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<h2 style=" margin: 20px 0px 0px 0px;">Religious Right's Ralph Reed Field-Tests Plan for Beating Obama</h2>
<h5 style=" margin: 0px 0px 20px 0px;">By Adele M. Stan, AlterNet
Posted on July 10, 2012, Printed on July 19, 2012
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A mere 10 days since Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Lieutenant Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch survived the recall election launched against them by state's liberal coalition, Ralph Reed, chairman of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, is ebullient as he takes the stage at his organization's Washington, D.C., gala on the final night of FFC's national conference at the Renaissance Hotel.
Reed has good reason to be happy; his return to the religious-right spotlight is a turn of events that few would have bet on. Since he first burst on the political scene in the 1990s as the wunderkind executive director of Rev. Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition, Reed's political trajectory took him so close to the sun that his wings nearly melted. When George W. Bush signed him as a strategist for the 2000 presidential campaign, Reed's career soared -- only to crash four years later with revelations of his involvement in the Jack <b>Abramoff scandal. </b>Along the way, he made a lot of money, and is reported to live with his wife and two of his four children (the other two are grown) in a house in Duluth, Ga., worth <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eat-the-press/2006/07/15/the-sins-of-ralph-reed_e_24960.html">$2.2 million</a>.</p>
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The boyish contours of his face now marked with the occasional line, Reed, at 51, still conveys a youthful vigor, fit and trim in a well-tailored dark suit, his full head of hair brushed neatly back to display a smooth forehead. Taking no small measure of credit for the triumph of Walker and Kleefisch, Reed boasts of the 600,000 voter contacts he says his organization made to get conservative Wisconsinites to the polls on June 5. Later that evening, Reed will present to Kleefisch, who is billed as Wisconsin's answer to Sarah Palin, FFC's Courage in Leadership Award. (Kleefisch will also accept the same award for Walker, who did not attend.)</p>
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If you like what happened in Wisconsin, Reed implies, you're going to love the 2012 presidential race, when FFC reaches out to 27.1 million conservative voters; he promises that FFC will contact each of them between seven to 12 times to either get them to the polls, or better yet, vote early in states that permit it. Consider it payback, if you will, for the outcome of the 2008 presidential election.
The day after the election Barack Obama won by a wide margin, Reed says, he woke up feeling "like I'd been hit by a truck." Speaking of the Obama campaign, Reed explains: "We were embarrassed. They ran circles around us."</p>
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"I founded Faith and Freedom Coalition because I vowed that as long as I was alive, we were never going to get out-hustled on the ground again," he told a group of activists earlier in the day.
Reed has <a href="http://blogs.cbn.com/thebrodyfile/archive/2010/02/12/ralph-reed-is-back-with-the--21st-century-version.aspx%20described">described</a> FFC, launched in 2009, as "a 21st century version of the Christian Coalition on steroids." Reed's new organization seeks to meld the religious right with the Tea Party movement through the use of voter turnout strategies. But however successful he was in bringing right-wing evangelical voters to the polls during his tenure at the Christian Coalition, his managerial skills and business ethics appeared to be less than stellar.</p>
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When Reed left the Christian Coalition in 1997, the organization was in tatters, under investigation by the FEC for the kind of "electioneering" prohibited for tax-exempt non-profits by the I.R.S., and internally riven due to <a href="http://www.msmagazine.com/summer2006/sinkingship.asp">allegations</a> made by chief financial officer Judy Liebert that a firm whose principals were friends of Reed's had over-billed the coalition to the tune of $1 million -- and been paid.
In 2004, Reed was <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/23/washington/23abramoff.html">implicated</a>, though not charged, in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal when his role as a lobbyist on behalf of the gambling interests of a Choctaw Indian tribe was disclosed in a damaging Senate investigation. While the revelations derailed his attempt to win the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor in the State of Georgia, the very religious-right friends he snookered in the Abramoff scandal appear to have forgiven him, <a href="http://www.alternet.org/news/146456/ralph_reed_is_back,_hoping_to_harness_the_energy_of_the_tea_party_movement/">according to</a> Sarah Posner of Religion Dispatches.</p>
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Once again cloaked in the cape of a Christian crusader, Reed is back on the trail, doing what he does best: getting religious right-wingers to the polls.
