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viguerie's PAC Launches Grassroots Ad Campaign Branding McAuliffe and Virginia Democrats as Radical Socialists

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MANASSAS, Va., Oct. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- FedUp PAC distributed more than 500,000 postcards and talking point flyers have been distributed via postal and email to conservative activists, to be copied and sent to millions of Virginia voters in the last weeks of the November 2nd election campaign.

In the final week of the campaign, FedUp PAC is contacting 100,000 Virginia grassroots conservatives with postcards and talking point flyers to make more copies and circulate to their family, friends, neighbors, co-workers, and fellow church members, which will reach most Virginia voters.

FedUp PAC's postcard sent to thousands of voters in Virginia ahead of the gubernatorial election November 2.

"All year, I have predicted a huge win for Glenn Youngkin in Virginia," said FedUp PAC Chairman Richard Viguerie. "I would not be surprised if the final vote revealed a 55-45% Youngkin victory. That would spell a 2022 Virginia House of Delegates with 60+ GOP members. The McAuliffe campaign is simply facing a perfect storm." With collapsing support for President Biden and national Democrats, sky-high Republican enthusiasm, Youngkin and his campaign team's nearly flawless race, and McAuliffe contracting a serious case of self-inflicted socialist foot-and-mouth disease,all signs point to a landslide victory on November 2 for Youngkin. This new political reality puts serious wind into the conservative sails ahead of 2022 midterm campaign plans.

For more information, call Bob Mills at (703) 392-7676 or visit www.FedUpPAC.org to see the copyright-free election materials.

RICHARD A. VIGUERIE transformed American politics in the 1960s and '70s by pioneering the use of direct mail as a means for conservatives to bypass the mainstream media. He serves as the chairman of American Target Advertising, a 75-person direct marketing firm that mailed 139,000,000 postal letters in 2020, and of www.ConservativeHQ.com. Author of a number of books on politics and the conservative movement, Viguerie's latest book is TAKEOVER. Mr. Viguerie is the Founder and Chairman of FedUp PAC.

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back in the 1960s, conservatives - whether political candidates, policy groups, or activist organizations - had no way to get their message past the filter of the liberal mainstream media and into the hands of the American people.

Back in the 1960s, conservatives - whether political candidates, policy groups, or activist organizations - had no way to get their message past the filter of the liberal mainstream media and into the hands of the American people.

At that time young conservative activist Richard Viguerie discovered that political candidates had to register their campaign donors with state offices ⎯ information that was in the public domain. Collecting those names and addresses by hand, state-by-state, was the beginning of what is now the largest list of active charitable and conservative donors in the world: Viguerie Political Lists.

Starting in 1965, Richard Viguerie grew his list from 12,500 conservative donors to 125,000 – a 1,000% increase – in just one year. Before long, Viguerie’s direct mail agency and lists enabled conservatives to bypass the mainstream media and connect with tens of millions of Americans on a “personal level” regarding issues they cared passionately about.

Viguerie’s “secret weapon” soon had a major role in reshaping America’s political landscape.

As Viguerie’s lists continued to grow, they helped trigger major political upset wins for conservatives⎯most famously the 1980 Reagan Revolution, along with the 1994 conservative sweep of Congress, and the 2010 “shellacking” of the Obama administration and Reid/Pelosi Congress.

Through his direct marketing agency, American Target Advertising, Inc., Viguerie was not only the first in political direct mail fundraising, but is still the proven leader at building large organizations rapidly.

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Today is April 15: Tax Day – the day many Americans account for a big chunk of their earnings going to state and federal governments – and the first year Obamacare is a part of filing a tax return.

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Seniors Coalition (TSC) is a front group founded with the support of right-wing direct mail specialist Richard Viguerie, financed by the pharmaceutical industry and which was once investigated by the New York State attorney general's office for participating in a "pattern of fraud and abuse."^[1]

Overview

The Seniors Coalition was formed in 1990 by Viguerie and Dan C. Alexander, a Mobile, Ala., school board official who had been convicted of extorting kickbacks on school construction projects and later served four years of a 12-year prison term. For some of the time Alexander was in prison, he and his wife drew $23,000 a month in “consulting” fees from the Seniors Coalition while their teenage daughter served as its president.^[2] According to the Progressive Populist, "the Seniors Coalition is one of three 'seniors' groups -- the others are the 60 Plus Association and the United Seniors Association -- started with help from Richard Viguerie, the right-wing direct-mail king."^[3] People's Weekly World writes that although TSC is the "most dangerous," "given that they all rely on the computer-based mailings of Viguerie, each can send off hundreds of thousands of pieces of mail to support this or that demand."^[4]

According to its website, the Seniors Coalition (TSC) was "founded as a public advocacy group during the fight to repeal the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act in 1989." It goes on to say that TSC "is the nation’s leading free-market senior education and advocacy organization with a membership of more than 4 million seniors. The mission of The Seniors Coalition (TSC) is to protect the quality of life and economic well-being that older Americans have earned while supporting common sense solutions to the challenges of the future. To that end, TSC and its spokesperson, Grandma Green, lobby government at both the federal and state level. Furthermore, Grandma Green periodically travels the country in her RV, the StraightTalk Express, to inform senior citizens on current issues and to listen to their concerns."^[5]

Although TSC says that it has four million supporters, "the AARP found that as of 2001 TSC didn't list any revenue from membership dues on its tax return," and as of 2001, "65% of The Seniors Coalition funds [were] spent on fundraising appeals, and a further 16% of expenses were incurred in direct lobbying of officials." Instead, "TSC, investigated by Congress in 1992 for mail fraud, is funded by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America. Indeed, in a campaign contribution made June 12, 2003, Thomas Moore identifies himself as the Director of Federal Affairs for PhRMA, but is identified as Director of Operations for The Seniors Coalition on TSC's website. Moore also attended a press conference of Wisconsin Governor Scott McCallum as a representative of PhRMA on January 31, 2002."^[6]

The official website writes that, "TSC has been a consistent and strong advocate for the passage of the prescription drug benefit contained in the Medicare Modernization Act; promotes real medical liability reforms; supports passage of an asbestos trust fund to provide compensation to those truly sick; advocates protections in telecommunications to minimize taxes and surcharges to wireless phone products for seniors; and strongly works to protect the value of the existing Medicare benefit package for seniors" and calls itself "the responsible alternative to AARP."^[5]

Sites linked to

Besides some U.S. government sites, their link page links to: ^[7]

Generations Together, a business-funded group that promotes Social Security privatization
Heritage Foundation, a right-wing think tank
FreedomWorks, described on Alternet as the Wall Street front group that helped launch the Tea Party Movement
Citizens Against Government Waste, a group that has campaigned on behalf of the tobacco industry and in favor of Microsoft and against open source software

Board of Directors

As of 2010:^[8]

Joanne T. Leon, Chairman, Mobile, Alabama
Joseph L. Bridges, President & Chief Executive Officer, Hartville, Ohio
Joel C. Harris, Mobile, Alabama

Lobbying

Seniors Coalition spent $9,459,355 for lobbying in 2002 to attain legislation that the group desired. ^[9]

Contact details

1250 Connecticut Avenue

N.W., Suite 200

Washington, D.C. 20036

Phone: (202) 261-3594

Email: tsc AT senior.org

Web: http://www.senior.org

Resources

References

↑ The "1995 Lobbying Hall of Shame," Multinational Monitor, January/February 2006.
↑ "Drug industry-financed Seniors Coalition mails warning against imported prescription drugs," Business World, June 18, 2003.
↑ "For Whom Are They Balancing the Budget," Molly Ivins, The Progressive Populist, 1995.
↑ "The Nation's Health and Worker's Safety Seniors: focal point of struggle," People's Weekly World, March 25, 1995.
↑ ^Jump ^up ^to:5.0 ^5.1 "About The Seniors Coalition," Official TSC Website.
↑ "Blog Posting," Irregular Times, November 25, 2003.
↑ Sites they link to, The Seniors Coalition, accessed October 2010.
↑ Board of Directors, The Seniors Coalition, accessed October 2010.
↑ Seniors Coalition lobbying expenses, Open Secrets, accessed October 2010.

External articles

"Seniors' Coalition Applauds Personal Account Provisions Recommended by Bush Social Security Panel", SeniorJournal.com, December 11, 2001.
Michael Scherer, "The Artful Codger: Trashing the AARP with Grandma Green", Mother Jones, July/August 2005.

External resources

Profile of TSC, Public Citizen, accessed October 2010.

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On July 27, a dozen physicians posed in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., dressed in white lab coats with “America’s Frontline Doctors” stitched over the pocket. The group’s chief spokesperson was Dr. Simone Gold, an emergency physician from Los Angeles. They were introduced by Jenny Beth Martin, the founding CEO of Tea Party Patriots, as participants in the “White Coat Summit.” The doctors made spirited arguments for the use of hydroxychloroquine as a “cure” for Covid-19 and against wearing masks and imposing lockdowns—all running counter to the recommendations of Dr. Anthony Fauci and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.[[1]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn1)

Although the event was billed as a “press conference,” few journalists attended. A video posted by a bystander showed only a handful of attendees, most of them dressed in tourists’ shorts and T-shirts. But the event was livestreamed by Breitbart News and quickly went (so to speak) viral.

There was a rapid backlash. Much of the media attention focused onDr. Stella Immanuel, one of Gold’s cohort. Following the press conference, the Daily Beast posted a video of Immanuel, who is also a Pentecostal preacher, delivering a sermon claiming that various female ailments were caused by sexual visitations from “demons.”

Immanuel has since disappeared from the America’s Frontline Doctors online roster, but the group has continued to get traction. On August 10, Pat Robertson’s show on the Christian Broadcasting Network carried an interview with Simone Gold and an endorsement of her hydroxychloroquine cure.On August 21, Alex Jones’s NewsWars carried an interview with another member of America’s Frontline Doctors, Mark McDonald. McDonald—a child psychiatrist—maintained, “If all Americans had access to hydroxychloroquine, the pandemic would essentially end in about 30 days.”

