Shirley, Craig

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old flack rebranded as pres historian? pow//swift boat, willie horton ad

see banister

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</div><div>hit? petty ego? jealous of real historian?</div><div>
</div><div>A similar ulterior motive lies behind the accusations of plagiarism leveled against Rick Perlstein by author and consultant Craig Shirley this week. As Salon's Dave Dayen detailed on Wednesday, Shirley claims that Perlstein infringed on the copyright of his 2005 book, “Reagan’s Revolution: the Untold Story of the Campaign That Started It All.” In letters to Perlstein's publisher, Simon & Schuster, he demanded, according to the New York Times, "$25 million in damages, a public apology, revised digital editions and the destruction of all physical copies of the book." The 19 alleged infractions in Perlstein's 880-page history include citing of historical facts and paraphrasing descriptions of events that Shirley witnessed (and Perlstein didn't) with attribution. (For a more in-depth account of Shirley's charges, see <a href="http://www.salon.com/2014/08/06/the_rights_plagiarism_scam_how_low_it_will_stoop_to_protect_reagans_legacy/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">Dayen's excellent piece.</a>)...</div><div>=</div>=open ltr ~ jan 6<div>
</div><div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We ask that the GOP conference meet immediately to vote on stripping Reps. Cheney and Kinzinger from their membership in the GOP conference. We further inform you that conservative leaders are launching a nationwide movement to add citizens’ voices to this effort.<hr style="box-sizing: border-box; height: 0px; margin: 1.313em 0px; border-right: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-image: initial; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.075);" /><table style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.313em; border: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; width: 960px; border-spacing: 0px;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;">The Honorable Edwin Meese III Attorney General President Ronald Reagan (1985-1988)</td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;">The Honorable J. Kenneth Blackwell Chairman, Conservative Action Project (CAP) Chairman, Constitutional Congress, Inc.</td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;">The Honorable Bob McEwen (R-OH) U.S. House Committee on Rules Former Member</td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;">The Honorable Matt Schlapp Chairman American Conservative Union (ACU)</td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;">The Honorable Jim DeMint Chairman, Conservative Partnership Institute Member, US Senate (SC 2005-2013)</td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;">Ed Corrigan Vice Chairman, Conservative Action Project President & CEO, Conservative Partnership Institute</td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;">Jenny Beth Martin Chairman Tea Party Patriots Citizen Fund</td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;">The Honorable Kenneth T. Cuccinelli, II Chairman Election Transparency Initiative</td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;">David N. Bossie President Citizens United</td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;">The Honorable Tony Perkins President Family Research Council</td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;">The Honorable David McIntosh President Club for Growth</td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;">Scott T. Parkinson VP for Government Affairs Club for Growth</td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;">Rachel A. Bovard Senior Director of Policy Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI)</td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;">The Honorable T. Kenneth Cribb, Jr. Chief Domestic Advisor President Ronald Reagan (1987-1988)</td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;">L. Brent Bozell III Founder and President Media Research Center</td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;">Alfred S. Regnery President Republic Book Publishers</td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;">Lisa B. Nelson odd no affil?</td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;">Cleta Mitchell, Esq.</td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;">David Bozell President ForAmerica</td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;">Noah Wall Executive Vice President FreedomWorks</td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;">Chad Connelly Founder and President Faith Wins</td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;">Terry Schilling President American Principles Project</td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;">William L. Walton The Bill Walton Show Resolute Protector Foundation</td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;">The Honorable Brooke Rollins President and CEO America First Policy Institute (AFPI)</td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;">The Honorable Russ Vought Director Office of Management and Budget (2020-2021)</td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;">Wesley Denton Chief Operating Officer Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI)</td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;">Ginni Thomas President Liberty Consulting</td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;">Lori Roman President ACRU Action Fund</td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;">The Honorable Gary L. Bauer President American Values</td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;">The Honorable Briscoe Cain State Representative Texas House of Representatives</td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;">Elaine Donnelly President Center for Military Readiness</td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;">Craig Shirley Reagan Biographer Presidential Historian</td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;">Alan M. Gottlieb Chairman Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms</td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;">Gary A. Hofmeister Businessman Business Owner</td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;">The Honorable George K. Rasley Jr. Managing Editor ConservativeHQ.com</td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;">Seton Motley President Less Government</td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;">H. Preston Hawkins Chairman The Association for Community Education, Inc.</td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;">Richard Manning President Americans for Limited Government</td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;">Jeremy Cerone Member Council for National Policy</td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;">Robert K. Fischer Meeting Coordinator Conservatives of Faith</td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;">William Shaker CEO Washington Marketing Group</td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;">Paavo Ensio Chairman Universal Minerals Group</td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;">Richard D Hayes Partner Hayes, Berry, White & Vanzant, LLP</td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;">Joan Holt Lindsey President Lindsey Communications</td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;">Allen J. Hebert Chairman American-Chinese Fellowship of Houston</td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;">The Honorable Mary Vought Executive Director Senate Conservatives Fund</td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;">Clare Lopez Founder/President Lopez Liberty LLC</td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;">Sheryl Kaufman Board of Directors Americans for Limited Government</td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;">Dr. Allen Unruh Founder National Abstinence Clearinghouse</td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;">Amapola Hansberger President Legal Immigrants for America</td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;">The Honorable Morton C. Blackwell President The Leadership Institute</td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;">Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin (Ret.) Executive Vice President Family Research Council</td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;">Brandon Zehm Owner Zehm & Associates</td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;">Dr. Richard Rounsavelle Trustee MRC</td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;">Jenna L. Ellis, Esq. Chair Election Integrity Alliance</td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;">Wendy Borcherdt Retired Political Volunteer Board Member, Hoover Institution</td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;">Jessie Jane Duff Gunnery Sergeant, US Marine Corps (ret) Ambassador, America First Policy Institute (AFPI)</td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;">Ralph A. Rebandt II Gubernatorial Candidate Ralph Rebandt for Governor</td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;">The Honorable Peter J. Thomas Chairman Conservative Caucus</td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;">Melvin Adams President Noah Webster Educational Foundation</td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;">Sandy Rios Director of Governmental Affairs American Family Association</td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle;">Terrence Scanlon Former Chairman and Commissioner U.S. Consumer Product Safety Comn.