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</font></div><div><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Biden's nominee to lead the Federal Communications Commission withdrew her name from consideration on Tuesday amid ongoing character assassination by right-wing media, lobbyists, and lawmakers.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Gigi Sohn told&nbsp;The Washington Post&nbsp;in an exclusive interview that the "unrelenting, dishonest and cruel attacks" that labeled her as "extreme" and "partisan" despite her moderate résumé forced her to turn down Biden's offer.</span></p><div id="story_page_incontent_p2_target" style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-5155643920455169" data-ad-slot="6339868799" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration-line: none; text-align: center; margin-bottom: 20px; display: block;" /></div><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"It is a sad day for our country and our democracy when dominant industries, with assistance from unlimited dark money, get to choose their regulators," Sohn said in a statement to the&nbsp;Post.&nbsp;“And with the help of their friends in the Senate, the powerful cable and media companies have done just that.”</span></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">[READ MORE:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.alternet.org/ted-cruz-fox-news/" target="self" title="view post: Watch: Ted Cruz lashes out at Biden nominee for referring to Fox News as propaganda" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Watch: Ted Cruz lashes out at Biden nominee for referring to Fox News as propaganda</a></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But the criticisms of Sohn were not only coming from Republicans. The&nbsp;<b>Post&nbsp;</b>noted that United States Senator Joe Manchin (D-Wet Virginia) accused Sohn of harboring "partisan alliances with far-left groups," adding that "especially now, the FCC must remain above the toxic partisanship that Americans are sick and tired of, and Ms. Sohn has clearly shown she is not the person to do that."</span></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The&nbsp;Post&nbsp;further explained that "conservative groups spent hundreds of thousands of dollars attacking Sohn as partisan and extreme, leading a campaign focused in states of several moderate Democrats, who were already on the fence on Sohn's nomination. 'Gigi Sohn is too extreme for the FCC,' read one billboard in Las Vegas, plastered with Sohn's face and a link to a website for the<b>&nbsp;American Accountability Foundation</b>, a group that has opposed Biden's nominees. The AAF and another conservative nonprofit, the Center for a Free Economy, placed more than $200,000 in Facebook ads opposing Sohn."</span></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The White House, meanwhile, respected Sohn's decision.</p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"She would have brought tremendous intellect and experience," Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said, "which is why the president nominated her in the first place."</p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">rEAD MORE:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/05/gigi-sohn" target="self" title="view post: 'Infuriating': Telecom lobbyists spending big money to keep Gigi Sohn off FCC" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">'Infuriating': Telecom lobbyists spending big money to keep Gigi Sohn off FCC</a></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Post's full article is available&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/03/07/gigi-sohn-withdraws-fcc-nomination/" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">here</a>&nbsp;(subscription required).</p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">also turnipseed jumper cables</font></div><div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">---</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">busted for bad welds, lying about? then trying to charge navy w/ cost overruns to fix:</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to former President&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter" title="Jimmy Carter" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">Jimmy Carter</a>, several weeks following his retirement, Rickover "was invited to the Oval Office and decided to don his full dress uniform. He told me that he refused to take a seat, listened to the president [Reagan] ask him to be his special nuclear advisor, replied 'Mr. President, that is bullshit,' and then walked out."<sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyman_G.Rickover#cite_note-95" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[95]</a></sup>&nbsp;The Navy's official investigation of General Dynamics' Electric Boat division was ended shortly afterward. According to Theodore Rockwell, Rickover's Technical Director for more than 15 years,&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">more than one source at that time stated that General Dynamics officials were bragging around Washington that they had "gotten Rickover.</span>"<sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyman_G.Rickover#cite_note-96" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[96]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">On the cover of its June 2, 1987 edition,<sup id="cite_ref-LAT_16-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Rice_Hughes#cite_note-LAT-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[16]</a></sup>&nbsp;the celebrity tabloid&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Enquirer" title="National Enquirer" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">National Enquirer</a></i>&nbsp;published a photograph of Rice sitting on Hart's lap.</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">&nbsp;The pair were pictured on a dock during a yacht trip to&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bimini" title="Bimini" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-image="background-image" none="none" background-position="background-position" initial="initial" background-size="background-size" background-repeat="background-repeat" background-attachment="background-attachment" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Bimini</a><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">&nbsp;that Hart, Rice and others took before he announced his campaign for President of the United States.</span><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" line-height="line-height" unicode-bidi="unicode-bidi" isolate="isolate" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Rice_Hughes#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[17]</a></sup><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">&nbsp;Hart is wearing a T-shirt bearing the words&nbsp;</span><i times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_Business(yacht)" title="Monkey Business (yacht)" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">Monkey Business</a></i><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">, the name of the yacht. The photo was published alongside the headline "Gary Hart Asked Me to Marry Him".</span><sup id="cite_ref-LAT_16-1" class="reference" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" line-height="line-height" unicode-bidi="unicode-bidi" isolate="isolate" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Rice_Hughes#cite_note-LAT-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[16]</a></sup><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">&nbsp;It was published weeks after Hart suspended his campaign, but has been subsequently collectively confused as the reason for Hart's exit.