Clemente Am for Tax Fairness

<div style="text-align: left;"><font size="4" style="" face="Times New Roman">ntbcw penn state coal hackademic</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">an 1 23 maya</font></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Amid the Republican battle over the next speaker of the House, Mother Jones Senior Editor Michael Mechanic&nbsp;<a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/01/house-republicans-vote-defund-irs-80-billion/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><u>shed light</u></a>&nbsp;on another priority of the party — which is the possible enactment of the Family and Small Business Taxpayer Protection Act.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In his reporting, Mechanic&nbsp;<a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/01/house-republicans-vote-defund-irs-80-billion/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><u>asserted that</u></a>&nbsp;the potential bill is a misnomer, because rather than protecting taxpayers — as the name implies — it would instead protect “tax cheaters” by rolling back IRS funding from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).</span></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Americans for Tax Fairness founder Frank Clemente </b>said in a recent press release, “The richest 1 percent avoid paying $160 billion a year that they owe in taxes due to inadequate tax enforcement. Republicans are voting to let them keep on cheating the rest of us.”</span></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong>READ MORE:&nbsp;</strong><a href="https://www.alternet.org/trump-tax-returns-2659052403/" target="self" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><u><strong>Trump’s newly released tax returns reveal cheating & years of paying zero taxes, reporter says</strong></u></a></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Mechanic reflected on his 2021 reporting around a similar IRS arrangement back in 2011. The agency’s budget was cut by over $2 billion at the time which resulted in a significant drop in non-filer investigations and an astronomical increase in outstanding tax debt by 2019.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In 2020, it was confirmed that almost 800,000 wealthy non-filers owed a hefty $46 billion collectively, and many of the cases were eventually dismissed without any accountability from the agency.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">This is what the $80 billion allotted by the IRA was supposed to rectify</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. As of October 2022, the Congressional Research Service&nbsp;<a href="https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IN/IN11977" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><u>reported</u></a>&nbsp;that over a span of 10 years, the funding would update the agency’s outdated systems and technologies, bolster operations support (such as rent, facility, security costs), expand and enhance taxpayer services (prefiling assistance and education), and “monitor and enforce taxes on digital assets such as cryptocurrency."</span></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Then, GOP hardliners and allies of former President Donald Trump attempted to hijack that narrative across social media by claiming that the IRA would instead use the money to hire “87,000 new agents” who would track down “ordinary taxpayers."</span></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong>READ MORE:&nbsp;</strong><a href="https://www.alternet.org/allen-weisselberg-2658963350/" target="self" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><u><strong>'Taxpayers are losers in Trumpland': Juror in Trump Organization tax fraud case speaks out</strong></u></a></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Moreover, members of the party who are spewing that lie are not letting up on their desire to repeal 90 percent of the funding, which Americans for Tax Fairness said in its press release would take away plans to improve taxpayer services (for refunds, customer calls, etc.), fund US Tax Court to resolve cases between taxpayers and the agency, and also provide the IRS with enough resources to launch an easy and free, government e-filing system.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Mechanic noted that the GOP’s gesture of proposing anti-tax bills that benefit no one but the 1 percent is nothing new, and Tax Policy Center Senior Fellow Steve Rosenthal presumed that the issue of IRS funding will be “ongoing” in both Senate and House sessions for the foreseeable future.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong>READ MORE:&nbsp;</strong><a href="https://www.alternet.org/donald-trump-skipped-irs-audit/" target="self" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><u><strong>Taxpayer rights expert 'absolutely flabbergasted' that Donald Trump escaped IRS presidential audit: report</strong></u></a></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/07/billionaires-gop-congress/">https://www.alternet.org/2022/07/billionaires-gop-congress/</a></div><div>
</div><div>no lnx table grfx</div><div>
</div><div><b>Just 27 billionaires have spent $90 million to buy GOP congress: report</b></div><div><b>
</b></div><div>[ brk windows london? ]</div><div>Rupert Murdoch receiving the 2015 Global Leadership Award, Wikimedia Commons</div><div>
</div><div>Kenny Stancil and Common Dreams July 19, 2022</div><div><b>&nbsp; &nbsp;</b></div><div><b>A few dozen billionaires are spending tens of millions of dollars on the 2022 midterm elections—mostly to support Republican candidates, including many who have parroted the dangerous lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen—in a bid to ensure that Congress is full of lawmakers willing "to make their wealthy benefactors even richer," according to a fresh analysis.</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">Titled Billionaires Buying Elections, the report from Americans for Tax Fairness (ATF) details how "billionaires are increasingly using their personal fortunes and the profits of connected corporations to drown out regular voters' voices and elect hand-picked candidates who further rig the nation's economy—especially the tax system."</span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">A pair of super PACs tasked with securing Republican majorities in the House and Senate—the Congressional Leadership Fund (CLF) and the [cnp?] Senate Leadership Fund (SLF)—raised a combined $188.3 million through the first 16 months of the 2022 campaign cycle, according to ATF.&nbsp;</span><b>Nearly half—$89.4 million, or 48%—came from just 27 billionaires. A whopping 86% of the GOP's billionaire money came from "Wall Street tycoons" who are arguably the biggest beneficiaries of glaring loopholes in the tax code.</b></div><div>
</div><div><b>The Democratic counterparts of those two super PACs—the House Majority PAC and the Senate Majority PAC—raised a combined $154 million over the same time period.</b>&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">A smaller share—$25.8 million, or 17%—came from 19 billionaires. A majority of billionaire contributions to Democratic candidates also came from the finance and investment sector (35%), but other industries were also well-represented, including&nbsp;<b>cryptocurrency (26%), and tech (18%).</b></span></div><div>
</div><div>"Unlike candidates and party committees, super PACs can raise unlimited donations from individuals and corporations," ATF explained. "In return they are not supposed to coordinate activities with the campaigns they support but instead act independently, though that rule is often flouted."</div><div>
</div><div><b>Top billionaire donors to congressional super PACs include hedge fund magnate Ken Griffin, who has given more than $28.5 million to CLF and SLF, and private equity mogul Stephen Schwarzman, who has pumped $20 million into the GOP's two super PACs.</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"Anti-democratic vote-buying," ATF wrote, "has been facilitated by—and is facilitating—the accelerating wealth growth of the billionaire class and the record profits of the corporations they own."</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>The combined net worth of the nation's roughly 750 billionaires surged by $2 trillion, or 70%, during the first two years of the Covid-19 pandemic. The collective wealth of the 27 billionaires bankrolling the GOP's super PACs alone soared by $82.4 billion over that time period, meaning that the $89.4 million they have donated to CLF and SLF constitutes less than 0.1% of their overall pandemic-era gains.</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Meanwhile, the return on that modest investment could amount to billions of dollars if Republicans take back Congress in November and preserve their 2017 tax cuts or further slash taxes on superrich people and the&nbsp;<b>corporations</b>&nbsp;they own.</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>Over a recent nine-year period, the 400 wealthiest people in the U.S. paid an average effective federal income tax rate of just 8.2% when the increased value of their stock holdings is included in their income. That is a lower rate than the nationwide average of 13.3% in 2019.</b></div><div>
</div><div>As ATF explained, focusing on contributions to congressional super PACs fails "to capture the full political influence of billionaires, who in addition to personal donations also steer money to favored candidates from related corporations and organizations."</div><div>
</div><div><b>Billionaires are among the ultrawealthy Americans who&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">control corporations through their extensive stock holdings.</span>&nbsp;Many corporate giants have been distorting the upcoming midterms, ATF pointed out, by spending tens of millions to help GOP candidates who have vowed to defend special tax breaks for the top 1% get elected, including 144 far-right members of Congress who voted to overturn President Joe Biden's electoral victory.</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">According to the report, seven powerful corporations—AT&T, Chevron, ExxonMobil, FedEx, GM, Merck, and UPS—have collectively given nearly $1.5 million to dozens of election deniers and various Republican PACs and election committees this campaign cycle.</span>&nbsp;The companies' demonstrated lack of concern for democracy, ATF noted, likely stems from their desire to keep dodging taxes. In 2021, these firms paid an average federal income tax rate of just 2.7% on a combined $78.4 billion in profits.</div><div>
</div><div><b>Notably, Peter Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal who is worth about $5 billion and openly opposed to democracy, has been spending big on his preferred Republican candidates but not through the GOP's congressional super PACs.</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Thiel "has so far spent almost $30 million through super PACs supporting the 2022 senatorial bids of two former employees who share his anti-democratic and anti-tax beliefs," ATF found. "J.D. Vance won the Ohio Republican U.S. Senate primary thanks in part to Thiel's $15 million in spending. Blake Masters has a fighting chance in Arizona's GOP U.S. Senate primary in August due to Thiel's $13.5 million in contributions."</span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Another source of "billionaire dominance of campaign financing, especially on the Republican side," wrote ATF, are so-called "<b>dark money" groups, which are not required to disclose the identity of their donors. Some dark money groups—including Club for Growth,</b>&nbsp;which has received $32 million from billionaire Wall Street trader Jeffrey Yass over the years—are "notorious for having bankrolled insurrectionist members of Congress" like Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), ATF noted.</span></div><div>
</div><div>According to the report:</div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b>Politically active billionaire Charles Koch has not personally donated to either GOP super PAC this cycle, but his corporation—Koch Industries—has so far given them a total of $1.75 million.</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Two of the biggest "dark money" groups, which do not disclose their donors, are essentially sister groups to the<b>&nbsp;two congressional GOP super PACs. American Action Network&nbsp;</b>gave at least $26 million to CLF in the 2020 cycle and $18.7 million so far this cycle.<b>&nbsp;One Nation</b>&nbsp;donated $77.5 million to SLF last cycle and has given $16.5 million so far this cycle.</span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">The ability of the nation's wealthiest individuals to translate their disproportionate economic power into political clout has increased exponentially since the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision eliminated effective limits on campaign contributions.</span></div><div>
</div><div>
</div><div>According to the report:</div><div>
</div><div><b>Billionaires pumped $1.2 billion into the 2020 elections, almost 40 times more than the $31 million they donated in 2010, when the Citizens United rules were first in effect. In the 2020 election cycle, billionaires contributed nearly $1 out of every $10, while making up just 0.01% of all donors contributing more than $200.</b></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Billionaires donated almost $240 million to the combined campaign efforts of Donald Trump's two runs for president. Over half came from just one billionaire household, that of casino magnate Sheldon Adelson (who has since died).</span></div><div>"Billionaires, who are used to buying whatever they want, have increasingly dedicated their almost unlimited resources to buying American elections," Frank Clemente, executive director of ATF, said in a statement.</div><div>
