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</font></div><div style=""><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">former Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday announced the creation of a new political advocacy group, </font></b></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>his latest step to remain involved in the conservative movement as he plots out his political future</b>.</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pence launched Advancing American Freedom, while opposing the Biden administration’s agenda. Advancing American Freedom plans to build on the success of the last four years by promoting traditional Conservative values and promoting the successful policies of the Trump Administration,” Pence said in a statement. “Conservatives will not stand idly by as the radical Left and the new administration attempt to threaten America’s standing as the greatest Nation in the world with their destructive policies.”</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The nonprofit advocacy group will be advised by several former Trump administration officials and prominent leaders in the conservative movement. Kellyanne Conway, Larry Kudlow, Russ Vought, Seema Verma, Andrew Wheeler, Robert Lighthizer and David Bernhardt are among the former Trump officials on its advisory board</b>.</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The group will advocate for policies focused on three areas: The economy, foreign policy and “American liberties” like school choice and anti-abortion policies.</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The launch of the advocacy group is Pence’s latest bid to remain a key player in conservative politics. Since leaving office, he has joined the Heritage Foundation as a distinguished visiting fellow where he has a regular column and podcast, and he also joined former<b> Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s (R) Young America’s Foundation as a scholar.</b></font></span></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pence is expected to speak later this month in South Carolina in his first speech since leaving office.</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Washington Examiner reported that the new advocacy group comes with the support of former President Trump, who has patched things up with Pence after attacking his former vice president for refusing to illegally subvert the certification of the Electoral College results on Jan. 6. Pence was the target of threats when Trump supporters stormed the Capitol that day, and he was taken away to a secure location when rioters entered the complex.</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The former vice president is known to be interested in running for president in 2024, but the end of his tenure has raised questions about whether he would be embraced by Trump supporters. Other former Trump administration officials, such as former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, are also likely to launch presidential bids. </font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Walker’s New Job Will Pay Plenty</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">National group he will run has lots of money. But Walker won’t be able to run for office.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">By Bruce Murphy - Jul 15th, 2019 </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Scott Walker era is over in Wisconsin.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">After threatening to run for either governor or senator in Wisconsin in upcoming elections, Walker has announced he will be taking a job as president of the Young America’s Foundation, a national non-profit based in the Washington D.C. area (northern Virginia) that works to promote conservative ideas among young people and is perhaps best known for running the Reagan Ranch.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“This would preclude me from running for governor in this next cycle or running for the U.S. Senate if Ron Johnson’s seat is open,” Walker told the Journal Sentinel. “I won’t be engaged in anything else. This will be my sole occupation.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">That’s because it’s a full-time job and Walker agreed to serve in the position for four years. But he won’t be starting the job until January 2021, when the group’s </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">current president, Ron Robinson, steps down after more than 40 years.</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> </span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Walker has campaigned for political office in 15 elections over 29 years. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Why would he agree to abandon his political hopes, which still seemed to be burning as hotly as ever, and wait that long for this position? </span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Walker told the newspaper that he and his wife, Tonette, have spent “a lot of time thinking about and praying about” the move. “But it just feels like God’s calling us to take on this mission.”</b> </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But the money he will earn might also have something to do with his decision. Walker’s past financial disclosure statements show he’s not a wealthy man. Going into his 2016 reelection campaign for governor Walker “reported a Barclays credit card with a balance of $10,000 to $15,000 at a high interest rate of 27.2 percent; a Bank of America credit card also with debt of $10,000 to $15,000; and<b> federal loans of up to $250,000 to pay for college for his two sons,” as Politico reported.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The salary for his current job, as fundraising chairman for the National Republican Redistricting Trust, is not known, but the likely compensation for the job with Young America’s Foundation will be quite lucrative. The group’s most recent federal tax form, for 2017, shows that <b>Robinson earned slightly more $1 million a year in total compensation.</b> </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">The group is very well funded, with total assets of $69.5 million in 2017, and a $23.7 million annual budget, with $5.9 million of that going to salaries and expenses. The group had some $24 million in investments, which earned $2.7 million in investment income in 2017. </span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The intended use of the endowment funds, the group notes on its tax form, is to support its program activities, including the Reagan Ranch, <b>National Journalism Center </b>and national conservative student programs and seminars. </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"><b>Young America’s Foundation calls itself “the principal outreach organization of the Conservative Movement.”</b> Founded in 1977, it <b>merged in 2011 with Young Americans for Freedom,</b> a group launched in 1960 by conservative icon, William F. Buckley. The group has been active in battles over speech at universities and in sending conservative speakers to college campuses.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</span></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</span></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">PRA:</span></font></div><div><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 15px;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">From Red Menace to the Pink, Green, and Lavender Subversives</font></b></h3><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a name="P1184_290251"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Campus Counter-subversion</font></b></a></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At the 1989 Conservative Political Action Conference counter- subversion star<b> J. Michael Waller</b> spoke at a student workshop on conducting "Opposition Research." At the workshop a pamphlet published by the Young Americans for Freedom was distributed. Titled "List of Un-American Organizations on Our College Campuses" the 15-page booklet is dedicated to "Uncle Joe (1908-1957)" and fulfills its McCarthyist heritage by its blacklist-style smears of CISPES, United Campuses Against Nuclear War, Communist Party USA, Oxfam America, Trans Africa, Washington Office on Africa, United States Student Association, and a "Sandinista Support Network" including Witness for Peace, Nicaragua Network and TecNica.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to the pamphlet:</font></p><blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">= "With Congress and the FBI no longer able to investigate anti-American activities on the college campuses, it has increasingly become the responsibility of the Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) to keep watch over those groups who desire to undermine America. === "While YAF was able to secretly monitor Leftist groups for the last several years, a recent string of newspaper articles and a television documentary have appeared, blowing YAF's cover.</font></blockquote><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The pamphlet also archly warns that it hopes to provide:</font></p><blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">= "a basic idea of the terrible threat these Hard- Left groups pose to our way of life. Many of these groups take their orders directly from a hostile foreign power and all of them are entrenched on at least one of the college campuses in your community.</font></blockquote><a name="P1193_291767" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Corporate Security</font></b></a></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/2019/06/27/conservative_philanthropy_in_higher_education.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">https://www.<b>urban.org</b>/sites/default/files/<b>2019</b>/06/27/conservative_philanthropy_in_higher_education.pdf</a></font></div><div style=""><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>CASE V: UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT GROUPS </b></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Although the Federalist Society and conservative domination of the legal system represent conservative philanthropy’s most consequential achievements, other kinds of higher education philanthropy have contributed to right-wing political success. Conservative activists and philanthropists have underwritten right-wing undergraduate student activism that advocates free market ideology on college campuses. One of the earliest organized efforts was <b>Young Americans for Freedom, </b>founded by a group of some 90 young activists at conservative publisher William F. Buckley Jr.’s Connecticut estate in September 1960.55 (Young Americans for Freedom is not to be confused with <b>Young America’s Foundation</b>, discussed below. For clarity, I refer to both organizations by their full names<span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">).</span></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Typically portrayed in the literature as a right-wing analogue of Students for a Democratic
Society (SDS), Young Americans for Freedom was in fact largely reliant on existing power centers within
the nascent American conservative movement for organizational and financial support.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">56 </span></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</span></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Although
Young Americans for Freedom predated the rise of dedicated conservative philanthropic giving by
nearly a decade, it provided an important blueprint for the success of subsequent generations of
conservative student activism.
