Rollins, Ed
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no real connection to CU aside from saying the scotus decision would add transparency?
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Debra J. Saunders
OPINION COLUMNIST
Debra J. Saunders became a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle in 1992. Her column runs three times weekly.
Before joining The Chronicle, she worked as a columnist and editorial writer for the Los Angeles Daily News for five years. Debra's column is syndicated through Creators Syndicate and runs in newspapers throughout the country.
In addition to writing her column, she has written pieces that have appeared in the Wall Street Journal
, Weekly Standard and National Review. She has appeared on CNN, Fox News and MSNBC. Her book, "The World According to Gore," published by Encounter Books, was released in 2000.
Debra's political experience includes stints working as a writer/researcher and account executive for Russo Watts & Rollins in Sacramento and Todd Domke Associates in Boston. With both organizations, her political work included research, issues strategy and advertising in U.S. Senate and House races. In addition, she also worked for the Republican leader of the California Assembly.
She graduated magna cum laude from the University of Massachusetts at Boston with a B.A. in Greek and Latin in 1980.
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Rollins' New Quest: Making a Fortune - The Washington Post
Oct 27, 1985The bottom line is that they Russo-Watts had enough to guarantee about $700,000. Whatever I bring in as new clients will bring it up, and they will add some more." Advertisement
Russo Watts & Rollins - SourceWatch
Ed Rollins (partner) Sal Russo (partner). Also a principle in Russo Marsh & Rogers. Doug Watts (partner) Bill R. Phillips (1987-88) Nancy J. Risque was from June 1986 Vice President with Russo, Watts & Rollins, after which she went on to be Assistant to the President and Cabinet Secretary under president Reagan in February 1987. [1]
Glamour Boys : Consultants Are King in a Media Age
Russo Watts + Rollins Inc. (the firm employs the plus sign instead of the word and in its formal title, suggestive perhaps of a gang on the go, too busy to waste time with trifles like punctuation ...
Politi-speak: Talk a lot, say little - SFGATE
Debra's political experience includes stints working as a writer/researcher and account executive for Russo Watts & Rollins in Sacramento and Todd Domke Associates in Boston. With both ...
See how they run: Democrats from sanctuary cities - SFGATE
Debra's political experience includes stints working as a writer/researcher and account executive for Russo Watts & Rollins in Sacramento and Todd Domke Associates in Boston. With both ...
'The Hunger Games' ' bread and circuses - SFGATE
Debra's political experience includes stints working as a writer/researcher and account executive for Russo Watts & Rollins in Sacramento and Todd Domke Associates in Boston. With both ...
A columnist thanks her readers - San Francisco Chronicle
Debra's political experience includes stints working as a writer/researcher and account executive for Russo Watts & Rollins in Sacramento and Todd Domke Associates in Boston. With both ...
Debra Saunders, Author at The Stream
Saunders' political experience includes stints working as a writer/researcher and account executive for Russo Watts & Rollins in Sacramento, Calif., and Todd Domke Associates in Boston. With both organizations, her political work included research, issues strategy and advertising in U.S. Senate and congressional races.
Proposition 57: Do you feel lucky? - San Francisco Chronicle
Debra's political experience includes stints working as a writer/researcher and account executive for Russo Watts & Rollins in Sacramento and Todd Domke Associates in Boston. With both ...
Nomination of Nancy Risque Rohrbach To Be an Assistant Secretary of ...
Prior to this she served as an Assistant to the President and Cabinet Secretary at the White House, 1987 - 1989; vice president of Russo, Watts & Rollins, 1986 - 1987; and as a Deputy Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs, 1981 - 1986. Ms. Rohrbach graduated from Radford College (B.A., 1968).
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https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2017/02/pro-trump-nonprofits-rev-up/
With a new set of politically active nonprofits promising to pour millions into ads supporting President Donald Trump’s agenda and cabinet nominees, an FEC decision last month provides a telling reminder of how these groups push the legal limits on their activity — and how difficult it is for regulators to do anything about it.
