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</div><div>=</div><div>an raw 4 22</div><div>Reynolds American, the U.S.'s largest seller of menthol cigarettes, is invoking the memories of the deaths of <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/the-of-george-floyd-and-a-year-of-turmoil-in-us/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">George Floyd</a> and <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/2014/12/no-indictment-in-nyc-polce-choke-hold-death-of-eric-garner/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Eric Garner</a> in a campaign to fight against laws that would ban it from selling its biggest cash cow product.An almost year-long investigation by the <a href="https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2022-04-25/inside-big-tobaccos-strategy-to-stoke-fear-among-black-smokers-facing-menthol-bans" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Los Angeles Times</a> and the <a href="https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Bureau of Investigative Journalism</a> has found that the company is paying a vast team of Black lobbyists and consultants, including former congressman Kendrick Meeks of Florida and Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network, to protect its multi-billion-dollar menthol cigarette market.The company's message is that government efforts to prohibit the sale of menthol cigarettes unfairly target the Black community and equate to a new layer of racism in America.The Times reports: "About 150 cities and counties have placed some sort of restriction on the sale of menthol cigarettes, most issuing an outright ban. If California votes to prohibit the sale of menthols in November, it would follow Massachusetts as the second state to do so. The Food and Drug Administration has drafted a national ban that could follow in the next few years, which estimates suggest could save more than 600,000 lives, including almost 250,000 Black lives."This investigation has revealed that individuals and organizations working on Reynolds’ behalf have not properly declared their ties to the company.
“The web that keeps menthol present in cities is not an accident. It’s not driven by some kind of innate Black taste for menthol,” said Keith Wailoo, a history professor at Princeton University and author of “Pushing Cool,” a book about menthol cigarettes. “It is a byproduct of a complex and relentless story of how markets were built and sustained.”In response to a list of questions, Reynolds American told reporters it believed that “regulating menthol cigarettes differently than non-menthol cigarettes would result in numerous troubling unintended consequences, including significant growth in contraband menthol cigarettes sold through an already widespread underground market.”Sharpton and Meek did not respond to multiple inquiries from The Times. In the past, Sharpton has cited the 2014 death of Eric Garner, who New York City police detained for allegedly selling untaxed cigarettes.“They killed him over ‘loosie’ cigarettes,” he said at a 2016 forum held in an Oakland church, referring to allegations that Garner was illegally selling single cigarettes. “How many of these kind of situations are we going to have if we keep having these kind of engagements around criminalizing of low-level offenses?”</div><div>=</div><div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2019/12/the-decade-republicans-hijacked-our-democracy-via-the-gerrymander/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">https://www.alternet.org/2019/12/the-decade-republicans-hijacked-our-democracy-via-the-gerrymander/</a>no lnx
The decade Republicans hijacked our democracy — via the gerrymander
Written by David Daley / Salon December 30, 2019
As this decade comes to a close, 59 million Americans live in a state where one or both chambers of the state legislature is controlled by the party that got fewer votes in the 2018 election.In Wisconsin in 2018, voters elected a Democratic U.S. senator, defeated an incumbent Republican governor, picked Democrats for every statewide office, and favored Democratic candidates for the state assembly by more than 200,000 ballots. Republicans nevertheless controlled more than 63 percent of the seats.We end the 2020s with voter purges in Ohio, Wisconsin and Georgia, with precinct closures weaponized to lower voter participation across the South, with Texas, Tennessee and Florida making it harder to register new voters. The ball drops on the 2010s with state legislatures in Florida, Michigan and Missouri willing to undo voting reforms approved by upwards of 60 percent of the people via initiative.One of our final images of the U.S. House will be the floor debate over impeachment, with its dueling images of older, white men defending the president’s actions over Ukraine and younger members, largely women and people of color, insisting that no one, even a president, stand above the law.White men make up a smaller slice of the American electorate with each election. Yet they maintain outsized power in Congress and state legislatures. A new decade dawns with a crisis of representation that threatens the integrity of representative democracy itself.We’re in this mess, in many ways, because of gerrymandering. This was the decade that the gerrymander — perhaps the oldest political trick in the book — pushed American politics into a dangerous state of anti-majoritarianism, grounded in racial fear and identity politics, that may take at least another decade to overcome, assuming we ever do so.It’s worth remembering how we got here. After all, the decade began with the likelihood that changing American demographics might push the nation in a very different direction.As thousands celebrated America’s first black president in Chicago’s Grant Park on election night 2008, the smartest analysts on every network, left and right, watched Barack Obama defeat John McCain and wondered whether an increasingly diverse nation might render Republicans a minority party for decades.Top Republican strategists had a different idea. The 2008 election might have been historic, they understood, but 2010 had the potential to be transformative. Every state legislative and congressional district in the nation would be redrawn after the 2010 census. State legislatures would draw most of the lines. If Obama and the Democrats suffered a difficult midterm election, as new presidents often do, Republicans could quickly change their fortunes, dominate redistricting, and draw themselves an enduring advantage, even in competitive states they’d lost in 2008, such as Wisconsin, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan.
The GOP plan — known as REDMAP, or the Redistricting Majority Project — was headquartered at the Republican State Leadership Committee, led by former party chairman Ed Gillespie. It was announced on the op-ed page of the Wall Street Journal by no less than GOP mastermind Karl Rove. The RSLC’s key benefactors included Koch Industries, Walmart, Reynolds American and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The RSLC identified just over 100 state legislative races in crucial states, and drowned Democratic incumbents in waves of sophisticated negative advertisements in the final weeks of the 2010 race. (It helped that cocky Democrats snoozed on the importance of redistricting and barely put up any fight.) And when it came time to remap these states in 2011, using the most exacting voter data andsophisticated mapping technology ever deployed on redistricting, the political operations of new House Speaker John Boehner, Paul Ryan and many other establishment figures would play key roles.