</span><sup id="cite_ref-2014bai_15-1" class="reference" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" line-height="line-height" unicode-bidi="unicode-bidi" isolate="isolate" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Rice_Hughes#cite_note-2014bai-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[15]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NYTimesBai_18-0" class="reference" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" line-height="line-height" unicode-bidi="unicode-bidi" isolate="isolate" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Rice_Hughes#cite_note-NYTimesBai-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[18]</a></sup><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">&nbsp;T</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">here are allegations that the photo was a set up by Republican operative&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Atwater" title="Lee Atwater" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-image="background-image" none="none" background-position="background-position" initial="initial" background-size="background-size" background-repeat="background-repeat" background-attachment="background-attachment" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Lee Atwater</a><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">&nbsp;to discredit Hart.</span><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" line-height="line-height" unicode-bidi="unicode-bidi" isolate="isolate" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Rice_Hughes#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[19]</a></sup></span></font></p><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/louisiana-s-kennedy-dabbles-modern-day-mccarthyism-n1284201" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/louisiana-s-kennedy-dabbles-modern-day-mccarthyism-n1284201</a></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</div><div><b>louisiana's Kennedy dabbles in modern-day McCarthyism</b></div><div>If Sen. John Kennedy's line of questioning against Saule Omarova sounded familiar, it's probably because it echoed Joe McCarthy's tactics.</div><div>
</div><div>Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., speaks during the confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett.Patrick Semansky / Pool via AP</div><div>Nov. 19, 2021, 6:27 AM PST</div><div>By Steve Benen</div><div>
</div><div>Senate fights over the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency are not especially common, but the dispute over Saule Omarova's nomination is proving to be unusual.</div><div>
</div><div><b>At face value, Omarova's story reads like a classic American story. She was born in Kazakhstan, before the collapse of the Soviet Union. She immigrated to the United States, studied law and business, became an American citizen, took on a role in the Bush administration's Treasury Department, and ultimately became a law professor at Cornell University. see WITH pod]</b></div><div>
</div><div>President Joe Biden nominated her for a position in which she'd be responsible for regulating bank assets — she specializes in financial regulation — and yesterday, Omarova's nomination arrived at the Senate Finance Committee for a confirmation hearing.</div><div>
</div><div><b>Republican Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana apparently thought it'd be entertaining to take aim at her personal background, starting with this question: "You used to be a member of a group called the Young Communists, didn't you?"</b>&nbsp;The Washington Post took it from there:</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But this isn't where Kennedy was headed. Instead, he spent his designated time suggesting that Omarova was a communist sympathizer, beginning with that loaded question. Omarova indicated that she wasn't sure what group he was referring to, a bit of caution that Kennedy wasn't interested in. Kennedy, reading from handwritten notes, identified the group by name: "the Leninist Communist Young Union of the Russian Federation," also known as the Komsomol.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">As a child in a USSR country, Omarova's participation in Komsomol was not optional. The professor patiently tried to explain this to the Republican senator, who didn't seem overly concerned about the relevant details.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"I don't mean any disrespect — I don't know whether to call you professor or comrade," Kennedy said.</span></div><div>
</div><div>Of course, why would anyone find such nonsense disrespectful?</div><div>
</div><div><b>As part of the line of questioning, the Louisiana Republican sought proof that Omarova "resigned" from the school program as a child. She explained that participants didn't have to formally quit the group, since they simply "grow out of it with age."</b></div><div>
</div><div><b>Kennedy, either confused or willfully ignorant, wasn't satisfied, seeking some kind of letter of resignation. No such letter existed, because the question didn't make sense.</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">The Post's analysis added, "It's safe to assume that&nbsp;<b>Kennedy, who attended Oxford University during the Cold War, is aware that Soviet youth were conscripted into party organizations and that socialist views are not communist ones.</b>&nbsp;But he is a politician representing a deep-red state, and he clearly understands that it's easier to submarine a presidential nominee using old-school Red scare tactics than it is to challenge her actual belief systems one by one."...</span></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.313em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Conservatives strongly oppose the confirmation of Saule Omarova to Comptroller of the Currency.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.313em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Far from an academic critic of the U.S. banking system, Omarova is a radical activist</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">having made clear she wants to put an “end to banking’ as we know it.” Her vision involves transferring private banking functions to the Federal Reserve, which would also be tasked with controlling prices for fuel, food, raw materials, metals, natural resources, home prices and wages</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.313em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Omarova has spoken of transforming the Federal Reserve into a central platform for “generating, modulating, and allocating financial resources in a modern economy.” She has referred to the financial sector – the industry which she would purport to regulate – in derogatory and inflammatory terms and&nbsp;<b>suggested changing the legal system to address so-called “self-serving behavior.”</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.313em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><b>Such ideas are straight out of the Soviet playbook,&nbsp;</b></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>which Omarova has both studied and hailed.</b>&nbsp;It should go without saying that such practices have no place in our U.S. monetary system. Particularly at a time when<b>&nbsp;monetary services have become ideologically weaponized,</b>&nbsp;decentralization of the financial sector remains critical to ensuring that all Americans have access to the basic levers of capitalism.