</td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;">The Honorable Mike Hill Former Member Florida State Representative</td><td width="312" style="padding: 0.5em 0.625em; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; background-color: transparent;"></td></tr></tbody></table>All organizations listed for IDENTIFICATION purposes only. Signatures updated: 12/21/21.</div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</div></div>=open secrets butinaAlthough the NRA’s lawyers initially denied the Russian money, they eventually <a href="https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/wyden-wants-answers-on-nras-moscow-trip" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">admitted</a> to receiving “a total of approximately $2,512.85 from people associated Russian addresses” and “about $525” from two Russian nationals living in the United States in a letter to <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=N00007724&cycle=Career" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Sen. Ron Wyden</a> (D-Ore.).The NRA also acknowledged “membership dues” from Torshin, who has been a non-voting life member of the NRA since 2012 — the year after he first connected with Keene.Even after his term as president of the NRA, Keene has maintained a cozy relationship with the gun rights organization. Keene is still listed as a director on the NRA’s’ board paid $32,000 last year for working an average of one hour per week, according to a <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2018/11/nra-in-the-red/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">new tax return</a> reviewed by the Center for Responsive Politics.Keene’s wife, in collaboration with Erickson, reportedly <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/02/us/politics/maria-butina-russian-spy.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">offered</a> Butina $1 million to help secure 5 million barrels of Russian jet fuel — nearly two times all of Russia’s refineries exports in a month — in an unsuccessful scheme to sell the fuel through an American middleman in 2017.Keene’s history as a foreign agentAmidst all of the buzz surrounding his ties to alleged Russian agent Maria Butina, NRA board member and former NRA president David Keene took a different approach, registering as a foreign agent representing the interests of the government of Algeria.Unlike Butina and Erickson, who are alleged to be Russian agents under Section 951, Keene has now registered as a foreign agent under FARA.This is hardly the first time Keene has had a hand in foreign influence operations.Keene kicked off his first registered foreign lobbying and influence shop, <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/fara/results?foreign-principal=&location=&order=desc&page=1&query=&registrant=Keene%2C+Shirley+%26+Assoc&sort=stamped" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;">Keene, Shirley & Associates</a>, in 1987 by inking a <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5267235-3997-Exhibit-AB-19870601-D1HDIO04.html" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;">$60,000-per-year contract</a> with the National Farmers’ Federation of Australia before signing on to represent Nicaraguan interests the following year. The firm’s <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5267237-3997-Exhibit-C-19870601-D1HDIC04.html" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;">board of directors</a> included Keene’s wife, Diana, and another political consultant named Craigan Shirley.Perhaps most well-known is Keene’s lobbying for Nigeria and Algeria — which was disclosed under the <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/firmlbs.php?id=D000032355&year=2006" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Lobbying Disclosure Act</a>. Keene went on to lobby for a broad array of interests, including the <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=F217978%20%20%20&year=2000" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">World Wrestling Federation</a>.... =srcwtch Shirley & Banister Public Affairs is a well-connected Republican public relations company. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Craig_Shirley" title="Craig Shirley">Craig Shirley</a> is the president and CEO <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.prweek.com/news/news_story.cfm?ID=192052&site=1">[1]</a>, and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Diana_Banister&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Diana Banister (page does not exist)">Diana Banister</a> is VP and partner <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.brandrepublic.com/mediabulletin/news_story.cfm?articleID=225009">[2]</a>.According to PR Week, the firm was created when "Shirley promoted longtime employee Diana Banister to partner in 2002, and changed the firm's name to Shirley & Banister Public Affairs (SBPA). One of the few remaining independent agencies in Washington, the firm thrives largely because it has bucked the latest feel-good lobbying trend, bipartisanship."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Shirley%26_Banister_Public_Affairs#cite_note-1">[1]</a><div id="toc" class="toc"><div id="toctitle"><h2>Contents</h2></div></div><div id="toc" class="toc"><ul><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Shirley%26_Banister_Public_Affairs#Notable_work">1 Notable work</a><ul><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Shirley%26_Banister_Public_Affairs#Promoting_the_official_account_of_Jessica_Lynch.27s_rescue">1.1 Promoting the official account of Jessica Lynch's rescue</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Shirley%26_Banister_Public_Affairs#Involvement_with.27non-partisan.2C_grassroots.27_group_Grassfire.org">1.2 Involvement with 'non-partisan, grassroots' group Grassfire.org</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Shirley%26_Banister_Public_Affairs#Suppressing_coverage_of_Kitty_Kelley.27s_Bush_family_book">1.3 Suppressing coverage of Kitty Kelley's Bush family book</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Shirley%26_Banister_Public_Affairs#Promoting_the_movie.27Stolen_Honor.27">1.4 Promoting the movie 'Stolen Honor'</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Shirley%26_Banister_Public_Affairs#Keeping_Tom_DeLay_above_the_Law.26_Order">1.5 Keeping Tom DeLay above the Law & Order</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Shirley%26_Banister_Public_Affairs#Clients">2 Clients</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Shirley%26_Banister_Public_Affairs#Contact_information">3 Contact information</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Shirley%26_Banister_Public_Affairs#Articles_and_Resources">4 Articles and Resources</a><ul><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Shirley%26_Banister_Public_Affairs#Sources">4.1 Sources</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Shirley%26_Banister_Public_Affairs#Related_SourceWatch_Articles">4.2 Related SourceWatch Articles</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Shirley%26_Banister_Public_Affairs#External_links">4.3 External links</a></li></ul></li></ul></div> <h2>Notable work</h2><h3>Promoting the official account of Jessica Lynch's rescue</h3>In November 2003 O'Dwyer's PR Daily reported, "Shirley and Banister Public Affairs has been selected to promote Harper Collins' Because Each Life is Precious, the account by Iraqi lawyer <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mohammed_Odeh_al-Rehaief" title="Mohammed Odeh al-Rehaief">Mohammed Odeh al-Rehaief</a> of Pfc. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jessica_Lynch" title="Jessica Lynch">Jessica Lynch</a>'s capture and rescue during the Iraq invasion." <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.odwyerpr.com/members/1106sb.htm">[3]</a><h3>Involvement with 'non-partisan, grassroots' group Grassfire.org</h3>According to Joe Conason, writing in March 2004, "<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Grassfire.org" title="Grassfire.org" class="mw-redirect">Grassfire.org</a>, a new 'grass-roots' outfit overseen by Beltway insider Shirley, has produced an ad that claims Kerry is 'more liberal than Ted Kennedy'." <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2004/03/09/conspiracy/">[4]</a><h3>Suppressing coverage of Kitty Kelley's Bush family book</h3>US News Bulletin reported in September 2004 that: "Conservative talk radio, TV and print outlets are being urged to ignore Kelley, author of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=The_Family:The_Real_Story_Of_the_Bush_Dynasty&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Family: The Real Story Of the Bush Dynasty (page does not exist)">The Family: The Real Story Of the Bush Dynasty</a>. 