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</div><div style="font-size: small;"> the Heritage Foundation for more than a year has been drafting a policy playbook in preparation for a Republican administration to take over the federal government in 2025. The hope is that this time around conservatives won’t be caught flat-footed like they were in 2016.The conservative think tank has produced a transition project ever since Ronald Reagan’s victory in 1980. But Heritage says this effort stands out in terms of level of involvement and vigor.“We’re really starting ahead of time,” Paul Dans, director of <a href="https://www.project2025.org/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">Project 2025: Presidential Transition Project</a>, said in an interview late last year. “We’re looking to bring new blood to Washington."the effort has been something of a pet project for Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts, who took over in fall 2021 after five years leading the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a nonprofit backed by GOP donors and oil money.“I would describe it as an obsession,” said a former Heritage employee who was granted anonymity to speak freely about his former workplace. “It is one of the main priorities of senior leadership.”The revved-up effort from Heritage comes as the venerable think tank, which celebrated its 50th anniversary last week, has struggled in recent years through leadership changes and staff turmoil.Roberts came on after complaints from conservatives like Fox News’ Tucker Carlson over the leadership of Kay Coles James, who stepped down amid the criticism. And in the post-Trump era, several new organizations are now competing on policy turf once dominated by Heritage.The transition project also seems to be a way to regain stature for Heritage and distinguish itself from those competitors, some outside observers interviewed for this story said.The project has three pillars. One involves creating something of a “conservative LinkedIn” to ensure hundreds of political appointees are primed to immediately descend on federal agencies should a Republican prevail in 2024. The second involves training videos for those appointees about how to serve in an administration.And the third part creates a policy playbook with input from more than 400 outside conservative contributors and nearly <a href="https://www.project2025.org/advisory-board" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">50 member organizations</a> that meet monthly — if not more often in an informal setting. The idea is to hammer out ideological differences, including about whether or not to support Ukraine aid.Conservatives say they learned a lesson from President Joe Biden, who managed to staff up nearly a thousand political posts within hours of his inauguration. Many of those picks came from the Obama alumni network.In contrast, in 2017, Republicans had trouble filling positions in the new Trump administration. Trump wound up bringing in few people with real government experience.Dans, a former top official at Trump’s Office of Personnel Management, likened the early approach to “preseason scrimmaging.”He said the group plans to release their policy playbook this spring. “This is not the end-all, but we are getting enough people in the room to say this is the majority” opinion on certain policies, Dans said.Heritage said it is still finalizing policies it would recommend to an incoming GOP president, but a spokesperson pointed to a <a href="https://www.heritage.org/energy-economics/report/energy-policy-agenda-the-energy-consumer" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">2020 white paper</a> from the group that is something of a free-market wish list.Its recommendations include ending all energy-related tax credits and subsidies, eliminating all loan guarantees, ending the renewable fuel standard, spinning off environmental reviews to the states, expanding leasing on federal lands, repealing new source review, and ending the social cost of carbon.<h4 class="story-textheading-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.2; margin: 40px 0px 0.5rem;">Competition on the right</h4>Nearly a dozen conservative policy experts and advocates interviewed for this story, who were all granted anonymity to speak candidly, alluded to the growing influence of Heritage Action.It is the separate lobbying arm of the organization that churns out newsletters describing critical race theory and the investing strategy known as environmental, social and governance as “woke left attacks.”Heritage has also been highly critical of big technology companies and has called for big cuts to defense spending, echoing calls on the far right.Last week, <a href="https://www.heritage.org/press/tucker-carlson-keynote-speech-heritages-50th-anniversary-gala" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">Heritage announced</a> that Carlson, who has dabbled in white nationalist theories, will be the keynote speaker for its 50th anniversary gala in April.Roberts praised him as a “fearless American who is unafraid to challenge the Washington regime.”Heritage’s lurch toward populism has been raising eyebrows among some.“Heritage will have to decide whether it wants to stick with its conservative principles or evolve to more nationalist-type of policies,” one conservative policy advocate said.Divisions at Heritage are illustrative of larger tensions within the Republican Party, observers noted.One hypothesized that the transition project was in part a way for Heritage to regain some stature. Others noted it is not entirely unusual for think tanks to be at odds with their lobbying arms.When asked about the influence of Heritage Action, Rob Bluey, vice president of communications, said the partnership between Heritage and its campaign arm is “even stronger today under Jessica Anderson’s leadership.”“Heritage Action advocates for the American people in Washington, D.C., and state capitals based on the principles espoused by The Heritage Foundation,” he said.A second conservative policy advocate thought it was unusual how far in advance Heritage launched the 2025 project, which has already been underway for more than a year.“That’s something you don’t usually see in Washington, D.C.,” the advocate said.He thought that could sideline the organization’s efforts to conduct rigorous oversight of the Biden administration for the next two years.“It’s just interesting that Heritage is willing to take on a project that won’t have any impact until 2025,” the person said.The conservative landscape changed in the Trump era, and in recent years a number of conservative policy shops popped up, like the Center for Renewing America led by Russ Vought, the former White House budget director. The Center for Renewing America sits on the project’s advisory board.In recent years, several dozen staffers left the 275-person foundation, news which was <a href="https://thedispatch.com/article/partisanship-over-policy-at-the-heritage/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">first reported</a> in September by the conservative-leaning Dispatch.A Heritage spokesperson did not refute turnover but said the organization also brought on 90 new hires in all of 2022 — the year after Roberts took over.