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Political ads

The Foundation sponsored ads in support of President George W. Bush "and our Troops" in an anti anti-war movement. "The ads featured former Senator and star of 'Law and Order' Fred Thompson. The ads encouraged ALL Americans to come together and Support President Bush and our men and women in uniform as they fight the war on terror."[9] See Citizen United's YouTube page[10] and Fred Thompson ads "Courage"[11] and "Soldier"[12] posted on YouTube by the Foundation.

In September 2005, as President George W. Bush addressed the United Nations as it celebrated its 60th anniversary, the Foundation posted "ads on a truck circling the block just outside the UN building, on a ferry on the East River, and on a billboard banner across 42nd Street from the UN" in a "new advertising campaign blasting the world organization" ... The "signs reading Broken Promises: The United Nations at 60 ... [were] advertisements for a new, in-depth documentary on UN failures".[13]

American Sovereignty Action Project

Funding

The Presidential Coalition

Expenditure records show The Presidential Coalition making disbursements for rent and payroll to Citizens United and Citizens United Foundation.[14][15]

Donations: Donatelli Group and the Swift Boat connection

The Citizens United Foundation's donation page[16] states that "Your generous, tax-deductible gift at this time will help us restore the control of our government back to its citizenry."

Donations to the Citizens United Foundation can be made through DonationReport.com, plus an extension code for Citizens United Foundation.[17] Citizens United utilizes DonationReport.com for its online store using a separate extension code.

The connection for the DonationReport.com website[18] arrives at a Login[19]—requiring both a User ID and Password—which belongs to eDonation.com, a member of The Donatelli Group, a fundraising company that has raised campaign funds for the Republican National Committee, Republican National Convention, Bush-Cheney '04 Inc., John McCain, the NRA[20] and an exhaustive list of Republican members of the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives, as well as other political organizations.[21]

The Donatelli Group, using its "primary segment" Campaign Solutions[22], is associated with Creative Response Concepts, the public relations firm that advised Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, the "organization that accused Kerry of inflating his Vietnam War record" during the 2004 presidential campaign.[23]

The Donatelli Group, which produced the RNC website[24], also created the SWIFTBOATVETSFORTRUTH.ORG website July 30, 2004, with Connell Donatelli Inc.[25] (a.k.a. The Donatelli Group) as Registrant. Connell Donatelli Inc. was also listed as both Administrator and the Tech Organization for the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth website.[26]

Mailing lists

The Citizens United Foundation Mailing List is offered for sale by NextMark.[27]

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Secretary/Teasurer [sic]

A long-time activist, Frank Donatelli is chairman of the Reagan Ranch Board of Governors and serves on Young America's Foundation's Board of Directors.

He is also executive vice president and director of Federal Public Affairs for McGuireWoodsConsulting and serves as counsel to McGuireWoods LLP. Frank is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh and the American University Law School.

During the 2008 presidential race,Senator John McCain tapped Frank to serve as deputy chairman of the GOP where he coordinated the RNC’s fundraisingand organizing activities directly with the McCain-Palin presidential campaign.

His previous appointments have included serving as an Assistant to President Ronald Reagan for political and intergovernmental affairs and as deputy assistant to the President for public liaison at the White House. He served on White House Chief of Staff James Baker's team that negotiated presidential debates in 1984. Frank was also a senior advisor to Bob Dole in 1996 and represented his campaign in debate negotiations.

Frank has more than 20 years of experience in public policy advocacy and boasts substantial expertise in the legislative process. He has represented a wide variety of companies in such diverse areas as energy, taxes and trade, telecommunication, and Homeland Security and has provided strategic advice and policy guidance to many large companies and trade associations.

He has appeared on numerous public affairs programs on MSNBC, Fox News and CNN, and is a noted writer whose articles have been printed in the Washington Post, the Washington Times and the New York Daily News.