Young Americans for Freedom was a conservative mass-membership organization that owed its
successes to its closeness to existing conservative organizations, institutions, and funders, in particular
the National Review, William F. Buckley Jr., and Martin Liebman, a public relations luminary and direct
mail pioneer. These older conservatives cultivated Young Americans for Freedom’s founding members
to serve as movement leaders. Douglas Caddy, for instance, an early Young Americans for Freedom
activist, wrote for conservative publications while an undergraduate at Georgetown and later took a
position at Liebman’s public relations firm, where he worked as a full-time organizer for Young
Americans for Freedom. Although not as substantial as later organized philanthropic efforts, support for
Young Americans for Freedom established a blueprint for future conservative student activism, above
all the importance of a pipeline for conservative student leadership to move through.57 </span></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</span></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>In fact, Young
Americans for Freedom’s eventual inability to provide such a career pipeline under the Nixon
administration limited its influence</b>.58
Large-scale philanthropic support for conservative student organizations on campus accelerated in
the 1970s alongside the proliferation of available funding for conservative institution-building writ
large. Compared with the scholarship on Young Americans for Freedom, there is a considerable gap in
the scholarly literature on post-1970s conservative student groups and their funders. One of the few
exceptions is the work of </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">sociologists Amy J. Binder and Kate Wood, Becoming Right: How Campuses
Shape Young Conservatives, which provides a good introduction to several major conservative student
activist groups in the 2000s, including Young America’s Foundation, the Leadership Institute, and the </span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI</span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">).
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</font></span></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><b>Binder and Wood distinguish between the “populist” Leadership
Institute and Young America’s Foundation, which focus mainly on cultivating firebrand conservative
activists, and more “refined” and elitist organizations like ISI, although functionally these distinctions
can be blurred.
</b>Most of the detail from Wood and Binder’s book comes from college students, organizers for
conservative groups, and senior officials, all of whom emphasize the importance of financing. Groups
like Young America’s Foundation and the Leadership Institute essentially function as conduits for
conservative foundation money to be distributed to campus activists. </span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">In 2014 alone Young America’s
Foundation controlled more than $59 million in assets and distributed nearly $23 million in funds.</span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">60 </span></font></div><div style=""><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></span></div><div style=""><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Its
major donors include the Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation (Richard’s daughter-in-law, Betsy, is the
current secretary of education in the Trump administration), Charles and David Koch, the Bradley
Foundation, and the Olin family (distinct from the Olin Foundation, which closed its doors in 2005</b>).61 </font></span></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Young </span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">America’s </span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Foundation often supports campus activists by underwriting the speaking fees,
transport, and hotel costs of conservative and/or pro–free market speakers <b>on campus, and by
subsidizing conferences and networking opportunities for conservative campus activists.62 </b></span></font></div><div style=""><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></b></span></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The
Leadership Institute has a similar mission and similar funding sources, and actively seeks to support
conservative campus-based groups and, above all, campus publications.</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"> Alumni of conservative campus
newspapers who have gone on to prominent positions in conservative and mainstream media </span></span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">include
New York Times opinion columnist Ross Douthat (Harvard Salient), National Review writers Rich Lowry </span></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(Virginia Advocate), Jay Nordlinger (Harvard Salient), and Ramesh Ponnuru (Princeton Tory), syndicated
columnist and far-right political figure Ann Coulter (Cornell Review),</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"> talk show host Laura Ingraham
(Dartmouth Review</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">), </span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Washington Free Beacon editor-in-chief Matthew Continetti</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (Columbia Daily
Spectator), QVC network president Michael George (Northwestern Review), and </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Silicon Valley tycoon
Peter Thiel (Stanford Review</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">).</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">63</span></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></span></div><div style=""><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Binder and Wood quote a pseudonymous student at a satellite campus
of a land-grant university in the western United States, who told them that “[Leadership Institute]
contacted him out of the blue [and] immediately offered him $750 for use on his newspaper.”64</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">
It should also be noted that Young America’s Foundation and Leadership Institute alumni have gone
on to prominent positions in the American Right in the 2010s, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">including White House advisor and
architect of the Trump administration’s draconian immigration policy</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> Stephen Miller (Young America’s
Foundation) </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and media provocateur James O’Keefe (Leadership Institute).
65 </span></font></span></div><div style=""><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></span></span></div><div style=""><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This poses another
counterfactual: would a similar conservative leadership cadre have developed absent support from
organizations like Young America’s Foundation and the Leadership Institute? Ultimately, it seems
unlikely that conservative organizations operating independently on college campuses without any kind
of overarching political and financial coordination would have developed such a wide-ranging and
politically disciplined leadership class.
For instance, the broad support that conservative philanthropy has provided to conservative
firebrand Dinesh D’Souza, now a bestselling author, suggests that a vibrant conservative ecosystem,
both on and off campus, is crucial for cultivating conservative leaders. The Olin Foundation and the
Institute for Educational Affairs first supported D’Souza through his right-wing campus newspaper,
Dartmouth Review, in the early 1980s. After graduating from Dartmouth, D’Souza secured a John M.
Olin Fellowship at the American Enterprise Institute, where he helped popularize the phrase “political
correctness” to decry early 1990s campus culture. It seems fair to say that D’Souza owes much of his
success to Olin, which can likely be said for many lesser-known conservative thinkers and writers who
have reliably promoted free enterprise and pro-capitalist views.66 </font></span></span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">notes: 54Maxine Joselow, “Is George Mason the New Trump U?” E&E News, July 17, 2018, https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060089361; “Tracking Deregulation in the Trump Era,” Brookings Institution, January 16, 2019, https://www.brookings.edu/interactives/tracking-deregulation-in-the-trumpera/. 55 There are three scholarly treatments of Young Americans for Freedom by historians. These are Gregory L. Schneider’s Cadres for Conservatism: Young Americans for Freedom and the Rise of the Contemporary Right (New York: New York University Press, 1999), John A. Andrew’s The Other Side of the Sixties: Young Americans for Freedom and the Rise of Conservative Politics (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1997), and sociologist Rebecca E. Klatch’s A Generation Divided: The New Left, the New Right, and the 1960s (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999). There are also a handful of accounts from conservative pundits involved in Young Americans for Freedom, notably William F. Buckley Jr.’s Flying High: Remembering Barry Goldwater (New York: Basic Books, 2008) and Wayne J. Thorburn’s (former executive director of Young Americans for Freedom) A Generation Awakes: Young Americans for Freedom and the Creation of the Conservative Movement (Ottawa, IL: Jameson Books, 2010). ]]</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>It should also be noted that Young America’s Foundation and<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Leadership Institute </span>alumni have gone on to prominent positions in the American Right in the 2010s, </b>including White House advisor and architect of the Trump administration’s draconian immigration policy Stephen Miller (Young America’s Foundation) and media provocateur James O’Keefe (Leadership Institute). 