Employee Freedom Miller

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Tim Miller is the Communications Director for the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_for_Consumer_Freedom" title="Center for Consumer Freedom">Center for Consumer Freedom</a> (CCF). His name and contact information adorns each of the press releases put out by CCF.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Tim_Miller#cite_note-1">[1]</a> Miller is also listed as Communication Director of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Employee_Freedom_Action_Committee" title="Employee Freedom Action Committee">Employee Freedom Action Committee</a>, a Berman-created group lobbying against the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Employee_Free_Choice_Act" title="Employee Free Choice Act">Employee Free Choice Act</a>.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Tim_Miller#cite_note-About-2">[2]</a>

He also wrote an editorial in the Des Moines Register voicing his own opposition of efforts to rid society of "payday lenders" - short term high interest lenders.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Tim_Miller#cite_note-3">[3]</a> Miller believes that consumers should have the right to borrow money from lenders who many might call "predatory" with interest rates up to 400% APR.

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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Tim_Miller#External_Links">1.3 External Links</a></li>

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<h2>Articles and Resources</h2>

<h3>Related SourceWatch Articles</h3>

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<h3>References</h3>

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<li id="cite_note-1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.consumerfreedom.com/pressRelease_detail.cfm/release/254">"Consumers Win Major Victory Over Seafood Scaremongers"</a>, Media Release, March 11, 2009.</li>

</li><li id="cite_note-About-2"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.employeefreedom.org/aboutUs.htm">"About the Employee Freedom Action Committee"</a>, Employee Freedom Action Committee website, accessed March 2008.</li>

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<li value="3" id="cite_note-3">Tim Miller, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080820/OPINION01/808200340/-1/BUSINESS04">"Don't Limit Consumers' Loan Options"</a>, Opinion column, Des Moines Register, August 20, 2008.</li>

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<h3>External Links</h3>

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<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.consumerfreedom.com/">Center for Consumer Freedom</a></li>

<li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.madison.com/tct/archives/index.php?archAction=arch_read&a_from=search&a_file=%2Ftct%2F2008%2F03%2F07%2F0803070257.php&var_search=Search&keyword_field=center%20for%20consumer%20freedom&pub_code_field=tct&from_date_field=20080306&to_date_field=20080308&var_start_pos=0&var_articles_per_page=10">Payday Loans a Helpful Option for Consumers</a>," letter to the editor, The Capital Times (Madison, WI), March 7, 2008.</li>

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America Rising PAC was set up in Spring

2013 to serve as an organization on the right for the sole purpose of

exposing the truth about Democrats through video tracking, research, and

communications. By cataloguing every Democrat utterance we have the

data to ensure they are held accountable for their words and actions.

Our work influenced the 2014 elections. Bloomberg <a style="color: #1155cc;" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2014-11-05/democrats-are-even-losing-the-rewrite-of-the-2014-election?hootPostID=4a603ee35d08ee1fc3d267c743b4f1b9" target="blank">said</a> we “rattled Democrats who were not used to losing the media’s story lines” in 2014. Politico <a style="color: #1155cc;" href="http://www.politico.com/story/2014/11/democrats-lose-2014-midterms-112581_Page4.html" target="blank">referenced</a> our

video of Iowa Democrat Bruce Braley calling Senator Chuck Grassley “a

farmer from Iowa who never went to law school” as “a definitive moment

in the race, virtually everyone agrees.” The Washington Post’s “The

Fix” <a style="color: #1155cc;" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/11/04/winners-and-losers-of-the-2014-election-early-edition/" target="_blank">named</a> us a winner of 2014, saying America Rising “proved its value this cycle.”