“His optimistic vision and always-on-offense approach to policymaking are helping us build an exceptional team,” said Bluey. “As a result, Heritage experienced tremendous growth in 2022, proudly welcoming many talented policy experts and outstanding conservative leaders to the organization.”<h4 class="story-textheading-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.2; margin: 40px 0px 0.5rem;">‘Brainwashing our kids’</h4>One of those new hires is Diana Furchtgott-Roth, a longtime economist who joined last August as the director of the Center for Energy, Climate and Environment. She worked at both the Transportation and Treasury departments under the Trump administration. Before that she spent nine years as a director at the Manhattan Institute, a think tank.At a January forum held at Heritage, Furchtgott-Roth complained to Rep. Kevin Hern, the chair of the Republican Study Committee from oil-and-gas rich Oklahoma, about how decarbonization efforts from the Biden administration were, as she put it, “completely changing the American way of life.” She wondered how Republicans planned to “fight back an area that they are brainwashing our kids about.”Replied Hern: “Well, I’m from Oklahoma, next question.” The crowd laughed.In a recent interview, Furchtgott-Roth espoused familiar GOP energy views promoting all-of-the-above energy sources.But another observer noticed more “red-meat critiquing” from her shop. A <a href="https://www.heritage.org/energy-economics/commentary/do-chinese-donations-explain-bidens-energy-policies" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">recent article she wrote</a> suggested Biden favored clean energy merely to boost Chinese markets after reports surfaced that the Penn Biden Center received Chinese donations.Similarly, one of her first events at the organization featured authors Jerome Corsi and Marc Morano — both reject mainstream climate science — to speak on a panel about “The Politics of Climate Change.”“This is not as much an economics question but a political question, and that’s why we are so glad to have these two authors with us today,” Furchtgott-Roth said in opening remarks.Corsi suggested climate advocates adopted the term “climate change” “because they know global warming cannot be true.” He rejected the idea carbon dioxide contributes to extreme weather like hurricanes. “It’s completely a lie,” he said.</div><div style="font-size: small;"></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="">kay Coles James (<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Republican_Party" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Republican Party</a>) is the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Virginia_Secretary_of_State" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Virginia Secretary of State</a>. She assumed office on January 24, 2022. Her current term ends on January 17, 2026.Coles James was appointed as the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Virginia_Secretary_of_the_Commonwealth" class="mw-redirect" title="Virginia Secretary of the Commonwealth" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Virginia Secretary of the Commonwealth</a> by Gov. <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Glenn_Youngkin" title="Glenn Youngkin" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Glenn Youngkin</a> (R).<span id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; line-height: 0; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Kay_Coles_James#cite_note-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[1]</a>Coles James is a former president of <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/The_Heritage_Foundation" title="The Heritage Foundation" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">The Heritage Foundation</a>, a conservative policy organization.<span id="cite_ref-president_2-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; line-height: 0; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Kay_Coles_James#cite_note-president-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[2]</a> James was also a member of <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Donald_Trump_presidential_transition_team" title="Donald Trump presidential transition team" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Donald Trump's presidential transition team</a>, a group of advisors tasked with recommending presidential appointments for the incoming administration.<span id="cite_ref-politico_3-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; line-height: 0; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Kay_Coles_James#cite_note-politico-3" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[3]</a>On October 14, 2021, the foundation announced Kevin Roberts would succeed James as president later in the year.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Kay_Coles_James#cite_note-4" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[4]</a><h2 style="background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; border-left: 5px solid rgb(50, 56, 61); padding: 10px;">Career</h2>Kay Coles James was born in Portsmouth, Virginia.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Kay_Coles_James#cite_note-NewBio-5" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[5]</a> James earned a degree from Hampton University.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Kay_Coles_James#cite_note-NewBio2-6" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[6]</a> Her career experience includes working as the dean of the Regent University School of Government, the director of the Office of Personnel Management under former President <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/George_W.Bush" title="George W. Bush" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">George W. Bush</a>, and the president of <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/The_Heritage_Foundation" title="The Heritage Foundation" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">The Heritage Foundation</a>.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Kay_Coles_James#cite_note-president-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[2]</a><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Kay_Coles_James#cite_note-NewBio2-6" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[6]</a><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Kay_Coles_James#cite_note-bio-7" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[7]</a><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Kay_Coles_James#cite_note-insiders-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[8]</a> She served as the chair of the National Gambling Impact Study Commission and as a senior fellow and trustee with The Heritage Foundation.