'Don't give <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kitty_Kelley&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kitty Kelley (page does not exist)">Kitty Kelley</a> air time,' says a memo from the conservative and influential PR firm Shirley & Banister Public Affairs. The memo was sent as NBC's Today Show was set to interview Kelley over three days." <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.usnews.com/usnews/politics/bulletin/archive/bull040914b.htm">[5]</a><h3>Promoting the movie 'Stolen Honor'</h3>In October 2004 Shirley & Banister Public Affairs got involved in public relations work for the anti-Kerry attack movie <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Stolen_Honor:Wounds_That_Never_Heal" title="Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal">Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal</a>. PR Week USA reported that SBPA "has been handling PR efforts for the documentary and its producer". It quoted Diana Banister as saying of the Sinclair boycott campaign, "I don't think we can squash it. People have as much right to complain about Sinclair broadcasting as we do about any station that would broadcast Michael Moore's documentary... The Stolen Honor folks have as much right to be aired as anyone else, and even more so." <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.brandrepublic.com/mediabulletin/news_story.cfm?articleID=225009">[6]</a>SBPA's involvement with the movie was highlighted by Kerry campaign spokesman <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mark_Nevins&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mark Nevins (page does not exist)">Mark Nevins</a> in a September 2004 interview with the Philadelphia Daily Times. The article says that "Nevins also suggested Sherwood was another right-wing conspirator who hired Republican public relations firm Shirley and Bannister to help market their product." <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1675&dept_id=18171&newsid=12894483&PAG=461&rfi=9">[7]</a><h3>Keeping Tom DeLay above the Law & Order</h3>On a May 2005 episode, a character on NBC's "Law & Order" who was investigating the murder of a federal judge said, "Maybe we should put out an APB for somebody in a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Thomas_D.DeLay" title="Thomas D. DeLay">Tom DeLay</a> T-shirt." In response, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Free_Enterprise_Fund" title="Free Enterprise Fund">Free Enterprise Fund</a> (which "advocates limited government and 'pro-growth' economic policies") worked with their PR firm, Shirley & Banister, to challenge the "witch-hunt to discredit Tom DeLay and the agenda he represents," in the words of FEF vice-president <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Lawrence_A.Hunter" title="Lawrence A. Hunter">Lawrence A. Hunter</a>. They had 450 T-shirts made, with DeLay's picture on the front and the words "Who's afraid of ['Law & Order' executive producer] Dick Wolf?" on the back. Shirley & Banister then organized and promoted a rally of T-shirt-clad DeLay supporters on Washington DC's Capitol Hill on June 2, 2005. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Fox_News" title="Fox News">Fox News</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CNN" title="CNN" class="mw-redirect">CNN</a> and Roll Call covered the rally, according to O'Dwyer's PR Daily. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.odwyerpr.com/members/0603sb.htm">[8]</a><h2>Clients</h2>According to the company's website <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20040211082149/www.sbpublicaffairs.com/clients.htm">[9]</a> and news accounts <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.odwyerpr.com/members/0603sb.htm">[10]</a> (Jack O'Dwyer's Newsletter, Vol. 38, No. 18, May 4, 2005), past or current clients include:<ul><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=AETNA&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="AETNA (page does not exist)">AETNA</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=AFIPAC&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="AFIPAC (page does not exist)">AFIPAC</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Alexis_de_Tocqueville_Institution" title="Alexis de Tocqueville Institution">Alexis de Tocqueville Institution</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Allied_Pilots_Association" title="Allied Pilots Association">Allied Pilots Association</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Association_of_Health_Plans" title="American Association of Health Plans">American Association of Health Plans</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Association_of_Political_Consultants" title="American Association of Political Consultants">American Association of Political Consultants</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Conservative_Union" title="American Conservative Union">American Conservative Union</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Americans_for_Hope,Growth%26_Opportunity&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Americans for Hope, Growth & Opportunity (page does not exist)">Americans for Hope, Growth & Opportunity</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Policy_Center" title="American Policy Center">American Policy Center</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Public_Philosophy_Institute&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="American Public Philosophy Institute (page does not exist)">American Public Philosophy Institute</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=The_American_Spectator&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The American Spectator (page does not exist)">The American Spectator</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Australian_Barley_Board&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Australian Barley Board (page does not exist)">Australian Barley Board</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Black_America%27s_Political_Action_Committee" title="Black America's Political Action Committee" class="mw-redirect">Black America's Political Action Committee</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Blackwell_Corporation&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Blackwell Corporation (page does not exist)">Blackwell Corporation</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bruce_W.Eberle%26_Associates" title="Bruce W. Eberle & Associates" class="mw-redirect">Bruce W. Eberle & Associates</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Business_Mail_Express&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Business Mail Express (page does not exist)">Business Mail Express</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Campaign_Solutions" title="Campaign Solutions" class="mw-redirect">Campaign Solutions</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Canadian_MG_Lewis_MacKenzie%28Ret.%29&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Canadian MG Lewis MacKenzie (Ret.) (page does not exist)">Canadian MG Lewis MacKenzie (Ret.)</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=CapitolWatch&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="CapitolWatch (page does not exist)">CapitolWatch</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=The_Carmen_Group&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Carmen Group (page does not exist)">The Carmen Group</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Carrying_Capacity_Network" title="Carrying Capacity Network">Carrying Capacity Network</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_for_Individual_Freedom" title="Center for Individual Freedom">Center for Individual Freedom</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CIGNA" title="CIGNA">CIGNA</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Citizens_for_State_Power&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Citizens for State Power (page does not exist)">Citizens for State Power</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Citizens_United" title="Citizens United">Citizens United</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Club_for_Growth" title="Club for Growth">Club for Growth</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Collegiate_Network" title="Collegiate Network">Collegiate Network</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Shirley%26_Banister_Public_Affairs#cite_note-2">[2]</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Conservative_Political_Action_Conference" title="Conservative Political Action Conference">Conservative Political Action Conference</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ann_Coulter" title="Ann Coulter">Ann Coulter</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Crown_Publishing&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Crown Publishing (page does not exist)">Crown Publishing</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Davis,Manafort%26_Freedman,Inc." title="Davis, Manafort & Freedman, Inc.">Davis, Manafort & Freedman, Inc.