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06/03/2025

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Peter Montgomery

The Conservative Action Project, an offshoot of the secretive and influential right-wing Council for National Policy, released a statement Monday signed by a rogues' gallery of right-wing figures demanding faster Senate confirmation of President Donald Trump’s nominees, claiming that his agenda, aka Project 2025, will suffer unless Senate Republicans step up the pace.

In 2020, the Conservative Action Project energetically promoted Trump’s false claims about the election and participated in his efforts to stay in power after losing the election. The group’s current chair, notorious voter suppression activist Kenneth Blackwell, was involved in behind-the-scenes lobbying to convince then-Vice President Mike Pence to abuse his power and interfere with congressional affirmation of state-certified Electoral College votes.

The new statement is further evidence of how closely the right-wing movement is aligned with, or maybe in the pocket of, Trump and his inner circle. More than 100 MAGA and religious-right movement leaders signed the statement, including Christian nationalists, voting restriction activists, leaders of anti-abortion and anti-LGBTQ political groups, right-wing gadfly/power player Ginni Thomas, MAGA judicial activist Mike Davis, and disgraced former southern Baptist leader Paige Patterson.

Also among the signers is Cleta Mitchell, who joined the infamous phone call on which Trump tried to bully Georgia’s Republican secretary of state into “finding” enough votes to overturn Trump’s loss in the state. Mitchell, who now runs right-wing so-called “election integrity” efforts at the Conservative Partnership Institute, recently appeared on dominionist Jim Garlow’s podcast, where she said House passage of the SAVE Act was a result of God telling her to work on the (largely imaginary) “threat” of non-citizen voting.

The Conservative Action Project is one of many right-wing coalitions formed in reaction to the election of former President Barack Obama, and now includes representatives of MAGA groups created in the wake of Trump’s 2020 loss, like the Center for Renewing America. In 2022 it mobilized an unsuccessful effort to defeat the Respect for Marriage Act, which offers legal protections to same-sex couples whose rights would be threatened if the Supreme Court overturns its 2015 marriage equality ruling.

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CONSERVATIVES CALL FOR NEW HOUSE LEADERSHIP

January 4, 2023

January 4, 2023 Washington, DC Conservative organizations and the millions of grassroots conservatives we represent are united in our support of the 20 courageous members of Congress seeking to change …

CONSERVATIVES OPPOSE THE PELOSI-SCHUMER LAME-DUCK POWER GRAB

December 9, 2022

December 9, 2022Washington, DC As the 117th Congress winds to a close, conservatives urge Republicans in Congress to oppose last minute lawmaking attempts in the lame duck session. Any new …

OPEN LETTER TO THE REPUBLICAN MEMBERS OF THE 118TH CONGRESS

November 14, 2022

The Republican Party needs leaders who will confidently and skillfully present a persuasive coherent vision of who we are, what we stand for, and what we will do. Many …

CONSERVATIVES OPPOSE FUNDING THE FAR-LEFT’S AGENDA IN THE LAME DUCK

September 28, 2022

September 28, 2022 Washington, DC Conservatives must not agree to send any more money to fund the Biden administration’s radical, inflationary agenda – not now, and not in a lame …

CONSERVATIVES URGE RED LINE REFORMS IN YEAR-END SPENDING PACKAGES

September 6, 2022

September 6, 2022Washington, DC As the fiscal year comes to a close, conservatives urge Congress to adopt substantive red lines for government-funding measures that elevate the needs and well-being of …

CONSERVATIVES OPPOSE BIDEN’S “30 X 30” FEDERAL LAND GRAB

August 31, 2022

August 31, 2022Washington, DC President Joe Biden’s “30 X 30” initiative threatens to be the biggest federal land grab since Congress passed the Endangered Species Act in 1973. Executive Order …

GARLAND AND WRAY MUST BE IMPEACHED

August 11, 2022

August 11, 2022 Washington, D.C. The recent efforts of the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to raid the home of a former president and seize …

CONSERVATIVES VEHEMENTLY OPPOSE THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION’S RADICAL ATTEMPT TO REWRITE TITLE IX

August 1, 2022

August 1, 2022 Washington, DC On June 23, 2022, on the 50th anniversary of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, the Department of Education released a proposed rule …

CONSERVATIVES SUPPORT THE EFFORTS OF SENATOR TED CRUZ AND REPRESENTATIVE CHIP ROY WITH THE PERSONALIZED CARE ACT

July 28, 2022

July 28, 2022 Washington, DC The American health care market has largely been destroyed. Currently it is unnecessarily complex and long overdue for an overhaul. Prices are too high, choices …

CONSERVATIVES MUST REJECT THE SO-CALLED “RESPECT FOR MARRIAGE ACT”

July 26, 2022

July 26, 2022Washington, DC The inaptly-named Respect for Marriage Act seeks to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act of 1996 (DOMA) and codify the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell …

CONSERVATIVES OPPOSE THE NOMINATION OF KALPANA KOTAGAL TO THE EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION

June 28, 2022

June 28, 2022 Washington, DC Conservatives are strongly opposed to the nomination of Kalpana Kotagal to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The EEOC was created to administer and enforce …

2022 GUN CONTROL DEAL – IT’S NOT TOO LATE TO STOP A BAD DEAL

June 16, 2022

June 16, 2022Washington, DC This past Sunday, conservatives learned that ten Senate Republicans have agreed to a large scale gun control package with some of the Senate’s most radical Democrats. …

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January 4, 2023

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Conservative organizations and the millions of grassroots conservatives we represent are united in our support of the 20 courageous members of Congress seeking to change the status quo in Washington.

Over the past decade, the House has grown increasingly autocratic. Rank and file members are routinely denied a chance to participate in the legislative process, committees are ignored, deals and loopholes for interests abound, and there is virtually no amendment process for any bills, large or small. The outcome reflects the process: bills that cater to a handful of members in leadership and K street lobbyists, but ignore the priorities of the voters.

Months ago, these members made clear that this established way of doing things was no longer acceptable. They made public a series of proposed reforms designed to democratize the House – to engage the broader membership in legislating, and bring accountability back to the People’s House.

Rather than engage them in a good faith negotiation, Rep. Kevin McCarthy has instead maligned both the requests and the messengers. He has publicly and through proxies leveled attacks against members of his own party, including threatening to deny committee assignments for those who continue to oppose him. Moreover, he has failed to answer for, or commit to halting, his coordinated efforts in the 2022 elections to promote moderate Republican candidates over conservatives.

Because of this, he has thus far failed to garner the 218 votes necessary to lead the House GOP conference in three separate rounds of voting. The job of the Speaker is to garner consensus among disparate factions of the party, and unite them.

These members represent the millions of voters across the country who are disgusted with the business-as-usual, self-interested governance in Washington. We stand behind them and beside them in their courageous efforts to find a Speaker of the House who will represent the interests of conservatives. We encourage more conservative members to join their ranks.