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Kay_Coles_James#cite_note-president-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[2]</a><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Kay_Coles_James#cite_note-bio-7" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[7]</a><h2 style="background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; border-left: 5px solid rgb(50, 56, 61); padding: 10px;">Donald Trump presidential transition team</h2><dl style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><dd style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857;"><dl style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><dd style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857;">See also: <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Donald_Trump_presidential_transition_team" title="Donald Trump presidential transition team" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Donald Trump presidential transition team</a></dd></dl></dd></dl>James was a member of <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Donald Trump</a>'s presidential transition team. The transition team was a group of around 100 aides, policy experts, government affairs officials, and former government officials who were tasked with vetting, interviewing, and recommending individuals for top cabinet and staff roles in Trump's administration. She was tasked with overseeing management and budget issues with fellow Heritage Foundation trustee <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Ed_Meese" title="Ed Meese" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Ed Meese</a> for the transition team</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">wiki 8 22</div><div style="">kay Coles James (born June 1, 1949) is an American public official who has served as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_of_the_Commonwealth_of_Virginia" title="Secretary of the Commonwealth of Virginia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">secretary of the Commonwealth of Virginia</a> since January 2022, and as the director for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Office_of_Personnel_Management" title="United States Office of Personnel Management" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States Office of Personnel Management</a> under President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W.Bush" title="George W. Bush" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">George W. Bush</a> from 2001 to 2005.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Coles_James#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a> Previous to the OPM appointment, she served as Virginia Secretary of Health and Human Resources under then-Governor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Allen(U.S.politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="George Allen (U.S. politician)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">George Allen</a> and was the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean(education)" title="Dean (education)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">dean</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regent_University" title="Regent University" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Regent University</a>'s government school. She is the president and founder of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gloucester_Institute&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gloucester Institute (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Gloucester Institute</a>, a leadership training center for young African Americans.On December 19, 2017, she was named president of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heritage_Foundation" title="The Heritage Foundation" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">the Heritage Foundation</a>, an influential conservative <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_tank" title="Think tank" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">think tank</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Coles_James#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a> She is the first African-American and the first woman to hold that position.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Coles_James#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a> On March 22, 2021, she announced she was resigning as President.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Coles_James#cite_note-:0-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a><div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading" style="background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 7px; display: table;"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="margin: 0px; position: absolute; opacity: 0; z-index: -1; display: none;" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr" style="text-align: center; direction: ltr;">
</div><ul style="list-style: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Coles_James#Early_life_and_education" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1Early life and education</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Coles_James#Early_career" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2Early career</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Coles_James#Office_of_Personnel_Management" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3Office of Personnel Management</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Coles_James#Later_career" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">4Later career</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Coles_James#Personal_life_and_honors" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5Personal life and honors</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Coles_James#Books" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">6Books</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Coles_James#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">7References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Coles_James#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">8External links</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;">Early life and education[</h2>James' mother was on government welfare for at least some of James' youth. She was raised in the inner city of Richmond, Virginia.James attended <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Marshall_High_School(Richmond,Virginia)" class="mw-redirect" title="John Marshall High School (Richmond, Virginia)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">John Marshall High School</a> in Richmond, Virginia.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Coles_James#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a> A graduate of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampton_University" title="Hampton University" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Hampton University</a>, James is the recipient of numerous honorary degrees, most recently the Doctor of Laws Degree from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepperdine_University" title="Pepperdine University" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Pepperdine University</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Coles_James#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a> James is the recipient the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Virginia" title="University of Virginia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">University of Virginia</a>'s Publius Award for Public Service, and the Spirit of Democracy Award for Public Policy Leadership from the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Coles_James#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a>As a 1994 graduation speaker at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampton_University" title="Hampton University" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Hampton University</a>, James said, "[The United States is] experiencing cultural AIDS. We as a country have been the victims of an immune system that has broken down. It's gone."