</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=The_Honorable_Pete_DuPont&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Honorable Pete DuPont (page does not exist)">The Honorable Pete DuPont</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Employee_Benefits_Associates&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Employee Benefits Associates (page does not exist)">Employee Benefits Associates</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Energy_Freedom_Alliance&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Energy Freedom Alliance (page does not exist)">Energy Freedom Alliance</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Federalist_Society" title="Federalist Society" class="mw-redirect">Federalist Society</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Flickers_Films&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Flickers Films (page does not exist)">Flickers Films</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Free_Enterprise_Fund" title="Free Enterprise Fund">Free Enterprise Fund</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Free_Speech_Coalition&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Free Speech Coalition (page does not exist)">Free Speech Coalition</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Freedom_Alliance" title="Freedom Alliance">Freedom Alliance</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Foley%26_Lardner" title="Foley & Lardner">Foley & Lardner</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Forbes_for_President_2000&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Forbes for President 2000 (page does not exist)">Forbes for President 2000</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=The_Galen_Institute&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Galen Institute (page does not exist)">The Galen Institute</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Grassfire.org" title="Grassfire.org" class="mw-redirect">Grassfire.org</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/The_Hawthorn_Group" title="The Hawthorn Group">The Hawthorn Group</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Heritage_Foundation" title="Heritage Foundation">Heritage Foundation</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Institute_for_Legal_Reform" title="Institute for Legal Reform">Institute for Legal Reform</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Institute_for_Policy_Innovation" title="Institute for Policy Innovation">Institute for Policy Innovation</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Institute_for_Socio-Economic_Studies&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Institute for Socio-Economic Studies (page does not exist)">Institute for Socio-Economic Studies</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=The_Keene_Report&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Keene Report (page does not exist)">The Keene Report</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Law_Enforcement_Alliance_of_America&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Law Enforcement Alliance of America (page does not exist)">Law Enforcement Alliance of America</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=The_Limited&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Limited (page does not exist)">The Limited</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=The_Manhattan_Institute&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Manhattan Institute (page does not exist)">The Manhattan Institute</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=McDonnell_Douglas&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="McDonnell Douglas (page does not exist)">McDonnell Douglas</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/McGuire/Woods_Consulting,LLC." title="McGuire/Woods Consulting, LLC.">McGuire/Woods Consulting, LLC.</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Audit_Defense_Network&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="National Audit Defense Network (page does not exist)">National Audit Defense Network</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Center_for_Policy_Analysis" title="National Center for Policy Analysis">National Center for Policy Analysis</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Farmers_Federation_of_Australia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="National Farmers Federation of Australia (page does not exist)">National Farmers Federation of Australia</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Rifle_Association" title="National Rifle Association">National Rifle Association</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Rifle_Association-ILA&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="National Rifle Association-ILA (page does not exist)">National Rifle Association-ILA</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Taxpayers_Union" title="National Taxpayers Union">National Taxpayers Union</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/News_World_Communications" title="News World Communications">News World Communications</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Nuclear_Energy_Institute" title="Nuclear Energy Institute">Nuclear Energy Institute</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=The_O%27Leary/Kamber_Report&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The O'Leary/Kamber Report (page does not exist)">The O'Leary/Kamber Report</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Playcare_Incorporated&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Playcare Incorporated (page does not exist)">Playcare Incorporated</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=PM_Consulting_Corporation&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="PM Consulting Corporation (page does not exist)">PM Consulting Corporation</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Prima_Publishing&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Prima Publishing (page does not exist)">Prima Publishing</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Progress%26_Freedom_Foundation" title="Progress & Freedom Foundation" class="mw-redirect">Progress & Freedom Foundation</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Prudential" title="Prudential" class="mw-redirect">Prudential</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Public_Safety_Systems&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Public Safety Systems (page does not exist)">Public Safety Systems</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Republican_Majority_Coalition&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Republican Majority Coalition (page does not exist)">Republican Majority Coalition</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Republican_National_Committee" title="Republican National Committee">Republican National Committee</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Natan_Sharansky" title="Natan Sharansky">Natan Sharansky</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Small_Business_Survival_Committee" title="Small Business Survival Committee">Small Business Survival Committee</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Southeastern_Legal_Foundation" title="Southeastern Legal Foundation">Southeastern Legal Foundation</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Starboard_Response&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Starboard Response (page does not exist)">Starboard Response</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Stevens%26_Schriefer&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Stevens & Schriefer (page does not exist)">Stevens & Schriefer</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/United_Seniors_Association" title="United Seniors Association" class="mw-redirect">United Seniors Association</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/University_of_Phoenix" title="University of Phoenix">University of Phoenix</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=USA_Weekend&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="USA Weekend (page does not exist)">USA Weekend</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/U.S.Chamber_of_Commerce" title="U.S. Chamber of Commerce">U.S. Chamber of Commerce</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/U.S.English" title="U.S. English">U.S. English</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Times_Foundation&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Washington Times Foundation (page does not exist)">Washington Times Foundation</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Westinghouse_Corporation&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Westinghouse Corporation (page does not exist)">Westinghouse Corporation</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/The_Winston_Group" title="The Winston Group">The Winston Group</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=WND_Books&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="WND Books (page does not exist)">WND Books</a></li></ul><h2>Contact information</h2>Shirley & Banister Public Affairs
122 South Patrick Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
Telephone: 800-536-5920
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Aug 17, 2016 - Presidential historian Craig Shirley lamented the timing of Donald Trump's latest shakeup Wednesday, telling Newsmax TV's Ed Berliner on ...</div>