It worked. In 2012, the first election held under these lines, Democratic U.S. House candidates won 1.4 million more votes than Republicans nationwide. Republicans held the chambers nevertheless, decisively, 234-201. In targeted swing states like Pennsylvania and Michigan, Democratic candidates would earn tens of thousands more votes, but the Republican-drawn districts packed and cracked those votes so precisely that the GOP would win 13 of the 18 seats from Pennsylvania and nine of 14 from Michigan. Democratic state legislative candidates would routinely win more votes in these states as well; Republicans would hold both chambers in Michigan, Ohio, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin regardless.So yes, it worked. But it also contained the seeds of the party’s unraveling, placed a frustrated and impossible-to-please base in charge, and set the stage for an outsider to sweep up the pieces four years later.But first, something else would happen in 2012: Barack Obama defeated Mitt Romney, and shaken Republicans realized they’d lost the popular vote in five out of six presidential elections, GOP leaders commissioned a warts-and-all diagnosis of the party’s brand. It wasn’t pretty. One-time Republican voters now described the party as “scary,” “out of touch,” “narrow-minded,” even “stuffy old men.”Its authors named the report the Growth and Opportunity Project but it soon became known by everyone as something catchier and more urgent: the Republican autopsy. Among the causes of death? Republicans had “lost their way with younger voters.” Many minorities “think that Republicans do not like them or want them in the country.”It recommended that the party modernize itself, learn how to persuade and appeal to a wider variety of people, champion policies that make life better for working Americans rather than the rich, then head to communities Republicans had tended to avoid and make their case. “We need to campaign among Hispanic, black, Asian and gay Americans and demonstrate that we care about them, too,” the autopsy concluded.
When Donald Trump captured the GOP nomination in 2016, many Republicans bemoaned not following this advice from the autopsy and more, such as championing immigration reform and becoming genuinely welcoming and inclusive on social issues. But it was already too late. The autopsy itself had been dead on arrival, and long before Trump descended his gilded Manhattan escalator and joined the Republican race. It had already been smothered, unaware, by the very Republican establishment who commissioned the report.REDMAP made it impossible.The new districts drawn by Republicans made their districts older, whiter, and more conservative. These new districts — where the Republican primary was the only race that mattered — produced a different kind of congressman (and most of them were men), incentivized against compromise, insulated from the ballot box, interested in listening only to their base.These members also didn’t much care for the Republican establishment in Washington. They would bring a much different tone and tenor to Congress. Boehner, now the House speaker, learned this right quick. In summer 2013, a first-term congressman from North Carolina’s 11th district wrote Boehner a letter, suggesting that the GOP look to defund Obamacare by threatening a government shutdown. Boehner knew it was folly. Democrats controlled the White House and the Senate. It was a strategy doomed to fail. Rove blasted it in the Wall Street Journal.But Mark Meadows enlisted 79 other Republicans in this quest. His own district, previously a swing district that most recently produced a conservative Democrat, had been redrawn so that he captured it by more than 15 percentage points. It was 87 percent white.In the New Yorker, Ryan Lizza and David Wasserman looked at the districts of the 80 signatories. They were, on average, 75 percent white and just 9 percent Latino, compared to an average district that’s 63 percent white and 17 percent Latino. In 2012, Obama won the national popular vote by 4 percentage points. In those districts, Romney won by an average of 23. The Republican members exceeded even that landslide margin: They won their seats by an average of 34 percentage points. As the nation changed, redistricting not only held back demographic change, but it turned back the clock and solidified conservative white power. As Lizza concluded, “these 80 members represent an America where the population is getting whiter, where there are few major cities, where Obama lost the last election in a landslide, and where the Republican Party is becoming more dominant and more popular. Meanwhile, in national politics, each of these trends is actually reversed.”Boehner, given little choice, followed the “suicide caucus” over the cliff. Predictably, disaster ensued and he had to change course. And predictably, the “suicide caucus” saw no reason to compromise or change its own. This was just one of more than four dozen battles to repeal Obamacare in the House, none of which stood any greater likelihood of victory. Immigration reform, one of the only policy options the autopsy’s authors saw as crucial for the party’s future, stood no chance in this climate.Neither did the GOP leadership. A year later, Meadows would turn on Boehner, filing a parliamentary motion to “vacate the chair” that would ultimately lead to the speaker’s resignation.The House had been set on a dangerous new course. REDMAP, like some Frankenstein’s monster, would not only devour Boehner, but the new members empowered by these toxic, technology-driven gerrymanders would accelerate all of the worst polarizing trends in our politics. The Freedom Caucus, legislators created and empowered by REDMAP, would run the House. Ryan, Boehner’s  successor, would later step aside in frustration as well, proven ineffective despite GOP control of Congress and the White House. The autopsy wouldn’t be worth the paper it was printed on. The GOP establishment hoped that controlling redistricting would buy themselves time to set a new course. Instead, the party’s course, and our nation’s history, would beset by the new leaders that their gerrymandering rendered unbeatable and uncontrollable.Did Boehner learn any lesson from his unholy creation? Well, earlier this month he and Ryan signed on as chairs of a Speakers Advisory Council generated to fundraise for the REDMAP creators’ 2020 redistricting strategy.Here’s the thing: When you’re trying to ensure that the side with less support continues to hold power, when you’re trying to maintain control without talking to a changing nation, your tactics aren’t likely to end with redistricting. [MAX X DRIVES SYS OUT OF BALANCE --> UNINTENDED CONSEQ AND SYS FAIL?]Indeed, efforts to make it harder for citizens to vote were among the very first actions by gerrymandered state legislatures, especially in Wisconsin and North Carolina, where a federal court found that those barriers were “surgically” crafted to target blacks. Gerrymandered legislatures can take such anti-democratic actions because the people’s representatives need not fear the judgement of the people. [no FEEDBACK] And after the U.S. Supreme Court [MOD] undid essential protections within the Voting Rights Act, in the 2013 case Shelby County v. Holder, states and other entities didn’t have to fear the courts, [DISABLE CHECKS AND BALANCE] either, when they wanted to change the rules around voting. Across much of the nation, but especially in the South, as well as in states with one-party control and newly gerrymandered legislatures, came a flood of voter ID bills, cutbacks in absentee and early voting, voter roll purges, precinct closures and more.Gerrymandered legislatures felt free to ignore the will of the people. Other legislatures followed along. In Florida, for example, where 64 percent of voters approved a 2018 state constitutional amendment ending felony disenfranchisement, lawmakers added an additional burden instead — complete repayment of any fines and fees connected to the sentence or prison term — that many critics compared to a poll tax. Legislators also undermined a legal victory allowing campus sites to be used for early voting with a sneaky provision that requires something always at a premium on colleges: Easy parking.Texas would make it a felony for anyone to cast an ineligible ballot, even by accident. Arizona looked to dial back early voting and expand voter ID requirements. Tennessee passed legislation that would make it put those who run voter registration drives