For the second time in as many months, the Federal Election Commission deadlocked along party lines on whether or not to pursue a politically active nonprofit for its political spending in a single 2016 race.
Conservative Solutions Project, a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization, was founded in 2014, about a year before Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla) announced his failed bid to become the Republican party’s nominee for president. In its filings with the IRS and other agencies, the group listed the same address as another similarly named group, Conservative Solutions PAC, a super PAC formed by Rubio allies to support his candidacy.
Though (c)(4) groups like CSP — funded mostly by wealthy donors whose identities are kept secret — aren’t supposed to have politics as their primary purpose, the rules on how much is too much are about as clear as the view through a pair of kaleidoscope binoculars. The IRS has never defined the limits that define “primary purpose,” nor has it ever laid out how to measure it — as a share of overall expenditures, for example, or employee time devoted to a cause. That leaves interpretation up the groups themselves and their most creative, top-dollar lawyers.
Of the more than 6,500 ads that ran in support of Rubio by the end of 2015, nearly 75 percent were paid for by this nominally apolitical nonprofit group, according to a December 2015 Wesleyan Media Project report produced in partnership with the Center for Responsive Politics. Yet, none of that ad spending was reported to the FEC because these ads — all of which targeted viewers in early primary states with positive messages about Rubio’s record and policies — were framed as educational “issue” ads, ostensibly aimed at influencing policy positions rather than the election. Such ads only have to be reported to the FEC if they run within 30 days of a primary election, or 60 days of a general election.
Between July and October of 2015, CSP spent at least $8 million on such ads.
The initial investigation by the FEC’s Office of General Counsel stemmed from a complaint filed by American Democracy Legal Fund, a liberal nonprofit headed by Democratic operative Brad Woodhouse, focusing on two of those ads. According to the complaint, the spots, which ran in September and October in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, amounted to “express advocacy” and, therefore, should have been reported to the FEC as independent expenditures within days of being aired.
The OGC disagreed with Woodhouse and the ADLF. The ads did indeed have the “look and feel of campaign speech,” the OGC said. And the campaign nature of the ad, “with Rubio orating about the greatness of America and the future leadership the country needs” lent itself to the perception that the ads were aimed at furthering Rubio’s campaign, a perception that was “bolstered by the fact that the ads aired in September and October 2015 in the early primary states.”
But the ads did not ultimately reach the threshold of express advocacy, in the OGC’s view. For one, they make no reference to Rubio’s candidacy — though viewers in those early primary states, where the candidates were racing from Elk’s Club to rec center to diner making stump speeches, would have known Rubio was running.
And if the ads didn’t make a reference to Rubio’s candidacy, they certainly didn’t call on viewers to support him in the primaries, which is express advocacy in its purest form.
The agency’s three Republican commissioners accepted the OGC’s recommendation to find no reason to believe CSP was in violation of the rules, while the two Democrats and one independent on the Commission voted to pursue an investigation.
And mirroring the FEC’s November deadlock in the Carolina Rising case, Democratic commissioners Ann Ravel and Ellen Weintraub provided a statement criticizing their agency’s failure “to enforce clear law on the registration of political committees.”
They contended that “no reasonable person could conclude that the ads were intended as anything other than advocacy on behalf of Rubio’s election.” And just as they did in November, they argued that factors beyond a narrow analysis of the ads’ content further support the idea that CSP was acting as a political committee.
Conservative Solutions viz (1)“The Commission has affirmed that the major purpose inquiry is a fact-intensive analysis that may consider a number of elements,” they say, citing a report by the Center for Responsive Politics showing the significant overlap of Rubio staff and consultants working with his campaign, his allied super PAC and CSP itself.
Since Rubio’s presidential aspirations were put on hold, CSP has done little aside from posting links to news articles on its website and social media accounts. It hasn’t run millions of dollars educating viewers around the country about Rubio’s, or anyone else’s, policies.