65 </font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This poses another counterfactual: would a similar conservative leadership cadre have developed absent support from organizations like Young America’s Foundation and the Leadership Institute? Ultimately, it seems unlikely that conservative organizations operating independently on college campuses without any kind of overarching political and financial coordination would have developed such a wide-ranging and politically disciplined leadership class. For instance, the broad support that conservative philanthropy has provided to conservative firebrand Dinesh D’Souza, now a bestselling author, suggests that a vibrant conservative ecosystem, both on and off campus, is crucial for cultivating conservative leaders. The Olin Foundation and the Institute for Educational Affairs first supported D’Souza through his right-wing campus newspaper, Dartmouth Review, in the early 1980s. After graduating from Dartmouth, D’Souza secured a John M. Olin Fellowship at the American Enterprise Institute, where he helped popularize the phrase “political correctness” to decry early 1990s campus culture. It seems fair to say that D’Souza owes much of his success to Olin, which can likely be said for many lesser-known conservative thinkers and writers who have reliably promoted free enterprise and procapitalist views.66</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A survey of the literature on conservative philanthropy in higher education yields the following key themes: The importance of dense networks to achieve immediate and long-term goals. Michael Joyce, a senior official at the Olin Foundation and later the head of the Bradley Foundation, called this the “wine collection” effect; I refer to it as the career pipeline. This pipeline is a way for foundations to invest in conservative figures when they are students or scholars, who mature and eventually contribute to rightwing politics off campus.67 </font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This was the Olin Foundation’s stated goal when it supported writers and activists like Dinesh D’Souza. But it was also a goal of institution-building on college campuses. Multiple foundations funded overlapping efforts at colleges and universities across the United States to establish centers for right-wing thought, and those efforts operated cumulatively over time. The creation of a center of conservative economic thought at the University of Chicago allowed for future successes; even failed attempts like Manne’s entrepreneurship at Rochester and Emory reaped results under different circumstances at George Mason. </font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The establishment of conservative student groups, from the Federalist Society to undergraduate conservative newspapers, provided a <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">pipeline of talent</span> to these institutions and, in the case of the Federalist Society, eventually provided financial support</b>. Identifying faculty organizational entrepreneurs and sympathetic administrators. From an operational standpoint, this was a critical component of the eventual establishment of conservative centers on campus.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> When any of the three ingredients <b>(dense networks of donors, dedicated organizational entrepreneurs among faculty, and a sympathetic administration) </b>were lacking—as at the University of Rochester in the 1960s and Emory University in the 1980s—the institution-building efforts failed. </span></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">When those three ingredients were present, as they were at Harvard in the late 1980s and George Mason University since the 1970s, the transformations could be profound.</span> The Koch network at George Mason would never have been as successful as it has been without the collaboration of faculty and administrators. A corollary to this is the importance of overcoming institutional resistance. There has been tremendous resistance in the academy to right-wing philanthropy. Three of the right-wing efforts discussed in this review—at the University of Chicago in the 1940s, the University of Rochester in the 1960s, and Emory University in the 1980s—were unsuccessful because of faculty or administration resistance; the successes were possible when support from faculty and, above all, administration was forthcoming. </font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">March 2, eugenicist Charles Murray attempted to give a lecture at Middlebury College in Vermont, with little success. Protesters</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2017/03/04/a-conservative-author-tried-to-speak-at-a-liberal-college-he-left-fleeing-an-angry-mob/?postshare%3D2181488653592564%26tid%3Dss_tw%26utm_term%3D.86ad3ce114b4&source=gmail&ust=1492631029766000&usg=AFQjCNGPO74F6HMZwpxZkLSJlhlv9xNxoQ" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2017/03/04/a-conservative-author-tried-to-speak-at-a-liberal-college-he-left-fleeing-an-angry-mob/?postshare=2181488653592564&tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.86ad3ce114b4" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">shouted him down</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and he was sequestered in another room to answer questions over a livestream. Afterwards, Murray left the campus, but not before protesters blocked his car and injured a professor.</span></font></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Labeled a <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/charles-murray&source=gmail&ust=1492631029766000&usg=AFQjCNF1BCGsVA7-yb1vaNsu5szuTPIG8g" href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/charles-murray" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">white nationalist</a> by the Southern Poverty Law Center, Murray is the author of the 1994 book <em>The Bell Curve</em>, in which he argues that inequalities of race, gender and income exist because white men are smarter and genetically superior to black people, Latinos, women and the poor. Numerous academics have panned the book for its faulty reasoning and unprovable points.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So why is someone with such fringe ideas invited to speak on college campuses, and who pays for it? It’s unlikely that many university departments would invite such an obviously racist and discredited figure. While co-presenting the Murray talk, the political science department did not invite Murray, nor did it contribute any funding for the event. The Middlebury student chapter of a far-right libertarian think tank, the American Enterprise Institute, asked him to speak, and AEI picked up the tab.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Murray is not the only controversial guest making the college circuit on a think tank’s dime. Another conservative nonprofit, Young America’s Foundation, also establishes student chapters at numerous universities and sends bigoted scholars and lecturers including Ann Coulter, David Horowitz and Ted Nugent to speak at their campus events free of charge. Bankrolling these nonprofits are conservative mega-donors including Charles and David Koch and the DeVos family, who by funding the organizations enable hate speech at institutions of higher education.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In addition, a production company connected to the right-wing billionaire Mercer family facilitated at least one college speaking gig of Milo Yiannopoulos, the former Breitbart News editor known for his racist, sexist, Islamophobic and anti-transgender vitriol.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sending Murray to colleges</font></strong></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Murray has been a <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.aei.org/scholar/charles-murray/&source=gmail&ust=1492631029767000&usg=AFQjCNFyucJuLDh3CBwTJF2y2ccpMrwqmg" href="https://www.aei.org/scholar/charles-murray/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">scholar at AEI</a> since 1990, four years before <em>The Bell Curve</em> was published. In 2013, AEI founded its college chapter program, and now there are “<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.aei.org/academic-programs/executive-councils/&source=gmail&ust=1492631029767000&usg=AFQjCNH4hS4eSMXM0hKIsvBZiuY_nwx8bg" href="https://www.aei.org/academic-programs/executive-councils/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">executive councils</a>” at more than 80 colleges and universities. At a leadership training program available to executive council members this summer, Murray is teaching a <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.aei.org/spotlight/summer-honors-program/&source=gmail&ust=1492631029767000&usg=AFQjCNFqNbGHnyVtGlGl4R5tVXwcA8LBcg" href="https://www.aei.org/spotlight/summer-honors-program/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">course</a> called “The Building Blocks of Human Flourishing.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Murray is a frequent invitee of AEI campus groups. He’s now touring the country to talk about his 2012 book on the "state of white America” and gave talks at Duke University, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://thebaffler.com/this-american-carnage/charles-murray-white-supremacists-gais&source=gmail&ust=1492631029767000&usg=AFQjCNHr104MzSAr3e4UblTO_Ga_Ojnymg" href="https://thebaffler.com/this-american-carnage/charles-murray-white-supremacists-gais" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Columbia</a>, NYU, the University of Notre Dame and Villanova University in late March.