freiss, foster

<div>misspelled but sorta bak</div><div>
</div><div>NOTE CNP, IWF, JOK, KRK
</div><div>=</div><div>daily caller founder/funder</div><div>
</div><div><div>=</div><div>==<h6 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Conservative funders</h6>The only income for the CCC in its first year in the US came in the form of <a href="http://conservativetransparency.org/wp/assets/The-Randolph-Foundation-2008.pdf">a $120,000 grant from the New York-based Randolph Foundation</a> [15].The foundation, seeded by money from the Richardson family’s sale of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicks">Vick Chemical Company</a> [16] in 1985, <a href="http://dynamodata.fdncenter.org/990pf_pdf_archive/470/470892971/470892971_201212_990PF.pdf">gave CCC another $50,000 in 2012</a> [17].The main trustee at Randolph is <a href="http://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/who_we_are/board/heather_higgins">Heather Higgins</a> [18], the president and CEO of Independent Women’s Voice and the chairman of its sister organisation <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Independent_Women%27s_Forum">Independent Women’s Forum</a> [19]. Higgins is the daughter of R. Randolph Richardson, a member of the family that sold Vick Chemical Company to Procter & Gamble for <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/1985-10-02/business/fi-16298_1_white-knight" target="_blank">$1.2 billion</a> [20]. Staff

writers of both organisations regularly express scepticism about the

science of human-caused climate change and cite Lomborg’s

views approvingly.A recent article from IWF senior fellow <a href="http://www.iwf.org/blog/2794034/Common-Core%E2%80%99s-Global-Warming-Agenda">Vicki Alger claimed</a> [21] “a

majority of scientists believe that global warming is largely

nature-made” — ignoring several studies that show the vast majority of

research from scientists studying climate change believe exactly

the opposite.IWF funders include the <a href="http://conservativetransparency.org/donor/claude-r-lambe-charitable-foundation/">Charles R. Lambe Foundation</a> [22], controlled by Charles Koch, and <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/who-donors-trust">Donors Trust</a> [23],

a fund for conservative philanthropists that has pushed millions into

organisations promoting climate science denial and fighting laws to cut

greenhouse gas emissions.Higgins is also board member at the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Philanthropy_Roundtable">Philanthropy Roundtable</a> [24], another route for conservative philanthropy which shares two members of personnel with <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/media-center/reports/Donors-Trust-Laundering-Climate-Denial-Funding/">Donors Trust or its partner organisation Donors Capital Fund</a> [25].Also on the board of trustees at Randolph is Polly Freiss, the daughter-in-law of conservative Christian businessman Foster Freiss.Foster

Freiss put more than $2 million into Republican Senator Rick Santorum’s

2012 run for his party’s nomination for the presidency. Freiss also

bankrolled conservative news outlet <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/tucker-carlson%E2%80%99s-daily-caller-website-bankrolled-climate-change-denier" target="_blank">The Daily Caller</a> [26], which regularly publishes articles supporting the views of climate science denialists.On his personal web page, <a href="http://fosterfriess.com/key-issues/climate-change/leading-the-cause/">Freiss promotes climate science denial sources</a> [27] including Climate Depot and <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute">The Heartland Institute</a> [28]. Friess’s website has also promoted Lomborg’s views.Foster Freiss and his daughter Polly attended the <a href="http://images2.americanprogressaction.org/ThinkProgress/secretkochmeeting.pdf">Koch brother’s secretive 2010 strategy meeting in Aspen</a> [29], along with Heather Higgins and a host of other conservative activists.The tax records of the Kansas-based Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation indicate it has given the CCC two $150,000 grants — one in <a href="http://pdfs.citizenaudit.org/2012_12_PF/43-6064859_990PF_201112.pdf">2011</a> [30] and another in <a href="http://pdfs.citizenaudit.org/2013_12_PF/43-6064859_990PF_201212.pdf">2012</a> [31].The foundation is the legacy of pharmaceutical entrepreneur Ewing Kauffman and currently holds $1.89 billion in assets.The only other known funder of Lomborg’s think tank is the Sevenbar Foundation — a group that gave <a href="http://990s.foundationcenter.org/990pf_pdf_archive/752/752912550/752912550_200912_990PF.pdf">Copenhagen Consensus Center $50,000 in 2009</a> [32] but otherwise supports micro-finance initiatives to empower women using money raised from lingerie shows.==

Conservative activist James O'Keefe plotted a potential voter

fraud sting of the Service Employees International Union in 2010 in

Massachusetts — a sting that, had it been carried out, could have been

funded by Rick Santorum patron Foster Friess.