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.313em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">The Biden administration appears to have nominated an outright communist to a capital markets position&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">– a contradiction both in terms, and in governing ideology. If confirmed, Saule Omarova would seek to expand political control over the private economy and further infuse our capital markets with ideological purpose. We urge the Senate to reject her nomination.</span></font></p><hr style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; height: 0px; margin: 1.313em 0px; border-right: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-image: initial; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.075);" /><table style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); width: 960px; margin-bottom: 1.313em; border-spacing: 0px; border-top: 0px;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Edwin Meese III</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Attorney General<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President Ronald Reagan (1985-1988)</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable J. Kenneth Blackwell</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chairman, Conservative Action Project (CAP)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chairman, Constitutional Congress, Inc.</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">L. Brent Bozell III</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Founder and President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Media Research Center</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable David McIntosh</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Club for Growth</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Scott T. Parkinson</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />VP for Government Affairs<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Club for Growth</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Kelly J. Shackelford, Esq.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President and CEO<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />First Liberty Institute</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Myron Ebell</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Director, Center for Energy and Environment<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Competitive Enterprise Institute</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Kenneth T. Cuccinelli, II</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chairman<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Election Transparency Initiative</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Jenny Beth Martin</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chairman<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Tea Party Patriots Citizen Fund</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Alfred S. Regnery</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Republic Book Publishers</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Lisa B. Nelson</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chief Executive Officer<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />American Legislative Exchange Council</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Bob McEwen</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />U.S. House of Representatives<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Former Member, Ohio</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Jim DeMint</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chairman, Conservative Partnership Institute<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Member, US Senate (SC 2005-2013)</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Ed&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Corrigan</span></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Vice Chairman, Conservative Action Project<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President & CEO,&nbsp;<b>Conservative Partnership Institute</b></span></font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">William L. Walton</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Managing Editor and Host<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The Bill Walton Show</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Wesley Denton</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chief Operating Officer<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI)</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Lori Roman</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />ACRU Action Fund</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Steve Moore</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Co-Chair<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Committee to Unleash Prosperity</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Mary Vought</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Executive Director<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Senate Conservatives Fund</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin (Ret.)</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Executive Vice President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Family Research Council</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Rachel A. Bovard</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Senior Director of Policy<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI)</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Virginia Thomas</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Liberty Consulting</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Tony Perkins</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Family Research Council</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">&nbsp;Honorable Becky Norton Dunlop</span></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />White House Advisor<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President Ronald Reagan (1981-1985)</span></font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Thomas Fitton</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President, Judicial Watch, Inc.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President, Council for National Policy</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Terry Schilling</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />American Principles Project</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cleta Mitchell, Esq.</font></span></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Tom Jones</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Co-Founder<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />American Accountability Foundation</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Morton C. Blackwell</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The Leadership Institute</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable T. Kenneth Cribb, Jr.