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Regarding the recent Murray talk at Middlebury, AEI Executive Council member Alexander Khan <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2017/03/04/a-conservative-author-tried-to-speak-at-a-liberal-college-he-left-fleeing-an-angry-mob/?utm_term%3D.31633d139ec8&source=gmail&ust=1492631029767000&usg=AFQjCNGI1aI5K6vs_mxpVN7y7070qk1K_A" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2017/03/04/a-conservative-author-tried-to-speak-at-a-liberal-college-he-left-fleeing-an-angry-mob/?utm_term=.31633d139ec8" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">told</a> the Washington Post, “Our goal was not to create a controversy, but to start a discussion and a dialogue.” Khan did not return requests for comment.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dissenters see things differently. Nearly 500 Middlebury alumni wrote a <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://middleburycampus.com/article/charles-murray-at-middlebury-unacceptable-and-unethical-say-over-450-alumni/&source=gmail&ust=1492631029767000&usg=AFQjCNFrzX5H5qKST5WmF4Q2xir36g2tsA" href="https://middleburycampus.com/article/charles-murray-at-middlebury-unacceptable-and-unethical-say-over-450-alumni/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">letter</a> to the college preceding Murray’s attempted talk, saying that traditional free speech arguments fall flat in justifying his appearance. Murray’s shoddy theories are “the same thinking that motivates eugenics and the genocidal white supremacist ideologies which are enjoying a popular resurgence under the new presidential administration.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">AEI declined to comment for this story, but other <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2013/10/students-walk-out-murray-talk&source=gmail&ust=1492631029767000&usg=AFQjCNFC1GMK-TnP1RLJIpSpq_RnPamvOA" href="http://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2013/10/students-walk-out-murray-talk" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">reports</a> claim that in sponsoring Murray’s talk, the nonprofit is paying Murray’s speaker fee directly.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">AEI gets most of its <b>funding from the foundations of wealthy conservatives </b>and a pass-through group meant to shield the identity of these very donors. Donors Capital Fund, to which conservative mega-donors such as the Koch, DeVos and Bradley families donate, is AEI’s biggest funder at nearly $23 million through 2014, according to ConservativeTransparency.org. The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, a major funder of many conservative groups, is close behind, and foundations run by Charles Koch and Richard and Helen DeVos, the parents of Education Sec. Betsy DeVos, have given more than $1 million each to AEI.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Piling on the hate speech:</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Young America’s Foundation</span></font></strong></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A similarly funded and probably even more conservative nonprofit, Young America’s Foundation, works to direct “public education on the ideas of individual freedom, a strong national defense, free enterprise [and] traditional values and leadership,” according to its most recent publicly available tax form. YAF spent roughly half of its 2015 budget of $17.7 million on conference and lecture programs including “lectures on college campuses” and student chapters.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Just like AEI, YAF has student chapters at colleges and universities around the nation. These “Young Americans for Freedom” chapters, which now exist at numerous institutions of higher learning as well as at high schools, can seek “<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://students.yaf.org/young-americans-for-freedom/start-a-chapter/&source=gmail&ust=1492631029767000&usg=AFQjCNGRx7Vk4MXVEbhWBeJpFsm2UjZ81w" href="http://students.yaf.org/young-americans-for-freedom/start-a-chapter/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">logistical and financial assistance</a> [from YAF] to host a big-name conservative speaker.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Radical feminists, big government bureaucrats, fringe environmentalists, race-baiters, Islamo-fascists, and run of the mill leftists are distraught that [YAF chapters] would even think about promoting conservative ideas,” the website <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://students.yaf.org/young-americans-for-freedom/start-a-chapter/&source=gmail&ust=1492631029767000&usg=AFQjCNGRx7Vk4MXVEbhWBeJpFsm2UjZ81w" href="http://students.yaf.org/young-americans-for-freedom/start-a-chapter/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">states</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">YAF’s roster of more than 90 speakers features several notable bigots including Coulter, Horowitz and Nugent. YAF farms out its speakers at a quick pace, with roughly one event per day during the final three weeks of April.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Some campuses are having quite the year. For example, after a Yiannopoulos event that was canceled because a protest got out of hand, UCBerkeley had noted Islamophobe Horowitz speak on April 12 and will host Coulter on April 27.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“We know who the homicidal maniacs are. They are the ones cheering and dancing right now. We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity,” <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://web.archive.org/web/20010914225811/http://www.nationalreview.com/coulter/coulter091301.shtml&source=gmail&ust=1492631029767000&usg=AFQjCNG1wj7fWtz1YZz7KSU8Af1QeQ1XNQ" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20010914225811/http://www.nationalreview.com/coulter/coulter091301.shtml" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">wrote</a> Coulter in the National Review shortly after the 9/11 attacks, referring to allies of the 9/11 terrorists. An alumna of the YAF National Journalism Center’s internship program, she often makes headlines for her outrageous racist and anti-Muslim statements and regularly <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.vdare.com/users/ann-coulter&source=gmail&ust=1492631029767000&usg=AFQjCNFWA5RA2lmz--rtml33eWqMP27b1w" href="http://www.vdare.com/users/ann-coulter" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">writes</a> for the white nationalist website VDARE.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">YAF is providing “a large portion of the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.yaf.org/news/yaf-statement-ann-coulters-lecture-berkeley/&source=gmail&ust=1492631029767000&usg=AFQjCNHFoNGSH0hCT3KElqMZZKOFrw9_YQ" href="http://www.yaf.org/news/yaf-statement-ann-coulters-lecture-berkeley/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">funding</a> to bring <b>Coulter to Berkeley” </b>as well as “logistical support before the event as well as on-the-ground support from experienced staff.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Horowitz is a former leftist who took a hard-right turn decades ago and has now earned the titles of “anti-immigrant” and “<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/david-horowitz&source=gmail&ust=1492631029767000&usg=AFQjCNGfWae1TtDw8Spp_KnB12Mr01Ru_A" href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/david-horowitz" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">anti-Muslim extremist</a>” from the Southern Poverty Law Center. He runs the David Horowitz Freedom Center, which the SPLC calls “the premier financier of anti-Muslim voices and radical ideologies.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Somewhere between 150 million and 750 million Muslims support a holy war against Christians, Jews, and other Muslims who don’t happen to believe in the Quran according to Bin Laden,” Horowitz erroneously <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.splcenter.org/20161025/journalists-manual-field-guide-anti-muslim-extremists%23horowitz&source=gmail&ust=1492631029767000&usg=AFQjCNFliKD2TocaGj192Z2Wq7m2Hx2ueg" href="https://www.splcenter.org/20161025/journalists-manual-field-guide-anti-muslim-extremists#horowitz" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">claimed</a> in 2007.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Among the particularly bigoted YAF speakers is anti-Muslim extremist <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/robert-spencer&source=gmail&ust=1492631029767000&usg=AFQjCNEZsfAuWB-OWC7VN6S6G3PJzDkBQ" href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/robert-spencer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Robert Spencer</a>, who runs the hate site Jihad Watch, a project of the David Horowitz Freedom Center. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He has </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.splcenter.org/20161025/journalists-manual-field-guide-anti-muslim-extremists%23spencer&source=gmail&ust=1492631029767000&usg=AFQjCNEsNX81bKzObrrJKdqY3SJ8QM1dvw" href="https://www.splcenter.org/20161025/journalists-manual-field-guide-anti-muslim-extremists#spencer" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">said</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, “[T]raditional Islam itself is not moderate or peaceful. It is the only major world religion with a developed doctrine and tradition of warfare against unbelievers.”</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">YAF speaker Matt Walsh, an anti-LGBTQ “Christian columnist and political incendiary” for Glenn Beck’s The Blaze, has called transgender people mentally ill and perverted and written that “‘transgender’ propaganda is wrong…demented…evil...dangerous [and] abusive.