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</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">[this reporting is one of several scoops featured in this week’s edition of <a class="TrackingLink LinkWrapper" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/newsletters?newsletter=confider&tdb_source=confider&tdb_medium=top_article" style="background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">Confider</a>, the newsletter pulling back the curtain on the media. Subscribe <a class="TrackingLink LinkWrapper" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/newsletters?newsletter=confider&tdb_source=confider&tdb_medium=top_article" style="background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">here</a> and send your questions, tips, and complaints <a class="TrackingLink LinkWrapper" href="mailto:confider@thedailybeast.com" style="background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">here</a>.The non-profit that feeds <a class="TrackingLink LinkWrapper" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-daily-caller-sued-over-relentless-xenophobic-house-it-conspiracy-theories" style="transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">the conservative Daily Caller website</a> co-founded by Fox News host Tucker Carlson has accepted tens of thousands of dollars from entities and individuals who have received favorable coverage, including some who authored opinion pieces, a new filing shows.The document—the Daily Caller News Foundation’s fiscal year 2021 <a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external" href="https://secure.nmag.gov/coros/Documents/45-2922471/IRSTaxForm2021-FYE20211231.pdf" style="transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">tax statement</a>—includes for the first time a list of donors to the 501(c)(3) organization, a group that is not required by law to disclose donor information. The filing also reveals that Carlson, who in 2020 <a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external" href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/fox-news-host-tucker-carlson-leaves-the-daily-caller-11591804588" style="transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">announced</a> he was leaving the Daily Caller and selling his stake in the website, is still the foundation chairman, and has not cut back on his hours.When Carlson announced his split with the Daily Caller in 2020, he cited work constraints. “I’m just too absorbed in what I’m doing,” the host told <a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external" href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/fox-news-host-tucker-carlson-leaves-the-daily-caller-11591804588" style="transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">The Wall Street Journal</a> at the time, explaining, “I wasn’t helping in any way, because I’ve got an hour to do every night” on his Fox News program. The tax filing, which covers the following year, shows he continued to hold the chairman position and put in the same hours as in all <a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external" href="https://secure.nmag.gov/CharitySearch/CharityDetail.aspx?FEIN=45-2922471" style="transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">previous foundation filings</a>—five hours a week.<div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="Storylines" id="storylines-target-middle" style="padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2);" /></div>Many of the foundation’s donors are tied to industries and issues that the Caller covers frequently. Most notable is the Ariel Corporation, which manufactures natural gas compressors and gave $135,000 to support the news organization—which has for years been criticized for its pro-carbon energy reporting and financial ties to the Koch brothers, the right-wing industrialists.Other donors have an even closer relationship with the site, including some who have published pieces in their own names, without a disclosure of their financial ties. That, according to top journalism ethics expert Kelly McBride raises ethics questions.“With any news organization that solicits donations, you really have to have an editorial policy that articulates how you separate out your loyalty to your audience and to your journalistic mission from your ties to your donors,” McBride, who is senior vice president and chair of the Craig Newmark Center for Ethics and Leadership at the Poynter Institute, told The Daily Beast.such a policy, she said, would ideally include an advisement to donors that they can’t influence editorial work, and a promise of transparency whenever there’s a conflict of interest.“You’re looking for, first of all, separation between fundraising and the editorial product, and you’re also looking for clarity around what donors can expect in exchange for their donation, as well as transparency so the audience understands,” McBride said, adding that “a tagline on an op-ed would be an obvious transparency mechanism.”The Daily Beast reached out to the Daily Caller and Carlson for comment, but did not immediately receive a reply.The journalistic and ethical standards published on the Daily Caller <a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external" href="https://dailycaller.com/journalistic-and-ethical-standards/" style="background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">website</a> don’t mention the foundation or any policy regarding donor influence over editorial content. But some donors have contributed content themselves.For instance, RightForge, an internet infrastructure provider that caters to conservatives, in 2021 gave the foundation $7,500. In May of that year, the Daily Caller ran an <a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external" href="https://dailycaller.com/2021/05/05/avila-the-social-media-witch-trial-of-trump-and-america/" style="transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">op-ed</a> from RightForge CEO Martin Avila, criticizing what Avila called the social media “witch trial” of former President Donald Trump. Months later, RightForge <a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external" href="https://www.axios.com/2021/10/26/trump-social-network-host-rightforge" style="transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">announced</a> it would host Trump’s new social media network, Truth Social.Real estate investor Adam Milstein gave the foundation $25,000 in 2021 and published an <a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external" href="https://dailycaller.com/2021/04/12/milstein-strategic-active-philanthropy-can-strengthen-our-american-values/" style="transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">opinion piece</a> that same year. The piece—titled, “Strategic Active Philanthropy Can Strengthen Our American Values”—includes a brief bio for Milstein, which describes him only as “an active philanthropist, an investor, and community leader.”While the Daily Caller has been blasted for its affinity for the fossil fuel industry, the tax filing shows the Daily Caller News Foundation received financial backing from conservative green-energy group ClearPath Action, which gave $10,000 in 2021.ClearPath has received favorable coverage from the Daily Caller, which earlier this year <a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external" href="https://dailycaller.com/2022/06/02/republicans-climate-change-emissions-gasoline-prices/" style="transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">cited</a> CEO Rich Powell in an article about his group, without a disclaimer. When Powell landed a Daily Caller op-ed earlier this month, the outlet added a note to <a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external" href="https://dailycaller.com/2022/12/09/opinion-conservatives-are-cutting-a-clear-path-to-solving-climate-change-heres-how-rich-powell/" style="transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">the piece</a> and his <a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external" href="https://dailycaller.com/author/richpowell/" style="transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">contributor page</a> that read, “The views and opinions expressed in this commentary are those of the author and do not reflect the official position of the Daily Caller News Foundation.” But those notes did not mention the financial relationship.Then there’s Daniel Oliver, a Daily Caller <a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external" href="https://dailycaller.com/author/doliver/" style="background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">regular contributor</a> who also serves as trustee of the George E. Coleman Jr. Foundation, which gave the foundation $7,500 in 2021. The Daily Caller highlights some of Oliver’s rich experience in his bio—chair of the Education and Research Institute, director of Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy, and former chairmanships of the Federal Trade Commission under President Ronald Reagan and the National Review”—but doesn’t mention his role with the Coleman Foundation, or the donor relationship. (Buzzfeed News <a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external" href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rosiegray/federalist-weekly-standard" style="transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">reported</a> in 2019 that the foundation was a FDRLST Media investor, citing Oliver’s role.)An even more influential GOP figure also appears in the filing, in the form of a $10,000 gift from CRC Advisors, a group headed up by arch-conservative megadonor and judicial activist Leonard Leo. The Daily Caller <a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external" href="https://dailycaller.com/2022/12/16/exclusive-poll-voters-dont-want-to-pay-more-fight-climate-change/" style="transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">published</a> a piece on Friday based on the results of a CRC poll, without disclosing the relationship. The two groups also show <a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external" href="https://www.campusreform.org/profile?pid=4119791" style="transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">overlap</a> in