Nat'l Taxpayers Union NTU

=see also davidson strategic investor newsletter (ruddy newsmax) v clinton fosterpow voter/student suppress alec "iron lady"<div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2019/03/06/former-wisconsin-legislator-leah-vukmir-joins-national-taxpayers-union/3077497002/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2019/03/06/former-wisconsin-legislator-leah-vukmir-joins-national-taxpayers-union/3077497002/</a></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">usatoday jrnl sentinel</div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">republican Leah Vukmir has kept a relatively low public profile since losing to Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin in November.</div><p class="speakable-p-2 p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">But that's about to change.<p class="p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">Vukmir, a former state legislator from Brookfield, will join the National Taxpayers Union as vice president of state affairs, the conservative group announced Wednesday.looks defunct: <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/pacgave2.php?cmte=C00298141&cycle=1998">https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/pacgave2.php?cmte=C00298141&cycle=1998</a><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/national-taxpayers-union">http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/national-taxpayers-union</a>108 North Alfred St. 
Alexandria, Virginia 22314
<a href="http://www.ntu.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">www.ntu.org</a>Established: Founded in 1969.
President: John Berthoud
Finances: $1,222,825 (2000 NTUF budget)
Employees: 20 
Membership: 335,000 
Organization Affiliates: National Taxpayers Union Foundation, National Taxpayers Union Campaign Fund, <a target="blank" href="http://www.taxrelief.org/" style="text-decoration: none;">Iowans for Tax Relief</a>, <a target="blank" href="http://www.netaxpayers.org/" style="text-decoration: none;">Nebraska Taxpayers for Freedom</a>, <a target="blank" href="http://www.acta.us/" style="text-decoration: none;">Arlington County Taxpayers Association</a>Read the latest news on the National Taxpayers Union on the group's <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/groups/national_taxpay/index.html" style="text-decoration: none;">Right Wing Watch index page</a><h3 style="line-height: 1.3em; margin-top: 0.769em; margin-bottom: 0.769em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">NTU's Principal Activities:</h3><ul style="margin: 1em 0px; padding-left: 2em; list-style-image: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" rightwingwatch="rightwingwatch" images="images" bullet.png="bullet.png" line-height="line-height" px="px"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">NTU's main focus is lobbying Congress. NTU bills its congressional scorecards as "the only scorecard that grades representatives on every roll call vote affecting fiscal policy, including taxes and regulation." NTU also gives "Taxpayers' Friend Awards" to the highest scoring legislators. Like most lobbying groups, NTU sends alerts about pending legislation to be used by activists, testifies before Congress, and provides policy papers for its legislative allies.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">NTUF was founded in 1977 and "is the charitable, research, and educational affiliate of NTU."</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">National Taxpayers Union Campaign Fund (NTUCF) was created by NTU in 1994 and "makes endorsements of candidates, distributes information to voters on the tax records — good and bad — of officeseekers, and which conducts its own self-directed "independent expenditure" campaigns in certain political contests."</li></ul><h3 style="line-height: 1.3em; margin-top: 0.769em; margin-bottom: 0.769em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">History and Background:</h3><ul style="margin: 1em 0px; padding-left: 2em; list-style-image: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" rightwingwatch="rightwingwatch" images="images" bullet.png="bullet.png" line-height="line-height" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">NTU lists the following among its accomplishments: "Dozens of successful state and local tax limitation movements — activists have defeated 90% of the 50 major tax increases that appeared on state ballots over the past five years;" "Bringing the Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution within one vote of passing the Congress;" and "Landmark "Taxpayer Bill of Rights" laws that help to safeguard against IRS abuses."</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Right-wing foundations that help fund NTUF include: Scaife, John M. Olin and JM Foundations.</li></ul><h3 style="line-height: 1.3em; margin-top: 0.769em; margin-bottom: 0.769em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">High-profile Staffers:</h3><ul style="margin: 1em 0px; padding-left: 2em; list-style-image: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" rightwingwatch="rightwingwatch" images="images" bullet.png="bullet.png" line-height="line-height" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Grover Norquist was NTU's Executive Director before being tapped by the Reagan White House to head Americans for Tax Reform.</li></ul><h3 style="line-height: 1.3em; margin-top: 0.769em; margin-bottom: 0.769em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">High Profile Board Members:</h3><ul style="margin: 1em 0px; padding-left: 2em; list-style-image: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" rightwingwatch="rightwingwatch" images="images" bullet.png="bullet.png" line-height="line-height" px="px"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">David M. Stanley, Chairman of the Board</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Steve Forbes, two-time candidate for GOP presidential nomination</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">J. Kenneth Blackwell, Ohio Secretary of State</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">J. Patrick Rooney, a right-wing funder</li></ul><h3 style="line-height: 1.3em; margin-top: 0.769em; margin-bottom: 0.769em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Quotes</h3>Quotes about NTU:"My Administration came to Washington to achieve many of the goals shared by the National Taxpayers Union— Reduction of income tax rates, control of government spending…NTU's support for the across-the-board tax rate reduction and income tax indexing helped pave the way for Congressional adoption during the first years of this Administration."- Former President Ronald Reagan"The National Taxpayers Union…is the Grand-daddy of the tax revolt organizations."
