

In April 2005, Soros gathered together an even larger group. Seventy millionaires and billionaires met in Phoenix, Arizona, to firm up the details for their fledging political financing clearinghouse. The attendees heard presentations on why all the pro-Democratic Party 527 groups on which they lavished millions of dollars failed to deliver the election to Kerry. But now they had a new strategy to make a difference.

Finances

To join the Democracy Alliance, there is one requirement: You must be rich. Members, who are called “partners,” pay an initial $25,000 fee and $30,000 in yearly dues. They also must pledge to give at least $200,000 annually to groups that Democracy Alliance endorses.

Partners meet two times a year in committees to decide on grants, which focus on four areas: media, ideas, leadership, and civic engagement. Recommendations are then made to the DA board, which passes them on to all DA partners. The Alliance discourages partners from discussing DA affairs with the media and it requires its grant recipients to sign nondisclosure agreements.

We can identify a number of left-wing groups that have gone through the DA’s vetting process and received funding. Some grant amounts have been reported in the press but there is no official tally.

*Media Matters for America: Former conservative journalist David Brock’s group claims to expose right-wing news bias. The Internet-based media watchdog, launched in May 2004, describes itself as “a Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.”

*Center for American Progress: Former Clinton White House chief of staff John Podesta heads the think tank that received $5 million from the DA. The organization aspires to be the Heritage Foundation of the left. Spinoffs include Campus Progress and the Center for American Progress Action Fund, a 501(c)(4) lobby group. The Action Fund’s “Kick the Oil Habit” campaign is led by actor-environmentalist Robert Redford.

*Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW): This Soros-funded group sees itself as a left-wing version of Judicial Watch, the conservative legal group that filed a barrage of lawsuits against the Clinton administration in the 1990s.CREW executive director Melanie Sloan is a former U.S. Attorney and Democratic counsel for the House Judiciary Committee….

*Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN): ACORN is a radical activist group active in housing programs and “living wage” campaigns in inner cities neighborhoods in more than 75 U.S. cities. In recent years it has been implicated in a number of fraudulent voter-registration schemes.

*EMILY’s List: While the political action committee boasts that it is “the nation’s largest grassroots political network,” it is essentially a fundraising vehicle for pro-abortion rights female political candidates…

*America Votes: Another get-out-the-vote 527 organization, it is headed by Maggie Fox, a former deputy executive director of the Sierra Club. The group received a $6 million funding commitment from George Soros despite the billionaire’s protestations that he has turned his back on political campaigns.

*Air America: The struggling left-wing talk radio network filed for bankruptcy protection on October 13 after it reportedly had received a funding commitment of at least $8 million from the Alliance. The network touted by comedian Al Franken is said to have lost an astounding $41 million since 2004. Longtime radio executive Scott Elberg is Air America’s chief executive officer. The network’s headliners include TV sleaze merchant Jerry Springer.

*Center for Community Change: This longtime group dedicated to defending welfare entitlements and leftist anti-poverty programs was founded in 1968. Activist Deepak Bhargava is its executive director.

*US Action: This group works closely with organized labor. It is the successor to Citizen Action, the activist group discredited by its involvement in the money-laundering scandal to re-elect Teamsters president Ron Carey in the late 1990s.

*Data Warehouse: This group was created by Clinton aide Harold Ickes and Democratic operative Laura Quinn. Ickes is critical of the Democratic National Committee under chairman Howard Dean and aims to create a sophisticated get-out-the-vote operation that rivals the Republican Party’s. Ickes proposes to build detailed voter lists that will be made available to Democratic Party candidates, and also to advocacy groups. According to a report in the Washington Post, George Soros put $11 million at Ickes’s disposal because he distrusts Howard Dean.