In 1992, Frank chaired the Christopher Columbus Quincentennery Commission which celebrated the 500th anniversary of Columbus’ arrival in the New World.  In March 2009, he was elected chairman ofGOPAC, a group that assists GOP “rising stars” running for state and local office.

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Board Members

Kellyanne Conway

Kellyanne Conway

President of The Polling Co, Inc.

Frank Donatelli

Secretary-Treasurer of the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute

Michelle Easton

President of the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute

Clare Luce

Clare Luce

Ursula Meese

Ursula Meese

Kate Obenshain

Kate Obenshain

Former Virginia GOP Chairman and a Fox News Commentator

Darla Partridge

Darla Partridge

Marji Ross

Marji Ross

President of Regnery Publishing

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A Woman Who Changed the Face of the Conservative Movement

By Ron Robinson  |  November 25, 2011

Editor’s note: We at HUMAN EVENTS are pleased to bring you this week a series of profiles from theClare Boothe Luce Policy Institute​​​​​.  These are profiles of influential and prominent conservative women who have made a tremendous impact for the better on this great country.

In the 1980s, too many conservative groups looked like all-male organizations. Although the conservative movement was once stereotyped as a “group of little old ladies in tennis shoes,” the left exploited an opportunity by nominating an obscure woman, Geraldine Ferraro, for Vice-President and by clamoring for “women’s studies programs” in our schools.

One high-level Reagan Administration official, Michelle Easton, was confident conservative women could play a more crucial, perhaps decisive, role in public policy. She also believed that most American women were inherently conservative.

While she completed her years of service in the Reagan and George H.W. Bush Administrations, Easton decided to launch a conservative women’s group—the Clare Boothe Luce Public Policy Institute—that would balance the ideological scales.

Conservatives, including Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, Nikki Haley, Condoleezza Rice, Marsha Blackburn, and Kristi Noem, personify the modern day conservative movement that Michelle Easton championed at the Luce Institute. The Institute eschewed taxpayer subsidies and quick gimmicks to get press. Instead the Easton-led group highlighted a new core of national leaders through Washington policy luncheons, campus lectures, seminars and even its famous annual calendar—“Great American Conservative Women”—featuring the country’s leading conservative women.

Easton also recruited top flight business executives Marji Ross, Kellyanne Conway, and Barb Kenney; veteran Washington hands Ursula Meese, Kate Obenshain, and Frank Donatelli;and beyond-the-beltway leaders Darla Partridge and Clare Luce to serve on the Clare Boothe Luce Board of Directors. Easton enlisted help from other top conservatives, including Becky Norton Dunlop, Bridget Wagner, Cleta Mitchell, Star Parker, S.E. Cupp and Kathryn Lopez, to create a reputation of hosting solid, conservative events.

Recently, David Horowitz honored Michelle Easton with the Freedom Center’s Lifetime Achievement Award for her public policy work. In addition to her accomplishments with the Luce Institute, Easton is an attorney, and mother of three boys, was the principal caregiver for her ailing parents and serves on several boards of other conservative organizations. Easton also served as the president of the Virginia Board of Education, where she authored and championed Gov. Allen’s acclaimed “Standards of Learning (SOLs).” Easton’s career changed the face of the conservative movement.

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Frank Donatelli is a Republican Party political consultant and lawyer.

Biography:

A graduate of the University of Pittsburgh and American University Law School, Donatelli served in various positions in the Reagan administration including Assistant to the President for Political and Intergovernmental Affairs and Deputy Assistant to the President for Public Liaison. He worked on White House Chief of Staff James Baker's team that negotiated the 1984 presidential debates and served as a Regional Political Director for Ronald Reagan. He was also active in the presidential campaigns of George H. W. Bush in 1988 and 1992 and was a senior advisor to Bob Dole during the 1996 presidential election.