-San Francisco Chronicle"After Howard Jarvis' victory on California's landmark Proposition 13 tax-limitation referendum in 1978, the NTU helped to convert the victory into national momentum for the Reagan agenda."
-Human Events magazineQuotes from NTU:"If we don't seize on this revolutionary moment to rein in taxes and rein in entitlements, we could be looking at a government headed for financial oblivion…and a populace that is so over-taxed and so desperate that we could be talking about real revolutions."
- David Keating in 1995<span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">, "WJC circulated a video featuring Ruddy's claims, Unanswered-<span style="font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The Death of Vincent Foster<span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">, that was<span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"> produced by conservative James Davidson,<span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"> chairman of the National Taxpayers Union (NTU) and co-editor of the Strategic Investment newsletter."http://sovereignsociety.com/meet-the-experts/james-dale-davidson/bs bioJames Dale Davidson, co-editor of Strategic Investment<p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-appearance: none; line-height: 24px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">James has spent over 30 years as a specialist “crisis investor,” which has taught him that it’s always the hardworking … the savers … the taxpayers … the folks who “play by the rules” who suffer the most.About a decade ago, he retired from the investment advisory world — but he returned to <a href="http://sovereignsociety.com/strategic-investment/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-appearance: none; text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">Strategic Investment</a> because he refused to sit idly by while Wall Street and Washington’s incompetence tore apart the lives of decent, hardworking Americans.James has been warning investors about the dangers of a financial collapse for over 20 years. The first time was in his 1987 book, Blood in the Streets: Investment Profits in a World Gone Mad. Then he warned about America’s dire fiscal trends again in his 1994 book, The Great Reckoning: Protecting Yourself in the Coming Depression (which he wrote alongside former editor ofThe Times of London, Lord William Rees-Mogg). Both books were bestsellers. And now, he has his new book, The Age of Deception.<p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-appearance: none; line-height: 24px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">He’s also spent most of his adult life taking on an overreaching government. In 1974, he founded the National Taxpayers Union, which for 35 years has been protecting your right and that of every American to keep what they’ve earned. NTU is a nonprofit, nonpartisan citizen group whose (350,000) members work every day for lower taxes and smaller government at all levels. Later, he cowrote <em style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-appearance: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">The Sovereign Individual in 1997 to help people take control of their lives and investments. It was the book that would provide the beginnings of The Sovereign Society.In September 1989, he also testified before the House Ways and Means Committee about the dangers of government sponsored enterprises (GSEs), such as Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. It was one of the first oversight hearings on GSEs.[when did Newt work for them?]<p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-appearance: none; line-height: 24px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Over the years, he’s also helped investors protect their wealth and profit by accurately forecasting some of the biggest political shifts of our time … events such as the death of the Soviet Union … the fall of the Berlin Wall … the rise of Islamic terrorism … and the recent bank bailouts. These predictions were deemed “impossible” when they were made. (<em style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-appearance: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Newsweek even described his forecasts as “an unthinking attack on reason.”) But subsequent events have proven him right.Popular Topics:Ultimate Wealth ProtectionEmerging MarketsEscape From America=SAM TP nexus:John Tillman served as president and director of Americans for Limited Government during its startup phase as well. According to theIllinois Policy Institute, Tillman grew Americans for Limited Government "from a single, parttime employee in May of 2004 to a staff ofapproximately 25 that had a significant impact on political activity in 13 states in 2006."
Tillman is also president and CEO of the Illinois Policy Institute. Within hours of Rick Santelli's rant, Kristina Rasmussen, who had just beenhired as the Executive Vice President by the Illinois Policy Institute that morning, helped kick start the Chicago Tea Party by participating ina February 19 conference call to plan the event. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Rasmussen, who was then the Director of Government Affairs at National Taxpayers Union,was the second speaker on the call. Tillman also serves on Sam Adams Alliance's board of directors and was president and COO of SamAdams Alliance during its start up phase.==
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<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Taxpayers_Union">http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Taxpayers_Union</a>