We’re also looking forward to influencing the 2016 elections. The <a style="color: #5b93fc;" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2013/03/24/gop-rising-the-oppo-battle-is-joined/" target="blank">Washington Post </a>and <a style="color: #5b93fc;" href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/06/20/first-on-cnn-stop-hillary-effort-launches/" target="blank">CNN</a> have

called America Rising the leading group on the right preparing for a

Hillary Clinton candidacy and the earliest sustained effort to begin

defining future Democratic presidential contenders. Follow our Hillary

Clinton coverage <a style="color: #5b93fc;" href="https://www.americarisingpac.org/candidate/hillary-clinton/" target="_blank">here</a>.

You can see the candidates we’re tracking and visit their profile pages <a style="color: #5b93fc;" href="https://www.americarisingpac.org/candidates/" target="blank">here</a>.  <a style="color: #5b93fc;" href="https://www.americarisingpac.org/bruce-braleys-farmer-attack-fallout/" target="blank">

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With your support we can add to the list of Democrats we are tracking. Please help our work by contributing <a style="color: #5b93fc;" href="https://www.americarisingpac.org/donations/donate/" target="blank">here</a>. If you have any feedback or tips that can help us hold Democrats accountable, <a style="color: #5b93fc;" href="https://www.americarisingpac.org/tips/" target="blank">write us anytime.</a> You can also contact us <a href="https://www.americarisingpac.org/contact/">here</a>. If you’re interested in career and internship opportunities, <a href="https://www.americarisingpac.org/jobs/">click here</a>.

<h2>America Rising In The News</h2>

<address>A few articles about our organization</address>

Washington Post: <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2014/11/11/inside-the-republican-oppo-research-operation/" target="_blank">Inside the Republican ‘oppo’ research operation</a>

Bloomberg: <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2014-10-17/hatewatching-hillary" target="_blank">Inside the Republican machine scrutinizing Clinton’s every word.</a>

National Journal: <a href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/the-conservative-playbook-against-hillary-clinton-20140610" target="_blank">The Conservative Playbook Against Hillary Clinton</a>

CNN: America Rising PAC’s Tim Miller Joins Crossfire To Talk About “Failed Choices” (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdzkCdrK96Q" target="blank">Part 1</a>) (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEd8QudWrD8" target="blank">Part 2</a>)

Free Beacon: <a href="http://freebeacon.com/national-security/america-rising-report-criticizes-hillary-clintons-state-dept-over-benghazi/" target="_blank">America Rising: Report Criticizes Hillary Clinton’s State Dept. Over Benghazi</a>

Slate: <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/01/america_rising_the_republican_pac_that_s_filming_every_vulnerable_democratic.html" target="_blank">Every

Step You Take, Every Move You Make – The Republican PAC that’s filming

every single thing that key Democratic candidates do or say.</a>

Weekly Standard: <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/hillary-speeches-cost-san-francisco-police-21000_819731.html" target="_blank">Hillary Speeches Cost San Francisco Police $21,000</a>

<blockquote><address>“A number of public records requests by the GOP

opposition research firm America Rising reveal the San Francisco police

department incurred extra expenses directly related to speeches given by

Clinton in 2014.”</address>

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MSNBC: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-ID-Y5m9ko" target="_blank">America Rising PAC Releases eBook As Clinton Memoir Hits Stores</a>

National Review: <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/390232/clinton-charges-university-225000-speech-high-cost-tuition-jim-geraghty" target="_blank">Clinton Charges University $225,000 for Speech on High Cost of Tuition</a>

<h2>Also, take a look at some of what we accomplished in the 2014 cycle:</h2>==
<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Tim_Miller(Washington,D.C.)">https://ballotpedia.org/Tim_Miller(Washington,D.C.)</a>
Tim Miller is the communications advisor for the anti-Donald Trump <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Super_PAC" title="Super PAC">super PAC</a> <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Our_Principles_PAC" title="Our Principles PAC">Our Principles PAC</a>.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Tim_Miller%28Washington,D.C.%29#cite_note-opp-1">[1]</a>

<table class="wikitable" style="border-top-width: 2px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(255, 168, 18); border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 168, 18); background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240);"><tbody><tr><td>•Miller represents the organization in appearances on cable news and in interviews for Our Principles.