With the FEC’s investigation at an end, focus now shifts to the IRS, which also has regulatory oversight of politically active nonprofits. The watchdog group CREW filed a complaint against CSP with the IRS, but we may never know what comes of it, because decisions like that are private under IRS rules that protect taxpayer confidentiality.
Now as the Trump movement transitions from campaign to policy platform, at least two nondisclosing nonprofits have been formed to promote the administration’s agenda. America First Policies was founded this week by top campaign aids Brad Parscale, Rick Gates and Nick Ayers. The “grassroots group” will soon “go out there and help with the agenda, help the White House be successful,” Parscale told the AP.
Another group, Great America Alliance, was started by former House Speaker New Gingrich and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, both prominent campaign surrogates for Donald Trump and previous presidential candidates themselves. Two other Republican strategists, Ed Rollins and Eric Beach, will help run that new group. In 2016, Rollins and Breach ran a pro-Trump super PAC called Great America PAC that spent $23 million to boosting Trump.
Opting to transform a campaign apparatus into a nonprofit supporting the president’s agenda is not new. The Obama administration also turned its campaign into a (c)(4) called Organizing for Action. One big difference: OFA reluctantly disclosed its donors, allowing watchdogs like the Center for Responsive Politics and the Sunlight Foundation to report on the individuals and interests fueling the organization.
Neither of the two new pro-Trump groups have made any such commitment to transparency, which will encourage the arrival of big checks from those who may want to curry favor with the president but remain out of public view. Contributions from foreign governments are also possible, should the group’s leaders choose to allow it.
Meanwhile, Conservative Solutions Project will slip back into the darkness. It could fade away entirely or lay dormant until Rubio’s next potential foray in the presidential arena.
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(but look who worked on recall, both local Usual Suspects, but also White House heavy hitters: Political Operatives: Russo, Kaloogian, Luntz, Cheney, Rove, Scott Reed, Gillespie, Rollins?
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Poll Data
A poll released in October by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research revealed:
| Support | Opposed | Undecided |
|---|---|---|
| 22 percent | 53 percent | 25 percent |
Attack on petition drive
On November 1, 2007, California Democratic Chairman Ray Torres alleged that petition gatherers for PERA had used fraudulent "bait-and-switch" tactics to encourage voters to sign the PERA petition.[11] He was joined at his press conference by Kristina Wilfore of the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center. Pro-PERA representatives Dave Gilliard and Mike Arno denounced Wilfore.[12] Arno threatened to sue BISC:
"I will sue their board members because they're doing this with malice and no knowledge of the facts," Arno said. "Why would anybody bait-and-switch this issue? This is an easy issue on the street. I got 150,000 signatures last week. That should tell you something."
According to an article in the San Jose Mercury News, Republicans also accused Wilfore of having an agenda, quoting words from the BISC website where Wilfore says, "We still need to do everything we can to keep it from reaching the June ballot."
See:petition blocking.
Ballot pushed back to November
Running out of time and money the PERA activists could not meet the deadline for the June 3rd ballot. If the measure is able to qualify for the November general election it is still unclear if it will be able to impact the 2008 Presidential race. Vik Amar, an election law expert at the University of California said that it would be possible if the language was worded right. "I don't see any constitutional problem to that application. Electors don't cast their ballots until December. It's always after the November election."[13]
Supporters
The official committee supporting CERI is called California Counts. GOP consultants Ed Rollins, Dave Gilliard and Anne Dunsmore are leading the re-vitalization of the signature effort after its early stall-out. Dunsmore has said, "You can’t just fold up every time somebody says they killed you."[14]
Campaign finance disclosure forms filed with the California Secretary of State in early November 2007 showed that supporters of the effort had collected $500,000 in a 10-day period starting the last week of October.[15]. These includes an $80,000 donation from the California Republican Party, and $59,700 from Darrell Issa.[16]
Other supporters of the revived effort include Lew Uhler, a well-known anti-tax crusader in California, and Tony Andrade. Andrade was active in the successful effort to collect enough signatures to place the recall of California governor Gray Davis on the ballot in 2003.[17] Supporters of PERA announced in late October that Darrell Issa had become a financial backer of the effort.[18]
See Donors to California Counts!.