their <a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/emma-heussner-9912599a/" style="transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">employees</a>, including current CRC vice president Kevin Daley, whose <a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-daley-4bb453a3/" style="transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">LinkedIn page</a> says he left the Daily Caller in 2020 after four years as a reporter.Power the Future, a nonprofit that advocates for the fossil fuel industry, donated $10,000 in 2021 and appears frequently enough in the Daily Caller that articles about the group have <a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external" href="https://dailycaller.com/2018/02/18/power-the-future-group/" style="transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">their own tag</a> on the site. Since the donation, Power the Future Executive Director Daniel Turner has been cited in <a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external" href="https://dailycaller.com/2022/05/10/gasoline-prices-record-high-joe-biden-strategic-petroleum-reserve/" style="transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">multiple</a> Daily Caller <a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external" href="https://dailycaller.com/2022/05/01/renewable-energy-industry-prices-supply-chain-joe-biden/" style="transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">pieces</a> as an expert voice, without no mention of his status as a foundation donor.Justin Olson , an elected Arizona utility regulator and former Arizona GOP Senate candidate, gave the foundation $10,000 in 2021, listing his role at the time as an officer with right-wing youth activist group Turning Point USA.The Daily Caller has given TPUSA <a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external" href="https://dailycaller.com/buzz/turning-point-usa/" style="background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">favorable coverage</a>, including after the donation. It also published an exclusive report in November 2021, the month after Olson announced his bid, revealing that a Scottsdale school board official had access to a so-called Google Drive “dossier” of personal information of vocal conservatives. (Police <a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external" href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-southwest/how-an-arizona-school-board-controversy-became-the-perfect-political-issue" style="transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">cleared</a> the official of wrongdoing.) Olson <a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external" href="https://twitter.com/_JustinOlson/status/1458919856837836824" style="transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">tweeted</a> the article when it came out, and expressed repeated outrage at the story on the platform, while a Twitter search shows <a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external" href="https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3A_justinolson%20school&src=recent_search_click&f=live" style="transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">he had not tweeted</a> about schools previously.The filing reveals the names of 2021 donors, but does not indicate whether they had donated before. Some of the contributors who present apparent conflicts of interest have had contributor roles in the publication previously, such as <a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external" href="https://dailycaller.com/author/lleo/" style="transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">Leo</a> and Adam Milstein, who published op-eds in <a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external" href="https://dailycaller.com/2018/10/30/auschwitz-to-pittsburgh-anti-semitism/" style="transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">2018</a> and <a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external" href="https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/21/how-accusations-of-islamophobia-threaten-our-freedom-of-speech/" style="transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">2019</a>. In 2018, when Power the Future announced its debut, the Daily Caller had the exclusive story.There are, of course, numerous examples of media companies drawing funding from non-profit backers. But the Daily Caller and the DCNF have a unique relationship.The foundation was created in 2011, a few years after Carlson founded the Daily Caller with then-partner Neil Patel, who still helms the operation. Thanks to the organization’s non-profit status, the foundation can subsidize not only publication costs, but the production of the actual content—with a built-in tax break.Part of the foundation’s stated mission is to train young reporters, but its staff also generates content, which the Daily Caller then gets to post to its site for free. And while this content is nominally available to any publication, The Washington Post <a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/06/02/charity-doubles-as-a-profit-stream-at-the-daily-caller-news-foundation/" style="transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">reported</a> that it’s rarely used by anyone beyond the Daily Caller. A <a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external" href="https://www.exposedbycmd.org/tucker-carlson" style="transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">2017 Center for Media and Democracy report</a> found that the Daily Caller published “virtually everything” the nonprofit churned out.However, other groups have taken advantage of the arrangement. The fact-checking site Snopes <a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external" href="https://www.snopes.com/news/2019/03/04/activists-setup-local-news-sites/" style="transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">reported</a> in 2019 that conservative political activists appropriated foundation content to populate a number of small-time websites styling themselves as local news outlets to smuggle political content to unsuspecting audiences.The Daily Caller has also been called out for its financial and political ties to Trump’s campaign, which shelled out about $150,000 for access to the Daily Caller email list in the 2016 election, the Center for Media and Democracy <a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external" href="https://www.exposedbycmd.org/tucker-carlson" style="transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">reported</a>.One of the most familiar examples of a donor-funded news organization would be National Public Radio. While NPR gets some government grants, most of its money comes from private contributors—including from industries it reports on. But McBride noted that NPR puts disclaimers on stories that may present an apparent conflict.“When you listen to public media, you hear that certain people give money for certain lines of reporting, like for climate change, et cetera. So you can fund a line of reporting, but you get no influence over how that news is presented, and public media also lets the audience know when that funding may intersects with the reporting,” McBride said.It’s unclear whether any Daily Caller News Foundation donors tabbed their contributions for specific issues or series. But some well-known issues-driven names populate the list, including top GOP megadonor and election-denial enthusiast Dick Uihlein ($25,000), anti-climate change groups the Bradley Foundation ($50,000) and Sarah Scaife Foundation ($350,000), and conservative free-market underwriters Searle Freedom Trust ($230,000).The source of the biggest donation, however, is still unknown. That would be the $400,000 the group received through DonorsTrust, a nonprofit known as a conservative dark money “ATM,” which allows funders to channel money anonymously to various recipients. The foundation also got a $300,000 injection from someone identified as “anonymous.”The Daily Caller operation—which has been exposed for <a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external" href="https://www.snopes.com/news/2018/09/06/many-daily-caller-writers-expressed-white-supremacist-views/" style="transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">ties to white nationalists</a>—has been widely criticized on the left for its financial ties to energy interests, most specifically Charles Koch, who has provided <a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external" href="https://readsludge.com/2019/03/13/charles-koch-continues-to-bankroll-the-tucker-carlson-founded-daily-caller/" style="transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">millions in funding</a> over the years, and at one point <a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external" href="https://www.prwatch.org/news/2019/03/13455/who-bankrolls-tucker-carlsons-hateful-propaganda-why-kochs-course" style="transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">reportedly</a> accounted for more than 83 percent of the foundation’s annual revenue.That bankroll swelled between 2020 and 2021. The foundation’s fiscal year 2020 <a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external" href="https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/452922471" style="transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">filing</a> shows $1.57 million in contributions, a number that nearly doubled to $2.8 million the next year, according to the 2021 document. The foundation spent $1.4 million—$254,000 of it on fundraising—which, combined with previous assets, left it with a year-end balance of about $2.1 million.</div></div></div><div style="">=</div></div><div><a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/165984/10-people-destroying-democracy">https://newrepublic.com/article/165984/10-people-destroying-democracy</a>Anne Nelson/April 18, 202210 People You’ve Never Heard of Who Are Destroying Democracy
They’re sowing disruption and disinformation, and they have their eyes on 2024.
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In