•He previously worked in communications for the presidential campaigns of <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Jeb_Bush_presidential_campaign,_2016" title="Jeb Bush presidential campaign, 2016">Jeb Bush</a> (R), <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Jon_Huntsman" title="Jon Huntsman" class="mw-redirect">Jon Huntsman</a> (R), and <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/John_McCain" title="John McCain">John McCain</a> (R), as well as the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Republican_National_Committee" title="Republican National Committee">Republican National Committee</a>.

•In 2013, he co-founded the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Super_PAC" title="Super PAC">super PAC</a> <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/America_Rising" title="America Rising">America Rising</a>, a conservative opposition research group.

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<h2>Career</h2>

<h3>Early career</h3>

After graduating from George Washington University in 2004, Miller's

political career began as a travel aide on Bill Lee's (R) gubernatorial

campaign in <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Delaware" title="Delaware">Delaware</a>

that same year. He held this position for less than a year before

moving on to become a field director for Jerry Kilgore's (R) 2005

Virginia gubernatorial campaign.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Tim_Miller%28Washington,D.C.%29#cite_note-linkedin-2">[2]</a><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Tim_Miller%28Washington,D.C.%29#cite_note-p2016-3">[3]</a> Miller then became the political director on <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Bill_Dix" title="Bill Dix">Bill Dix</a>'s

(R) 2006 U.S. House campaign (R). During 2006, he also briefly served

as communications director for Jeff Lamberti's (R) congressional

campaign in Iowa.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Tim_Miller%28Washington,D.C.%29#cite_note-linkedin-2">[2]</a><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Tim_Miller%28Washington,D.C.%29#cite_note-p2016-3">[3]</a> In describing his early career, Miller called himself a "campaign gypsy."<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Tim_Miller%28Washington,D.C.%29#cite_note-gwu-4">[4]</a>

Miller remained in the state to serve as the Iowa communications director for <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/John_McCain" title="John McCain">John McCain</a>'s

(R) 2008 presidential bid. Miller resigned his position in July 2007,

but he did not comment further on his reasons for leaving the campaign.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Tim_Miller%28Washington,D.C.%29#cite_note-5">[5]</a>

Miller's resignation came a day after a number of top aides left the

campaign, including campaign manager Terry Nelson, chief strategist <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/John_Weaver" title="John Weaver">John Weaver</a>, and strategist <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Danny_Diaz" title="Danny Diaz">Danny Diaz</a>.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Tim_Miller%28Washington,D.C.%29#cite_note-6">[6]</a>

<h3>Private sector communications</h3>

Then, from 2007 through 2009, he worked as a communications

strategist at Berman and Company, a "research, communications,

advertising, and government affairs firm" based in Washington, D.C.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Tim_Miller%28Washington,D.C.%29#cite_note-linkedin-2">[2]</a><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Tim_Miller%28Washington,D.C.%29#cite_note-p2016-3">[3]</a><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Tim_Miller%28Washington,D.C.%29#cite_note-7">[7]</a> While with Berman, Miller worked as a spokesperson for the Employment Policies Institute, which Pro Publica

described in 2008: "The nonprofit Employment Policies Institute styles

itself as a research organization, but recent IRS filings show a

combined $1.4 million in payments from the nonprofit to Berman and

Company, Berman’s lobbying firm, in 2005 and 2006."<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Tim_Miller%28Washington,D.C.%29#cite_note-8">[8]</a>

Miller also worked on communications for other Berman-affiliated

nonprofit groups the Employee Freedom Action Committee, the Center for

Union Facts, and the Center for Consumer Freedom.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Tim_Miller%28Washington,D.C.%29#cite_note-9">[9]</a>