The plot is elaborated on and eventually ruled out in an email chain started by conservative writer John

Fund, who emailed Republican National Lawyers Association executive

director Michael Thielen that the union was "contracting for buses on

election day."

"If you're black or brown they'll rope you in and take you to the

polls, registration can be worked out," Fund wrote, per his "Boston

source." His email was forwarded on to others, forming the basis for the

plans.

The email exchange, parts of which may be missing, is below. Read

from the bottom. The last email is from James O'Keefe to associates Stan

Dai and Nadia Naffe, who later filed harassment charges against O'Keefe.

Others on the

thread include Heather Higgins, the founder of the conservative

Independent Women's Voice and the late Andrew Breitbart.

Naffe told BuzzFeed she flew to Boston to investigate, but that

they never uncovered anything of interest and the project fizzled.

From: "James E. O'Keefe III" Date: January 13, 2010 12:21:54 PM EST

To: xxxxxxx@gmail.com, xxxxxx@aol.com Subject: Fwd: brainstorm of sorts,

here - far-fetched? Maybe not?...

Your thoughts Nadia?

---------- Forwarded message ----------From: Heather Higgins Date:

Wednesday, January 13, 2010 Subject: Re: brainstorm of sorts, here -

far-fetched? Maybe not?... To: Steve Friess , James O'Keefe

xxxxxxxxxx@gmail.com, Andrew Breitbart Cc: Foster Friess

Andrew and James, I'm forwarding what could be a very clever idea from Steve Friess

in response to the intel below from John Fund re SEIU's intentions in

Tuesday's election in MA. Don't know what it would cost, but you all

should talk.

Warmest regards -Heather Higgins

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 12:25 AM, Steve Friess wrote:

Wouldn't it be great if a "ACORN sting video" could be produced about these busses?

Dad - maybe bounce this off Breitbart?

Some black /Latina conservatives could be wired for video, and get

picked up on one of these busses, and show what goes on. My guess -they

are offering cash, (which I am pretty sure is illegal), and I also would

wager that at least some of these busses are making more than one stop

with the same people - ie getting them to vote twice -though I don't

know the mechanics of that.

Perhaps some private detective types would be needed to help track

down the busses, and a block or two ahead of them to drop our cameramen

off...

Too much to dream? Imagine pulling this off - legal / image problems

for SEIU would be a good thing... think there's upside to this?

Brietbart would know, and Fund would know - 'if we catch them doing

X, it could mean Y' - I just don't know what the stakes are...

On Jan 12, 2010, at 12:46 PM, Heather Higgins wrote:

Foster --See below from John Fund re SEIU -Acorn is in MA as well. It

would be hugely helpful if you would assist with our non-glamorous but

highly effective GOTV effort. If you could possibly let me know today,

that would be helpful to our planning. This is such a great opportunity

for making trouble in the best sort of way - I hope you can help us

really capitalize on it.

Many thanks, Heather

-------- Original Message --------Subject: FW: John Batchelor From:

"Fund, John" Date: Tue, January 12, 2010 8:25 am To: 'Michael Thielen'

Tip from Boston source (normally reliable)

Seiu contracting for buses on election day and heading to roxbury,

mattapan, roslindale and jamaica plain. If you're black or brown they'll

rope you in and take you to the polls, registration can be worked out.

Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile

</blockquote>

In the next installment, O'Keefe, who appears to have contacted Fund at this point, starts setting up

From: "James E. O'Keefe III" > Date: January 13, 2010 4:16:14 PM

EST> To: "mikeroman.com" > Subject: Re: ACORN videos / seiu /

election>> what time zone are you in. I'm assuming you mean 8Est.

