Liberty Fdn

same addy as OCPA

alec:  

Brandon Dutcher, Vice President for Policy, represents the organization as a member of ALEC's <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Education_Task_Force" title="Education Task Force" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Education Task Force</a> as of July 2011.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Oklahoma_Council_of_Public_Affairs#cite_note-EdMeetingAgenda-3" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a>

OCPA president, Michael Carnuccio, is a member of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Energy,_Environment_and_Agriculture_Task_Force" title="Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force</a> and Jason Sutton, former Policy Impact Director for OCPA, was also a member of the<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Health_and_Human_Services_Task_Force" title="Health and Human Services Task Force" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Health and Human Services Task Force</a>.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Oklahoma_Council_of_Public_Affairs#cite_note-4" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Oklahoma_Council_of_Public_Affairs#cite_note-5" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[5]</a>

Jonathan Small of the OCPA has also represented the think tank on the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Tax_and_Fiscal_Policy_Task_Force" title="Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force</a>. He participated in a panel discussion, "Debunking Tax Myths" at the 2012 Spring Task Force Summit.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Oklahoma_Council_of_Public_Affairs#cite_note-6" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a>

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MICHAEL C. CARNUCCIO

?Michael C. Carnuccio serves in the capacity of President and CEO of the Liberty Foundation and serves as President of the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs. Previously, Michael served as senior advisor for Oklahomans for Responsible Government, director of public affairs for the Oklahoma House of Representatives, and director of public affairs for Saxum Strategic Communications (now Saxum PR). He also was an Adjunct Faculty lecturing in courses on American Government with the Department of Political Science at Oklahoma State University.

His work has been published in the Korean Journal of Public Policy, The Oklahoman, and the Tulsa World. His weekly column “Free Market Friday” is published by the Journal Record and syndicated in 27 markets. Michael is a member of Club 29 Rotary, the Downtown Club of Oklahoma City, the Heritage Foundation’s Young President’s Club and SALLT.

He currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Liberty Foundation, Operation Homefront, OCPA Impact, The Fairness Center, and the Steering Committee at Roosevelt Leadership Academy. Michael received both his B.A. in Broadcast Journalism and his M.A. in Political Science from Oklahoma State University.

He lives in Yukon, OK with his wife, Kayla, and their sons, Joseph and Thomas.

michael@libertyfound.org

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MATT A. MAYER

Matt A. Mayer serves in the capacity of COO of the Liberty Foundation. He also serves as the President of Opportunity Ohio, a free market think tank in Ohio. He previously spent 6.5 years as a Visiting Fellow with The Heritage Foundation, where he researched, wrote, and spoke on national security and federalism issues. Mayer was a senior official at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) under the leadership of Secretaries Tom Ridge and Michael Chertoff. Mayer came to DHS from Colorado where he served Governor Bill Owens as the Deputy Director for the Department of Regulatory Agencies.

Mayer is the author of The Founding Debate: Where Should the Power Over Our Lives Reside, Competitive Federalism: Leveraging the Constitution to Rebuild America, Taxpayers Don’t Stand a Chance: Why Battleground Ohio Loses No Matter Who Wins (and What to To About It), Homeland Security and Federalism: Protecting America from Outside the Beltway, which features a foreword by the Honorable Edwin Meese III, former U.S. Attorney General under President Ronald Reagan.

He has appeared as a guest commentator on C-SPAN, Fox News Channel, CPAC, National Journal, and other major media outlets. His articles and analysis have appeared in a variety of newspapers, law reviews, public policy journals, and online forums. He has presented expert testimony to Congress and several state legislatures.

Mayer graduated from the University of Dayton, with a double major in Philosophy and Psychology. The Dayton native received his law degree from The Ohio State University College of Law. He also served as a 2007 Lincoln Fellow with The Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy and a 2006 American Marshall Memorial Fellow with the German Marshall Fund of the United States.

Mayer resides in Dublin, Ohio, with his wife and three children.

matt@libertyfound.org

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CASSANDRA HOWARD

?Cassandra Howard serves in the capacity of Director of Development at The Liberty Foundation and has a been with the organization since its launch. Before joining The Liberty Foundation, Howard worked at the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, Oklahoma's premier free market think tank.

Howard earned a B.A. from the University of Oklahoma in communication and history. In 2013, she graduated from Atlas Economic Research Foundation's Atlas Leadership Academy.