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Lobbyist and promoter of Donald Trump’s “Big Lie,” **Ginni Thomas**, is uniting with ex-Trump attorney **Cleta Mitchell** and two dozen others from the far-right to attack and oppose **GOP Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy**‘s attempt to become Speaker of the House.

In a joint letter from the Conservative Action Project, Thomas, the spouse of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Mitchell, and the other 24 signatories assail McCarthy’s leadership.

“Conservative organizations and the millions of grassroots conservatives we represent are united in our support of the 20 courageous members of Congress seeking to change the status quo in Washington,” the letter reads.

Those 20 have voted against McCarthy for Speaker.

“Rather than engage them in a good faith negotiation, Rep. Kevin McCarthy has instead maligned both the requests and the messengers. He has publicly and through proxies leveled attacks against members of his own party, including threatening to deny committee assignments for those who continue to oppose him. Moreover, he has failed to answer for, or commit to halting, his coordinated efforts in the 2022 elections to promote moderate Republican candidates over conservatives," it charges.

“Because of this, he has thus far failed to garner the 218 votes necessary to lead the House GOP conference in three separate rounds of voting, it adds, although as of now that McCarthy has lost five votes," the letter adds. “The job of the Speaker is to garner a consensus among disparate factions of the party, and unite them.”

READ MORE: ‘Hope They Get Their Act Together’: Biden Says ‘Embarrassing’ How House GOP Is Making US Look Around the World

The Conservative Action Project, founded in 2008, was behind the 2010 “Mount Vernon Statement,” an attack on the left that wrongly claims the U.S. Constitution promotes a conservative point of view. It accused the federal government of acting “with little concern for the limits of the Constitution, which is increasingly dismissed as obsolete and irrelevant.” There were Democratic majorities in both the House and Senate at the time, and Barack Obama was President.

Cleta Mitchell participated in Donald Trump’s infamous phone call to Brad Raffensperger, during which he pressured the Georgia Secretary of State to “find 11,780 votes.” Trump is under criminal investigation over that call. Last year The New York Times reported Mitchell had been subpoenaed by investigators.

Mitchell, an anti-LGBTQ activist, was also subpoenaed by the U.S. House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack.

She “participated in efforts to prevent, delay, or overturn election results,” and “promoted false claims of election fraud to Members of Congress,” the Committee’s chairman Bennie Thompson charged last year.

Among the other signatories are Kenneth Blackwell of the **Family Research Council**, which appears on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s list of anti-LGBTQ hate groups. Also, David Bossie, the conservative activist and lobbyist who heads Citizens United, the group that won the Supreme Court case that has led to massive amounts of dark money in American politics.

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Revealed: The Right-Wing Movement’s Agenda For Trump’s First 180 Days

Peter Montgomery on Tuesday, 7/26/2016

The Conservative Action Project is a network of more than 100 right-wing leaders created in 2008 as “an offshoot” of the secretive far-right Council for National Policy, making it part of an array of conservative coalitions that bloomed around and after the election of Barack Obama. Originally chaired by Edwin Meese, the ConservativeAction Project is now headed by Becky Norton Dunlop, Ronald Reagan Distinguished Fellow at the Heritage Foundation. It includes leaders of all of what are often described as the three legs of the conservative movement: social, economic, and national security conservatives.

The Washington Post reported in 2010 that the Conservative Action Project was helping fuel closer coordination across the multifaceted conservative coalition with its weekly Wednesday morning meetings at the Family Research Council. The group also promotes shared messaging and strategy with its “Memos for the Movement.”Now this collection of right-wing leaders has identified its policy priorities for the first 180 days of a new administration.

At a forum organized by the American Conservative Union Foundation at the Republican National Convention, participants were given of a set of pocket cards containing policy proposals, quick facts and “market tested messages” on the one dozen highest priorities selected by Conservative Action Project leaders. The 12 priorities are divided into four categories: Constitutional Issues and the Judiciary; Preserving and Protecting Our Culture; Freeing Our Economy so Everyone Can Win; and Defending Our Freedoms.

The package provides a clear picture of the ideas that right-wing organizations are pushing Trump to embrace. Some are vague, like, “The President should revive Public Diplomacy,” but others are quite specific. Taken together, they’re a pretty good indication of what we’d have in store on the policy front with Trump in the White House.

Among the proposals, which signal the intense desire of right-wing organizations to infuse their priorities throughout the federal government’s executive branch agencies:

• Immediately rescind all Obama Executive Orders consistent with recommendations by Constitutional and trusted advisors such as The Federalist Society, The Heritage Foundation, and other conservative advisors and transition committees.
• Terminate all executive branch individuals still within their probationary period and freeze hiring for all regulatory positions.
• The President should eliminate taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood using executive action and seek a permanent legislative solution.
• The President should freeze and withdraw all regulatory activity on the Obama energy and climate agenda.
• Submit legislation to repeal Obamacare in its entirety.
• The President should support the rule of law and reject amnesty proposals and fully enforce and strengthen interior enforcement measures in the United States.

The policy proposals listed under “Restore Religious Freedom” include calls for the president to ensure passage of the First Amendment Defense Act, which carves out exceptions from nondiscrimination laws for people who claim anti-LGBT religious beliefs, and to “issue an Executive Order requiring that the Executive branch respect the 1st Amendment and provisions of the First Amendment Defense Act.”

The package proposes a new tax code that is “simpler, fairer, flatter and stimulates growth,” insisting that all tax reform “should lower individual and business tax rates, particularly the top marginal rates, to encourage saving and investing.”

It says senators “should vigorously question judicial nominees about their intent to remain faithful to the original meaning of the Constitution and laws.”

On education, the movement’s priority is to “Advance School Choice,” and it calls on the president to appoint “a movement conservative” as secretary of education. It wants the president to “champion the policy of dollars following the children,” language used by advocates for private school vouchers and other forms of public school privatization.

The Conservative Action Project’s “memos for the movement” provide a further sense of the group’s worldview.  For example, it responded to last year’s marriage equality decision by the Supreme Court in apocalyptic terms, saying, “The Court’s abuse of power is of such historic proportions that the conservative movement, and indeed every American who cherishes liberty must now address the serious damage done to the cause of freedom and the very foundation of our civil society.”

The group has intensely opposed efforts to expand disclosure requirements for political “dark money,” portraying conservatives as “a persecuted class” who are “bullied to either conform or suffer retribution.”