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Coles_James#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;">Early career[</h2>James has served on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairfax_County" class="mw-redirect" title="Fairfax County" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Fairfax County</a> School Board and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Virginia</a> Board of Education, and on the board of the conservative <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelicalism" title="Evangelicalism" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">evangelical</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focus_on_the_Family" title="Focus on the Family" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Focus on the Family</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Coles_James#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a> She also was Senior Vice President of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Research_Council" title="Family Research Council" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Family Research Council</a>, the conservative, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_right" title="Christian right" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Christian right</a> group and lobbying organization.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Coles_James#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a> She has also served as Executive Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer for One to One Partnership, a national umbrella organization for mentoring programs.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Coles_James#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a>[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">failed verification</a>]She was appointed by President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Ronald Reagan</a> and reappointed by President George H. W. Bush as member of the National Commission on Children, an advisory body on children issues.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Coles_James#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[12]</a> She served under President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H.W.Bush" title="George H. W. Bush" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">George H. W. Bush</a> as Associate Director of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Office_of_National_Drug_Control_Policy" class="mw-redirect" title="White House Office of National Drug Control Policy" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">White House Office of National Drug Control Policy</a> and as Assistant Secretary for public affairs at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.Department_of_Health_and_Human_Services" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Department of Health and Human Services" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">U.S. Department of Health and Human Service</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.Department_of_Health_and_Human_Services" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Department of Health and Human Services" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">s</a>.In the mid-1990s, James served as Dean of the Robertson School of Government at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regent_University" title="Regent University" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Regent University</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Beach" class="mw-redirect" title="Virginia Beach" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Virginia Beach</a>, Virginia.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Coles_James#cite_note-BG-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a> She also served as Convention Secretary for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Republican_National_Convention" title="1996 Republican National Convention" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1996 Republican National Convention</a>, which nominated <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dole" title="Bob Dole" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bob Dole</a> for president.<h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;">Office of Personnel Management[</h2><div class="thumb tright" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); clear: right; float: right; width: auto; margin: 0.5em 0px 1.3em 1.4em;"><div class="thumbinner" style="min-width: 100px; padding: 3px; text-align: center; overflow: hidden; border: 1px solid rgb(200, 204, 209); background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); width: 172px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KayColesJames-color.jpg" class="image" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/KayColesJames-color.jpg/170px-KayColesJames-color.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="226" class="thumbimage" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/KayColesJames-color.jpg/255px-KayColesJames-color.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/KayColesJames-color.jpg 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="399" style="border: 1px solid rgb(200, 204, 209); vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></a><div class="thumbcaption" style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 3px; border: 0px;"><div class="magnify" style="float: right; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KayColesJames-color.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" resources="resources" src="src" mediawiki.skinning="mediawiki.skinning" images="images" magnify-clip-ltr.svg="magnify-clip-ltr.svg" e="e" display="display" block="block" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" width="width" height="height" user-select="user-select" none="none" /></div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KayColesJames-color.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" resources="resources" src="src" mediawiki.skinning="mediawiki.skinning" images="images" magnify-clip-ltr.svg="magnify-clip-ltr.svg" e="e" display="display" block="block" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" width="width" height="height" user-select="user-select" none="none">James in 2001</a></div></div></div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KayColesJames-color.