in jeopardy of massive fines if they submitted too many incomplete applications. Indiana made it harder to sue in state court to extend voting hours, often necessary when machines malfunction or when lines are long. Legislatures in Missouri, Utah, Michigan and Idaho worked to unwind popular 2018 initiatives won by citizens demanding reforms politicians had refused to make.And so we end this decade with the water in Flint still undrinkable, thanks to gerrymandering.In 2011, Michigan’s GOP-controlled legislature dramatically expanded the state’s power to take over financially struggling municipalities and place them under the control of a state-appointed emergency manager. Angry voters toppled the law in a November 2012 ballot initiative, concluding that it gave the state too much power to usurp local control and run roughshod over elected officials. One month later, lawmakers ignored the public and reinstated the program.Then, in 2014, the emergency manager appointed to run Flint changed the city’s water supply to the Flint River and decided against installing corrosion inhibitors to properly treat the water, saving an estimated $140 a day. It sparked a lead contamination crisis and an outbreak of Legionnaire’s disease that killed 12 people and sickened hundreds of children.And so we end this decade with fetal heartbeat laws on the march in aggressively gerrymandered states like Ohio, Georgia and Alabama, that would enact abortion restrictions dramatically out of sync with the wishes of voters even in these red states.And so we end this decade with a national consensus on gun control and putting an end to the horrifically numbing routine of mass shootings, but an anti-majoritarian and broken political system where large majorities are ever-stymied and unable, again and again, to translate the will of the people into action. The decade closes with consensus on climate change, but progress and agreements being rolled back.We stand on the verge of the next redistricting cycle, which will begin in 2021, without the prospect of intervention from the federal courts, with the gerrymander wars headed south and the prospect of states using citizen population, rather than total population, to draw state legislative districts, all, again, with the goal of standing athwart demographic change and shouting “stop.”These wars will be fought with Democrats, at last, fully awakened and focused on state legislatures. They’ll take place with dramatically more public awareness and media attention paid to the importance of structural voting issues that once made eyes glaze over. And they’ll be undertaken with solid majorities of Americans of all ideologies backing rules and reforms enshrine the best promises of our democracy.But the damage that has done is severe and will be long-lasting. Forty years ago, when Raymond Donovan, the labor secretary under Ronald Reagan, was acquitted on fraud and larceny charges, he famously asked “Which office do I go to to get my reputation back.” We should all pose the same question about the way urgent issues went unaddressed during this bitter and polarized decade, stolen from us, in part, by the gerrymander.It may require a generation to repair the damage to our civic fabric from this decade’s cynical and corrosive festival of partisan gerrymandering. It helped heightened and accelerated polarization, extremism and our dysfunctional politics. It’s incumbent on all of us to ensure it doesn’t get worse before it gets better. There may not be any battle in the next decade that’s more urgent.David Daley, a former editor of Salon, is the author of the national bestseller “Ratfked: Why Your Vote Doesn’t Count” and the forthcoming “Unrigged: How Americans Fought Back, Slayed the Gerrymander and Reinvented Democracy.”</div><div></div><div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="CAUQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwjWz6e4sPPiAhVGKqwKHauiD_0QFSgAMAp6BAgFEAA" style=""><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.54;"><a href="https://www.journalnow.com/business/reynolds-vapor-prepares-national-launch-of-new-e-cig-rival/article_7ba10442-d438-575e-af23-794173089a8a.html" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.journalnow.com/business/reynolds-vapor-prepares-national-launch-of-new-e-cig-rival/article_7ba10442-d438-575e-af23-794173089a8a.html&ved=2ahUKEwjWz6e4sPPiAhVGKqwKHauiD_0QFjAKegQIBRAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><h3 class="LC20lb" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.33;"><a href="https://www.journalnow.com/business/reynolds-vapor-prepares-national-launch-of-new-e-cig-rival/article_7ba10442-d438-575e-af23-794173089a8a.html" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.journalnow.com/business/reynolds-vapor-prepares-national-launch-of-new-e-cig-rival/article_7ba10442-d438-575e-af23-794173089a8a.html&ved=2ahUKEwjWz6e4sPPiAhVGKqwKHauiD_0QFjAKegQIBRAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.journalnow.com/business/reynolds-vapor-prepares-national-launch-of-new-e-cig-rival/article_7ba10442-d438-575e-af23-794173089a8a.html" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.journalnow.com/business/reynolds-vapor-prepares-national-launch-of-new-e-cig-rival/article_7ba10442-d438-575e-af23-794173089a8a.html&ved=2ahUKEwjWz6e4sPPiAhVGKqwKHauiD_0QFjAKegQIBRAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.journalnow.com/business/reynolds-vapor-prepares-national-launch-of-new-e-cig-rival/article_7ba10442-d438-575e-af23-794173089a8a.html" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.journalnow.com/business/reynolds-vapor-prepares-national-launch-of-new-e-cig-rival/article_7ba10442-d438-575e-af23-794173089a8a.html&ved=2ahUKEwjWz6e4sPPiAhVGKqwKHauiD_0QFjAKegQIBRAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.journalnow.com/business/reynolds-vapor-prepares-national-launch-of-new-e-cig-rival/article_7ba10442-d438-575e-af23-794173089a8a.html" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.journalnow.com/business/reynolds-vapor-prepares-national-launch-of-new-e-cig-rival/article_7ba10442-d438-575e-af23-794173089a8a.html&ved=2ahUKEwjWz6e4sPPiAhVGKqwKHauiD_0QFjAKegQIBRAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.journalnow.com/business/reynolds-vapor-prepares-national-launch-of-new-e-cig-rival/article_7ba10442-d438-575e-af23-794173089a8a.html" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.journalnow.com/business/reynolds-vapor-prepares-national-launch-of-new-e-cig-rival/article_7ba10442-d438-575e-af23-794173089a8a.html&ved=2ahUKEwjWz6e4sPPiAhVGKqwKHauiD_0QFjAKegQIBRAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.journalnow.com/business/reynolds-vapor-prepares-national-launch-of-new-e-cig-rival/article_7ba10442-d438-575e-af23-794173089a8a.html" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.journalnow.com/business/reynolds-vapor-prepares-national-launch-of-new-e-cig-rival/article_7ba10442-d438-575e-af23-794173089a8a.html&ved=2ahUKEwjWz6e4sPPiAhVGKqwKHauiD_0QFjAKegQIBRAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.journalnow.com/business/reynolds-vapor-prepares-national-launch-of-new-e-cig-rival/article_7ba10442-d438-575e-af23-794173089a8a.html" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.journalnow.com/business/reynolds-vapor-prepares-national-launch-of-new-e-cig-rival/article_7ba10442-d438-575e-af23-794173089a8a.html&ved=2ahUKEwjWz6e4sPPiAhVGKqwKHauiD_0QFjAKegQIBRAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Reynolds Vapor prepares national launch of new e-cig rival to Juul ...</a></h3>