Back at the Faith and Freedom Coalition gala, and with an eye to the media, perhaps, Reed issues what sounds like both a promise and a warning. "We're not just playing around," he says. "We're not shadowboxing; we are playing for keeps. We're playing for the most valuable prize in the history of the human race and that's the United States of America -- and we are not going to lose."</p>
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<strong>Eyes on the Prize</strong>
For Reed, however, there's likely another prize to collect, win or lose. It may be wrapped up in the old Red, White and Blue, but this prize comes in a distinctive shade of green. AlterNet learned that, in order to identify and make its 600,000 voter contacts in Wisconsin -- many of them by text messaging and e-mail subscriptions --<span style=" background-color: #FFF200;"> Faith and Freedom Coalition contracted with </span><a href="http://www.censtrat.com/services_millenium.html"><span style=" background-color: #FFF200;">Millennium Marketing</span></a><span style=" background-color: #FFF200;">, a division of Century Strategies, a political consulting firm whose CEO happens to be Ralph Reed.</span>
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It's not hard to see where that kind of technology, combined with micro-targeting marketing strategies, could be very useful in upping turnout.
Various targeting strategies were deployed in the Wisconsin recall, added Rick Furr, who spoke as if his company had worked with Faith and Freedom Coalition in the campaign. In an offhand remark, Furr mentioned that his<b> Sports Media Group counted among its clients the Home Depot,</b> the retailer co-founded by right-wing billionaire sugar-daddy <a href="http://www.forbes.com/profile/kenneth-langone/">Kenneth Langone</a>.
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The rate at which the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Americans_for_Prosperity">Koch Industries</a> funded Americans for Prosperity (AFP) churns out front groups to promote its right-wing corporate agenda sets the organization out among similar conservative “<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/14/lobbying-clients-teaparties/">think tanks</a>.” This week, AFP created their latest front group called “<a href="http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/05/27/pun/">Patients United Now</a>,” an entity set up to defeat health care reform. Patients United follows a familiar pattern AFP has used for their other front groups: create a new stand alone <a href="http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_treatment/archive/2009/05/26/more-right-wing-lies-with-beer-chaser.aspx">website</a>, fill it with lines like “We are people just like you” to give the site a <a href="http://www.theseminal.com/2009/05/26/new-anti-obama-health-care-front-group-patients-united-now/">grassroots</a> feel, and then use the new group to recruit supporters and run <a href="http://mediamattersaction.org/factcheck/200905270002">deceptive advertisements</a> attacking reform. This “<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Astroturf">astroturfing</a>” model has been used by AFP to launch groups pushing distortions against other progressive priorities:</p>
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<p>– The “<a href="http://www.hotairtour.org/">Hot Air Tour</a>” promoting global warming skepticism and attacking environmental regulations.
– “<a href="http://www.freeourenergy.com/">Free Our Energy</a>,” a group promoting increased domestic drilling.
– The “<a href="http://www.savemyballot.com/">Save My Ballot Tour</a>,” a group that pays <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/01/joe-plumber-stumped/">Joe the Plumber</a> to travel around the country smearing the Employee Free Choice Act.
– “<a href="http://www.noclimatetax.com/">No Climate Tax</a>,” a group dedicated to the defeat of Clean Energy Economy legislation.
– “<a href="http://nostimulus.com/">No Stimulus</a>,” a group launched to try to stop the passage of the Recovery Act.
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<p>Notably, AFP was also instrumental in <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2009/04/09/37433/lobbyists-planning-teaparties/">orchestrating</a> the anti-Obama, anti-tax tea party protests in April.</p>
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With nearly 70 Republican operatives and former oil industry spokesmen <a href="http://www.americansforprosperity.org/about/staff">working</a> behind the scenes of AFP’s various fronts and <a href="http://mediatransparency.org/recipientgrants.php?recipientID=8806">disclosures</a> that point to ever <a href="http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=3511">increasing</a> oil and corporate donations to the group, one must wonder, who is guiding this massive front group factory? The answer is <a href="http://www.americansforprosperity.org/about/staff/tim-phillips">Tim Phillips</a>, the President of AFP who has built a long career of inventing fake grassroots causes. In Phillips’ official biography, there appears to be over a 10 year gap — but that period was when Phillips developed his very first astroturf groups to do everything from smearing his opponents with anti-Semitic attacks to laundering money for criminal lobbyists.</p>
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<em>Click More To Read The WonkRoom’s Investigation Of AFP’s Tim Phillips</em>
As a Virginia-based political consultant, Phillips got his first big break managing the campaign of Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA). After serving as Goodlatte’s chief of staff for four years, Phil<span style=" background-color: #FFF200;">lips joined former Christian Coalition director Ralph Reed in 1997 to create an astroturf lobbying and campaign consulting operation called </span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Century_Strategies"><span style=" background-color: #FFF200;"><b>Century Strategies</b></span></a><span style=" background-color: #FFF200;"><b>. </b>The firm promised to mount “grassroots lobbying drives” and explained its strategy as “it matters less who has the best arguments and more </span><a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0304-06.htm"><span style=" background-color: #FFF200;">who gets heard</span></a><span style=" background-color: #FFF200;"> — and by whom.”</span></p>