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Also on the YAF roster is musician and activist Ted Nugent, whose racist comments know no bounds. In 2014, he called the 44th president “a Chicago communist-raised, communist-educated, communist-nurtured subhuman mongrel [and] ACORN community organizer gangster.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">It’s not just the YAF speakers who have racist and white nationalist leanings. Current YAF president Ron Robinson and board member James B. Taylor ran a now-inactive political action committee called <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?cycle%3D2004%26strID%3DC00184143&source=gmail&ust=1492631029768000&usg=AFQjCNEIFmFfyrAFw1atrXenxqm4A_fTtg" href="https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?cycle=2004&strID=C00184143" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">America’s PAC</a>, which <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/01/ron-robinson-james-b-taylor-young-americas-foundation-white-nationalists&source=gmail&ust=1492631029768000&usg=AFQjCNG-i7ofSmzfWCPBkglg0OysbsHbYA" href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/01/ron-robinson-james-b-taylor-young-americas-foundation-white-nationalists" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">donated</a> to the white nationalist Martel Society and consistently contributed to the campaigns of Iowa Republican Rep. Steve King, a white nationalist who has recently <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/03/steve-kings-white-nationalism-is-echoed-in-the-whi.html&source=gmail&ust=1492631029768000&usg=AFQjCNEeWvbadCrFP60NtyQloQF9-1Spdw" href="https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/03/steve-kings-white-nationalism-is-echoed-in-the-whi.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">cheered</a> far-right European nationalists. Taylor is also former president of the National Policy Institute, which is now run by noted neo-Nazi and “alt-right” leader Richard Spencer.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>YAF founded the Conservative Political Action Conference,</b> a major right-wing event that occurs every year. CPAC rescinded its invitation to 2017 keynote speaker Yiannopoulos after videos in which he defends pedophilia surfaced, although his long record of racist, sexist and xenophobic rants was apparently not a problem.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation is by far the biggest donor to YAF, and the Donors Capital Fund and its affiliate, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.publicintegrity.org/2013/02/14/12181/donors-use-charity-push-free-market-policies-states&source=gmail&ust=1492631029768000&usg=AFQjCNFKeTjeRZlhrHnqbmTIGTe2SprJ6w" href="https://www.publicintegrity.org/2013/02/14/12181/donors-use-charity-push-free-market-policies-states" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Donors Trust</a>, are also big <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://conservativetransparency.org/top/adv/?recipient%255B%255D%3D899%26yr%3D%26yr1%3D%26yr2%3D%26submit%3D&source=gmail&ust=1492631029768000&usg=AFQjCNEeBCkTgPvgHPeikJNEd9VNOp6DaA" href="http://conservativetransparency.org/top/adv/?recipient%5B%5D=899&yr=&yr1=&yr2=&submit=" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">contributors</a>. The Bradley Foundation, three Koch family foundations and a foundation of the wealthy Mercer family have also given large donations.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">YAF did not return a request for comment.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">An ‘alt-right’ provocateur on campus</font></strong></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">When</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Yiannopoulos,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> known for his wide-ranging hate speech, spoke at the University of Washington, the College Republicans group that had invited him had to raise money to cover increased security, as Yiannopoulos’ events often attract large protests. The student group raised over $12,000 from a </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.gofundme.com/help-bring-milo-to-the-uw&source=gmail&ust=1492631029768000&usg=AFQjCNEQGWba2DjU1qjDTPvw1oHb9J08jw" href="https://www.gofundme.com/help-bring-milo-to-the-uw" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">GoFundMe campaign</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> organized by its president, and the event got the green light.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Yiannopoulos charged no speaking fee. A <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2017/mar/24/mercer-milo-tour/?utm_content%3Dbuffered50a%26utm_medium%3Dsocial%26utm_source%3Dtwitter.com%26utm_campaign%3Dbuffer&source=gmail&ust=1492631029768000&usg=AFQjCNF42YNyplWG3yMubnGF6QQEtkSFmw" href="https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2017/mar/24/mercer-milo-tour/?utm_content=buffered50a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">performance agreement</a> obtained by MuckRock shows that <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/15/was-steve-bannon-donald-trump-s-attack-dog-paid-illegally.html&source=gmail&ust=1492631029768000&usg=AFQjCNFZDzfxqZlMGKAUW7npE2beDqM0sw" href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/15/was-steve-bannon-donald-trump-s-attack-dog-paid-illegally.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Glittering Steel</a>, the production company owned by white nationalist Trump adviser Steve Bannon and connected to the conservative Mercer family, wrote the contract</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. Yiannopoulos told AlterNet his speaking fee was $0 “on every stop of the Dangerous Faggot Tour.” He did not directly answer questions about whether a private citizen or company paid his speaking fees behind the scenes and how exactly Glittering Steel was involved.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Make America Number 1,” the super PAC of billionaire investor <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/27/the-reclusive-hedge-fund-tycoon-behind-the-trump-presidency&source=gmail&ust=1492631029768000&usg=AFQjCNESaj0GOYJoaFrCX91qKf_1OcEJ4w" href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/27/the-reclusive-hedge-fund-tycoon-behind-the-trump-presidency" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Robert Mercer</a>, paid Glittering Steel nearly $1 million last year.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Mercer is a part owner of Breitbart News, which Bannon ran for four years before joining the Trump campaign last August. The hedge fund magnate was a big part of Trump’s victory, and his daughter Rebekah was on the Trump transition team.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Yiannopoulos’ Berkeley event was <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/265678/berkeley-riots-provoked-freedom-center-campaign-matthew-vadum&source=gmail&ust=1492631029768000&usg=AFQjCNE6wXRlmABP_uNEBuRXhPwu-iD3vQ" href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/265678/berkeley-riots-provoked-freedom-center-campaign-matthew-vadum" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">sponsored</a> by the David Horowitz Freedom Center, according to Horowitz’s online magazine, and was set to launch a joint <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/265620/freedom-center-campaign-will-oppose-sanctuary-nosanctuarycampusorg&source=gmail&ust=1492631029768000&usg=AFQjCNFRyYlA3OQtJhJ-lhDYdATRSnigmQ" href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/265620/freedom-center-campaign-will-oppose-sanctuary-nosanctuarycampusorg" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">campaign</a> against sanctuary campuses. The Berkeley College Republicans had to provide more than $6,000 for increased security. An “<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.dailycal.org/2017/02/02/berkeley-college-republicans-no-longer-required-pay-security-fee-yiannopoulos-event/&source=gmail&ust=1492631029768000&usg=AFQjCNFb7OnRsHSddh6r84fwDDw1f6_Ldw" href="http://www.dailycal.org/2017/02/02/berkeley-college-republicans-no-longer-required-pay-security-fee-yiannopoulos-event/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">anonymous donor</a>” took care of part of that fee “with two conditions: that he remain anonymous and that the event occur.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Freedom Center did not respond to a request for comment.</font></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></span></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Critical members of the campaign have long and rich histories with Young America’s Foundation, pouring efforts into our conservative youth movement for decades prior to this cycle.</span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"> Key Foundation allies involved with the campaign include <span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 800; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Kellyanne Conway</span>, who has served as the Foundation’s pollster for many years, <span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 800; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Steve Bannon</span>, who has collaborated with the Foundation to create a number of powerful films, Vice President-elect <span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 800; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Mike Pence</span>, a frequent speaker at Foundation conferences and events,<b> Reagan Ranch Board of Governors </b>member <span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 800; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Rebekah Mercer</span>, and <span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 800; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">David Bossie</span>, an alumnus of Foundation programs.