Science has shown otherwise. Despite early hopes last spring, there is mounting evidence that hydroxychloroquine is a problematic—and even dangerous—treatment for Covid-19. One expert with firsthand knowledge is Nick Sawyer, an academic emergency physician in Sacramento, Calif. In July he wrote an article for Lifeline, the publication of the California chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians, describing his harrowing two weeks of service in the Covid wards of Elmhurst Hospital in Queens. Sawyer was part of a team of California doctors dispatched by Governor Gavin Newsome to offer emergency assistance at the epicenter of the epidemic, at the height of the New York City outbreak.

Sawyer is now dealing with the spike in cases in California, this time with the benefit of four months of additional Covid research. “The science on the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine in treating Covid-19 is settled—multiple high-quality studies have shown that it shows no benefit,” he notes. Far more concerning, Sawyer says, is its potential harm: “Hydroxychloroquine can cause unstable cardiac arrhythmias, cardiac arrest and sudden cardiac death.” Over recent months, the Food and Drug Administration, the American Medical Association, and other organizations have issued warnings that the drug should be withdrawn as a Covid-19 treatment. “It’s irresponsible for America’s Frontline Doctors to continue to push this medication on the unwitting American population,” Sawyer states.

Why, then, would Gold’s band of physicians continue its campaign to pitch the treatment to the public? Simone Gold has repeatedly described her group as a “grassroots organization” acting in the service of its patients.[[2]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn2) In fact, it has been a highly orchestrated effort, months in the making, assembled by conservative Washington insiders in direct consultation with the White House, with the goal of reopening the economy in time to benefit Trump’s reelection prospects—regardless of the toll in human lives.

The first public mention of the initiative may have been a Washington Post story on April 13, as the virus raged across New York City and Covid-19 deaths passed the 20,000 mark.[[3]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn3) The Post reported the creation of a new conservative coalition “pushing for the White House and GOP lawmakers to push back against health professionals who have urged more caution.” The leadership was listed as Stephen Moore of the Heritage Foundation, Adam Brandon of FreedomWorks, and Lisa Nelson of the American Legislative Exchange Council. A fourth individual, Jenny Beth Martin, is the founding director of the Tea Party Patriots. She would play a key role in organizing the events to come, including the doctors’ Washington “summit” in July.

Brandon, Nelson, and Martin are all prominent members of a secretive organization called the Council for National Policy,a shadowy coalition that coordinates initiatives among conservative megadonors, political operatives, and media owners, many of them Christian fundamentalists (see “Holding Democracy Hostage”).

The Post story quoted an interview with Richard Viguerie, a co-founder of the CNP, on the mission of the initiative: “The sooner we get the economy going and back up, the better it’s going to be for conservatives and Republicans in this election year. . . . Conservatives feel the government has overreacted, and it’s got to end.”[[4]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn4)

The new coalition, called Save Our Country, officially debuted on April 27, as U.S. Covid deaths approached 55,000.[[5]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn5) Headed by economist Art Laffer, its maiden press release featured quotes from Brandon, Nelson, and Martin. “The long-term consequences of a prolonged societal shutdown outweigh the damage done by the virus itself,” Martin stated. “We must immediately reopen the economy.”[[6]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn6) Earlier that week, The New York Times reported that the Save Our Country coalition’s members were mobilizing their networks for state-level rallies, filing lawsuits, and commissioning polls, all to counter the lockdowns: “Nonprofit groups including FreedomWorks and Tea Party Patriots have used their social media accounts and text and email lists to spread the word about protests across the country.”[[7]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn7)

But the state-level protests turned out to be of limited utility, and the group began to look for new avenues. In April, CNP Action, the lobbying arm of the CNP, began a series of weekly conference calls to discuss Covid strategy. On May 11—as U.S. Covid deaths reached 74,270[[8]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn8)—one of the calls was intercepted and published by the Center for Media and Democracy and the Associated Press.

Among the participants were CNP President William Walton, CNP member Nancy Schulze,[[9]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn9) and Mercedes Schlapp, a senior adviser to the Trump campaign. Schulze, the wife of former nine-term Pennsylvania Republican Congressman Dick Schulze, opened the call with a warning that two-thirds of the American people were wary of reopening the economy. But, she added, “Doctors are seen by the American people—they have a 92 percent trust rate with the American people according to polling. . . . There is a coalition of doctors, doctors’ coalition, who are extremely pro-Trump, that have been preparing and coming together for the war ahead in the campaign on health care, andthese doctors could be activated for this conversation now for reopening. NOTE RWI NICHE SLEEPER CELLS]

“The one thing the left does give credence to, in that they tend to be motivated by a secular worldview, the one thing that they do appreciate and listen to is science, and we have doctors that have the facts, that lived this themselves, that are in the trenches, that are saying it’s time to reopen,” Schulze continued. “I’ve been working with them for three years. There’s a coalition of doctors . . . including the most respected doctors in this country, that are ready to speak if somebody will just call on them.”

Walton told her, “We need to not just make the economic argument,we need to make the health argument, and we need doctors to make that argument, not us. THIRD PARTY TOBACCO PR BS And so that would be great if you, if we could tee that up.”

Schulze said she’d be happy to put him in touch “with any and all of these doctors, and I have submitted 27 of these doctors’ names to the campaign for the doctors’ coalition that they’re in the process of building.”

Mercedes Schlapp asked Schulze if she had spoken with Hannah Castillo, director of coalitions for the Trump campaign.“I know they’ve been working on building that coalition. I know they’re going through the vetting process right now. As long as you have the names, that would be helpful. . . . Those are the type of guys we want to get out on TV and radio to help push out the message.”

Schulze replied, “I’ve been working with Hannah for over six weeks now, so they already have been vetted. But they need to be put on the screen.”[[10]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn10)

Dr. Simone Gold, a 54-year-old emergency physician from Los Angeles, was ready for her close-up. On April 22, Gold had tweeted a stand-up of herself wearing a white “Emergency Dept.” coat, in front of Los Angeles’ Cedars-Sinai hospital emergency room, suggesting that concerns over the virus were inflated. She pointed out that the hospital “parking lots are empty, the emergency department volume is down, the patient census is down, and that’s really in most of the areas I’ve been to.”[[11]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn11)

On May 7, she brought a more explicit anti-lockdown message to a program on the Whiskey Politics show on Salem Radio, part of the massive Salem Media conglomerate owned by two leading members of the Council for National Policy.[[12]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn12) It was headlined “DR. SIMONE GOLD GOES PUBLIC! What the Government WON’T Tell Us About COVID-19.”

“It’s not at all clear that overall, that social distancing is going to make a huge impact,” Gold said.[[13]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn13) “We’re all acting like as though there’s a huge medical crisis. There’s a medical issue, we should handle it responsibly, but what’s going on in our country now is a terrible legal crisis. Our constitutional rights are being trampled on right and left.”[[14]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn14) Gold later added, “There’s always viruses . . . but I’m not sure that it’s front-page news.”[[15]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn15)

The Guardian reported that over the same period, the Save Our Country coalition spent $50,000 on videos on social media platforms “targeting independents and Republicans with the message that Covid-19 mostly hits the elderly to minimize risks for others.”[16] GUK

On May 19—as U.S. Covid deaths reached 84,640[[17]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn17)—the CNP’s doctors coalition (billed as “A Doctor A Day”) made its debut with an open letter to Donald Trump signed by “500+ doctors” (a number that was later revised to over 800). “In medical terms, the shutdown was a mass casualty incident,” it stated. “It is impossible to overstate the short, medium, and long-term harm to people’s health with a continued shutdown.” The lead signatory was Dr. Simone Gold.

On June 16—with U.S. Covid deaths approaching 110,000[[18]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn18) and the U.S. economy in freefall—the Save Our Country coalition published an open letter to President Trump and Leader McConnell, urging “that the multi-trillions of dollars of federal government debt spending in the wake of the Coronavirus come to a stop.”[[19]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn19) Twelve of the 20 signatories (among them Brandon, Nelson, and Martin) were members of the CNP, including CNP President William Walton and Executive Director Bob McEwen.

The push to reopen the schools became a full-court press. On July 7, Trump assembled a White House meeting on the subject. Jenny Beth Martin spoke as both the CEO of Tea Party Patriots and “as a mom.”

“Mr. President, you were right, and I hope you will trust your instincts,” she told Trump. “America is not meant to be shut down. And we have to reopen schools this fall. I’ve been in touch with almost a thousand doctors from around the country. I helped Dr. Simone Gold spearhead a letter to you signed by 800 physicians and surgeons who talked about the side effects of the lockdowns. I’ve done a second letter with over 150 doctors, 240 nurses, 330 educators, 70 national groups, and thousands of parents and concerned Americans who want to see schools reopened.”

A video of Martin’s statement appeared, billed as “Mom Gives Unexpected Speech Directly to Trump” without naming her or her affiliation. It was posted on various social media platforms, including Glenn Beck’s YouTube channel, The Blaze (where it clocked over 400,000 views as of August 4).[[20]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn20)

Dr. Simone Gold was now preparing to join Jenny Beth Martin on center stage. On July 22, Gold warmed up for her appearance on The Charlie Kirk Show, with over 157,000 YouTube subscribers. Kirk, a member of the Council for National Policy, heads a group called Turning Point USA, which recruits right-wing campus activists. (Donald Trump addressed its Youth Action Summit last December, and Donald Trump Jr. is quoted on its website stating, “I’m convinced that the work by Turning Point USA and Charlie Kirk will win back the future of America.”)[[21]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn21)

The introduction for Kirk’s show summed up the case Gold and her colleagues would make over the coming weeks: “Charlie is joined in studio by board-certified emergency physician Dr. Simon [sic] Gold, who says nearly everything we’ve been told about the Chinese Coronavirus is a lie.She and Charlie take a deep dive into the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine and why the U.S. government is barring physicians from prescribing the drug—endangering potentially 100,000 lives, at least. Charlie also takes on Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx, asking if Dr. Gold challenges the effectiveness of wearing masks. Dr. Gold makes a stunning and factual assertion about the death rates and who exactly is to blame for what she believes is one of the biggest lies ever perpetrated against the American people.” [[22]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn22)

Gold’s “stunning assertion” was the often-repeated claim that doctors were falsifying death certificates, speculating without foundation that they were inflating Covid-19 cases by “20 to 30 percent.”[[23]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn23) Gold also asserted, “Masks are really foolish, they don’t do anything. . . . There’s zero scientific justification for the mask.”[[24]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn24)

Jenny Beth Martin emphasized a social media campaign from the start. Her Tea Party Patriots website posted the program of the White Coat Summit, offering the participating doctors a two-hour session devoted to expanding their social media reach: “YouTube and other social media vastly exceed television news as the information source for most Americans. Interviews and Q/A with social media personalities with large followers is the best way to talk to Americans. Doctors who want to answer questions from these modern journalists will have the opportunity.”

