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<div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">TEST DRIVING CITIZENS UNITED</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>DeFazio’s 2010 reelection campaign was nearly derailed by the appearance of highly-funded ads which attacked him and supported his ‘Tea Party’ Republican opponent, Art Robinson</b>. Created by a <b>PAC calling itself Concerned Taxpayers of America (CTA)</b>, it had been an ongoing mystery at the time as to who put up the big money for that organization. Only a few weeks before the election, as per the then-newly lax criteria set forth by the Citizens United decision earlier that year, was it revealed that one of the only two funders was Mr Robert Mercer, who contributed $643,750.</font></span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Investigation by the Washington Post prior to the reveal turned up even more curiosities, including a denial of the existence of CTA by a PR rep standing in the doorway of its registered address and directly to DeFazio’s face. Also, we should not be surprised to learn </span><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">CTA’s treasurer was </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Jason Miller</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, who would go on to become Trump’s campaign communications director starting 30 June 2016</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">.</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Miller was briefly named White House communications director in December 2016, before recusing himself a few days later after a fellow campaign worker accused the otherwise married Miller of fathering her unborn child.</span></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mercer’s attacks on DeFazio are easily attributable to HFT tax proposals, but his support of political then-novice Art Robinson is also notable. Robinson is a crackpot pseudoscientist whose <b>mentor was Nobel Prize Winner Linus Pauling</b>, before they acrimoniously parted ways in a divorce which ultimately ended in Robinson’s $25.5m lawsuit against the Pauling Institute (which he<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> settled for $575k).</span></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Robinson then became a supporter of homeopathic disease cures via exposure to raw radioactive elements, as well as a well-known climate change denier, an obsessive hoarder of 14,000+ human urine samples, and a forest-dwelling widower who homeschooled his 6 children using his own Bible-based, available-for-sale “Robinson Curriculum” (all of which basically makes him the Anti-Captain Fantastic).<b> He lost to DeFazio in 2010 and lost again & again & again in 3 subsequent elections, but managed to become the chairman of the Oregon Republican Party from 2013–15, and has recently been considered for the role of Trump’s chief Science Adviser.</b></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Robert Mercer and his politically powerful daughter Rebekah are said to have become fans of Robinson’s after reading his newsletter “Access to Energy”, which argues such things as Chernobyl radiation and carbon pollution are ultimately beneficial to planetary life.</span> However, Mercer has privately “downplay[ed] the dangers posed by nuclear war” when excitedly expressing his belief that Hiroshima & Nagasaki radiation made the greater population of Japan healthier, and Robinson has published a book & multi-DVD set on Nuclear War Survival Skills, so they have that hobby in common.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After bringing someone like Robinson close to victory in 2010, the Mercers’ fresh taste for political power brought them the privileges and lifestyles of the rich & famous. They soon found themselves at a<b> 2011 conference of the Club For Growth,</b> a pro-business activist group for the conservative elite, which spent $6m of its own in support of 2010 GOP/Tea Party contenders. The Club is perhaps best known for being sued and fined by the FEC in 2005 for violating fair election laws. Its Executive Director <b>David Keating then formed SpeechNow</b>, a group which sued the FEC and did even more damage to campaign finance regulations via their Ninth Circuit Court victory in the immediate wake of Citizens United v FEC, but right now we’re focused on the Club as the place where Mercer first met Andrew Breitbart.</font></span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" /></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/peter-defazio-concerned-taxpayers-ambush_n_738532"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.huffpost.com/entry/peter-defazio-concerned-taxpayers-ambush_n_738532</font></a></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div style=""><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Rep. Peter DeFazio Turns The Tables, Confronts Shadowy Conservative Group Running Attack Ads Against Him (VIDEO)</b></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By Amanda Terkel</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) is turning the tables on a political group launching attack ads against him in an attempt to bring its shadowy practices to light. On Friday, he went to the Capitol Hill headquarters of the Concerned Taxpayers of America to deliver a letter and speak with members of the organization about making its donors public. But the person who answered the door misrepresented himself and lied, saying he had never heard of Concerned Taxpayers, even though subsequent information shows that he is affiliated with the group.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">According to Federal Elections Commission (FEC) filings, Concerned Taxpayers is spending $86,000 for ads to help DeFazio’s opponent, Art Robinson. The ads being broadcast in southern Oregon try to portray DeFazio as a puppet of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Cali.). The Register-Guard in Eugene, Oregon calls this association “a reach”:</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DeFazio has opposed several of the speaker’s top legislative priorities, including the stimulus bill and cap-and-trade climate change legislation, and he came close to revolting against the health care reform bill.