</span></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></span></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</span></font></div><div><p style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 15.8667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b><span style="border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline;">Ron Robinson</span></b></font></p><p style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 15.8667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Like so many of his cohorts, Ron Robinson is a Reaganite. He served as an advisor to the United States Department of Education during the Reagan Administration and holds Reagan in the highest regard. Currently, he serves as Director for Citizens United, and has been the President of the Young Americans Foundation for over thirty years.</font></p><p style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 15.8667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><i>Time Magazine </i>referred to Robinson as “one of the seasoned generals of the right,” who is leading the “diverse and well-funded” generation of conservatives who are “winning battles on campus.”</font></p><p style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 15.8667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">He is the co-author of <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“<i>Funding Fathers: The Unsung Heroes of the Conservative Movement, </i>Published, of course, by the right-wing<b> Regnery</b> </span>Publishing Company.</font></p><p style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 15.8667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Not surprisingly, Robinson served as a Trustee at the Philadelphia Society, a membership only organization that has had considerable influence over the Conservative Movement in this country. He currently serves as a Trustee for the Phillips Foundation, a group that advances Constitutional principles and American Values. The Phillips Foundation awards the annual Reagan Scholarship. Additionally, he is the Vice President of the Free Speech Defense and Education Fund. The FSDEF is noted for its assistance to the Christian Action Network.</font></p><p style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 15.8667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Robinson is married to Michelle Easton who is the founder and president of the <b>Clare Booth Luce Policy Institute, a right-wing think tank that seeks to advance <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">women</span> through conservative ideas.</b></font></p><p style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 15.8667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Robinson has all of the credentials and contacts that make him a valuable asset to Citizens United.</font></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</span></font></div><div><span style="line-height: 14px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">crnc scammed sr citizens with scary direct mail: Response Dynamics:</font></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 14px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div class="medtext longop" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Searching on Response Dynamics also led to the website of another <b>direct-mail solicitation firm, Hogan, Schenk, & Paul,</b> whose founder Amy Paul is described as having previously worked for both <b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Response Dynamics, Inc. and Bruce W. Eberle & Associates. In the sidebar is an endorsement of Paul and her partners by a man named Ron Robinson, who is associated with Floyd Brown, producer of the Willie Horton ad. Robinson is director of Citizens United</b>, of which Brown is chairman, and is president of Young America's Foundation, of which Brown is executive director.</font></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></span></font></div><div><div id="mw-content-text" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; line-height: 19.2px;" lang="en"><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Ronald E. (Ron) Robinson</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> has been the</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> president of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Young_America%E2%80%99s_Foundation" title="Young America’s Foundation" class="mw-redirect" style="background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-size: initial; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Young America’s Foundation</a> for over thirty years </span><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ron_Robinson#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">[1]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. He is also a director and founding member of</span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Citizens_United" title="Citizens United" style="background: none 0% 0% repeat scroll transparent; text-decoration: none;">Citizens United</a><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ron_Robinson#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">[2]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and a director of the </span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Conservative_Union" title="American Conservative Union" style="background: none 0% 0% repeat scroll transparent; text-decoration: none;">American Conservative Union</a><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ron_Robinson#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">[3]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. Most recently, Mr. Robinson has become a board member of the new conservative investigative research organization, the</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Government_Accountability_Institute" title="Government Accountability Institute" style="background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-size: initial; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Government Accountability Institute</a></span><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ron_Robinson#cite_note-4" style="background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-size: initial; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">[4</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ron_Robinson#cite_note-4" style="background: none 0% 0% repeat scroll transparent; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></font></p><hr style="background-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); height: 1px; border: 0px none; margin: 0.2em 0px;" /><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://conservative.org/about-acu/board-of-directors/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: transparent url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" scroll="scroll" xmlns:data="data">"American Conservative Union: Board of Directors"</a>, organization website, accessed October 2012</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ron_Robinson#cite_ref-2" style="text-decoration: none; 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background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://conservative.org/about-acu/board-of-directors/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: transparent url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" scroll="scroll" xmlns:data="data">"American Conservative Union: Board of Directors"</a>, organization website, accessed October 2012</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ron_Robinson#cite_ref-4" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://g-a-i.org/team/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: transparent url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" scroll="scroll" xmlns:data="data">"g-a-i team"</a>, organizational website, accessed October 2012</span></font></li></ol><h3 style="background: none; 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Insight Magazine</em> reported that under Robinson’s leadership, “Young America’s Foundation is leading the conservative charge to win the hearts and minds of impressionable college-age students…Indeed, the <b>Foundation organizes so many programs on so many campuses that<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> it’s difficult to find a conservative activist younger than 30 who hasn’t had some contact with its activities.”</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Robinson has led the Foundation through two successful landmark Supreme Court victories for student rights,</b>
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Robinson is a native of Buffalo, New York. He received a bachelors of arts degree in political science at Canisius College and a<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> juris doctor degree at The Catholic University of America</span>. Robinson served as executive director of <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Young Americans for Freedom (1977-79), </span>president of the United States Youth Council (1983-85), and president of the<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> International Youth Year Commission (1983-84). He was an advisor to the U.S. Department of Education during the Reagan administration.</span> He is also co-author of Funding Fathers: The Unsung Heroes of the Conservative Movement (Regnery, 2008).
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Robinson served as a trustee of the <b>Philadelphia Society, is currently a trustee of The Phillips Foundation, a director of Citizens United and the Citizens United Foundation, a director of the American Conservative Union,</b> and he is the vice-president of the Free Speech Defense and Education Fund</span>. He also serves on the boards of the Strong Charitable Trust and the D.J. Findley Family Foundation.