National Taxpayers Union (NTU) is closely related to their "<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=501%28c%29%283%29" title="501(c)(3)">501(c)(3)</a>" (i.e. non-profit) foundation, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Taxpayers_Union_Foundation" title="National Taxpayers Union Foundation" class="mw-redirect">National Taxpayers Union Foundation</a> (NTUF). According to the 990 forms of NTUF, the NTU and NTUF share staff, facilities, web site and board members.

<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Duane_Parde" title="Duane Parde">Duane Parde</a>, former Executive Director of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Legislative_Exchange_Council" title="American Legislative Exchange Council">American Legislative Exchange Council</a> (ALEC), is president of both the NTU and the NTUF. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Taxpayers_Union#cite_note-NTU_bio-0" title="">[1]</a> NTU is also a member of ALEC.

The NTU received from <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Philip_Morris" title="Philip Morris" class="mw-redirect">Philip Morris</a> in 1998 a donation of $25,000 (<a href="http://www.pmdocs.com/getimg.asp?if=&DOCID=2065243965/3979&PGNO=2065243974&docnum=&START=0&BOOL=" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.pmdocs.com/getimg.asp?if=&DOCID=2065243965/3979&PGNO=2065243974&docnum=&START=0&BOOL=" rel="nofollow">[1]</a>, WRO refers to Philip Morris's Washington Relations Office) and one year later $10,000. <a href="http://www.pmdocs.com/getimg.asp?DOCID=2065281658/1661&PGNO=2065281660" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.pmdocs.com/getimg.asp?DOCID=2065281658/1661&PGNO=2065281660" rel="nofollow">[2]</a> The <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tobacco_Institute" title="Tobacco Institute">Tobacco Institute</a> budgeted for 1999 also a donation to NTU of $10,000. <a href="http://www.pmdocs.com/getimg.asp?if=&DOCID=2063525895/6016&PGNO=2063525968&docnum=&START=0&BOOL=" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.pmdocs.com/getimg.asp?if=&DOCID=2063525895/6016&PGNO=2063525968&docnum=&START=0&BOOL=" rel="nofollow">[3]</a>

<h2>Ties to the American Legislative Exchange Council</h2>

NTU President Duane Parde is former Executive Director of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Legislative_Exchange_Council" title="American Legislative Exchange Council">American Legislative Exchange Council</a> (ALEC), and NTU is an ALEC member.

