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MAGA influencers are battling with each other over foreign donations from those who support the Iran war.
and Will Sommer took a dive into the influencer culture of the right.
"There is rampant suspicion that there is a DOJ investigation into conservative influencers who may be paid by foreign sources to both oppose and/or support the Iran war," Stein explained. "And all of these conservative influencers are salivating over the prospects that their ideological foes within the conservative movement, not like liberals within the conservative movement, may soon be arrested."
Sommer thinks that this investigation isn't likely to exist.
All of it stems from a tweet from someone calling themselves "Zero Hour" that Sommer said is a "shady character" he's dealt with in the past. When the account posted it, the right-wing pounced.
"They imagined their foes, whether it be, you know, pro-Israel, pro-Iran war against Iran, war against Israel. They imagine them in shackles," Sommer said.
The Justice Department hasn't given a statement confirming or denying the existence of a probe.
Still, it prompted Sommer to crack a joke about whether "CatTurd" would be arrested.
What Stein found amusing was that conservatives were excited that others on their team might be arrested as opposed to someone on the left being targeted.
"We're past the point where they want to lock up Hillary Clinton, they now want to see their own MAGA influencers locked up over this war," said Stein.
Sommer said it's a sign about just "how bad things have gotten in the MAGA civil war."
Jack Posobiec posted this week on X, "Influencers who take foreign money and don't disclose it should be deported to the country they took the money from."
"So, I mean, these guys are, they're so excited for what, again, to be clear, is the non-existent pundit purge," mocked Sommer.
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Just hours after Minnesotans learned that Democratic House leader Melissa Hortman had been assassinated, right-wing influencer Collin Rugg, who has 1.8 million followers on X, posted a “report” that hinted that she’d been killed because of a recent vote on ending undocumented adults’ ability to enroll in MinnesotaCare, a subsidized health insurance for the working poor.
Mike Cernovich, another right-wing influencer who has 1.4 million followers on X, took Rugg’s post and amped it up, but in the “just asking questions” style of many conspiracy theories:
*“Did Tim Walz have her executed to send a message?”
They were deeply ignorant about the MinnesotaCare issue.
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so far, former President Donald Trump is the clear frontrunner in the 2024 GOP presidential primary. Polls released in late May found Trump leading his main challenger, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, by 33 percent (Fox News), 31 percent (Quinnipiac) or 27 percent (CNN).
Yet some far-right anti-vaxxers and conspiracy theorists believe that Trump betrayed the MAGA movement when he promoted COVID-19 vaccines. DeSantis has been making a concerted effort to win over anti-vaxxers,and Never Trump conservative Tim Miller calls him out for it in a scathing column published by The Bulwark on June 5.
"The official 'DeSantis War Room' went after Trump for his unwillingness to 'acknowledge any of the adverse effects' of the vaccine in a conversation with a voter at one of his events," Miller observes. "The DeSantis campaign instead sided with the voter — who was arguing that it was the vaccine that caused deaths, rather than preventing them."
READ MORE: Stewart Rhodes’ son fears Trump or DeSantis will pardon his father
Miller, a former GOP strategist, argues that DeSantis' campaign is pandering to extremists only to take offense when people "notice."
"In the face of this campaign strategy," Miller writes, "the argument proffered by DeSantis supporters to skeptics in the middle is that we just have to sit there and take it while DeSantis does nothing to appeal to us and instead works like a mule to cater to the concerns of the anti-vax freaks and the most bigoted wing of the anti-woke brigade."
Miller continues, "I'm sorry, but being told we have to ignore our lying ears in order to defeat Trump is not a compelling argument….. So yeah, Ron DeSantis is far less likely to be the leader of a violent overthrow of the government than Trump. Strong agree! But you can't run to the nutball right of the person who tried to do that and then get mad at us simply for noticing."
Among Never Trumpers, there has been much debate over whether Trump or DeSantis would be more dangerous in the White House in 2025. Miller is a blistering critic of DeSantis, but he clearly views Trump as the greater threat to U.S. democracy.
READ MORE: Ron DeSantis heaped praise on Fauci in 2020: report
"This risk assessment is based, in part, on the record of both men in office," Miller explains. "You might recall that one has already attempted a coup. But it's also based on what Rummy (Donald Rumsfeld) called the known unknowns. How catastrophic would the staffing of a second Trump Administration be? Would Kari Lake be VP? Might lunatic cult leader Mike Flynn control the military?"