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<span style=" background-color: #FFF200;">After being recommended by <b>Karl Rove,</b> Century Strategies signed its first major corporate client –<b> </b></span><a href="http://www.time.com/time/2002/enron/"><span style=" background-color: #FFF200;"><b>Enron</b></span></a><span style=" background-color: #FFF200;">. Phill</span>ips and Reed were paid $380,000 to mobilize “religious leaders and pro-family groups” to push energy deregulation in Congress and on the state level, a <a href="http://www.citizen.org/cmep/energy_enviro_nuclear/electricity/Enron/articles.cfm?ID=7104">policy shift</a> that led to the energy crisis and economic meltdown of 2001. The Washington Post reported that the pair informed Enron that they had leveraged their relationships with members of Congress and “<a href="http://bodurtha.georgetown.edu/enron/Bush%202000%20Adviser%20Offered%20To%20Use%20Clout%20to%20Help%20Enron.htm">placed</a>” articles in prominent papers like the New York Times.</p>
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Part of Phillip’s role at Century Strategies was to <a href="http://politicalvine.com/complaints/EXHIBIT%20A.pdf">manage</a> the firm’s <b>direct mail subsidiary, Millennium Marketing</b>. In 1998, now disgraced lobbyist <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/03/AR2006010300474.html">Jack Abramoff</a> hired Phillips’ firm to pressure members of Congress to vote against legislation that would have made the U.S. commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands subject to federal wage and worker safety laws. A federal report “found that Chinese women were subject to forced abortions and that women and children were subject to forced prostitution in the local sex-tourism industry.” Nonetheless, Phillips sent out mailers claiming Chinese workers “are exposed to the teachings of Jesus Christ” while on the islands, and many “are converted to the Christian faith and return to China with <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/28/AR2006052800964.html">Bibles in hand</a>.” The mailers then encouraged the recipients to contact lawmakers and ask them to oppose the Marianas labor reform legislation.</p>
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The Marianas stealth lobbying effort was not the only time Phillips worked with Abramoff. Reed and Phillips <a href="http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/reed.php">conspired</a> to <b>generate conservative Christian outrage towards gambling at Indian casinos</b> in a cynical plot to encourage those same tribes to hire Abramoff to lobby on their behalf. In some cases, Phillips’ anti-gambling crusade would simply be part of an effort to kill off competition to <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A50258-2004Sep25?language=printer">Abramoff’s clients</a>. And while Phillips and Reed postured to be motivated by anti-gambling Christian values, the pair helped <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/15/AR2005101501539_pf.html">launder</a> lobbying money from an Abramoff Internet gambling client called eLottery.</p>
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Though Phillips and Reed are best known in the campaign consulting world for engineering the dual <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/06/us/2002-elections-georgia-senator-cleland-loses-upset-republican-emphasizing.html">victories</a> of<b> Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) and Republican Gov. Sonnie Perdue in Georgia (by associating images of </b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKFYpd0q9nE"><b>Osama bin Laden</b></a><b> with the incumbent Democratic senator)</b>, the pair can also be credited with the most below the belt tactics ever seen in modern Republican primaries. The duo “<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20041214162123/www.censtrat.com/index.cfm?FuseAction=Team.View&Biography_id=2">spearheaded</a>” the telemarketing and direct mail efforts for George Bush against John McCain in the 2000 primaries. It is widely believed that Century Strategies executed the mass mailers and robo-calls which <span style=" background-color: #FFF200;">accused McCain of fathering an </span><a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2008/01/10/post_270.html"><span style=" background-color: #FFF200;">illegitimate child</span></a><span style=" background-color: #FFF200;"> with a black woman, </span>using the image of McCain’s adopted daughter from Bangladesh.</p>
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Phillips’ brass knuckled hits on fellow Republicans almost prevented the only Jewish Congressman in the GOP caucus from ever being elected. Phillips set up a <span style=" background-color: #FFF200;">527 called “</span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Faith_and_Family_Alliance"><span style=" background-color: #FFF200;">The Faith and Family</span> Alliance</a>,” a group supposedly designed to support conservative and Christian causes. But like his other front groups, Phillips used the Family Alliance to simply slime his political opponents with an organization that appeared to represent a grassroots community. The Richmond Times Dispatch reported that Phillips was hired by State Sen. Stephen Martin to manage his direct mail campaign against State Del. Eric Cantor in the 2000 Republican primary for the Congressional seat being vacated by Rep. Tom Bliley (R-VA). Phillips used his Family Alliance to blast robo-calls and mass mailers claiming Cantor did not represent “Virginia values” and that his opponent was the “<a href="http://spectator.org/blog/2006/01/13/cantor-survived-abramoff-reed">only Christian in the contest</a>.”</p>
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Larry Sabato, a political analyst and the director of University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, <a href="http://www.dailyprogress.com/cdp/news/state_regional/state_regional_govtpolitics/article/gop_chair_tied_to_group_that_attacked_cantor/39925/">noted</a>:</p>
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<p><strong>A despicable, underground campaign that was unquestionably anti-Semitic nearly beat Cantor</strong> in the GOP primary for U.S. House to succeed Tom Bliley in June 2000. Cantor had been heavily favored over state Sen. Steve Martin, but in the end he won by a couple hundred votes. Now the national and state GOP appears grateful for its lone Jewish House member — but the Republican base and some Christian groups almost insured his defeat. I’m amazed that Democrats and even Republicans haven’t raised this matter.