She lives in Moore, Oklahoma, and currently sits on the board of the VQ-3 Squadron Naval Officers' Spouses' Club.

cassandra@libertyfound.org

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TERESA YODER

Teresa Yoder serves in the capacity of Director of Operations at The Liberty Foundation and joined the organization in March of 2014.  Previously, Yoder worked at AdvancePierre Foods.  During her 19 years with APF, she held the positions of Financial Analyst, Customer Service Representative and Director of Customer Service.

She lives in Mustang, OK, with her husband, Walt, and enjoys spending time with her four grandsons.

teresa@libertyfound.org

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<p style=" border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(110, 108, 108); font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: transparent;">PAUL ALLEN - Chairman

Enid, Oklahoma

DAVID R. BROWN, M.D.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

BILL BUCKNER

Raleigh, North Carolina

MICHAEL CARNUCCIO - President

Yukon, Oklahoma

EDWIN J. FEULNER, PH.D.

Washington, DC

MARGARET ANN MORRIS

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

WILLIAM F. WHITSITT, PH.D.

William F. Whitsitt, Ph.D.

Executive Vice President, Public Affairs

Devon Energy Corporation

Dr. Bill Whitsitt is Executive Vice President for Public Affairs at Devon Energy

Corporation of Oklahoma City, one of the largest U.S. independent oil and gas

exploration and production (E&P) companies — and a high-tech leader in the

development of America’s abundant shale natural gas resources.

Before joining Devon, Bill had an extensive career in

the independent E&P sector involving public affairs,

government relations and oil and gas marketing.

Bill came to Devon in 2008 from his position as

president of the American Exploration & Production

Council, the national trade association representing the

largest U.S. independents.

Previous positions included director, Government

Affairs, for one of the world’s largest law firms. Bill

had also been vice president of worldwide Marketing

and Public Affairs for U.S. independent Oryx Energy

Company, a spin-off from Sun Company (the Sun

Oil/Sunoco parent). At Sun, Bill had been Director of Legislative Affairs. Before

his energy career, he was chief of staff for a U.S. senator and a legislative

assistant in the Senate and House of Representatives.

Prior to his government service, Bill was a CBS News Fellow at Columbia

University, then formed and directed the Montana Television Network news

organization. He received his doctorate in Public Administration from The

George Washington University in Washington, D.C., where he then taught

graduate level courses in public policy formulation and federal institutions.

Dr. Whitsitt is active with key energy-related organizations. A former chairman

of the Communications Committee of America’s Natural Gas Alliance, he was

instrumental in the design and launch of its national communications research

and advertising programs. He currently leads important regional and state

advocacy and educational programs designed to protect and improve the

business and policy environments in which Devon and its counterparts operate.

He is also a trustee of the Greater Montana Foundation.

Bigfork, Montana

HERITAGE FOUNDATION, JOSEPH COORS, FOUNDER 1973

(Compiled by PRO-S.O.C.S., REF: THE COORS CONNECTION, Russ Bellant)

Set up by Paul Weyrich and Joseph Coors as a tax exempt educational research entity in conjunction with the Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress (CSFC).

Board of Directors:

Dr. Edwin J. Feulner, President Phillip N. Truluck, Exec. V.P. Burton Y. Pines, V.P., Director Research Herb B. Berkowitz, V.P., Public Relations Hugh C. Newton, Senior Public Relations Council Charles L. Heatherly, V.P., Academic Relations Peter E. S. Pover, V.P., Administration & Finance Terrance Scanlon, V.P. & Treasurer M. D. B. Carlise, V.P., Government Relations Dr. Kim R. Holmes, Director, Foreign Policy & Defense Studies Dr. Bernard T. Lomas, Counselor to President Dr. Stuart M. Butler, Director, Domestic & Economic Policy Studies Kenneth J. Conoboy, Acting Director, Asian Studies Center, Jeffrey Gayner, Counselor for International Relations Ben Blackburn, Ex U.S. Congressman

FREE CONGRESS PAC (FCPAC) - Campaign arm of the Free Congress Foundation

FREE CONGRESS FOUNDATION (FCF), Paul Weyrich - Lobbies, publishes and organizes forums.

COUNCIL FOR NATIONAL POLICY (CNP) - Founded in 1981; Tim LaHaye, First President, 81/82 - Lobbying group.