Miller continues, "Would Trump try to terminate the Constitution? Side with Putin in Ukraine? Similarly, the known unknowns for DeSantis tend to point in a less catastrophic direction. Would RD move to the center in a general election? I don't think so. Hire a more competent staff? Certainly. Is his personality less likely to inspire a rabid, violent death cult? Clearly."
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The group, America Rising LLC, was launched in 2013 by Rhoades,[12] former RNC spokesman Tim Miller and former RNC research director Joe Pounder.[13] It was established as the Republican counterpart to the Democratic opposition research group, American Bridge 21st Century.[14] The group is not only focused on opposition research but also engages in rapid response communications[15] and sending video trackers.[12] In 2014, America Rising helped derail Iowa Democratic candidate Bruce Braley's Senate bid by releasing a clip of the Democrat caught disparaging Iowa farmers and Senator Chuck Grassley.[16] [VIDEO ^TRACKER?]
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tim Miller is an American political consultant and writer. He was a communications director for the Jeb Bush 2016 presidential campaign, and subsequently became an outspoken Republican critic of former U.S. president Donald Trump.
Campaign roles
A Colorado native, Miller started out in Republican politics as an intern working on the 1998 Colorado gubernatorial election.[1] He later earned a bachelor's degree from the George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs.[2]
Miller was an Iowa staffer for John McCain in the 2008 Republican Party presidential primaries, and later served as national press secretary for the Jon Huntsman 2012 presidential campaign.[2] In his role with the Huntsman campaign, Miller was credited by Esquire for making its daily email to reporters "surprisingly hip".[3] After the primary, Miller joined the Republican National Committee as its liaison to Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign.[4]
In 2015, Miller was hired by former Florida governor Jeb Bush to be a senior adviser to his presidential exploratory committee, Right to Rise political action committee (PAC), and went on to serve as the communications director for Bush's presidential campaign.[2][5][6] During the campaign, Miller drew notice as a "vocal critic" of Donald Trump.[7] Following a 2016 South Carolina Republican primary debate, Miller followed Trump around the spin room heckling him until Miller was "hip-checked" by Trump campaign strategist Corey Lewandowski.[8]
Anti-Trump advocacy
Miller joined the Our Principles PAC, an anti-Trump super PAC, following Bush's exit from the 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries, where he drew notice for lambasting Trump supporters with whom he appeared on-air.[9]
After Trump's surprise election as president, Miller received media attention for announcing he had donated to Doug Jones, the Democratic opponent of Republican nominee and accused sex offender Roy Moore in the 2017 United States Senate special election in Alabama to fill Jeff Sessions' seat.[10][11]
In 2020, Miller co-founded the advocacy organization Republican Voters Against Trump, which sponsored television and internet advertisements featuring lifelong Republicans explaining their decision to vote for former vice president Joe Biden instead of Trump, and served as its political director.[4][12]
Miller has been characterized as a Never Trumper.[13] He was included by The Washington Post on a list of Republicans "who hate Donald Trump the most".[14] In November 2020, Miller announced he had left the Republican Party.[15][16]
Opposition research
In 2013, Miller co-founded America Rising, an opposition research group focused on surfacing negative stories about Democrats, where he served as executive director.[17] It was noted during the 2014 United States elections for deploying "trackers" to follow Democratic elected officials around Capitol Hill.[18]
Following the 2016 United States presidential election, Miller joined Definers Public Affairs, an opposition research-styled consulting firm working for corporate clients. In 2018, they circulated a research document linking anti-Facebook activists with financier George Soros, often the subject of antisemitic conspiracy theories, on behalf of Facebook.[19] As a result of the controversy, Facebook ended its work with Definers.[20]
Media career
Miller has been described by Politico as one of the "most digitally fluent and social-media savvy" Republican operatives.[2] Before the Definers controversy, Miller was a contributor to the liberal Crooked Media website and frequently appeared as the "token Republican" on its Pod Save America podcast.[10][4][20]