That works.> I'm 201-637-0564>> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 1:10

PM, mikeroman.com wrote:>>>> Have time to talk around

8?>>>>>> On Jan 13, 2010, at 3:41 PM, James E. O'Keefe

III wrote:>>>> > Mike,>> >>> > Got

your info from John Fund.>> > I was the producer of the ACORN

Videos>> > Would like to know whereabouts of the busses in

Boston SEIU, et al are using in order to bus people in to vote in the

Tuesday special election.>> > Thinking about sending some

undercover folks up there.>> >>> > James

</blockquote>

Then O'Keefe proposed sending Nadia Naffe up to Boston:

From: "James E. O'Keefe III"

Date: January 14, 2010 11:10:49 PM EST

To: xxxxxxx@aol.com

Cc: Stan Dai

Subject: Boston

Nadia,

We're willing to book you a plane ticket to Boston to get some footage from the SEIU busses.

Joe will be joining you taking care of logistics/equipment--- but i'll be in new orleans causing trouble.

im confident your training will take you far.

Interested in making some more video history?

James

</blockquote>

A couple days later, O'Keefe has booked travel for Naffe, who was to

do the operation. This email included an Orbitz booking confirmation:

From: "James E. O'Keefe III" > Date: January 15, 2010 2:46:09 PM

EST> To: nknaffe@aol.com, Stan Dai , Joe Basel > Subject: Fwd:

Travel Document - Boston 1/18/10>> Nadia,>> here's what I

could come up with- one stop but its along the way - no 12 hour flights,

more like 4-5 hour flight.> leaving tampa mon at noon> leaving

boston wed at 2pm so you can sleep.>> keep in mind Wed morning is

for additional work - if the polls are continuing if its close..>>

I'll also get you a hotel room for the mon night - Joe is flying in

overnight from San Francisco and arrives at 6:30am.>> Joe will be

picking you up shortly thereafter. But you will have to wake up around 7

on tuesday - your country needs you.>> More details to

follow.> James

</blockquote>

He also set up a place for her and Joe Basel, one of the men later

arrested with him after the Senator Landrieu affair, to stay in Boston

(Naffe and Basel are copied on the email):

From: "James E. O'Keefe III"

Date: January 16, 2010 10:59:14 PM EST

To: Amy Contrada

Cc: xxxxxx@aol.com, Joe Basel

Subject: Boston election day,

Amy,

Two of my collegues are coming to Boston to infilrate the SEIU on election day. One of them is a female.

Would you be able to put them her up Monday night?

James

</blockquote>

The video from the trip, if it was ever made, was never published.

"I believe there was discussion of doing something but O'Keefe's

office will tell you nothing was done," said Fund, reached by email.

"This is a classic example of someone trying to breath life into a three-year old dead horse," said Fund.

He said that other reporters had contacted him about it in the past

and that some "pointed out the email thread looked truncated and

edited." .

Reached by email, Naffe said the emails were authentic: "Fund and

Steve Friess, the son of billionaire Foster Friess, introduced the idea

to O'keefe that SEIU would fraudulently register anyone with brown skin

to vote."

"James flew me out to Boston to find the SEIU busses, just days after

that email was sent," Naffe said. She claimed that "Congressman Steve

King from Iowa was waiting at the hotel when we arrived to take us to

dinner. He gave us a pep talk about illegal voting."

"O'keefe has the footage, though I'm doubtful he would share any of

it. Since, he was arrested a week later in New Orleans while attempting

to wire tap Senator Mary Landrieu," Naffe said.

O'Keefe didn't respond to a request for comment.

Update: Fund emailed to say that he thinks his original email was

altered: "I maintain the email was edited to take out the fact I was

referring to what someone told me might be happening and that I was

asking a source (whom I have quoted in the past) if they had heard

anything about it."

He also wished to clarify that he did not personally tip O'Keefe to the busing. That has been reflected above.