</div><div><b>"The problem is what's good for billionaires—including cutting taxes on the rich and corporations—is bad for working families," said Clemente. "We need to rein in billionaire political and economic power through campaign finance reforms and tax reforms such as a billionaires income tax."</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Several legislative proposals have emerged to tax the increased value of assets owned by the nation's wealthiest households each year regardless of whether they sell or keep them, which would ensure that income derived from wealth is taxed more like income earned from work.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Biden's plan would raise an estimated $360 billion over 10 years, while Sen. Ron Wyden's (D-Ore.) plan would raise an estimated $550 billion over a decade, and Rep. Jamaal Bowman's (D-N.Y.) proposal possibly even more.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Billionaire-backed Democratic Sen<b>. Joe Manchin (W.Va.), however, has joined Senate Republicans in opposing such a measure.</b></span></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/02/billionaire/">https://www.alternet.org/2022/02/billionaire/</a></font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">comm dr</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><strong style="">over the next few</strong>&nbsp;decades, the richest American families could avoid paying about $8.4 trillion in taxes, or more than four times the cost of the stalled Build Back Better package, according to a report released Wednesday.</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Americans for Tax Fairness report—entitled&nbsp;<a href="https://americansfortaxfairness.org/wp-content/uploads/DT-2.2.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Dynasty Trusts: Giant Tax Loopholes that Supercharge Wealth Accumulation</a>—urges Congress to fix the federal tax code to address dynastic wealth</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The new analysis details how loopholes have made the payment of estate, gift, and generation-skipping taxes—collectively called wealth-transfer taxes—effectively optional for the "ultrawealthy" and thereby accelerate the "accumulation of dynastic wealth."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Ultrarich families use dynasty trusts—the term for a variety of wealth-accumulating structures that remain in place for multiple generations—to ensure their fortunes cascade down to children, grandchildren, and beyond undiminished by wealth-transfer taxes," the report explains.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Some U.S. states, such as South Dakota, have even changed their laws on dynasty trusts to attract wealthy residents, as Chuck Collins of the Institute for Policy&nbsp;<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/10/01/why-billionaires-love-park-their-dynastic-wealth-places-south-dakota" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">highlighted</a>&nbsp;last year.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The new report notes that U.S. lawmakers aren't planning to address the issue, even if the Senate passes a version of a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/11/19/time-deliver-house-democrats-pass-build-back-better-act-zero-gop-votes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">House-approved</a>&nbsp;package:</font></p><blockquote style="margin: 1em 40px 1em -5px; border-left: 4px solid rgb(11, 13, 101); line-height: 32px; padding: 10px 20px 10px 24px; width: 602.546px; background: rgb(245, 245, 245);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Build Back Better (BBB) legislation now before Congress—otherwise a vehicle for significant progressive tax reform—does nothing to directly reverse this toxic accumulation of dynastic wealth. Moreover, some dynasty trust reforms that were included in the bill passed by the House Ways and Means Committee in September 2021 were stripped out before the House voted on the measure in November.
</font></blockquote><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The BBB bill needs full support from Senate Democrats to pass. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.)—one of the primary reasons the legislation hasn't reached President Joe Biden's desk—said Tuesday that it is "dead."</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">However, <b>Americans for Tax Fairness </b>still uses the whittled-down BBB package to illustrate just how much money wealthy Americans can hoard for their families in the years ahead thanks to the U.S. tax system.</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"The tax savings for the richest families could be about $8.4 trillion over the next 24 years or so if the current 40% estate tax rate remains in place," the report states. <b>"That's the equivalent of more than four Build Back Better plans costing $1.75 trillion each over 10 years."</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The report adds that "about half of the $8.4 trillion is equivalent to the cost of the expanded child tax credit, which was included in the House-passed BBB bill and is estimated to reduce childhood poverty by 40%, for 24 years at $160 billion a year.</b>" [twt]</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"This hoarding of wealth is inexcusable," declared the report's principal author, Bob Lord, who practiced estate law for 30 years before joining Americans for Tax Fairness as tax counsel.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The BBB legislation now before the U.S. Senate should be amended to close loopholes in the three components of America's wealth transfer tax system: the estate, gift, and generation-skipping tax," he asserted. "Effective reforms have already been developed—all that's needed is for Congress to recognize the urgency to act now."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The group's new analysis and call for action come after Americans for Tax Fairness&nbsp;<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/01/19/top-10-us-billionaires-got-1-billion-richer-every-day-pandemic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">estimated</a>&nbsp;last month that the 10 wealthiest billionaires in the United States have become approximately $1 billion richer collectively every day of the Covid-19 pandemic.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wednesday's report contains a warning about that group of ultra-billionaires, mentioning by name Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk of Telsa and SpaceX.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"As much as familiar fortunes have blossomed in the low-regulation, low-tax, wealth-worshiping environment of the previous 40 years," the report says, "the next 40 and beyond could see the rise of economic dynasties that will make the old money look small."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Along with closing dynasty-trust tax loopholes, Americans for Tax Fairness urges reforms that would "curb the year-to-year accumulation of wealth in existing trusts." Specifically, it calls for a new income-tax bracket "on undistributed trust income in excess of $250,000 that is five percentage points higher than the maximum income-tax bracket for individuals."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Noting a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/02/03/joining-powerful-finance-committee-warren-vows-introduce-wealth-tax-first-order" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">proposal</a>&nbsp;from Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), the group also encourages U.S. lawmakers to "impose an annual 2% wealth tax on the portion of a dynasty trust's holdings that exceed $50 million, and an additional 1% on dynasty trust accumulations in excess of $1 billion."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The choice is clear," according to the report. "We can fix our broken estate and gift tax system and stop the concentration of an ever-larger share of America's wealth inside enormous dynasty trusts, or we can trust our democracy to a handful of trillionaire trust fund babies."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Fortunately, we know what needs to be done," the report concludes. "The sole remaining challenge is to summon the courage to stand up to the holders of dynastic wealth and their enablers."</font></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div><div><div style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">aha omg yikes none of these ppl have been pro-democracy, at least when it conflicts w/ profits; zuck says pro regulation as deflection of blame? or // exxon on carbo tax, knowsit will not happen so lip service?</font></div><div style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/01/billionaires-2656489510/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2022/01/billionaires-2656489510/</font></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">me truthout</font></div><div><p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Billionaire election&nbsp;<a href="https://truthout.org/articles/since-citizens-united-billionaires-are-spending-nearly-1b-more-on-elections/" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">spending has drastically increased over the last 12 years as a result of the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling</a>,</b>&nbsp;according to TruthOut.</font></p><p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Americans For Fair Taxation (AFFT)&nbsp;</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">recently analyzed data that breaks down election campaign contributions. Their assessment suggests that there is an upward trend in billionaire donations to political campaigns. Per the assessment, "billionaires have increased their donations from $31 million total during the 2010 election cycle to a whopping $1.2 billion in the 2020 election cycle, or about 39 times more."</span></font></p><p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In short, the amount spent in just 2020 accounts for almost 40% of all billionaire political campaign donations since 1990. In fact, spending in the four-year span between 2012 and 2016 is an indication of how trends have changed dramatically.</b></font></p><p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In 2016, billionaires spent approximately $682 million in campaign donations as opposed to just $233 million back in 2012. So how did the&nbsp;<em>Citizens United&nbsp;</em>ruling open this door?</font></p><p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Per Truthout:</font></p><p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"In January of 2010, conservative Supreme Court justices ruled in their&nbsp;<em>Citizens United</em>&nbsp;decision that restricting corporate donations was a violation of corporations’ First Amendment rights – a decision that granted individual rights to corporations and enabled them to spend unlimited amounts of money on campaign contributions. As a result of this decision, vast amounts of money from corporate and deep-pocketed interests have been funneled into elections."</font></p><p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Frank Clemente, executive director of Americans for Tax Fair</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">ness</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">&nbsp;</span></font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">released a statement criticizing the court's decision describing it as "weak taxation of the wealthy" and "anemic regulation."</font></p><p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“On this anniversary of the disastrous&nbsp;<em>Citizens United</em>&nbsp;decision, the escalating campaign donations of billionaires offer the clearest argument possible for why we have to get big money out of politics,” said Clemente. “Weak taxation of the wealthy combined with anemic regulation of campaign fundraising have handed America’s billionaires outsized political influence to go along with their huge economic clout.”</span>
</font></p><p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>AFFT also released a statement</b>&nbsp;criticizing the ruling.</font></p><p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><b>“Corporations are not people</b>, and billionaires shouldn’t get to use their enormous wealth to pick and choose who they want in office,” Americans for Tax Fairness wrote. “It’s well beyond time for Citizens United to go, and to put real action towards getting big money out of politics. Our democracy depends on it.”</font></p></div></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><section class="top-card-layout" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px -24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-radius: 8px; overflow: hidden; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.08) 0px -1px 1px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.08) 1px 0px 1px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.08) -1px 0px 1px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.08) 0px 1px 1px;"><div class="top-card-layoutcard" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 24px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative;"><div class="top-card-layoutentity-info-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; display: flex;"><div class="top-card-layoutentity-info" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex: 1 0 0%;"><h1 class="top-card-layouttitle" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Frank Clemente</font></h1><h2 class="top-card-layoutheadline" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Executive Director, Americans for Tax Fairness</font></h2><h3 class="top-card-layoutfirst-subline" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="top-cardsubline-item" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px;">Washington, District of Columbia, United States</span><span class="top-cardsubline-item top-cardsubline-item--bullet" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px;">500+ connections</span></font></h3></div><div class="top-card-layoutentity-info top-card-layoutentity-info--right-column" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex: 1 0 0%; max-width: 288px;"><div class="top-cardlinks-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><div data-section="currentPositionsDetails" class="top-cardright-column-link top-cardposition-info with-transition" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><div class="top-card-link" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.75; font-weight: 600; display: flex; -webkit-box-align: center; align-items: center;"><img class="artdeco-entity-image artdeco-entity-image--square-1 artdeco-entity-image--ghost top-card-linklogo lazy-loaded" data-ghost-classes="artdeco-entity-image--ghost" data-ghost-url="https://static-exp1.licdn.com/sc/h/3dtfvv2esz58o2zimai1h3v2d" alt="Americans for Tax Fairness" src="https://static-exp1.licdn.com/sc/h/3dtfvv2esz58o2zimai1h3v2d" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 4px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; background: content-box content-box rgb(179, 182, 185); outline: 0px; display: inline-block; flex-shrink: 0; width: 32px; height: 32px; border-radius: 6px; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 334ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1) 0s;" /><span class="top-card-linkdescription" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; display: -webkit-box; max-height: 4.8rem; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; line-height: 2.4rem !