recent years, America’s democracy has faced countless challenges. Some

seemed to materialize out of thin air, but many have been the fruit of

secretive networks such as the 40-year-old Council for National Policy.

Here are 10 individuals who have sown the seeds of disruption and

disinformation—and who are setting their sights on the 2024 presidential

election.

Larry Arnn
President, Hillsdale College

For

decades, Michigan-based Hillsdale has served as an academic partner for

the religious right. The college has had a close relationship to the

Council for National Policy, the secretive Christian right umbrella

organization that directs so much right-wing activism, through Arnn and

his predecessor, George Roche III (who left in a cloud of scandal).

Hillsdale’s major donors have constituted a who’s who of the radical

right, including the Koch network and leading figures from the CNP. Arnn

has expanded Hillsdale’s role as a platform for the CNP’s network of

megadonors, fundamentalist activists, and media outlets, providing their

policy prescriptions with a thin veneer of academic respectability. The

college enrolls around 1,500 students, but its leaves an outsize

footprint in political messaging. Its highly politicized publication

Imprimis is sent to more than six million recipients. Hillsdale operates

the Kirby Center in Washington, D.C., where it has groomed young

conservatives at the Capitol Hill Staff Training School, run by the

Leadership Institute (see Morton Blackwell, below). Hillsdale is also

playing a role in the current disruption of public education, which has

been used for political leverage in Virginia and beyond. In 2020, Donald

Trump appointed Arnn chair of the 1776 Commission, to promote a

“patriotic” rebuttal to the 1619 Project’s racially inclusive approach

to U.S. history. Hillsdale has led an ongoing campaign to politicize

public schools, promoting anti–critical race theory campaigns and

assisting in the launch of “affiliate” charter schools in 11 states.

Joe Seales
CEO, Right Side Broadcasting Network

RSBN

serves as the equivalent of a Trump-specific C-SPAN that has carried

nearly every Trump speech, rally, and town hall since July 2015, as well

as full coverage of the pro-Trump Conservative Political Action

Conference (CPAC). It also broadcasts a show called The Right View, with

Trump daughter-in-law Lara Trump. On January 6, it livestreamed Trump’s

speech inciting the march on the Capitol, and it gave live coverage to

the Florida “Freedom Rally to Show Support for President Trump and

January 6th Political Prisoners” a year later. In July 2021, RSBN was

temporarily suspended by YouTube, but the network looked to its own app

and the new pro-Trump platform Rumble to continue to carry Trump’s

rallies. The radical right has been assiduously constructing a parallel

media system in recent decades. RSBN, Rumble, and Trump’s new Truth

Social platform complement other media initiatives, ranging from

traditional fundamentalist broadcasters like American Family Radio to

social sites like Gettr and Parler, in the ongoing construction of an

alternate political reality for millions of followers. In March 2022,

after the height of the Ottawa truckers’ protests, RSBN promoted a

truckers’ convoy roundtable hosted by Representatives Matt Gaetz and

Marjorie Taylor Greene, and it has offered ongoing amplification of

Trump’s false election fraud claims. We can be sure that whatever Trump

fabricates for future news cycles, RSBN will be repeating it.