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<div style="padding: 2px 5px;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=ALEC" title="ALEC" class="mw-redirect">ALEC</a> is corporate bill mill. It is not just a lobby or a front group; it is much more powerful than that. Through ALEC, corporations hand state legislators their wishlists to benefit their bottom line. Corporations fund almost all of ALEC's operations. They pay for a seat on ALEC task forces where corporate lobbyists and special interest reps vote with elected officials to approve “model” bills. ALEC legislative leaders are tasked with a duty to get the bills introduced and passed; ALEC members introduce the bills in statehouses as their own brilliant ideas—without disclosing that corporations pre-voted on them with politicians behind closed doors at ALEC resort meetings. ALEC boasts that it has over 1,000 of these bills introduced by legislative members every year, and more than 20% become legally binding. ALEC describes itself as a “unique,” “unparalleled” and “unmatched” organization. It might be right. It is as if a state legislature had been reconstituted, yet corporations had pushed the people out the door. Learn more at the Center for Media and Democracy's <a href="http://alecexposed.org/" class="external text" title="http://alecexposed.org/" rel="nofollow">ALECexposed.org</a>, and check out breaking news on our <a href="http://www.PRWatch.org" class="external text" title="http://www.PRWatch.org" rel="nofollow">PRWatch.org site</a>.</div>

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In a July 2011 interview with National Public Radio's Fresh Air, host Terry Gross asked ALEC National Chair Louisiana Rep. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Noble_Ellington" title="Noble Ellington">Noble Ellington</a>: "But the corporations on who are represented have a lot of input in writing the legislation, in drafting it."

Ellington replied, in part: "It's not just corporations. I'm there, and members of ALEC is the Americans for Tax Reform, the National Taxpayers Union, National Federation of Independent Businesses - those are people that we represent as well and those are people who are members." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Taxpayers_Union#cite_note-1" title="">[2]</a>

In 1999, David M. Stanley was the chairman of NTU as well as Iowans for Tax Relief (ITR).<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Taxpayers_Union#cite_note-2" title="">[3]</a> He has also been chairman of the Tax Education Support Foundation, a group affiliated with both NTU and ITR.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Taxpayers_Union#cite_note-3" title="">[4]</a> In 1996, the Tax Education Support Foundation loaned ALEC $100,000 "to support ALEC's exempt purpose."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Taxpayers_Union#cite_note-4" title="">[5]</a>

<h2>Additional tobacco industry information</h2>

A 1991 Philip Morris Communications presentation indicates the company's intent to utilize its corporate Contributions Program to develop NTU as a "strategic vehicle" to advance PM's corporate objectives:

PMI CONTRIBUTIONS PROGRAM OBJECTIVE: CREATE STRATEGIC VEHICLES PLAN: ISSUES MANAGEMENT THROUGH COALITION BUILDING --IAA EDUCATION PROGRAM --CITIZENS DEMOCRACY CORPS --NATIONAL TAXPAYERS' UNION OBJECTIVE: ENHANCE REGIONAL AND MARKET PLAN: --VISIBILITY IN LOCAL COMMUNITIES --EVALUATE OPPORTUNITIES TO ADVANCE PMI OBJECTIVES (Taken from an April 1991 Philip Morris presentation titled "Function: Communications" <a href="http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/unl19e00" class="external free" title="http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/unl19e00" rel="nofollow">http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/unl19e00</a>)

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In 1992 Philip Morris funneled $50,000 to the NTU through the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=International_Taxpayers_Association&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="International Taxpayers Association (page does not exist)">International Taxpayers Association</a>. A memo about the donation written by Matthew Winokur, Director of Worldwide Tobacco Regulatory Issues for PM Europe, stated:

[This] represents the first opportunity PMI has had to support grass-roots opposition to excise taxes in key markets. Funds will be channeled through the National Taxpayers Union to sponsor a global tax meeting in Australia in November 1992 and an international tax congress planned for Prague in May of 1993. --PMI 1992 Corporate Contributions Budget <a href="http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/cyh42e00" class="external autonumber" title="http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/cyh42e00" rel="nofollow">[4]</a>

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A 1995 Philip Morris document that appears to be about fighting a proposed increase in a state excise tax (SET) on cigarettes, lists "501c(3) Organizations identified for outreach, who receive contributions." NTU appears on the list funded at $50,000. --SET SWOT Analysis 950000 <a href="http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/glq18d00" class="external autonumber" title="http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/glq18d00" rel="nofollow">[5]</a>

