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TOWSON,MD 21286</font></td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: middle;" /><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">3/30/2016</font></td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$37,810</font></td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fund for Louisiana's Future</font></td></tr><tr class="item_odd" style="background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239);"><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">MENTZER MEDIA SERVICES, INC
TOWSON,MD 21286</font></td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: middle;" /><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">4/20/2015</font></td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$-13,850</font></td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">American Future Fund</font></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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In fact, we can tell you just how well certain media companies, consultants, pollsters and others in the “election-industrial complex” are doing. In the 2014…</p><div class="news_readmore" style="text-align: right; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px;"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2015/02/opensecrets-org-unveils-new-section-on-expenditures/" style="color: rgb(62, 114, 181); text-decoration: none;">Read more...</a></div></div><div class="news_item" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><h2 class="news_head" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 15px 0px 5px; color: rgb(152, 4, 46); clear: left;"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2013/12/american-future-fund-draws-nearly-all-revenues-from-two-koch-linked-groups/" style="color: rgb(62, 114, 181); text-decoration: none;">American Future Fund Draws Nearly All Revenues From Two Koch-Linked Groups</a></h2><p style="padding: 5px 0px;"><span class="news_date" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-weight: bold;">December 9, 2013</span> | American Future Fund's money in 2012 came almost exclusively from the Center to Protect Patient Rights and Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce -- two organizations that have been linked to the Koch brothers.</p><div class="news_readmore" style="text-align: right; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px;"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2013/12/american-future-fund-draws-nearly-all-revenues-from-two-koch-linked-groups/" style="color: rgb(62, 114, 181); text-decoration: none;">Read more...</a></div></div><div class="news_item" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><h2 class="news_head" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 15px 0px 5px; color: rgb(152, 4, 46); clear: left;"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2013/04/shadow-money-magic-five-easy-steps-1/" style="color: rgb(62, 114, 181); text-decoration: none;">Shadow Money Magic: Five Easy Steps That Let You Play Big in Politics, Hide Your Donors and Game the IRS – Step 2</a></h2><p style="padding: 5px 0px;"><span class="news_date" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-weight: bold;">April 16, 2013</span> | The IRS and the FEC use different dictionaries when it comes to "political" spending by tax-exempt nonprofits -- and they don't talk to each other. That's partly why those groups often report different numbers to each of the two agencies: there's plenty of wiggle room to re-define expenditures. 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The Center to Protect Patient Rights was the source of more than half the budget of the group American Future Fund, for example. The Center's role in funding the groups has not previously been reported.</p><div class="news_readmore" style="text-align: right; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px;"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2012/05/cppr/" style="color: rgb(62, 114, 181); text-decoration: none;">Read more...</a></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font><div><div class="infobox_payee_sum" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mentzer Media Services, Inc.: $25,273,221</font></div><div class="infobox_payee_description" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 15.99px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.4;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Advertising agency that works primarily for GOP campaigns; one past client was Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, the outside-spending group that attacked Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry in 2004 for his service in Vietnam. This cycle, it's doing work for two Republican super PACs: American Crossroads, launched by Republican strategist Karl Rove, and Restore Our Future, which supports Mitt Romney.</font></p></div><table class="infobox_table" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; width: 440px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><tbody style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 2px 10px 2px 3px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(206, 206, 206); outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"><span class="interesting_committee_link interesting_committee_table" data-committee-id="C00490045" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(34, 98, 204); cursor: pointer;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">RESTORE OUR FUTURE, INC.</font></span></td><td class="amount" style="margin: 0px; padding: 2px 10px 2px 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(206, 206, 206); outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; text-align: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$24,670,253</font></td></tr><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 2px 10px 2px 3px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(206, 206, 206); outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><span class="interesting_committee_link interesting_committee_table" data-committee-id="C00487363" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(34, 98, 204); cursor: pointer;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">AMERICAN CROSSROADS</font></span></td><td class="amount" style="margin: 0px; padding: 2px 10px 2px 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(206, 206, 206); outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); text-align: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$602,968</font></td></tr></tbody></table><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">sw</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Mentzer Media Services, Inc.