Neil Patel
Co-founder and publisher of The Daily Caller

The

Caller website was launched in 2010 by Patel and Tucker Carlson, his

college roommate, with a $3 million investment from Patel’s fellow CNP

member Foster Friess. (Carlson served as editor in chief until 2016 and

left the publication in 2019, when Patel bought him out.) The site

claims more than 20 million monthly readers, and the Daily Caller News

Foundation licenses its content free of charge to almost 300 outlets.
Patel has used the site as a platform for voices of the radical right,

including Jason Kessler, the white supremacist who organized the

Charlottesville rally, as well as climate denial and disinformation,

such as a falsified “nude” photo of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
The site

favors members of the CNP, including Supreme Court spouse Ginni Thomas

(a Caller “special correspondent”) and Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk.

The Daily Caller has recently launched a Facebook video platform called

American Voices, with three million followers, that partners with media

platforms of the religious right. It also boosts Carlson’s Fox News

broadcasts. The Caller’s YouTube channel features additional Carlson

content, comedy and sports programming, as well as regular attacks on

Joe Biden, Anthony Fauci, and CNN. It has given ample space to Trump’s

false claims of election fraud, and positive coverage of voter

suppression legislation.

Jenny Beth Martin
Co-founder and CEO, Tea Party Patriots

Martin

launched the Tea Party Patriots in March 2009 in collaboration with Amy

Kremer and Mark Meckler, with funding from FreedomWorks, a “grassroots

service center” founded with Koch backing. The Tea Party Patriots spent

the Obama administration organizing various “spontaneous”

anti-government, anti-tax rallies. Martin, Meckler, and Kremer also

joined the CNP; by 2020, Martin had risen to the executive committee and

Meckler to the status of Gold Circle member. Martin’s Tea Party

Patriots became the meeting ground for the secular Koch brothers and the

Christian nationalist CNP. She became the go-to woman for organizing

campaigns, including political canvassing and public protests. Martin

was a key point person for the CNP in Trump’s reelection campaign. In

April 2020, she organized “100 Business Executives” in support of Trump,

along with fellow CNP members Adam Brandon of FreedomWorks and Lisa

Nelson of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). Trump

acknowledged Martin by name in his speech before the CNP on the eve of

the 2020 GOP convention. On November 4, 2020, Martin announced that her

organization was going to hold “Protect the Vote” rallies in swing

states. On December 30, she tweeted that she would be speaking at the

January 6 Stop the Steal rally: “We must demand Congress to challenge

the Electoral College votes and fight for President Trump!” (Martin was

present at the rally, but didn’t end up speaking.) Most recently, Martin

has spoken out in support of the Canadian truckers’ protest. “We are

all truckers now,” she told The Hill in February.

Simone Gold
Founder, America’s Frontline Doctors

Gold

was an emergency physician in Los Angeles who was tapped by the CNP

leadership to serve as a point person for a massive Covid disinformation

campaign. The plan was advanced on a conference call in May 2020, while

the pandemic was first raging, and after Trump held his increasingly

erratic press conferences that included CNP president William Walton and

Trump aide Mercedes Schlapp. The goal was to use physicians to persuade

the public that the economy could be opened up in time to benefit the

Trump campaign. Gold began a series of appearances on media platforms

run by CNP members, disparaging the idea that Covid was a “huge medical

crisis,” pushing the false hydroxychloroquine “cure,” and attacking

Anthony Fauci. On

July 27, 2020, Jenny Beth Martin introduced Gold and a dozen colleagues

standing before the U.S. Supreme Court building, repeating a litany of

falsehoods about the virus. Their

statements, livestreamed by Breitbart News, quickly went viral, and the

video was enthusiastically retweeted by Donald Trump. On January

6, Gold joined the mob that breached the Capitol. She was recorded in

the Rotunda denouncing the Covid vaccine as “an experimental biological

agent deceptively named a vaccine.” She was charged with violent entry

and disorderly conduct (she pleaded guilty in March and will be

sentenced in June). Over

2021, she appeared in a series of “Health and Freedom Conferences”

across the country, sharing the bill with Michael Flynn, Sidney Powell,

and Mike Lindell. In 2020, she set up a profitable online prescription

service for bogus Covid “cures.”

Morton Blackwell
Founder and president, the Leadership Institute

Blackwell,

Paul Weyrich, and Richard Viguerie were young Goldwater activists when

they joined forces in the 1960s. Together, they helped to create a

constellation of conservative groups, including the CNP umbrella

organization and its partner CPAC. Blackwell took on the task of

training future generations of right-wing political candidates and

activists. His Leadership Institute, launched in 1979, claims that it

has trained more than 200,000 people over its history, many of them in

county- and state-level sessions in battleground districts. The courses

include fundraising, speechwriting, social media, and candidate

development. Graduates of the institute include Mike Pence,

Representative Jim Jordan, and Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe.

The institute’s training is ongoing, especially in contested states. In

2021, the GOP, noting that it needed to net only five congressional

districts to take the House, targeted 47 districts, five of them in

Texas. That year, the Leadership Institute blanketed Texas, scheduling

around 40 training workshops between March and November 2021—many months

before the midterm elections. The national Democrats, in contrast, have

tended to enter the state campaign arenas a few months or even weeks

before the elections, offering minimal training on the ground, limited

digital campaign tools, and poorly coordinated data. The institute’s

menu of courses reflects the right’s current initiatives, including

School Board Campaign Training and a School Board Activist Workshop.

Cleta Mitchell
Attorney

Mitchell

is a longtime member of the CNP board of governors. More recently, she

appeared on panels at 2020 CNP meetings speaking on “Election Integrity:

Securing the Ballot Box” and “Election Integrity: Action Steps.”