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chief Domestic Advisor<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President Ronald Reagan (1987-1988)</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">&nbsp;Honorable</span>&nbsp;Russ Vought</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Director<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Office of Management and Budget (2020-2021)</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Tom McClusky</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Greenlight Strategies</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Brooke Rollins</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President and CEO<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />America First Policy Institute (AFPI)</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Scott Walker</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Young America’s Foundation</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">David N. Bossie</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Citizens United</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Gary L. Bauer</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />American Values</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Brigitte Gabriel</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Founder and Chairman<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />ACT For America</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Heather R. Higgins</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />CEO<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Independent Women’s Voice</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Craig Shirley</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Reagan Biographer<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Presidential Historian</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable James C. Miller III</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Budget Director for President Reagan, 1985-1988</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Ralph Benko</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chairman<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The Capitalist League</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">James C. Dobson, Ph.D.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Founder & President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Dr. James Dobson Family Institute</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Tim Macy</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chairman<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Gun Owners of America</span></font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Peter J. Thomas</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chairman<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The Conservative Caucus</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Anne&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Schlafly&nbsp;</span>Cori</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chairman<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Eagle Forum</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Seton Motley</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Less Government</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Penna Dexter</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Co-host<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Point of View Radio</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Khadine Ritter</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Eagle Forum of Ohio</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Diana Denman</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The Reagan Legacy Forum</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Kay R. Daly</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Coalition for a Fair Judiciary</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Karen England</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Executive Director<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Capitol Resource Institute & Nevada Family Alliance</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">G. Eric Georgatos</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Executive Producer<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />America Can We Talk? americacanwetalk.org</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Allen J. Hebert</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chairman<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />American-Chinese Fellowship of Houston</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Richard Manning</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Americans for Limited Government</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Phil Kerpen</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />American Commitment</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Andresen Blom</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Hawaiian Values</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Gary Marx</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The Concord Fund</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Sal Russo</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Co-Founder and Chief Strategist<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Tea Party Express</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Elaine Donnelly</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Center for Military Readiness</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Paavo Ensio</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Chairman<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Universal Minerals Group</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable George K. Rasley Jr.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Managing Editor<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />ConservativeHQ.com</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Dr. Paige Patterson</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Sandy Creek Foundation</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Ron Pearson</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Executive Director<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Conservative Victory Fund</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">C. Preston Noell III</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Tradition, Family, Property, Inc.</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Paul Gessing</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Rio Grande Foundation</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Jay Mount</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />MDS Communications</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Mark Fitzgibbons</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President of Corporate Affairs<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />American Target Advertising</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Kielle C. Horton</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The Lindsey Foundation</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Richard D. Hayes</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Partner<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Hayes, Berry, White & Vanzant, LLP</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Randy M. Long</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Founder<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Long Business Advisors, LLC</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Judson Phillips</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Founder<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Tea Party Nation</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Saulius “Saul” Anuzis</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />60 Plus Association</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Lee Beaman</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />CEO<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Beaman Ventures</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">James L. Martin</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Founder/Chairman<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />60 Plus Association</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Kevin Freeman</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Founder<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />NSIC