In 1992, Donatelli served as chairman of the Christopher Columbus Quincentennial Commission which celebrated the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' arrival in the New World. He is Executive Vice President and Director of Federal Public Affairs of McGuireWoods Consulting as well as counsel to McGuireWoods. He also serves as secretary and treasurer of the board of the Young America's Foundation, is chairman of the Reagan Ranch Board of Governors and was selected by John McCain to serve as the deputy chairman of the Republican National Committee under Mike Duncan during the 2008 presidential election. Afterwards, in March 2009, he was chosen to become chairman of GOPAC, succeeding Michael Steele who became chairman of the RNC.

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The Donatelli Group, also known as Hockaday-Donatelli Campaign Solutions, of Alexandria, Virginia, are "Republican campaign consultants." [1]

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"Americans Spying on Americans"

"Michael Boos, Program Director of Young America's Foundation, says the group promotes conservative ideas on college campuses .. and keeps track of what the left-wing opposition is up to," Fredric L. Rice wrote for SkepticFiles.org circa 1988.[2]

"Boos keeps files, makes lists, takes photographs ... all to keep an eye on students and professors he says 'need watching.'Boos says that two top-level Reagan Adminstration officials -- Ken Cribb, Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs, and Frank Donatelli, the President's chief Political Advisor -- support his work. Both serve on Young America's Board of Directors. Young America's financial records reveal the oganization received money from the federal government -- over $100,000 from the United States Information Agency," Rice wrote.

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August 02, 2010 04:00 PM

Federal Judge in Virginia Has Financial Ties to Right Wing Campaign Machine

By karoli

After this morning's ruling from Federal judge Henry Hudson, I took a closer look at him, since his ruling seemed to try to make a record for a valid challenge to existing case law on the constitutionality of the commerce clause. The right wing has long harbored the hope of stacking the Supreme Court with enough conservatives to overturn a huge body of existing case law established when the New Deal was passed, and this ruling plays right into it.

Meet U.S. District Court Judge Henry Hudson. Via Huffington Post:

But with power comes scrutiny. And as judgment day approaches, a Democratic source sends over judicial disclosure forms Hudson filed that could raise questions about his impartiality. From 2003through 2008, Hudson has been receiving "dividends" from Campaign Solutions Inc., among other investments. In 2008, he reported income of between $5,000 and $15,000 from the firm. (Data from 2009 was not available at the Judicial Watch database.)

A powerhouse Republican online communications firm, Campaign Solutions, has done work for a host of prominent Republican clients and health care reform critics, including the RNC and NRCC (both of which have called, to varying degrees, for health care reform's repeal). The president of the firm, Becki Donatelli, is the wife of longtime GOP hand Frank Donatelli, and is an adviser to former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, among others.

Another firm client is Ken Cuccinelli, the Attorney General of Virginia and the man who is bringing the lawsuit in front of Hudson's court. In 2010, records show, Cuccinelli spent nearly $9,000 for Campaign Solutions services.

Campaign Solutions answers thus:

Judge Hudson has owned stock in Campaign Solutions going back 13 years to the founding of the company or well before he became a federal judge. Since joining the federal bench, he has fully disclosed his stock ownership in the company. He is a passive investor only, has no knowledge of the day to day operations of the firm, and has never discussed any aspect of the business with any official of the company.

Ah, but the Donatelli dynasty isn't simply limited to Campaign Solutions, which is basically a turnkey campaign creator. No, no. The Donatellis are the "go to" people for all sorts of Republican fun.

Let's start with the Young America's Foundation. This is the non-profit organization for the Reagan Ranch in Santa Barbara. In addition to maintaining the ranch, the Young America's Foundation has training, literature and other good clean fun for indoctrinating America's youth in the ways of the Republican Party. Frank Donatelli is a director and the Secretary/Treasurer of the Young America's Foundation. (2008 Form 990 - PDF) The Foundation's President is Ron Robinson. Ron Robinson is a director of Citizens United.