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Reynolds Vapor Co. isn't taking an explicit “can't-beat-them, join-them” ... of the Juul electronic cigarette, but it is preparing a nationwide launch in. ... Customer Service ... of a “pod mod” similar to the Juul vaping delivery mechanism. ... took over as chief executive of Reynolds American Inc. in January.</a></div><div data-base-uri="/search" id="ed_4" data-ved="2ahUKEwjWz6e4sPPiAhVGKqwKHauiD_0Q2Z0BMAp6BAgFEAY" style=""><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="CAAQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwjWz6e4sPPiAhVGKqwKHauiD_0QFSgAMAt6BAgAEAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.54;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J.Reynolds_Vapor_Company" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J.Reynolds_Vapor_Company&ved=2ahUKEwjWz6e4sPPiAhVGKqwKHauiD_0QFjALegQIABAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><h3 class="LC20lb" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.33;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J.Reynolds_Vapor_Company" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J.Reynolds_Vapor_Company&ved=2ahUKEwjWz6e4sPPiAhVGKqwKHauiD_0QFjALegQIABAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J.Reynolds_Vapor_Company" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J.Reynolds_Vapor_Company&ved=2ahUKEwjWz6e4sPPiAhVGKqwKHauiD_0QFjALegQIABAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J.Reynolds_Vapor_Company" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J.Reynolds_Vapor_Company&ved=2ahUKEwjWz6e4sPPiAhVGKqwKHauiD_0QFjALegQIABAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J.Reynolds_Vapor_Company" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J.Reynolds_Vapor_Company&ved=2ahUKEwjWz6e4sPPiAhVGKqwKHauiD_0QFjALegQIABAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J.Reynolds_Vapor_Company" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J.Reynolds_Vapor_Company&ved=2ahUKEwjWz6e4sPPiAhVGKqwKHauiD_0QFjALegQIABAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J.Reynolds_Vapor_Company" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J.Reynolds_Vapor_Company&ved=2ahUKEwjWz6e4sPPiAhVGKqwKHauiD_0QFjALegQIABAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J.Reynolds_Vapor_Company" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J.Reynolds_Vapor_Company&ved=2ahUKEwjWz6e4sPPiAhVGKqwKHauiD_0QFjALegQIABAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">R. 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J. Reynolds Vapor Company is an electronic cigarette company based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The company is a subsidiary of Reynolds American Inc., which is the parent ... "Reynolds American launching revamped e-cigarette". Associated Press. 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December 14, 2018Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company Announces Major Recycling Milestone.</a><div class="osl" style="margin-top: 0px;"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:DvHl1yJ8M1oJ:https://www.reynoldsamerican.com/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:DvHl1yJ8M1oJ:https://www.reynoldsamerican.com/%2B%26cd%3D1%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQIDAAegQIAhAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">‎</a><a class="fl" href="https://careers.reynoldsamerican.com/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://careers.reynoldsamerican.com/&ved=2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQ0gIoADAAegQIAhAG" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.54;">Careers</a> · ‎<a class="fl" href="https://www.reynoldsamerican.com/about-us/contact-us/main-office/default.aspx" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.reynoldsamerican.com/about-us/contact-us/main-office/default.aspx&ved=2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQ0gIoATAAegQIAhAH" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.54;">Main Office</a> · ‎<a class="fl" href="https://www.reynoldsamerican.com/About-Us/Who-We-Are/Our-Operating-Companies/default.aspx" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.reynoldsamerican.com/About-Us/Who-We-Are/Our-Operating-Companies/default.aspx&ved=2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQ0gIoAjAAegQIAhAI" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.54;">R.J. Reynolds tobacco company</a> · ‎<a class="fl" href="https://reynoldsamerican.com/Home/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://reynoldsamerican.com/Home/&ved=2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQ0gIoAzAAegQIAhAJ" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.54;">Reynolds American Inc.</a></div></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="CAUQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQFSgAMAF6BAgFEAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.54;"><a href="https://www.reynoldsamerican.com/About-Us/Who-We-Are/Our-Operating-Companies/default.aspx" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.reynoldsamerican.com/About-Us/Who-We-Are/Our-Operating-Companies/default.aspx&ved=2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQFjABegQIBRAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><h3 class="LC20lb" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.33;"><a href="https://www.reynoldsamerican.com/About-Us/Who-We-Are/Our-Operating-Companies/default.aspx" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.reynoldsamerican.com/About-Us/Who-We-Are/Our-Operating-Companies/default.aspx&ved=2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQFjABegQIBRAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.reynoldsamerican.com/About-Us/Who-We-Are/Our-Operating-Companies/default.aspx" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.reynoldsamerican.com/About-Us/Who-We-Are/Our-Operating-Companies/default.aspx&ved=2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQFjABegQIBRAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.reynoldsamerican.com/About-Us/Who-We-Are/Our-Operating-Companies/default.aspx" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.reynoldsamerican.com/About-Us/Who-We-Are/Our-Operating-Companies/default.aspx&ved=2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQFjABegQIBRAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.reynoldsamerican.com/About-Us/Who-We-Are/Our-Operating-Companies/default.aspx" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.reynoldsamerican.com/About-Us/Who-We-Are/Our-Operating-Companies/default.aspx&ved=2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQFjABegQIBRAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.reynoldsamerican.com/About-Us/Who-We-Are/Our-Operating-Companies/default.aspx" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.reynoldsamerican.com/About-Us/Who-We-Are/Our-Operating-Companies/default.aspx&ved=2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQFjABegQIBRAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.reynoldsamerican.com/About-Us/Who-We-Are/Our-Operating-Companies/default.aspx" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.reynoldsamerican.com/About-Us/Who-We-Are/Our-Operating-Companies/default.aspx&ved=2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQFjABegQIBRAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.reynoldsamerican.com/About-Us/Who-We-Are/Our-Operating-Companies/default.aspx" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.reynoldsamerican.com/About-Us/Who-We-Are/Our-Operating-Companies/default.aspx&ved=2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQFjABegQIBRAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.reynoldsamerican.com/About-Us/Who-We-Are/Our-Operating-Companies/default.aspx" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.reynoldsamerican.com/About-Us/Who-We-Are/Our-Operating-Companies/default.aspx&ved=2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQFjABegQIBRAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.reynoldsamerican.com/About-Us/Who-We-Are/Our-Operating-Companies/default.aspx" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.reynoldsamerican.com/About-Us/Who-We-Are/Our-Operating-Companies/default.aspx&ved=2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQFjABegQIBRAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.reynoldsamerican.com/About-Us/Who-We-Are/Our-Operating-Companies/default.aspx" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.reynoldsamerican.com/About-Us/Who-We-Are/Our-Operating-Companies/default.aspx&ved=2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQFjABegQIBRAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">R.J. Reynolds tobacco company - Reynolds American</a></h3>