Institute</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Tom DeWeese</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />American Policy Center</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Floyd Brown</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Founder<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The Western Journal</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Robert D. Thompson</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Former Administrator<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The Weyrich Lunch (1999-2016)</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Dr. Ernest Calvin Beisner</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Terrence Scanlon</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Retired Chairman, President Reagan’s second term<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Ralph A. Rebandt, II</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Gubernatorial candidate<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Ralph Rebandt for Michigan Governor</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Mario Navarro da Costa</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Director, Washington Bureau<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Tradition, Family, Property</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Mike Hill</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Former Member<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Florida State Representative</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">William Shaker</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />CEO<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Washington Marketing Group</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Robert Keith Fischer</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Meeting Coordinator<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Conservatives of Faith</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Thomas&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Pyle</span></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />American Energy Alliance</span></font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Rod D. Martin</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Founder & CEO<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The Martin Organization, Inc.</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Sherri R. Martin</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Trustee<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Florida Baptist Children’s Homes</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Haley E. Martin</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Past President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The Martin Foundation</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Guillermo J. Aragon</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Senior Partner<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Corbere Partners</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Christina Murphy Lusk</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The Martin Foundation</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Lourdes Cosio</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Campaign for the American Future</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Shawn A. Mitchell</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Former National Chaplain<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />National Federation of Republican Assemblies</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Jack Park</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Conservative Activist and Donor<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Law Offices of Jack Park</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Eunie Smith</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President Emeritus<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Eagle Forum</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Nancy Schulze</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Founder, President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />RCW Speakers</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Eaton Hopkins</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Liberty Surgical, Inc.</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Joan Holt Lindsey</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />President<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Lindsey Communications</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Sheryl Kaufman</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Board of Directors<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Americans for Limited Government</font></td><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5em 0.625em; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: middle; border-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Dr. Allen Unruh</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Founder<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">National Abstinence Clearinghouse</span></font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td width="312" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>It's no secret that environmental groups, anti-science groups, and the industry groups that fund them are very well organized. Thanks to Freedom of Information Act requests we know they have created an actual conspiracy to fight one they invented.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Activists and their political allies float the narrative that industry secretly controls scientists in food, energy and medicine (yet, weirdly, not climate science.) Nothing could be further from the truth. Here is the real scoop from someone who worked at the highest levels in the private sector, who started the Science 2.0 movement, and who now runs a pro-science consumer advocacy non-profit: corporations do not give people money to do something they are already doing for free. It's bad precedent.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Instead, marketing groups take credit for it and use it to justify their bonuses. They create elaborate Powerpoint presentations where they convince people internally that they "own" social media, and that on command journalists and bloggers will fall in line. I can't tell you how many PR or advertising groups - Weber Shandwick, APCO, pick any you want - have at some point written me with a query like 'you support science, have you heard of company X? Would you like to talk to someone in corporate marketing there about how awesome they are?' and been summarily dismissed.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I don't care about your company, I care about science. Your company might just happen to be on the right side of the science and are making the modern world a better place. What have marketing people at companies never done? Written something like, 'You are doing great work, how can we make sure you keep doing it?' Not here, not at Science 2.0. It's dumb to give people working for free the idea that they might get money for it.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The reality is that the pro-science side is not organized at all the way anti-science groups are, not financially or culturally. We're a bunch of anarchists.