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pelosi regards DeFazio as one of the least loyal members of her caucus, and DeFazio said in an interview earlier this week that he’d favor replacing Pelosi as speaker if the Democrats retain their House majority. But the Concerned Taxpayers of America, whoever they are, understand that Pelosi is less popular than DeFazio in the 4th District, so the ads make them out to be political twins.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Very little is known about Concerned Taxpayers. The group’s treasurer is a man named Jason Miller, who, according to the FEC report, is with a Republican political consulting firm called Jamestown Associates. </font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DeFazio decided to confront Concerned Taxpayers on Friday, intending to deliver a letter requesting that the group make its donors public. “Since you intend to try and buy Art Robinson a congressional seat, by raising and spending ‘unlimited amounts of money,’ the voters of Oregon are entitled to know who is picking up the tab,” wrote DeFazio.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The Huffington Post, along with a couple of journalists from The Washington Post, accompanied DeFazio on the short walk from the Rayburn House Office Building over to Concerned Taxpayers’ headquarters, listed as 10 E St, SE,</b> which turned out to be a small grey townhouse. DeFazio had to ring the doorbell, knock, and yell through the mail slot before someone came to the door. The man identified himself as Mike Omegna and he told the congressman that he had never heard of Miller or Concerned Taxpayers, nor was his voice on the organization’s voicemail: </font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DEFAZIO: You don’t know Jason Miller?</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">OMEGNA: No. No, I don’t, sir. ... I rent this place. [...]</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DEFAZIO: Did you ever hear of Concerned Taxpayers of America?</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">OMEGNA: Nope. [...]</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">WASHINGTON POST: You’re on the [voice] message, aren’t you?</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">OMEGNA: Am I? I shouldn’t be. </font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DEFAZIO: So you know nothing about Concerned Taxpayers for America, and you’re not forwarding calls. </font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">OMEGNA: No. </font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DEFAZIO: You’re just a renter?</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">OMEGNA: Yes.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“These people must be really scared of revealing who they really are, or they wouldn’t be having a blind drop and someone who’s probably misrepresenting themselves answering the door,” DeFazio told reporters after the incident. </font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">WATCH DEFAZIO’S CONFRONTATION: </font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">It appeared that Omegna was dissembling. The Huffington Post called Concerned Taxpayers’ phone number, and the message, in Omegna’s voice, said: </font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">You’ve reached Michael Omegna at Jamestown Associates. I can’t get to my phone right now, but if you leave me your name and number</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, I’ll get back to you as soon as I can. If this is regarding Concerned Taxpayers of America, please leave a detailed message and I will respond back as soon as possible.</span></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So not only did Omegna clearly have an association with Miller — who works at Jamestown Associates — but he also has a tie to Concerned Taxpayers and his voice was on the answering machine, despite what he told DeFazio.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Huffington Post was able to reach Miller later in the day, who said that Omegna simply “misspoke.” “He [Omegna] works for me at Jamestown, but yeah — regarding the whole, you know, ambush from Congressman DeFazio earlier today, Michael clearly misspoke and should have identified himself clearly,” he said. “So, 10 E St where Concerned Taxpayers is located, and I’m the treasurer.” When asked whether Concerned Taxpayers was willing to disclose its donors, as DeFazio is requesting, Miller laughed. “We comply fully with the Federal Election Campaign Act, and our donors are disclosed as required by law, and so it’s very clear,” he said. “I think this all sounds like a media circus from a career politician, who’s quite frankly, worried he’s going to lose in November.”</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>It doesn’t appear that Concerned Taxpayers is breaking any laws. The Supreme Court’s Citizen United decision has opened the floodgates for groups like this to operate with very little scrutiny</b>; independent groups are now allowed to spend unlimited amounts of money without disclosing their donors. “Voters are accustomed to manipulative political advertising, but it used to be possible to find out who was behind it, ensuring some degree of accountability,” writes The Register-Guard. “Sniping from the bushes is allowed now in American politics, with no disclosure of who’s pulling the trigger, how much ammo they have or where it came from. The chief remaining restriction is the one that prevents independent political groups from coordinating their activities with candidates’ campaigns. But it will be difficult to know whether such coordination has occurred if the groups paying for political ads and other campaign activity hide in the shadows.”</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DeFazio believes that more politicians should be confronting these groups face-to-face. “We’ve got to take it to them,” he told HuffPost. “I’m an activist, always have been my whole life, and I’m going there to confront them and say, ‘Who are you, and why are you so afraid to disclose where your money come from? Would it totally discredit your attacks on me and other Democrats? Would it totally discredit your organization?’ We don’t know who they are. And as I said earlier, how can we enforce existing law, which does say it can’t be a foreign government, a foreign entity, a foreign individual, but if we are allowed no disclosure, how will we ever know who funded these campaigns?”</font></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="byline-item" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; display: block; float: left; clear: left; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: 700; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); line-height: 1.4em;"><a href="mailto:christian.wihtol@registerguard.com" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; color: rgb(152, 152, 152); text-decoration-line: none; font-size: 18.662px; display: block; font-kerning: normal; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; margin-bottom: 10px;">Wihtol</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><div class="article-meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin-right: 18.8594px; width: auto; min-height: 1em; clear: left; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-family: "Crimson Text", Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 17.5px;"><div class="inner" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="article-meta-main" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 4.28125px; width: 182px; display: table-footer-group; float: none; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(152, 152, 152); line-height: 1.4em;"><span class="article-meta-date" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Posted Oct 19, 2010 at 12:01 AM</span></div><div class="article-meta-tools" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; width: 182px; border: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0.91058em 0px;" /></div></div><div class="inner" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-family: "Crimson Text", Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 17.5px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" /><div class="Text" id="DTElementID-29105" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="BodyText-BodyText" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Two wealthy East Coast donors are the sole financial backers behind Concerned Taxpayers of America, a political action committee that began running television ads last month attacking incumbent U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio, according to disclosure records filed with the Federal Elections Commission.</p><p class="BodyText-BodyText" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><b>Robert Mercer, a New York hedge fund executive, and Daniel G. Schuster Inc., a Maryland concrete company,</b> have contributed $200,000 and $300,000 respectively to Concerned Taxpayers, which -- according to its website -- “was formed to engage citizens from every walk of life and political affiliation and urge them to hold our nation’s elected leaders accountable for the country’s fiscal well-being.”</p><p class="BodyText-BodyText" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">The committee so far has spent money on ads targeting Democratic incumbents in just two races: $303,800 on the race between DeFazio and Republican challenger Art Robinson, a Cave Junction chemist, and $149,606 against U.S. Rep. Frank Kratovil, D-Maryland, who is being challenged by the GOP’s Andy Harris.</p><p class="BodyText-BodyText" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Until the disclosure was filed last week, the group’s source of money had been a mystery -- one that DeFazio made an issue of in recent weeks.</p><p class="BodyText-BodyText" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">The group formed on Sept. 1 and began paying for anti-DeFazio ads after that, so under federal election rules it did not have to disclose its sources of funding until Oct. 15, the filing date for the July 1-Sept. 30 quarter. The group, in its registration letter with the FEC, noted that it is taking advantage of a recent U.S. Court of Appeals ruling that allows groups to raise and spend unlimited amounts of money in federal races, provided they do not use that money to make contributions of any kind to, or communicate with, federal candidates or political committees.</p><p class="BodyText-BodyText" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">In late September, DeFazio, accompanied by news teams from both The Washington Post newspaper and The Huffington Post website, knocked on the door of the group’s Washington, D.C., office, attempting to deliver a letter that said, “The voters of Oregon are entitled to know who is picking up the tab” in the Robinson campaign.</p><p class="BodyText-BodyText" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">With cameras rolling, DeFazio questioned an employee, who claimed he was a “renter” who knew nothing about the organization. The Washington Post reported that Concerned Taxpayers treasurer Jason Miller later said the “renter” was a junior staff member who felt “ambushed” and didn’t know what to say.</p><p class="BodyText-BodyText" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Mercer is the co-CEO of Renaissance Technologies, a privately owned hedge fund sponsor.</p><div class="ad-container" style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><p class="BodyText-BodyText" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Neither DeFazio nor Robinson could immediately be reached Monday. In a Washington Post article Sunday, DeFazio noted he’s been tough on Wall Street and co-sponsored legislation to levy a tax on major hedge fund transactions.</p><div class="interstitial-nondistroscale interstitial-nondistroscale adInject" data-gh-lazy-ad-bucket-targeting="{"ad-type":"Rich Media","slot":"interstitial","sov":"base ROS","outofpage":"interstitial","creative-format":"Interstitial,Outstream Video","pageFeature":""}" id="interstitial-nondistroscale" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both;" /><p class="BodyText-BodyText" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Robinson told the newspaper he was acquainted with Mercer, who made a $9,600 personal contribution to his campaign, but didn’t realize he was connected to the Concerned Taxpayers group.