He is a writer for The Bulwark and Rolling Stone.[4][13] Miller has written in support of Omar Ameen, an Iraqi refugee accused by Trump of being a member of ISIS.[21] A Rolling Stone column by Miller seeking on background comments from reluctant Republican Trump supporters elicited a widely shared quote, "There are two options, you can be on this hell ship, or you can be in the water drowning".[13]
His memoir of working in Republican politics, Why We Did It: A Travelogue From the Republican Road to Hell, was published by Harper in June 2022.[22] The book details Miller's political career, and analyzes the rise of Trump and the motivations of Republican politicians who remained firmly loyal to the MAGA movement.[23][24] It reached #2 on The New York Times non fiction list in July 2022.[25] The book was positively received for its writing style and analysis of political changes within the post-Trump GOP during the late 2010s and early 2020s.[26][27] In a review for The New York Times, Jennifer Szalai called the book "darkly funny" and praised Miller's insights into the inner workings of the Republican Party and the Washington D.C. political scene.[28] Conservative political commentator David French wrote that it offered "painful" insights into the impact of partisanship and Trumpism on the American conservative Right.[25]
Personal life
In 2000 Miller graduated from Regis Jesuit High School in Aurora, Colorado, and in 2004 he graduated from George Washington University with a BA in political science.[29]
Miller is openly gay. He attributes his decision to take the risk of coming out in 2007, while still working on Republican campaigns, in part to the Larry Craig scandal.[4]
As of 2020, Miller lives in Oakland, California, with his husband and their child.[19][21]
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‘Never Trump’ Republican known for anti-semitic attacks on George Soros now working to defeat Bernie Sanders
Written by Eoin Higgins / Common Dreams February 13, 2020
A longtime Republican operative known for spreading anti-Semitic tropes about billionaire George Soros in 2018 is behind a dark money effort in Nevada to get right-wing voters to mobilize against Sen. Bernie Sanders in the state’s 2020 Democratic presidential primary caucuses on February 22.
Tim Miller, also known for his work on the failed Jeb Bush presidential campaign in 2016, is one of the directors of the new company Center Action Now, which is targeting Sanders in Nevada.
40 years of dancing with the devil and all of a sudden centrist GOP voters want to switch sides so they can poison the Democratic Party too?
Thanks, no thanks.https://t.co/owBQExcGcw
— Nimrod Workman (@OctaveFilms) February 13, 2020
As the Nevada Independent‘s Megan Messerly reported Wednesday, a Center Action Now memo details plans to mobilize right-wing voters in the state dissatisfied with President Donald Trump to weigh in on the primary to ensure the Democratic Party doesn’t stray from the center-right lane.
“The voters we’re talking to, they’re not happy with the state of the Republican Party,” said Miller. “They’re not happy with the president. So we’re educating them to get involved in the Democratic process so they can back a candidate they can be happy about and that they can support.”
Thus far, Center Action Now has only run ads against Sanders and Trumpand it’s unclear whether the Nevada voter mobilization effort as laid out in the memo will come to fruition. But the group has plans to mobilize against Democratic presidential primary candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders in the state’s 2020 caucuses, Miller said.
According to the Nevada Independent:
In addition to Miller, Sarah Longwell, a political strategist and another Never Trump Republican, and John Stubbs, a former official in the George W. Bush administration who founded a Republicans for Hillary Clinton group in 2016, serve on the nonprofit-s board of directors.
Miller declined to provide any details about who is funding the group, its budget, or the size of its staff. As a 501(c)(4) nonprofit, the organization is not required to disclose its donors. According to Facebook, the group spent $13,280 on ads the day before and the day of the New Hampshire primary. The Nevada campaign, Miller said, will begin “imminently.”
The group’s attack ads against Sanders in New Hampshire used Soviet imagery and scare tactics around socialism to discourage voters from voting for the Vermont senator.
A brand-new #DarkMoney group founded by anti-Trump Republicans called “Center Action Now” is targeting New Hampshire residents with anti- Bernie Sanders messaging. https://t.co/HtrXDsPAHG #NHprimary2020
— OpenSecrets.org (@OpenSecretsDC) February 11, 2020
In comment to Quartz, Miller said that Center Action Now’s efforts to get out the right-wing vote were aimed at providing voters with choice, not to game the system.