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" resources="resources" src="src" mediawiki.skinning="mediawiki.skinning" images="images" magnify-clip-ltr.svg="magnify-clip-ltr.svg" e="e" display="display" block="block" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" width="width" height="height" user-select="user-select" none="none">James served as the director for the </a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Office_of_Personnel_Management" title="United States Office of Personnel Management" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States Office of Personnel Management</a> from 2001 to 2005 in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W.Bush" title="George W. Bush" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">George W. Bush</a> administration.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Coles_James#cite_note-BG-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Krugman" title="Paul Krugman" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Paul Krugman</a> noted that Regent University boasted of 150 graduates working in the Bush administration and criticized James' tenure as the federal government's chief personnel officer when many of these hires occurred.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Coles_James#cite_note-NYT-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Globe" class="mw-redirect" title="Boston Globe" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Boston Globe</a>, journalist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Savage(author)" title="Charlie Savage (author)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Charlie Savage</a> wrote that previous to James' work as director of OPM, "veteran civil servants screened applicants and recommended whom to hire, usually picking top students from elite schools." Noting that Regent University is ranked a "tier four" school by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_News%26_World_Report" class="mw-redirect" title="US News & World Report" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">US News & World Report</a>, the lowest score and essentially a tie for 136th place, Savage said James' changes resulted in lawyers with more conservative credentials, less prior experience in civil rights law and the decline of the average ranking of the law school attended by the applicants.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Coles_James#cite_note-BG-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a> In addition to Savage, other journalists made similar comments.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Coles_James#cite_note-Moyers-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Coles_James#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Coles_James#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;">Later career[</h2>On November 4, 2009, Governor-elect <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_McDonnell" title="Bob McDonnell" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bob McDonnell</a> of Virginia named her one of the co-chairs of his transition committee<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Coles_James#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a> and subsequently appointed her as a member of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Commonwealth_University" title="Virginia Commonwealth University" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Virginia Commonwealth University's</a> governing body, the Board of Visitors.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Coles_James#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[19]</a>On December 19, 2017, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heritage_Foundation" title="The Heritage Foundation" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Heritage Foundation</a>, an influential conservative Washington, D.C.-based public policy research institute, announced that James would be its sixth president.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Coles_James#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[20]</a> She has served as a member of the Board of Trustees since 2005.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Coles_James#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[21]</a>In 2018, she was nominated by President Trump to serve as one of two members of the Women's Suffrage Centennial Commission.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Coles_James#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[22]</a>In March 2019, she was appointed to the Advanced Technology External Advisory Council (ATEAC), which was set up by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google" title="Google" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Google</a> to advise on the ethical implications of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence" class="mw-redirect" title="Artificial Intelligence" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Artificial Intelligence</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Coles_James#cite_note-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[23]</a> Her appointment proved controversial, with some employees of Google protesting.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Coles_James#cite_note-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[24]</a> On April 5, 2019, it was reported that Google had disbanded the ATEAC after more than 2,380 employees at Google signed a petition asking that James be removed from it. The petition signers stated that "James' positions on transgender and immigrant rights should have disqualified her from weighing in on AI ethics."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Coles_James#cite_note-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[25]</a>James resigned from the Heritage Foundation in 2021.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Coles_James#cite_note-:0-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;">Personal life and honors[</h2>James is the mother of three grown children<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Coles_James#cite_note-26" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[26]</a> and the wife of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_E.James,Sr." title="Charles E. James, Sr." style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Charles E. James, Sr.</a>, who was the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Federal_Contract_Compliance_Programs" title="Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs</a> from 2001 to 2009 during the administration of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W.Bush" title="George W. Bush" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">George W. Bush</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Coles_James#cite_note-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[27]</a>James was named one of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Virginia" title="Library of Virginia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Library of Virginia</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Women_in_History" title="Virginia Women in History" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Virginia Women in History</a> in 2018.