<div class="TbwUpd" style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.54; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-top: 1px;"><cite class="iUh30" style="font-style: normal; padding-top: 1px; line-height: 1.43;">https://www.reynoldsamerican.com/About-Us/Who-We...Companies/default.aspx</cite></div><div class="action-menu ab_ctl" style="display: inline; position: relative; margin: 1px 3px 0px; user-select: none; vertical-align: middle;"><a class="GHDvEf ab_button" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=RAI+Services+Company&oq=RAI+Services+Company&aqs=chrome..69i57.1566j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#" id="am-b1" aria-label="Result Options" aria-expanded="false" aria-haspopup="true" role="button" jsaction="m.tdd;keydown:m.hbke;keypress:m.mskpe" data-ved="2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQ7B0wAXoECAUQAg" style="border-radius: 0px; cursor: default; font-weight: bold; height: 12px; line-height: 27px; margin: 1px 0px 2px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; transition: none 0s ease 0s; user-select: none; background-image: none; border: 0px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 0px 0px; filter: none; width: 13px; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline-block;"><span class="mn-dwn-arw" style="border-color: rgb(0, 102, 33) transparent; border-style: solid; border-width: 5px 4px 0px; width: 0px; height: 0px; margin-left: 3px; top: 7.5px; margin-top: -4px; position: absolute; left: 0px;" /></a><div class="action-menu-panel ab_dropdown" role="menu" tabindex="-1" jsaction="keydown:m.hdke;mouseover:m.hdhne;mouseout:m.hdhue" data-ved="2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQqR8wAXoECAUQAw" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: auto; top: 12px; white-space: nowrap; z-index: 3; transition: opacity 0.218s ease 0s; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 2px 4px; left: 0px; visibility: hidden;"><ol style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><li class="action-menu-item ab_dropdownitem" role="menuitem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; list-style: none; user-select: none; cursor: pointer;"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:FptjRjWsjk8J:https://www.reynoldsamerican.com/About-Us/Who-We-Are/Our-Operating-Companies/default.aspx+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:FptjRjWsjk8J:https://www.reynoldsamerican.com/About-Us/Who-We-Are/Our-Operating-Companies/default.aspx%2B%26cd%3D2%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQIDABegQIBRAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;" /></li></ol></div></div></div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 1.54;"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:FptjRjWsjk8J:https://www.reynoldsamerican.com/About-Us/Who-We-Are/Our-Operating-Companies/default.aspx+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:FptjRjWsjk8J:https://www.reynoldsamerican.com/About-Us/Who-We-Are/Our-Operating-Companies/default.aspx%2B%26cd%3D2%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQIDABegQIBRAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">Reynolds American Inc. is the U.S. parent company of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company; American Snuff Company, LLC; Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company, ...</a></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="CAMQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQFSgAMAJ6BAgDEAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.54;"><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapid=171877220" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp%3Fprivcapid%3D171877220&ved=2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQFjACegQIAxAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><h3 class="LC20lb" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.33;"><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapid=171877220" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp%3Fprivcapid%3D171877220&ved=2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQFjACegQIAxAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapid=171877220" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp%3Fprivcapid%3D171877220&ved=2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQFjACegQIAxAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapid=171877220" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp%3Fprivcapid%3D171877220&ved=2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQFjACegQIAxAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapid=171877220" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp%3Fprivcapid%3D171877220&ved=2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQFjACegQIAxAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapid=171877220" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp%3Fprivcapid%3D171877220&ved=2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQFjACegQIAxAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapid=171877220" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp%3Fprivcapid%3D171877220&ved=2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQFjACegQIAxAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapid=171877220" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp%3Fprivcapid%3D171877220&ved=2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQFjACegQIAxAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapid=171877220" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp%3Fprivcapid%3D171877220&ved=2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQFjACegQIAxAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapid=171877220" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp%3Fprivcapid%3D171877220&ved=2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQFjACegQIAxAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapid=171877220" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp%3Fprivcapid%3D171877220&ved=2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQFjACegQIAxAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">RAI Services Company: Private Company Information - Bloomberg</a></h3>
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Key Executives for RAI Services Company. ... Reynolds Tobacco Company and SVP - Decision Support for RAI Services Company.</a></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 28px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="CAAQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQFSgAMAN6BAgAEAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.54;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/rai-services-company" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.linkedin.com/company/rai-services-company&ved=2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQFjADegQIABAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><h3 class="LC20lb" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.33;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/rai-services-company" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.linkedin.com/company/rai-services-company&ved=2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQFjADegQIABAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/rai-services-company" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.linkedin.com/company/rai-services-company&ved=2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQFjADegQIABAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/rai-services-company" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.linkedin.com/company/rai-services-company&ved=2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQFjADegQIABAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/rai-services-company" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.linkedin.com/company/rai-services-company&ved=2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQFjADegQIABAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/rai-services-company" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.linkedin.com/company/rai-services-company&ved=2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQFjADegQIABAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/rai-services-company" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.linkedin.com/company/rai-services-company&ved=2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQFjADegQIABAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/rai-services-company" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.linkedin.com/company/rai-services-company&ved=2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQFjADegQIABAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/rai-services-company" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.linkedin.com/company/rai-services-company&ved=2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQFjADegQIABAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/rai-services-company" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.linkedin.com/company/rai-services-company&ved=2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQFjADegQIABAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/rai-services-company" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.linkedin.com/company/rai-services-company&ved=2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQFjADegQIABAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">RAI Services Company | LinkedIn</a></h3>