Among its 2016 releases was a March memo urging Senate Republicans to be resolute in refusing to consider a nominee from President Obama to fill the Supreme Court seat that became vacant with the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. Here’s an excerpt from the group’s thoughtful and rational rhetoric:

The president and his liberal allies know what is at stake and so do we.  It is nothing short of their intent to eradicate precious constitutional rights. These leftists have made clear their first target is our 1st Amendment right to political speech and the silencing of conservative voices. They mock the 2nd Amendment right of the people to protect themselves and their families and are determined to take away our constitutional right to bear arms. They welcome the prospect of unleashing unaccountable federal agencies like the IRS and EPA to impose a liberal policy agenda that will harm Americans and punish any who dare to disagree with their worldview. And not least of all, they vow to use the Court’s power to impose an “unconditional surrender” in their cultural war against our fundamental institutions of faith, family, marriage, home, and school — and will wipe out any pro-life protections, instead imposing abortion on-demand, up to the moment of birth, paid for by the taxpayers.

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    Patrick Pizzella – Member, Federal Labor Relations Authority

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Patrick_Pizzella

Patrick Pizzella was nominated March 6, 2001, for Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management at the Department of Labor by President George W. Bush. His nomination was sent to the Senate on April 25, 2001, and he was confirmed on May 9, 2001.

A piece from the June 18, 2001, New Republic "wonders why unions failed to organize against Patrick Pizzella's appointment as an assistant secretary of labor. Now responsible for protecting workers' rights, Pizzella spent four years as a lobbyist on behalf of the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, 'a notorious haven for foreign-owned sweatshops'."

Contents  [hide]

    1 "Team Abramoff"

    2 Profiles

    3 Related SourceWatch Resources

    4 External links

        4.1 Documents

        4.2 Articles & Commentary

"Team Abramoff"

Pizzella was one of at least three people who had worked on Jack Abramoff's team at the Preston Gates and Ellis law firm who "wound up with Bush administration jobs. The second, David Safavian, was "chosen by Bush to oversee federal procurement policy in the Office of Management and Budget." The third is Susan B. Ralston, Abramoff's former assistant and most recently special assistant to White House chief of staff Karl Rove. [1][2]

"We know about Ralston, we know about Safavian, what is Patrick Pizzella up to?," Laura Rozen asked September 22, 2005.

Profiles

"Pizzella has served in various posts since his arrival in Washington, DC in 1980 including serving as the Policy Coordinator for the Bush-Cheney General Services Administration Transition Team. From January 22, 2001 to March 25, 2001, Pizzella served as the Chief of Staff to the Director at the U. S. Office of Personnel Management. Pizzella was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve as a Member of the Board of Directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) - a position he held from January 18, 2004 to April 26, 2005.

"From 1996 to 2001, Pizzella was a member of Preston Gates Ellis & Rouvelas Meeds, L.L.P. policy practice group and served as a Government Affairs Counselor with responsibility for the coordination of the firm's grassroots and coalitions management practice. The cornerstones of the firm's practice in Washington D.C. are legislative policy, Executive branch representation and administrative law.

"Prior to his work at the law firm, Pizzella served for five years at the Federal Housing Finance Board, an independent regulatory agency with responsibility for overseeing the Federal Home Loan Bank system, a Government Sponsored Enterprise. There he was the agency's Chief Administrative Officer, serving as the Director, Office of Administration.

"From 1986 to 1989, Pizzella served at the Department of Education as Administrator for Management Services, and in 1988 was nominated and recess appointed by President Reagan as Deputy Under Secretary for Management. In March 2005 Mr. Pizzella was selected as one of the Top 25 'Doers, Dreamers and Drivers' for 2004 by Government Technology Magazine. In addition, in March 1987 he was selected as one of America's top forty performers under 40 years of age by Management Magazine, a publication of the U. S. Office of Personnel Management.

"Pizzella also served as the Special Assistant to the Administrator of the General Services Administration (1981-1984); the Director of Intergovernmental and Regional Affairs at the U. S. Small Business Administration (1985-1986); as a member of the Office of Personnel Management Senior Executive Service Advisory Committee (1987-1988) and as a member of the President's Council on Management Improvement (1988-1989).

"Pizzella is a native of New Rochelle, New York, and a graduate of Iona Preparatory School. He received a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of South Carolina."

Source: Pizzell'as Department of Labor Biography.

Related SourceWatch Resources

    Bush administration cronyism and incompetence

    Bush administration scandals

External links

Documents

    Federal Energy Management Program, U.S. Department of Energy - Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Senior Energy Officials: Patrick Pizzella.

Articles & Commentary

    Tod Newcombe, "U.S. Department of Labor CIO Patrick Pizzella, One of Government Technology's 25 'Doers Dreamers and Drivers',"GovTech.net, March 4, 2005.

    Sharon Theimer, "Lobbyist had close contact with Bush team," Associated Press (Boston Globe), May 6, 2005: "two of Abramoff's lobbying colleagues on the Marianas won political appointments to federal agencies." (Pizzella and Safavian)

    "White House Admits President Met with Abramoff. Bush Should Return Funds to Ensure Unbiased Abramoff Inquiry," BuzzFlash, May 6, 2005.

    Jonathan D. Salant, "Abramoff Probe May Threaten Leading Republicans as It Expands," Bloomberg News, September 22, 2005.

Categories:

    Scandals Corruption

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Two weeks ago, the Washington Post sketched out a blueprint of the movement's leadership, naming the players and the organizations who have made the right's resurgence possible. It focused in particular on a shadowy but influential new outfit called the Conservative Action Project, which reportedly works to coordinate the movement's far-flung organizations, bloggers and publishers.

What struck me about the Post's story was the familiarity of it all. In particular, I kept being reminded of that ultimate conservative insider, the now-imprisoned superlobbyist Jack Abramoff, and the work he did on behalf of the Northern Marianas Islands, where garment factories churned out "Made in the USA" clothing under re-education camp conditions.

The object of Mr. Abramoff's lobbying, you will recall, was to protect that peculiar economic arrangement from federal meddling, a task his firm accomplished by bringing politicians, staffers and media types on trips to the tropical Marianas and urging them to understand the situation as a matter of "liberty" versus big government tyranny.

