Citizens Against Gov Waste

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ntbcw council of citizen ~ govt waste??

desmog on API

Energy Citizens

Starting in 2009, the API led a coalition called “Energy Citizens” and held rallies opposing the Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, targeting states “whose Democratic Senators aren’t strong supporters of a stringent bill, such as […] Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Mark Begich of Alaska.” [25]

According to *Newsweek*, API asked regional companies to urge their employees to participate in planned protests.A leaked memo revealed that “The objective of these rallies is to put a human face on the impacts of unsound energy policy and to aim a loud message at [20 different] states.” [26]

“Energy Citizens” is also supported by the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), American Farm Bureau, American Highway Users Alliance, National Black Chamber of Commerce (NBCC), Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council, FreedomWorks,[hot air tour?] American Conservative Union, Americans for Tax Reform, and Council for Citizens Against Government Waste. [27]

According to O’Dwyer’s Magazine, in a February 2010 article titled “The Politics of Climate Change,”

“The group has loudly protested the EPA’s decision to have greenhouse gas emissions regulated under the Clean Air Act. API members include Chevron, ConocoPhillips,Exxon Mobil, GE, Halliburton and Shell.” [28]

Template fliers for the “Energy Citizens” rallies warned that “Climate change legislation being considered in Washington will cause huge economic pain and produce little environmental gain.” They additionally claimed the Waxman-Markey Climate Bill would “cost 2 million American jobs, raise gasoline and diesel prices up to $4.”

The EPA estimated the bill would cost U.S. households “about a postage stamp a day,”while the Energy Information Administration projected annual “energy bill costs could rise between $26 per household to $362 by 2020.” [29]

The companyDemocracy, Data & Communications (DDC), wrote in a case study that it “has actively partnered with the American Petroleum Institute (API) for years, designing, executing, and managing all facets of their key national advocacy program” and was “asked with creating an on-the-ground campaign focused on raising the prole of Energy Citizens in support of natural gas production from the ‘Marcellus Shale’ formation in Pennsylvania.” [64]

DDC said it helped to convene two roundtable meetings with local congressional representatives for the Energy Citizens campaign, as well as get 170 letters of support published and sent to Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale Commission. According to IRS tax filings reviewed by DeSmog, API paid DDC $29.3 million for its work between 2011 and 2015, *DeSmog* reported. [65]

DDC has also worked with the tobacco company Phillip Morris on a website fighting against tobacco regulation. DDC is also an Associate Member of theEdison Electric Institute (EEI),which has also paid DDC at least $1.8 million since 2012 for PR work according to the IRS. [65]

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http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Citizens_Against_Government_Waste

Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) is non-profit group that has campaigned on behalf of the tobacco industry and in favour of Microsoft and against open source software.

History

CAGW was founded by in 1984 by J. Peter Grace (1913-1995) and Jack Anderson. [1] [2]

CAGW and open source software

Australian blogger Tim Lambert mentioned in June 2004 CAGW as one of several think tanks writing reports critical of open source software.[3] CAGW's press release of July 12, 2004 is just another example.

"People mistakenly refer to open source as 'free' software because it can be freely altered and distributed. Yet while the software itself is free, the cost to maintain and upgrade it can become very expensive," CAGW President Tom Schatz said. ... "Maintenance, training and support are far more expensive with open source than proprietary software." [4] In 1999 the New York Times had described CAGW as one of a number of "Microsoft-financed groups".[5]

Funding

CAGW, an IRS 501(c)(3) tax deductable charity, is closely linked to the Council for Citizens Against Government Waste (CCAGW) which is an IRS 501(c)(4) and therefore it is not a tax deductable organization but more free to do lobbying. "[CCAGW] is the lobbying arm of CGAW." [6]

According to the CAGW website "Eighty-five percent of the organization's funding comes from individual contributors around the nation. Corporate and foundation gifts account for the other 15 percent". [7]

In 2001 CAGW's total budget was $4.7 million.

Media Transparency's database records CAGW as having received 8 grants totalling $225,000 (unadjusted for inflation) from three foundations - the Gordon and Mary Cain Foundation, John M. Olin Foundation and Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. Since 1998 the only foundation funder has been Gordon and Mary Cain Foundation.[8]

The conservative Capital Research Center (CRC) notes in its Searchlight database (which records corporate and general foundation contributions) that CAGW has "received funding from:

• Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
• Merrill Lynch & Company Foundation
• Exxon Corporation (now ExxonMobil)
• Ingersoll-Rand Company
• Johnson & Johnson
• F.M. Kirby Foundation
• Philip Morris
• RJR Nabisco (now part of the Altria Group)
• Sears Roebuck & Company[9]

Others listed include:

• John Deere Foundation
• Eaton Charitable Fund
• Columbia/HCA Foundation

However, CRC's database generally does not record direct corporate contributions as distinct from grants from corporate foundations.

