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Peter Stone/June 29, 2022

Ballot Boxer

This Former Trump Lawyer Wants You to Disrupt the 2022 Midterms

Cleta Mitchell desperately tried to undo Trump's loss in Georgia in 2020. Now she's using the Big Lie to recruit conservatives as poll workers for the November elections.

A spacious ballroom at the Arizona Grand Resort in Phoenix was packed the weekend of March 11 with scores of Donald Trump loyalists still fuming about widely debunked claims that Joe Biden won the 2020 election thanks to rampant fraud. Dubbed an “election integrity summit,” the gathering was the handiwork of Trump’s former legal adviser, the veteran conservative activist Cleta Mitchell. And while Mitchell has garnered national attention for riling up Trumpists with false claims of election fraud in Georgia after the state was called for Biden, she’s now quietly channeling that anger into mobilizing activists to aggressively combat the specter of voting fraud in the next battle: the 2022 midterm elections.

Mitchell organized the Arizona summit on behalf of the Conservative Partnership Institute, a nonprofit that raked in $1 million from Trump’s leadership PAC last year. Founded in 2017 by former South Carolina SenatorJim DeMint, CPI has become a hub for the Big Lie in exile, with former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows signing up as senior partner shortly after leaving the White House last year, and Mitchell joining in March 2021 as senior legal fellow. CPI boasted revenue of $5.3 million in fiscal 2019, has arranged D.C. internships for young conservatives, and has worked with other right-wing groups to push conservative goals.

But central to the institute’s current mission is Mitchell, who leads its self-styled “election integrity network.” She has engineered a roaming series of summits this year in states Republicans hope to swing back in 2024: Georgia, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Michigan, and Nevada—along with the perennial battleground Florida, which Trump won. Mitchell has sold the network as a way to create state and local election “infrastructure,” which includes advocating unorthodox surveillance tactics of election officials and operations to ferret out any hints of fraud—real, or more often hypothetical.

One notable speaker at the summit, whom Mitchell interviewed on a stage, was Karen Fann, the Arizona state Senate president and 2022 national chairwoman of the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council, a group that promotes model laws for states to adopt, and that Mitchell has previously advised. Arizona has already passed one anti-voting law this year, imposing onerous restrictions to prove citizenship before registering to vote, and the state legislature is currently considering a raft of other measures that would empower state officials to conduct further reviews of elections.

One attendee of the Phoenix summit, who asked for anonymity, told me that “the event definitely used the false allegations of fraud in 2020 as a call to action to rally support for vigilant engagement this year in the election process,” to spur more robust monitoring of polling sites. The attendee added: “There was a large focus on recruiting precinct officials to watch the polls and all of the other processes associated with elections.”

To voting rights advocates, the campaign looks like a recipe for voter suppression and intimidation, especially of minorities, and could incite harassment against election officials. At these summits, the 71-year-old Mitchell, members of conservative groups such as Tea Party Patriots, GOP elected officials, and Republican National Committee staffers have delivered a blunt message: Conservatives ought to expand poll watching and “clean up” voter rolls—often by working as precinct and poll officials—in order to curb any voting fraud and bolster their electoral chances in 2022.

Mitchell hails from Oklahoma, where she began her career as a Democratic member of the state legislature before moving to D.C. and switching parties in the 1990s. Since then, she has amassed an extensive résumé of conservative clients: Mitchell has done legal stints advising the National Rifle Association (where she was once a board member), numerous GOP campaigns, and several dark-money nonprofit groups.

Some veteran conservatives who know Mitchell’s work say that her advice often pushed the legal envelope. “You tell Cleta where you want to end up, and she will come up with a way to get you there, whether it’s legal or not,” one former senior NRA official told me, quipping that she’s the “fringe of the fringe.” And a GOP election lawyer who has known Mitchell for years, and requested anonymity, added: “Cleta was sort of a classic lawyer for Donald Trump because she told Trump what he wanted to hear, as opposed to what he ought to hear from his lawyer.”

Mitchell started as a volunteer legal adviser to bolster Trump’s fraud claims in Georgia. She was recruited by Meadows the day after the 2020 election and eventually emerged as part of the core group of Trump lackeys attempting to subvert the results. She participated in Trump’s phone call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, wherein the president attempted to coerce the state official to “find” the extra 11,780 votes he needed to win the state. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is currently conducting a wide-ranging probe into that call, examining whether Trump and the other participants broke state laws. A special grand jury was impaneled in early May.