Then there is Donatelli Group, which includes Campaign Solutions, EDonation.com, and DonationReport.com, in addition to their PR/Direct Mail arm at ConnellDonatelli and Donatelli Avella. Donatelli Avella receives $15,000/month from GOPAC for management and political consulting. Of course, the Donatelli outfit is also closely linked to the Swiftboaters of 2004. Click that link for a list of some current clients, including...Young America's Foundation. Oh, and Citizens United.

Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words (and links):

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There's some pretty direct linkage between Frank and Rebecca Donatelli and the Koch family, the McCain campaign, and other Republican movers and shakers.

Anyone who spends any time researching campaigns, campaign finance, and the Republican party learns right up front that nothing happens in the Republican party without a Donatelli having a hand in it somewhere. They are everywhere.

So, to have a judge who is one of thirteen private investors in a firm which is one of the primary Republican movers and shakers and which has deep, strong connections to Citizens United, its affiliates and its directors is no small thing. It is a very, very big thing. People who invest money in small, closely held corporations aren't the kind who call up their broker and ask what the hot stock of the day is. They know the ones they're investing in very well, probably have a round of golf or two with them from time to time, and surely have moved beyond the occasional meeting at a fundraiser or dinner party.

Bottom line: Judge Henry Hudson is a well-connected player in the Republican party. Just what the party machine ordered. A well-oiled judge to smooth the way for what is a planned assault on any legislation that benefits people rather than corporations.

Good job, GOP.

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Frank J. Donatelli is senior vice president for McGuireWoods Consulting and "director of the federal public affairs department." [1]

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Americans for a Better Country

GOP strategist, former Ronald Reagan White House political director, and secretary and treasurer of theYoung America's Foundation [2], Donatelli co-founded Americans for a Better Country in 2003 with Republican activists Craig Shirley and George J. Terwilliger III. [3]

Profiles

Donatelli "In 1980, he was Midwest coordinator of the Reagan campaign and went on to serve the Reagan Administration in several capacities." He is chairman of the Reagan Ranch [4] Board of Governors. [5]

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R. Rebecca "Becki" Donatelli is President of Campaign Solutions/The Donatelli Group and eDonation.com, as well as Chairman of Connell Donatelli, Inc. [1]

"Becki Donatelli, whose firm, 'Campaign Solutions' is apparently THE campaign consulting agency to the GOP, ismarried to Frank DonatelliEsq., former Reagan staffer and current board member of Americans for a Better Country." [2]

Profile

According to her Campaign Solutions bio, Donatelli was the "lead Internet consultant" to the John McCain for President campaign, "and as such directed the successful fundraising campaign that brought the Internet into the forefront of political consulting. The first political consulting firm to raise political donations online, the firm now represents Bush Cheney '04, the Republican National Committee, the National Republican Congressional Committee and a host of Senate, House and gubernatorial campaigns.

"Mrs. Donatelli brings three decades of successful business experience as one of the founding partners of the fifteenth largest real estate and property management firm in the Washington metropolitan region before its sale in 1996. She was also a founding director of The George Washington National Bank, later serving as Chairman of the Board of Directors and also Chairman of the bank holding company. She presently serves as a regional director of BB& T Bank. In 1996 she was honored by the Chamber of Commerce as the Business Leader of the Year.

"Mrs. Donatelli began her political career with the national staff of the original Citizens for Reagan in 1976. She has worked on the staff of numerous campaigns, at the Republican National Committee and has served as the executive director of a political action committee. She established an Executive Secretariat for the Dole For President campaign and has raised money for every race from local city council to the presidency. Becki Donatelli was appointed to the board of advisors for the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority by then GovernorGeorge Allen and the President's Advisory Committee on the Arts by President George Bush.

"Mrs. Donatelli's not for profit fundraising skills were honed during her three year tenure as the Chairman of the Golden Circle Board for theJohn F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, as a director of Capital City Opera and President of the Mt. Vernon Children's Theatre. Her fundraising background was essential to the planning and execution of the software development process that brought Edonation.com to the market. She was recently named one of the top 12 most powerful women in direct response marketing by The Non Profit Times.