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Americans for Tax Fairness</font></span></div></div><div data-section="educationsDetails" class="top-cardright-column-link top-cardeducation-info with-transition" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><a class="top-card-link top-card-link--link" href="https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-at-albany/?trk=public_profile_topcard-school" target="self" data-tracking-control-name="public_profile_topcard-school" data-tracking-will-navigate="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 600; border: 0px; line-height: 1.75; display: flex; -webkit-box-align: center; align-items: center;"><img class="artdeco-entity-image artdeco-entity-image--square-1 top-card-linklogo lazy-loaded" data-ghost-classes="artdeco-entity-image--ghost" data-ghost-url="https://static-exp1.licdn.com/sc/h/csnc6op83cjt60ym5equoy1km" alt="State University of New York at Albany" src="https://media-exp1.licdn.com/dms/image/C560BAQEgligKcl8XgQ/company-logo_100_100/0/1623779321933?e=1651104000&v=beta&t=h3-mWsF0d4fVwOeSI_AZC1GN2IDA4J00gDnGRYV3g90" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 4px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; background: content-box content-box transparent; outline: 0px; display: inline-block; flex-shrink: 0; width: 32px; height: 32px; border-radius: 6px; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 334ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1) 0s;" /><span class="top-card-linkdescription" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; display: -webkit-box; max-height: 4.8rem; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; line-height: 2.4rem !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">State University of New York at Albany</font></span></a></div><div data-section="websites" class="top-cardright-column-link top-cardwebsites with-transition" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><a class="top-card-link top-card-link--link websites" href="https://www.linkedin.com/redir/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffrankclemente%2Ecom%2F&urlhash=8GAK&trk=public_profile_topcard-website" target="blank" data-tracking-control-name="public_profile_topcard-website" data-tracking-will-navigate="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 600; border: 0px; line-height: 1.75; display: flex; -webkit-box-align: center; align-items: center; cursor: pointer;"><img class="top-card-linklogo top-card-linklogo--link-icon artdeco-entity-image artdeco-entity-image--square-1 lazy-loaded" alt="Company Website" aria-hidden="true" src="https://static-exp1.licdn.com/sc/h/9o8qqup6da04vhqijz8ft1j5g" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 4px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; background: content-box content-box transparent; outline: 0px; display: inline-block; flex-shrink: 0; width: 32px; height: 32px; border-radius: 6px; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 334ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1) 0s;" /></a><div style="text-align: center; background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; border: 0px; line-height: 1.75; -webkit-box-align: center; align-items: center; cursor: pointer; display: inline !important;"><div style="text-align: left;"><a class="top-card-link top-card-link--link websites" href="https://www.linkedin.com/redir/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffrankclemente%2Ecom%2F&urlhash=8GAK&trk=public_profile_topcard-website" target="blank" data-tracking-control-name="public_profile_topcard-website" data-tracking-will-navigate="" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; border: 0px; line-height: 1.75; -webkit-box-align: center; align-items: center; cursor: pointer; display: inline !important;"><span class="top-card-linkdescription" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; display: inline !important; max-height: 4.8rem; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; line-height: 2.4rem !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Company Website<img class="websiteslink-external-icon lazy-loaded" alt="External link" aria-hidden="true" src="https://static-exp1.licdn.com/sc/h/8w0vew433o9nluoruq9k5eqy" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 334ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1) 0s; height: 16px; width: 16px; line-height: inherit !important;" /></font></span></a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></section><section class="core-section-container core-section-container--with-border pp-section summary" data-section="summary" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 24px 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(230, 233, 236); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="core-section-containercontent" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Very experienced issue campaign manager specializing in strategic planning, lobbying, research and policy, communications, coalition building, grassroots mobilization, and fundraising.</font></p></div></section><section class="core-section-container core-section-container--with-border pp-section activities" data-section="posts" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 24px 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(230, 233, 236); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h2 class="core-section-containertitle" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Activity</font></h2><div class="core-section-containercontent" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; list-style: none;"><li class="activities-sectionitem--posts" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-align: left;"><div class="base-card base-card--link base-main-card base-main-card--link main-activity-card" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 16px 16px 16px 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; width: 742px; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap;"><a class="base-cardfull-link" href="https://www.linkedin.com/signup/cold-join?session_redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Elinkedin%2Ecom%2Ffeed%2Fupdate%2Furn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6679458900418289664&trk=public_profile_share_view" data-tracking-control-name="public_profile_share_view" data-tracking-will-navigate="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 600; border: 0px; position: absolute; inset: 0px; z-index: 2;"><span class="screen-reader-text" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; height: 1px; left: -10000px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: auto; width: 1px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">NEW REPORT: Billionaires see net worth skyrocket $584 billion or 20% since beginning of pandemic This orgy of wealth shows how fundamentally flawed…</font></span></a><div class="base-main-cardmedia" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; width: 228px; height: 134px; overflow: hidden; flex-shrink: 0; border-radius: 2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><img class="main-activity-cardimg lazy-loaded" alt="" src="https://static.licdn.com/scds/common/u/img/pic/pic_pulse_stock_article_9.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 334ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1) 0s; width: 228px; border-radius: inherit; object-fit: cover;" /></font></div><div class="base-main-cardinfo" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; align-self: center; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex: 1 1 0%;"><h3 class="base-main-cardtitle" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333; word-break: break-word; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">NEW REPORT: Billionaires see net worth skyrocket $584 billion or 20% since beginning of pandemic This orgy of wealth shows how fundamentally flawed…</font></h3><h4 class="base-main-cardsubtitle" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 20px; word-break: break-word; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Shared by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/frank-clemente-aaa57632?trk=public_profile_share_view_actor-name" data-tracking-control-name="public_profile_share_view_actor-name" data-tracking-will-navigate="true" class="hidden-nested-link" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; border: 0px;">Frank Clemente</a></font></h4></div></div></li><li class="activities-sectionitem--posts" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-align: left;"><div class="base-card base-card--link base-main-card base-main-card--link main-activity-card" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 16px 16px 16px 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; width: 742px; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap;"><a class="base-cardfull-link" href="https://www.linkedin.com/signup/cold-join?session_redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Elinkedin%2Ecom%2Ffeed%2Fupdate%2Furn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6574396721571393536&trk=public_profile_like_view" data-tracking-control-name="public_profile_like_view" data-tracking-will-navigate="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 600; border: 0px; position: absolute; inset: 0px; z-index: 2;"><span class="screen-reader-text" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; height: 1px; left: -10000px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: auto; width: 1px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Very excited about the positive review of my most recent book, "Contemporary Nigerian Politics," in the Washington Post's Monkey Cage blog. Check it…</font></span></a><div class="base-main-cardmedia" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; width: 228px; height: 134px; overflow: hidden; flex-shrink: 0; border-radius: 2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><img class="main-activity-cardimg main-activity-cardimg--ghost lazy-loaded" alt="" src="https://static-exp1.licdn.com/sc/h/51xdp0u9qm8nhegwpxoxgd0mb" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 334ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1) 0s; width: 228px; border-radius: inherit; object-fit: cover;" /></font></div><div class="base-main-cardinfo" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; align-self: center; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex: 1 1 0%;"><h3 class="base-main-cardtitle" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333; word-break: break-word; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Very excited about the positive review of my most recent book, "Contemporary Nigerian Politics," in the Washington Post's Monkey Cage blog. Check it…</font></h3><h4 class="base-main-cardsubtitle" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 20px; word-break: break-word; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Liked by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/frank-clemente-aaa57632?trk=public_profile_like_view_actor-name" data-tracking-control-name="public_profile_like_view_actor-name" data-tracking-will-navigate="true" class="hidden-nested-link" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; border: 0px;">Frank Clemente</a></font></h4></div></div></li></ul></div></section><section class="core-section-container core-section-container--with-border pp-section experience" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 24px 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(230, 233, 236); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h2 class="core-section-containertitle" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">experience</font></h2><div class="core-section-containercontent" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><ul class="experiencelist" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; list-style: none;"><li class="profile-section-card experience-item" data-section="currentPositionsDetails" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 12px 16px 12px 8px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-align: left; position: relative; display: flex; list-style: none; width: 742px;"><img class="artdeco-entity-image artdeco-entity-image--square-4 artdeco-entity-image--ghost profile-section-cardimage lazy-loaded" data-ghost-classes="artdeco-entity-image--ghost" data-ghost-url="https://static-exp1.licdn.com/sc/h/3dtfvv2esz58o2zimai1h3v2d" alt="Americans for Tax Fairness Graphic" aria-hidden="true" src="https://static-exp1.licdn.com/sc/h/3dtfvv2esz58o2zimai1h3v2d" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 4px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; background: content-box content-box rgb(179, 182, 185); outline: 0px; display: inline-block; flex-shrink: 0; width: 56px; height: 56px; border-radius: 6px; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 334ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1) 0s;" /><div class="profile-section-cardcontents" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex-grow: 1; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><h3 class="profile-section-cardtitle" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Executive Director</font></h3><h4 class="profile-section-cardsubtitle" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Americans for Tax Fairness</font></h4><div class="profile-section-cardmeta" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.75;"><p class="experience-itemduration experience-itemmeta-item" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.75;"><span class="date-range" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><time style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px;">Jan 2012</time>&nbsp;- Present<span class="date-rangeduration" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px;">10 years 1 month</span></font></span></p><p class="experience-itemlocation experience-itemmeta-item" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Washington, DC</font></p><div class="experience-itemdescription experience-itemmeta-item" data-section="currentPositions" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.75;"><div class="show-more-less-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><p class="show-more-less-texttext--less" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Americans for Tax Fairness is a diverse campaign of 400 national, state and local organizations united in support of a tax system that works for all Americans. It has come together based on the belief that the country needs comprehensive, progressive tax reform that results in greater revenue to meet our growing needs.