Robinson is a member of the Virginia and U. S. Supreme Court Bars and resides with his wife, Michelle Easton, president of the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute, in Reston, Virginia.</font></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></span></font></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.yaf.org/KatieTaran.aspx" title="Katie Taran" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Katie Taran</a>, Director of Conferences</font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.yaf.org/savonia_vassel.aspx" title="Savonia Vassel" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Savonia Vassel</a>, Development Officer</font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://yaf.org/ashleyweaver.aspx" title="Ashley Weaver" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Ashley Weaver</a>, Director of Alumni Relations</font></li></ul><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 25.2934px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Reagan Ranch Staff</font></h2><ul style="margin: 0px 1.5em 1.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 18.0667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.yaf.org/AndrewCoffin.aspx" title="Andrew Coffin" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Andrew Coffin</a>, <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Vice President and Director of the Reagan Ranch</span></font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://yaf.org/BenAfshar.aspx" title="Ben Afshar" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Ben Afshar</a>, Development Officer </font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a title="Danielle Behler" href="http://yaf.org/DanielleBehler.aspx" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Danielle Behler</a>, Development Officer</font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://yaf.org/AmyBrooker.aspx" title="Amy Brooker" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Amy Brooker</a>, Assistant to the Director of the Reagan Ranch</font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.yaf.org/MarilynFisher.aspx" title="Marilyn Fisher" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Marilyn Fisher</a>, <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Ranch Curator</span></font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.yaf.org/BrentKilpper.aspx" title="Brent Kilpper" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Brent Kilpper</a>, <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Physical Resources Director</span></font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://yaf.org/BrendanPringle.aspx" title="Brendan Pringle" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Brendan Pringle</a>, Development Officer</font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://yaf.org/CarolineRushing.aspx" title="Caroline Rushing" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Caroline Corazza</a>, <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Development Officer</span></font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.yaf.org/GeorgeThompson.aspx" title="George Thompson" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">George Thompson</a>, <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Ranch Manager</span></font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a title="Ellen Withey" href="http://www.yaf.org/EllenWithey.aspx" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Ellen Withey</a>, Welcome Desk Officer</font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Katie Devlin, Sarah T. Hermann Intern Scholar</font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.yaf.org/JuliaDiBernardoNewSarahTHermannInternScholar.aspx" title="Julia DiBernardo" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Julia DiBernardo</a>, Sarah T. Hermann Intern Scholar</font></li></ul><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 25.2934px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">National Journalism Center</font></h2><ul style="margin: 0px 1.5em 1.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 18.0667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a title="Kirby Wilbur" href="http://yaf.org/KirbyWilbur.aspx" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Kirby Wilbur</a>, Executive Director</font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://yaf.org/HannahJackman.aspx" title="Hannah Jackman" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Hannah Jackman</a>, Program Director</font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://yaf.org/Emily_Hoosier.aspx" title="Emily Hoosier" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Emily Hoosier</a>, Program Officer</font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://yaf.org/StephenSmoot.aspx" title="Dr. Stephen Smoot" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Dr. Stephen Smoot</a>, Director of Academic Programs</font></span></li></ul><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 25.2934px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Board of Directors</font></h2><ul style="margin: 0px 1.5em 1.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 18.0667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.yaf.org/RonRobinson.aspx" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Ron Robinson</a>, President of the Board</font></span></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.yaf.org/RonaldPearson.aspx" title="Ronald Pearson" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Ronald Pearson</a>, Vice President of the Board</font></span></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.yaf.org/FrankDonatelli.aspx" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Frank Donatelli</a>, Secretary and Treasurer of the Board</font></span></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.yaf.org/KenCribb.aspx" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">T. Kenneth Cribb, Jr.</a></font></span></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://yaf.org/WyntonHall.aspx" title="Wynton Hall " style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Wynton C. Hall</a> </font></span></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.yaf.org/ThomasPhillips.aspx" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Thomas L. Phillips</a>, Director Emeritus</font></span></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.yaf.org/Peter-Schweizer.aspx" title="Peter Schweizer " style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Peter Schweizer </a></font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.yaf.org/JamesTaylor.aspx" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">James B. Taylor</a></font></b></span></li></ul><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 25.2934px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Reagan Ranch Board of Governors</font></h2><ul style="margin: 0px 1.5em 1.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 18.0667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.yaf.org/FrankDonatelli.aspx" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Frank Donatelli</a>, Chairman</font></span></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Attorney General <a href="http://www.yaf.org/EdwinMeese.aspx" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Edwin Meese</a>, Co-Chairman</font></span></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Robert F. Agostinelli</font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://yaf.org/GeorgeAllen.aspx" title="Governor George Allen" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Governor George Allen</a>, Reagan Ranch Presidential Scholar</font></span></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://yaf.org/JohnBarletta.aspx" title="John Barletta" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">John Barletta</a></font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Dr. Suzanne Becker</font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Lisa M. Buestrin</font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Robert Cummins</font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.yaf.org/BeckyNortonDunlop.aspx" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Becky Norton Dunlop</a></font></span></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Robert Giuffra, Jr.</font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.yaf.org/TimothyGoeglein.aspx" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Timothy S. Goeglein</a></font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Ambassador Patricia L. Herbold</font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Eric and <a href="http://www.yaf.org/NicoleHoplin.aspx" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Nicole Hoplin</a></font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Marty Irving</font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Harold Knapheide</font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://marklarson.com/biography.html" title="Mark Larson" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Mark Larson</a></font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Rebekah Mercer</font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Al Moore</font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Doug & Pat Perry</font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Thomas Phillips</font></span></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Rear Admiral JJ Quinn</font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Fred & Ruth Sacher</font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Richard & Jane Schwartz</font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.yaf.org/Craig_Shirley.aspx" title="Craig Shirley" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Craig Shirley</a></font></span></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Owen & Bernadette Casey Smith</font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Barbara S. Waddell</font></li></ul><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 25.2934px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>National Journalism Center</b> Board of Governors</font></h2><ul style="margin: 0px 1.5em 1.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 18.0667px;"><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">T. Kenneth Cribb, Chairman </font></span></li><li id="radETempNode" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.yaf.org/ThomasPhillips.aspx" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Thomas Phillips</a>, Chairman Emeritus</font></span></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Kellyanne Conway</b></font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">Rich Lowry</a></font></span></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Alex Marlow</font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Alex Mooney</font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Katie Pavlich</font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Ron Pearson</font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Matt Robinson</font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Tom Winter</font></li></ul><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 25.2934px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Young Americans for Freedom Board of Governors</font></h2><ul style="margin: 0px 1.5em 1.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 18.0667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Michael Jones, Chairman</font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Chris Bedford</font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Nathan Brand</font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Patrick X Coyle, Executive Director</font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Brad Marks</font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Samuel Settle</font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Tyler Trumbac</font></li></ul><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 18.0667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> --</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 18.0667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>T. Kenneth Cribb,</b> Jr., a native of South Carolina. He received a B.A. from Washington and Lee University and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 18.0667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Mr. Cribb was deputy to the chief counsel of the 1980 Reagan campaign. During the Reagan transition, he was deputy director of the Legal and Administrative Agencies Group, Office of the Executive Branch Management. He went on to serve the Reagan Administration for almost the entire eight years of its existence, beginning in 1981 as assistant director for the Office of Cabinet Affairs.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 18.0667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">He served next as assistant counselor to the President, in which capacity he assisted Counselor <b>Edwin Meese</b>. When Mr. Meese became Attorney General, Mr. Cribb accompanied him to the Justice Department where he became counselor to the Attorney General of the United States. In 1987, Mr. Cribb returned to the White House as assistant to the President for domestic affairs and served in this position until the fall of 1988.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 18.0667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">--</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 18.0667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong>Ronald Pearson</strong>, Vice President</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 18.0667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Ronald Pearson is president of Pearson & Pipkin, Inc., a<b> political management and government relations consulting firm,</b> and he also serves as vice president of Young America's Foundation's Board of Directors. Mr. Pearson also served as national treasurer of Young Americans for Freedom and was vice president of a major publishing company.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 18.0667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">He was born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and received a B.A. from Valparaiso University, an M.A. from the University of Notre Dame, and did postgraduate work at Brown University. Mr. Pearson was chief of staff to the late congressman John Ashbrook. He has been a consultant to many political campaigns and to the National Republican Senatorial Committee, as well as an expert consultant to various government bodies, including the Voice of America during the Reagan Administration.