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Coles_James#cite_note-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[28]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Coles_James#cite_note-29" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[29]</a><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;">Books[</h2><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); list-style-image: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" bullet-icon.svg="bullet-icon.svg" d4515="d4515" margin="margin" em="em" px="px" padding="padding"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><cite id="CITEREFJamesJacquelline_Cobb1993" class="citation book cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">James, Kay; Jacquelline Cobb, Fuller (1993). Never Forget. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zondervan" title="Zondervan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Zondervan</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">ISBN</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0310482000" title="Special:BookSources/978-0310482000" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><bdi>978-0310482000</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Never+Forget&rft.pub=Zondervan&rft.date=1993&rft.isbn=978-0310482000&rft.aulast=James&rft.aufirst=Kay&rft.au=Jacquelline+Cobb%2C+Fuller&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKay+Coles+James" class="Z3988" /></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><cite id="CITEREFJamesJacquelline_Cobb1995" class="citation book cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">James, Kay; Jacquelline Cobb, Fuller (1995). Kay James. Today's Heroes Series. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zondervan" title="Zondervan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Zondervan</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">ISBN</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-310-49631-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-310-49631-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><bdi>0-310-49631-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Kay+James&rft.pub=Zondervan&rft.date=1995&rft.isbn=0-310-49631-4&rft.aulast=James&rft.aufirst=Kay&rft.au=Jacquelline+Cobb%2C+Fuller&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKay+Coles+James" class="Z3988" /></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><cite id="CITEREFJamesKuo1995" class="citation book cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">James, Kay; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kuo(author)" title="David Kuo (author)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Kuo, David</a> (1995). Transforming America: From the Inside Out. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zondervan" title="Zondervan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Zondervan</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">ISBN</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-310-48440-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-310-48440-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><bdi>0-310-48440-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Transforming+America%3A+From+the+Inside+Out&rft.pub=Zondervan&rft.date=1995&rft.isbn=0-310-48440-5&rft.aulast=James&rft.aufirst=Kay&rft.au=Kuo%2C+David&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKay+Coles+James" class="Z3988" /></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><cite id="CITEREFJames2001" class="citation book cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">James, Kay (2001). What I Wish I'd Known Before I Got Married. Multnomah Publishers. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">ISBN</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-57673-781-0" title="Special:BookSources/1-57673-781-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><bdi>1-57673-781-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=What+I+Wish+I%27d+Known+Before+I+Got+Married&rft.pub=Multnomah+Publishers&rft.date=2001&rft.isbn=1-57673-781-0&rft.aulast=James&rft.aufirst=Kay&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKay+Coles+James" class="Z3988" /></li></ul><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;">References</h2><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">...</div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ref</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">...Privately, several Google employees were also livid about the decision to include James, according to sources familiar with the discussions. On internal message boards, employees described James as “intolerant” and the Heritage Foundation as “amazingly wrong” in their policies on topics like climate change, immigration, and, particularly, on issues of LGBTQ equality. A person with James’ views, the employees said, “doesn’t deserve a Google-legitimized platform, and certainly doesn’t belong in any conversation about how Google tech should be applied to the world.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><header class="entry-header" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 1080px; padding: 0px 35px; width: 1080px; text-align: center;"><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 18px; clear: both; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: 0.05em; line-height: 1.4; text-transform: uppercase;">KAY COLES JAMES (1949- )</h1><footer class="entry-meta" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.1em; text-transform: uppercase; margin: 0px 0px 28px;"><span class="screen-reader-text" style="box-sizing: inherit; border: 0px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); clip-path: inset(50%); height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute !important; width: 1px; overflow-wrap: normal !important;">POSTED ON<time class="entry-date published updated" datetime="2022-07-25T15:21:45-07:00" style="box-sizing: inherit;">JULY 25, 2022</time><span class="screen-reader-text" style="box-sizing: inherit; border: 0px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); clip-path: inset(50%); height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute !important; width: 1px; overflow-wrap: normal !important;">BY CONTRIBUTED BY: <a class="url fn n" href="https://www.blackpast.org/author/sethweisberg/" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent;">SETH WEISBERG</a></footer></header><div class="entry-content" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; line-height: 1.75; letter-spacing: 0.01rem; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; max-width: 826px; padding: 0px 35px; width: 826px;">Kay Coles James is a conservative political figure who has served in a variety of government and executive roles. She was most notably the first African American president of the Heritage Foundation, a leading conservative think tank.James was born June 1, 1949, and raised in Richmond, Virginia. She graduated from Hampton University, an HBCU formerly known as Hampton Institute.She is married to Charles E. James, Sr., who served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs from 2001 to 2009 in the George W. Bush Administration. The couple has three children. James describes her career trajectory “from stay-at-home mom of three to being propelled by pro-life issues to enter public arena.” While her public role is broad, she has stated that “Pro-life is the greatest civil rights issue of our day.”James was recruited into politics in by future President George W. Bush. In 1989, she was appointed by President Ronald Reagan and reappointed by President George H. W. Bush as a member of the National Commission on Children. She served under President George H. W. Bush as Associate Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy and as Assistant Secretary for public affairs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.James has served as a board member of PNC Financial Services Group, the National Board of the Cancer Treatment Centers of America, the Magellan Health Services Board, and Amerigroup Corporation.From December 2017 until March 2021, James served as president of the Heritage Foundation, an influential conservative Washington, D.C.