From 2009 through 2011, Miller worked as the director and lead

digital communications strategist for the Glover Park Group, a

"strategic communications and government affairs firm."<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Tim_Miller%28Washington,D.C.%29#cite_note-10">[10]</a> The Glover Park Group was founded in 2001 by former staffers for <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton">Bill Clinton</a> (D) and <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Al_Gore" title="Al Gore">Al Gore</a> (D). According to The Holmes Report,

"Glover Park has succeeded ... in part by being more than just another

public affairs firm: its capabilities include advocacy and image

advertising, crisis and issues management, legislative affairs, and

(critically) research."<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Tim_Miller%28Washington,D.C.%29#cite_note-11">[11]</a>

<h3>Presidential election, 2012</h3>

Jon Huntsman presidential campaign

He returned to campaign work in June 2011, signing on as press secretary for <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Jon_Huntsman" title="Jon Huntsman" class="mw-redirect">Jon Huntsman</a>'s (R) 2012 presidential campaign. In February 2011, he joined a <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/PAC" title="PAC" class="mw-redirect">PAC</a> supporting Huntsman, Horizon PAC; he became the campaign spokesperson after Huntsman announced his candidacy in June 2011.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Tim_Miller%28Washington,D.C.%29#cite_note-12">[12]</a>

He described his role in the campaign as press secretary: "As a press

secretary, you have to be quick on your feet. ... It is important to

have the discipline to stay on message, not take the bait from reporters

who want to focus on other topics, and clearly communicate a message.

If you are hesitant in figuring out how to respond to reporters, you are

losing valuable time."<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Tim_Miller%28Washington,D.C.%29#cite_note-gwu-4">[4]</a>

Republican National Committee

From Huntsman's campaign, Miller went on to serve as the deputy communications director at the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Republican_National_Committee" title="Republican National Committee">Republican National Committee</a> (RNC). According to National Journal, Miller was hired to "play a major role in messaging and planning."<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Tim_Miller%28Washington,D.C.%29#cite_note-13">[13]</a> During his time with the RNC, he worked as liaison with <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Mitt_Romney" title="Mitt Romney">Romney</a> for President on regional communications and rapid response.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Tim_Miller%28Washington,D.C.%29#cite_note-p2016-3">[3]</a><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Tim_Miller%28Washington,D.C.%29#cite_note-linkedin-2">[2]</a> After Romney lost the election to <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/President" title="President" class="mw-redirect">President</a> <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a>

(D), Miller was part of a team, called the Growth and Opportunity

Project, that diagnosed the campaign for potential areas of change for

future campaign. In a 2016 interview, Miller explained that the project

was an attempt to broaden the party's base of support:<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Tim_Miller%28Washington,D.C.%29#cite_note-interview-14">[14]</a>

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</td><td style="border: none; padding: 4px 10px;" valign="top">We've got

major issues, and here's the thing. You know, one of the hot takes right

now is that, you know, the Republican establishment, of which I guess

I'm part, having worked for a Bush and the RNC at this point, you know,

didn't see what was happening with the base and we misread our own

party. We saw what was--we knew what was happening. We were just trying

to hold the party together and offer the American people an agenda that

did not repulse everyone who is not white.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Tim_Miller%28Washington,D.C.%29#cite_note-quotedisclaimer-15">[15]</a>

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<h3>America Rising</h3>

In March 2013, he co-founded the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Super_PAC" title="Super PAC">super PAC</a> <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/America_Rising" title="America Rising">America Rising</a>,

a "GOP opposition-research group that relentlessly spattered Democratic

Senate candidates" during the 2014 election cycle, according to Politico.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Tim_Miller%28Washington,D.C.%29#cite_note-politico-16">[16]</a> <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/The_Wall_Street_Journal" title="The Wall Street Journal">The Wall Street Journal</a>

described the group's founding and development in 2015: "After the 2012

campaign revealed the GOP to be lagging behind the Democratic Party on

opposition research, Mr. Miller helped build America Rising into an $8

million, brand-name outfit that worked closely with Republican Party

committees and other conservative groups."<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Tim_Miller%28Washington,D.C.%29#cite_note-17">[17]</a>