By the time Jenny Beth Martin hosted Gold’s White Coat Summit on July 27, U.S. Covid-19 deaths had skyrocketed to over 136,000.[[25]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn25) The physicians’ presentation carried a lethal stew of misinformation. Dr. Bob Hamilton, a pediatrician from Santa Monica, assured viewers, “Children are not passing [the virus] on to their parents or their teachers.” (A few days later, the CDC released a report on a massive transmission event in June at a Georgia summer camp, with a median age of 12.[[26]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn26))

Dr. Richard Urso—an ophthalmologist—praised hydroxychloroquine as a “cure” for the virus,but it was not clear that Urso had ever had any significant experience treating Covid-19 patients. Another speaker was Dr. Daniel Erickson, a Bakersfield physician who co-owns an urgent care facility. In April he had been censured by the American College of Emergency Physicians and the American Academy of Emergency Medicine for his “reckless and untested musings” opposing stay-at-home orders and promoting the conspiracy theory about doctors misattributing deaths to Covid-19.[[27]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn27)

The social media strategy paid off. Gold and her colleagues’ video, livestreamed on Breitbart News, reportedly reached 185,000 concurrent users.[[28]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn28) The New York Times’ Kevin Roose reported that over its six hours on Facebook, it was the second-most-engaged post on the platform, with 14 million views.[[29]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn29) (The audiences for network news broadcasts, by comparison, range from 9 to 12 million.) A few hours after the presentation, President Trump tweeted the video to his 84.5 million followers.Donald Trump Jr. told his 5.3 million Twitter followers, “This video is a much [sic] watch!!! So different from the narrative everyone is running with.”[[30]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn30) Trump redoubled his support at his press conference the following day, stating “I think they’re very respected doctors.”[[31]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn31)

But major social media platforms reacted with relative speed. Facebook took the group’s video down a few hours after it was posted, and Twitter and YouTube followed suit, all three on the grounds that the video violated their Covid-19 misinformation policies.[[32]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn32) Twitter took the unusual step of suspending Trump Jr.’s account for 12 hours.

Gold had built the original America’s Frontline Doctors website on a SquareSpace platform, but SquareSpace took it down. Gold rebuilt the website (omitting Stella Immanuel of “demon sperm” renown) and started raising money through PayPal and fundly.com. The doctors’ program also remained on the Tea Party Patriots site.

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project Veritas, the organization created by the controversial videographer James O’Keefe, has received charity status from the Internal Revenue Service.

Members of Mr. O’Keefe’s group applied for nonprofit status for Project Veritas in August 2010 to help raise money to pay for its hidden-camera exposés of groups like NPR and Acorn that it believes are dishonest. Its videos of NPR led the chief executive and chief fund raiser to leave their jobs within days of their release,

The IRS approved their application for tax-exempt status in April, according to documents from the tax agency. Donors who choose to give money to Project Veritas are now eligible to deduct the value of their donations on their federal income taxes.

With its tax-exempt status now in hand, Mr. O’Keefe’s group plans to expand its work in part by training people to expose misconduct and corruption in their hometowns.

“We’re pleased that Project Veritas’s nonprofit status has been approved,” Mr. O’Keefe told The Chronicle in an e-mail message. “Ournonpartisan mission of exposing corruption while training new, investigative journalists can now be fully supported by donors who require a tax-exemption for their generous contributions.”

Expects to Grow

The scope of Project Veritas’s work will largely rest on how much money the group is able to raise. Project Veritas said on its IRS application that it expects to collect $1.65-million over three years. But in a correspondence with the IRS in March, Kate Doner, then the group’s acting executive director, said Project Veritas is not yet raising money at that pace.

As of December 31, 2010, Project Veritas reported income of just $2,367. Its expenses totaled $2,200, which covered mailbox rental and Web-site fees, Ms. Doner wrote.

Shane Cory, who last month replaced Ms. Doner as its acting director, says the group is growing and that it expects to expand in the coming months.

“We’re hiring our first employee next week,” said Mr. Cory, who was the former director of operations for Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group. “We’re still building the organization.”

Mr. O’Keefe was to earn an estimated annual salary of $120,000 through his work with the group, according to its IRS application.

But Mr. Cory said that that salary was just a projection.

“He still has not drawn a salary to date,” Mr. Cory said.

Online Fund Raising

The group’s reported revenue from 2010 does not include donations given online at MEACTrust.org, a Web site that Project Veritas created for the Muslim Education Action Center, a fictional group used by Project Veritas as part of the undercover video sting involving NPR executives. After the video was released, the Web site revealed Project Veritas’s work and asked for donations from the public. The Web site says it has raised $38,068 from 512 donors.

IRS records show that Project Veritas is also planning to expand its fund-raising efforts.

In March the organization hired American Target Advertising, ofManassas, Va., to solicit money online and to build an e-mail database of potential donors.

American Target Advertising is headed by Richard Viguerie, a co-author of America’s Right Turn: How Conservatives Used New and Alternative Media to Take Over America and founder of the conservative Web site Conservativehq.com.

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While Mr. O’Keefe’s investigations have focused on organizations that are targets of conservatives, Project Veritas said in its application with the IRS that it does not intend to use its tax-exempt status to influence legislation.

The IRS released the application, Form 1023, as well as supporting documents and correspondence between IRS officials and the organization, following a Freedom of Information Act request from The Chronicle.

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Richard Art Viguerie (born September 23, 1933) is an American conservative figure, pioneer of political direct mail and writer on politics. He is the current chairman of ConservativeHQ.com.

Life and career

Viguerie was born in Golden Acres, Texas, the son of Elizabeth (née Stoufflet) and Arthur Camile Viguerie.^[2][3] He has Cajun ancestry.^[4] His father worked as a middle-management executive for a petrochemical company, and his mother was a practical nurse. Neither of his parents were interested in politics.^[5]

Viguerie recalled what caused him to become political "was when MacArthur was fired. I was tremendously frustrated and outraged, and mad as heck at Truman. MacArthur and military men like him knew how to save lives, and they should get the peace prizes, not statesmen. Korea and all of Southeast Asia would have been different, if we had followed MacArthur. What cemented my conservative philosophy was Joe McCarthy. …I was a young kid and had read Bill Buckley and one or two other books. I believed in what McCarthy did. Even when he was inaccurate, he articulated the concern about a very big problem. There are Communists in this world and that is not a figment of a few right-wingers' imaginations."^[5]

In 1957 Viguerie graduated from the University of Houston. He dropped out of law school. He served in the army reserves for six months, after which he worked as a clerk in a small oil company for $90 a week.^[5]

Viguerie worked for the Christian evangelist Billy James Hargis in his early career. In an autobiographical note, Viguerie wrote that in 1961 he became executive secretary of the conservative youth group Young Americans for Freedom: "Since 1965, owner of direct marketing/advertising companies such as American Target Advertising. Political/campaign strategist, activist and conservative spokesman and writer."^[6]

Viguerie has been dubbed the "funding father" of modern conservative strategy in the United States by some sources.^[7][8] Viguerie does not charge standard fees and expenses from his clients, rather he offers a no-loss guarantee and demands a commission (sometimes as much as 50%) and insists on keeping clients mailing lists for future, creating an extensive conservative donor database.^[9]

Viguerie founded Conservative Digest magazine in 1975 and served as its publisher for ten years. Opposing President Gerald Ford's election, Viguerie in 1976 unsuccessfully sought the vice-presidential nomination of the American Independent Party, which had been formed eight years earlier by George Wallace.

Viguerie's development and honing of national direct mail campaigns in the mid-to-late 1970s was considered revolutionary in its approach and was quickly adopted by insurgent conservative political campaigns. Conservative activist and political candidate Jeff Bell applied the strategy in 1978 to unseat longtime liberal Republican Senator Clifford Case in the 1978 New Jersey primary.^[10] Bell was defeated in the general election, but his unexpected primary victory was considered a turning point for conservative activist efforts against establishment Republicans.

Political activity

Viguerie became politically active at a time of change in the United States of America. Since the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt and World War II the Democratic Party had been dominant in Federal politics. With a majority "New Deal coalition" consisting of "blue-collar workers, urban voters, Roman Catholics and ethnics, Southern whites, blacks, intellectuals and the young."^[11] In contrast "The Republicans had strength only among the old, the North East, businessmen and white Protestants, and were very much the minority party."^[11]

The dominance of the New Deal Democratic coalition began to unravel beginning in the 1960s when the growing liberalism of the national party, including on issues of race, alienated conservative Southern whites. Though they continued to support local Democrats they began to reject Democratic presidential candidates. This was evident by their support of Barry Goldwater in 1964.