-based public policy research institute. She served as a board member for the previous 12 years from 2005 to 2017.James is the founder and current board chair of the Gloucester Institute, an organization that trains and nurtures college-aged leaders in the Black community. The organization draws inspiration from the work of Dr. Robert Russa Moton, the successor to Booker T. Washington at the Tuskegee Institute.She has held prominent roles with conservative organizations including serving as a board member of Focus on the Family, Senior Vice President of the Family Research Council, and Executive Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer for One-to-One Partnership, a national umbrella organization for mentoring programs.
Other board and commission roles include the National Gambling Impact Study Commission, the Virginia Empowerment Commission, the National Commission on Children, the Medicaid Commission, the Carter–Baker Commission on Election Reform, the NASA Advisory Council, the Fairfax County School Board, the Virginia State Board of Education, and the Young Life Board of Directors.  She has also served on the National Advisory Board of the Salvation Army, and as a member of the Virginia Commonwealth University Board of Visitors. She was the Convention Secretary for the 1996 Republican National Convention in San Diego.In 2022 James was appointed Secretary of the Commonwealth of Virginia by newly elected Governor Glenn Younkin.James has authored four books: Never Forget (1993), Kay James (1995), Transforming America: From the Inside Out (1995), and What I Wish I’d Known Before I Got Married (2001).</div></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">==</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">grapfic logo sal interesting</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/heritage-foundations-national-coronavirus-recovery-commission-pushes-right-wing-policy-agenda-downplays-heritage-connection/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/heritage-foundations-national-coronavirus-recovery-commission-pushes-right-wing-policy-agenda-downplays-heritage-connection/</a></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><div class="mce-content-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><div class="layout-constrain--narrow" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 47.2222em; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;">just two weeks after <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/heritage-foundation-appoints-itself-task-of-setting-direction-for-national-coronavirus-recovery/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">announcing</a> the creation of a “National Coronavirus Recovery Commission,” the Heritage Foundation released its initial set of <a href="https://www.coronaviruscommission.com/recommendations" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">recommendations</a>, which, unsurprisingly, pushes policy actions that would advance the right-wing think tank’s policy agenda, including further deregulation of business and privatization of education funding.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;">The commission’s April 20 report, which proposes steps to be taken over the next 30 days, warns that the economic costs of the widespread shutdowns could reach a “tipping” point in June, plunging the country into “economic catastrophe” and depression.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;">As Right Wing Watch <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/heritage-foundation-appoints-itself-task-of-setting-direction-for-national-coronavirus-recovery/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">noted</a> when the commission was announced, “Heritage has a long history of preparing right-wing policy road maps beginning with the ‘Mandate for Leadership’ that President Reagan used as his anti-tax, anti-regulation, anti-government guide to begin rolling back decades of policies grounded in the New Deal and its progressive successors.”<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;">It’s not as if anti-regulatory activists within the Trump administration need to be told to take advantage of the crisis; the Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/21/white-house-coronavirus-regulations/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">reported</a> Tuesday that administration officials are “planning to launch a sweeping effort in the coming days to repeal or suspend federal regulations affecting businesses.” But the Heritage commission’s “proposals” could be used to help justify such actions.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;">Included in the commission’s recommendations to governors for jump-starting the economy are “reducing or removing restrictive labor policies, such as increased minimum wages.” The commission recommends that states do away with teacher certification requirements and occupational licensing requirements.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;">The commission encourages the federal government to order that agencies consider making permanent all the regulations that have been waived in response to the pandemic and calls for the federal government to review “all regulations that inhibit economic growth and extend the two-for-one and centralized review requirements to the independent regulatory commissions and agencies.” (Two-for-one refers to Trump’s <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/trump-signs-executive-order-requiring-that-for-every-one-new-regulation-two-must-be-revoked-234365" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">executive order</a> that for every new regulation implemented, two must be revoked.)  And the commission says, “Congress should provide the President, the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, and Cabinet department Secretaries the ability to suspend costly regulations without extensive process.”<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;">The recommendations also call on Congress to create a “safe harbor” for businesses that reopen so they won’t be legally liable if they spread the virus as long as they have followed CDC guidance in good faith.