A few examples of tobacco industry donations to CAGW:

• Philip Morris
  • 1995, $50,000 [10]
  • 1996, $50,000 [11]
  • 1997, $50,000 [12]
  • 1998, $35,000 [13]
  • 1999, $10,000 (budgeted) [14]

• The Tobacco Institute
  • 1999, $10,000 (budgeted) [15]

Personnel

Alan Keyes was president of CAGW from 1989 to 1991 [16] and since the early 1990s Thomas A. Schatz has been president. [17]

Board of Directors

• Jack Anderson, Co-Founder and Chairman
• Jeffrey P. Altman, Partner, McKenna & Cuneo, L.L.P.
• George S. Goldberger, Chief Administrative Officer,ProgenitorCell Therapy, L.L.C.
• Patrick P. Grace, President and CEO, Kingdon Group L.L.C.
• Thomas A. Schatz, President, Citizens Against Government Waste
• Hon. Vin Weber, Senior Partner, Clark & Weinstock, Inc.

Staff

• Thomas A. Schatz, President [18]
• Robert J. Tedeschi, Sr. Vice President, Finance and Administration
• Ariane E. Sweeney, Vice President of Development
• David E. Williams, Vice President of Policy [19]
• Elizabeth L. Wright, Vice President of Government Relations
• John Frydenlund, Food and Agriculture Policy Director [20] [21]
• Leslie K. Paige, Director of Special Projects
• Mark Carpenter, Media Manager
• Mark Fennel, Manager of Membership Services
• Martin Rundle, Manager of Development Research
• Lisa Strickland, Membership Coordinator
• Tom Finnigan, Media Associate [22]
• Angela French, Research Associate
• James Malcomb, Membership and Development Associate
• Stephanie McIntyre, Assistant Financial Officer
• Ernestine Hill, Receptionist

Contact information

Citizens Against Government Waste

1301 Connecticut Ave., NW, Suite 400

Washington, DC 20036

phone: (202) 467-5300

http://www.cagw.org

Articles and resources

Related SourceWatch articles

• Industry-funded organization
• Microsoft
• Phillip Morris
• Tobacco industry

References

External resources

External articles

• Mark Megalli, Andy Friedman, "Citizens Against Government, Masks of Deception: Corporate Front Groups in America," December 1991
• Citizens Against Government Waste, "A Proposal to Philip Morris Companies, Inc.", 1996.
• John M. Broder and Joel Brinkley, "U.S. versus Microsoft: The strategy: How Microsoft Sought Friends In Washington", New York Times, November 7, 1999.
• "Microsoftball Journalism", Albion Monitor, June 2000.
• Ted Bridis, "W.Va., Mass., Continue Microsoft Battle", Associated Press, December 03, 2002
• "Mass. Taxpayers Hurt by Proposed Software Monopoly", Council for Citizens Against Government Waste, September 30, 2003
• Tom Finnigan, "Massachusetts Not So Open For Business", Citizens Against Government Waste, October 29, 2003
• Tim Lambert, "When Think Tanks Attack_", Deltoid weblog, June 23, 2004.
• Media Transparency, "Citizens Against Government Waste", accessed January 2005.
• Capital Research Center, "Citizens Against Government Waste", Searchlight, accessed January 2005.
• Citizens Against Government Waste, "FAQ", accessed January 2005.
• Bill Adair, For price, watchdog will be an advocate Citizens Against Government Waste made a name for itself by exposing government waste. But it has quietly made a lot of its money by lobbying, St. Petersburg Times, April 2, 2006.
• James V. Grimaldi and Susan Schmidt, "Senate Report: Five Nonprofit Groups Sold Clout to Abramoff," Washington Post, October 12, 2006.
• Bill Adair, "Groups hide behind tax code", St Petersburg Times, December 11, 2006.
• Jim Snyder, "Nuclear advocates try to clear obstacles," The Hill, November 8, 2007. "'Taxpayers should not be required to finance billions in risky loan guarantees [for new nuclear plants],' states a letter that TCS (Taxpayers for Common Sense), the National Taxpayers Union and Citizens Against Government Waste jointly sent to Congress."
• Robert O'Harrow Jr., "McCain Campaign Calls; A Nonprofit Steps In," Washington Post, May 31, 2008.
• Alex Leary, "Citizens Against Government Waste's ad against GE jet engine says GE rival paid for it," St. Petersburg Times (Florida), August 24, 2009.

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