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A few weeks ago I noted an effort by one organic marketing group<b>, US Right To Know,</b>&nbsp;to try and get our scientists and doctors banned from writing in USA Today. It had dozens of co-signers. Let's think about our side. On the pro-science team, I couldn't even get dozens of co-signers to declare themselves in favor of ending cancer, half wouldn't bother to return emails and a whole bunch more would say they are uncomfortable taking a stand outside their specialization. Heck, we don't even have dozens of pro-science groups. On the anti- side, Organic Consumers Association alone props up over 300 "grass roots" organizations, US Right To Know is just their militant arm.&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Helping them for free are politically sympathetic journalism academics, like at New York University, who side with them either for cultural allegiance or because they naively believe environmental groups are wholesome and the people who defend science are hiding something.&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">These academics move the goalposts a lot. They bounce around from 'Mother Jones says so' and, when challenged to at least use something from this century, insist we can never be credible to them unless we turn over our donor list, something they have never asked of any anti-science group. Mother Jones has an entire foundation above it to launder corporate money. In reality, they have used transparency against us and want to continue to do so. They will manufacture a conflict of interest everywhere but in their own circle of friends and political sympaticos.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[pix] one upside down?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Charles Seife. When he can't find conflicts of interest, he makes them up. No PhD, but knows science is wrong.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Michael Balter. Fired from Science magazine for being untrustworthy. Not a professor, lies on his bio.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Dan Fagin. On the Pulitzer committee. Pulitzer Prize winner. Doesn't know what a conflict of interest is.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The average salary for a male professor at NYU is $270,000.&nbsp;</b>Though they routinely demand transparency (beyond the form 990s publicly posted on our site) they have repeatedly ignored my requests to show their tax returns in the interest of that same transparency. You can see our incomes right on this website. They refuse to be as transparent as we are, they instead move the goalposts and claim they want us to violate privacy laws.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And they refuse to disclose how they are qualified to libel our scientists and doctors on social media.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Since none of them will be transparent about their credentials to undermine scientists and doctors, I will. Seife has a Master's Degree, but somehow wrangled a full professor title at this university charging students $70,000 a year. Balter lies in his bio, he was never a professor at all, he was just an adjunct - I asked a scientist and he assured me that NYU does not call their adjuncts "professors" so Balter is being fraudulent by calling himself that. Fagin does not list any degree of any kind, so his professor title is even more impressive.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">These people did no research on us (1) beyond spending five seconds having bias confirmed at&nbsp;<b>Sourcewatch and Mother Jones,</b>&nbsp;and lack even a single PhD, yet dismiss all of our science work as fraud. Talk about journalistic double standards. (2)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gentlemen, I invited you to come to our office and tell these men and women they are frauds. You declined to do so, instead libeling people from a cozy Internet perch surrounded by your confirmation bias. The average salary of just three professors at NYU totals 50 percent more than the combined total of everyone at this table. Yet they insist that we must be a well-funded corporate group because their anti-science political allies say so.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So here is my challenge to you New York University journalism professors who are smearing our work: show us the evidence for your claims. Stop trotting out decades-old strategy documents that a fired employee handed over to Mother Jones, if you had ever worked in the real world you would know that raising money at a non-profit is hard work and it requires a plan. No mumbo-jumbo about how one foundation on your side of the political aisle is a 'good' one and another one is bad, every foundation is corporate funded. Just because you are politically aligned with the beliefs of the funding choices at Ford, MacArthur, Johnson and dozens of the other largest foundations in the country does not change the reality of their money.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Do some real journalism, even if means stepping out of your ideological bubble. To their credit, Mother Jones at least did that. After that fired employee handed them our donor list, they called every donor of ours trying to get any of them to suggest they had any influence in our science results.&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Not a single one did.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For obvious reasons, Mother Jones never published an article noting that, you don't waste expensive paper on null results. Plus, that would have been real journalism, not activist spin, and they don't understand it any more than NYU professors do.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">NOTES:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">(1) I even made a bet with Seife. I told him to bring a check for $1,000 to our office a short subway ride away and I would also. And on camera he could see our donor list. If he could not show we were an "industry front" he had to donate the $1,000 and if he could, I would give him the grand.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Even though his donation - which he would only have to give up if he were wrong about us, and he insisted repeatedly he was not - would be 100% tax-deductible, he was unwilling to show any confidence about what he bleats on Twitter. He wouldn't take the bet even though he couldn't lose financially. Only his reputation would be ruined.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Smears on social media are cheap. When he was asked to back up his libel with a bet, he ran. Wise move, Chuck.&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">(2) Actually, for being a $72,000 a year college, their journalism department is rather low quality. With 28 full-time faculty only 5 have any advanced degrees: a JD, an MD and three PhDs. University of Missouri's School of Journalism, on the other hand, has 21 faculty with PhDs and their tuition is a very reasonable $11,000. I can't wait for NYU journalism academics to say I am misrepresenting their school and being unfair and didn't do enough research, in a delightful bout of irony.</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">an 621</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When Hillary Clinton endorsed Nina Turner's main opponent recently, it was much more than just an attempt to boost a corporate Democrat. Clinton's&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1405193935526506499?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1405193935526506499%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fthehill.com%2Fhomenews%2Fcampaign%2F558750-clinton-backs-shontel-brown-in-ohio-congressional-race" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">praise</a>&nbsp;for candidate Shontel Brown was almost beside the point. Like other power brokers and the big-money PACs now trying to sway the special election for a vacant congressional seat in northeast Ohio, Clinton is doing what she can to keep the deeply progressive Turner out of Congress. (Rep. Marcia Fudge, who previously held the seat, resigned to become President Biden's HUD secretary.)