Today, as Washington conservatives scramble to stay atop the growing grass-roots right, the cast of characters is remarkably similar. For example, the "Team Abramoff" lobbyist who ran the Marianas trips program in the 1990s, Patrick Pizzella, is reported by the Post to be the "only paid staff member" of the Conservative Action Project. According to the Washington Times, Mr. Pizzella has also been "involved" in the drafting of the Mount Vernon Statement, a conservative manifesto that is meant to rally the tea-partying base. tom franks wsj

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See also: Individual Lobbying Profile

Employment Timeline

Employment History

Period	Employer	Title	Additional Info
2001-	Dept of Labor Revolving Door Personnel: (111)	Asst Sec, Admin/Mgmt	Agency lobbying profile
2004-2005	Overseas Private Investment Corp Revolving Door Personnel: (13)	Board Member	Agency lobbying profile
2001-2001	Office of Personnel Management Revolving Door Personnel: (23)	Chief of Staff	Agency lobbying profile
1999-2000	Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Revolving Door Personnel: (61)		Firm lobbying profile
1996-2001	Preston, Gates et al Revolving Door Personnel: (66)	Govt Affairs Representative	Firm lobbying profile
1991-1995	Federal Housing Finance Agency Revolving Door Personnel: (9)
1986-1989	Dept of Education Revolving Door Personnel: (103)	Administrator, Mgmt Services	Agency lobbying profile
1985-1986	Small Business Administration Revolving Door Personnel: (40)	Director, Intergovt/Regional Affairs	Agency lobbying profile
1981-1984	General Services Administration Revolving Door Personnel: (36)	Special Asst to Administrator	Agency lobbying profile
Lobbying Firm     Private Sector     Federal Govt.     State/Local Govt.	Lobbying Firm     Private Sector     Federal Govt.     State/Local Govt.	Lobbying Firm     Private Sector     Federal Govt.     State/Local Govt.	Lobbying Firm     Private Sector     Federal Govt.     State/Local Govt.

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What Happens When The Right Buys Its Own Lies

SUBMITTED BY Kyle Mantyla on Thursday, 7/1/2010 3:19 pm

Since the establishment conservative movement never stops trying to co-opt the Tea Party mantle for itself, I guess that means I have to keep covering their efforts as well.

I've written about the Conservative Action Project before, noting that it is one of the many right-wing coalitions that exist to establish the party line of the issue of the day, often though "Memo for the Movement" statements that it releases. These memos tend to be mostly meaningless collections of bullet points and links, but apparently members of the coalition feel they serve some purpose, which is why they keep issuing them.

The latest memo carries the names of a wide variety of right-wing leaders - including Ed Meese, Wendy Wright, Grover Norquist, Gary Bauer, Mat Staver, Curt Levey, Andrea Lafferty, and Louis Sheldon - who have joined together to commend the Tea Party Movement for its "fidelity to the Constitution."

And after the memo's standard pointless bullet points, this paragraph appears:

    Earlier this year, many Tea Party Movement leaders and conservative leaders found common ground at a meeting and ceremony at the Collingwood Library & Museum in Alexandria, VA-- part of the original Mount Vernon Estate owned by President George Washington. The Mount Vernon Statement, issued on February 17, 2010, restates the ideas of the American founding as articulated in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. It was signed by over 100 leaders-including Tea Party Movement leaders--representing tens of millions of conservative activists nationwide and re-enforced the principles of Constitutional Conservatism for the 21st Century.

Do you remember the Mount Vernon Statement?  It was the attempt earlier this year by these very same activists to co-opt the Tea Party movement by merging it with the establishment conservative movement.

But it was all for naught, as a short time later the Tea Party movement released its own "Contract From America" manifesto which explicitly excluded any and all social issues.

The Tea Party movement's consistent refusal to adopt the Religious Right's agenda as part of the Tea Party agenda has infuriated establishment conservatives to no end, which is why they have continuously worked to co-opt the movement for their own ends ... leading to situations like this where the conservative establishment drafts and signs a document proclaiming its own agenda while unilaterally claiming that it represents the Tea Party movement - and then later, using that same document as an excuse to commend itself for its "fidelity to the Constitution."

FILED UNDER

ORGANIZATIONS:Conservative Action Project, Religious Right

PEOPLE:Gary Bauer

TOPICS:Constitution, Media, mount vernon statement, Religious Right

• See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/what-happens-when-right-buys-its-own-lies#sthash.kpWLdy4D.dpuf

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Conservative Action Project: A New Name For the Same Old Right-Wing Agenda

SUBMITTED BY Kyle Mantyla on Monday, 2/1/2010 1:13 pm

Several months ago, I wrote a post noting the emergence of the new right-wing coalition calling itself that Conservative Action Project. At the time, all that I could figure out about it was that its membership included several Religious Right leaders and it seemed to operate out of the Council for National Policy.

Today, the Washington Post examines the role that new media is playing in shaping and disseminating conservative messaging throughout the right-wing echo chamber and reports that the Conservative Action Project is playing a a key role in that effort through the weekly meetings hosted by the Family Research Council:

    Inside the Beltway, much of it is fueled by the Conservative Action Project (CAP), a new group of conservative leaders chaired by Reagan-era attorney general Edwin Meese III. CAP, whose influential memos "for the movement" circulate on Capitol Hill, is an offshoot of the Council for National Policy, a highly secretive organization of conservative leaders and donors.

    ...

    At 7:30 a.m., members of the Conservative Action Project gather at the Family Research Council, a social conservative group.

    CAP grew out of a series of meetings of conservatives, determined to engineer a political comeback, in the weeks after Obama's election. One took place during a Council for National Policy meeting at a D.C. hotel, conservatives said. The secretive council was formed in the early 1980s to coordinate what was then called the "New Right."

    Key players in CAP, members said, include Republican pollster Kellyanne Conway; Greg Mueller, president of CRC Public Relations; and former congressman David M. McIntosh (R-Ind.). Its only paid staff member is Patrick Pizzella, an official in the George W. Bush administration, who works out of the Council for National Policy offices.

    Among CAP's projects was supporting the Health Care Freedom Coalition, whose more than 50 economic and social conservative groups quietly built health-care opposition, CAP members said. The coalition is a spinoff of FreedomWorks, the D.C.-based group that works extensively with tea-party activists.

    CAP also worked unsuccessfully to defeat David F. Hamilton, Obama's first appellate judicial nominee. A Nov. 9 CAP memo calling Hamilton "an ideologue first and a jurist second" helped trigger blog blasts from Erickson and an anti-Hamilton speech at the conservative Federalist Society by Sen. Jeff Sessions (Ala.), the ranking Judiciary Committee Republican.

FILED UNDER

ORGANIZATIONS:Religious Right, FreedomWorks, Federalist Society, Family Research Council, Council for National Policy, Conservative Action Project

PEOPLE:Ed Meese, Kellyanne Conway, Jeff Sessions, George W. Bush

TOPICS:Media, Judiciary, health care, George W. Bush, Bush Administration, Attorney General, Religious Right

• See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/conservative-action-project-new-name-same-old-right-wing-agenda#sthash.UqZMFtAQ.dpuf

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Two weeks ago, the Washington Post sketched out a blueprint of the movement's leadership, naming the players and the organizations who have made the right's resurgence possible. It focused in particular on a shadowy but influential new outfit called the Conservative Action Project, which reportedly works to coordinate the movement's far-flung organizations, bloggers and publishers.

What struck me about the Post's story was the familiarity of it all. In particular, I kept being reminded of that ultimate conservative insider, the now-imprisoned superlobbyist Jack Abramoff, and the work he did on behalf of the Northern Marianas Islands, where garment factories churned out "Made in the USA" clothing under re-education camp conditions.