Mitchell has also been subpoenaed by the House panel probing the January 6 insurrection, as she was in contact with Trump that day. In response, Mitchell filed a lawsuit to block the subpoena. When reports of her role on Trump’s call with Raffensperger quickly surfaced in 2021, Mitchell resigned from her two-decade career with the law firm Foley & Lardner—as it was conducting an internal review—and joined CPItwo months later. (Mitchell did not respond to a request for comment for this story.)

“Cleta Mitchell allied herself with Trump’s election conspiracy theories on the infamous Trump-Raffensperger call,” Dennis Aftergut, a former federal prosecutor, said, adding acidly: “If that makes one an advocate for election integrity, Charles Ponzi was a champion of investment integrity.”

In loose alliance with other conservative groups such as Heritage Action, Tea Party Patriots, and FreedomWorks—where she was tapped in March 2021 to lead a “National Election Protection Initiative” with a multimillion-dollar budget—Mitchell and CPI have worked with gusto to tighten voting laws: That campaign helped spur at least 19 states in 2021 to pass more stringent voting measures, including voter identification mandates and curbs on absentee ballots, according to the Brennan Center for Justice.}:

Mitchell’s cachet among the right’s big donors is considerable: She sits on the board of the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, which has doled out hundreds of thousands of dollars in recent years to conservative election integrity and legal groups, including the Public Interest Legal Foundation, where Mitchell chairs the board. To help Trump overturn his loss in Arizona, Mitchell raised about $1 million in funds for a partisan audit of the state’s largest county—which wound up backfiring when the audit confirmed Trump’s loss there.

The programming at the CPI summits this year has partly overlapped, and included participants from an RNC election integrity drive that has recruited directors in 18 states and thousands of poll watchers, as The New York Times revealed in late May. To tutor activists at the summits about how to create local and state task forces, Mitchell and CPI have distributed a 19-page manual dubbed “The Citizens Guide to Building an Election Integrity Infrastructure.” The manual suggests some traditional poll monitor methods, but takes an ominous tone, urging activists to follow “every step” of vote-by-mail operations and advising them to “be ever-present” inside election offices.

AMAC Action, a conservative grassroots arm of the Association of Mature American Citizens that boasts over two million members, has co-sponsored several CPI summits}:. “We don’t want to see the kinds of shenanigans in 2020” again, Bob Carlstrom, AMAC Action’s president, told me. Carlstrom, a veteran D.C. lobbyist who expected to attend his first summit in North Carolina in June, added thatAMAC Action has encouraged its volunteers to be poll workers, election officials, and poll watchers. His group also has “been quite active in working on legislation” in Arizona, Texas, Pennsylvania, and other states where CPI and allied groups have spent millions promoting new laws that have curbed voting rights.

Such multifaceted conservative efforts by Mitchell and CPI have prompted concern from election watchdogs worried about the false narrative of major fraud leading to voter suppression and intimidation targeting Black and other minority voters. “These lies are then used to justify restrictive policies that make it harder for people to vote, particularly in communities of color,” said Sean Morales-Doyle, the acting director of the voting rights and elections program at the Brennan Center for Justice. He added, “It is also important to remind voters that there are laws prohibiting the intimidation of voters and election officials. We cannot let the threat of intimidation alone prevent anyone from participating in our democracy.”

According to Mitchell’s blog and radio interviews she’s done this year—including an April one with Trump uber loyalist Steve Bannon—the CPI summits are building a state-based “movement.” Mitchell now hosts a podcast, dubbed Who’s Counting, where she speaks with like-minded conservative activists in states such as Arizona, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. The podcasts tend to hype allegations of improper voting and election practices. Mitchell bluntly told Jane Mayer of The New Yorker last year that the goal of her post-2020 work has been “to make it harder to cheat,” without a nod to former Attorney General William Barr’s acknowledgment in late 2020 that there was no significant fraud in Biden’s win by over seven million votes nationally.

Since the first meeting in 2021, the summits have drawn several conservative and political bigwigs, including Tea Party Patriots leader Jenny Beth Martin and CPI chair DeMint. Meadows was a keynote speaker at a CPI summit in Georgia, but his public role has diminished following the disclosure in March that North Carolina was investigating whether he committed voter fraud. The inquiry was prompted by a New Yorker report that in 2020 Meadows registered to vote using an address where he’d never lived—a potential rare instance of actual voter fraud. Shortly before the probe became public, Meadows quietly dropped out of CPI’s Phoenix summit, where he was supposed to be a keynote speaker, and he does not appear to have been at any other public CPI events.

The “election integrity” agenda advanced by CPI and Mitchell has set off alarm bells for Democratic SenatorSheldon Whitehouse. “From Cleta Mitchell’s dark-money group to Heritage Action, we see dark money crawling everywhere behind voter suppression and election subversion,” Whitehouse told me.