</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Time is short.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2021/06/01/poll-shows-nina-turner-with-commanding-lead-in-oh-11-congressional-race" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Polling</a>&nbsp;shows Turner with a big lead, early voting begins in less than two weeks and Election Day is Aug. 3. What scares the political establishment is what energizes her supporters: Turner won't back down when social justice is at stake.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That reality was clearly audible last Tuesday night during the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=3lY-DIj0wWA" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">first debate</a>&nbsp;of the campaign, sponsored by the City Club of Cleveland. "I am running to be a voice for change, to uplift the downtrodden, including the poor, the working poor and the barely middle class," Turner began. "You send me to Congress, I'm going to make sure that we tax the wealthy, make them pay their fair share, and to center the people who need it the most in this district."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The contrast was sharp with Brown, who chairs the Democratic Party in Cuyahoga County, a major population center that includes the city of Cleveland. The discussion of health care was typical: Brown voiced a preference for a "public option," while Turner strongly advocated Medicare for All while calling the current health care situation "absurd" and "asinine." Brown sounded content to tinker with the status quo. Turner flatly declared: "The employer-based system, the commodification of health care, does not work in the United States of America. Almost 100 million people are either underinsured or uninsured right now."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After Brown emphasized that "we have to be able to compromise so we can get some things done," Turner closed with a jab at those eager to block the momentum of&nbsp;<a href="https://ninaturner.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">her campaign</a>&nbsp;for Congress: "You need to have somebody that will lead this community, who does have a vision and understands being a partner does not mean being a puppet, that working&nbsp;<em>with</em>&nbsp;does not mean acquiescing&nbsp;<em>to.&nbsp;</em>… You will always know whose side I am on."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That's exactly the problem for the party establishment. Its backers know full well whose side Turner is on.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So the attacks are escalating from Brown's campaign. It sent out a mailer — complete with an out-of-focus photo of Turner, made to look lurid — under the headline "Nina Turner Opposed President Biden and Worked Against Democrats." A more accurate headline would have been: "Nina Turner Supported Sen. Sanders and Worked Against Neoliberal Democrats." The Brown campaign's first&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/ShontelMBrown/status/1390367084614459397?s=20" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">TV ad</a>, which began airing last month, features her saying that she will "work with Joe Biden … that's different than Nina Turner."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A former editorial page editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer,<em>&nbsp;</em>Brent Larkin,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cleveland.com/opinion/2021/05/turning-nina-turners-own-words-against-her-is-just-a-tactic-but-one-she-needs-to-address.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">wrote</a>: "Brown will be a well-financed candidate with deep-pocketed supporters who aren't afraid to play rough. That's because Turner can't be beaten unless opponents plant seeds of doubt about her fitness, convincing voters her harsh criticisms of President Joe Biden would make it impossible for her to get things done for her community. The notion that Biden might punish a constituency important to him because Turner represents that constituency in Congress is far-fetched. During the 2020 campaign, Sen. Kamala Harris was bitterly critical of Biden's civil rights record. Nevertheless, Biden chose her as his running mate, effectively rewarding her with the vice presidency."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Brown's backers are eager to "play rough" because corporate power is at issue. It's not only that Turner crisscrossed the nation, speaking eloquently in support of both of Bernie Sanders' presidential campaigns, serving as a national co-chair during the last one. Powerful backers of the Democratic Party's top leadership — cozy and enmeshed with corporate America and the military-industrial complex — realize that "Rep. Nina Turner, D-Ohio" would significantly increase the leverage of genuinely progressive members of the House. For the Clinton wing of the party, that would be a frigging nightmare.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As the marquee anti-Turner candidate, Brown is leaving the more blatant smears to outfits like the "Protecting Our Vote PAC" (which spent&nbsp;<a href="http://politicalmoneyline.cq.com/tr/tr_mg_pac.aspx?&sCycle=2020&sCmteID=C00509463" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">$41,998</a>&nbsp;in the last cycle in an unsuccessful attempt to defeat now-Rep. Cori Bush in Missouri). That PAC has released a scurrilous&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/protectingourvotepac" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">attack ad</a>&nbsp;through Facebook, not merely telling viewers to vote for Brown but claiming, among other things, that "Nina Turner is not a real Democrat, you can't trust her," and she "has no respect for anyone, not even our president," and "Nina Turner is all about Nina, she doesn't care about Ohio, she doesn't care about getting things done, all she cares about is making noise."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Though some see may see Turner only as a firebrand speaker at political rallies, I was in dozens of meetings with her last year when her patient hard work was equally inspiring as she put in long hours with humility, compassion and dedication. I saw her as the real deal when we were colleagues for several months while she worked with RootsAction.org as a strategic delegate adviser for the 2020 Democratic National Convention.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Recalling how she works behind the scenes, I can understand even more why the party establishment is so anxious to block her entry to Congress. While Turner is a seasoned legislator — she served on the Cleveland City Council and in the Ohio State Senate for a total of nine years — she's committed to the meticulous and sometimes tedious work of organizing and coalition-building that, in the long run, can make all the difference for progressive change.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The day that Clinton made her&nbsp;<a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/558750-clinton-backs-shontel-brown-in-ohio-congressional-race" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">endorsement</a>&nbsp;of Brown, a&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/ninaturner/status/1405222317580591120" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">tweet</a>&nbsp;from Turner offered an apt retort. Saying that she was "proud to be running a campaign focused on the issues that matter most to working people," Turner added: "My district knows all too well that the politics of yesterday are incapable of delivering the change we desperately need."