</div>

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</div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">KIRK TPUSA:  bill montgomery is TP guy</div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div>And Charlie said he had memorized all the faces from this website of all the big donors there. And he happened to run into the guy in a stairwell and he pulls out his business card. And the guy was impressed with his pitch, whatever it was for those few seconds. And weeks later gives him $10,000.</div><div>
</div><div>And that was Foster Friess, one of the big donors. From that moment still though, Charlie Kirk gets on Fox News a couple of times. He was on “Fox News Live” from the convention floor with Neil Cavuto. But into the fall of 2012, that $10,000 does help them. But Charlie says in that eulogy by the winter, by December, they were broke again; and they didn’t have any direction, they didn’t have any events, they didn’t have any more ways to get on it.</div><div>
</div><div>So they decided: ‘Hey, let’s go to New York and corner Neil Cavuto again and get on TV again.’ So it was really a series of luck— but also Bill Montgomery constantly encouraging and pushing Charlie Kirk. But also, yes, when you don’t have a platform and you get platformed by Breitbart, Breitbart and Fox News, you’re constantly going to be invited back if you do well on them.</div><div>
</div><div>And he was invited back, I think he appeared on Fox news three or four times that year. It was really, can you make the most of the opportunities that you were given? And, and indeed that is, I guess the origin story of Charlie Kirk. He said it took off after that winter, December 2012. And it did. By 2015, which is obviously three years later, they’re a million dollar organization, which is a fast-moving train, if you know anything about nonprofits....</div></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</div></div><div><div style="font-size: small;">=<a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/12/trump-allies/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: currentcolor none medium;">https://www.alternet.org/2020/12/trump-allies/</a>
Trump is rewarding more than two dozen current and former administration officials and others with prestigious government appointments on his way out of office – including his current Secretary of Transportation, Elaine Chao, his former campaign manager and Senior Counselor, Kellyanne Conway, and campaign surrogate, lobbyist Matt Schlapp.Also on the list, a billionaire hotelier reportedly linked to "a possible pay-for-play scheme" with the RNC.The nominations, announced Tuesday, appear to mirror reports that say the president is preparing a flood of pardons, even to people who have never asked for them, merely because he can.Trump nominated <a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=Kellyanne+Conway" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: currentcolor none medium; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Kellyanne Conway</a> to the Board of Visitors to the United States Air Force Academy. The Board acts as a board of governors, and "inquires into the morale, discipline, curriculum, instruction, physical equipment, fiscal affairs, academic methods and other matters relating to the Academy which the Board decides to consider."Conway, according to the Office of Special Counsel, has broken federal law so frequently <a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2019/06/federal-investigative-agency-kellyanne-conway-should-be-removed-from-government-job/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: currentcolor none medium; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">she was recommended for "removal" from her White House position</a> by the federal watchdog agency. Trump ignored the recommendation.Trump nominated Secretary <a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=Elaine+Chao" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: currentcolor none medium; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Elaine Chao</a> to be a Member of the Board of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The appointment carries a six-year term.Also nominated to the Kennedy Center is Lynn Friess, wife of major Republican donor <a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=Foster+Friess" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: currentcolor none medium; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Foster Friess</a>.Lobbyist <a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=Matt+Schlapp" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: currentcolor none medium; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Matt Schlapp</a>, the head of the American Conservative Union, which operates the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), was nominated by Trump to be a Member of the Library of Congress Trust Fund Board. According to <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/0225627Z:US" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: currentcolor none medium; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Bloomberg</a> the LoC Trust Fund Board "operates as a federal board governing funds donated to the Library of Congress. The Board deposits the incoming money with the Secretary of the Treasury and the librarian of the Library of Congress may distribute the money. LoC Trust Fund Board holds the power to invest, reinvest, and retain investments as well."Schlapp's wife, Mercedes Schlapp, was a White House communications official who left to work for the Trump campaign. Chao is married to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.Also on today's list, billionaire hotelier, real estate developer, GOP donor, and failed ambassador nominee Douglas "Papa Doug" Manchester. Manchester was nominated to the Kennedy Center Board as well. A scathing January 2020 article detailed his lavish lifestyle and divorces, including from a Russian immigrant. That article suggested she had "<a href="https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2020/jan/16/ticker-former-san-diego-union-tribune-publisher/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: currentcolor none medium; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">a profile on a website for seekers of Russian brides</a>."Last year <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/doug-manchester-possible-pay-to-play-scheme-for-ambassador-role-in-trump-administration-uncovered/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: currentcolor none medium; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">CBS News</a> "uncovered a possible pay-for-play scheme involving the Republican National Committee and President Trump's nominee for ambassador to the Bahamas. Emails obtained by CBS News show the nominee, San Diego billionaire Doug Manchester, was asked by the RNC to donate half a million dollars as his confirmation in the Senate hung in the balance."There are 26 nominations in total, just today.