Original supporters resign, dissolve committee
The initial committee supporting the initiative was Californians for Equal Representation. Supporters of CERI included financier Paul Singer, a supporter of Rudy Giuliani's bid for the presidency. In late September, two original supporters of the initiative resigned from the campaign and dissolved the committee. Attorney Tom Hiltachk and campaign spokesperson Kevin Eckery said that they were resigning because a Missouricorporation, Take Initiative America, had failed to disclose the source of its contributions to their group, Californians for Equal Representation.[19]
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https://ballotpedia.org/California_Presidential_Electoral_College_Reform_Initiative_(2008)
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http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ed_Rollins
Edward J. Rollins[1] is a Republican pollster and political consultant.
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Current affiliations
"Ed Rollins, a senior political contributor for CNN, is senior presidential fellow at the Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency at Hofstra University. He is a principal with the Dilenschneider Group, a global public relations firm. He was White House political director for President Reagan and chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee."[2]
"Edward Rollins is Chairman of the Rollins Strategy Group, a communications and crisis management firm" said to have offices in New York and Washington, D.C. - although this firm appears to have no website, and its offices' actual locations are a mystery.[3]
"In the international arena, Edward Rollins has had extensive experience in China, Japan, Korea, Pakistan and the Philippines where he has advised heads of state and executives of major corporations. Currently, he serves as the Economic Advisor to China's Jiansgu Province and the cities of Nanjing and Jinan. He is Co-Chairman of a Chinese joint venture, R&R International, a marketing and management consulting firm based in Beijing and affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences."[4]
(this belongs elsewhere:)"Rollins has long been considered one of America's premier political strategists and communication experts, specializing in issue, image and crisis campaigns on behalf of corporations, governments, and political candidates around the world." [5]
In June 2011, Rollins became "Michele Bachmann's campaign strategist".[6],[7]
Career history
Rollins is best known for his work on the1984 Ronald Reagan relection campaign and as Co-Chairman and Campaign Manager of Ross Perot's 1992 Presidential campaign. [1]
"Mr. Rollins has served four United States Presidents. He was in charge of both the White House Office of Political Affairs and the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs as well as serving as the Deputy Chief of Staff. In 1984, he managed President Ronald Reagan's landslide reelection campaign. Mr. Rollins also directed congressional relations at two cabinet agencies and served as theChief of Staff for the Republicans in the California State Assembly." [5]
"Rollins has held managerial positions outside of politics including stints as a university administrator, college instructor in Public Administration, Dean of the faculty of the National Fire Academy, head of Congressional relations for the U.S. Department of Transportation and as a management consultant to major U.S. and international Fortune 500 companies," his biographical note states.
Before Reagan
Prior to working for Reagan, Rollins worked as the Republican chief of staff, Principal Assistant to the Republican Leader, and Assistant to the Speaker of the California State Assembly.
Reagan
A biographical note describes Rollins as having worked as Assistant to the President for Political Affairs in Reagan's first term and then as "the national Campaign Director for his 1984 re-election campaign". He then rejoined the Administration as Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff for Political and Governmental Affairs. [2]
Huckabee
In December 2007, Rollins joined Governor Mike Huckabee's presidential campaign as its national campaign chair. [8]
Whitman campaign and "walking-around money" controversy
Following the 1993 elections, during a breakfast debriefing, Rollins admitted to journalists that one factor in the success of Christine Todd Whitman in the New Jersey governor's race against incumbent Democrat Jim Florio had been the distribution of "walking around" money to influential persons in inner-city precincts, including African-American pastors. [9]
According to Rollins, workers who had been hired to help get out the Democratic vote were told, "How much have they paid you to do your normal duty? ... We'll match it. Go home, sit, and watch television." In addition, Rollins said, "We went into black churches and we basically said to ministers who had endorsed Florio, 'Do you have a special project?' And they said, 'We've already endorsed Florio.' And we said, 'That's fine, don't get up on the Sunday pulpit and preach. . . . Don't get up there and say it's your moral obligation that you go out on Tuesday and vote for Jim Florio.'" Ministers who cooperated, Rollins said, received contributions to their "favorite charities." As a result, Rollins said, "I think, to a certain extent, we suppressed their vote."