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Nov 9, 2016 - Statement of Reagan Biographer Craig Shirley on the Election of Donald Trump as President of the United States ALEXANDRIA, VA– Donald ...</div>

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Craig Shirley says Donald J. Trump would continue the legacy of Ronald Reagan by ensuring that the GOP remains anti-establishment and anti-status quo.</div>

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...Shirley, author of three books on President Ronald Reagan, said Wednesday that should Donald Trump win the Republican nomination next year, it would be in line with Reagan's legacy.

Asked on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" whether a Trump win would be an "abomination" or "natural step forward" for the GOP, Shirley chose the latter.

"I think it's a natural step forward," he said. "The Republican Party, as I said earlier, I think it gets in trouble when it becomes part of the status quo. The modern Republican Party — and Reagan understood this acutely — was to be anti-status quo, anti-establishment and that was the secret to his success. He was constantly reframing the debate and that's what Donald Trump does. He constantly reframes the debate."

Since launching his unlikely campaign for president in June, Trump, a billionaire real estate developer and former reality TV star, has dominated the GOP field in both national and early primary state-level polls....

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By <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/Insiders/CraigShirley/id-310" style=" border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(36, 137, 13);">Craig Shirley</a>   |   Wednesday, 02 Sep 2015 09:58 AM

The American presidency is not for haters. It is for lovers of liberty, freedom, the Constitution, and the rule of law. The American presidency is not for people like Hillary Clinton.

She is unqualified to be president because she is a hater. She is unqualified because she lacks the temperament to be president of the United States.

Harry Truman once said the job of a president is to say yes and no — but mostly no. Hillary Clinton has never understood this basic concept, saying yes to the wrong people and no to the right people.

She has yes to Wall Street, getting in bed with corrupt bankers and brokers. But she’s said no to those brave souls who wonder why Planned Parenthood acts like Dr. Mengele when it comes to innocent babies.

Hillary Rodham has finally hit bottom, though considering her noxious past, it is difficult to imagine her going downhill any farther. Suffice to say, this is a deeply troubled woman and a frankly not very bright one either. After all, how many times has her integrity been questioned?

She has never exhibited original thinking and naïvely believes that government is a panacea to all, with her and her cronies at the top, of course. She may have the most rose colored glasses in this regard since — Barack Obama.

Hillarycare failed because it was a Rube Goldberg bureaucracy. To the collectivist eye, the organizational chart for Hillarycare got them all hot and bothered, but to the sane, it was a bureaucratic disaster designed not to solve but to gain control.

Now Mrs. Clinton equated Republicans who opposed the heinous and evil practices of Planned Parenthood performed on unborn babies to “terrorists.” Really.

Funny, but I thought playing with baby parts as if they were a croquet set was more akin to terrorism, and not valiant attempts to save human lives.

Hillary Rodham Clinton is an angry and vengeful woman and the country does not need another president acting on their hatred. Didn’t Obama just compare Republicans to the Mullahs of Iran?

Lord knows Donald Trump has caught a lot of grief for impolitic remarks, but calling someone a terrorist is about the worst thing that could be said about another American.

It is despicable and certainly unpresidential. She politicizies everything, showing not compassion for anyone or anything she deems standing in her path to power. Any person who craves the power of the presidency too much is by definition unqualified to be president.

Men and women should approach the power of the presidency with awe and reverence and reserve, and not like a junkie.

Barack Obama said the presidency was great because it allowed him to do anything. How childish. FDR, more reverentially, said the power of the presidency was derived from the American people.

Many of us knew this day would come.

The real Hillary would and has emerged and it is not pretty nor is it presidential. It is gruesome, mean, cruel and yes, shows hers inferior character. Imagine just for one moment Hillary with power — especially the power of the Oval Office.

Would there be anything beyond her ken?

More than once in her past, she’s tried to censor Rush Limbaugh and all of talk radio.

One can easily imagine her siccing the IRS on all Republicans, all conservatives. One can easily imagine her abusing power and loving every second of it. She is Richard Nixon incarnate, only meaner and more vengeful. Of course, she could keep the IRS busy just harassing Bill’s many lovers.