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 18.0667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">---</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 18.0667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Secretary/TReasurer</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 18.0667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">A long-time activist, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Frank Donatelli</span> is chairman of the Reagan Ranch Board of Governors and serves on Young America's Foundation's Board of Directors.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 18.0667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">He is also executive vice president and director of Federal Public Affairs for <b>McGuireWoods </b>Consulting and serves as counsel to McGuireWoods LLP. Frank is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh and the American University Law School.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 18.0667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">During the 2008 presidential race,<b> Senator John McCain tapped Frank to serve as deputy chairman of the GOP where he coordinated the RNC’s fundraising </b>and organizing activities directly with the McCain-Palin presidential campaign.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 18.0667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">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.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 18.0667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">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.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 18.0667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">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 <em>Washington Post</em>, the <em>Washington Times </em>and the <em>New York Daily News</em>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 18.0667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In 1992, Frank chaired the Christopher Columbus Quincentennery Commission which celebrated the 500<sup>th </sup>anniversary of Columbus’ arrival in the New World. In March 2009, he was elected chairman of<b> GOPAC</b>, a group that assists GOP “rising stars” running for state and local office.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 18.0667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">--</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 18.0667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong style="">T</strong><strong>homas L. Phillips</strong>
</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 18.0667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In January of 1974, Thomas L. Phillips launched Phillips International, Inc. with two newsletters, three employees and a $1,000 investment.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 18.0667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">From that entrepreneurial start-up, the company grew into one of the foremost print and on-line publishing firms in America with four subsidiaries and sales of more than $245 million. The firm produced widely respected newsletters and on-line information services for the consumer and business-to-business marketplaces. Tom sold the final Phillips International subsidiary in January of 2007.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 18.0667px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Tom is founder and chairman of</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> <a title="Eagle Publishing, Inc" href="http://www.eaglepub.com/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Eagle Publishing, Inc</a>.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, America’s leading source of books and periodicals with a conservative, free-enterprise focus. Headquartered on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., Eagle Publishing provides a full range of products and services with perspective and solutions favoring traditional values of free markets, limited government, and individual freedom.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 18.0667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Tom earned a <b>B.A. in political science from Dartmouth College and an M.A. in journalism from The American University.</b> He then held positions with two large national advertising agencies and a Washington, D.C., publishing firm.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 18.0667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Tom was a founding member of the Newsletter Publishers Association and served as president of the Association. In 989, he was honored as NPA "Publisher of the Year." In 1994, he was elected as the first member of the Newsletter Publishers Hall of Fame.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 18.0667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Tom is founder of <a title="The Phillips Foundation" href="http://www.thephillipsfoundation.org/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Phillips Foundation</a>, a non-profit organization which sponsors two noteworthy programs: an annual fellowship program for young print journalists who work on a one-year writing project of their choosing,focusing on journalism supportive of American culture and a free society; and the Ronald Reagan College Leaders Scholarship Program which provides scholarships to outstanding undergraduate student leaders in the cause of freedom, American values, and constitutional principles.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 18.0667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In addition to Tom’s service on the Board of Directors of Young America’s Foundation, he chairs the Board of Governors of the National Journalism Center and is also a member of the Reagan Ranch Board of Governors. He is a member of the Advisory Board of The Claremont Institute. Tom was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Fund for American Studies and chairman of the Board of Visitors for the Institute on Political Journalism. He served for many years on the Board of Junior Achievement of the National Capital Area and on the Board of the Boy Scouts of America National Capital Area Council.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 18.0667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">--</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 18.0667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b>Peter Schweizer </b>is the president of the <b>Government Accountability Institute, the William J. Casey Fellow at the </b></span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.hoover.org/" title="Hoover Institution" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b>Hoover Institution</b></a></span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b>,</b> Stanford University, a member of Young America’s Foundation’s Board of Directors, and a bestselling author.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 18.0667px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">His most recent book is </span><b>Throw Them All Out</b><em> </em><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011). It was the subject of a feature on CBS’ </span><em>60 Minutes</em></span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> and is widely credited with impacting the passage of the STOCK Act, legislation to ban congressional insider trading which was signed into law in April 2012 by President Obama</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. The book spent seven weeks on the </span></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">New York Times</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Bestseller list.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 18.0667px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">His other non-fiction books include </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Reagans-War-Forty-Year-Struggle-Communism/dp/0385722281/ref=sr_1_1_title_0_main?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1320856451&sr=1-1" title="Reagan’s War" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Reagan’s War</a></span></span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (Doubleday, 2002), which the </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Los Angeles </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Times called “a rousing and compelling case that Reagan’s personal and political odyssey…was central to bringing down the ‘evil empire.” He is also the co-author of </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Bushes-Portrait-Dynasty-Peter-Schweizer/dp/0385498640/ref=sr_1_1_title_0_main?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1320856538&sr=1-1" title="The Bushes: Portrait of a Dynasty" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Bushes</a></span></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Bushes-Portrait-Dynasty-Peter-Schweizer/dp/0385498640/ref=sr_1_1_title_0_main?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1320856538&sr=1-1" title="The Bushes: Portrait of a Dynasty" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">: Portrait of a Dynasty</a> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(Doubleday, 2004), </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Architects-Ruin-government-liberals-economy/dp/B003IWYGUC/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_1" title="Architects of Ruin " style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Architects of Ruin</a></span></span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Architects-Ruin-government-liberals-economy/dp/B003IWYGUC/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_1" title="Architects of Ruin " style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </a>(Harper, 2009), </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Victory-Administrations-Strategy-Hastened-Collapse/dp/0871136333/ref=pd_sim_b_2" title="Victory " style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Victory</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></a><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Atlantic Monthly </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Press, 1994), </span></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Do-As-Say-Not-Hypocrisy/dp/0767919025/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b" title="Do As I Say (Not As I Do) " style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Do As I Say (Not As I Do)</a></span></span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Do-As-Say-Not-Hypocrisy/dp/0767919025/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b" title="Do As I Say (Not As I Do) " style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </a>(Doubleday, 2005), and </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Makers-Takers-conservatives-generously-materialistic/dp/038551350X/ref=pd_sim_b_2" title="Makers and Takers" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Makers and Takers</a></span></span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (Doubleday, 2008).</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 18.0667px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">His academic books </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">include </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Landmark-Speeches-American-Conservative-Movement/dp/1585445983/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1320856654&sr=1-1" title="Landmark Speeches of the American Conservative Movement" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Landmark Speeches of the American Conservative Movement</a></span></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(Texas A&M University Press, 2006), </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Reagan-Presidency-Assessing-Man-Legacy/dp/0742534154/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1320856698&sr=1-1" title="The Reagan Presidency: Assessing the Man and His Legacy" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Reagan Presidency: Assessing the Man and His Legacy</a></span></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Rowman and Littlefield, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">2005), and </span></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Fall-Berlin-Wall-Reassessing-Consequences/dp/0817998225/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1320856016&sr=1-1" title="The Fall of The Wall: Reassessing the Causes and Consequences of the End of the Cold War" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Fall of The Wall: Reassessing the Causes and Consequences of the End of the Cold War</a></span></span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">(Hoover Institution Press, 2000</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">). He was also a contributor to </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Living in the Eighties</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(Oxford University Press, 2008).</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 18.0667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">His articles have appeared in </span>Foreign Affairs, New York Times, <b style="">Wall Street Journal,</b> Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, <b style="">National Review</b><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b>,</b> and elsewhere. He has appeared on numerous radio and television programs.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 18.0667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Peter received his M.Phil. from Oxford University and his B.A. from The George Washington University. He lives in Florida with his wife and children.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 18.0667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 18.0667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 18.0667px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>James B. Taylor </b>is chairman of World Youth Crusade and former executive director and chief of staff of Young America's Foundation.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 18.0667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Mr. Taylor was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and is a graduate of Swarthmore College. As an Air Force intelligence specialist, he was assigned to study Mandarin language and culture at Yale University's Institute of Far Eastern Languages. He saw duty in the Far East in Okinawa and Vietnam.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 18.0667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 18.0667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Before coming to Young America's Foundation, Mr. Taylor was eastern director of the <b>Intercollegiate Studies Institute, public relations director for the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation</b>, and assistant to the president of the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge.</font></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></span></font></div></div></div></div>