"Becki Donatelli, a native of California, is a 1975 graduate of theUniversity of Southern Californiawith a BA in LAS/International Relations. She lives inAlexandria, Virginia with her husband Frank Donatelli. Their daughter Elizabeth is a recent graduate of the University of Southern California."

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The Group was the "first to raise donations online in the realm of political consulting firms and helped launch the movement in its developing stages in the years leading up to its explosion during Howard Dean's presidential drive," Erin McPike reported August 20, 2004.

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Connell Donatelli Inc.

Connell Donatelli Inc. (CD, Inc.), is a "specialized online advertising agency" that was "born" July 2004 "from the merging of two prominent Republican Internet firms," Erin McPike wrote.

R. Rebecca Donatelli, chairman of the D.C.-based Campaign Solutions, and Mike Connell [2], head of the Cleveland, Ohio-based New Media Communications, Inc. [3], "joined forces in a venture to target niche markets for their clients with a focus on Internet pop-up and banner ads, online commercials and e-mail lists ... Both Donatelli and Connell plan to continue in their current leadership positions at their respective firms, but merged to offer these concentrated services to their clients, many of them mutual," including Bush Cheney ’04 and the Republican National Committee, McPike wrote. Donatelli served as "chief Internet consultant" to the John McCain for President "bid in 2000, where she propelled Internet giving."

New Media produced "Internet applications and Web sites for a host of Republican organizations and campaigns, including the RNC's GOP.com, and sites for the Republican National Convention, Bush Cheney '04, the Ohio and Pennsylvania Republican Parties, John Thune's South Dakota Senatorial campaign and the NRA." [4]

Website

The Connell Donatelli, Inc. CONNELLDONATELLI.COM website was registered June 23, 2004, by New Media Communications, Summit of Richfield II, Richfield, OH 44286.

Campaign Solutions & eDonation.com

Campaign Solutions is the "primary segment of the larger Donatelli Group," which includes an Internet fund raising site, http://www.edonation.com, which describes itself as the "leading internet fundraising company for political and non profit campaigns and organizations."

eDonation.com is also linked via ePaymentNow.com.

Bank Fees

eDonations.com internet fundraising receives a percentage of funds raised on behalf of its clients.

In fourth quarter 2003 alone, Federal Election Commission records show that eDonations received payments totalling nearly $56,000 for "BANK FEES" from the Bush-Cheney '04 Inc. campaign. [5]

In the 2004 election cycle, the Republican Party made payments totalling more than $54,000 to four separately named eDonations accounts. [6]

Websites

The Campaign Solutions CAMPAIGNSOLUTIONS.COM website was registered February 13, 1998, by Campaign Solutions, with Becki Donatelli as administrator and Trifecta Technologies, 5012 Medical Center Circle, Allentown, PA 18106, as the technical contact.

The eDonation.com EDONATION.COM website was registered October 7, 1998, by Campaign Solutions, with Becki Donatelli as administrator and Campaign Solutions as the technical contact.

DONATIONREPORT.COM

A donation page on a client's website bears the same logos and information as those of other client web pages. However, the web address to which it connects is that for DonationReport.com, plus an extension code for each individual client. Here, the contributor can input and process donation information.

Clients login to their accounts via the Candidate Administration System at DONATIONREPORT.COM.

Current Clients

The following is a sampling of clients currently using eDonation.com for fundraising. In addition, it may be assumed that most, if not all, Donatelli clients either are or have used this method of fundraising, each thereby contributing significantly to Donatelli profits.

Donatelli Avella, Inc.

In the 2004 election cycle, Donatelli Avella, Inc., provided printing and mailing services to the Republican Party. [7]

In 2003, David A. Avella of the "Republican consulting firm" [8] Donatelli Avella, Inc., was Executive Vice President of Campaign Strategies. [9] [10]

Website

The Donatelli Avella website DONATELLIAVELLA.COM, registered March 15, 2004, by Campaign Solutions, provides only an Alexandria, Virginia, post office box address and telephone and FAX numbers.