It is unclear that she was always such. She may have once been a decent person, hard as that is for some to believe. Perhaps. Perhaps she turned bad, a victim of spousal abuse, at the hands of her forever philandering husband. Bill Clinton has had more easy women than Ashley Madison.

A recent poll played a word association game with Hillary and the American people. Did ethical come up? No. Did nurturing? No. Kindness, forbearance, charity, integrity? No, no, no, and no. But words such as liar, criminal, dishonest, and untrustworthy were most recently cited by the citizenry when Hillary’s name was mentioned.

The American people are wise, wiser than the elites give them credit for. Shakespeare said the eyes were windows to the soul. In Hillary’s eyes there is nothing but contempt and hatred.

James Madison, John Jay, and Alexander Hamilton wrote in the Federalist Papers often that the only two qualifications for the presidency were experience and character.

By virtue of her poor character, Hillary Rodham Clinton is unqualified to be president.

Craig Shirley is the author of “Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign that Changed America,” “Reagan’s Revolution: The Untold Story of the Campaign That Started It All,” and “December 1941: 31 Days that Changed America and Saved the World.” He is the founder of Shirley & Banister Public Affairs, and has been named the first Reagan scholar at Eureka College, Ronald Reagan’s alma mater. He appears regularly on Newsmax TV, Fox News, MSNBC, and CNN.

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Posted: Thursday, December 18, 1997 12:00 am | Updated: 2:33 am, Fri Sep 20, 2013.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Every time political consultant Craig Shirley hears

mention of one university study touting the benefits of electricity

deregulation, he gets upset.

That's because he knows the study was financed by Enron, the Texas energy

giant that is Shirley's main enemy in a deregulation fight that showcases a

popular new kind of lobbying. It uses secretly funded front groups to create

an illusion of public support.

Shirley bristles about Enron's effort, but ask him about financial

backers who have spent $350,000 on ads for his anti-deregulation group

Citizens for State Power and he demurs. "It's beside the point," he says.

"The issue isn't about funding."

In the lobbying world, first came grass roots -- people politics from the

ground level. Now there's a high-priced version nicknamed "Astroturf," front

groups with high-minded names that often obscure the financial interests of

those behind them.

These secretive groups provide avenues for businesses to influence policy

makers and for wealthy donors to sway political campaigns and to leave few

fingerprints.

There are many recent examples:

* A nonprofit group called the Asia Pacific Exchange Foundation accepts

corporate money to pay for trips to Asia for lawmakers. Even though the

itineraries often include stops at company facilities, such as a Unocal

pipeline in Burma or a Boeing plant in China, members of Congress and their

aides disclose only that their trips were paid for by the foundation.

* Asthma patients were stirred this year to protest proposed rules that

could phase out inhalers using ozone-harming propellants. Newsletters with

scary warnings were mailed out by a mysterious group that turned out to have

been funded by drug giant Glaxo Wellcome, among leading sellers of such

inhalers.

* Senate investigators found that wealthy conservatives funneled millions

of dollars into last year's congressional elections by giving to nonprofit

groups that aired television ads supporting their favored candidates. The

groups aren't required to disclose their donors, so voters were kept in the

dark about who was seeking to influence them. Analysts expect the practice

to spread in the 1998 election.

Front groups began proliferating in the early 1990s, said Mary Ann Pires,

a Chappaqua, N.Y., public relations consultant and critic of the practice.

Such groups, usually created to clothe a company or an industry's "naked

self-interest," are a clue that those making the arguments doubt the appeal

of their position, she said. "They think the only way they can enlist

support is to manufacture some," she said.

Pires said groups often are created by consultants in Washington who

envision big money to be made. But the practice may be becoming less

effective, she said, as fake grass-roots groups are exposed by the news

media and by activist opponents -- or by their own mistakes.

In 1995, for example, a telegram campaign on a telecommunications bill

led to congressional offices receiving 250,000 bogus messages, some from

dead people. The consultant in charge later left the business, but criminal

charges were not brought because the U.S. attorney said it's not against the

law to mislead Congress.

Neil Cohen, a consultant for the PR firm Apco Associates, described the

"Astroturf" process to fellow practitioners at a private 1994 conference in

Florida.

By creating a coalition that concealed the insurance interests that

financed it, Cohen said in taped remarks, his firm enticed the Mississippi

Legislature to pass a bill limiting lawsuits.

"If State Farm or Nationwide is the head of the coalition, you're not

going to pass the bill because it's so self-serving," Cohen said. The

powerful trial lawyers lobby was defeated because "they were taken

completely by surprise," he said.

The Public Relations Society of America says it's unethical to pretend to

represent a group while "actually serving another or undisclosed interest."

Many in the political world don't subscribe to the group's code.

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His writings have solved some of the mysteries of Washington and politics including the stolen Carter Briefing Books in 1980,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Craig_Shirley&oldid=732871902#cite_note-30" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[30]</a> the missing cornerstone to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Capitol" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Capitol" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); line-height: 22.4px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">U.S. Capitol</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Craig_Shirley&oldid=732871902#cite_note-31" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[31]</a> and the real story about the night of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate" class="mw-redirect" title="Watergate" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); line-height: 22.4px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Watergate</a> breakin,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Craig_Shirley&oldid=732871902#cite_note-32" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[32]</a> to name just a few. He also uncovered a Top Secret memo written by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Naval_Intelligence" title="Office of Naval Intelligence" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); line-height: 22.4px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Office of Naval Intelligence</a> on December 4, 1941, putting information on the possible attack at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_Harbor" title="Pearl Harbor" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); line-height: 22.4px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Pearl Harbor</a> inside the Roosevelt White House, three days before the attack.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Craig_Shirley&oldid=732871902#cite_note-33" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[33]</a>