Looking ahead, the Brennan Center’s Morales-Doyle is worried that the summits could “increase the risk that vigilante actors will engage in intimidation and harassment of voters and election workers. In short, the people promoting these lies about so-called election integrity are doing serious harm to our democracy.”

Peter Stone is a Washington-based investigative journalist who has covered a wide array of lobbying, legal, and campaign finance issues, working for National Journal, McClatchy newspapers, and Legal Times, among other publications. As a freelancer, his work has also appeared in The Guardian, The New York Review of Books Daily, Mother Jones, The Intercept, and many other news outlets. He is the author of Heist: Superlobbyist Jack Abramoff, His Republican Allies and the Buying of Washington.

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Association of Mature American Citizens (AMAC) is a United States-based conservative advocacy organization and interest group, founded in 2007. Its president and founder is Daniel C. Weber, a retired insurance agency owner.^[1][2]

AMAC is a membership organization for people age 50 and over.^[3] The group calls itself "the conservative alternative to the AARP."^[2] It is one of several organizations to position itself as conservative rivals to the AARP; others include the American Seniors Association and 60 Plus Association.^[3][4][5]

In 2014, the group is based in Lady Lake, Florida.^[4]

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AMAC describes itself as "vigorously conservative" and gained support from talk show host Glenn Beck and other conservative figures.^[6] AMAC strongly opposes the Affordable Care Act (ACA)^[7][8] and has pushed for its repeal.^[4] In March 2014, AMAC claimed a membership of 1.1 million members, up from 40,000 in 2008, which it attributed to backlash over the ACA.^[4]

AMAC supports a plan for Social Security which would gradually increase the earliest retirement age to 64 (from 62) and "guarantee cost-of-living increases in a tiered structure based on income."^[4] AMAC supports the oil and gas industry, claiming that they "are safer for the environment than ever." The group's president, Dan Weber, called for a rollback of Obama administration policies to promote clean energy.^[9]

The AMAC has a volunteer "delegate" program, aiming to select an AMAC member in each congressional district across the country to meet and lobby members of Congress.^[10]

In February 2017 AMAC issued a warning to the upcoming 2017 Academy Awards ceremony to not tolerate speeches against President Donald Trump, threatening to launch a boycott of theaters.^[11]

Political analyst Josh Bernstein is currently a National Spokesperson for AMAC, which sponsors his weekly political talk show. ^[12]

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Commerce Committee Advances Cantwell, Grassley Bipartisan Bill to Combat Rising Prescription Drug Prices

June 22, 2022

Bill would increase transparency in drug pricing & direct FTC to hold PBMs accountable for manipulation

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation today advanced the bipartisan Pharmacy Benefit Manager Transparency Act to the full Senate. The legislation was introduced by Sens. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Chair of the Commerce Committee, and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Judiciary Committee, to increase transparency in prescription drug pricing and hold pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) accountable for deceptive and unfair practices that drive up prescription drug costs. The bill was approved 19-9.

Specifically, the legislation would ban deceptive and unfair pricing schemes, prohibit arbitrary claw backs of payments made to pharmacies and require PBMs to report to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) how much money they make through spread pricing and pharmacy fees.

Prior to its passage, Sen. Cantwell spoke about the legislation’s importance for consumers:

“Senator Grassley and I introduced Pharmacy Benefit Manager Transparency legislation to shine a brighter light on the drug pricing marketplace and to prevent unfair and deceptive practices by PBMs that drive up the cost of medications at the expense of consumers. … Take insulin for example, a drug that has been available for patients for over 100 years. Insulin price hikes have become a matter of life or death for many Americans with diabetes.”

“Pharmacy Benefit Managers [are] a middleman in the drug pricing supply chain. Today, three PBMs control 80% of the prescription drug market, operating out of the view of regulators and consumers. PBMs set prescription drug prices … determine whether drugs are covered by an insurance plan, and pocket unknown sums of money that might otherwise be passed along … [as] savings to consumers.

“During our subcommittee hearing, we learned how PBMs engaged in spread pricing, in which they reimburse pharmacists less than what they would charge insurance plans and keep the difference as profit. In some cases, the pharmacy is reimbursed below the drug purchase price, forcing these small businesses to close.

“Our legislation will make it clear that the FTC should use its authority to stop spread pricing, unfair claw backs and other deceptive practices. We've received letters from organizations representing millions of seniors, pharmacists and oncologists, biotech companies and consumers who've long called for increased transparency in today's PBM market.”