In 1998 NTU got $25,000 from PM divided into two discrete contributions from 2 different PM departments: $12,500 from Corporate Government Affairs and $12,500 Worldwide Regulatory Office. National Taxpayers Union of Ohio again also got a contribution, of $5,000 --1998 Public Policy Contributions<a href="http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/fwo83c00" class="external autonumber" title="http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/fwo83c00" rel="nofollow">[6]</a>

In 1999, PM gave $10,000 to NTU and $5,000 to the NTU of Ohio.(Philip Morris' 1999 Public Policy Contributions Budget).<a href="http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/zys83c00" class="external autonumber" title="http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/zys83c00" rel="nofollow">[7]</a>

A May/June issue of Mother Jones carried an article titled "The Nicotine Network" that discussed the significant funding the NTU receives from Philip Morris.<a href="http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/ngd55c00" class="external autonumber" title="http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/ngd55c00" rel="nofollow">[8]</a>

<h2>Additional information</h2>

Major funder of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Legislation_Education_Action_Drive" title="Legislation Education Action Drive">Legislation Education Action Drive</a>?

<h2>Staff</h2>

Dr. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_Berthoud" title="John Berthoud">John E. Berthoud</a> is former president of both the NTU and the NTUF.

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<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sam_Batkins&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sam Batkins (page does not exist)">Sam Batkins</a>, Deputy Press Secretary</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_Keating" title="David Keating">David Keating</a>, Senior Counselor</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Demian_Brady" title="Demian Brady">Demian Brady</a>, Senior Policy Analyst</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Doug_Frank&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Doug Frank (page does not exist)">Doug Frank</a>, Vice President of Membership & Administration</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jeff_Dircksen" title="Jeff Dircksen">Jeff Dircksen</a>, Director of Congressional Analysis</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_Berthoud" title="John Berthoud">John Berthoud</a>, President (former vice president and Senior Fellow of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alexis_de_Tocqueville_Institution" title="Alexis de Tocqueville Institution">Alexis de Tocqueville Institution</a>)</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lee_MacVaugh&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lee MacVaugh (page does not exist)">Lee MacVaugh</a>, Vice President for Development</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kristina_Rasmussen&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kristina Rasmussen (page does not exist)">Kristina Rasmussen</a>, Senior Government Affairs Manager</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Peter_J._Sepp&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Peter J. Sepp (page does not exist)">Peter J. Sepp</a>, Vice President for Communications</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Neha_Jain&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Neha Jain (page does not exist)">Neha Jain</a>, Director of Computer Services</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Andrew_Moylan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Andrew Moylan (page does not exist)">Andrew Moylan</a>, Government Affairs Manager</li>

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<h2>Contact Information</h2>

108 North Alfred St. Alexandria VA 22314

Phone: 703.683.5700

Fax: 703.683.5722

Web site: <a href="http://www.ntu.org" class="external free" title="http://www.ntu.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.ntu.org</a>

<h2>Sourcewatch resources</h2>

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<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_Gessing" title="Paul Gessing">Paul Gessing</a></li>

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<h2>External links</h2>

<h3>References</h3>

<li id="cite_note-NTU_bio-0"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Taxpayers_Union#cite_ref-NTU_bio_0-0" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.ntu.org/about-ntu/staff/duane-parde.html" class="external text" title="http://www.ntu.org/about-ntu/staff/duane-parde.html" rel="nofollow">Duane Parde bio</a>, National Taxpayer's Union website, accessed August 20, 2011.</li>

<li id="cite_note-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Taxpayers_Union#cite_ref-1" title="">↑</a> National Public Radio, <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=138575665" class="external text" title="http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=138575665" rel="nofollow">National Chairman Of ALEC Responds To Report</a>, Fresh Air, July 21, 2011.</li>