“This is not akin to [conservative talk show host] Hugh Hewitt going on TV saying Trump supporters should vote for the weakest Democrats to help him—that’s meddling,” said Miller. “The people who we are trying to talk to are voters who don’t like the president, who want him to be defeated, people who are concerned that both parties have succumbed to the extremes.”
Miller’s work for Definers Public Affairs came under fire in November 2018 after the New York Times revealed it was using anti-Semitic tropes about Soros to discredit left-wing activists on Facebook. The fallout from that scandal resulted in Miller being fired from his job as guest Republican on the Pod Save America podcast and Definers losing its contract with Facebook.
In an example of the revolving door in the political consulting world, Definers former chief executive Matt Rhoades, who also worked on Mitt Romney’s failed 2012 presidential campaign, has since founded with former Hillary Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook the nonprofit Defending Digital Democracy Project at Harvard University.
Both Rhoades and Mook worked with the Iowa Democratic Party on election security in the fall of 2019, months before a malfunctioning phone app threw the Hawkeye State’s caucuses into chaos.
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...Ms. Sandberg also reached out to Ms. Klobuchar.She had been friendly with the senator, who is featured on the website for Lean In, Ms. Sandberg’s empowerment initiative. Ms. Sandberg had contributed a blurb to Ms. Klobuchar’s 2015 memoir, and the senator’s chief of staff had previously worked at Ms. Sandberg’s charitable foundation.
But in a tense conversation shortly after the ad legislation was introduced, Ms. Sandberg complained about Ms. Klobuchar’s attacks on the company, said a person who was briefed on the call. Ms. Klobuchar did not back down on her legislation. But she dialed down her criticism in at least one venue important to the company: After blasting Facebook repeatedly that fall on her own Facebook page, Ms. Klobuchar hardly mentioned the company in posts between November and February.
A spokesman for Ms. Klobuchar said in a statement that Facebook’s lobbying had not lessened her commitment to holding the company accountable. “Facebook was pushing to exclude issue ads from the Honest Ads Act, and Senator Klobuchar strenuously disagreed and refused to change the bill,” he said.
In October 2017, Facebook also expanded its work with a Washington-based consultant, Definers Public Affairs, that had originally been hired to monitor press coverage of the company. Founded by veterans of Republican presidential politics, Definers specialized in applying political campaign tactics to corporate public relations — an approach long employed in Washington by big telecommunications firms and activist hedge fund managers, but less common in tech.
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Definers had established a Silicon Valley outpost earlier that year, led by Tim Miller, a former spokesman for Jeb Bush who preached the virtues of campaign-style opposition research. For tech firms, he argued in one interview,a goal should be to “have positive content pushed out about your company and negative content that’s being pushed out about your competitor.”
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Facebook quickly adopted that strategy. In November 2017, the social network came out in favor of a bill called the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act, which made internet companies responsible for sex trafficking ads on their sites.
Google and others had fought the bill for months, worrying it would set a cumbersome precedent. But the sex trafficking bill was championed by Senator John Thune, a Republican of South Dakota who had pummeled Facebook over accusations that it censored conservative content, and Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Connecticut Democrat and senior commerce committee member who was a frequent critic of Facebook.
Facebook broke ranks with other tech companies, hoping the move would help repair relations on both sides of the aisle, said two congressional staffers and three tech industry officials.
When the bill came to a vote in the House in February, Ms. Sandberg offered public support online, urging Congress to “make sure we pass meaningful and strong legislation to stop sex trafficking.”
Opposition Research
In March, The Times, The Observer of London and The Guardian prepared to publish a joint investigation into how Facebook user data had been appropriated by Cambridge Analytica to profile American voters. A few days before publication, The Times presented Facebook with evidence that copies of improperly acquired Facebook data still existed, despite earlier promises by Cambridge executives and others to delete it.
Mr. Zuckerberg and Ms. Sandberg met with their lieutenants to determine a response. They decided to pre-empt the stories, saying in a statement published late on a Friday night that Facebook had suspended Cambridge Analytica from its platform. The executives figured that getting ahead of the news would soften its blow, according to people in the discussions.