<div class="TbwUpd" style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.54; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-top: 1px;"><cite class="iUh30" style="font-style: normal; padding-top: 1px; line-height: 1.43;">https://www.linkedin.com/company/rai-services-company</cite></div><div class="action-menu ab_ctl" style="display: inline; position: relative; margin: 1px 3px 0px; user-select: none; vertical-align: middle;"><a class="GHDvEf ab_button" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=RAI+Services+Company&oq=RAI+Services+Company&aqs=chrome..69i57.1566j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#" id="am-b3" aria-label="Result Options" aria-expanded="false" aria-haspopup="true" role="button" jsaction="m.tdd;keydown:m.hbke;keypress:m.mskpe" data-ved="2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQ7B0wA3oECAAQAg" style="border-radius: 0px; cursor: default; font-weight: bold; height: 12px; line-height: 27px; margin: 1px 0px 2px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; transition: none 0s ease 0s; user-select: none; background-image: none; border: 0px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 0px 0px; filter: none; width: 13px; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline-block;"><span class="mn-dwn-arw" style="border-color: rgb(0, 102, 33) transparent; border-style: solid; border-width: 5px 4px 0px; width: 0px; height: 0px; margin-left: 3px; top: 7.5px; margin-top: -4px; position: absolute; left: 0px;" /></a><div class="action-menu-panel ab_dropdown" role="menu" tabindex="-1" jsaction="keydown:m.hdke;mouseover:m.hdhne;mouseout:m.hdhue" data-ved="2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQqR8wA3oECAAQAw" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: auto; top: 12px; white-space: nowrap; z-index: 3; transition: opacity 0.218s ease 0s; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 2px 4px; left: 0px; visibility: hidden;"><ol style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><li class="action-menu-item ab_dropdownitem" role="menuitem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; list-style: none; user-select: none; cursor: pointer;"><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=related:https://www.linkedin.com/company/rai-services-company+RAI+Services+Company&tbo=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQHzADegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;" /></li></ol></div></div></div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 1.54;"><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=related:https://www.linkedin.com/company/rai-services-company+RAI+Services+Company&tbo=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQHzADegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">RAI Services Company is a consumer goods company based out of 401 N Main St, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States.</a></div></div></div></div></div><div style=""><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=related:https://www.linkedin.com/company/rai-services-company+RAI+Services+Company&tbo=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQHzADegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"></a></div><div style=""><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=related:https://www.linkedin.com/company/rai-services-company+RAI+Services+Company&tbo=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQHzADegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">ref </a></div><div style=""><div style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=related:https://www.linkedin.com/company/rai-services-company+RAI+Services+Company&tbo=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQHzADegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">America First, the primary pro-Trump outside organization, raised $30 million in 2017, according to a source familiar with the group’s finances and an FEC report shown to Axios before it is filed tonight. </a><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=related:https://www.linkedin.com/company/rai-services-company+RAI+Services+Company&tbo=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQHzADegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">Why it matters: $30 million is an impressive total, ahead of the $26 million Organizing for Action, the pro-Obama group, raised in its first year. America First's goal for 2018 is far more ambitious: $100 million.</a></div><div class="qa-keep-reading KeepReadingkeepReadingOpen--24exR" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=related:https://www.linkedin.com/company/rai-services-company+RAI+Services+Company&tbo=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQHzADegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><button id="keep-reading-1b705" class="KeepReadingroot--3o5fu" aria-expanded="false" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 25px auto; overflow: visible; touch-action: manipulation; height: 40px; border-radius: 3px; border-style: solid; border-color: transparent; background-color: rgb(232, 232, 233); cursor: pointer; display: flex; justify-content: center; align-items: center; padding: 0px 15px; position: absolute; bottom: 0px; left: calc(50% - 68px);"><svg viewbox="0 0 12 8" class="KeepReadingicon--1knnO"><use xlink:href="#down" xmlns:xlink="xlink"><svg viewbox="0 0 12 8" id="down" width="100%" height="100%" /></use></svg><path fill-rule="evenodd" d="M6 5.602L1.2.8 0 2l6 6.002L12 2 10.8.8 6 5.602z" /><div class="KeepReadingshowLess--2y-8w KeepReadinghide--2qQxD" style="box-sizing: inherit;">
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</div><div style="">America First Policies, a 501(c)(4), raised $26 million and spent $14 million of that total, primarily on ads.</div><div style="">America First Action, a Super PAC, raised just shy of $4 million of which it spent about $2 million.</div></div><div style=""><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=related:https://www.linkedin.com/company/rai-services-company+RAI+Services+Company&tbo=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQHzADegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">
</a></div><ul style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><li class="StoryBodyitem--1cHYD" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.75; margin-bottom: 1rem;"><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=related:https://www.linkedin.com/company/rai-services-company+RAI+Services+Company&tbo=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQHzADegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">That leaves about $14 million on hand in total heading into 2018.</a></li></ul><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=related:https://www.linkedin.com/company/rai-services-company+RAI+Services+Company&tbo=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQHzADegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">“America First got off to a strong start in 2017, and we are grateful for those supporters who believe in our mission and the team we have assembled. We are working hard every single day to help the president make America great again,” Tommy Hicks Jr. the chairman of America First Action, said in a statement.</a><ul style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><li class="StoryBodyitem--1cHYD" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.75; margin-bottom: 1rem;"><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=related:https://www.linkedin.com/company/rai-services-company+RAI+Services+Company&tbo=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQHzADegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">Trump campaign holdovers from America First Action include Corey Lewandowski, Katrina Pierson and Brad Parscale, while David Clarke, the controversial former Milwaukee County Sheriff, serves as a spokesman.</a></li><li class="StoryBodyitem--1cHYD" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.75; margin-bottom: 1rem;"><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=related:https://www.linkedin.com/company/rai-services-company+RAI+Services+Company&tbo=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQHzADegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">The group's biggest spend of 2017 came during the Alabama special election, on which it spent more than $1 million. That race was ultimately won by Democrat Doug Jones.