The object of Mr. Abramoff's lobbying, you will recall, was to protect that peculiar economic arrangement from federal meddling, a task his firm accomplished by bringing politicians, staffers and media types on trips to the tropical Marianas and urging them to understand the situation as a matter of "liberty" versus big government tyranny.

Today, as Washington conservatives scramble to stay atop the growing grass-roots right, the cast of characters is remarkably similar. For example, the "Team Abramoff" lobbyist who ran the Marianas trips program in the 1990s, Patrick Pizzella, is reported by the Post to be the "only paid staff member" of the Conservative Action Project. According to the Washington Times, Mr. Pizzella has also been "involved" in the drafting of the Mount Vernon Statement, a conservative manifesto that is meant to rally the tea-partying base. tom franks wsj

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Religious Right Groups And Chamber of Commerce Fail To Block District Court Nominee

SUBMITTED BY: Brian Tashman, Wednesday 05/04/2011, 3:20pm

Religious Right and pro-corporate groups failed today to block President Obama’s nominee for U.S. District Court in Rhode Island, John McConnell, from receiving an up-or-down vote in the Senate. The Senate invoked cloture on McConnell’s nomination in a 63-33 vote, defeating the filibuster against McConnell. Filibusters against district court judges are extremely rare—only a handful of District Court nominees have ever faced cloture votes, and none have ever been blocked—and many Republicans previously vowed they would never filibuster a judicial nominee. Today’... MORE >

What Happens When The Right Buys Its Own Lies

SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Thursday 07/01/2010, 3:19pm

Since the establishment conservative movement never stops trying to co-opt the Tea Party mantle for itself, I guess that means I have to keep covering their efforts as well. I've written about the Conservative Action Project before, noting that it is one of the many right-wing coalitions that exist to establish the party line of the issue of the day, often though "Memo for the Movement" statements that it releases. These memos tend to be mostly meaningless collections of bullet points and links, but apparently members of the coalition feel they serve some purpose, which... MORE >

Right Wing Leftovers

SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Monday 05/24/2010, 5:35pm

The Judicial Crisis Network calls Elena Kagan an "inexperienced rubber stamp." The Conservative Action Project issues a "memo to the movement" on Don't Ask, Don't Tell. Coral Ridge Ministries also supports maintaining DADT. Joseph Farah warns people not to be fooled by Newt Gingrich. You know what is ruining "America Idol"? Ellen DeGeneres and her lesbianism. Focus on the Family Action is now officially known as CitizenLink. Finally, "Christian Financial Expert Releases Do-It-Yourself Mortgage Modification Kit."... MORE >

The Right Wing's Meaningless Manifesto

SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Tuesday 02/16/2010, 11:52am

Last week it was reported that, on Wednesday, a large group of conservative leaders were going to unveil what they call "definitive statement" regarding the central principles of the conservative movement, to be known as "The Mount Vernon Statement." And apparently it is a pretty big deal, as it is already getting all sorts of media coverage ... most of which makes it pretty clear that, despite all the hype, this new manifesto is really going to say anything at all:  The "Mount Vernon Statement,'' to be signed on an Alexandria estate once owned by George... MORE >

Conservative Action Project: A New Name For the Same Old Right-Wing Agenda

SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Monday 02/01/2010, 1:13pm

Several months ago, I wrote a post noting the emergence of the new right-wing coalition calling itself that Conservative Action Project. At the time, all that I could figure out about it was that its membership included several Religious Right leaders and it seemed to operate out of the Council for National Policy. Today, the Washington Post examines the role that new media is playing in shaping and disseminating conservative messaging throughout the right-wing echo chamber and reports that the Conservative Action Project is playing a a key role in that effort through the weekly...MORE >

Staver Available For Everything ... Except Lisa Miller Coverage

SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Monday 01/11/2010, 3:15pm

I have been keeping track of how long it takes Mat Staver or anyone at Liberty Counsel to make any comment about their star-client Lisa Miller's disappearance with her daughter (it has been ten days, now).   While Miller and Liberty Counsel continually insist that Staver is "unavailable to comment" on the case, the fact is that he appears readily available for all sorts of other things, like appearing on Janet Porter's radio program last week or joining Lou Engle and other Religious Right leaders in Houston next week to protest a new Planned Parenthood facility... MORE >

Remember Back When the Right Hated The Filibuster?

SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Tuesday 11/10/2009, 4:55pm

Once upon a time, activists on the Right were vehemently opposed to the use of the filibuster against judicial nominees, declaring on principle that its use was flagrantly unconstitutional and calling on Senate Republicans to do away with the Democratic minority's ability to use them against President Bush's nominees. But then President Obama took office and made a Supreme Court nomination and those "principles" went right out the window and suddenly those who had been, just a few years earlier, decrying the filibuster as downright evil were championing it. Which brings us to this... MORE >

How Many Coalitions Does The Religious Right Need?

SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Wednesday 10/07/2009, 3:02pm

Over the last several months, we've been chronicling the seemingly endless emergence of new Religious Right groups and coalitions.  In recent months we've witnessed the arrival of the American Principles Project and the Faith and Freedom Institute, which was followed by Ralph Reed's Faith and Freedom Coalition, while Newt Gingrich was unveiling his Renewing American Leadership effort, and Lou Engle was announcing his Call to Action.  And then a bunch of Religious Right leaders came together under the banner of the Freedom Federation, but apparently the Freedom Federation wasn'... MORE >

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RYAN J. REILLY NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Another indicator of the changing of the guard in Washington came yesterday as dozens of representatives and leaders from conservative groups convened for a private meeting in the suburbs of Virginia. Representatives of a wide variety of Tea Party groups, mainstream conservative think tanks and right-wing media outlets came together to talk about the future of the conservative movement, TPMmuckraker has learned.

The agenda indicates that they attempted to hash out some of their priorities for the legislative agenda in the upcoming Congress, which will feature a GOP-controlled House for the first time in four years.

The hush-hush meeting was sponsored by the Conservative Action Project (CAP), an offshoot of the Council for National Policy.

Reagan-era Attorney General Ed Meese, the head of the CAP (not to be confused with the liberal Center for American Progress), was scheduled to address the summit, which drew attendees with speeches from Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and Rep. Tom Price (R-GA). Press secretaries for both members did not respond to requests for comment about their remarks.

Republican strategist Kellyanne Conway was also on the Conservative Leadership Summit agenda, along with Edwin Feulner, president of the Heritage Foundation, and former Rep. David McIntosh (R-Ind.). Press representatives for Conway and Feulner did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment, but a secretary for McIntosh confirmed that he was speaking at the summit.

A group discussion was to focus on the outcome of the election and the future of the conservative movement. Attendees were also invited to discuss economic, social and national security issues, judicial nominations and state elections and issues.