Texas Young Republicans

In 1952 and 1956, as a young Republican, Viguerie did volunteer work for Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidential campaigns in Texas. His efforts were noted and in 1960 when Republican John Tower ran for Senate against Lyndon Johnson, he served as his Houston campaign manager. Johnson ran for both the Senate seat and the Vice Presidency, and won both. When Johnson vacated the Senate seat to become Vice President, Viguerie helped Tower in the subsequent run-off which he won (becoming the first Republican Senator in Texas history).^[5]

1964 Goldwater support

Senator Barry Goldwater publicly criticized the Republican establishment including republican President Eisenhower (viewed by the American public as the World War II liberator of Europe). In 1960 Goldwater called Eisenhower's domestic program "a dime store New Deal."^[12] With ghostwriter L. Brent Bozell Jr., he published The Conscience of a Conservative saying its purpose was "to awaken the American people to a realization of how far we had moved from the old constitutional concepts toward the new welfare state."^[12] The book calling for a return to conservative principles and a harder stance on communism inspired many young conservatives, including Viguerie.^[12]

In July, 1960 when it seemed that Richard Nixon's Republican party nomination for president was a foregone conclusion, conservatives focused on trying to shape the party's platform to influence him away from what they saw as Eisenhower moderation. They also hoped to convince Nixon to choose either Barry Goldwater or Walter Judd as his running mate. When their attempts all failed and Nixon choose moderate Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. they saw it as pandering to a liberal consensus represented by Governor Nelson Rockefeller. Some conservatives even believed that this outcome was proof that the Republican Party would never change and they would need to look elsewhere if conservatism was to succeed.^[13] Though still in Texas, Viguerie would later recall his distaste over the situation, saying "I never was a Nixon fan."^[5]

Goldwater deferred to Richard Nixon and did not challenge him for the Republican nomination in 1960, instead he traveled the nation as chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee in an effort to gain grass-roots support for his brand of conservativism. This new brand of conservative differed both from the established Republican's vision but also from that of anti-interventionist ideas of the previous generation's conservative icon Robert A. Taft.^[12]

In September 1960 a group of young conservative activists met at "Great Elm", the estate of the family of William F. Buckley Jr. in Sharon, Connecticut. The produced a short exposition of their vision of conservative principles and how they should be implemented which was known as the Sharon Statement. This group of activists would take up the name Young Americans for Freedom.^[13]

After Nixon lost the election to John F. Kennedy in November 1960, Goldwater's reputation would carry on and as early as 1962 his supporters began forming "Draft Goldwater for President" committees.^[12]

In August, 1961 Viguerie became executive secretary of Young Americans for Freedom earning $125a week and supporting its Sharon Statement manifesto. Viguerie would later recall, "I moved to New York, where their offices were. That was no small thing for me, a Texas kid. I lived in Greenwich Village. I had a great time and went to a lot of parties. The conservatives and socialists were two extremes and found and solicited each other's company. I hung around the White Horse, and lived around the corner on St. Marks Place. I knew [democratic socialist] Michael Harrington quite well, and saw Bill Buckley and Bill Rusher. Things were loose and free then, none of the uptightness of the later sixties and seventies. We had a lotta fun."^[5]

In the role of executive secretary of Young Americans for FreedomViguerie gained relationships with William F. Buckley, William A. Rusher, Frank Meyer, and other conservative intellectuals. Viguerie later recalled that inspired by these thinkers "I tried to get as caught up as I could in the classics of conservative thought, but it didn't take long for me to realize I’d never really catch up. ...[I realized] what we didn’t have were marketers. I made a conscious decision to fill that niche—that hole in the marketplace—by immersing myself in the study of marketing for the next 10 years."^[14] That year, F. Clifton White began travelling the nation exhorting conservatives to gain control of their local Republican Party organizations so they could elect conservative delegates to the Republican National Convention during the next electoral season. This effort helped convince Goldwater to run for President and gave the conservatives a voice in the party that they felt had been deflected in 1952 when the popular Eisenhower had been selected over the conservative Taft.^[12]

Viguerie's Young Americans for Freedom (YAF), had been founded by**William F. Buckley Jr**. and would play an important role in helping Goldwater secure the Republican nomination. On March 7, 1962 Viguerie and the YAF held a sold out event entitled "A Conservative Rally for World Liberation from Communism" at Madison Square Garden in New York City attended by 18,500 mostly young people with senators John Tower, Strom Thurmond, and Goldwater as featured speakers.^[12] Viguerie would later write of his opinion of the event, saying "I would nominate the Madison Square Garden rally as the day the modern conservative movement had its public debut. Before that day, what we in the conservative movement were doing was mostly out of the public eye. But when thousands were lined up around Madison Square Garden and the speeches and sellout crowd were front-page, 'above the fold' news the next day in The New York Times, the conservative movement leapt onto the national political stage — and it was a movement largely inspired by Goldwater and the new brand of conservatism he shared with intellectuals such as William F. Buckley, Jr., M. Stanton Evans, Russell Kirk, Frank S. Meyer, William F. Rusher and L. Brent Bozell Jr."^[12]

In late 1962 YAF moved their headquarters to Washington, D.C. Viguerie moved into a house there on Capital Hill with his new bride Elaine O'Leary Viguerie. The organization had racked up $20,000 in debt and Viguerie had to seek donations from wealthy donors on the right such as Eddie Rickenbacker, Charles Edison, and J. Howard Pew. He found this method distasteful, "I realized I didn't want to do that kind of thing, and figured there must be a better way. So, I started raising money by mail, but the secretaries could only write so many letters a day. So I said, there must be a better way than this, and one thing led to another, and I got into direct mail."^[5]

During the Republican presidential primaries Goldwater was opposed by establishment Republicans such as governors Nelson Rockefeller, William Scranton, and George W. Romney in a "Stop Goldwater" effort that continued unto the 1964 Republican National Convention. While Goldwater remained confident of his chances to secure the nomination, he did consider dropping out of the presidential race altogether after the Assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. While Goldwater and his supporters held that it was unlikely that voters would choose to go through three different men as President in the span of 14 months, he was convinced to continue if only to wrest party control away from the Republican Eastern establishment (a goal his campaign aide J. William Middendorf called the "noble reason").^[12]

Viguerie attended that National Convention, held in San Francisco's Cow Palace, as an alternate delegate. He recalled years later, "I was there at the Cow Palace in 1964. I was in the rafters, where the boos for Rockefeller came from."^[15] He also recalled coming across a large group of people surrounding a film star, "It was Ronald Reagan. Two years later, he was the governor there."^[15]

Because Goldwater was viewed as an anti-establishment candidate by wealthy Republican benefactors who supported Republican New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, his campaign was forced to seek alternative means of funding. Rather than focusing on a few big donors the campaign relied on large-scale direct-mail fundraising. Lee Edwards, a Goldwater communications aide for the 1964 campaign would later recall "We couldn't go to the fat cats, because they were all with either Rockefeller or Johnson, so we had to develop our own financial base. There had been direct mail around, but not in presidential campaigns. We had a need that had to be met, and we had some experts who knew how to do direct mail. Everybody does it now, but that was a revolution in fundraising back in '64."^[16]

Viguerie would later write about the divisive atmosphere in the Republican party after Goldwater's defeat. Conservative members like himself were "Angry...about the criticism verging on sabotage Senator Goldwater received from the Republican establishment" and "insulted...over the personal attacks...received at the hands of establishment Republicans".^[14] Meanwhile, "The long knives of the Republican establishment were out for anyone who had supported Goldwater or who questioned the 'go-along, get-along' attitude of the party's congressional leaders whose failure to stand for conservative principles had assigned Republicans to what appeared to be the status of a permanent minority on Capitol Hill.

Plenty of conservatives then, and throughout the early years of the rise of the modern conservative movement, thought that the only way to advance the cause of conservative governance was to form a third party."^[14] Among those calling for a third party was the author Ayn Rand, the main voice for remaining within the party was William F. Buckley a policy Viguerie shared, "we had a sense that even though Goldwater had lost the election, his grassroots support demonstrated that millions of Americans thought he was right on many issues. ...We saw the establishment leadership of the Republican Party as intellectually bankrupt, and we believed that if we could just get the message out, we could [win]."^[14]

Viguerie reflecting on the 1964 campaign later recalled that "although Goldwater lost, we attracted 27 million conservative voters who shared our values."^[12] Goldwater had "cleared the way for one of his strongest supporters, actor Ronald Reagan, to make an electrifying television speech, 'A Time for Choosing.' That speech refreshed conservatism’s appeal and led to former Democrat Reagan entering Republican politics to become governor of California and eventually America's first conservative president of the modern era."^[12]

Direct-mail company

Though Goldwater's lost, Viguerie gained knowledge of the direct-mail strategy and would later become expert in it. In early 1965 he went to the clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives which by law had a record of every donor to a Presidential campaign that gave over $50 which it made available for public inspection. Viguerie copied by longhand 12,500 donors that had given to Goldwater's 1964 campaign. This was the beginning of a grass-roots conservative mailing list that would continue to grow throughout Viguerie's career. Viguerie, holding that the mainstream news media was biased, later stated that this strategy allowed conservatism to bypass two obstacles, "Thanks to direct mail, conservatives — and their candidates — were able to become an independent, vibrant force, free of the fetters imposed by the Republican political hierarchy and the liberal media."^[16] With only $4,000 in savings he began his direct-mail company "Richard A. Viguerie Company, Inc."^[14] His first client was Young Americans for Freedom but he lost the account within six weeks.

According to Viguerie this was due to "one of the frequent upheavals typical of an organization run by a bunch of college kids."^[14] The company grew as it found other clients the Conservative Caucus, the Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress, the National Conservative Political Action Committee, the National Right to Work Committee, the American Conservative Union, Sen. Jesse Helms' National Congressional Club and Gun Owners of America."^[14] His company also marketed many conservatives seeking elected office including "congressmen Phil Crane and Bob Dornan, Ron Paul, John Ashbrook, Sens. Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond, California state senator H. L. 'Bill' Richardson, and candidates Max Rafferty, Howard Phillips, Jeff Bell and G. Gordon Liddy."^[14]

Viguerie's reputation was such that Senator Robert Griffin recommended that liberal Democratic Senator George McGovern hire him when he was running for re-election in 1967. Vigureie later recalled that he was flattered, "I explained to the good Senator McGovern that we were poles apart ideologically, and he'd want someone more akin with his philosophy. We had a good long chat. At that early date, 1967, he had an appreciation of the power of direct mailing."^[5] By the 1970s Direct-mail would become a strategy used by both of the major political parties in the United States, including the outsider 1972 presidential campaign of George McGovern. The Senator was aided in his pursuit by his policy, beginning in 1970, of singing fund-raising letters for democratic candidates for which he demanded nothing in return except the names and addresses of the people responding.