Mitchell also serves on the board of directors of the Bradley

Foundation, run by fellow CNP board member Richard Graber. Following

Biden’s victory, Mitchell tweeted that the Georgia recount was “A

FAKE!!!” She traveled to Georgia as a volunteer legal adviser for

Trump’s campaign and helped to file a December 2020 lawsuit challenging

the returns. According to The Washington Post’s Robert O’Harrow Jr., “On

December 30, Mitchell wrote to [then–White House chief of staff] Mark

Meadows and offered to send some 1,800 pages of documents purporting to

support claims of election fraud.” On January 2, Mitchell took part in

Trump’s infamous call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger,

of whom Trump famously demanded, “I just want to find 11,780 votes.” The

call was leaked, and when Mitchell’s role was disclosed, she was

obliged to resign from her position at the Foley & Lardner law firm.

But Mitchell continues her work through her strategy sessions at the

CNP, her board membership at the Bradley Foundation, her Apple podcast

Who’s Counting?, and her November 2021 appointment to the Board of

Advisors of the federal Election Assistance Commission, which certifies

voting systems—including voting machines—and advises local officials on

compliance with federal regulations.

Richard Graber
CEO, Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation

This

Milwaukee foundation has assets of some $900 million. Graber is a

member of the board of governors of the CNP, while CNP election

strategist Cleta Mitchell is one of the foundation’s 11 board members.

The Koch network and the DeVos family philanthropies may have received

more attention, but the Bradley Foundation’s strategic, longtime focus

on state-level politics has allowed it to make a major impact, using its

home state of Wisconsin as a laboratory. In 2012 to 2013, the

foundation spent more than $8 million on a network of groups promoting a

right-to-work law also supported by then-Wisconsin Governor Scott

Walker (a fellow CNP board member) and attacking Wisconsin trade unions.

The resulting right-to-work law crippled the unions and contributed to

Wisconsin’s shift from a Democratic to a swing state. In 2021, the

Bradley Foundation earmarked $600,000 for the American Legislative

Exchange Council’s voter management campaign software and other

activities, bringing its ALEC contributions to $5.4 million over the

previous decade. In 2020 and 2021, the foundation gave $200,000 to the

Claremont Institute. Claremont has played a critical role in the radical

right’s promotion of false claims of fraud and the efforts to rewrite

voting laws in advance of the 2024 elections; John Eastman, who drafted

the infamous six-point memo used by Trump to challenge the Electoral

College on January 6, is a Claremont senior fellow. The foundation also

contributed $300,000 to the Public Interest Legal Foundation (chaired by

Cleta Mitchell) and $175,000 to the Heritage Foundation’s election law

initiative, both of which promoted Trump’s false claims of fraud.

Lisa Nelson
CEO, American Legislative Exchange Council

Nelson

came to ALEC in 2014 after previous stints on Newt Gingrich’s staff and

at GOPAC, the Republican state and local political training

organization. ALEC was co-founded in 1973 by Paul Weyrich, also a

co-founder of the CNP. ALEC convenes corporate sponsors and Republican

state legislators to “collaborate” on model bills—including legislation

to oppose environmental regulation and gun control. In April 2020, The

Washington Post reported that Nelson, Jenny Beth Martin, and Adam

Brandon were leading an effort to organize a group of businesspeople to

help Trump “jump-start” the economy in the depths of the Covid epidemic.

Nelson continued her efforts over 2020 and doubled down after the

Biden’s victory. From December 2 to 4, 2020, ALEC hosted a secret

“process working group” for Republican state legislators, election

commissioners, and attorneys to develop strategies on election oversight

and redistricting. In July 2021, ALEC hosted and financed an “academy”

under the rubric of the “Honest Elections Project” in conjunction with

its annual meeting, with panels featuring Cleta Mitchell and other CNP

strategists. Nelson offered a preview of their project to rewrite

election laws at the CNP’s May 2021 meeting: “We’ve been targeting our

efforts on those states that have had issues—Pennsylvania, Michigan,

Arizona, Florida to a certain degree.” Currently, Republicans control 30

state legislatures, including Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Michigan,

Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. If successfully implemented, the

independent state legislature initiative could determine the outcome of

the 2024 elections, regardless of the popular vote.

Daniel J. Schultz
Attorney and founder, Precinct Strategy

Schultz

was an early proponent of the idea that Republican-controlled

legislatures could overturn election results—later promoted as the

“independent state legislature doctrine.” In some interpretations,

Republican-controlled state legislatures could nullify the popular vote

and send their own electors to put Trump in office. The key to his

strategy? Purging from the Republican Party inconveniently ethical

officials like Brad Raffensperger, starting at the precinct level. “We

can take over the party if we invade it,” Schultz told Steve Bannon on

his podcast in February 2021. Over the following months, there was a

surge in candidates for precinct chairman positions across the country.

Schultz has pointed to the strategy’s success in Arizona as a model.

ProPublica reported that in one Maricopa district, the precinct roster

grew by 63 percent in less than six months. Schultz’s website asks: “Can

we get 3/10 of 1% of the 74 M Trump America Firsters to Become

Republican Precinct Committeemen? To TAKE OVER The Republican Party? To

Save the Republic?” He points out that precinct committeemen are the

ones who elect the state party leaders and are the only ones who can

vote to endorse primary candidates; in some states, they are the only

ones who can nominate candidates to fill vacancies in state

legislatures. The logic is that full slates of pro-Trump precinct chairs

could guarantee pro-Trump candidates on the Republican state-level

ballots in 2022, who could be activated to enact the independent state

legislature doctrine in 2024—subject to judicial review. Donald Trump

approves. On February 27, 2022, he issued a statement endorsing

Schultz’s project.