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;">The commission also recommends that states make “existing education funding student-centered and portable”—wonk-speak for a kind of universal voucher system long dreamed of by opponents of public education and proponents of diverting public education funds to support private schools and homeschooling.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;">The commission encourages state and local governments to “observe the Supreme Court’s 2017 Trinity Lutheran decision, which held that government authorities may not exclude religious groups that are otherwise eligible from competing for government benefits because of their religious status.” The response to the pandemic has already <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/will-team-trump-use-coronavirus-crisis-to-further-dismantle-church-state-wall/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">broken new ground in weakening church-state separation</a>, something religious-right groups are certain to try to expand, the way they are seeking to expand the Trinity Lutheran decision to require that more government funds flow to religious institutions.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;">The commission’s proposals come amid right-wing-generated <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/reopen-protests-stir-up-the-far-right/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">protests</a> aimed at easing social distancing restrictions and shifting accountability from the president to governors. “The longer policymakers take to begin stated reopening based on local conditions, the more severe and long-lasting the adverse economic and social effects will be,” the commission’s report reads.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;">The painful consequences of shutting down so much economic activity are unquestionably real, and governments at all levels are wrestling with how to move forward responsibly. The Heritage commission makes some common-sense recommendations, like calling for active partnership between governments at all levels, businesses, and civil society. It promotes expanded testing and contact tracing, public health measures that state and local officials probably don’t need Heritage to tell them about.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;">Among the least necessary recommendations is the one encouraging the president to “continue regular briefings,” which have given Trump a daily platform for disseminating self-serving narratives and misinformation and demeaning reporters. The commission says it will be a challenge to convince Americans that it is safe to return to more normal social and economic activity given that new cases will continue to be reported. “People will need to be reassured that it is safe to work and patronize local businesses,” the commission recommends. “Robust public education should include reinforcing Americans’ mutual responsibility and accountability to others through appropriate, targeted ‘social distancing’ and other hygienic and nonpharmacologic interventions (NPI).”<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;">The commission also recommends “greater emphasis on bipartisanship to restore trust” in “American democracy and institutions.” That’s not a bad thing, but it should be noted that the Heritage Foundation is <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/heritage-employee-urged-trump-administration-not-to-appoint-democrats-or-moderate-republicans-to-voter-fraud-commission/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">not exactly known for promoting bipartisanship</a> or trust in democratic institutions. One wonders if someone at the White House will call to Trump’s attention the commission’s final recommendation, which for some reason is directed not at public officials but at the private sector and civil society: “Our leaders must work to rebuild this trust by resisting the temptation to ‘score political points’ and by seeking bipartisan implementation of bipartisan solutions.”<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;">Heritage seems to be going to great lengths to give people who visit the commission’s website or read its report the impression that the “national” commission is some kind of official government body rather than simply a vehicle for promoting the views of the conservative scholars and advocates who pack the commission’s membership. The commission’s website, featuring a stars-and-stripes logo, gives no indication that it is a project of the Heritage Foundation.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;">In fact, the commission’s “<a href="https://www.coronaviruscommission.com/about" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">about</a>” page doesn’t mention Heritage at all, except for identifying its chairman as Kay Coles James, the think tank’s president, and commission member Edwin Fuelner as Heritage’s founder and former chairman. The commission’s staff—Paul Winfree and Charmaine Yoest as co-executive directors and Rob Bluey as spokesman—are listed on the website and in the <a href="https://thf_media.s3.amazonaws.com/2020/NCRCreport_phase1and2_recs%5B1%5D.pdf" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">PDF</a> of the commission’s recommendations without acknowledgment of their Heritage positions: Yoest is vice president of the foundation’s Institute for Family, Community, and Opportunity; Paul Winfree is director of its Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies; and Bluey is vice president for communications and executive editor for Heritage’s “news” operation The Daily Signal.<div class="at-below-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/heritage-foundations-national-coronavirus-recovery-commission-pushes-right-wing-policy-agenda-downplays-heritage-connection/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><div class="layout-constrain--narrow" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 47.2222em; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em;"><div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; border-top: 5px solid rgb(239, 243, 243); margin-bottom: 2em; padding-top: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; font-weight: 700;">Tags: <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/charmaine-yoest/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">Charmaine Yoest</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/kay-coles-james/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">Kay Coles James</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/paul-winfree/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">Paul Winfree</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/rob-bluey/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">Rob Bluey</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/topics/coronavirus/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">Coronavirus</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/topics/privatization/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">Privatization</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/organizations/heritage-foundation/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">Heritage Foundation</a></div></div></div></div></div></div>