Subsequently, the Democrats launched a lawsuit as Rollins' comments were alleged to be an admission of illegal behavior. When cross-examined by Democratic attorneys, Rollins claimed that his comments had been no more than part of a "psychological warfare" game he was playing with James Carville, the campaign manager for Whitman's opponent. A federal grand jury investigation proceeded, but eventually the grand jury concluded that no evidence had been presented to show that any laws had been broken.
Other
- Judge, Since Sliced Bread
SourceWatch resources
External links
References
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- :{Jump up:(style="top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px 1px 1px 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important"):}:↑ Obama stumbles as parties get desperate. CNN.com (2010-08-17). Retrieved on 2011-06-15.
- :{Jump up:(style="top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px 1px 1px 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important"):}:↑ 2011-06 Personal observation via googling; if you can find the information, please add it...
- :{Jump up:(style="top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px 1px 1px 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important"):}:↑ Biography of Edward Rollins for Appearances, Speaking Engagements, Endorsements Talent Agent. allamericanspeakers.com. Retrieved on 2011-06-15.
- ↑ ^Jump ^up to:5.0 5.1 Judges, Since Sliced Bread, accessed February 13, 2008.
- :{Jump up:(style="top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px 1px 1px 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important"):}:↑ John Amato (2011-06-08). Michele Bachmann's new strategist Ed Rollins blasts Sarah Palin as being "Not Serious" -. Crooks and Liars. Retrieved on 2011-06-15.
- :{Jump up:(style="top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px 1px 1px 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important"):}:↑ Jonathan Weisman (2011-06-06). Ed Rollins, Veteran Campaign Hand, Signs Up With Bachmann. Wall Street Journal. Retrieved on 2011-06-15. “Ed Rollins, the high-profile political strategist who managed Ronald Reagan’s 1984 re-election landslide, has agreed to run Rep. Michele Bachmann’s campaign in the likely event that she runs for president.”
- :{Jump up:(style="top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px 1px 1px 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important"):}:↑ Jason George, "Mike Huckabee reels in Ed Rollins," Baltimore Sun blog "The Swamp," December 14, 2007.
- :{Jump up:(style="top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px 1px 1px 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important"):}:↑ Richard L. Berke Whitman Funds Went to Curtail Black Turnout, New York Times, November 10, 1993
Articles
- "Ed Rollins: Political Commentator and Strategist, undated, accessed August 2004.
- Linda Feldmann, "GOP Campaign Tactics Spark New Jersey Furor," Christian Science Monitor, November 12, 1993, p. 2.
- Michelle Ruess and Dunstan McNichol, "Grand Jury Hears Whitman's Kin," The Record (Bergen, NJ), November 25, 1993, p. A1.
- Michelle Ruess, "Whitman Says of Payoffs: Never Happened," The Record (Bergen, NJ), November 13, 1993, p. A1.
- Jason George, "Mike Huckabee reels in Ed Rollins," Baltimore Sun blog "The Swamp," December 14, 2007.
Wikipedia also has an article on Ed Rollins. This article may use content from the Wikipedia article under the terms of the GFDL.
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Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
**Edward Rollins** (born March 19, 1943) is aRepublican campaign consultant and advisor who has worked on several high-profile political campaigns in the United States. In 1983-84, he was National Campaign Director for the Reagan-Bush '84 campaign, winning 49 of 50 states. In December 2007, he was named the national campaign chairman for the Mike Huckabee campaign for President.[1]
Contents
- 1 Early life
- 2 School and sports
- 3 Early career
- 4 Reagan Administration, 1981-83
- 5 Political campaigns