</font></p></div></div></div></div></li><li class="profile-section-card experience-item" data-section="pastPositionsDetails" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 12px 16px 12px 8px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-align: left; position: relative; display: flex; list-style: none; width: 742px;"><img class="artdeco-entity-image artdeco-entity-image--square-4 artdeco-entity-image--ghost profile-section-cardimage lazy-loaded" data-ghost-classes="artdeco-entity-image--ghost" data-ghost-url="https://static-exp1.licdn.com/sc/h/3dtfvv2esz58o2zimai1h3v2d" alt="Frank Clemente Consulting Graphic" aria-hidden="true" src="https://static-exp1.licdn.com/sc/h/3dtfvv2esz58o2zimai1h3v2d" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 4px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; background: content-box content-box rgb(179, 182, 185); outline: 0px; display: inline-block; flex-shrink: 0; width: 56px; height: 56px; border-radius: 6px; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 334ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1) 0s;" /><div class="profile-section-cardcontents" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex-grow: 1; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><h3 class="profile-section-cardtitle" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Principal</font></h3><h4 class="profile-section-cardsubtitle" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Frank Clemente Consulting</font></h4><div class="profile-section-cardmeta" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.75;"><p class="experience-itemduration experience-itemmeta-item" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.75;"><span class="date-range" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><time style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px;">Aug 2008</time>&nbsp;-&nbsp;<time style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px;">Apr 2013</time><span class="date-rangeduration" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px;">4 years 9 months</span></font></span></p><p class="experience-itemlocation experience-itemmeta-item" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Washington, D.C.</font></p></div></div></li><li class="profile-section-card experience-item" data-section="pastPositionsDetails" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 12px 16px 12px 8px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-align: left; position: relative; display: flex; list-style: none; width: 742px;"><img class="artdeco-entity-image artdeco-entity-image--square-4 artdeco-entity-image--ghost profile-section-cardimage lazy-loaded" data-ghost-classes="artdeco-entity-image--ghost" data-ghost-url="https://static-exp1.licdn.com/sc/h/3dtfvv2esz58o2zimai1h3v2d" alt="Strengthen Social Security Campaign Graphic" aria-hidden="true" src="https://static-exp1.licdn.com/sc/h/3dtfvv2esz58o2zimai1h3v2d" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 4px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; background: content-box content-box rgb(179, 182, 185); outline: 0px; display: inline-block; flex-shrink: 0; width: 56px; height: 56px; border-radius: 6px; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 334ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1) 0s;" /><div class="profile-section-cardcontents" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex-grow: 1; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><h3 class="profile-section-cardtitle" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Campaign Manager</font></h3><h4 class="profile-section-cardsubtitle" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Strengthen Social Security Campaign</font></h4><div class="profile-section-cardmeta" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.75;"><p class="experience-itemduration experience-itemmeta-item" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.75;"><span class="date-range" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><time style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px;">Jun 2010</time>&nbsp;-&nbsp;<time style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px;">Dec 2011</time><span class="date-rangeduration" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px;">1 year 7 months</span></font></span></p><p class="experience-itemlocation experience-itemmeta-item" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Washington, D.C.</font></p><div class="experience-itemdescription experience-itemmeta-item" data-section="pastPositions" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.75;"><div class="show-more-less-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><p class="show-more-less-texttext--less" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Manage all facets of this annual $2 million campaign with eight staff and consultants: Strategic planning and legislative targeting; coordinate a 320-group coalition; field organizing in 20 states through contract field partners and coalition partners; polling, message development and communications through traditional and new media; research and policy development; preparation of public education materials.</font></p></div></div></div></div></li><li class="profile-section-card experience-item" data-section="pastPositionsDetails" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 12px 16px 12px 8px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-align: left; position: relative; display: flex; list-style: none; width: 742px;"><img class="artdeco-entity-image artdeco-entity-image--square-4 artdeco-entity-image--ghost profile-section-cardimage lazy-loaded" data-ghost-classes="artdeco-entity-image--ghost" data-ghost-url="https://static-exp1.licdn.com/sc/h/3dtfvv2esz58o2zimai1h3v2d" alt="Communications Workers of America Graphic" aria-hidden="true" src="https://static-exp1.licdn.com/sc/h/3dtfvv2esz58o2zimai1h3v2d" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 4px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; background: content-box content-box rgb(179, 182, 185); outline: 0px; display: inline-block; flex-shrink: 0; width: 56px; height: 56px; border-radius: 6px; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 334ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1) 0s;" /><div class="profile-section-cardcontents" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex-grow: 1; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><h3 class="profile-section-cardtitle" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Consultant</font></h3><h4 class="profile-section-cardsubtitle" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Communications Workers of America</font></h4><div class="profile-section-cardmeta" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.75;"><p class="experience-itemduration experience-itemmeta-item" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.75;"><span class="date-range" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><time style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px;">Jul 2007</time>&nbsp;-&nbsp;<time style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px;">May 2010</time><span class="date-rangeduration" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px;">2 years 11 months</span></font></span></p><p class="experience-itemlocation experience-itemmeta-item" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Washington, D.C.</font></p><div class="experience-itemdescription experience-itemmeta-item" data-section="pastPositions" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.75;"><div class="show-more-less-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><p class="show-more-less-texttext--less" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Managed a $3-5 million a year campaign to enact health care reform and build the union’s legislative and political infrastructure by mobilizing state and local leaders and members through more than 100 congressional district coordinators. Duties included: Strategic planning and legislative/political targeting; D.C.-based lobbying and coalition building; policy development, research and writing; coordinating polling, communications and paid and earned media; grassroots legislative action and…</font></p><button class="show-more-less-textbutton show-more-less-textbutton--more" data-tracking-control-name="public_profile_experience-item_show-more-text-btn" aria-label="Show full description for this position" aria-expanded="false" style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 12px 0px 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; cursor: pointer; display: block; font-weight: 600; height: 40px; line-height: 40px; overflow: hidden; outline-width: 2px; position: relative; transition-duration: 167ms; transition-property: background-color, box-shadow, color, -webkit-box-shadow; transition-timing-function: cubic-bezier(0, 0, 0.2, 1); vertical-align: middle; z-index: 0; border-radius: 4px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Show more&nbsp;<icon class="show-more-less-textbutton-icon lazy-loaded" aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: border-box; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 334ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1) 0s; display: inline-flex; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px; height: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1px 4px;"><svg width="16" height="16" preserveaspectratio="xMinYMin meet" focusable="false" class="lazy-loaded" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><path d="M8 9l5.93-4L15 6.54l-6.15 4.2a1.5 1.5 0 01-1.69 0L1 6.54 2.07 5z" fill="currentColor" /></svg></icon></font></button></div></div></div></div></li><li class="profile-section-card experience-item" data-section="pastPositionsDetails" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 12px 16px 12px 8px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-align: left; position: relative; display: flex; list-style: none; width: 742px;"><img class="artdeco-entity-image artdeco-entity-image--square-4 artdeco-entity-image--ghost profile-section-cardimage lazy-loaded" data-ghost-classes="artdeco-entity-image--ghost" data-ghost-url="https://static-exp1.licdn.com/sc/h/3dtfvv2esz58o2zimai1h3v2d" alt="Change to Win Labor Federation Graphic" aria-hidden="true" src="https://static-exp1.licdn.com/sc/h/3dtfvv2esz58o2zimai1h3v2d" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 4px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; background: content-box content-box rgb(179, 182, 185); outline: 0px; display: inline-block; flex-shrink: 0; width: 56px; height: 56px; border-radius: 6px; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 334ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1) 0s;" /><div class="profile-section-cardcontents" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex-grow: 1; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><h3 class="profile-section-cardtitle" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Issue Campaigns Director</font></h3><h4 class="profile-section-cardsubtitle" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Change to Win Labor Federation</font></h4><div class="profile-section-cardmeta" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.75;"><p class="experience-itemduration experience-itemmeta-item" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.75;"><span class="date-range" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><time style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px;">Mar 2006</time>&nbsp;-&nbsp;<time style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px;">Jul 2007</time><span class="date-rangeduration" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px;">1 year 5 months</span></font></span></p><p class="experience-itemlocation experience-itemmeta-item" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Washington, D.C.</font></p><div class="experience-itemdescription experience-itemmeta-item" data-section="pastPositions" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.75;"><div class="show-more-less-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><p class="show-more-less-texttext--less" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Managed the public policy and legislative work of this six-million member labor federation with seven affiliates (SEIU, Teamsters, UFCW, Laborers, Carpenters, UNITE HERE and Farm Workers). Issue areas were labor law reform, health care, retirement security, immigration and trade. Coordinated work with affiliates, developed policy positions, implemented legislative strategy, conducted research, prepared public education materials and managed digital strategies.</font></p></div></div></div></div></li><li class="profile-section-card experience-item" data-section="pastPositionsDetails" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 12px 16px 12px 8px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-align: left; position: relative; display: flex; list-style: none; width: 742px;"><a class="profile-section-cardimage-link" href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/public-citizen?trk=public_profile_experience-item_profile-section-card_image-click" data-tracking-control-name="public_profile_experience-item_profile-section-card_image-click" data-tracking-will-navigate="" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 600; border: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><img class="artdeco-entity-image artdeco-entity-image--square-4 profile-section-cardimage lazy-loaded" data-ghost-classes="artdeco-entity-image--ghost" data-ghost-url="https://static-exp1.licdn.com/sc/h/3dtfvv2esz58o2zimai1h3v2d" alt="Public Citizen's Congress Watch Graphic" aria-hidden="true" src="https://media-exp1.licdn.com/dms/image/C4D0BAQEIrjcelpDGqg/company-logo_100_100/0/1519856569635?e=1651104000&v=beta&t=YLGP5bvinx_bTWyqHf-owP4DNnudqDtlmdFrNA4AlqI" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 4px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; background: content-box content-box transparent; outline: 0px; display: inline-block; flex-shrink: 0; width: 56px; height: 56px; border-radius: 6px; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 334ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1) 0s;" /></font></a><div class="profile-section-cardcontents" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex-grow: 1; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><h3 class="profile-section-cardtitle" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Director</font></h3><h4 class="profile-section-cardsubtitle" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.75;"><a class="profile-section-cardsubtitle-link" href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/public-citizen?trk=public_profile_experience-item_profile-section-card_subtitle-click" data-tracking-control-name="public_profile_experience-item_profile-section-card_subtitle-click" data-tracking-will-navigate="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; border: 0px; line-height: 1.75; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Public Citizen's Congress Watch</font></a></h4><div class="profile-section-cardmeta" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.75;"><p class="experience-itemduration experience-itemmeta-item" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.75;"><span class="date-range" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><time style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px;">Dec 1996</time>&nbsp;-&nbsp;<time style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px;">Mar 2006</time><span class="date-rangeduration" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px;">9 years 4 months</span></font></span></p><p class="experience-itemlocation experience-itemmeta-item" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Washington, D.C.