<h2>Presidential election, 2016</h2>

<h3>Jeb Bush presidential campaign, 2016</h3>

<dl><dd><dl><dd>See also: <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Jeb_Bush_presidential_campaign,_2016" title="Jeb Bush presidential campaign, 2016">Jeb Bush presidential campaign, 2016</a></dd></dl></dd></dl>

After exploring the possibility of a presidential run for several

months, Bush officially announced his candidacy on June 15, 2015, at

Miami Dade College. He largely focused on economic issues and said he

would "take Washington – the static capital of this dynamic country –

out of the business of causing problems." Bush, who served as <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Governor_of_Florida" title="Governor of Florida">governor of Florida</a> from 1999 to 2007, is the son of former President <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/George_H.W.Bush" title="George H.W. Bush">George H.W. Bush</a> and the brother of former President <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/George_W.Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a>. He is the first brother of a president to run for the office since the Kennedy family, Robert in 1968 and Ted in 1980.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Tim_Miller%28Washington,D.C.%29#cite_note-announce-18">[18]</a>

At the time of Miller's hire, Politico noted, "Miller is

an aggressive, younger operative who can be expected to inject a

pugilistic style into Bush’s high command. [...] Miller, a former

Republican National Committee deputy communications director, is one of

the party’s most active operatives on Twitter, and is among the most

digitally fluent and social-media savvy."<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Tim_Miller%28Washington,D.C.%29#cite_note-politico-16">[16]</a>

Bush ended his run for the White House after faring poorly in the

Iowa Caucuses as well as primary elections in New Hampshire and South

Carolina.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Tim_Miller%28Washington,D.C.%29#cite_note-quit-19">[19]</a> At a gathering of supporters in the Palmetto State on February 20, 2016, he said:

</td><td style="border: none; padding: 4px 10px;" valign="top">The people of

Iowa and New Hampshire and South Carolina have spoken, and I really

respect their decision, so tonight I am suspending my campaign.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Tim_Miller%28Washington,D.C.%29#cite_note-quit-19">[19]</a><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Tim_Miller%28Washington,D.C.%29#cite_note-quotedisclaimer-15">[15]</a>

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<h3>Our Principles PAC</h3>

<dl><dd><dl><dd>See also: <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Our_Principles_PAC" title="Our Principles PAC">Our Principles PAC</a></dd></dl></dd></dl>

Established on January 14, 2016, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Our_Principles_PAC" title="Our Principles PAC">Our Principles PAC</a> was created by <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Katie_Packer" title="Katie Packer">Katie Packer</a> as an anti-<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a> <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Super_PAC" title="Super PAC">super PAC</a>. Packer was <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Mitt_Romney" title="Mitt Romney">Mitt Romney</a>'s deputy campaign manager in 2012.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Tim_Miller%28Washington,D.C.%29#cite_note-cnn-20">[20]</a> In March 2016, Miller was hired by Our Principles as the super PAC's communications director.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Tim_Miller%28Washington,D.C.%29#cite_note-opp-1">[1]</a> Miller described his role thusly: "I’m working to ensure that <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a> is not the nominee. I made an effort for Jeb to be the nominee, and my focus is now on ensuring it’s not Donald Trump."<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Tim_Miller%28Washington,D.C.%29#cite_note-21">[21]</a>

As communications director, Miller has appeared on a number of

news shows representing the PAC. In a March 17, 2016, appearance on MSNBC, Miller said a Trump nomination would virtually guarantee a win for <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Hillary_Clinton_presidential_campaign,_2016" title="Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, 2016">Hillary Clinton</a> in a general election. Miller specifically used the term Trump used to describe Hillary's loss to then-Sen. <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a>

in 2008, saying, "I was listening to the Robby Mook interview that you

did right before this. Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager? I mean, that

guy has got to be giddy. If Donald Trump wins the nomination, he can

come down here to Miami and work on his tan. To use a Trumpian term,

Hillary is going to schlong him in the general election."<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Tim_Miller%28Washington,D.C.%29#cite_note-22">[22]</a>

In an April 2016 interview with Politico, Miller further

commented on Trump's chances at winning a general election in the event

that investigations into Hillary Clinton would lead to an indictment.