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They were wrong. The story drew worldwide outrage, prompting lawsuits and official investigations in Washington, London and Brussels. For days, Mr. Zuckerberg and Ms. Sandberg remained out of sight, mulling how to respond. While the Russia investigation had devolved into an increasingly partisan battle, the Cambridge scandal set off Democrats and Republicans alike. And in Silicon Valley, other tech firms began exploiting the outcry to burnish their own brands.
“We’re not going to traffic in your personal life,” Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive, said in an MSNBC interview. “Privacy to us is a human right. It’s a civil liberty.” (Mr. Cook’s criticisms infuriated Mr. Zuckerberg, who later ordered his management team to use only Android phones — arguing that the operating system had far more users than Apple’s.)
Facebook scrambled anew. Executives quietly shelved an internal communications campaign, called “We Get It,” meant to assure employees that the company was committed to getting back on track in 2018.
Then Facebook went on the offensive. Mr. Kaplan prevailed on Ms. Sandberg to promote Kevin Martin, a former Federal Communications Commission chairman and fellow Bush administration veteran, to lead the company’s American lobbying efforts. Facebook also expanded its work with Definers.
On a conservative news site called the NTK Network, dozens of articles blasted Google and Apple for unsavory business practices. One story called Mr. Cook hypocritical for chiding Facebook over privacy, noting that Apple also collects reams of data from users. Another played down the impact of the Russians’ use of Facebook.
The rash of news coverage was no accident: NTK is an affiliate of Definers, sharing offices and staff with the public relations firm in Arlington, Va. Many NTK Network stories are written by staff members at Definers or America Rising, the company’s political opposition-research arm, to attack their clients’ enemies. While the NTK Network does not have a large audience of its own, its content is frequently picked up by popular conservative outlets, including Breitbart.
Mr. Miller acknowledged that Facebook and Apple do not directly compete. Definers’ work on Apple is funded by a third technology company, he said, but Facebook has pushed back against Apple because Mr. Cook’s criticism upset Facebook.
If the privacy issue comes up, Facebook is happy to “muddy the waters,” Mr. Miller said over drinks at an Oakland, Calif., bar last month.
On Thursday, after this article was published, Facebook said that it had ended its relationship with Definers, without citing a reason.
In public, Facebook was more conciliatory. Mr. Zuckerberg agreed to testify on Capitol Hill. The company unveiled a gauzy advertising campaign, titled “Here Together,” to apologize to its users. Days before Mr. Zuckerberg’s appearance in Congress in April, Facebook announced that it was endorsing Ms. Klobuchar’s Honest Ads bill and would pre-emptively begin disclosing political ad buyers. It also informed users whose data had been improperly harvested by Cambridge Analytica.
But Mr. Zuckerberg’s good-will tour was bumpy. Thanks to intensive coaching and preparation, the company’s communications team believed, he had effectively parried tough questions at the April hearing. But they worried he had come off as robotic — a suspicion confirmed by Facebook’s pollsters.
Mr. Zuckerberg spoke with Representative Greg Walden during a break in an April hearing, telling him he was surprised at the tough line of questioning.
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Mr. Zuckerberg’s political instincts were no more well-tuned. During a break in one hearing, he buttonholed Greg Walden, an Oregon Republican who leads the House Energy and Commerce Committee, to express his surprise at how tough on Facebook Democrats had been.
Mr. Walden was taken aback, said people who knew of the remark. Facebook’s leader, Mr. Walden realized, did not understand the breadth of the anger now aimed at his creation.
Personal Appeals in Washington
Some colleagues believed that Ms. Sandberg — whose ambitions to return to public life were much discussed at the company — was protecting her own brand at Facebook’s expense. At one company gathering, said two people who knew of the event, friends told Ms. Sandberg that if Facebook did not address the scandals effectively, its role in spreading hate and fear would define her legacy, too.
So Ms. Sandberg began taking a more personal role in the company’s Washington campaign, drawing on all the polish that Mr. Zuckerberg sometimes lacked. She not only relied on her old Democratic ties, but also sought to assuage skeptical Republicans, who grumbled that Facebook was more sensitive to the political opinions of its work force than to those of powerful committee leaders. Trailing an entourage of as many as 10 people on trips to the capital, Ms. Sandberg made a point of sending personal thank-you notes to lawmakers and others she met.