</p><p class="BodyText-BodyText" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><b>Meanwhile, new filings with the FEC show Robinson and DeFazio both have been working hard at fundraising in the past quarter.</b></p><p class="BodyText-BodyText" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Robinson’s campaign committee raised $562,000 in the quarter, for a total of $948,000 in the election cycle. He had $182,000 on hand as of Sept. 30.</p><p class="BodyText-BodyText" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">DeFazio’s campaign committee raised $245,000 in the quarter, for a total of $898,000 in the cycle. He had $605,000 on hand as of Sept. 30.</p><p class="BodyText-BodyText" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Robinson’s donations came mostly from out of state, and mostly as contributions from individuals for a few hundred dollars to a few thousand. Recent Lane County donors include Carolyn Chambers, owner of KEZI-TV, $650 total; Rural Lane County gravel businessman Vern Egge, $2,000; Eugene landlord Donna Wooley, $1,000; and retired Cottage Grove wood products executive Carlton Woodard, $2,000. Robinson’s filings indicate he’s received no money from political action committees.</p><p class="BodyText-BodyText" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Individual donations to DeFazio’s campaign this quarter have come mostly from Oregon residents, but by far his largest donations have come from a myriad of political action committees representing, among other constituencies, airline pilots, truck operators/owners, large manufacturing corporations, construction contractors and labor unions.</p><p class="BodyText-BodyText" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Recent Lane County donors include Eugene photographers Lynda and Brian Lanker, $1,700 total; Eugene attorney Arthur Johnson, $1,500; Dr. David Fryefield, medical director of the Willamette Valley Cancer Center, $2,000; and Eugene investor and philanthropist Rosaria Haugland, $500</p></div></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h1 class="bNg8Rb" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); height: 1px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; white-space: nowrap; width: 1px; z-index: -1000;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Search Results</font></h1><div eid="B_BKXoHnK8_UtQWBjaOoDQ" data-async-context="query:concerned%20taxpayers%20of%20aMERICA%20jason%20miller%20mercer" id="rso" style="margin-top: 6px;"><div class="bkWMgd"><h2 class="bNg8Rb" style="clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); height: 1px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; white-space: nowrap; width: 1px; z-index: -1000;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Web results</font></h2><div class="srg"><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; width: 600px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 27px;"><div data-hveid="CAMQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwjBhseor9nnAhVPaq0KHYHGCNUQFSgAMAB6BAgDEAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.57;"><a href="https://www.pressreader.com/usa/the-washington-post-sunday/20101017/287251708820838" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.pressreader.com/usa/the-washington-post-sunday/20101017/287251708820838&ved=2ahUKEwjBhseor9nnAhVPaq0KHYHGCNUQFjAAegQIAxAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
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New York hedge fund executive Robert <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mercer</span> gave the group another ...</font></span></a></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; width: 600px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 27px;"><div data-hveid="CAUQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwjBhseor9nnAhVPaq0KHYHGCNUQFSgAMAV6BAgFEAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.57;"><a href="https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1079889585356697600.html" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1079889585356697600.html&ved=2ahUKEwjBhseor9nnAhVPaq0KHYHGCNUQFjAFegQIBRAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
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line-height: 1.57;"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:aTP6UsUZXHkJ:https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1079889585356697600.html+&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:aTP6UsUZXHkJ:https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1079889585356697600.html%2B%26cd%3D6%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwjBhseor9nnAhVPaq0KHYHGCNUQIDAFegQIBRAG" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.57; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">"He told me he had also worked in <span style="font-weight: bold;">the US</span>, in Oregon, during one of the trial runs ... developing mad skillz for <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mercer's</span> favorite fruitcake (tweet 8 of this thread): #<wbr />2014 ... The group's treasurer is a man named <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jason Miller</span>... is with a Republican ... .com/2010/09/24/peter-defazio-<span style="font-weight: bold;">concerned</span>-<span style="font-weight: bold;">taxpayers</span>-ambush_n_738532.html.</font></span></a></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; width: 600px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 27px;"><div data-hveid="CAgQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwjBhseor9nnAhVPaq0KHYHGCNUQFSgAMAZ6BAgIEAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.57;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_DeFazio" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_DeFazio&ved=2ahUKEwjBhseor9nnAhVPaq0KHYHGCNUQFjAGegQICBAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
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