Miller responded, "Hillary would beat him from jail."<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Tim_Miller%28Washington,D.C.%29#cite_note-interview-14">[14]</a>

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<h2>External Links</h2>

<ul><li><a target="blank" class="external text" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/timmillergop">Tim Miller on LinkedIn</a></li><li><a target="blank" class="external text" href="https://twitter.com/Timodc">Tim Miller on Twitter</a></li></ul>

<h2>Footnotes</h2>

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</li></ol></div></div><div id="content" class="mw-body" role="main"><li id="cite_note-opp-1"> <a target="_blank" class="external text" href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/03/01/anti-trump-super-pac-gears-up-big-fight-hires-former-bush-aide/81181786/">USA Today, "Anti-Trump super PAC gears up for big fight, hires former Bush aide," March 1, 2016</a>

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</li><li id="cite_note-linkedin-2"> <a target="_blank" class="external text" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/timmillergop">LinkedIn, "Tim Miller," accessed June 24, 2015</a>

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</li><li id="cite_note-p2016-3"> <a target="_blank" class="external text" href="http://www.p2016.org/bush/bushorg.html">P2016.org, "Jeb 2016, Inc." accessed June 24, 2015</a>

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</li><li id="cite_note-gwu-4"> <a target="_blank" class="external text" href="https://smpa.gwu.edu/alumnus-profile-tim-miller-national-press-secretary">George Washington University, "Alumnus Profile: Tim Miller, National Press Secretary," August 22, 2011</a>

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</li><li id="cite_note-5"> <a target="_blank" class="external text" href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/07/17/former-mccain-adviser-coming-back/">CNN, "Former McCain adviser coming back?" July 17, 2007</a>

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</li><li id="cite_note-6"> <a target="_blank" class="external text" href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/07/16/mccains-communications-team-out/">CNN, "McCain's communications team out," July 16, 2007</a>

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</li><li id="cite_note-7"> <a target="_blank" class="external text" href="http://www.bermanco.com/about-us/">Berman and Company, "About Us," accessed June 24, 2015</a>

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</li><li id="cite_note-8"> <a target="_blank" class="external text" href="https://www.propublica.org/article/rotten-acorn-ad-funded-by-anti-minimum-wage-group">Pro Publica, "'Rotten' ACORN Ad Funded by Anti-Minimum Wage Group," October 29, 2008</a>

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</li><li id="cite_note-9"> <a target="_blank" class="external text" href="http://www.blueoregon.com/2008/08/this-column-beg/">Blue Oregon, "Piling On: EFAC in Berman Anti-Union Context & Oregon," August 2, 2008</a>

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</li><li id="cite_note-10"> <a target="_blank" class="external text" href="http://gpg.com/">Glover Park Group, "Homepage," accessed June 25, 2015</a>

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</li><li id="cite_note-11"> <a target="_blank" class="external text" href="http://www.holmesreport.com/ranking-and-data/agency-report/article/glover-park-group">The Holmes Report, "Glover Park Group," September 18, 2008</a>

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</li><li id="cite_note-12"> <a target="_blank" class="external text" href="http://theiowarepublican.com/2011/jon-huntsman-the-kindler-%E2%80%93-gentler-candidate/">The Iowa Republican, "Jon Huntsman: The Kindler, Gentler Candidate?" February 22, 2011</a>

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</li><li id="cite_note-13"> <a target="_blank" class="external text" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20120318145601/http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/archives/2012/03/rnc-finalizes-c.php">National Journal, "RNC Finalizes Communications Team," archived March 18, 2012</a>

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</li><li id="cite_note-interview-14"> <a target="_blank" class="external text" href="http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/full-transcript-politicos-glenn-thrush-interviews-tim-miller-221777">Politico, "Full Transcript: POLITICO's Glenn Thrush interviews Tim Miller," April 11, 2016</a>

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</li><li id="cite_note-quotedisclaimer-15"> Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributed to the original source.