</font></p><div class="experience-itemdescription experience-itemmeta-item" data-section="pastPositions" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.75;"><div class="show-more-less-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><p class="show-more-less-texttext--less" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Managed 15 lobbyists, researchers, field organizers and communications staff for 150,000 member organization. Served as chief strategist and lobbyist for campaigns on health care reform, campaign finance reform, tort “reform” and health and safety regulations. Played a leadership role in coalitions. Served as communications director, overseeing preparation of public relations materials and Web sites; secured 500-plus media hits a year; and made frequent appearances in major media outlets…</font></p><button class="show-more-less-textbutton show-more-less-textbutton--more" data-tracking-control-name="public_profile_experience-item_show-more-text-btn" aria-label="Show full description for this position" aria-expanded="false" style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 12px 0px 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; cursor: pointer; display: block; font-weight: 600; height: 40px; line-height: 40px; overflow: hidden; outline-width: 2px; position: relative; transition-duration: 167ms; transition-property: background-color, box-shadow, color, -webkit-box-shadow; transition-timing-function: cubic-bezier(0, 0, 0.2, 1); vertical-align: middle; z-index: 0; border-radius: 4px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Show more&nbsp;<icon class="show-more-less-textbutton-icon lazy-loaded" aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: border-box; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 334ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1) 0s; display: inline-flex; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px; height: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1px 4px;"><svg width="16" height="16" preserveaspectratio="xMinYMin meet" focusable="false" class="lazy-loaded" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><path d="M8 9l5.93-4L15 6.54l-6.15 4.2a1.5 1.5 0 01-1.69 0L1 6.54 2.07 5z" fill="currentColor" /></svg></icon></font></button></div></div></div></div></li><li class="profile-section-card experience-item" data-section="pastPositionsDetails" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 12px 16px 12px 8px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-align: left; position: relative; display: flex; list-style: none; width: 742px;"><a class="profile-section-cardimage-link" href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/american-association-for-justice?trk=public_profile_experience-item_profile-section-card_image-click" data-tracking-control-name="public_profile_experience-item_profile-section-card_image-click" data-tracking-will-navigate="" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 600; border: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><img class="artdeco-entity-image artdeco-entity-image--square-4 profile-section-cardimage lazy-loaded" data-ghost-classes="artdeco-entity-image--ghost" data-ghost-url="https://static-exp1.licdn.com/sc/h/3dtfvv2esz58o2zimai1h3v2d" alt="Association of Trial Lawyers of America Graphic" aria-hidden="true" src="https://media-exp1.licdn.com/dms/image/C4D0BAQFFTb-b4aJU2Q/company-logo_100_100/0/1594413712560?e=1651104000&v=beta&t=-h8JN4unNegF8pAOjWOObJKZCa6gdRegFQmH547IcbQ" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 4px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; background: content-box content-box transparent; outline: 0px; display: inline-block; flex-shrink: 0; width: 56px; height: 56px; border-radius: 6px; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 334ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1) 0s;" /></font></a><div class="profile-section-cardcontents" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex-grow: 1; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><h3 class="profile-section-cardtitle" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Consultant</font></h3><h4 class="profile-section-cardsubtitle" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.75;"><a class="profile-section-cardsubtitle-link" href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/american-association-for-justice?trk=public_profile_experience-item_profile-section-card_subtitle-click" data-tracking-control-name="public_profile_experience-item_profile-section-card_subtitle-click" data-tracking-will-navigate="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; border: 0px; line-height: 1.75; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Association of Trial Lawyers of America</font></a></h4><div class="profile-section-cardmeta" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.75;"><p class="experience-itemduration experience-itemmeta-item" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.75;"><span class="date-range" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><time style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px;">Jan 1996</time>&nbsp;-&nbsp;<time style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px;">Nov 1996</time><span class="date-rangeduration" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px;">11 months</span></font></span></p><p class="experience-itemlocation experience-itemmeta-item" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Washington, D.C.</font></p><div class="experience-itemdescription experience-itemmeta-item" data-section="pastPositions" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.75;"><div class="show-more-less-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><p class="show-more-less-texttext--less" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Managed eight public relations and field organizing staff in a legislative campaign against anti-consumer product liability legislation (Republican Contract with America proposal). The campaign secured a veto from President Clinton and 75 favorable editorials and commentaries. Directed ATLA’s List, which advised donors about federal candidates to support. Assessed Democratic Party State Coordinated Campaign plans for priority funding in presidential election campaign.</font></p></div></div></div></div></li><li class="profile-section-card experience-item" data-section="pastPositionsDetails" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 12px 16px 12px 8px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-align: left; position: relative; display: flex; list-style: none; width: 742px;"><img class="artdeco-entity-image artdeco-entity-image--square-4 artdeco-entity-image--ghost profile-section-cardimage lazy-loaded" data-ghost-classes="artdeco-entity-image--ghost" data-ghost-url="https://static-exp1.licdn.com/sc/h/3dtfvv2esz58o2zimai1h3v2d" alt="National Association of Shareholder & Consumer Attorneys/Cuneo Law Group Graphic" aria-hidden="true" src="https://static-exp1.licdn.com/sc/h/3dtfvv2esz58o2zimai1h3v2d" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 4px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; background: content-box content-box rgb(179, 182, 185); outline: 0px; display: inline-block; flex-shrink: 0; width: 56px; height: 56px; border-radius: 6px; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 334ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1) 0s;" /><div class="profile-section-cardcontents" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex-grow: 1; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><h3 class="profile-section-cardtitle" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Consultant</font></h3><h4 class="profile-section-cardsubtitle" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">National Association of Shareholder & Consumer Attorneys/Cuneo Law Group</font></h4><div class="profile-section-cardmeta" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.75;"><p class="experience-itemduration experience-itemmeta-item" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.75;"><span class="date-range" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><time style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px;">Mar 1995</time>&nbsp;-&nbsp;<time style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px;">Jan 1996</time><span class="date-rangeduration" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px;">11 months</span></font></span></p><p class="experience-itemlocation experience-itemmeta-item" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Washington, D.C.</font></p><div class="experience-itemdescription experience-itemmeta-item" data-section="pastPositions" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.75;"><div class="show-more-less-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><p class="show-more-less-texttext--less" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Managed a national and state campaign staff of 15 to oppose the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act (Republican Contract with America proposal), which President Clinton vetoed. Secured support of 1,800 opinion leaders, built a 45-member coalition, and helped secure 175 favorable editorials and opeds.</font></p></div></div></div></div></li><li class="profile-section-card experience-item" data-section="pastPositionsDetails" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 12px 16px 12px 8px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-align: left; position: relative; display: flex; list-style: none; width: 742px;"><img class="artdeco-entity-image artdeco-entity-image--square-4 artdeco-entity-image--ghost profile-section-cardimage lazy-loaded" data-ghost-classes="artdeco-entity-image--ghost" data-ghost-url="https://static-exp1.licdn.com/sc/h/3dtfvv2esz58o2zimai1h3v2d" alt="Committee on Government Operations, U.S. House of Representatives Graphic" aria-hidden="true" src="https://static-exp1.licdn.com/sc/h/3dtfvv2esz58o2zimai1h3v2d" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 4px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; background: content-box content-box rgb(179, 182, 185); outline: 0px; display: inline-block; flex-shrink: 0; width: 56px; height: 56px; border-radius: 6px; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 334ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1) 0s;" /><div class="profile-section-cardcontents" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex-grow: 1; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><h3 class="profile-section-cardtitle" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Senior Policy Advisor</font></h3><h4 class="profile-section-cardsubtitle" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Committee on Government Operations, U.S. House of Representatives</font></h4><div class="profile-section-cardmeta" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.75;"><p class="experience-itemduration experience-itemmeta-item" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.75;"><span class="date-range" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><time style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px;">Mar 1989</time>&nbsp;-&nbsp;<time style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px;">Jan 1995</time><span class="date-rangeduration" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px;">5 years 11 months</span></font></span></p><p class="experience-itemlocation experience-itemmeta-item" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Washington, D.C.</font></p><div class="experience-itemdescription experience-itemmeta-item" data-section="pastPositions" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.75;"><div class="show-more-less-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><p class="show-more-less-texttext--less" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Managed legislative and oversight initiatives on health care, environmental and regulatory policy, urban aid, the federal budget process, and “reinventing government.” Coordinated 20-plus committee hearings. Liaisoned with committee members, House leadership, White House and executive branch officials, and constituency groups. Developed media strategy, briefed reporters and drafted news releases.