This created "the famous McGovern list" by which his presidential campaign had a tremendous head start over other democratic challengers.^[5] The head of McGovern's direct-mail campaign Morris Dees became a friendly correspondent with Viguerie with each redirecting would-be clients to the other if political leanings are not similar.^[5] Dees when approached by George Wallace staffers for a presidential run in 1976, recommended Viguerie. While Viguerie did employ some liberals they worked "in 'support' work--working with lists, demographic studies, computer operations. …The men at the top, however, are trusted right-wingers like James G. Aldige III."^[5]

By June 1975 Viguere had come to the attention of New York Magazine, who by then occupied four floors of building in Falls Church, Virginia in suburban Washington, D.C. He had hired 250 nonunion employees (with "Full benefits. Good pay."^[5]) to "tend slowly turning computer reels, collate and update some 250 mailing lists carrying approximately 10 million names, handle the paper flow, and, most important, create the letters which inspire householders to mail in all that money."^[5] At the time Viguerie told the magazine that 15% of his business was in straight political campaigning for candidates, 30% in ideological efforts (such as opposing gun control), and the rest in "health and welfare" matters (such as the "Help Hospitalized Veterans" campaign).^[5]

The article estimated that he would "dispatch some 50 million pieces of mail this year" and stated that "he is a phenomenal fund-raiser for conservative and/or populist causes and candidates. Viguerie is Godfather, Idea Man, And Savior to a gathering band of rightists eager to fund their dreams and vexations. …the people who mail $25 million a year to his clients get riled up over school busing, guns, law and order, pornography, permissive education, and the cause of Governor George C. Wallace of Alabama, whom most of them love."^[5] The magazine noted that at that point gearing up for the 1976 Presidential campaign he had "raised $3.5 million by direct mail for Wallace, [and] will hit $12 million by next spring".^[5]

Direct-mail as a political strategy received a further boost when the Federal Election Campaign Act provided matching funds for small contributions.^[16]

1976 presidential primaries

In 1976 Viguerie served as a fundraiser for George Wallace's campaign to win the nomination for president of the United States.^[17] After Wallace withdrew, Viguerie began to focus on the American Independent Party to oppose Republican President Gerald Ford and Democratic challenger Jimmy Carter.^[9][18] (Ford who had assumed the Presidency on August 9, 1974 when Richard Nixon resigned, had seen his own popularity suffer when on September 8, 1974 he had pardoned ex-president Richard Nixon for his involvement in the Watergate scandal.)

George Wallace campaign

George Wallace whose 1968 presidential candidacy had been the reason the American Independent Party was formed, but he had foregone the party in 1972 to seek the Democratic nomination (in a campaign that ended when he was paralyzed by an assassination attempt). That year the American Independent Party nominated former representative John G. Schmitz of California (a member of the John Birch Society and a former Republican).

In 1976 Wallace had again chosen to seek the Democratic party nomination rather than that of the American Independent Party. Viguerie began fundraising for him, taking in $6 million in donations by the beginning of the year.^[19] In February, Viguerie also tried to draft another conservative voice into the Democratic nominations by working to draft Former Texas Gov. John Connally into the race, vowing to donate $20,000 of his own. When contacted by reporters on the move Connally said he had "never heard of it" but refused to rule out accepting such an effort.^[19] Viguerie told reporters that he was trying to offset that "The Democratic primary is dominated by liberals, who are all trying to be more liberal than the other."^[19]

The Wallace campaign had already come to Viguere in 1973 when he was considering running but was $250,000 in debt. The campaign had a million names of possible donors but fewer than 75,000 had become contributors. The New York Magazine reporting on the campaign's move held that "Viguerie probably has the best political solicitation apparatus in the republic today."^[5] He told the magazine that "By the time we're finished, we'll have sent out 19-million pieces and grossed $12 million for Governor Wallace."^[5]

Viguere found much to like in Wallace's stances, saying "I'm realizing as each day goes by that George Wallace and I have more in common than I thought. I'd like to see less government in people's lives than Wallace does, but when it comes to social issues, we're together. We agree on busing, law and order, crime, parent control in the public schools, attacking immorality in public life, movies, and television. Why, I pulled my children out of the public schools here because they're too secular and only interested in the life cycle of the salmon. I put them in a private Christian school. I'm with Wallace on antipornography. I've raised millions to fight it. These are the concerns of the client, George Wallace, and we incorporate them in every mailing piece, and we don't miss national defense, either. You see, in an ideological cause like this, people give money not to win friends, but to defeat enemies. You like to change human nature, but you can't--people are more strongly motivated by negative issues than positive ones. When there are no negatives or enemies, the appeal isn't strong. The Democrats know this too. It's hard to pick up an appeal letter of theirs without seeing the name Richard Nixon or Watergate in it."^[5]

By Wednesday, June 9, 1976 Governor George Wallace had withdrawn from the Democratic nomination race and placed a call to Jimmy Carter endorsing him.^[20] Having anticipated this outcome two days before he told a reporter that he was satisfied with the results of his campaigns because "everybody is now saying what I started out saying back in 1964" and that he had cleared the way for a fellow Southerner like Carter to be accepted as a genuine contender, "There are no longer any real regional differences."^[21] Despite conservaties in his own state asking him why he was supporting liberals like Carter and Mondale, Wallace went on to offer speeches in support of Carter's presidential bid.^[22]

American Independent Party campaign

Ever since Goldwater's defeat some among Conservative circles had advocated leaving the Republican Party (which they held to be too liberal) to make a conservative third party. After Watergate, Viguerie also held that there was no hope for the Republican party, telling a reporter "I know the marketing field and you just can't market 'Republican' any more. It means depression, recession, runaway inflation, big business, multinational corporations, Watergate, and Nixon. It's easier to sell an Edsel or Typhoid Mary. 'Independent' and 'American'--those are words which will sell. Don't kid yourself. That's the way we're moving. All the Republican party needs is a decent burial. In ten years, there won't be a dozen people in the country calling themselves Republicans. …Nixon, whose name is poison to voters now, wiped out every issue the Republicans could use--balanced budget, morality in government, law and order, national security. Richard Nixon flushed them all down the commode."^[5]

Viguerie told a reporter that he was sure that Americans would elect a conservative if presented the truth, saying "I figure that 80% of the American public would vote conservative if we had a neutral press. The whole liberal philosophy is bankrupt. Public schools are a disaster and will become a major campaign issue in two years, over who is going to have the say over children--parents, or the professional educators. The liberal foreign policy is in a total shambles. The evidence is what's happening in Portugal, Southeast Asia, our declining military posture. But the press is protecting the liberals. The Republicans make it easy for them by echoing the same thing."^[5] To back up his position he pointed to Gallup polls that showed that while only 17% of Americans called themselves Republicans, 62% called themselves conservatives. He was heartened by another Gallup poll that showed that 25% of the electorate favored the formation of a new conservative party.^[5]

Giving up on the Republicans, Viguerie moved on to become one of the main organizers of the American Independent Partyconvention in Chicago meeting in August. At the opening of the convention a party platform was agreed on that declared their opposition for several ideas including the Equal Rights Amendment, amnesty for draft dodgers, the individual income tax, legalized abortion, forced busing, foreign aid, membership in the United Nations, and gun control.^[18][23] It was felt that the platform would attract conservatives away from the major parties.^[18] The convention's keynote speaker denounced "atheistical political Zionism".^[24]

Viguerie was a leader among a group of nationally prominent conservatives known as the New Right. Feeling that President Ford was insufficiently conservative and upset that the Republican party had not given the nomination to Ronald Reagan instead, they attended the convention in an effort to take over the party and remake it as a vehicle to create a new conservative coalition. In this effort Viguerie was joined by William A. Rusher, publisher of National Review, Howard Phillips leader of the activist organisation The Conservative Caucus and former head of the Office of Economic Opportunity,^[23] and religious conservative Paul Weyrich.^[24]

They argued that the party was seen as a fringe group but should become the philosophical home for believers in free enterprise and traditional moral values.^[23] They hoped to attract former Governor Ronald Reagan if he did not succeed in wresting the Republican nomination from President Ford.^[17] If they could not secure Reagan they hoped to attract other nationally known conservatives such as Senator Jesse Helms, Governor Meldrim Thomson Jr., Representative Philip Crane, former Governor John Connally,^[24] antifeminist activist Phyllis Schlafly, or Ellen McCormack (who had run an anti-abortion campaign in the Democratic Presidential primary earlier that year) to head the ticket for the party.^[23][17] When none of these figures agreed to switch parties Viguerie's group had to resort to promoting Dallas columnist Robert J. Morris.^[23] Viguerie ran as Morris' Vice President choice, promising to use his direct-mail expertise to raise a big budget for the national campaign and to turn over his mailing lists to the party.^[23][17][24]

For several months Rusher had promised American Independent Party members a nationally known Conservative, promises he continued to make up until two weeks before the convention. When Rusher, Viguerie, and Phillips failed to produce a well-known Conservative, party veterans led by its founder William K. Shearer rebuffed their vision to reform and modernize the party into what Rusher styled as the New Majority Party.^[17] The front-runner going into the convention was former Georgia governor and staunch segregationist Lester Maddox (previously a Democrat) with his colorful personality being viewed as a positive that could draw media attention and help the party reach the threshold of five percent of the national vote that would secure it federal funding.^[23]

In protest of the proceedings that seemed to be handing the nomination to Maddox, Rusher and Viguerie were among those who did not attend the Saturday session where the voting took place.^[25] On the first ballot the party chose Maddox as its presidential nominee - beating challengers Morris and former Louisiana representative John Rarick (previously a Democrat). Shearer had hoped to get his wife Eileen nominated as the Vice Presidential candidate, but the idea was opposed by Maddox who expressed his dislike of the idea of running with a woman.^[17] Shortly before the vote Maddox endorsed former mayor of Madison, Wisconsin William Dyke (previously a Republican who had been that party's nominee for Wisconsin governor in 1974) for Vice President candidate, which caused Eileen to withdraw.^[25] Dyke, who beat Viguerie for the Vice Presidential slot, had gained fame in Conservative circles for a hard-line stand against student unrest at the University of Wisconsin (which included the Sterling Hall bombing) during the Vietnam War.