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</li><li id="cite_note-politico-16"> <a target="_blank" class="external text" href="http://www.politico.com/story/2015/02/tim-miller-jeb-bush-communications-director-115354.html">Politico, "Big hire for Jeb: Tim Miller as comms director," February 20, 2015</a>

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</li><li id="cite_note-17"> <a target="_blank" class="external text" href="http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2015/02/20/gop-opposition-research-hand-tim-miller-joins-jeb-bush-team/">The Wall Street Journal, "GOP Opposition Research Hand Tim Miller Joins Jeb Bush Team," February 20, 2015</a>

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</li><li id="cite_note-announce-18"> <a target="_blank" class="external text" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/16/us/politics/jeb-bush-presidential-campaign.html">The New York Times, "In Announcing Run, Jeb Bush Plays Down His Surname," June 15, 2015</a>

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</li><li id="cite_note-quit-19"> <a target="_blank" class="external text" href="http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/jeb-bush-ends-2016-presidential-campaign-n522831">NBC News, "Jeb Bush Suspends 2016 Presidential Campaign," February 20, 2016</a>

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</li><li id="cite_note-cnn-20"> <a target="_blank" class="external text" href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/21/politics/trump-super-pac-iowa/">CNN, "New anti-Trump super PAC launches in Iowa," January 21, 2016</a>

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</li><li id="cite_note-21"> <a target="_blank" class="external text" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/trackers/2016-03-02/former-bush-spokesman-miller-joins-anti-trump-pac">Bloomberg, "Former Bush Spokesman Tim Miller Joins Anti-Trump PAC," March 1, 2016</a>

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</li><div id="bodyContent"><div class="references-small"><div class="mobile-columns"><ol class="references"><li value="22" id="cite_note-22"> <a target="_blank" class="external text" href="http://national.suntimes.com/national-world-news/7/72/2772489/jeb-bush-hillary-clinton-schlong-donald-trump">Sun-Times, "Former Bush aide: Clinton will 'schlong' Trump," March 17, 2016</a>