</font></p></div></div></div></div></li><li class="profile-section-card experience-item" data-section="pastPositionsDetails" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 12px 16px 12px 8px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-align: left; position: relative; display: flex; list-style: none; width: 742px;"><img class="artdeco-entity-image artdeco-entity-image--square-4 artdeco-entity-image--ghost profile-section-cardimage lazy-loaded" data-ghost-classes="artdeco-entity-image--ghost" data-ghost-url="https://static-exp1.licdn.com/sc/h/3dtfvv2esz58o2zimai1h3v2d" alt="Jesse Jackson for President and Keep Hope Alive PAC Graphic" aria-hidden="true" src="https://static-exp1.licdn.com/sc/h/3dtfvv2esz58o2zimai1h3v2d" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 4px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; background: content-box content-box rgb(179, 182, 185); outline: 0px; display: inline-block; flex-shrink: 0; width: 56px; height: 56px; border-radius: 6px; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 334ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1) 0s;" /><div class="profile-section-cardcontents" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex-grow: 1; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><h3 class="profile-section-cardtitle" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Issues Director and Consultant</font></h3><h4 class="profile-section-cardsubtitle" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jesse Jackson for President and Keep Hope Alive PAC</font></h4><div class="profile-section-cardmeta" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.75;"><p class="experience-itemduration experience-itemmeta-item" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.75;"><span class="date-range" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><time style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px;">Feb 1987</time>&nbsp;-&nbsp;<time style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px;">Nov 1988</time><span class="date-rangeduration" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px;">1 year 10 months</span></font></span></p><div class="experience-itemdescription experience-itemmeta-item" data-section="pastPositions" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.75;"><div class="show-more-less-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><p class="show-more-less-texttext--less" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">• Coordinated all facets of issues work for the primary campaign. Supervised staff and policy taskforces, authored major policy proposals and speeches, represented candidate’s positions to the media, prepared campaign literature and candidate questionnaires, briefed candidate for debates, and provided technical assistance to state campaign staff. Served as chief deputy to Eleanor Homes Norton, coordinator of the Jackson Campaign Platform Committee activities at the Democratic Convention…</font></p><button class="show-more-less-textbutton show-more-less-textbutton--more" data-tracking-control-name="public_profile_experience-item_show-more-text-btn" aria-label="Show full description for this position" aria-expanded="false" style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 12px 0px 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; cursor: pointer; display: block; font-weight: 600; height: 40px; line-height: 40px; overflow: hidden; outline-width: 2px; position: relative; transition-duration: 167ms; transition-property: background-color, box-shadow, color, -webkit-box-shadow; transition-timing-function: cubic-bezier(0, 0, 0.2, 1); vertical-align: middle; z-index: 0; border-radius: 4px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Show more&nbsp;<icon class="show-more-less-textbutton-icon lazy-loaded" aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: border-box; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 334ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1) 0s; display: inline-flex; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px; height: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1px 4px;"><svg width="16" height="16" preserveaspectratio="xMinYMin meet" focusable="false" class="lazy-loaded" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><path d="M8 9l5.93-4L15 6.54l-6.15 4.2a1.5 1.5 0 01-1.69 0L1 6.54 2.07 5z" fill="currentColor" /></svg></icon></font></button></div></div></div></div></li><li class="profile-section-card experience-item" data-section="pastPositionsDetails" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 12px 16px 0px 8px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-align: left; position: relative; display: flex; list-style: none; width: 742px;"><img class="artdeco-entity-image artdeco-entity-image--square-4 artdeco-entity-image--ghost profile-section-cardimage lazy-loaded" data-ghost-classes="artdeco-entity-image--ghost" data-ghost-url="https://static-exp1.licdn.com/sc/h/3dtfvv2esz58o2zimai1h3v2d" alt="Jobs with Peace Campaign Graphic" aria-hidden="true" src="https://static-exp1.licdn.com/sc/h/3dtfvv2esz58o2zimai1h3v2d" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 4px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; background: content-box content-box rgb(179, 182, 185); outline: 0px; display: inline-block; flex-shrink: 0; width: 56px; height: 56px; border-radius: 6px; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 334ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1) 0s;" /><div class="profile-section-cardcontents" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex-grow: 1; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><h3 class="profile-section-cardtitle" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Program Director/Washington Representative</font></h3><h4 class="profile-section-cardsubtitle" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jobs with Peace Campaign</font></h4><div class="profile-section-cardmeta" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.75;"><p class="experience-itemduration experience-itemmeta-item" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.75;"><span class="date-range" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><time style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px;">Jan 1981</time>&nbsp;-&nbsp;<time style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px;">Feb 1987</time><span class="date-rangeduration" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px;">6 years 2 months</span></font></span></p><p class="experience-itemlocation experience-itemmeta-item" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Boston, MA and Washington, D.C.</font></p><div class="experience-itemdescription experience-itemmeta-item" data-section="pastPositions" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.75;"><div class="show-more-less-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><p class="show-more-less-texttext--less" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Co-founded the National Jobs with Peace Campaign and directed its Washington office. Implemented educational and lobbying strategies on federal budget priorities and economic diversification. Provided technical assistance to state chapters to improve community organizing, lobbying, voter registration, and electoral capabilities. Produced educational and organizing materials. Directed a city-wide referendum in Boston and coordinated similar efforts in other Massachusetts cities.</font></p></div></div></div></div></li></ul></div></section><section class="core-section-container core-section-container--with-border pp-section education" data-section="educationsDetails" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 24px 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(230, 233, 236); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.75;"><h2 class="core-section-containertitle" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Education</font></h2><div class="core-section-containercontent" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><ul class="educationlist" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; list-style: none;"><li class="profile-section-card educationlist-item" data-id="87555931" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 12px 16px 12px 8px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-align: left; position: relative; display: flex; list-style: none; width: 742px;"><a class="profile-section-cardfull-card-link" href="https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-at-albany/?trk=public_profile_school_profile-section-card_full-click" data-tracking-control-name="public_profile_school_profile-section-card_full-click" data-tracking-will-navigate="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 600; border: 0px; position: absolute; inset: 0px;"><span class="screen-reader-text" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; height: 1px; left: -10000px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: auto; width: 1px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">State University of New York at Albany</font></span></a><img class="artdeco-entity-image artdeco-entity-image--square-4 profile-section-cardimage lazy-loaded" data-ghost-classes="artdeco-entity-image--ghost" data-ghost-url="https://static-exp1.licdn.com/sc/h/csnc6op83cjt60ym5equoy1km" alt="State University of New York at Albany Graphic" aria-hidden="true" src="https://media-exp1.licdn.com/dms/image/C560BAQEgligKcl8XgQ/company-logo_100_100/0/1623779321933?e=1651104000&v=beta&t=h3-mWsF0d4fVwOeSI_AZC1GN2IDA4J00gDnGRYV3g90" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 4px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; background: content-box content-box transparent; outline: 0px; display: inline-block; flex-shrink: 0; width: 56px; height: 56px; border-radius: 6px; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 334ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1) 0s;" /><div class="profile-section-cardcontents" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex-grow: 1; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><h3 class="profile-section-cardtitle" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">State University of New York at Albany</font></h3><h4 class="profile-section-cardsubtitle" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="educationitem educationitem--degree-info" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; display: inline;">BSW</span><span class="educationitem educationitem--degree-info" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; display: inline;">Social Work</span></font></h4><div class="profile-section-cardmeta" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.75;"><p class="educationitem educationitem--duration" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.75;"><span class="date-range" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><time style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px;">1975</time>&nbsp;-&nbsp;<time style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px;">1977</time></font></span></p></div></div></li><li class="profile-section-card educationlist-item" data-id="87555962" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 12px 16px 12px 8px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-align: left; position: relative; display: flex; list-style: none; width: 742px;"><a class="profile-section-cardfull-card-link" href="https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-vermont/?trk=public_profile_school_profile-section-card_full-click" data-tracking-control-name="public_profile_school_profile-section-card_full-click" data-tracking-will-navigate="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 600; border: 0px; position: absolute; inset: 0px;"><span class="screen-reader-text" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; height: 1px; left: -10000px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: auto; width: 1px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">University of Vermont</font></span></a><img class="artdeco-entity-image artdeco-entity-image--square-4 profile-section-cardimage lazy-loaded" data-ghost-classes="artdeco-entity-image--ghost" data-ghost-url="https://static-exp1.licdn.com/sc/h/csnc6op83cjt60ym5equoy1km" alt="University of Vermont Graphic" aria-hidden="true" src="https://media-exp1.licdn.com/dms/image/C510BAQFYnDeVVaTc3A/company-logo_100_100/0/1519855947375?e=1651104000&v=beta&t=Uwtjoirf5mrEkIdZ8X0f9q-BAGJKle-5m6V6Tn_6AfA" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 4px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; background: content-box content-box transparent; outline: 0px; display: inline-block; flex-shrink: 0; width: 56px; height: 56px; border-radius: 6px; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 334ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1) 0s;" /><div class="profile-section-cardcontents" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex-grow: 1; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><h3 class="profile-section-cardtitle" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">University of Vermont</font></h3><h4 class="profile-section-cardsubtitle" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">-</font></h4><div class="profile-section-cardmeta" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.75;"><p class="educationitem educationitem--duration" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.75;"><span class="date-range" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><time style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px;">1973</time>&nbsp;-&nbsp;<time style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px;">1974</time></font></span></p></div></div></li></ul></div></section><section class="core-section-container bottom-cta-banner" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 24px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><div class="core-section-containercontent" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><section class="hidden-summary" data-impression-id="public_profile_bottom-cta-banner_guest_hidden_summary" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 8px 0px 0px; padding: 24px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; border-radius: 8px; overflow: hidden; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.08) 0px -1px 1px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.08) 1px 0px 1px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.08) -1px 0px 1px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.08) 0px 1px 1px;"><h2 class="hidden-summarytitle" style="background: transparent; text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 400;">people also viewed</span></font></h2><h2 class="hidden-summarytitle" style="background: transparent; text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></font></h2><h2 class="hidden-summarytitle" style="background: transparent; text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sue Hemberger</span></font></h2><h2 class="hidden-summarytitle" style="background: transparent; text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Independent Writing and Editing Professional</span></font></h2><h2 class="hidden-summarytitle" style="background: transparent; text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Washington, DC</span></font></h2><h2 class="hidden-summarytitle" style="background: transparent; text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></font></h2><h2 class="hidden-summarytitle" style="background: transparent; text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 400;">jeff ormsby</span></font></h2><h2 class="hidden-summarytitle" style="background: transparent; text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Executive Director, AFSCME Texas Corrections Union</span></font></h2><h2 class="hidden-summarytitle" style="background: transparent; text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lexington, TX</span></font></h2><h2 class="hidden-summarytitle" style="background: transparent; text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></font></h2><h2 class="hidden-summarytitle" style="background: transparent; text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sarah Christopherson</span></font></h2><h2 class="hidden-summarytitle" style="background: transparent; text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Legislative and Policy Director at Americans For Tax Fairness</span></font></h2><h2 class="hidden-summarytitle" style="background: transparent; text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Washington, DC</span></font></h2><h2 class="hidden-summarytitle" style="background: transparent; text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></font></h2><h2 class="hidden-summarytitle" style="background: transparent; text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lisa Cutler</span></font></h2><h2 