<li id="cite_note-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Taxpayers_Union#cite_ref-2" title="">↑</a> Joseph A. D'Agostino, <a href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3827/is_199901/ai_n8839661/" class="external text" title="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3827/is_199901/ai_n8839661/" rel="nofollow">Conservative spotlight: David M.Stanley</a>, Human Events Publishing, Inc., January 29, 1999, provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company, accessed August 24, 2011</li>

<li id="cite_note-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Taxpayers_Union#cite_ref-3" title="">↑</a> Tax Education Support Foundation, <a href="http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2007/421/245/2007-421245565-0484da53-9.pdf" class="external text" title="http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2007/421/245/2007-421245565-0484da53-9.pdf" rel="nofollow">2007 Form 990</a>, form filed with the IRS and available via Guidestar.org, November 21, 2008</li>

<li id="cite_note-4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Taxpayers_Union#cite_ref-4" title="">↑</a> American Legislative Exchange Council, <a href="http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/1998/520/140/1998-520140979-1-9.pdf" class="external text" title="http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/1998/520/140/1998-520140979-1-9.pdf" rel="nofollow">1998 Form 990</a>, form filed with the IRS and available via Guidestar.org, May 14, 1999</li>

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<h3>Articles</h3>

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<li>Jim Snyder, "<a href="http://thehill.com/business--lobby/nuclear-advocates-try-to-clear-obstacles-2007-11-08.html" class="external text" title="http://thehill.com/business--lobby/nuclear-advocates-try-to-clear-obstacles-2007-11-08.html" rel="nofollow">Nuclear advocates try to clear obstacles</a>," The Hill, November 8, 2007. "'Taxpayers should not be required to finance billions in risky loan guarantees [for new nuclear plants],' states a letter that TCS (<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Taxpayers_for_Common_Sense" title="Taxpayers for Common Sense">Taxpayers for Common Sense</a>), the National Taxpayers Union and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Citizens_Against_Government_Waste" title="Citizens Against Government Waste">Citizens Against Government Waste</a> jointly sent to Congress."</li>

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<a href="mailto:ntu@ntu.org" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Duane Parde</a> is President and Chief Operating Officer of the National Taxpayers Union (NTU) and National Taxpayers Union Foundation (NTUF). Before joining NTU and NTUF, Parde was a principal at Phoenix Strategies, LLC. The firm provides consulting, governmental affairs, and corporate relations services at the federal, state, and local levels.

Prior to founding Phoenix Strategies, Duane served as the Executive Director of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) from December 1996 to January 2006. At ALEC, Duane was responsible for setting the strategic vision and managing the operations for the nation's largest nonpartisan, individual membership association of state legislators. Founded in Chicago in 1973 by a small group of Democratic and Republican state legislators, ALEC is dedicated to developing and advancing policies based on the Jeffersonian principles of free markets, limited government and individual liberty. Prior to serving as Executive Director, Duane was ALEC's Chief of Staff, responsible for the management of internal operations, including the development, implementation and enforcement of financial, administrative and personnel policies and procedures. He also served as liaison to the Board of Directors.

From 1992 to 1995, Duane was the Director of State Affairs for the Council for Affordable Health Insurance (CAHI), a national trade association representing the interests of small and medium-sized health insurance companies. Before that, he was ALEC's Director of State Legislation and Research, responsible for directing ALEC's policy operations. His specialty was tax and fiscal policy issues, and he was instrumental in ALEC's successful efforts to ratify what was then called the "Madison Pay-Delay Amendment," which required that Members of Congress sit for an election before they could receive a pay raise. This provision was ratified in 1992, becoming the 27th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and the first new amendment since 1973.

After receiving his bachelor's degree in Political Science from the University of Kansas, Duane accepted a position as Legislative Research Assistant in the Kansas Attorney General's Office. He is a member of the American Society of Association Executives, The Federalist Society, and The University Club of Washington, D.C. He is the author of numerous papers and articles on state policy, and has testified many times before state legislative committees on a wide range of issues.

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