JOSEPH COORS

Member of Reagan's "Kitchen Cabinet". Published Mandate for Leadership I to guide the incoming Reagan Administration and the follow-up Mandate for Leadership II when Reagan was reelected in 1984.

The Coors family is connected to a number of conservative and reactionary groups which attack pluralism and public education, primarily through the Coors Family Foundation.

ACCURACY IN ACADEMIA - A national, conservative education watchdog group.

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHRISTIAN EDUCATORS (NACE), Robert Simonds.

EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH ANALYSTS - A non-profit corporation run by Mel and Norma Gabler, whose work has been endorsed by such right-wingers as Phyllis Schlafly and Jerry Falwell. The Gablers evaluate textbooks for signs of what they regard as unpatriotic, anti-Christian or anti-family sentiment. The Gablers use the literal interpretation of the Bible as their primary authority to make such evaluations. Has received more than $130K in contributions from the Coors Foundation over the past ten years.

TELEVISION NEWS, INC. (TVN) - Jack Wilson, Pres., Roger Ailes (George Bush's Campaign `88 image-maker), William Kling. A national media outlet established in 1973 by Joseph Coors. Jack Wilson forbade reporting on Ralph Nader, Daniel Ellsberg, Native American activists and followers of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Wilson has been quoted as saying, "I hate all those network people. They're destroying the country. We have to unify the country."

ACCURACY IN MEDIA (AIM) - Headed by Reed Irvine. This group has been allied with Rev. Moon's Unification Church. The Congressional investigation of South Korean Central Intelligence Agency activities in the U.S. in the 1970's found that the KCIA intended to utilize AIM to counter North Korean influence.

HILLSDALE COLLEGE - Has strong connections to the far right. Is the repository of the complete Manion Forum collection of the late John Birch Society National Council member Clarence Manion. Has associated itself with such groups as the World Anti-Communist League. The Hillsdale's monthly magazine, Imprimis, reflects the school's far-right political views, including those on public education.

CHRISTIANDOM COLLEGE - A small right-wing Catholic school in Virginia founded by Warren Carroll, a former CIA employee.

REGENT UNIVERSITY - An affliate of Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network. Holly Coors is a board member.

NATIONAL LEGAL CENTER - Pro-business advocating reduced governmental regulation on environmental matters.

MOUNTAIN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION (MSLF) - Denver based. Under James Watt's direction, MSLF filed legal briefs opposing an affirmative action program at the University of Colorado Law School, seeking to limit health and safety inspections of business, and arguing for the repeal of Idaho's ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.

PHYLLIS SCHALFLY's Stop-ERA.

THE CONSERVATIVE CAUCUS (TCC) - Founded by Howard Phillips in 1974. This is one of the most radically reactionary groups in the U.S. Phillips and TCC board member Don McAlvany work with military and police officials in South Africa who are perceived as supporting a harder line than the Nationalist Party. Phillips has quoted favorably the head of South Africa's openly white-supremacist Conservative Party. He is running for president in the 1992 election on the U.S. Taxpayers Party ticket. He also continues to work closely with the John Birch Society.

DR. EDWIN J. FEULNER, Pres., Heritage Foundation. FREEDOM LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION (FLF) - The political arm of the Unification Church of America. Dr. Feulner's connections with the Korean Central Intelligence Agency through the Freedom Leadership Foundation (FLF) were investigated by the Fraser Congressional Committee.

MICHAEL WARDER, Director of Administration, Heritage Foundation, 1980. Had ties to Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church.

UNIFICATION CHURCH OF AMERICA (UCA) - Michael Warder was a Director of UCA in 1977. INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL FOUNDATION - An umbrella organization for the business enterprises of Moon, one of which is Tong II Enterprises, an exporter of M16's and heavy weapons that also engages in tuna fishing. Warden was listed as Director of Tong II in 1978. Warder was the largest American stockholder of Tong II Enterprises in the 1970's.

NEWS WORLD COMMUNICATIONS, INC. - Moon publication. Warder was listed as having held an editorial position.

CHRISTIAN VOICE - A Moon connected sheparding group that has operated out of the Heritage building in Washington, D.C. Robert Grant, a member of the board of CNP and chairman of AFC, is a chairman of this group.

AMERICAN FREEDOM COALITION (AFC) - A Moon front group. Has raised funds for Oliver North.

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