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The next day, underscoring wide awareness that the corporate "politics of yesterday" must not be the politics of tomorrow, the Turner campaign&nbsp;<a href="https://heavy.com/news/nina-turner-fundraising-record-hillary-clinton/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">announced</a>&nbsp;that it raised six figures in donations in less than 24 hours; Clinton's intervention had been a blessing. Overall, at last report, the Turner campaign has received donations from 54,000 different individuals, with contributions averaging $27.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dollars pouring into Shontel Brown's campaign are coming from a very different political and social universe. As the Daily Poster has&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dailyposter.com/big-business-is-coming-out-against-nina-turner/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">reported</a>, "business-friendly Democrats" and Washington lobbyists for huge corporations — including "Big Oil, Big Pharma, Fox News and Wall Street" — are providing big bucks to stop Nina Turner from becoming Congresswoman Turner.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bernie Sanders described the situation clearly in a recent mass email: "The political establishment and their super PACs are lining up behind Nina's opponent during the critical final weeks of this primary. 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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">mirror?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">eg (also clinton, gray davis) turnipseed jumper cables?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><div data-reactid="203" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But the&nbsp;<a href="https://richmondstandard.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Richmond Standard</a>, a local publication Chevron launched in 2013, didn’t cover the report that way&nbsp;</span>— and doesn’t appear to have covered it at all. The Standard “produces news about what is going on in the surrounding community,” according to Braden Reddall, an external affairs advisor for Chevron. And a recent edition of the site, which included an&nbsp;<a href="https://richmondstandard.com/sports/2019/03/14/san-pablo-baseball-association-opening-day-parade-set-for-april-6/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">article</a>&nbsp;on the announcement of a date for the coming Little League parade and&nbsp;a&nbsp;<a href="https://richmondstandard.com/richmond/2019/03/17/caspers-dogs-still-delight-after-seven-decades/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">review</a>&nbsp;of the local hot dog joint, bears that out.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Despite appearing to be an unbiased news source, the Standard also includes a section of feel-good news about the refinery that includes no mention of the health and safety issues other publications have reported as linked to the refinery.</span>&nbsp;Chevron’s Reddall pointed out in an email that the section on the refinery is “clearly marked as editorial under the ‘Chevron Speaks’ heading.” His email also noted that “The West Contra Costa County region has embraced the publication.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But not all locals have a positive view of the Standard. “They created it so they could control the narrative,” said Greg Karras, senior scientist at&nbsp;<a href="http://www.cbecal.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Communities for a Better Environment</a></span>, a group that has been calling attention to health impacts of the refinery for decades. “When there’s something they want or don’t want and is really important to the business, they want their story about it to get out, rather than rely on independent reporting.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Chevron seems to have had an even darker purpose in mind when it created the&nbsp;<a href="http://theamazonpost.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Amazon Post</a>.</b>&nbsp;The website, which has a “breaking news” column and “most read” section, identifies itself in small type as “Chevron’s Views and Opinions on the Ecuador Lawsuit.” But the Post’s real purpose appears to be the targeting of Steven Donziger — an attorney with whom the company has been engaged in a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/01/09/reversal-of-fortune-patrick-radden-keefe" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">pitched legal battle</a>&nbsp;over massive pollution in the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador for more than two decades.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Chevron’s Reddall says that the company maintains the Amazon Post “to express the company’s views and opinions on a fraudulent lawsuit against the company in Ecuador” and that “the information about Steven Donziger chronicles his long history of illegal activity.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">For his part, Donziger, who was part of a legal team that won a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/world/americas/15ecuador.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">$9.5 billion judgment</a>&nbsp;in the Ecuadorian courts against Chevron over the pollution, says that the Post is just one of the tools the giant energy company has<b>&nbsp;used to personally and professionally destroy him</b>.</span>&nbsp;While three Ecuadorian courts, including the highest court in the land, upheld the judgment, U.S. District Court Judge Lewis A. Kaplan ruled that it should not be enforced because parts of it were “corruptly ghostwritten” in return for the promise of a bribe.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Chevron, which has employed at least&nbsp;<a href="http://www.csrwire.com/press_releases/35294-Chevron-Using-60-Law-Firms-and-2-000-Legal-Personnel-To-Evade-Ecuador-Environmental-Liability-Company-Reports" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">2,000 lawyers and legal personnel from more than 60 firms</a>&nbsp;to work on litigation around the pollution in Ecuador, also&nbsp;<b>filed a lawsuit&nbsp;against Donziger in 2011 alleging that he won the judgment in Ecuador through fraud and racketeering</b>. Kaplan decided&nbsp;the case in Chevron’s favor in a trial held without a jury. And recently that decision was the basis for Donziger having his legal license&nbsp;<a href="https://www.apnews.com/5d34d65ed0294f3489e8e4d6abef746e" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">suspended</a>&nbsp;without a hearing and his bank account frozen. While Donziger has denied that he committed misconduct and contested his suspension in court, the company has delighted over his suffering in the Amazon Post.</font></p></div><div data-reactid="213" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There may soon be more fossil fuel company publications entirely devoted to smearing the reputation of individuals, according to&nbsp;<b>Robert Brulle</b>. “They’re likely going to attack Alexandria Ocasio Cortez personally and demonize her. They’ve already begun that,” said Brulle, a sociologist and visiting professor of environment and society at Brown University. “It’s an old strategy — to delegitimize your opponents.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">...</font></p></div></div></div></div></div>