Late in the afternoon Dyke addressed the convention before the vote by telephone, telling them that "America is the last hope for the preservation of freedom in the world."^[26] Before that year Dyke had no prior affiliation with the party and was woken up at 3 am by delegates who informed him in person of the nomination which he was happy to accept. Dyke admitted to reporters that he did not have a full understanding of the party's platform,^[17] and when asked if his racial policies were segregationist like Maddox's replied "Certainly not. I'm not a segregationist,"^[25] and that he didn't believe in the "simplistic definition of segregation".^[17]

In the closing hour of the convention a resolution was made that the party pledge itself to "interracial harmony", the resolution was defeated by a voice vote.^[17] With Maddox at the top of the ticket the party was seen as running on the themes of "segregation, isolationism and repeal of big government."^[17] Viguerie told a reporter at the time that he was "shocked and disillusioned" that they would nominate a man who still calls himself a segregationist, and that the party had consigned itself into being a "perpetual fringe group."^[17] Rusher joined Viguerie in refusing to support the party's ticket headed by Maddox, telling reporters "What I object to is his comedic air,"^[25] and "This party has turned inward, backward, and downward."^[17] Party founder Shearer contrasted the original vision for the party with that of the New Right saying the party "has its roots in the George Wallace movement. ...[when Wallace] closed his eyes he saw farmers jumping off of flat-bed cotton trucks and workers pouring out of factories. The right-wing conservative Republicans see a super-educated, highly affluent, country club people. ...Lester Maddox has the George Wallace base. The delegates saw that, they gave use the candidate who can roll up a big vote. He's going to put this party on the map."^[25] Shearer, when considering Viguerie's faction said that the "New Right" conservatives fail because they think they are "too good to just get down and commune with the average people across the country."^[26] He held that by thwarting the New Right the party had escaped dire peril, like "a girl that's being targeted for a rape that didn't come off."^[17] Maddox would go on to win only 170,531 votes in the general election (0.2 percent of the national vote) losing to fellow former Georgia governor Jimmy Carter.^[23]

Asian Children's Relief Fund

In 1977 the New York Attorney General's office began procedures against the Korean Cultural and Freedom Foundation that had employed Viguerie. Attorney General Louis J. Lefkowitz charged that the group (previously accused of links to the South Korean Central Intelligence Agency) had siphoned off the majority of $1.5 million in donations collected in 1975 for Southeast Asian children. New York's Board of Social Welfare's audit found that $920,302 was paid to The Richard A. Viguerie Co., that had solicited donations by mail. Attorney General Lefkowitz held that the fund-raising literature was "calculated to deceive the contributing public into believing that the greater portion of the money contributed would be expended for the specified program services."^[9] The direct-mail campaign was called the "Asian Children's Relief Fund" and pleaded for donations to help children with "terminal forms of malnutrition", declaring "that the lives of 350,000 severely malnourished boys and girls [are] threatened unless immediate help is provided."^[9] The audit found that of the $1.5 million raised only $31,015 went to six orphanages in South Vietnam and South Korea.^[9] The Korean Cultural and Freedom Foundation who had commissioned the direct-mail campaign had a stated goal of the containment of communism in Asia and its president was Bo Hi Pak, a former South Korean Intelligence officer who worked as a principal aide and interpreter with Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon. The Church denied any association with the foundation.^[9]

Association with the Unification Church

In the early 1980s Viguerie worked for groups controlled by the Unification Church under the leadership of Sun Myung Moon. This began in 1981 after Ronald Reagan had won the Presidency and the effectiveness of Viguerie's direct mail approach faded, as it had been geared to rally conservatives who felt they had been unfairly sidelined. Viguerie was among several Conservative activists that entered into associations with the Unification Church at this time as Conservative donors feeling their party was in the ascendancy stopped giving. Reverend Moon's attache Bo Hi Pak purchased the Tyson's Corner office building owned by Viguerie's firm for $10 million and took over its maintenance and administration. The Church also hired Viguerie to operate direct-mail functions for some of their Church-backed groups such as American Freedom Coalition and subscription solicitations for the Church owned Washington Times. Viguerie (a Catholic) told the Washington Post "Their religion is not my religion, but I have found them to be good, decent people who are strongly anti-communist. I don't see any reason not to work with them."^[27][28]

Campaign for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia

Viguerie sought the Republican nomination for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia in 1985, but did not receive the nomination at the GOP state convention.

Later works

Asked by Campaigns and Elections in May 2000 what his immediate goals were, Viguerie answered:

To use the Internet to involve Americans in the political process, to help conservatives gain an advantage over the left. To fight against government's use of power, to fight for individual rights and responsibilities, and to fight to extend the blessings of liberty throughout the world.^[6]

Writing in The Nation, David Corn noted that Viguerie "raised money for Judicial Watch" and is associated with Larry Klayman, a conservative lawyer and activist who had been a failed candidate for the Republican nomination for US Senate in Florida in 2004.^[29]

Viguerie has long been associated with conservative activist Howard Phillips through creation of the Moral Majority in 1979.

According to CharityWatch.org: "[Roger] Chapin hired his long-time friend and direct mail expert, Richard Viguerie, to conduct fundraising campaigns for HHV, paying Viguerie's company $14 million between 2000 and 2005." HHV is a charity run by Roger Chapin, which according to Charity Watch has made many questionable and apparently unethical payments unrelated to its purported mission.^[30]

In January 2008, Viguerie launched ultimateronpaul.com, a website designed to promote the 2008 presidential candidacy of U.S. Congressman Ron Paul, whom Viguerie described as "truly a principled conservative in the grand tradition of Robert A. Taft, Barry Goldwater, and Ronald Reagan" and who "has differentiated himself from all the other candidates, whose allegiance is to Big Government Republicanism."^[31]

Books

Books by Viguerie include:

The New Right: We're Ready to Lead (1981)^[32]
The Establishment vs. the People: Is a New Populist Revolt on the Way? (1983)^[33]
America's Right Turn: How Conservatives Used New and Alternative Media to Take Power (2004)^[34]
Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and Other Big Government Republicans Hijacked the Conservative Cause (2006)^[35]
Takeover: The 100-Year War for the Soul of the GOP and How Conservatives Can Finally Win it, (2014)^[36]

Current issues

In May 2006 Viguerie said regarding the ability of conservatives to maintain a majority in the U.S. House and Senate,^[37][38] "There is a growing feeling among conservatives that the only way to cure the problem is for Republicans to lose the Congressional elections this fall."

Viguerie commented on the Mark Foley scandal, "This isn't an isolated situation. It is only the most recent example of Republican House leaders doing whatever it takes to hold onto power. If it means spending billions of taxpayers' dollars on questionable projects, they'll do it. If it means covering up the most despicable actions of a colleague, they'll do it."^[39][40]

Viguerie fought for the Legislative Transparency and Accountability Act of 2007 through his petition website called Grassroots Freedom.

When Viguerie spoke at a conference of Libertarian Party state chairs in March 2007,^[41] he said of the 2006 United States general elections, "Whenever conservatives are unhappy, bad things happen for the Republican Party."

In 2007 Viguerie co-founded the American Freedom Agenda, described as "a coalition established to restore checks and balances and civil liberties protections under assault by the executive branch."^[42]

In a July 2009 article for Sojourners Magazine entitled "When Governments Kill," Viguerie spoke strongly against capital punishment, calling for a moratorium on it to discuss its surrounding issues, hoping that will pave a path to abolition.

Family

Viguerie and his wife have three children and (as of 2011) six grandchildren.

References

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Richard A. Viguerie - American Association of Political Consultants

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Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and a right-wing political activist, has launched a new set of organizations meant to “protect President Trump” and attack Democrats and left-leaning organizations, according to an article published by The Intercept this week.

The well-connected Thomas, a former Heritage Foundation staffer, presented her plans to build a “robust infrastructure” to a meeting of the secretive Council for National Policy last month. TheCNP is a strategy-development-and-sharing network that includes leaders across the U.S. religious and political Right, including people like neo-Confederate Christian Reconstrucionist Michael Peroutka. CNP members pushed Trump to sign an executive order on religious liberty.

Thomas is planning to build a “robust infrastructure” of affiliated organizations.Among her partners in the new project are longtime right-wing operative Richard Viguerie; undercover videographer and political tricksterJames O’Keefe;Republican campaign lawyer Cleta Mitchell;and Bill Meierling, chief marketing officer for the American Legislative Exchange Council, a matchmaker for corporate lobbyists and conservative legislators willing to do their bidding.

A slide from Thomas’s presentation at Council for National Policy notes, “Long Term teams taking shape will focus on Education, Media, Entertainment/Arts, Faith, Corporate/Economic, Government, Science, and more”—nearly identical to the list of spheres of cultural influence targeted by Religious Right proponents of Seven Mountains Dominionism.

The Intercept also reported that Thomas had spoken at another CNP event last October, at which she declared, “The hard left is in control of the Democrat Party … And they’re controlling the media and corporations and Hollywood and education.”

This January, Thomas organized a White House meeting where she was joined by anti-Muslim activist Frank Gaffney and others where, among other things, they complained that White House aides were blocking right-wing Trump supporters from getting administration jobs.

Thomas and many of her partners were among conservative activists who mobilized a year ago to try to replace then-House Speaker Paul Ryan with right-wing favorite Rep. Jim Jordan.

Thomas presented United in Purpose “Impact” awards to O’Keefe, Gaffney, and Sean Hannity in 2017. In 2016, TPM reported that Thomas “wanted to ‘target’ the ‘most questionable’ precincts in Virginia with an anti-voter fraud campaign.”

Thomas also interviewed right-wing radio host Jesse Lee Peterson for the Daily Caller in 2016. The two talked about what Thomas called “race hustlers” who she said are “in the business of keeping blacks angry” and about Black Lives Matter, which Peterson called “evil,” “wicked,” and “worse than the KKK.” Last year, Thomas reportedly hired a former Turning Point USA staffer who had resigned after The New Yorker published screenshots of text messages that included a text that said “I HATE BLACK PEOPLE.”