The Pharmacy Benefit Manager Transparency Act of 2022:

Prohibits Arbitrary, Unfair or Deceptive Practices. Prohibits PBMs from engaging in spread pricing, arbitrarily, unfairly or deceptively reducing or clawing back drug reimbursement payments to pharmacies, and unfairly charging pharmacies more to offset federal reimbursement changes.
Incentivizes Fair and Transparent PBM Practices. Provides exceptions to liability for PBMs that pass along 100% of rebates to health plans or payers and fully disclose prescription drug rebates, costs, prices, reimbursements, fees, and other information to health plans, payers, pharmacies, and federal agencies.
Improves Transparency and Competition. Requires PBMs to report the amount of money they obtain from spread pricing, pharmacy fees, and clawbacks; any differences in the PBMs’ reimbursement rates or fees PBMs charge affiliated pharmacies and non-affiliated pharmacies; and whether and why they move drugs in formulary tiers to increase costs. Directs the FTC to report to Congress its enforcement activities and whether PBMs engage in unfair or deceptive formulary design or placement.
Protects Whistleblowers. Protects whistleblowers from being fired or reprimanded for bringing violations to light and ensures employers cannot force employees to waive such protections with pre-dispute arbitration agreements as a condition of employment.
Enhances Enforcement. Authorizes the FTC and state attorneys general to enforce the Act.

Text of the legislation is available HERE. Section-by-section HERE.

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The group's president, Dan Weber, called for a rollback of Obama administration policies to promote clean energy.^[9]

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WASHINGTON, DC, Feb 14 – “The U.S. sits on what is perhaps the biggest cache of oil and gas in the world, yet we cry poverty. It’s about time we use the resources God gave us to pull ourselves out of the hole we are in,” according to Dan Weber, president of the Association of Mature American Citizens.

Weber said he believes the federal government needs to reconsider its “green agenda” in the light of the technological progress the energy sector has made in the development of clean recovery systems.

“It’s not only about jobs. Indeed, North Dakota has the lowest unemployment rate in the nation at 2.6% and for five years in a row has ranked number one in job creation in the U.S. due entirely to the million barrels of oil a day it is producing on private lands. But consider the fact that if we were to fully develop our vast national resources, it would have a profound, positive impact on the economy in general.”

Worker compensation in North Dakota has soared as a result of the energy boom in the state. “As Senator Ted Cruz noted in announcing his proposed American Energy Renaissance Act this week, those employed in the oil and gas industry there earn $49.90 an hour, Wal-Mart is paying workers at their stores $17.50 an hour and McDonalds offers $300 sign-up bonuses to new hires at their stores.”

Cruz did not miss the opportunity to call on President Obama to approve the Keystone Pipeline. “If you are a Birkenstock-wearing, tree-hugging, Greenpeace activist, you should love the Keystone Pipeline.” He pointed out that not only would it create many new high-paying jobs, it would provide a safer option for transporting oil from Canada, a reference to the dangers of moving the oil by rail.

Weber concluded that “a lot has happened in the past decade to improve energy development prospects for the country. Oil and gas exploration and recovery are safer for the environment than ever before and it will save our bacon as far as economic growth is concerned. Creation of alternative fuels is a commendable goal, but it will take decades to become a reality—time we can’t afford while there are so many people out of work, while our national debt soars unchecked, while our economy is in dire need of a jump start. It’s time that we begin to ‘think bigger than Keystone,’ as Ted Cruz put it.”

NOTE TO EDITORS: Dan Weber is available for telephone interviews on this issue. Editors and reporters may contact John Grimaldi by phone at 917-846-8485 or via email at jpgrimaldi@verizon.net to set up a call.

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// While Chairman Emeritus ofSecond Genesis[ADDICTION TREATMENT] , Bob is president of AMAC Action, the advocacy affiliate of the national Association of Mature American Citizens (AMAC), and brings a credential that is a blend of senior executive business, government, politics, communications, and media. Previously, he co-founded, built, and lead as Chairman and CEO of one of Washington’s largest independent government (policy, legislative, and regulatory), international and public relations, and federal marketing consulting firms. Then he later (i) rebuilt a management investment team and refined the strategy to undertake a roll-up in the metals finishing component of the parts manufacturing industry, acquiring in a concurrent M&A transaction 6 operating companies in 5 states, (ii)served as the Managing Director of the Government Strategies practice of a major NYSE-traded business consulting firm, and (iii)served as “market maker” and generated as Vice President for Political Marketing for cable industry’s marketing and ad sales consortium.