Anne Nelson @anelsona

Anne Nelson is

the author of Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the

Radical Right. She has taught at Columbia University for over 20 years

and is currently a research scholar at Columbia’s Saltzman Institute of

War and Peace Studies.
Read More: Magazine, May 2022, Politics, The

Soapbox, Feature, Democracy, January 6, Republican Party, Donald Trump,

Right Wing Extremism

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</div><div> President Trump stares into the prospect of being impeached and even removed from office, his chances of averting that eventuality rests on keeping the Republican Senate in line, which in turn depends on the right-wing media that keeps the Republican base voters loyal to the embattled president. Apart from the Fox News on cable TV, Rush Limbaugh on the radio waves, a leading voice of Trump on the internet is the Daily Caller, which was cofounded an Indian-American.Neil Patel has worn many hats in life -- political advisor, legal counsel, and investment advisor — but his heart lies essentially in politics, rightwing politics to be specific.Patel, who along with veteran journalist Tucker Carlson cofounded Daily Caller, a conservative news and opinion website in 2010 in Washington D.C. has served in the White House from 2005 to 2008 as the chief policy adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney, before which he was staff secretary to Cheney from 2001 to 2004.<div id="tncms-region-article_instory_top" class="tncms-region hidden-print" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: " guardian="Guardian" text="Text" egyptian="Egyptian" web="Web" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Prior to joining the Bush administration, Patel was assistant general counsel at UUNET Technologies. Earlier in his career, he practiced law and also served as Counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People’s Republic of China.Patel received his B.A. from Trinity College (CT) and his J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center, where he was an Associate Editor of the Journal of Law and Policy in International Business.“I am a political junkie who was super interested in politics in school,” Patel said in a podcast on Ways Innovation Research Center in January this year. “Therefore, right after college, I moved to D.C., worked in sort of center right free market policy world for a while until I realized how difficult it is to make a living in that role.”Patel said he then went to law school and started practicing law until by his admission he realized, how much he disliked securities law. Patel served as Assistant General Counsel at UUNET Technologies, Inc., a WorldCom company.At UUNET, one of the world’s leading carriers of internet traffic, Patel was involved in a broad array of technology policy issues, including e-commerce, internet taxation, and internet security and abuse. He also served as UUNET’s lead for law enforcement issues.Patel lives in Washington, D.C., and Jackson Hole, Wyoming, with his wife, Amy, their two daughters, Caroline and Bela, and their son, Charlie.After leaving Cheney’s office when Patel and Tucker founded the Daily Caller, the idea was to provide news and information or what the co-founders described as “real reporting.”In a speak piece Tucker and Patel wrote this month that the press admittedly hates Donald Trump, adding that the bias the press shows toward most Republicans turns to outright hostility when it comes to Trump. “Once you've convinced yourself your opponent is an evil racist, it's not hard to justify doing anything you can to stop him. Many in the press corps have admitted this. Most haven't, but it's definitely the prevalent attitude in the dominant liberal media.<div id="tncms-region-article_instory_middle" class="tncms-region hidden-print" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: " guardian="Guardian" text="Text" egyptian="Egyptian" web="Web" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">“How can we have a fair election in this environment? That question is coming to a head now with regard to Joe Biden and his son's alleged corruption.”In the podcast Patel recalled that before launching the Daily Caller, he knew that news business was changing but the pace of the change was more dramatic than people were realizing.“I started wondering why anyone on the right – conservatives, free market people (who) for years have complained that press is biased, press is against us and is a big hindrance to our policy preferences – why they are not taking advantage of the opportunity where starting a news organization has gone down from tens or hundreds of million dollars of infrastructure and printing presses to literally extremely low.“In my mind no one on the right was taking advantage of it,” Patel said in the podcast explaining the reason behind launching Daily Caller.Speaking to India Abroad about whether Indian-Americans will abandon Democrats and support Trump, Patel said that it has “always amazed” him that “so many more Indian-Americans vote for Democrats than Republicans.” He said it’s because, “I think that as a party the Democrats have done a much better job with outreach.” He added: “In my own family I see much more of an even split.”Noting that he’s “not sure how much things will change this election cycle, he said, “ but I would guess that Trump’s event with Modi and general pro-India position may help.” He added that the event in Houston “was remarkable and the lack of press coverage of it was noteworthy."CNN Business said in a report Oct 5 that in a sign that the right-wing media's relentless defense of President Trump may be cracking, Fox News host Tucker Carlson published an op-ed with Daily Caller co-founder and publisher Neil Patel zinging Trump for his call with Ukraine's president.“Donald Trump should not have been on the phone with a foreign head of state encouraging another country to investigate his political opponent, Joe Biden, Carlson and Patel wrote. “Some Republicans are trying, but there's no way to spin this as a good idea.”Carlson and Patel added, “Like a lot of things Trump does, it was pretty over-the-top. Our leaders' official actions should not be about politics. Those two things need to remain separate. Once those in control of our government use it to advance their political goals, we become just another of the world's many corrupt countries. America is better than that.”The report said now, the two Daily Caller founders did use the same op-ed to applaud investigations into the Obama administration. And they did write that “it's hard to argue" that Trump's conduct rises “to the level of an impeachable offense.</div></div></div></div><div>=</div>

Prior to co-founding the General Partner, Mr. Patel served in the White House from 2001 through January, 2009 as a top advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney. He finished his tenure in the Vice President’s office as the Assistant to the Vice President for Domestic and Economic Policy. In this role, Mr. Patel served as the Vice President’s primary advisor on all domestic and economic policy issues, including: energy and environment, health care, financial services, transportation, international economics and technology/telecommunications. He also represented the Vice President at White House economic and domestic policy meetings up to the Cabinet level.

Before joining the Bush Administration in February 2001, Mr. Patel served as Assistant General Counsel at UUNET Technologies, Inc., a Worldcom company. UUNET was one of the world’s leading carriers of internet traffic. At UUNET, Mr. Patel was involved in a broad array of technology policy issues including: e-commerce, internet taxation, and internet security and abuse. He also served as UUNET’s lead for law enforcement issues.