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Craig Paul Shirley (born September 24, 1956) is an American author, lecturer, historian and public affairs consultant. He has written three bestsellers on Ronald Reagan: Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign that Changed America (2014), Reagan's Revolution: The Untold Story of the Campaign That Started It All (2005), and Last Act: The Final Years and Emerging Legacy of Ronald Reagan (2015).Shirley also wrote December 1941: 31 Days that Changed America and Saved the World, a New York Times bestseller published in December 2011 about the attack on Pearl Harbor and its effects on the American people culture.[1] All four books have gone to paperback. Documentaries are now being produced based in part on the 1976 Reagan campaign andDecember 1941, for the 75th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack.Born and raised in Syracuse, New York, Shirley earned a degree in History and Political Science from Springfield College. Shirley was named by the London Telegraph, "the best of the Reagan biographers" [2] and writer Tony Lee of Breitbart said he was “one of the most esteemed Ronald Reagan biographers."[3] Fred Barnes of the Weekly Standard called him "a prominent biographer of Ronald Reagan,"[4] Mark Levin called him "one of the best of the Reagan biographers,"[5] and theWashington Examiner’s Paul Bedard, a "noted Ronald Reagan biographer.”[6] His book on Reagan’s final years Last Act, the topic which had never been covered before, was also highly praised for its rich writing and intricate detail and research.Shirley has also written dozens of articles and given dozens of lectures about the life and times and lessons of Ronald Reagan.Contents  [hide] 1Life and career1.1Youth and education1.2Career1.3Writing career2Achievements and awards2.1Recognition2.2Op-eds and media appearances2.3Personal life2.4Activism2.5Lacrosse2.6Books3References4External linksLife and career[edit]Youth and education[edit]Shirley is the second son of Edward Shirley and Barbara Cone Shirley. He is of English and Scottish descent. His parents were charter members of the New York State Conservative Party and his father was the first registered conservative voter in the Empire State.[7] In 1964 he went door to door for presidential candidate Barry Goldwater at age 8.[8] In high school, Shirley was a standout athlete, winning six varsity letters, winning the league pole vaulting championship and was named “Most Improved Athlete” his senior year.[9]In 1978 Shirley graduated from Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts, where he majored history and political science. He was also a member of the school’slacrosse team and track team.Career[edit]Craig Shirley was professionally involved in American politics and government for over three decades. He worked in government and on campaigns at the congressional, gubernatorial, and presidential levels but now spend his time writing and lecturing on presidential politics and American history.In 1977, he interned in the Capitol Hill office of Senator Jacob Javits of New York. That fall, he worked on the successful election campaign of John N. Dalton for governor of Virginia.[10]In the fall of 1978, Shirley was press secretary for Gordon Humphrey,[11] who scored a huge upset win in the U.S. Senate election in New Hampshire. Shirley then served on Humphrey's Washington D.C. staff. Ronald Reagan came into New Hampshire to campaign for Humphrey, where Shirley first met Governor Reagan.[12]In 1980, he ran an important independent expenditure campaign is support of former California governor Ronald Reagan’s presidential bid in the first six primary states on behalf of the Fund for a Conservative Majority. Shirley produced and placed radio and newspaper ads in New Hampshire, South Carolina, Florida and three other states maximizing the three quarters of a million dollars FCM budgeted for the campaign to help Reagan at a time when his own campaign was broke.[13]He joined the staff of the Republican National Committee.[14] As a Communications Advisor, Shirley traveled across the country advising dozens of campaigns and state committees on public relations, political advertising, and campaign strategy to co-ordinate with the message of the Reagan White House.In 1984, during the U.S. presidential campaign, Shirley was the Director of Communications for the National Conservative Political Action Committee, America’s largest independent political committee, which spent over $14 million on behalf of President Ronald Reagan’s re-election on another independent expenditure campaign.[15]

In 1986, he became a consultant to the Fund for America’s Future, the political action committee of Vice President George H. W. Bush, working closely with the future President George W. Bush. Shirley was retained and tasked with the goal of organizing conservative support for George H. W. Bush’s 1988 presidential bid.[16]After Reagan’s reelection and in the late fall of 1984, Shirley opened his own firm[17] and worked on numerous matters in co-ordination with the Reagan White House including aid to the Nicaraguan Contras, support for the Strategic Defensive Initiative, support for the Afghanistan Mujahideen, support for Jonas Savimbi’s UNITA, and support for the Tax Reform Act of 1986. He also worked on the White House Conference on Small Business in 1985.

In 1991, Shirley ran a major advertising and public affairs campaign supporting President Bush and Operation Desert Storm, later represented the Embassy of the State of Kuwait, and was placed in charge of public relations for an international conference on democracy hosted in Prague by President Václav Havel of then Czechoslovakia. For a short time, Shirley and David Keene partnered in a firm, but that association ended amicably in 1992.[18]During the 1990’s, Shirley conceived and created Citizens for State Power, which represented small investor owned utilities and they successfully stopped the attempts by Enron to nationalize the electricity grid.[19] Shirley also advised the Southeastern Legal Foundation to file suit against the Clinton Administration’s attempt to politicize the census. The case went to the Supreme Court and there the SLF prevailed, defeating Clinton in an historic 5–4 vote. Shirley pioneered the "New Media"—and indeed coined the very phrase—of talk radio, faxes, e-mail and later the internet to mobilize for politics and policy.In addition to working with a host of political, corporate, and trade concerns, he also served as an informal advisor to the 1996 campaign of Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole. In 2000, his firm provided in-kind support to the presidential campaign of then Governor George W. Bush as well as the Florida recount. In that same year, Craig Shirley & Associates became Shirley & Banister Public Affairs with the promotion of Diana Banister from vice president to partner [20] and finally, president of the firm in 2015.[21]