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<p>Indeed, after the Phillips’ anti-Semitic attacks, Cantor went from being high in the polls to barely winning the primary by a mere <a href="http://www.momentmag.com/Exclusive/2009/2009-04/200904-Eric_Cantor.html">264 votes</a>. Phillips still holds rallies – under the umbrella of <span style=" background-color: #FFF200;"><b>AFP</b></span> – to boost his old <a href="http://www.americansforprosperity.org/afp-va-activists-rally-against-kaine-tax">client</a> Sen. Martin.</p>
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Phillips managed to escape most of the controversy that eventually embroiled his partners Reed and Abramoff. Working under the <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/4028#">slush fund</a> provided by oil baron <a href="http://64.203.97.162/index.php?static=455">David Koch</a> – with a salary <a href="http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/2007-afp990.pdf">approaching</a> $300,000 a year and <a href="http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/2007-afpfoundation-2007-2.pdf">at least</a> a $7 million annual budget – Phillips continues to lead AFP in building front group after front group to advance his radical right wing agenda.</p>
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<b>Robert Randolph</b> is President of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Century_Strategies" title="Century Strategies">Century Strategies</a>' direct marketing subsidiary, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Millennium_Marketing" title="Millennium Marketing">Millennium Marketing</a>.
According to Randolph's Century Strategies' <a href="http://www.censtrat.com/staffbio.cfm?staff_id=4" class="external text" title="http://www.censtrat.com/staffbio.cfm?staff_id=4" rel="nofollow">biography</a>, "During the 2000 campaign cycle, Robert played a vital part in the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=George_Walker_Bush" title="George Walker Bush">George Walker Bush</a> presidential election by producing nearly 6 million pieces of targeted mail in 18 of the battleground states. He also worked extensively with the Republican Party of Georgia and the Florida Republican House Caucus to win numerous state legislative and state senate campaigns. In 1999, Robert worked with the Republican Party of Virginia and played a key role in the historic Republican takeover of the Virginia General Assembly.</p>
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"Prior to joining Millennium, Robert was President of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Marketing_and_Publishing&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="American Marketing and Publishing (page does not exist)">American Marketing and Publishing</a> (AMP, Inc.). He founded AMP, Inc. in 1992 and began publishing <i><span style=" background-color: #FFF200;">The Virginia Conservative Magazine</span></i><span style=" background-color: #FFF200;">, a tabloid magazine dedicated to promoting Republican candidates and causes.</span></p>
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"The magazine featured conservative columnists such as <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mona_Charen&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mona Charen (page does not exist)">Mona Charen</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Walter_Williams" title="Walter Williams">Walter Williams</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Brett_Bozell&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Brett Bozell (page does not exist)">Brett Bozell</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Robert_Novak" title="Robert Novak">Robert Novak</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Thomas_Sowell&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Thomas Sowell (page does not exist)">Thomas Sowell</a>, and cartoonist <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bob_Gorrell&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bob Gorrell (page does not exist)">Bob Gorrell</a>. Over the years, it included exclusive interviews with well-known conservative leaders including<span style=" background-color: #FFF200;"> </span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Oliver_North" title="Oliver North"><span style=" background-color: #FFF200;">Oliver North</span></a><span style=" background-color: #FFF200;">, NRA vice-president </span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Wayne_LaPierre" title="Wayne LaPierre"><span style=" background-color: #FFF200;">Wayne LaPierre</span></a><span style=" background-color: #FFF200;">, </span>Governor <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=George_Allen" title="George Allen">George Allen</a>, Senator <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_W._Warner" title="John W. Warner">John W. Warner</a>, Congressman <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tom_Davis" title="Tom Davis">Tom Davis</a>, State Senator <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ken_Stolle&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ken Stolle (page does not exist)">Ken Stolle</a> and State Senator <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bill_Bolling&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bill Bolling (page does not exist)">Bill Bolling</a>.</p>
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"From 1994-1998, he also published other magazines including <i>Pennsylvania Conservative</i>, <i>Mississippi Conservative</i>, <i>Florida Conservative</i> and <i>California Conservative</i>.