class="hidden-summarytitle" style="background: transparent; text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Director of Communications and Digital Strategy at Alliance for Retired Americans</span></font></h2><h2 class="hidden-summarytitle" style="background: transparent; text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Washington, DC</span></font></h2><h2 class="hidden-summarytitle" style="background: transparent; text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></font></h2><h2 class="hidden-summarytitle" style="background: transparent; text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Allen Moy</span></font></h2><h2 class="hidden-summarytitle" style="background: transparent; text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Executive Director at Pacific Coast Farmers' Market Association</span></font></h2><h2 class="hidden-summarytitle" style="background: transparent; text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></font></h2><h2 class="hidden-summarytitle" style="background: transparent; text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Concord, CA</span></font></h2><h2 class="hidden-summarytitle" style="background: transparent; text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></font></h2><h2 class="hidden-summarytitle" style="background: transparent; text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nick Manicone</span></font></h2><h2 class="hidden-summarytitle" style="background: transparent; text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Staff Counsel at International Brotherhood of Teamsters</span></font></h2><h2 class="hidden-summarytitle" style="background: transparent; text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></font></h2><h2 class="hidden-summarytitle" style="background: transparent; text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Washington, DC</span></font></h2><h2 class="hidden-summarytitle" style="background: transparent; text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></font></h2><h2 class="hidden-summarytitle" style="background: transparent; text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Alta Ray</span></font></h2><h2 class="hidden-summarytitle" style="background: transparent; text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Employee Relations Partner at Okta</span></font></h2><h2 class="hidden-summarytitle" style="background: transparent; text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></font></h2><h2 class="hidden-summarytitle" style="background: transparent; text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Washington DC-Baltimore Area</span></font></h2><h2 class="hidden-summarytitle" style="background: transparent; text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></font></h2><h2 class="hidden-summarytitle" style="background: transparent; text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Michael D. Scott</span></font></h2><h2 class="hidden-summarytitle" style="background: transparent; text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Executive Director at National Coordinating Committee for Multiemployer Plans</span></font></h2><h2 class="hidden-summarytitle" style="background: transparent; text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></font></h2><h2 class="hidden-summarytitle" style="background: transparent; text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Washington DC-Baltimore Area</span></font></h2><h2 class="hidden-summarytitle" style="background: transparent; text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></font></h2><h2 class="hidden-summarytitle" style="background: transparent; text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 400;">John Tolman</span></font></h2><h2 class="hidden-summarytitle" style="background: transparent; text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Vice President and National Legislative Representative at The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen</span></font></h2><h2 class="hidden-summarytitle" style="background: transparent; text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></font></h2><h2 class="hidden-summarytitle" style="background: transparent; text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 400;">United States</span></font></h2><h2 class="hidden-summarytitle" style="background: transparent; text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></font></h2><h2 class="hidden-summarytitle" style="background: transparent; text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Denise McCourt</span></font></h2><h2 class="hidden-summarytitle" style="background: transparent; text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 400;">I help associations and organizations communicate</span></font></h2><h2 class="hidden-summarytitle" style="background: transparent; text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></font></h2><h2 class="hidden-summarytitle" style="background: transparent; text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Greater Lewiston Area</span></font></h2><h2 class="hidden-summarytitle" style="background: transparent; text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></font></h2><h2 class="hidden-summarytitle" style="background: transparent; text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mark Marschall</span></font></h2><h2 class="hidden-summarytitle" style="background: transparent; text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Program Manager for Yosemite Conservancy and Career National Park Ranger</span></font></h2><h2 class="hidden-summarytitle" style="background: transparent; text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></font></h2><h2 class="hidden-summarytitle" style="background: transparent; text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Yosemite National Park, CA</span></font></h2><div style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></font></div><div style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 400;">=</span></font></div><div style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></font></div><div style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://americansfortaxfairness.org/about/">https://americansfortaxfairness.org/about/</a></font></div><div style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;" open="Open" sans="Sans" verdana="Verdana" arial="arial" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 700; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Americans for Tax Fairness</font></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1101 17th Street NW, Suite 301</font></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Washington, D.C. 20036</font></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Phone: (202) 506-3264</font></span></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;" open="Open" sans="Sans" verdana="Verdana" arial="arial" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 700; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Press contact</font></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Chris Fleming</font></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: transparent;">Email:&nbsp;</span><a href="mailto:chris@redhorsestrategies.com" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">chris@redhorsestrategies.com</a></font></div></div><div style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="" /><div style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Endorsements</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">More than 425 national and state-based endorsing organizations have come together to support Americans for Tax Fairness.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">See the Steering Committee members.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">See who has endorsed the coalition’s principles.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">Endorsing organizations support ATF’s principles. If your organization would like to join the Americans for Tax Fairness coalition, read this letter of invitation.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">Mission & Program</div><div style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">ATF’s primary purpose is to educate and mobilize the public to get policymakers to support comprehensive, progressive tax reform that results in greater federal revenue to reduce inequality and to meet America’s growing needs. If the United States fails to raise sufficient tax revenues, we will face deep cuts to services and benefits that are essential to what makes this country great and be unable to make the investments necessary to create an economy that works for all of us. Read more.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">&nbsp;</div><div style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">Co-Chairs</div><div style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">Lawrence Mishel, President, Economic Policy Institute Lawrence Mishel is a nationally recognized economist and president of the Economic Policy Institute, the nation’s premier research organization focused on U.S. living standards and labor markets. Mishel joined EPI in 1987 as research director and became president in 2002. Mishel has written extensively on wage and job quality trends in the United States. He co-authored all 12 editions of The State of Working America, a book that former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich called “the most-trusted source for a comprehensive understanding of how working Americans and their families are faring in today’s economy.” He co-edited a research volume on emerging labor market institutions for the National Bureau of Economic Research. His 1988 research on manufacturing data led the U.S. Commerce Department to revise the way it measures U.S. manufacturing output. This new measure helped accurately document the long decline in U.S. manufacturing, a trend that is now widely understood. Prior to joining EPI, Mishel held a fellowship at the U.S. Department of Labor, served as a faculty member at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, and served as an economist for several unions, including the United Auto Workers, United Steelworkers, AFSCME, and the Industrial Union Department of the AFL-CIO. Mishel holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">Edwin Jayne, Associate Director of Federal Government Affairs, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Ed Jayne has over 30 years of governmental affairs, coalition building and public policy experience. He helps direct the extensive legislative program for AFSCME, the nation’s largest and fastest growing public services employees union with more than 1.6 million working and retired members. AFSCME’s members provide the vital services that make America happen. AFSCME advocates for fairness in the workplace, excellence in public services and prosperity and opportunity for all working families. AFSCME also supports progressive tax policies that help ensure state and local governments can adequately invest in public services. He serves on the board of the Coalition on Human Needs and Citizens for Tax Justice. Prior to joining AFSCME, Jayne worked for more than 15 years in senior staff positions for both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. He is a graduate of the State University of New York at Cortland.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">Margarida Jorge is a 23-year veteran of electoral, union, civic engagement and issue campaigns and a recognized expert in the development of field strategies for local, state and national issue advocacy.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">From 2008-2013, Margarida served as the National Field Director at Health Care for America Now, where she pioneered a new field model now widely used across issues and organizations that increased capacity for over 200 grassroots organizations in 44 states to pass, implement and defend the landmark Affordable Care Act.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">Over the past 10 years in Washington, DC, Margarida also led SEIU’s Americans for Health Care campaign, developed and implemented field strategy for the Americans for Tax Fairness campaign, and built the intersectional “Stand with Women” campaign to integrate reproductive rights and economic justice at the Women’s Equality Center, where she served as National Director.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">Prior to working in DC, Margarida spent over 10 years working for labor unions, community organizations and candidates in states like Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Florida and others. She was been recognized for her contributions to organizing and campaigns with the St. Louis City NAACP Outstanding Leadership & Dedicated Service to Labor Award (2005), the Hershel Walker Peace and Justice Award (2005), the Campaign for America’s Future Nominee for Maria Leavey Tribute Award (2009), and the USAction Progressive Leadership Grassroots Activism Award (2009).</div><div style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">Margarida currently works as a strategic and organizational development consultant for a variety of progressive organizations including Vision First, PICO National Network, Working America, Main Street Alliance, and the Child Care and Early Learning Action Hub.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">Staff</div><div style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">Frank Clemente, Executive Director</div><div style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">Frank helped found Americans for Tax Fairness in 2012. Previously he was Campaign Manager for the Strengthen Social Security Campaign, a coalition of 320 organizations. Prior to that he managed a health care campaign for the Communications Workers of America in support of the Affordable Care Act. He was Issue Campaigns Director at the Change to Win Labor Federation and Director of Public Citizen’s Congress Watch, a national consumer watchdog organization. Frank also has been senior policy advisor to the U.S. House Committee on Government Operations and Issues Director for Jesse Jackson’s 1988 presidential campaign. Frank edited Keep Hope Alive: Jesse Jackson’s 1988 Presidential Campaign.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">More on Frank Clemente</div><div style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">Sarah Christopherson, Legislative and Policy Director</div><div style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">Sarah leads ATF’s advocacy efforts with Congress and coordinates the coalition’s policy work. Prior to joining ATF, she served as the Policy Advocacy Director for the National Women’s Health Network for five years, responsible for directing their advocacy efforts on federal health reform, among other issues. Sarah also worked for Congress from 2005 to 2015, including serving as the Washington Director/Legislative Director to Congresswoman Niki Tsongas (D-MA). There she directed the Member’s legislative agenda and led her tax, financial services, consumer protection, and federal budget portfolio. Sarah has bachelor’s degrees in political science and history from Arizona State University and a master’s degree in foreign policy from George Washington University.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">Maura Quint, Wealth Tax Campaign Director</div><div style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">