Organizations scheduled to be represented at the meeting included the National Organization for Marriage, the Media Research Center, Susan B. Anthony List, the Heritage Foundation, 60 Plus Association, the Federalist Society, the Family Research Council, Americans for Tax Reform, Concerned Women for America and the Tea Party Patriots.

Employees of the American Spectator, the Washington Examiner and Human Events were also invited, as were John Fund of the Wall Street Journal and Kathryn Jean Lopez of National Review Online (Lopez told TPMmuckraker she did not end up attending).

Republican House and Senate staffers from the Senate Judiciary Committee and the House Republican Conference made the guest list alongside conservative luminaries like Virginia Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Republican super-lawyer Cleta Mitchell, ATR’s Grover Norquist, the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins, RNC chair candidate Ken Blackwell, American Values President Gary Bauer and David Keene, the chairman of the American Conservative Union.

Frank Gaffney, the president of the right-wing Center for Security Policy who has raised fears over the imposition of Sharia law in America, attended the meeting, his secretary confirmed.

Kevin Gentry of Koch Industries — the oil and gas company which has funded Tea Party groups — was also invited, but declined to tell TPMmuckraker whether he attended, instead referring calls to Koch’s PR shop.

Patrick Pizzella, a former Bush administration official who is the only paid member of the Conservative Action Project, was out of the office and at a CAP event, according to the individual who picked up his phone. An e-mail to Pizzella was not immediately returned.

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        University of South Carolina - The Moore School of Business

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Patrick Pizzella's Experience

Principal

Patrick Pizzella, LLC

March 2009 – Present (4 years 6 months) Alexandria, VA

A management consulting organization focusing on government, administrative and public policy issues.

Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management & Chief Information Officer

U.S. Department of Labor

Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Government Administration industry

March 2001 – January 2009 (7 years 11 months) Washington D.C.

Nominated by President Bush on April 25, 2001 and confirmed by the Senate on May 9, 2001 and served until January 2009. The Assistant Secretary served as principal advisor to the Secretary of Labor in the administration and management programs of the DOL and as Chief Human Capital Officer. While there the DOL's workforce declined by 7% and its discretionary budget authority fell from $12 billion in FY2001 to $11.8 billion in 2008--the largest decline in discretionary budget authority of the 15 Cabinet Departments from 2001-2008.

Member, Board of Directors

Overseas Private Investment Corporation

Government Agency; 51-200 employees; International Trade and Development industry

January 2004 – April 2005 (1 year 4 months) Washington, D.C.

Designated by President George W. Bush to serve as a member of the Board of Directors of OPIC whose mission is to mobilize and facilitate the participation of United States private capital and skills in the economic and social development of less developed countries and areas, and countries in transition from non-market to market economies

Chief of Staff

U.S. Office of Personnel Management

Government Agency; 5001-10,000 employees; Government Administration industry

2001 – 2001 (less than a year) Washington, DC

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is the federal agency responsible for upholding and providing oversight and compliance with federal Merit Systems principles, the formulation and implementation of policies and procedures relating to human resources management government-wide, and for administering health, retirement, and insurance benefit programs to more than nine million current federal employees, retired employees, and their survivors. As Chief of Staff, for the first eight weeks of the new Administration, I served in a confidential advisory role on substantive policy, organization and internal management matters.

Policy Coordinator, U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) Team

Bush-Cheney Presidential Transition

November 2000 – January 2001 (3 months) Washington, DC

Responsible for recruiting and coordinating a four person team to review GSA policies and make recommendations to the new Administration.

Government Affairs Counselor

Preston Gates Ellis & Rouvelas Meeds

March 1996 – January 2001 (4 years 11 months) Washington, DC

From 1996 to 2001, Pizzella was a member of Preston Gates Ellis & Rouvelas Meeds, L.L.P. policy practice group and served as a Government Affairs Counselor with responsibility for the coordination of the firm's grassroots and coalition's management practice.

Director, Office of Administration

Federal Housing Finance Board

Government Agency; 51-200 employees; Banking industry

May 1990 – June 1995 (5 years 2 months) Washington, DC

The Federal Housing Finance Board oversaw the Federal Home Loan Bank System----a Government Sponsored Enterprise. As Director, Office of Administration, I served as the Agency's Chief Administrative Officer, with responsibility for supervision of the agency's $16 million budget, personnel functions, information systems, contracting and procurement, financial management, and general administrative services.

Deputy Under Secretary for Management

U.S. Department of Education

Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Government Administration industry

August 1988 – March 1989 (8 months) Washington D.C.

Responsible for the Department's personnel management, labor relations, training, procurement activity and administrative services. Other duties included being Audit Follow-up Official, Equal Employment Opportunity Official and representing Department on the President's Council on Management Improvement.

Administrator for Management Services

U.S. Department of Education

Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Government Administration industry

September 1986 – August 1988 (2 years) Washington, DC

Reported to the Deputy Under Secretary for Management and directed activities relating to personnel, management improvement, administrative services and the Federal Real Property Assistance Program

Director of Intergovernmental and Regional Affairs

U.S. Small Business Administration

Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Government Administration industry

May 1986 – September 1986 (5 months) Washington D.C.

I helped coordinate support for the President's budget initiative to reduce the size and reorganize the SBA. I also assisted the Acting Administrator in putting together a team of SBA regional administrators who supported the Reagan Administration's cost-cutting policies

Special Assistant to the Associate Deputy Administrator

U.S. Small Business Administration

Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Government Administration industry

July 1985 – May 1986 (11 months) Washington, DC

I worked closely with top-level management officials on matters concerning the Office of the Associate Deputy Administrator, particularly those issues pertaining to agency personnel and budget.

Special Assistant to Administrator

U.S. General Services Administration

Government Agency; 10,001+ employees; Government Administration industry

1981 – 1985 (4 years) Washington, DC

I served as GSA liaison to the White House Office of Presidential Personnel. I handled many confidential matters involving agency personnel for the Administrator, particularly related to the hiring of 10 Regional Administrators and Schedule C and non-career Senior Executive Service appointments. I also assisted in the transition period and Senate confirmation process for Gerald P. Carmen to become Administrator of GSA.

Patrick Pizzella's Courses

    Director, Office of Administration

    Federal Housing Finance Board

        Managing Multiple Projects, Objectives & Deadlines

        Stephen Covey Seminars

        GSA Information Technology Forum

    Administrator for Management Services

    U.S. Department of Education

        Seminar for Senior Executives

        Managing the Federal Real Estate Portfolio

        Worker's Compensation

        The Heritage Foundation: Improving Management Decisions through a Better Understanding of Public Policy

    Deputy Under Secretary for Management

    U.S. Department of Education

        Northeastern University Data Communications Buzzwords for Executives

Patrick Pizzella's Honors and Awards

    Top Doers, Dreamers and Drivers Award

    Government Technology (GT) Magazine & Center for Digital Government

        March 2005

    Outstanding Leadership Award in Support of Federal Government Management

    President's Council on Management Improvement

        September 1988

    America's Top Forty Performers in Public Service--40 years of age and younger

    Management Magazine, a publication of OPM

        March 1987

    Administrator's Public Service Award

    U.S. General Services Administration

        February 1984

    OPM Senior Executive Service Advisory Board

    Director, U.S. Office of Personnel Management

        March 1987

    Appointed by OPM Director Constance Horner

Patrick Pizzella's Publications

    How to cut the budget, for real

        Washington ExaminerSeptember 1, 2011

    Authors: Patrick Pizzella, James Carter

    How the DOL actually cut spending during Secretary Chao's tenure.