</b> is a Maryland-based media firm which designs and places ads for a variety of prominent right-wing groups including <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Restore_Our_Future" title="Restore Our Future" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Restore Our Future</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Crossroads_GPS" title="Crossroads GPS" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Crossroads GPS</a> and the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Swift_Boat_Veterans_for_Truth" title="Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Swift Boat Veterans for Truth</a>. The organization is run by Bruce Mentzer. <sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mentzer_Media_Services#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[1]</a></sup> Mentzer media does not design ads, instead, they broker media buys, deciding where to place ads and buying air time to run them. Mentzer Media coordinates closely with <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/McCarthy_Hennings" title="McCarthy Hennings" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">McCarthy Hennings</a> Media on many of its buys. <sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mentzer_Media_Services#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[2]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; display: inline; background-image: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Contents</font></font></font></font></h2> <span class="toctoggle" style="-webkit-user-select: none;"> [<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mentzer_Media_Services#" class="internal" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">hide</a>] </span></div><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mentzer_Media_Services#Influencing_the_2012_Election" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Influencing the 2012 Election</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mentzer_Media_Services#Previous_Campaigns" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Previous Campaigns</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mentzer_Media_Services#Sourcewatch_resources" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Sourcewatch resources</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mentzer_Media_Services#External_resources" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">External resources</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mentzer_Media_Services#Contact" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Contact</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mentzer_Media_Services#References" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></font></a></li></ul></div><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 19.2px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Influencing_the_2012_Election"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Influencing the 2012 Election</font></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2012, Mentzer Media did business with practically every major conservative SuperPAC and 501(c) group. Mentzer did most of its business purchasing air time, commissions for this type of purchase can range from 10% to 15% of the total cost of the ad buy <sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mentzer_Media_Services#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[3]</a></sup>. Mentzer Media's largest customer was <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Restore_Our_Future" title="Restore Our Future" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Restore Our Future</a>, a superPAC affiliated with the failed campaign of Republican nominee <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mitt_Romney" title="Mitt Romney" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Mitt Romney</a>. Mentzer Media handled over $190 million in ad buys from Restore our Future during the 2012 election cycle. <sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mentzer_Media_Services#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[4]</a></sup> At the same time, the group also handled $30 million in ad buys from the Koch-Backed 501(c)(4) <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Americans_for_Prosperity" title="Americans for Prosperity" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Americans for Prosperity</a>, $13 million in ad buys from <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Future_Fund" title="American Future Fund" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">American Future Fund</a>, $7.7 million from Karl Rove's <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Crossroads_GPS" title="Crossroads GPS" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Crossroads GPS</a>, and $6.76 million in ad buys from its spinoff superPAC <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Crossroads" title="American Crossroads" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">American Crossroads</a>. Mentzer also handled $3 million in ad buys from the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/60_Plus_Association" title="60 Plus Association" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">60 Plus Association</a>, a right-wing 501(c](4) which markets itself as the conservative counterweight to the AARP.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mentzer_Media_Services#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[5]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 19.2px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Previous_Campaigns"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Previous Campaigns</font></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mentzer was the ad agency behind television ads run by the financial industry front group, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Stop_Too_Big_To_Fail" title="Stop Too Big To Fail" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Stop Too Big To Fail</a>, which attempt to draw the attention of a liberal/progressive audience and persuade them to oppose financial reform legislation. Mentzer has worked for Republican congressional candidates, the notorious 2004 <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Swift_Boat_Veterans_for_Truth" title="Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Swift Boat Veterans for Truth</a> campaign against <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_Kerry" title="John Kerry" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">John Kerry</a>, and the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Chamber_of_Commerce" title="Chamber of Commerce" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Chamber of Commerce</a> in at least two states. In Spring of 2010, Mentzer was in the news in California for being involved in attack ads against gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown put out by the California Chamber. The Chamber claimed the ad was <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.prwatch.org/node/8996" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"educational"</a>, rather than an attack ad, hoping to avoid legal obstacles to running it as a political ad.