</a></li><li class="StoryBodyitem--1cHYD" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.75; margin-bottom: 1rem;"><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=related:https://www.linkedin.com/company/rai-services-company+RAI+Services+Company&tbo=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQHzADegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">Brian Walsh, President of America First Action, said: "This is just the beginning for America First. We expect to be more aggressive in 2018 to ensure that those candidates who embrace President Trump’s agenda have the outside support they need to be successful as we work to grow our majorities in the House and Senate."</a></li></ul></div></div><div style=""><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=related:https://www.linkedin.com/company/rai-services-company+RAI+Services+Company&tbo=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQHzADegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"> =</a><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=related:https://www.linkedin.com/company/rai-services-company+RAI+Services+Company&tbo=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQHzADegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">The country’s second-biggest tobacco company has been a top funder of the controversial “dark money” organization created to promote President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda, according to a MapLight review.</a><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=related:https://www.linkedin.com/company/rai-services-company+RAI+Services+Company&tbo=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi-vNPCr_PiAhVKMqwKHft8BHoQHzADegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">Reynolds American Inc., which manufactures Newport and Camel cigarettes, disclosed last week that it </a><a href="http://s2.q4cdn.com/129460998/files/doc_downloads/corporate_poltical/2017-Corporate-Contributions-to-501-(c)-(4)-and-501-(c)-(6)-Organizations.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">donated</a> $1.5 million to America First Policies in 2017. Created by former Trump campaign officials, the nonprofit has faced criticism for the racist, anti-Muslim and anti-Semitic views expressed by its staff.https://www.axios.com/pro-trump-outside-group-raised-30-million-in-2017-1516759350-449ae7d0-deb8-431f-8912-bc4677761abf.htmlWhile America First Policies <a href="https://www.axios.com/pro-trump-outside-group-raised-30-million-in-2017-1516759350-449ae7d0-deb8-431f-8912-bc4677761abf.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">raised</a> $26 million last year, three Fortune 500 companies <a href="https://maplight.org/story/southern-co-joins-dow-cvs-in-cutting-off-support-for-pro-trump-dark-money-organization/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">said earlier this month</a> that they would no longer give money to the organization after MapLight reported on their donations. Two officials <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/08/politics/carl-higbie-america-first-policies/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">have</a> <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/14/politics/kfile-adviser-let-go-from-pro-trump/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">left</a> the group in recent weeks.The donation from Reynolds is the largest known contribution to America First Policies, which does not disclose its donors to the public. Reynolds also <a href="http://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/286/201704180300150286/201704180300150286.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">gave</a> $1 million to Trump’s inaugural committee. Cigarette smoking kills more than 480,000 Americans each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."Dark money groups are often used to disguise the support for candidates or officeholders from unsavory industries," said Brendan Fischer, a lawyer at the nonprofit Campaign Legal Center in Washington, D.C. "Trump may not want to be publicly associated with the tobacco industry, but the tobacco industry certainly wants Trump's support for their agenda."Reynolds American and America First Policies did not respond to questions from MapLight.Reynolds has been a major beneficiary of Trump’s time in Washington. The Republican tax bill was a boon for the company, which <a href="http://disclosures.house.gov/ld/ldxmlrelease/2017/Q4/300934638.xml" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">reported lobbying</a> on the legislation. Reynolds <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/north-carolina/articles/2018-03-08/reynolds-american-to-offer-1-000-bonuses-to-most-employees" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">announced</a> that most of its employees would receive a $1,000 bonus. Its parent company, London-based British American Tobacco, said it will ultimately save $13.3 billion under the new law.Last year, the Trump administration <a href="http://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/reynolds-american-s-proposed-acquisition-by-bat-clears-u-s-antitrust-hurdle-1001819613" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">allowed</a> British American Tobacco’s $54 billion acquisition of Reynolds to proceed without raising any antitrust questions. The purchase created the world’s largest publicly traded tobacco company, and it means that Reynolds is now a wholly owned subsidiary of a British company.Although federal election law bars foreign nationals from participating in U.S. elections, domestic subsidiaries of foreign corporations <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2016/09/fec-stalemates-on-how-to-deal-with-foreign-owned-companies-spending-in-elections/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">are allowed</a> to spend in elections. The only conditions are that the money must come from U.S. profits, and the spending can’t be directed by foreign nationals.In 2016, the Intercept reported that a Chinese-owned company <a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/08/03/gop-lawyer-chinese-owned-company-us-presidential-politics/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">had donated</a> $1.3 million to a super PAC supporting former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s failed presidential campaign at the direction of a foreign national.America First Policies and its sister super PAC, America First Action, set a fundraising goal of <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/us/politics/trump-donors-america-first.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">$100 million</a> to support Trump’s agenda and aid Republican congressional candidates in the midterm elections this year.Last year, America First Policies disclosed spending $452,000 to support former Sen. Luther Strange, R-Ala., in his unsuccessful GOP primary campaign, and it spent more than $1.3 million to prevent Democrat Jon Ossoff from winning an open congressional seat in Georgia.The organization <a href="http://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/pence-heckled-repeatedly-by-protesters-during-speech-on-tax-reform" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">has hosted</a> more than a dozen events with Vice President Mike Pence this year to build support for the Republican tax law. Pence was heckled by protestors at a recent America First Policies event in Ohio over his anti-gay views and the administration’s immigration policy, which has <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/us/politics/trump-immigration-children-executive-order.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">separated thousands</a> of immigrant children from their families at the border.repmap gerrymnander NCAmong the largest North Carolina backers of the Republican State Leadership Committee:

REYNOLDS AMERICAN: Leading the pack by a wide margin is tobacco giant Reynolds American, based in Winston-Salem, which has given the RSLC close to $3.1 million over the past five years. Last year, Reynolds completed a <a id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455381332111_18770" rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=oKHXbLzS8X%2F%2BU5DWh6FQYaDHvA8T5rim">$27.4 billion merger</a> with Greensboro-based tobacco company Lorillard, which is the state's second-biggest donor to the RSLC, having pitched in nearly $335,000 since 2011. The merger <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=3mWkU7gE0AovV%2F%2B9G2Z6raDHvA8T5rim">unites</a> two already substantial political donors to conservative groups. In addition to funneling money through the RSLC, the two companies — which have had key cases appear in N.C. courts in recent years — have been directly involved in spending on judicial elections: Since 2012, Reynolds American has given Justice for All $130,000 and Lorillard has donated $25,000. Reynolds gave $150,000 to the N.C. Judicial Coalition in 2012.=By Phil Mattera, <a href="http://dirtdiggersdigest.org/archives/4723" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: medium;">Dirt Diggers Digest</a>At the headquarters of Reynolds American (parent of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco) in North Carolina and the Virginia headquarters of Altria (parent of Philip Morris USA) time is apparently running backwards. The two companies just <a href="http://fortune.com/2015/04/14/tobacco-co-sue-fda-over-label-approvals/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: medium;">filed</a> a lawsuit in DC federal court that reads like it was written in 1995, not 2015.The target of the suit (15-CV-00544) is the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which the companies apparently have forgotten was given <a href="http://www.fda.gov/TobaccoProducts/GuidanceComplianceRegulatoryInformation/ucm298595.htm" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: medium;">authority</a> by Congress in 2009 to regulate tobacco marketing, including the introduction of new products. That law came after years of vociferous opposition by Big Tobacco.What has the companies up in arms is an FDA <a href="http://www.fda.gov/downloads/TobaccoProducts/GuidanceComplianceRegulatoryInformation/UCM436468.pdf" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: medium;">guidance document</a> issued in March concerning review requirements for packaging changes. The agency takes the position that certain modifications in background color, logo and descriptors can be significant enough to trigger the stricter rules regarding new products.Presenting themselves as victims of government overreach, the companies argue that their First Amendment rights are being violated: "FDA's unlawful actions already have harmed Plaintiffs and threaten greater harms in the future by restricting Plaintiffs' ability to modify their product labels without FDA preauthorization and by chilling and restricting protected speech."Although the case does not involve the federal warning labels that have been required for decades, it makes the puzzling argument that the FDA guidelines also violate the industry's Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination.While it is not unusual for big business to assert free speech rights to oppose regulations, this position is particularly galling when it comes from the tobacco industry. These are the companies, after all, that for decades concealed and denied the hazards of smoking, asserting it was their right to "believe" their products were non-addictive and did not cause cancer despite the mountain of evidence to the contrary. Their dishonest claims were made all the more fraudulent when documents came to light indicating that firms such as Brown & Williamson (now part of Reynolds American) <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/07/us/tobacco-company-was-silent-on-hazards.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: medium;">knew</a> about the dangers at least as far back as the early 1960s.The issue of control over tobacco packaging was already fought, and the industry lost. In 2006 a federal court, finding that the industry had caused "an immeasurable amount of suffering,"<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/18/washington/18tobacco.html?r=0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: medium;">ordered</a> it stop labeling cigarettes with designations such as low tar, light and natural that gave the misleading impression that they were safe.Tobacco companies began using techniques such as package coloring to get around the restriction. In 2010 a New York Times <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/19/business/19smoke.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: medium;">article</a> on the practice quoted Prof. Gregory Connolly of the Harvard School of Public Health as saying the industry was "circumventing the law." He added: "They're using color coding to perpetuate one of the biggest public health myths into the next century."At the heart of the new case is the tension between public policies designed to discourage tobacco use and the continued existence of an industry which has to attract customers to survive. The industry's lawsuit, with its assertion of free speech rights, proceeds from the assumption that producing and selling tobacco products is a legitimate activity. A more appropriate premise might be that tobacco is a public health menace that should be controlled as tightly as possible until the last smoker has kicked the habit and the companies can shut down.Big Tobacco would do well to stop wrapping itself in the Bill of Rights and acknowledge that it is lucky it is still allowed to sell its deadly products at all.(Note: This piece draws from my new Corporate Rap Sheets on <a href="http://corp-research.org/reynolds_american" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: medium;">Reynolds American</a> and <a href="http://corp-research.org/altria_pmi" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: medium;">Altria</a>.)<div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</div><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=K4WI%2BwrhoJdd65S3aLLKfMzVWvzapPCb" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;">BIG TOBACCO MERGER UNITES POWERFUL NC POLITICAL DONORS:</a>The deal joining North Carolina-based tobacco giants Reynolds American and Lorillard also unites two of the state's biggest corporate political contributors. Besides donating directly to candidates and committees, the companies have also been funneling money into outside spending groups active in the state's politics. (7/25/2014)DOCUMENTPAGESTEXTSearchZoomp. 12017 Corporate Contributions to 501(c)(4&6) Organizations & Inaugural Activities
With respect to groups organized under section 501(c)(4) or 501(c)(6) of the InternalRevenue Code, in the event the aggregate annual contributions paid to any such groupexceeds $50,000, we will disclose the non-deductible portion of the aggregate annualcontributions paid to such groups, to the extent that information is disclosed to theRAI companies by the recipient.Name
State
A NEW DAY FOR KANSAS INC
KS
AMERICA FIRST POLICIES INC
Amount$
50,000
$ 1,500,000
AMERICAN POLICY COALITION INC
$ 125,000
AMERICANS FOR TAX REFORM
$
12,540
$
86,250
ASSOCIATED INDUSTRIES OF FLORIDA
FL
CALIFORNIA DISTRIBUTORS ASSOC
CA
$
11,990
CAROLINA LEADERSHIP COALITION, INC
NC
$
71,000
CAROLINA PARTNERSHIP FOR REFORM INC
NC
CASAAEXPERIENCE MISSISSIPPI
$ 100,000$
12,750
MS
$
50,00050,000
IOWA GROWTH PROJECT INC
IA
$
LETS BE REAL CALIFORNIA
CA
$ 230,000
LETS BE REAL SAN FRANCISCO ( BALLOT REFERENDUM)
CA
$ 3,350,000
MOVING NC FORWARD
NC
$
50,000
NACS
$ 141,636
NATIONAL ASSN OF TOBACCO OUTLETS
$ 123,450
NATIONAL NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION
$ 225,758
NATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION
$
NORTH CAROLINA CHAMBER
NC
26,250
$ 164,220
REPUBLICAN MAIN STREET PARTNERSHIP
$
65,000
RIGHT WAY INITIATIVE INC
$
50,000
THIRD WAY
$
50,000
VAPOR TECHNOLOGY ASSOC
$
3,300
Additionally, if a 501(c)(4) or 501(c)(6) organization reports that 75 percent or more ofour aggregate annual contributions to such a group was used for non-deductiblepurposes, we will disclose the entire amount of our annual contributions, even if lessthan $50,000.Name
State
Amount
ADVANCING FREEDOM INC
$
10,000
AMERICAN FREEDOM BUILDERS INC
$
15,00015,000
AMERICAN POTENTIAL
$
AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY
$
3,000
CITIZENS FOR A WORKING AMERICA
$
40,000
COMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION
$
1,500
FL PETROLEUM MARKETERS & CONVENEIENCE STORE ASSN FL
$
3,500
GRAND LAKE ADMINISTRATIVE FUND
MI
$
500
GREAT LAKES RENAISSANCE FUND
MI
$
500
GROWING MICHIGAN
MI
GROWTH & OPPORTUNITY FUND INCHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPIAGN INC
$
500
$
30,000
$
5,000
IMPACT OREGON
OR
$
10,000
INDIANA MANUFACTURERS ASSN
IN
$
6,440
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