Writing career[Craig Shirley has completed two new books, Citizen Newt and Reagan Rising [22] about, respectively, the revolutionary life and times of Newt Gingrich and the period between 1976 and 1980 when Reagan’s political outlook and philosophy underwent an enormous and significant change.Shirley is now working on three more books on Reagan[23] including a detailed look at his 1968 run for the presidency.[24] He is also writing a book about Dr. Howard Snyder, personal physician to President Dwight Eisenhower, as well as a book about George Washington’s family.Achievements and awards[edit]Recognition[edit]Shirley is a member of the Board of Governors of the Reagan Ranch[25] and has often lectured at the Reagan Library.[26]He is also a member of the Reagan Alumni Association. He has addressed the Friends of Ronald Reagan association in Los Angeles and occasionally consults for theReagan Library, especially on campaign displays and political history.He was chosen in 2005 by Springfield College as their Outstanding Alumnus[27] and has been named the Visiting Reagan Scholar at Eureka College, Ronald Reagan's alma mater. He taught a week long class, "Reagan 101" at Eureka College in 2012.[28]He was also appointed as a Trustee of Eureka.[29]His writings have solved some of the mysteries of Washington and politics including the stolen Carter Briefing Books in 1980,[30] the missing cornerstone to the U.S. Capitol [31] and the real story about the night of the Watergate breakin,[32] to name just a few. He also uncovered a Top Secret memo written by the Office of Naval Intelligence on December 4, 1941, putting information on the possible attack at Pearl Harbor inside the Roosevelt White House, three days before the attack.[33]His book December 1941: 31 Days That Changed America and Saved the World (2011), was nominated for 2011 Book of the Year Award by Foreword Reviewsmagazine.[34] His book, Last Act, was named best narrative in the non-fiction category by USA Book News for 2015.[35]

He is a member of various author’s guilds, Philadelphia Society, the Fusionist Society and the Lyn Nofziger Society. He is a former board member of the American Conservative Union.[36] He has also lectured at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library,[37] Friends of Ronald Reagan (FORR) and Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics.[38]He has also lectured at the Buckley Center at Yale,[39] at Larry Sabato’s Center for Politics at UVA,[40] at Georgetown University, at Hillsdale College,[41] at Regent University,[42] and other colleges and universities.Op-eds and media appearancesShirley is a frequent commentator on politics. He has written for publications including the Washington Post, the Washington Times, the Los Angeles Times, Townhall, the Weekly Standard, the Washington Examiner, Newsmax, National Review, Reuters, Investors Business Daily, Politico, Breitbart, Lifezette and many other publications. He is also frequently sought after for televised interviews on all major networks, including CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX News, MSNBC, C-SPAN, FOX Businessand CNN.[43]Personal life[edit]Craig Shirley and his wife, Zorine, are the parents of four children, Matthew, Andrew, Taylor and Mitchell, soon to be Meredith. They split their time between "Trickle Down Point" on the Rappahannock River in Lancaster, Virginia and "Ben Lomond," a 300-year-old Georgian manor house in Tappahannock, VA. His hobbies include sailing, writing, scuba diving, water skiing, sport shooting, and renovating old buildings.

Activism

GONE, not in talk of history page? prank?  BO said

Craig Shirley is an active Hillary Clinton supporter and recently endorsed her to be President. He believes that "she is the most qualified person ever to run for president and the accomplishments she will achieve will make the first woman President more prestigious than Ronald Reagen's Presidency." Shirley is the acting chairman of the revived political action committee, Citizens for the Republic,[44] originally established in January 1977 by Ronald Reagan after his defeat for the 1976 Republican presidential nomination the preceding summer. On its website, Citizens for the Republic describes itself as a "national organization dedicated to revitalizing the conservative movement. Through education, grassroots organization, advocacy, and political activism...promoting the principles of limited government, maximum freedom, personal responsibility, peace through strength, and defense of the dignity of every individual".[45] The CFTR directors include former Reagan advisors and consultants, such as the honorable Ed Meese and Reagan speechwriter Mari Maseng Will.

Lacrosse[edit]Shirley is the founder of the Ft. Hunt Youth Lacrosse Program, and was a coach there for 14 years.[46] In the 20 plus years since Shirley founded the program, thousands of boys and girls have enjoyed learning and playing for Ft. Hunt. Shirley was instrumental in getting the Maryland legislature to make lacrosse the state’s sport. He was also an editor of Coaching Youth Lacrosse, published by the Lacrosse Foundation.Books

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Columnist Dimitri Vassilaros received a <a href="http://grassfire.org/NewsReleases/20080501-340.htm" target="blank">news release</a> about a grassroots "petition to stop <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/climate_change" target="blank">climate</a> alarmism" and attacking <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Al_Gore" target="blank">Al Gore</a>'s work. He checked it out and found that "for an organization that claims 'we are grassroots to the core,' <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Grassfire.org" target="blank">Grassfire.org</a> acts as if it is hiding a lot of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Astroturf" target="blank">Astroturf</a>. The politically conservative nonprofit is happy to talk about its worthy online petition campaigns," but is "very tight-lipped about talking about itself. ... The Maxwell, Iowa, address for donations to the grassroots organization is clearly displayed on its Web site. But its 2006 IRS 990 form states its address is Bethesda, Md., near Washington, D.C." The <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Grassfire.org" target="blank">SourceWatch article on Grassfire</a> revealed its relationship to <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Craig_Shirley" target="blank">Craig Shirley</a> and his "slick Washington-area PR firm, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Shirley%26_Banister_Public_Affairs" target="_blank">Shirley & Banister Public Affairs</a>. ... When asked a few times about the organization's finances, [Grassfire's] Mr. De Jong first said he didn't know the size of the organization that he speaks for. He also said he 'could ask around' about that 990 form. When I offered to ask the bookkeeper for him, De Jong said, 'She will call, dude. Relax. I'll take care of it for you. I am a man of my word.' As of Thursday noon, no one had called this dude."

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<div class="field-item even"><a href="http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/columnists/vassilaros/s_566543.html" target="_blank">Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, May 9, 2008</a></div></div></div>

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