Reed, S

Scott W. Reed is a former <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/GOP" title="GOP" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">GOP</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/U.S._Senate" title="U.S. Senate" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Senate</a> staffer <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:J-37zILs6EcJ:publicintegrity.org/527/search.aspx%3Fact%3Dcom%26more%3Dorgc%26orgid%3D7693+%22Republican+Leadership+Coalition%22&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=5" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[1]</a>, "campaign consultant and former campaign manager for <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bob_Dole" title="Bob Dole" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Bob Dole</a>'s 1996 presidential campaign", who ran the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.stealthpacs.org/profile.cfm?org_id=106" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">American Taxpayers Alliance</a> (ATA). <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=11880" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[2]</a>

In 2004, Reed headed the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/527_committee" title="527 committee" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">527 committee</a> the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Republican_Leadership_Coalition" title="Republican Leadership Coalition" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Republican Leadership Coalition</a>, "a Washington-based group that advocates 'private-sector initiatives to address community-wide problems,' in particular those facing minority communities," according to the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_for_Public_Integrity" title="Center for Public Integrity" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Center for Public Integrity</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:J-37zILs6EcJ:publicintegrity.org/527/search.aspx%3Fact%3Dcom%26more%3Dorgc%26orgid%3D7693+%22Republican+Leadership+Coalition%22&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=5" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[3]</a>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Scott_Reed#American_Taxpayers_Alliance" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">1 American Taxpayers Alliance</a></li>

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In 2001, Reed told the New York Times "that his organization 'is on a political mission; to shield vulnerable <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Congress" title="Congress" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Congressional</a> Republicans from any blame for how Washington responds to California's energy crisis and to put the focus" on Governor <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Gray_Davis" title="Gray Davis" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Gray Davis</a>. According to Bill Berkowitz in September 2001, to date, the ATA had "spent more than $2 million making life miserable for the governor." <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=11880" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[4]</a>

"Scott Reed is not your run of the mill political operative," Berkowitz <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=11880" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">wrote</a>. "Like his surnamesake <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ralph_Reed" title="Ralph Reed" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Ralph Reed</a>, Scott began his career with <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Pat_Robertson" title="Pat Robertson" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Pat Robertson</a>'s<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Christian_Coalition" title="Christian Coalition" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Christian Coalition</a>. In addition to his service to Dole, a 1996 USA Today profile noted that Reed was deputy regional political director for <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Ronald Reagan</a>'s presidential campaign in 1984; the next year, he became the youngest regional political director" for <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Republican_National_Committee" title="Republican National Committee" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Republican National Committee</a> (RNC); he then helped run<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jack_Kemp" title="Jack Kemp" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Jack Kemp</a>'s Republican presidential campaign in 1988; and from 1989-92, he served as chief of staff to HUD Secretary Jack Kemp. In 1993, Reed was chief of staff for the RNC" ("under <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Haley_Barbour" title="Haley Barbour" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Haley Barbour</a> (who received ATA's assistance in his 2003 Mississippi gubernatorial bid)"). <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.stealthpacs.org/profile.cfm?org_id=106" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[5]</a>

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If you live in or have been to California during the past few months, you may have seen or heard Governor Gray Davis blasted for his handling of California's energy crisis. "Grayouts from Gray Davis," is the tag line of one of the television ads being run by the American Taxpayers Alliance. ... The American Taxpayers Alliance (ATA) is one of three so-called citizens groups currently going after Davis. What is the ATA and why is it saying such nasty things about Gov. Davis?

Scott Reed is a Republican campaign consultant and former campaign manager for Bob Dole's 1996 presidential campaign who runs ATA. He told The New York Times that his <i style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">organization "is on a political mission; to shield vulnerable Congressional Republicans from any blame for how Washington responds to California's energy crisis and to put the focus on Mr. Davis.<i style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">" Thus far, they have spent more than $2 million making life miserable for the governor.

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Scott Reed is not your run of the mill political operative. Like his surnamesake Ralph Reed, Scott began his career with Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition. In addition to his service to Dole, a 1996 USA Today profile noted that Reed was deputy regional political director for Ronald Reagan's presidential campaign in 1984; the next year, he became the youngest regional political director for Republican National Committee (RNC); he then helped run Jack Kemp's Republican presidential campaign in 1988; and from 1989-92, he served as chief of staff to HUD Secretary Jack Kemp. In 1993, Reed was chief of staff for the RNC.

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.stealthpacs.org/profile.cfm?org_id=106" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"The New Stealth PACs: American Taxpayers Alliance,</a> Public Citizen.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Bill Berkowitz, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=11880" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"PAC of wolves. Rightwing political group attacks California governor while wearing sheep’s clothes,"</a> WorkingForChange, September 7, 2001.</li>

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