    Discretionary budget authority fell from $12 billion in fiscal year 2001 to $11.8 billion in 2008.

    'Card Check'--A Time to Reflect, But Not Rest

        The American SpectatorApril 7, 2011

    Authors: Patrick Pizzella

    A brief summary of the eight year legislative history of the Employee Free Choice Act--from birth to burial.....but reminder to be vigilant.

    It's still Ronald Reagan's world

        Washington ExaminerFebruary 5, 2011

    Authors: Patrick Pizzella

    A look at the continuing impact of President Ronald Reagan on the 100th anniversary of his birth.

    Guest Commentary--Another View: GovBenefits.gov: E-Government vision realized

        GCNFebruary 11, 2009

    Authors: Patrick Pizzella

    Since its inception nearly seven years ago, GovBenefits.gov has grown into what many consider to be one of the most successful e-government initiatives, serving as a resource for millions of the nation’s citizens. It has also revealed lessons on the expectations citizens have of their government and the challenges of making government resources readily available.

    Commentary: Staying Power: Continuity Led to Successes at Labor

        Federal TimesFebruary 1, 2009

    Authors: Patrick Pizzella

    Personnel is Policy--and continuity of Secretay of Labor Elaine L. Chao's appointees from 2001-2009 contributed to DOL's many successes.

    Department of Labor CIO Patrick Pizzella Talks Federal E-Government

        Public CIODecember 22, 2008

    Authors: Patrick Pizzella

    The longest-serving cabinet-level CIO in the federal government, looks back over nearly eight years and reflects on the many e-government successes achieved at the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) under the leadership of Labor Secretary Elaine L. Chao.

    MANAGING to GREEN at the DEPARTMENT of LABOR

        The Public ManagerDecember 2008

    Authors: Patrick Pizzella

    Winter 2008-2009 publication...Successful implementation of the President's Management Agenda at DOL

    Good Management, Good Policy

        American Society for Public AdministrationDecember 2008

    Authors: Patrick Pizzella

    A review of eight years (2001-2009) of management and policy successes at Department of Labor published in PA Times Special Section on Success Stories.

    A Beneficial Union

        Government Executive MagazineOctober 1, 2008

    Authors: Patrick Pizzella

    Better technology combined with open labor relations can cut the cost of official time.

    Since 2004, Labor has reduced official time usage by 37,000 hours, or 40 percent, an average of three hours per bargaining unit employee. The department has been at the vanguard of official time management, decreasing those hours 16 percent from fiscal 2006 to fiscal 2007. According to OPM data for the same...more

    Employees Aid One Another

        Federal TimesAugust 18, 2008

    Authors: Patrick Pizzella

    HR Executive's Viewpoint: Leave bank programs benefit Labor employees in need

    The Business of Government Hour

        IBM Center for The Business of GovernmentJanuary 12, 2008

    Authors: Patrick Pizzella

    Radio interview with Albert Morales and Steve Sieke

    Bringing New Skills to Labor

        Federal TimesJuly 30, 2007

    Authors: Patrick Pizzella

    HR Executive's Viewpoint: MBA Fellows Program bolsters workforce

    Labor models getting 'green'

        FCW: The Business of Federal TechnologyDecember 12, 2004

    Authors: Patrick Pizzella

    DOL upgraded to a "green" score for e-government on the President's Management Agenda.

    Cutting Costs on Workers' Comp

        Federal TimesOctober 11, 2004

    Authors: Patrick Pizzella

    The HR Executive's Viewpoint: Labor reduces injuries, illnesses, returns employees to work

    Top Score for Human Capital

        Federal TimesJune 7, 2004

    Authors: Patrick Pizzella

    The HR Executive's Viewpoint: Planning, coordination brought Labor to green

    Ask the CHCO (Chief Human Capital Officer)

        FederalNewsRadio.comJanuary 20, 2004

    Authors: Patrick Pizzella

    Radio interview discussing: Talent development; Succession planning; and Recruiting

    The Business of Government Hour

        IBM Center for The Business of GovernmentNovember 16, 2002

    Authors: Patrick Pizzella

    Radio interview with Paul Lawrence & Morgan Kinghor

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Conservative Action Project: A New Name For the Same Old Right-Wing Agenda

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Monday, 2/1/2010 1:13 pm

Several months ago, I wrote a post noting the emergence of the new right-wing coalition calling itself that Conservative Action Project. At the time, all that I could figure out about it was that its membership included several Religious Right leaders and it seemed to operate out of the Council for National Policy.

Today, the Washington Post examines the role that new media is playing in shaping and disseminating conservative messaging throughout the right-wing echo chamber and reports that the Conservative Action Project is playing a a key role in that effort through the weekly meetings hosted by the Family Research Council:

Inside the Beltway, much of it is fueled by the Conservative Action Project (CAP), a new group of conservative leaders chaired by Reagan-era attorney general Edwin Meese III. CAP, whose influential memos "for the movement" circulate on Capitol Hill, is an offshoot of the Council for National Policy, a highly secretive organization of conservative leaders and donors.

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At 7:30 a.m., members of the Conservative Action Project gather at theFamily Research Council, a social conservative group.

CAP grew out of a series of meetings of conservatives, determined to engineer a political comeback, in the weeks after Obama's election. One took place during a Council for National Policy meeting at a D.C. hotel, conservatives said. The secretive council was formed in the early 1980s to coordinate what was then called the "New Right."

Key players in CAP, members said, include Republican pollster Kellyanne Conway; Greg Mueller, president of CRC Public Relations; and former congressman David M. McIntosh (R-Ind.). Its only paid staff member is Patrick Pizzella, an official in the George W. Bush administration, who works out of the Council for National Policy offices.

Among CAP's projects was supporting the Health Care Freedom Coalition, whose more than 50 economic and social conservative groups quietly built health-care opposition, CAP members said. The coalition is a spinoff of FreedomWorks, the D.C.-based group that works extensively with tea-party activists.

CAP also worked unsuccessfully to defeat David F. Hamilton, Obama's first appellate judicial nominee. A Nov. 9 CAP memo calling Hamilton "an ideologue first and a jurist second" helped trigger blog blasts from Erickson and an anti-Hamilton speech at the conservative Federalist Society by Sen. Jeff Sessions (Ala.), the ranking Judiciary Committee Republican.