</div><div style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">Maura serves as ATF’s Wealth Tax Campaign Director, working with the coalition to advance legislation to create a fair tax code. Prior to joining ATF, she served as the Executive Director of Tax March and was one of the founding members of the organization in 2017. She is committed to the fight for economic justice and focused on the intersection of taxes and a slate of progressive priorities. Maura currently also serves as a member of the Advisory Board of Tax March as well as a member of the Pennsylvania Working Families Party Endorsement Committee. As a writer, she has also led rooms of comedy writers in service of bringing humor to progressive activism and regularly contributes to a variety of publications. She resides in Pennsylvania with her children and an occasional houseplant.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">===</div><div style=""><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: underline;">NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS</span>&nbsp;</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">(Bold&nbsp;= Steering Committee Member)</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">9to5, National Association of Working Women</p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">AFL-CIO</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">AFL-CIO, American Federation of School Administrators</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">AFL-CIO, Building & Construction Trades Department</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">AFL-CIO, Department for Professional Employees</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">AFL-CIO, Transportation Trades Department</p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Alliance for Progressive Values</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Alliance for Retired Americans</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">American Association of University Women</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">American Federation of Government Employees</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees</span></p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">American Federation of Teachers</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">American Society on Aging</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">American Sustainable Business Council</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Americans for Democratic Action</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Bend the Arc: A Partnership for Jewish Justice</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Brandon and Associates</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Campaign for America’s Future</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Campaign for Community Change</p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Center for American Progress</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Center for American Progress, Half in Ten</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP)</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Center for Public Policy Priorities</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Center for Rural Affairs</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Center on Budget & Policy Priorities</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Children’s Alliance</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Children’s Defense Fund</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Children’s Leadership Council</p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Citizens Against Government Overreach [?]</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Citizens for Tax Justice</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Clearinghouse on Women’s Issues</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Coalition of Labor Union Women</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Coalition on Human Needs</span></p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">ColorofChange.org</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Colors United</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Communications Workers of America</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Community Action Partnership</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Community Change</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">CREDO</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Daily Kos</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Demand Progress/ Watchdog.net</p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Democracy for America</span></p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Demos</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Early Childhood Policy Research/ Alliance for Early Childhood Finance</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Economic Policy Institute</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Economic Progress Institute</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Every Child Matters</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Fair Share</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Faith in Action (formerly PICO National Network)</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Faith in Public Life</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Families USA</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Financial Accountability & Corporate Transparency (FACT) Coalition</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Fiscal Policy Institute</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Friends Committee on National Legislation</p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Friends of the Earth</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Generational Alliance</p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Government Accountability Project</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Gray Panthers</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Health Care for America NOW!</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">In the Public Interest</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">International Professors Project</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craft workers</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Lake Research Partners, Inc.</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">League of Rural Voters</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Main Street Alliance</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Media Matters</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Medicare Rights Center</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Moms Rising</span></p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">MoveOn.org</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">National Advocacy Center of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">National Alliance of HUD Tenants</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">National Association for Hispanic Elderly</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">National Association of Retired and Veteran Railroad Employees</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">National Association of Social Workers</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">National Committee to Preserve Social Security & Medicare</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">National Council of Jewish Women</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">National Domestic Workers Alliance</p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">National Education Association</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">National Employment Law Project</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">National Farmers Union</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">National Gay and Lesbian Task Force</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">National Low Income Housing Coalition</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">National Organization for Women</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">National Priorities Project</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">National Senior Corps Association</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">National Women’s Law Center</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">New England Consortium Poverty Reduction Initiative</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">New Rules for Global Finance</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">OneAmerica</p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Oxfam</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Patriotic Millionaires</span></p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">People for the American Way</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">People Demanding Action</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">People’s Action</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Physicians for a National Health Plan</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Progressive Democrats of America</p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Progressive States Network</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Progressives United</p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Public Citizen’s Congress Watch</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Rebuild the Dream</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">RESULTS</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Rising Tide Interactive</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Service Employees International Union</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Social Security Works</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Southeast Asia Resource Action Center (SEARAC)</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Sugar Law Center for Economic & Social Justice</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Sustainable Structures</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Teach Our Children</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Arc</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">The Daily Kos</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">The Tax Dodgers</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Transport Workers Union</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">UAW, International United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Unidos US (formerly National Council of La Raza)</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">United Food and Commercial Workers International Union</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">United for a Fair Economy</p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">United Mine Workers of America</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">United States Student Association</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">United Steelworkers</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">United Transportation Union-SMART</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Voices for Progress</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Wider Opportunities for Women</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Working America</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Working Families Party</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Young Women’s Christian Association</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">&nbsp;</p><p align="center" style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: underline;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">STATE ORGANIZATIONS</span></span></p><p align="center" style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: underline;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">...</span></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;" open="Open" sans="Sans" verdana="Verdana" arial="arial" font-size="font-size" px="px">California&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;" open="Open" sans="Sans" verdana="Verdana" arial="arial" font-size="font-size" px="px">California &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; American Federation of Teachers, Local 2121</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;" open="Open" sans="Sans" verdana="Verdana" arial="arial" font-size="font-size" px="px"><span style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251);">California &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Americans for Democratic Action, Southern California</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;" open="Open" sans="Sans" verdana="Verdana" arial="arial" font-size="font-size" px="px">California&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; California Childcare Coordinators Association</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;" open="Open" sans="Sans" verdana="Verdana" arial="arial" font-size="font-size" px="px">California&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Children’s Defense Fund – California</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;" open="Open" sans="Sans" verdana="Verdana" arial="arial" font-size="font-size" px="px">California&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Elsdon, Inc.</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;" open="Open" sans="Sans" verdana="Verdana" arial="arial" font-size="font-size" px="px">California&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Greenlining Institute</p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;" open="Open" sans="Sans" verdana="Verdana" arial="arial" font-size="font-size" px="px">California&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Molina Healthcare of California</p><p align="center" style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: underline;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;" /></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;" open="Open" sans="Sans" verdana="Verdana" arial="arial" font-size="font-size" px="px">California &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; SEIU, Local 1021</p></div></div></section></div></section></div></div>