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Washington, DC

Laryssa Bonacquisti Sommer

Legal Research Assistant & Student Writer on the Journal of Corporation Law

Rockwall, TX

Mike Dearth, CIMA®

Senior Advisor Consultant at Invesco

Greater Chicago Area

Jim Brown

Digital, EComm, and Segment Marketing Executive

Boston, MA

Avery Sheffield

Co-Founder, CIO, and Senior Portfolio Manager of VantageRock at Rockefeller Capital Management

New York, NY

John Troha

John Troha Photography, Principal

Bethesda, MD

Gina Destro

Director Of Retail at RTR Pilates

Arlington, VA

Debrajean Overholt

Debrajean Overholt Event Design

Washington, DC

Richard Malone

Manager, Client Services at John Hancock

Memphis Metropolitan Area

Julie Stokes-Jones

Employer Engagement Adviser at Busnes@LlandrilloMenai / Anglesey / Gwynedd /

Bangor

Par Ridder

General Manager at Chicago Tribune Media Group

Greater Chicago Area

Brian Bunker, MBA, CIMA, CMFC

Senior Director | Head of Practice Management & Consulting . Stratos Wealth Partners

Greater Cleveland

Ann Fitzpatrick Davison

Director, Head of HR Systems

West Chester, PA

Lindsay St. Lawrence

Chief Product Officer at Venuetize

United States

Monty Chandok

Chief Executive Officer at AMAC Corp

Yorkville, IL

Lucio Saverio-Eastman

Co-Founder / Technology and Creative Director at Brownstone Institute

Greater Boston

Amber Gosney

Creator of GO SEE SCHITT

Lawrenceburg, IN

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AMAC, Bob Carlstrom, Author at AMAC - The Association of Mature ...

Jun 9, 2022he served as a senior executive in the reagan white house office of management and budget where he coordinated and directed the administration's interagency review and analysis, including the development, of a broad range of legislation, including economic, fiscal, infrastructure, civil and criminal justice, immigration, government organization, …

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Bob Carlstrom — Second Genesis Foundation

Bob Carlstrom — Second Genesis Foundation Bob Carlstrom - Chairman Emeritus Bob currently serves as President, The Carlstrom Group, LLC provides strategic consulting services to the senior leadership of corporations and non-profits on enterprise development and public policy.

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Bob Carlstrom: Biography and Latest Articles - Townhall

May 23, 2019Bob Carlstrom is president of AMAC Action. Articles Bernie Sanders, the Candy Man? By Bob Carlstrom Sen. Bernie Sanders may mix his ideas with love but—in the words of the late, great Sammy Davis...

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Bob Carlstrom - President - AMAC Action | LinkedIn

The Carlstrom Group, LLC Jul 2013- Present8 years 11 months Washington, DC Metro Area Consulting firm advising on (1) corporate development and strategic planning, (2) government and public...

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CNP List: Over 1,000 Past & Present Members of the Council for National ...

Mar 9, 2021Here I've compiled a list of 1,011 CNP members from 1981 through 2020. This list may include less than half of the members spanning CNP's 40-year existence, but it's 1,011 more members than the Council wants you to know about. When you read the list, pay attention to the companies, too.

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Bob Carlstrom, MBA - Business Development Manager - LinkedIn

Bob Carlstrom, MBA Business Development Manager at Amazon Web Services Seattle, Washington, United States500+ connections Join to connect Amazon Web Services (AWS) University of Washington, Michael...

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Our Team — Second Genesis Foundation

Bob Carlstrom Bob leads AMAC Action, the advocacy affiliate of Amac, Inc, and brings a credential that is a blend of senior executive business, government, politics, communications, and media. (READ MORE) Pere currently serves as President, Broker of Record, and majority owner of Bethesda-based TSC Realty Services. (READ MORE) Michelle Trone

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The Useful Idiot Strategy of the Left - AMAC

Aug 4, 2021In essence, the President of the United States and his administration has become a disciple of the CRT - and is now aiding and abetting the outrageous indoctrination of our kids in their schools by the progressive-socialist movement disciples who also embrace the CRT doctrine and have infiltrated America's public and even private schools.

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Our Team - rwcarlstrom.com

Scott Umhoefer. President. +1 507-344-4901. scottu@rwcarlstrom.com. Scott was born and raised in North Mankato, MN, "which was and is a great place to grow up in," he states. He and his wife Kim have been married since 1979. They have three sons and two grandchildren. Two of their sons work for RWC. Scott enjoyed being a volunteer fireman with ...

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This Former Trump Lawyer Wants You to Disrupt the 2022 Midterms

7 days ago"We don't want to see the kinds of shenanigans in 2020" again, Bob Carlstrom, AMAC Action's president, told me. Carlstrom, a veteran D.C. lobbyist who expected to attend his first summit in North...