Her top Republican target was Mr. Burr, whose Senate committee’s Russia investigation had chugged along. The two spoke by phone, according to a congressional staff member and a Facebook executive, and met in person this fall. While critics cast Facebook as a serial offender that had ignored repeated warning signs about the dangers posed by its product, Ms. Sandberg argued that the company was grappling earnestly with the consequences of its extraordinary growth.
She made the same case in June at a conference of the National Association of Attorneys General in Portland, Ore. At the time, several attorneys general had opened or joined investigations into the company. Facebook was eager to head off further trouble.
The company organized several private receptions, including what was billed as a conversation with Ms. Sandberg about “corporate citizenship in the digital age” and a briefing on Cambridge Analytica.
While Facebook had publicly declared itself ready for new federal regulations, Ms. Sandberg privately contended that the social network was already adopting the best reforms and policies available. Heavy-handed regulation, she warned, would only disadvantage smaller competitors.
Some of the officials were skeptical. But Ms. Sandberg’s presence — companies typically send lower-ranking executives to such gatherings — persuaded others that Facebook was serious about addressing its problems, according to two who attended the conference.
Facebook also continued to look for ways to deflect criticism to rivals. In June, after The Times reported on Facebook’s previously undisclosed deals to share user data with device makers — partnerships Facebook had failed to disclose to lawmakers — executives ordered up focus groups in Washington.
In separate sessions with liberals and conservatives, about a dozen at a time, Facebook previewed messages to lawmakers. Among the approaches it tested was bringing YouTube and other social media platforms into the controversy, while arguing that Google struck similar data-sharing deals.
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Tim Miller - SourceWatch
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Employee Freedom Action Committee - SourceWatch
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:{**Tim Miller** is the Communications Director for the :(style="background-color:#ffff66;"):}:Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF). His name and contact information adorns each of the press releases put out by CCF.[1] Miller is also listed as Communication Director of the Employee Freedom Action Committee, a Berman-created group lobbyonmg against the Employee Free Choice Act.[2]
He also wrote an editorial in the Des Moines Register voicing his own opposition of efforts to rid society of "payday lenders"- short term high interest lenders.[3] Miller believes that consumers should have the right to borrow money from lenders who many might call "predatory" with interest rates up to 400% APR.
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Articles and Resources
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- Center for Consumer Freedom
- "Payday Loans a Helpful Option for Consumers," letter to the editor, The Capital Times (Madison, WI), March 7, 2008.
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The Employee Freedom Action Committee (EFAC) states on its website that it "is a non-partisan, non-profit organization fighting for fair elections in the workplace. The committee is composed of thousands of American workers, employers and others that believe that everyone deserves a right to a private, fair election when it comes to joining a labor union." It opposes the Employee Free Choice Act.[1]
EFAC was established and is run by Rick Berman, a Washington DC lobbyist with a history of creating industry-funded front groups. As of September 2008, EFAC had "raised more than $25 million, according to a spokesperson. One of its board members is Allison Shay, who until recently lobbied for the National Restaurant Association. The group's original name was the Center for Union Facts Action Committee and it is affiliated with the Berman-run Center for Union Facts," which in 2007 received $150,000 from the Lynde and HarryBradley Foundation "to support a public-education project about unions' 'card-check' organizing." [2] The Communication Director for EFAC is Tim Miller, who is the Communications Director for Berman's Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF). Miller's name and contact information is listed on each of the press releases put out by CCF.[3]
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- 1 Court action stopping TV and Internet ads
- 2 State-level ads and other campaigns
- 3 Funding
- 4 Personnel
- 5 Contact details
- 6 Articles and resources
Court action stopping TV and Internet ads
The American College of Surgeons filed a legal complaint in Illinois' Northern District alleging that the Employee Freedom Action Committee violated trademark law and defamed the group when it included the College of Surgeons on a scrolling list headed "Doctors Against the Plan" in an anti-health care reform television advertisement. The court granted a temporary restraining order to the surgeons, finding they would likely prevail on the merits in a trial. The order enjoined Berman's group from placing ads citing the American College of Surgeons on television or the Internet. The ad was run by the "Committee to Rethink Reform," a 501(c)4 not required to disclose its donors -- one of the hallmarks of a Berman-operated group. The ad has been removed from the Internet. [4]