"Robert has designed and produced political direct mail for Governor <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=George_Walker_Bush" title="George Walker Bush">George Walker Bush</a> and Governor <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tom_Ridge" title="Tom Ridge">Tom Ridge</a>(PA), Lt. Governor <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_Hager&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Hager (page does not exist)">John Hager</a> (VA), Senator John Warner (VA), Congressman Tom Davis (VA, NRCC Chair), Congressman <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Thomas_D._DeLay" title="Thomas D. DeLay">Thomas D. DeLay</a> (TX, GOP Whip), Congressman <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bud_Shuster&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bud Shuster (page does not exist)">Bud Shuster</a> (PA), Congressman <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Lazio" title="Rick Lazio" class="mw-redirect">Rick Lazio</a> (NY Senate Candidate), Congressman <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Roger_Wicker" title="Roger Wicker">Roger Wicker</a> (MS), Congresswoman <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Anne_Northup" title="Anne Northup">Anne Northup</a> (KY), Congressman <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Clay_Shaw" title="Clay Shaw">Clay Shaw</a> (FL), Senator Bill Bolling (VA), Senator <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Steve_Martin&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Steve Martin (page does not exist)">Steve Martin</a> (VA), Delegate <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Chris_Jones&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Chris Jones (page does not exist)">Chris Jones</a> (VA), Delegate <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Terrie_Suit&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Terrie Suit (page does not exist)">Terrie Suit</a> (VA), Delegate <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jo_Ann_Davis" title="Jo Ann Davis">Jo Ann Davis</a> (VA), Delegate <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Roger_McClure&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Roger McClure (page does not exist)">Roger McClure</a> (VA), Delegate <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Allen_Dudley&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Allen Dudley (page does not exist)">Allen Dudley</a> (VA), and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Harry_Blevins&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Harry Blevins (page does not exist)">Harry Blevins</a> (VA).
"In all, Robert has produced more than 35 million pieces of mail and worked on nearly 60 campaigns. Over the past decade, he has built a reputation as one of the most efficient and dependable political direct mail vendors in the country."
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<b><a href="http://www.censtrat.com/services/mmarketing.cfm" class="external text" title="http://www.censtrat.com/services/mmarketing.cfm" rel="nofollow">Millennium Marketing</a></b> is the "in-house direct mail" branch of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Century_Strategies" title="Century Strategies">Century Strategies</a>.
According to the Century Strategies' web site, the "Millennium Marketing team designs, produces and delivers cutting edge constituency and voters contact mail along with fundraising mail that has helped our clients win presidential to state legislative elections.</p>
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"During the 2000 campaign, Millennium Marketing provided mailing services in key battleground states for <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=George_Walker_Bush" title="George Walker Bush">George Walker Bush</a> during the primaries and then once again during the general election. In fact, Millennium Marketing mailed over 7,000,000 pieces of direct mail for our ticket and state Victory 2000 efforts during the recent election cycle.
"In addition, Millennium Marketing maintains a very aggressive state legislative direct mail practice. In 2000, our state legislative teams served as the select direct mail vendor for the Georgia Republican Party as they gained seats in the Georgia Senate and for the Florida House Republican Caucus where we also helped gain seats for our Party.
"During the 1999 cycle in Virginia, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Timothy_R._Phillips" title="Timothy R. Phillips">Timothy R. Phillips</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Robert_Randolph" title="Robert Randolph">Robert Randolph</a> (president of Millennium Marketing) and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Phil_Cox&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Phil Cox (page does not exist)">Phil Cox</a> produced direct mail for over two dozen state house and state senate campaigns totaling approximately 1.9 million pieces.
"Our in-house creative department designs and produces virtually every type of mail from multi-color self-mailers to the most personalized of fundraising letters."</p>
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