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Conservative Action Project (CAP) was founded in 2008 by many conservative leaders with former Attorney General Edwin Meese III serving as Founding Chairman. CAP is currently chaired by The Honorable Becky Norton Dunlop and is designed to facilitate conservative leaders working together on behalf of common goals.

CAP participants included the CEOs of over 100 organizations representing all major elements of the conservative movement – Economic, Social and National Security – as well as representatives of the Tea Party movement.

The vision of CAP was eloquently communicated in the Mount Vernon Statement which was released in 2010 and reads, in part:

At this important time, we need a restatement of Constitutional conservatism grounded in the priceless principle of ordered liberty articulated in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution…

…A Constitutional conservatism unites all conservatives through the natural fusion provided by American principles. It reminds economic conservatives that morality is essential to limited government, social conservatives that unlimited government is a threat to moral self-government, and national security conservatives that energetic but responsible government is the key to America’s safety and leadership role in the world.

A Constitutional conservatism based on first principles provides the framework for a consistent and meaningful policy agenda.

>- It applies the principle of limited government based on the rule of law to every proposal.

• It honors the central place of individual liberty in American politics and life.
• It encourages free enterprise, the individual entrepreneur, and economic reforms grounded in market solutions.
• It supports America’s national interest in advancing freedom and opposing tyranny in the world and prudently considers what we can and should do to that end beginning with an adequate defense for our nation.
• It informs conservatism’s firm defense of family, neighborhood, community, and faith.

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.R. 5053 will assist the IRS in doing its job: If the IRS doesnft have information

about donors to 501(c) organizations, it canft release it, by mistake, or by direction of a

successor to Lois Lerner . one of whom might, soon, be a Republican.

The IRS would continue to be able to obtain specific financial information, including

donor identity and contribution histories and information, as part of any audit or

enforcement action involving specific taxpayers; but that would be within a different IRS

procedure and would be unaffected by the passage of H. R. 5053.

The Conservative Action Project urges all conservatives and conservative

organizations . and all other Americans as well . to urge their representative in

Washington to support H.R. 5053. Ronald Reagan was right in 1981. And thirty]five years

later, government is still the problem.

The Honorable Edwin Meese III

Former Attorney General

President Ronald Reagan

The Honorable Becky Norton Dunlop

Chairman, Conservative Action Project

Former White House Advisor

President Ronald Reagan

L. Brent Bozell, III

Founder & President

Media Research Center

The Honorable Bob McEwen

U.S. House of Representatives

Former Member, Ohio

Cleta Mitchell

Attorney

Washington, DC

David Bozell

President

ForAmerica

The Honorable T. Kenneth Cribb, Jr.

Former Domestic Advisor

President Ronald Reagan

The Honorable David McIntosh

President

Club for Growth

The Honorable Tony Perkins

President

Family Research Council

Jenny Beth Martin

Co]Founder & President

Tea Party Patriots

Adam Brandon

President

FreedomWorks

David N. Bossie

President

Citizens United

Gary L. Bauer

President

American Values

James C. Dobson, Ph.D.

Founder and President

Family Talk

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Diana L. Banister

President

Shirley & Banister Public AffairsLuke Hilgemann

CEO

Americans for Prosperity

Jason Jones

President

Movie to Movement

Rod D. Martin

Founder and CEO

The Martin Organization, Inc.

Sherri R. Martin

Co]Founder

The Martin Foundation

Monty S. Warner

Plains States Legal Foundation

The Honorable Jerry Melvin

President

Florida Republican Assembly

Nicholas Stehle

Campaign for the American Future

Anthony Allen

President

Hannibal]LaGrange University

Mathew D. Staver, Esq.

Founder and Chairman

Liberty Counsel

Tom DeLay

Former Majority Leader

US House of Representatives

Kelly Shackelford, Esq.

President, CEO & Chief Counsel

First Liberty Institute

Andrea Lafferty

President

Traditional Values Coalition

Rev. Louis P. Sheldon

Founder and Chairman

Traditional Values Coalition

Norm Singleton

President

Campaign for Liberty

Mario H. Lopez

President

Hispanic Leadership Fund

Ali Akbar

Senior Advisor

Black Conservatives Fund

Mark J. Fitzgibbons

President of Corporate Affairs

American Target Advertising, Inc.

Phil Kerpen

President

American Commitment

Susan Carleson

President

American Civil Rights UnionThe Honorable Belden Bell

Trustee

The Heritage Foundation

Andresen Blom

Executive Director

Grassroot Hawaii Action, Inc.

Dan Backer,Esq.

DB Capitol Strategies PLLC

The Honorable Mike Hill

State Representative

District 2

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Allen J. Hebert

Chairman, American]Chinese

Fellowship of Houston

Tim Echols

Commissioner, State of Georgia

Founder, TeenPact

Brian C. Baker

President

Ending Spending

Kevin Kookogey

President and Founder

Linchpins of Liberty

Ken Boehm

Chairman

National Legal and Policy CenterGary Aldrich

President and Chairman of the Board

CNP Action, Inc.

Amy Ridenour

Chairman, National Center for

Public Policy Research

Trent England

David & Ann Brown Distinguished Fellow

Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs

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C.E.O.

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James Bopp, Jr.

James Madison Center for Free Speech

Richard A. Viguerie

Chairman

Conservative HQ.com

Grover Norquist

President

Americans for Tax Reform}:

Gary A. Marx

President

Madison Strategies

Joseph A. Morris

Attorney

Chicago, Illinois

Michael J. Bowen

CEO

Coalition For a Strong America

Stephani Scruggs

COO

Coalition For a Strong America

Kathleen Patten

President and CEO

American Target Advertising, Inc.

Richard D. Gaby

Founder/CEO

A K Rikk's

Charles J. Cooper

Cooper & Kirk, PLLC

Michael R. Long,

State Chairman

NYS Conservative Party

Tim LeFever

Chairman

Capitol Resource Institute

Heather R. Higgins

President and CEO

Independent Women's Voice

Sabrina Schaeffer

Executive Director

Independent Women's ForumDavid Williams

President

Taxpayers Protection Alliance

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Former State Senator

Somers White Co. Inc.

Pete Sepp

President

National Taxpayers Union & NTU Foundation

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Twila Brase

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Willes K. Lee

President

National Federation of Republican AssembliesDavid W. Preston

Executive Director, Oklahoma

Wesleyan University Foundation

Bill Pascoe

Partner

Antietam Communications

Lewis K. Uhler

Founder and President

National Tax Limitation Committee

Col Francis X. De Luca USMCR(Ret)

President

Civitas Institute

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Washington, DC: We must act now to protect religious liberty in America. The latest budget deal negotiated by the White House and outgoing House Speaker John Boehner, the Bipartisan Budget …

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