</div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">= </div></div><div>=</div><div><h2 class="p1" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 10px; word-spacing: 3.6px;">Daily Caller News Foundation—$5.2 million</h2>The Daily Caller News Foundation (DCNF) funds much of the content of the Daily Caller website, a site that has several ties to white nationalists and was co-founded by now-Fox News host Tucker Carlson with $3 million from right-wing donor Foster Freiss. As of 2018, Carlson was secretary of the DCNF board of directors.Charles Koch Foundation officials <a href="https://readsludge.com/2019/03/13/charles-koch-continu" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; outline: currentcolor none medium; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">may express concern</a> over the site’s extremism, but the foundation is DCNF’s biggest donor–by a mile. The Koch Foundation and the Charles Koch Institute combined to give over $3.3 million to the Daily Caller News Foundation from 2015-18, representing 37 percent of the group’s contribution revenue during that time period. Including grants from DonorsTrust, the Sarah Scaife Foundation and others, conservative nonprofits researched by CMD provided the DCNF with 58 percent of its donation revenue.Charles Koch alleges he is not a fan of Trump, but <a href="https://readsludge.com/2018/11/21/charles-koch-is-funding-rightwing-pro-trump-media-new-disclosure-reveals/" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: currentcolor none medium; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">Daily Caller and other Koch grant recipients</a> has often been generous to the president. In fact, Daily Caller <a href="https://www.exposedbycmd.org/tucker-carlson" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: currentcolor none medium; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">accepted an estimated $150,000</a> from the 2016 Trump campaign to rent its email list. Recently, reporting revealed that Trump family friend Tom Hicks, Jr. said last year that the Daily Caller editor <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/15/us/politics/lev-parnas-ukraine-trump-giuliani.html" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: currentcolor none medium; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">could be counted on</a> to advance Trump’s personal political goals regarding Ukraine.<h2 class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 10px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Middle East Media and Research Institute—$5.1 million</h2></div><div>=</div></div><div>=
<div>
</div><div>omg</div><div>
</div><div><a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/8/21/17760724/wyoming-primary-elections-2018-live-results-foster-friess">https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/8/21/17760724/wyoming-primary-elections-2018-live-results-foster-friess</a>
<div>
</div><div><h4 style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: " futura="Futura" lt="LT" w01="W01" medium="Medium" sans-serif="sans-serif" line-height="line-height" margin="margin" px="px" text-transform="text-transform" uppercase="uppercase" font-size="font-size" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">THE BIGGEST DONOR: FOSTER FRIESS, A MULTI-MILLIONAIRE GOP GUY</h4>The largest reported funder of the Independent Women’s Voice that January was Foster Friess. He gave $87,000 to the effort, nearly 33% of the funding.The 73-year old investment fund manager describes himself as a “billionaire wannabe” because he has a net worth of only about $500 million.And, he’s no independent.He funded the Super PAC of evangelical GOP presidential candidate <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/super-pac-donors-revealed-who-are-the-power-players-in-the-gop-primary/2012/02/21/gIQAPU3BSR_story.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration: none;">Rick Santorum</a> (R-PA) in 2012.Friess gave at least $1 million to advance the Koch Brothers’ agenda, making that pledge at one of their political strategy session in preparation for the 2012 elections.The billionaire wannabe has spent at least $3 million to underwrite the Daily Caller operation. It provides daily fodder for Donald Trump’s claims. And the Trump operation pays Daily Caller to email its subscribers to promote his presidential campaign.He also spent at least $100,000 to help Governor Scott Walker (R-WI) win his recall election in 2011.And, he’s no feminist.Friess told journalist Andrea Mitchell his position on <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/foster-friess-aspirin-joke-shows-danger-to-candidates-of-outside-political-groups/2012/02/17/gIQA3VB6JR_story.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration: none;">birth control</a>: “[T]his contraceptive thing, my gosh, it’s so … inexpensive, you know, back in my days, they used Bayer aspirin for contraception. The gals put it between their knees and it wasn’t that costly.”That’s Friess. Definitely not an independent woman.But he does have close ties to Higgins. She contacted Friess to get funding to begin James O’Keefe’s controversial campaign against ACORN.He threw his voice (money) through IWV in the Scott Brown race for the Senate.Friess is now “all-in” for GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump.</div></div></div>