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Hat-tip, apologies and thanks to Carla. CL)</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Carl Axtman has drawn attention to Oregon's U.S. Senate race being one of several in the cross-hairs of an organized big business campaign aimed simultaneously at fighting off the challenge of the Employee Free Choice Act, which would widen the means by which workers could form unions, and at defeating Democratic senatorial candidates who might provide the margins allowing EFCA to pass. This column has a narrower focus on one of the main forces behind that campaign, lobbyist Rick Berman's astroturf empire, how it works, and why Jeff Merkley may have emerged as a particular Berman target.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">To start, let us note the acronyms of the Employee Free Choice Act and the Employee Freedom Action Committee: EFCA and EFAC. This is not an accident, but a standard confusion sowing operating procedure in Rick Berman's stable of pro-corporate, anti-worker, anti-health astroturf groups.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">As Carla's WW link also points out, we've already seen the beginning of this national anti-union, anti-Democratic campaign in Oregon. Jeff Merkley was the very first of the candidates targeted by Berman & Co. The anti-Merkley anti-union broadcast and print ads that appeared shortly before the May primary were EFAC.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">If you go to the "States" section of the EFAC website you can tell which campaigns are being targeted by the fact that they start by saying "[Name of candidate] is doing labor union bosses' dirty work" followed by other cookie-cutter smeary boilerplate. Since you have to click on states one at a time, and only six of 33 races are targeted so far, this limited cut-and-paste lack of content takes patiences to discover. The other states just have some facts about donations to candidates.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In addition to <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Merkley, Tom Allen of Maine, Bruce Lunsford of Kentucky and Al Franken of Minnesota, whom Carla mentions, Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire and Mary Landrieu of Louisiana also are on the Berman/EFAC hit list (so far).</span></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">But Jeff Merkley was first. At the end of May, no other candidate was doing labor union bosses' dirty work, or if one was, EFAC's site didn't tell you that. A peek into Berman & Co.'s operations may show why.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Let's start with Berman & Co. itself. Suppose you wanted to contact Rick. Here's how: Mailing address: 1090 Vermont Avenue, NW, Suite 800, Washington, DC 20005; Telephone: 202-463-7100; Fax: 202-463-7107; Email: Rick@bermanco.com.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Now let's turn to labor. We find a triangular stool. One leg is EFAC. EFAC is a 501(c)4, meaning a tax-exempt non-profit corporation allowed to conduct education and advocacy around issues and legislation. Who is EFAC's Communications Director? Tim Miller. Suppose you wanted to contact Tim. Here's how: Mailing address: 1090 Vermont Ave NW. Suite 800 Washington, DC 20005; Tel.: (202) 420-7864; Fax: (202) 463-7107.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Hey, look at that! Same address, and Tim and Rick have the same fax machine!</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Next leg is the Center for Union Facts. The Center for Union Facts is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, i.e. supposedly restricted to charitable and educational activities. You may remember CUF from the primary season too. They were the ones who ran some random-seeming anti-union ads with the tag line "Thanks, Union Bosses!" Who's their Communication Director? Well, the website doesn't say.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">So how would you contact them? Mailing address -- you guessed it -- is: 1090 Vermont Ave NW, Suite 800, Washington, DC 20005; tel.: 202-463-7106. Be careful! If you dial one digit wrong, your ear will buzz from Rick & Tim's fax machine! Remember that number.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Now, it turns out that CUF has a subsidiary website Teachers Union Facts, with an interesting URL: teachersunionexposed.com. Suppose you wanted "interviews, comments, or information," whom would you contact?</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Why, Tim Miller! E-mail miller@unionfacts.com, or call (yes!) 202-463-7106. But don't get that last digit wrong, unless you want your ear to buzz! (Wonder if that's ever happened to Bill Sizemore?)</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The third anti-labor leg is the oldest, and indeed may be the oldest of Rick Berman's large Augean stable of front groups, into which following anti-union work only begins to penetrate: The Employment Policies Institute, a policy research non-profit, tax status not stated, which these days seems much concerned with the dangers of excessive minimum wages.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Who is their Communications Director? Yup, Tim Miller. I know, I know. But if you think this game is too easy, don't blame me. Take it up with Rick and Tim. Mailing address (ho hum): 1090 Vermont Ave. NW, Suite 800, Washington, D.C. 20005; Tel: 202-463-7650 ext. 109; Fax (there it is again): 202-463-7107.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Now, to get at a couple of other interesting things, we have to take brief excursion outside of labor and anti-union matters, though not outside of scurrilously mendacious and nasty class warfare. Let's pay a visit to The Center for Consumer Freedom, another 501(3)c.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Their Communications Director? Why, that extremely busy fellow, Tim Miller, of course. No mailing address supplied this time, but his phone contact, 202-463-7112, is eerily familiar (old parodic images of multi-phone movie mogul desks pop into my mind).</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">So, what's so interesting about the CCF? Actually, too much to go into here entirely.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">But one thing is that CCF provides insight into the whole structure of Berman's activities. It seems that in 2005, for example, "over 40% of the expenditure" of this "charitable and educational non-profit" was paid to Berman and Company, Rick's very much for profit organization, for "management services." The pattern is standard....</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">http://www.blueoregon.com/2008/08/this-column-beg/</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">eg csm op ed payday</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2008/0506/p09s01-coop.html [ggl ban ads?]</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">==</font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">