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mentzer_Media_Services#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[6]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mentzer_Media_Services#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[7]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 19.2px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Sourcewatch_resources"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sourcewatch resources</font></span></h2><ul style="line-height: 19.2px; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaauaaaanaqmaaabb8jblaaaablbmvex="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX" auow5qsojaaaaaxrstlmaqobyzgaaabnjrefucb1jyeabbqw="AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw" wlcagqeagpidyt0ivcsaaaaasuvork5cyii="); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Stop_Too_Big_To_Fail" title="Stop Too Big To Fail" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Stop Too Big To Fail</font></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Front_groups" title="Front groups" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Front groups</font></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Astroturf" title="Astroturf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Astroturf</font></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Swift_Boat_Veterans_for_Truth" title="Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Swift Boat Veterans for Truth</font></a></li></ul><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 19.2px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="External_resources"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">External resources</font></span></h2><ul style="line-height: 19.2px; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaauaaaanaqmaaabb8jblaaaablbmvex="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX" auow5qsojaaaaaxrstlmaqobyzgaaabnjrefucb1jyeabbqw="AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw" wlcagqeagpidyt0ivcsaaaaasuvork5cyii="); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mentzer Media Web site:<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.mentzermedia.com/maryland_mentzer_media_services_inc_baltimore_maryland.htm.htm" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">http://www.mentzermedia.com/maryland_mentzer_media_services_inc_baltimore_maryland.htm.htm</a></font></li></ul><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 19.2px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Contact"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Contact</font></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mentzer Media Services, Inc.
600 Fairmount Ave., Suite 306
Towson, Maryland 21286
Phone 410.825.7034
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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">Mentzer Media Services: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.mentzermedia.com/maryland_mentzer_media_services_inc_baltimore_maryland.htm.htm" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Our People</a>, Accessed November 26th, 2012</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mentzer_Media_Services#cite_ref-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><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">Bill Turque: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/master-of-the-art-of-the-media-buy/2012/09/05/f47a8f9c-f761-11e1-8b93-c4f4ab1c8d13_story.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Master of the Art of the Media Buy</a>, Washington Post, September 5th, 2012</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mentzer_Media_Services#cite_ref-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><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">Greg Giroux: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-25/tv-ad-makers-earn-more-super-pac-millions-for-less-work.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">TV Ad Makers Earn More SuperPAC Millions For Less Work</a>, Bloomberg News, August 14th, 2012</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mentzer_Media_Services#cite_ref-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><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">Sunlight Foundation: Follow the Unlimited Money Database: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://assets.sunlightfoundation.com/reporting/FTUM-data/all_expenditures.csv" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">table of all expenditures for 2012 election</a>, Accessed November 26th, 2012</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mentzer_Media_Services#cite_ref-5" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><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">Sunlight Foundation: Follow the Unlimited Money Database: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://assets.sunlightfoundation.com/reporting/FTUM-data/all_expenditures.csv" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">table of all expenditures for 2012 election</a>, Accessed November 26th, 2012</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mentzer_Media_Services#cite_ref-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><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">Justin Elliott <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/04/mentzer_media_and_stop_too_big_to_fail_ads.php?ref=fpb" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Shady Anti-Financial Reform Group Using Ad Agency That Worked For Swift Boat Vets</a>, Talking Points Memo (TPM), April 23, 2010</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mentzer_Media_Services#cite_ref-7" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><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">PRWatch.org <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.prwatch.org/node/8996" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">It's an "Educational" Ad (Wink, Wink)</a>, Blog, April 6, 2010</span></font></li></ol></div></div></div></div>