Tags: Bill Meierling Cleta Mitchell Ginni Thomas James O'Keefe Richard Viguerie Election 2020 Seven Mountains ALEC American Legislative Exchange Council Council for National Policy

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As brokers and managers of the world’s largest list of active, conservative donors, we are ready to create a customized list strategy, at no extra charge, of course! Even better, as part of the Viguerie family of companies - including charitable list leader AMLC and direct marketing agency American Target Advertising, Inc. - we have access to the enormous resources and expertise of America’s first and largest political fundraising enterprise.

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https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jun/2/washington-times-launches-new-email-partnership-vi/

The Washington Times on Wednesday announced a new email marketing partnership with Viguerie Political Lists that includes the introduction of a brand new email list into the political marketplace in time for the 2016 election.

The Washington Times Engaged Patriots email list is composed of more than 500,000 conservative leaning political activists who regularly read Times content, and is being exclusively managed by Viguerie Political Lists.

The new Patriots file brings to a dozen the total number of email lists the Times offers in the marketplace. The lists span the gamut from gun rights enthusiasts and Hispanics to Christian voters and engaged activists.

“We are thrilled to be working with Viguerie Political Lists in bringing this new list to the marketplace in time for the 2016 election,” Times President and CEO Larry Beasley said. “We couldn’t think of a better partner to help us launch this new opportunity.”

Viguerie Political Lists, a division of American Mailing Lists Corporation, is an industry leader in political donor and activist list management. Founded by Richard Viguerie, VPL has been America’s best source for lists used by right-of-center campaigns, advocacy organizations, and charitable institutions for over 50 years.

David M. Keene, Managing Director of VPL said, “We at Viguerie Political Lists are incredibly excited at the opportunity to work hand-in-hand with an organization as venerable as The Washington Times. We look forward to adding this powerful new list to our online offerings.”

The AARP is suffering many thorns for its opposition to the Bush administration’s plans to block drug importation and privatize Social Security. In a recent ad,USA Next, a conservative seniors’ group dreamed up by the same GOP direct-mail wizard, Richard Viguerie, who dreamed up the Seniors Coalition, suggested that the AARP advocates homosexuality and disdains American soldiers. Although the Seniors Coalition has split with Viguerie,

Mount Vernon Statement is a declaration of principles for the modern conservative movement. It was posted to the Internet on February 17, 2010. The Statement is notable mostly for the collection of high profile right-wing figures who signed it.

Contents [hide]

[Content

The Statement is mostly conservative boilerplate about "founding principles" and "limited government" and similar Tea Party rhetoric. No specific planks are addressed, and while the site boasts links to the text of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, neither is directly addressed. The closest the Statement comes to specificity is a series of five points defining "Constitutional conservatism":

It applies the principle of limited government based on the rule of law to every proposal.

It honors the central place of individual liberty in American politics and life.

It encourages free enterprise, the individual entrepreneur, and economic reforms grounded in market solutions.

It supports America’s national interest in advancing freedom and opposing tyranny in the world and prudently considers what we can and should do to that end.

It informs conservatism’s firm defense of family, neighborhood, community, and faith.

[ Signatories

The actual content of the Statement is secondary to the list of signatories, including Reagan-era conservatives and heads of major conservative organizations. For a statement centered around limited government, there are a surprisingly large number of social conservatives featured. Also, it calls explicitly for rule of law, and yet supporters of torture and indefinite detention were among the signatories.^[1]

[The List

Edwin Meese
Edwin Feulner, Jr.
Lee Edwards
Tony Perkins
Becky Norton Dunlop
L. Brent Bozell III
Alfred Regnery
David Keene
David McIntosh
T. Kenneth Cribb
Grover Norquist
William Wilson
Elaine Donnelly
Richard Viguerie
Kenneth Blackwell
Colin Hanna
Kathryn J. Lopez

Erick Erickson was also to be a signatory, but in spite of actually travelling to Mount Vernon (to sign an Internet petition), he is not featured among the signers.^[2]

[ Richard Viguerie

Interestingly, Viguerie initially pushed back against the Statement, saying "If the people in the leadership of the conservative movement are going to put out pablum like this, the tea party people are going to make them seem irrelevant. And the tea party people are going to march to the forefront."^[3] Nevertheless, he signed it just a few weeks later, calling it an "attempt to draft a document that conservatives...can get behind and begin the process of reclaiming the Republican Party for small-government conservatives."^[4]

[ External links

The Mount Vernon Statement

[ Footnotes

↑ [1]
↑ Mount Vernon Lulz, Instaputz
↑ Conservative manifesto makes bid to reunify, The Washington Times
↑ 'Mount Vernon Statement' to unite conservatives, Point of View

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This same question can also be asked of his wife – not Nydia Stone, but his first wife, Ann, who is very much a kindred spirit. She is almost entirely invisible in the profiles by Labash and Toobin – going entirely unmentioned in the first, and only given brief mention exclusively as a wife – “Stone and his wife at the time, Ann, became famous for their lavish life style, which included a chauffeur-driven Mercedes and tailor-made clothes,” “In the nineties, Stone divorced Ann and married Nydia Bertran,” – rather than as a formidable political force in her own right. I do not think he was the best or most loyal of husbands, but he gives her a complimentary mention in his memoir, and I don’t think this is a case of gallantry or politeness, but simply giving his ex-wife her just due. There are two people, Stone writes, who taught him everything about direct mail, and getting a message out to conservative donors and activists. One of them is Jim Martin, the man who managed to put out the message that the inheritance tax should be called a death tax. The other is his ex-wife Ann E.W. Stone. She, along with Martin, “are both two of the most brilliant marketers I know”¹⁸⁷(http://italkyoubored.wordpress.com/2014/02/15/roger-stone-pretty-reckless-is-going-straight-to-hell-part-eight/#ftnote187).

Direct mail was the secret fuel of the conservative movement, and its master was Richard Viguerie. Through pleas to fight communism in the United States or abroad, for the cause of persecuted christians or persecuted capitalists, direct mail harnessed a massive amount of money from small donors to fund conservative political causes and groups, including NCPAC – an ordinary PAC as opposed to a Super PAC which relies on the funding of a small number of single wealthy donors, or sometimes a single wealthy donor, such as the Koch brothers or Sheldon Adelson. Both Ann Stone and Richard Martin, the names singled out by Roger Stone, were two of Viguerie’s best students.

“Funding Father”, is a 2003 Washington Times ode by Martin to Viguerie. “Shy about personally visiting contributors,” Martin writes, “Mr. Viguerie realized he could contact 1,000 or 10,000 potential donors by mail without spending any more time, effort or money than it would take to personally solicit a single contribution from one potential donor.” He is perhaps not overstating things in the next paragraph. “Legions of candidates, from the courthouse to the White House, have benefited from Mr. Viguerie’s expertise, and legions of others have tasted defeat as a direct result of his ability to raise money and promote action simply by sitting down at his typewriter.”

Easily the best discussion of the phenomenon is “The Long Con” by Rick Perlstein, and the title is not idle malice. Perlstein gives substantial evidence that questions how much of the money raised went to their intended causes and how much ended up in the pockets of the mail wranglers. There’s also the ways in which these political appeals resemble snake oil sales of elixirs and sure fire investments, whose appeals the dedicated conservative got as well, with the mailing lists sold off to commerical bidders of cheap, cruddy stuff and grifts.

All this reaches the obvious and expected nadir with direct mail’s electronic ancestor in “Newt Gingrich & Herman Cain Are Now Making Money Off Spam” by Ben Adler, where subscribers to the mailing lists of both men receive news on how Obamacare is destroying lives, the betrayal of the dead of Benghazi, but also the ways their erectile dysfunction problems can now be solved, and how you can get rich quick now. This same theme, false politics overlapping with the deceptions of the con, is there in the career of Ann Stone, woefully unreported, except for brief outbursts of scandalous exposure.

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wreck: vigurie had DM but also mult platform cross prom) radio, books, mags etc paper col pal terry dolan sold results eg campaign finance limit regs ncpack nickpack: use DM to get $ for local hit ads 76 ads had lies but allowed cand to stay clean

From SourceWatch

Richard A. Viguerie is often dubbed the direct mail titan of the U.S. right. He is the Chairman of ConservativeHQ.com and a founder of the American Freedom Agenda.

Contents[hide]

Background

In an autobiographical note, Viguerie wrote that in 1961 he became executive secretary of the conservative youth group, Young Americans for Freedom. "Since 1965, owner of direct marketing/advertising companies such as American Target Advertising. Political/campaign strategist, activist and conservative spokesman and writer," he wrote.

"Pioneered political use of computerized direct mail. That technology was the Internet of its day: it enabled conservatives to get around liberals' dominance of the mass media; it allowed thousands of conservative candidates, organizations and causes to get their messages to grassroots Americans," he wrote.[1]

Viguerie founded Conservative Digest magazine in 1975 and served as its publisher for ten years.[2]

Asked by Campaigns and Elections in May 2000 what his immediate goals were Viguerie wrote "To use the Internet to involve Americans in the political process, to help conservatives gain an advantage over the left. To fight against government's use of power, to fight for individual rights and responsibilities, and to fight to extend the blessings of liberty throughout the world."[3]

Writing in The Nation, David Corn noted that Viguerie "raised money for Judicial Watch" and is associated with Larry Klayman, conservative lawyer and activist.