State-level ads and other campaigns
In May 2008, EFAC ran ads in Oregon, opposing Democratic Senate candidate Jeff Merkley (who went on to win in November). An Oregon newspaper reported, "Although Employee Freedom's ad lists a 503 phone number [the area code for Oregon], Tim Miller, a spokesman for Employee Freedom, answered the phone in D.C. when the Rogue Desk called that number. He says his group will continue to fight what he calls 'coercion' by unions trying to expand." [5]
In 2008, EFAC ran ads and sent mailers in North Carolina, opposing Democratic Senate candidate Kay Hagan (who went on to win in November). The group's Tim Miller said it was "spending $1 million on online ads and mailings that criticize Hagan. ... It's also spending $2 million for a TV ad featuring former Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern criticizing the legislation." [6]
EFAC also ran ads in Minnesota in 2008, "highlighting Senator Al Franken (sic) and other Democrats' support for a deceptive piece of legislation that would effectively eliminate every Minnesotan's right to a private ballot vote in union organizing elections." [7]
In Maine in 2008, EFAC released a poll claiming that "Representative Thomas Allen trailed United States Senator Susan Collins in head-to-head general election match-up," in part because of Allen's support for the Employee Free Choice Act. "Three times as many Mainers said they were more likely to oppose Rep. Allen due to his support for card-check than said they would be more likely to support him," an EFAC press release stated. The poll was conducted by NMB Research.[8]
Funding
On its website the group does not indicate what its sources of funding are.
Personnel
On its website the group lists its staff as being[1]:
- J. Justin Wilson, Managing Director
- Tim Miller, Communication Director
[**J. Justin Wilson**:{ :(style="background-color:#ffffff;"):}::{is the Managing Director of the Research Department of the:(style="background-color:#ffffff;"):}:[Employee Freedom Action Committee, the supporting group of The Committee to Rethink Reform.[1] He defends soda manufacturers against proposals to tax sugary drinks. In an article published in the Los Angeles Daily News December 1, 2009, he accused public health workers who fight obesity of being a public health threat.[2]
He is also credited as Managing Director of lobbyist Rick Berman's The Center for Union Facts and a contributing blogger to LaborPains.org[3]
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- :{Jump up:(style="top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px 1px 1px 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important;-webkit-user-select:none"):}:↑ EmployeeFreedom.org About Us website accessed March 2010.
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Contact details
Employee Freedom Action Committee
1090 Vermont Ave NW
Suite 800
Washington, DC 20005
Phone: (202) 420-7864
Fax: (202) 463-7107
Website: http://www.employeefreedom.org/
EFAC's website address was registered on February 8, 2008, by Domains by Proxy, a business that allows the real registrants of websites to remain hidden. [9]
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References
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Jeb Bush made a hiring splash on Friday as his PAC tapped opposition research guru Tim Miller for what will likely be a top position in his potential 2016 presidential campaign.
Miller served as Jon Huntsman’s press secretary in his failed 2012 presidential bid, then made a name for himself in the 2014 cycle as executive director of America Rising PAC, a big money GOP firm dedicated to digging up dirt on Democratic candidates and promoting it in the press. Miller, whose hire was first reported by the *Wall Street Journal*, will serve as a senior adviser to Bush’s Right to Rise PAC and is pegged as the presumptive communications director for Bush’s 2016 campaign should the former Florida governor enter the race.
“Tim is one of the most respected communicators in the nation,” Kristy Campbell, a spokeswoman for Bush’s Right to Rise PAC, told msnbc. “His counsel will be critical to Governor Bush as the Right to Rise PAC works to support conservative candidates and conservative causes across the nation in the coming months.”
America Rising was a breakout star in the 2014 cycle, where it dispatched trackers to follow Democratic candidates around the country and helped sink Senate hopefuls like Iowa Democrat Bruce Braley, who was hurt early by a video released by the group in which he derided Senator Chuck Grassley as “a farmer from Iowa who never went to law school.” The firm is also known for its social media presence – rather than operate as an invisible force, it tries to disseminate damaging information about Democrats with memes and gifs.
More recently, America Rising has been focused on undercutting Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton, a skill set that should prove handy should Bush win the Republican nomination and face off against the former Secretary of State.
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