Prior to joining UUNET, Neil practiced law with the Washington, D.C. office of Philadelphia based Dechert Price & Rhoads. He also served as Staff Counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People’s Republic of China. Mr. Patel has been an active investor for nearly 20 years and he has extensive experience investing in early stage private companies.

Mr. Patel received his B.A. from Trinity College (CT) and his J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center, where he was an Associate Editor of the Journal of Law and Policy in International Business

<h3>The Daily Caller</h3>

<div class="rellink relarticle mainarticle">Main article: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Caller" title="The Daily Caller">The Daily Caller</a></div>

On January 11, 2010, Carlson and former Vice President <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Cheney" title="Dick Cheney">Dick Cheney</a> aide <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Patel_%28political_advisor%29" title="Neil Patel (political advisor)">Neil Patel</a> launched a political news website titled <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Caller" title="The Daily Caller">The Daily Caller</a>. Carlson serves as editor-in-chief, and occasionally writes opinion pieces with Patel.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucker_Carlson#cite_note-19">[19]</a> Other high-profile bloggers include Jim Treacher (DC Trawler) and Mickey Kaus (Kausfiles.)

The Daily Caller is in the White House rotating press pool.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucker_Carlson#cite_note-20">[20]</a> Its reporters have appeared on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSNBC" title="MSNBC">MSNBC</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News_Channel" title="Fox News Channel">Fox News Channel</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNBC" title="CNBC">CNBC</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN" title="CNN">CNN</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC" title="NBC">NBC</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company" title="American Broadcasting Company">ABC</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS" title="CBS">CBS</a>, and radio stations across the country. Reporters and columnists for The Daily Caller include <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Lewis_%28journalist%29" title="Matt Lewis (journalist)">Matt Lewis</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Kaus" title="Mickey Kaus">Mickey Kaus</a>, Alex Pappas, Jamie Weinstein, Will Rahn, Caroline May, Nicholas Ballasy, Vince Coglianese, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Labash" title="Matt Labash">Matt Labash</a>, Jeff Poor, Alexis Levinson and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Treacher" title="Jim Treacher">Jim Treacher</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucker_Carlson#cite_note-21">[21]</a>

In an interview with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Politico" title="The Politico" class="mw-redirect">The Politico</a>, Carlson said that The Daily Caller will not be tied to ideology but rather will be "breaking stories of importance". In a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Post" title="Washington Post" class="mw-redirect">Washington Post</a> article, Carlson added "We're not enforcing any kind of ideological orthodoxy on anyone."

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Neil Patel is an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States">American</a> political advisor and publisher. He is the co-founder of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Caller" title="The Daily Caller">The Daily Caller</a>.

<h2>Education</h2>

He graduated from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcester_Academy" title="Worcester Academy">Worcester Academy</a> and received his B.A. from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_College,Hartford" title="Trinity College, Hartford" class="mw-redirect">Trinity College</a>. At Trinity College, Patel was roommates with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucker_Carlson" title="Tucker Carlson">Tucker Carlson</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Patel%28political_advisor%29#cite_note-post-1">[1]</a> Patel holds a J.D. from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgetown_University_Law_Center" title="Georgetown University Law Center">Georgetown University Law Center</a>, where he was an associate editor of the Journal of Law and Policy in International Business.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Patel_%28political_advisor%29#cite_note-The_Americans_Futures_Project-2">[2]</a>

<h2>Career</h2>

Patel served as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooter_Libby" title="Scooter Libby">Scooter Libby's</a> deputy before becoming chief policy advisor to Vice President <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Cheney" title="Dick Cheney">Dick Cheney</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Patel%28political_advisor%29#cite_note-3">[3]</a> In his role as an advisor to Cheney, Patel represented the Vice President at White House economic and domestic policy meetings, interacted with the business community on behalf of the Vice President, and managed the Vice President’s policy staff.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Patel%28political_advisor%29#cite_note-4">[4]</a>

Patel was nominated by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_George_W.Bush" title="Presidency of George W. Bush">Bush White House</a> to run the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Telecommunications_and_Information_Administration" title="National Telecommunications and Information Administration">National Telecommunications and Information Administration</a>, but he was not confirmed.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Patel%28political_advisor%29#cite_note-post-1">[1]</a>

After leaving the vice president's office, Patel co-founded <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Caller" title="The Daily Caller">The Daily Caller</a>, a web based news company focusing on politics, policy, and current events. Patel is also co-founder and is managing director of Bluebird Asset Management, a hedge fund focused on mortgage backed securities<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Patel_%28political_advisor%29#cite_note-The_Americans_Futures_Project-2">[2]</a>

<h2>References</h2>

<li id="cite_note-post-1">^ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Patel%28political_advisor%29#cite_ref-post_1-0">a</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Patel%28political_advisor%29#cite_ref-post_1-1">b</a> Kurtz, Howard (2010-01-11). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/10/AR2010011002388.html">"Media Notes: A look at Tucker Carlson's political Web site, the Daily Caller"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Post" title="Washington Post" class="mw-redirect">Washington Post</a>. Retrieved October 4, 2012.</li>

<li id="cite_note-The_Americans_Futures_Project-2">^ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Patel%28political_advisor%29#cite_ref-The_Americans_Futures_Project_2-0">a</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Patel%28political_advisor%29#cite_ref-The_Americans_Futures_Project_2-1">b</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.americanfuturesproject.com/?p=1024">"Neil S. Patel Joins AFP as Senior Advisor"</a>. The Americans Futures Project. Retrieved 22 June 2011.</li>

<li id="cite_note-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Patel%28political_advisor%29#cite_ref-3">^{</a></span}> Schmitt, Eric (2005-10-30). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/30/world/americas/30iht-libby.html?r=0">"Indicted aide had been 'Cheney's Dick Cheney'"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times" title="New York Times" class="mw-redirect">New York Times</a>. Retrieved October 4, 2012.</li>

<li id="cite_note-4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Patel_%28political_advisor%29#cite_ref-4">^{</a></span}> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://famousdc.com/2010/01/22/famous-5-questions-neil-patel/">"Famous 5: Neil Patel"</a>. famousdc. Retrieved 22 June 2011.</li>

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Mr. Konigsberg has over ten years of experience in the mortgage industry spanning primary mortgage market origination, secondary market analysis, structuring, trading and portfolio management. Mr. Konigsberg began his investment career at Guaranty National Bank of Tallahassee where he was responsible for primary mortgage market origination.