Viguerie authored articles or books

Books

Richard A. Viguerie, The New Right: We're Ready to Lead (Falls Church, VA: The Viguerie Company, 1981).ISBN 0960481427. (See Excerpts from The New Right: We’re ready to lead).
Richard A. Viguerie, The Establishment Vs. the People, :{Regnery :(style="background-color:#ffff66;"):}::{Publishing:(style="background-color:#ffffff;"):}:, 1st edition February 1984. ISBN 0895266083.
Richard A. Viguerie & David Franke, America's Right Turn: how conservatives used new and alternative media to take power, Bonus Books, August, 2004. ISBN 1566252520.
Richard A. Viguerie, Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and Other Big Government Republicans Hijacked the Conservative Cause,Bonus Books, 2006. ISBN 1566252857 ISBN 978-1566252850

In March 2007, Viguerie was listed as one of the founders of a new conservative group, American Freedom Agenda, which describes itself as campaigning to "restore check and balances ... under assault by the executive branch." [[4]](http://www.prweek.com/uk/news/article/645600/Conservative-group-campaigns-against-White-House-%27abuses/ "http://www.prweek.com/uk/news/article/645600/Conservative-group-campaigns-against-White-House-'abuses/")

Other SourceWatch Resources

American Freedom Agenda

External links

Articles/Statements by Viguerie

Richard Viguerie, "Richard Viguerie - Brief Article", Campaigns & Elections, May 2000.
Richard A. Viguerie, "Media Titans, you're not alone", USA Today, September 22, 2004.
Richard A. Viguerie and David Franke, "The Big Winners", Washington Post, October 24, 2004.
"Statement of Richard A. Viguerie for The American Freedom Agenda", PR-Inside, March 21, 2007.

General Articles

"Decisions 2004: Choosing winning fundraising strategies", 2004 Non-Profit Fundraising Conference, accessed October 2004.
D Shribman, "'Sincerely yours', Your Congressman's computer", New York Times, Bates Number: 03667245, August 17, 1982.
R Whitehead, "Direct Mail: the underground", Bates Number: 10394015/4017, Columbia Journalism Review, February 1983.

http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/xqm4aa00/pdf;jsessionid=741C8B52CE31256F8E4A489A9540C03E.tobacco04

Walter and Miriam Schneir "The right's attack on the press", The Nation, March 30, 1985.
Michael Griffin, "Senior Citizens group to run ads attacking Chiles campaign calls", Bates Number: TIFL00496310, Orlando Sentinel, February 4, 1996.
William A. Rusher, The Rise of the Right (New York, NY: William Morrow, 1984).
Dom Bonafede, "Part Science, Part Art, Part Hokum, Direct Mail Now a Key Campaign Tool," National Journal, vol. 14, no. 31, July 31, 1982, p. 1332.
William Claiborne, "Little in 'New Right' War Chest Finding Its Way to Candidates," Washington Post, March 20, 1978, p. A1.
Kent Jenkins, Jr., "North's Consultants Turn Junk Mail into Gold Mine of Financial Support," Washington Post, July 31, 1994, p. B1.
John Persinos, "Ollie, Inc.," Campaigns & Elections, June 1995.
Jim Drinkard, "Postal Inspectors Investigate Seniors Group's Mailings," Associated Press, September 29, 1995.
Diana Walsh, "The Fear Merchants," San Francisco Examiner, February 8, 1998, p. A1.
National Center for Public Policy Research, IRS Form 990 for 2001.
David Corn, "Klayman Watch", The Nation, March 10, 2004.
Jeffrey H. Birnbaum, "Liberal Praise Drawn From Unlikely Source", Washington Post, October 18, 2004.
Thomas Omestad, "Fixin' for a fight," U.S. News and World Report, October 25, 2004.
Bill Berkowitz, "Richard Viguerie: Still thundering after all these years," WorkingForChange, March 4, 2005.
Bill Berkowitz, "Richard Viguerie's Army Attacks Social Security", Media Transparency, March 9, 2005.
blogenfreude, "Father of the Whinycons. Richard Viguerie - Shut the Fuck Up," AGITPROP, July 29, 2006.
Bill Berkowitz, "GOP defeat could benefit conservatives, says Richard Viguerie", Media Transparency, October 4, 2006.
Ted McKenna, "Conservative group campaigns against White House ‘abuses'", PR Week, March 22, 2007.
David D. Kirkpatrick, "Giuliani Inspires Threat of a Third-Party Run", The New York Times, October 1, 2007.

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Richard Viguerie has been dubbed the "funding father" of modern conservative strategy, having pioneered important tactics in computerized direct mail strategy in the 1970s and 1980s. He is considered the direct mail titan of the right.

Viguerie worked for the disgraced evangelist Billy James Hargis early in his career. In an autobiographical note, Viguerie wrote that in 1961 he became executive secretary of the conservative youth group, Young Americans for Freedom. "Since 1965, owner of direct marketing/advertising companies such as American Target Advertising. Political/campaign strategist, activist and conservative spokesman and writer," he wrote. [1] "Pioneered political use of computerized direct mail. That technology was the Internet of its day: it enabled conservatives to get around liberals' dominance of the mass media; it allowed thousands of conservative candidates, organizations and causes to get their messages to grassroots Americans," he wrote.

Viguerie founded Conservative Digest magazine in 1975 and served as its publisher for ten years. In the 1980s he was saved from debt by a generous grant from Sun Myung Moon, who had also raised money for Viguerie in the name of Korean orphans -- who received only 6% of the money, the lion's share of which went to the conservative strategist. Viguerie sought the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor of Virginia in 1985, but did not receive the nomination at the GOP state convention.

Asked by Campaigns and Elections in May 2000 what his immediate goals were Viguerie answered "To use the Internet to involve Americans in the political process, to help conservatives gain an advantage over the left. To fight against government's use of power, to fight for individual rights and responsibilities, and to fight to extend the blessings of liberty throughout the world." [2]

Writing in The Nation, David Corn noted that Viguerie "raised money for Judicial Watch" and is associated with Larry Klayman, conservative lawyer and activist and Republican candidate for the US Senate from Florida in 2004.

Viguerie has long been associated with conservative activist Howard Phillips.

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Viguerie's stance should be no surprise to those who have been following him recently as he promotes his re-launch of the Republican Party by purging what he calls "big-government Republicans" from the helm of his Web site, ConservativeHQ.com. The one-time heavy hitter of the GOP emerged from the 1970s to become that era's Karl Rove, credited for creating the once-influential direct-mail campaigns for the political world.

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Richard Art Viguerie (born September 23, 1933) is an American conservative figure, pioneer of political direct mail and writer on politics. He is the current chairman of ConservativeHQ.com.

Life and career

Viguerie was born in Golden Acres, Texas, the son of Elizabeth (née Stoufflet) and Arthur Camile Viguerie.^[2][3] He has Cajun ancestry.^[4] Viguerie worked for the Christianevangelist Billy James Hargis in his early career. In an autobiographical note, Viguerie wrote that in 1961 he became executive secretary of the conservative youth group Young Americans for Freedom: "Since 1965, owner of direct marketing/advertising companies such as American Target Advertising. Political/campaign strategist, activist and conservative spokesman and writer."^[5]

Viguerie has been dubbed the "funding father" of modern conservative strategy in the United States by some sources.^[6][7]

Viguerie founded Conservative Digest magazine in 1975 and served as its publisher for ten years. Opposing President Gerald Ford's election, Viguerie in 1976 unsuccessfully sought the presidential nomination of the American Independent Party, which had been formed eight years earlier by George Wallace. The party instead nominated former Georgia Governor Lester Maddox, to challenge Ford and Democrat Jimmy Carter, also a former Georgia governor.^[8]

Viguerie's development and honing of national direct mail campaigns in the mid-to-late 1970s was considered revolutionary in its approach and was quickly adopted by insurgent conservative political campaigns. Conservative activist and political candidate Jeff Bell applied the strategy in 1978 to unseat longtime liberal Republican Senator Clifford Case in the 1978 New Jersey primary.^[9] Bell was defeated in the general election, but his unexpected primary victory was considered a turning point for conservative activist efforts against establishment Republicans.

In 1977, Viguerie worked on a project to raise money for Sun Myung Moon's Children's Relief Fund, which reportedly only received 6.3% of the $1,508,256 raised. $920,000 went to Viguerie according to New York State charity auditors.^[10][11]

Viguerie sought the Republican nomination for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia in 1985, but did not receive the nomination at the GOP state convention.

Asked by Campaigns and Elections in May 2000 what his immediate goals were, Viguerie answered:

To use the Internet to involve Americans in the political process, to help conservatives gain an advantage over the left. To fight against government's use of power, to fight for individual rights and responsibilities, and to fight to extend the blessings of liberty throughout the world.^[5]

Viguerie has long been associated with conservative activist Howard Phillips through creation of the Moral Majority in 1979.

In January 2008, Viguerie launched ultimateronpaul.com, a website designed to promote the 2008 presidential candidacy of U.S. Congressman Ron Paul, whom Viguerie described as "truly a principled conservative in the grand tradition of Robert A. Taft, Barry Goldwater, and Ronald Reagan" and who "has differentiated himself from all the other candidates, whose allegiance is to Big Government Republicanism."^[14]

Books

Books by Viguerie include:

The New Right: We're Ready to Lead (1981)^[15]
The Establishment vs. the People: Is a New Populist Revolt on the Way? (1983)^[16]
America's Right Turn: How Conservatives Used New and Alternative Media to Take Power (2004)^[17]
Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and Other Big Government Republicans Hijacked the Conservative Cause (2006)^[18]
Takeover: The 100-Year War for the Soul of the GOP and How Conservatives Can Finally Win it, (2014)^[19]

Current issues

In May 2006 Viguerie said regarding the ability of conservatives to maintain a majority in the U.S. House and Senate,^[20][21] "There is a growing feeling among conservatives that the only way to cure the problem is for Republicans to lose the Congressional elections this fall."

Viguerie fought for the Legislative Transparency and Accountability Act of 2007 through his petition website called Grassroots Freedom.

When Viguerie spoke at a conference of Libertarian Party state chairs in March 2007,^[24] he said of the 2006 United States general elections, "Whenever conservatives are unhappy, bad things happen for the Republican Party."

In a July 2009 article for Sojourners Magazine entitled "When Governments Kill," Viguerie spoke strongly against capital punishment,calling for a moratorium on it to discuss its surrounding issues, hoping that will pave a path to abolition.

Clients

Viguerie claims to have raised billions of dollars for conservative causes. His clients have included:^[citation ^needed]

Family

Viguerie and his wife have three children and (as of 2011) six grandchildren.

References

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A film clip "The Open Mind – "The New Right," Part I (1981)" is available at the Internet Archive
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- *Booknotes* interview with Viguerie on *America's Right Turn: How Conservatives Used New and Alternative Media to Take Power*, September 5, 2004.

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