The Swift Boat Connection

Swift Boat Websites

The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth's SWIFTBOATVETSFORTRUTH.ORG website was registered July 30, 2004, with CD, Inc. (Connell Donatelli Inc.) as registrant, administrator, and the tech organization. The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth's SWIFTBOATVETERANSFORTRUTH.COM website was also registered July 30, 2004, with CD, Inc. as registrant, administrator, and tech organization for the website.

Judicial Confirmation Network

The Judicial Confirmation Network (JCN) was "a post-office box and a Web site registered by Donatelli late [in 2004], with Campaign Solutions as the point of contact. The JCN claims to be 'an organization of citizens' that works 'to ensure that the confirmation process for all judicial nominees is fair'," Todd Johnston wrote in the July 5, 2005, Daily Kos.

JCN "distributes information through other conservative groups, including Focus on the Family, Americans for Tax Reform, Family Research Council and the Americans for Limited Government [11]," the Associated Press's Deb Reichmann reported June 9, 2005.

The Network was coordinated by Gary Marx, "a political consultant for George W. Bush's campaign at Century Strategies in 1999, when its founder and president Ralph E. Reed was allegedly helping his long-time friend Jack Abramoff swindle over $1.2 million from the Choctaw Indians" and "coalitions organizer for the Bush-Cheney campaign in 2004" [12], and Wendy E. Long, a "former clerk for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas" [13].

The Network hired Creative Response Concepts (CRC), the public relations firm "that advised Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, an organization that accused Kerry of inflating his Vietnam War record during last year's presidential campaign," Reichmann wrote.

JCN Domain Names

The JUDICIALNETWORK.COM domain name and the JUDICIALCONFIRMATIONNETWORK.COM domain name, administered by Becki Donatelli of Campaign Solutions, were both created December 13, 2004, and due to expire December 13, 2006 (unless renewed). The following key meta words link to the web sites: filibuster, filibuster reform, bush, rehnquist, supreme court, court, justice, judge, high court, nominee, william rehnquist, judiciary, judiciary committee, conservative, gop, republican, conservative.

Buying Up Domain Names

"When New York Senate candidate Rudolph Giuliani began his campaign against First Lady Hillary Clinton, one of his first moves was to register as many domain names as possibly [sic] that related to both himself and his opponent.

"Buying up Internet names that 'belong' to someone else is a recent trend that Martin Edlund of Hockaday Donatelli Campaign Solutions says is 'a precautionary move.' The campaign fundraising firm was responsible for managing Giuliani's web presence. 'If we control the domain name, we can decide who uses it. If we don't, anyone can'," Edlund said. [14]

The domain name HILLARYNO.COM, for example, has been registered to Hockaday-Donatelli Campaign Solutions since March 17, 1999, and is due to expire (unless renewed) on March 17, 2008, and HILLARYNO.ORG was secured October 16, 2002, and likewise is due to expire March 17, 2008.

Campaign Solutions' Clients

The following are Campaign Solutions' clients according to its website.

Note: Links provided may relate to The Donatelli Group, Campaign Solutions and/or Connell Donatelli Inc.

National and Statewide Elected Officials and Campaigns

National Political and Grassroots Organizations, State GOP Organizations and Statewide Organizations

Members of U.S. House of Representatives and Campaigns

Non-Profit Organizations and Trade Associations

Corporations

Additional Clients / Campaigns

Campaign Solutions' Team

Profile links (2006) for:

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Contact Information

Campaign Solutions, Inc./The Donatelli Group

118 North St. Asaph Street or 228 South Washington Street

Alexandria, VA 22314

Phone: 703 684-3435

FAX: 703 684-3758

Email: information AT campaignsolutions.com

Website: http://www.campaignsolutions.com/

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