From March 2002 through December 2004, Mr. Konigsberg served as an analyst and CMO structurer for Freddie Mac and later joined FBR (Friedman, Billings & Ramsey) in a similar capacity in February 2005. From November 2006 through April 2009 he served as Portfolio Manager at E*Trade Financial where he was responsible for managing a $10 billion mortgage backed securities portfolio (which included over $1 billion of non-agency mortgage backed securities) as well as a $5 billion mortgage servicing portfolio. Mr. Konigsberg began investing his own money in residential mortgage backed securities in 2007.

Mr. Konigsberg holds Bachelor of Science degrees in both physics and electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also holds a Master of Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Prior to co-founding the General Partner, Mr. Patel served in the White House from 2001 through January, 2009 as a top advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney. He finished his tenure in the Vice President’s office as the Assistant to the Vice President for Domestic and Economic Policy. In this role, Mr. Patel served as the Vice President’s primary advisor on all domestic and economic policy issues, including: energy and environment, health care, financial services, transportation, international economics and technology/telecommunications. He also represented the Vice President at White House economic and domestic policy meetings up to the Cabinet level.

<h3>About Bluebird Asset Management</h3>

<div class="text-logo">Bluebird Asset Management LLC ("Bluebird") is an employee owned investment advisor to Bluebird Funds LP ("the Fund"). The Fund's focus is on mortgage backed securities (MBS) in the secondary market. Founded in 2009 by Paul Konigsberg and Neil Patel the Fund is open to new investors.</div>

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<h4>Headquarters</h4>

1050 17th St NW Suite 900 Washington, <abbr class="region" title="DC">DC</abbr> 20036 United States

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<h4>Website</h4>

<a href="http://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ebluebirdassetmanagement%2Ecom&urlhash=rIKJ&trk=Bluebird+Asset+Management_website" target="_blank">http://www.bluebirdassetmanagement.com</a>

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<h4>Industry</h4>

Financial Services

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Privately Held

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<h4>Company Size</h4>

1-10 employees

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<h4>Founded</h4>

2009

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reinart sickler

<h4><a id="title" href="http://www.linkedin.com/search?search=&title=Owner&sortCriteria=R&keepFacets=true&currentTitle=CP&goback=%2Efps_PBCK1_Reinout_Sickler111121_Y111_false_1_R151151_true22222222222222222222_*2&trk=prof-exp-title" name="title" title="Find others with this title">Owner</a></h4>

<h5><a id="company" href="http://www.linkedin.com/search?search=&company=Bluebird+Asset+Management&sortCriteria=R&keepFacets=true&goback=%2Efps_PBCK1_Reinout_Sickler111121_Y111_false_1_R151151_true22222222222222222222_*2&trk=prof-exp-company-name" name="company" title="Find others who have worked at this company">Bluebird Asset Management</a></h5>

</hgroup><time datetime="2003">2003</time><time> – Present</time><time> (10 years)</time></div>

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<h4><a id="title" href="http://www.linkedin.com/search?search=&title=Investment+Manager&sortCriteria=R&keepFacets=true&currentTitle=CP&goback=%2Efps_PBCK1_Reinout_Sickler111121_Y111_false_1_R151151_true22222222222222222222_*2&trk=prof-exp-title" name="title" title="Find others with this title">Investment Manager</a></h4>

<h5><a id="company" href="http://www.linkedin.com/search?search=&company=Goldzack+AG&sortCriteria=R&keepFacets=true&goback=%2Efps_PBCK1_Reinout_Sickler111121_Y111_false_1_R151151_true22222222222222222222_*2&trk=prof-exp-company-name" name="company" title="Find others who have worked at this company">Goldzack AG</a></h5>

</hgroup><time datetime="2001">2001</time><time datetime="2003"> – 2003</time><time> (2 years)</time></div>

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<h5><a id="company" href="http://www.linkedin.com/search?search=&company=Greenfield+Capital+Partners&sortCriteria=R&keepFacets=true&goback=%2Efps_PBCK1_Reinout_Sickler111121_Y111_false_1_R151151_true22222222222222222222_*2&trk=prof-exp-company-name" name="company" title="Find others who have worked at this company">Greenfield Capital Partners</a></h5>

</hgroup><time datetime="1998">1998</time><time datetime="2001"> – 2001</time><time> (3 years)</time></div>

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Korok Ray is Bluebird’s Chief Economist. In this role Korok analyzes macroeconomic factors and government policies that could affect Bluebird investments.  Korok is also an economist on the faculty of George Washington University.

From July 2007 to August 2008, Korok served as Senior Economist on the White House Council of Economic Advisers, covering financial markets.   He reported to the President’s chief economic adviser on a wide variety of financial policy issues during the historic Financial Crisis of 2008.

From 2004 to 2007, Korok was an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.  Korok graduated from the University of Chicago with a BS in Mathematics in 1999. He then went directly to Stanford University, where he completed his PhD in Economics in 2004.