Creative Response Concepts

see CRC strategies PRalso crc advisors?  had to rebrand after swift boat stank?<a href="http://www.muckety.com/Gregory-R-Mueller/106873.muckety">http://www.muckety.com/Gregory-R-Mueller/106873.muckety</a><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=CRC_Advisors">https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=CRC_Advisors</a>=<p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" inherit="inherit" padding="padding" px="px" word-spacing="word-spacing" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" inherit="inherit" padding="padding" px="px" word-spacing="word-spacing" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">off bs<p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" inherit="inherit" padding="padding" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><a href="https://revereproject.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">https://revereproject.org/</a><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" inherit="inherit" padding="padding" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">
<p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" box-sizing="box-sizing" inherit="inherit" padding="padding" px="px">s<span segoe="Segoe" ui="UI" roboto="Roboto" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" noto="Noto" sans="Sans" liberation="Liberation" sans-serif="sans-serif" apple="Apple" color="Color" emoji="Emoji" symbol="Symbol" font-size="font-size" px="px">cooter Schaefer is the director of marketing at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. He is a graduate of George Mason University and a leading practitioner of digital media with more than a decade of experience. Scooter has previously served as the Assistant Director of Marketing and Digital Media for the Media Research Center, Senior Digital Strategist at CRC Public Relations, and Senior Digital Strategist at Red Edge. Scooter proudly serves as a faculty member of the Leadership Institute where he trains activists in digital media, and is also co-chair of the New Media Exchange, a private group of America’s most prominent center-right digital strategists. Scooter lives with his wife and three boys in Northern Virginia.<p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" inherit="inherit" padding="padding" px="px" word-spacing="word-spacing" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">==JCN scotus fights:
the nation brett k:<p class="drop_c" mercury="Mercury" display="Display" a="A" b="B" font-size="font-size" px="px" margin-right="margin-right" margin-left="margin-left" outline="outline" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" line-height="line-height" word-spacing="word-spacing" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" margin-top="margin-top" important="important" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 20px; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px;">With the White House and Senate in Republican hands, and with the GOP riding high on passing same-sex marriage bans at the ballot box in 11 states, conservative activists set to work on getting Bush’s conservative judicial nominees confirmed. After the 2004 election, one of Arkley’s top aides, Ann Corkery, who had directed philanthropy at his loan-servicing firm, founded the Judicial Confirmation Network. The group blandly described itself as “an organization of citizens joined together to support the confirmation of highly qualified individuals to the Supreme Court of the United States.” Yet Corkery and her husband Neil would soon become pivotal figures in a broadening coalition of conservatives as they prepared for the confirmation battles ahead.<p mercury="Mercury" display="Display" a="A" b="B" font-size="font-size" px="px" outline="outline" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" line-height="line-height" word-spacing="word-spacing" color="color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px;">That coalition, according to <a href="https://www.crisismagazine.com/2006/the-war-room-what-we-have-learned-about-confirming-good-judges" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(207, 14, 14); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: inherit; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 0.2s ease 0s; outline: 0px !important;">a 2006 account in Crisis magazine</a>, was directed by a “war room” of activists “acquainted with each other through Catholic and conservative public causes.” Among them were major players from the Bush reelection campaign, including Gary Marx, who had led the campaign’s outreach to social conservatives, and Greg Mueller, described by Crisis as “the group’s public-relations maestro,” whose public relations firm, Creative Response Concepts, had advised Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. Today, CRC represents the Judicial Crisis Network as well as the Catholic Association, another advocacy group the Corkerys helped launch in 2007, to influence policy-makers on issues concerning “the family, Catholic institutions, religious liberty, and cultural values.” CRC did not respond to repeated requests to interview representatives of JCN and the Catholic Association.<p mercury="Mercury" display="Display" a="A" b="B" font-size="font-size" px="px" outline="outline" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" line-height="line-height" word-spacing="word-spacing" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px;">According to Crisis, “Mueller, Leo, and their colleagues would provide the main talking points, media training, rapid response to any attacks on the nominees, assistance with ad buys, and ongoing legal analysis.”<p mercury="Mercury" display="Display" a="A" b="B" font-size="font-size" px="px" outline="outline" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" line-height="line-height" word-spacing="word-spacing" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px;">“Our most important goals were to support the idea of judicial restraint, to define the character of the nominee within the first 24 hours, and to continue to provide support as the process wended its way,” Leo told Crisis, reflecting on the war room’s role in the successful confirmation of both Roberts and Alito. “To accomplish this, we engaged in a variety of approaches—an aggressive paid media effort, rapid response activity, and positive messages.”<p mercury="Mercury" display="Display" a="A" b="B" font-size="font-size" px="px" outline="outline" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" line-height="line-height" word-spacing="word-spacing" color="color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px;">Mueller described the war room in far more political terms. “We tried to take the approach of corporate crisis management, along with the daily political communications that go on in a political campaign.” It fell to Marx, fresh off the Bush-Cheney campaign and newly appointed as JCN’s first executive director, as Crisis wrote, to develop “a state-based strategy that would target the political pressure points—an organization that would make Democratic senators in Republican states feel the political heat.”<p mercury="Mercury" display="Display" a="A" b="B" font-size="font-size" px="px" outline="outline" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" line-height="line-height" word-spacing="word-spacing" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px;">During Bush’s second term—as Kavanaugh’s nomination to the DC Circuit was held up over a period of years, with Democrats arguing that his role in drafting the Starr Report and in the investigation of the suicide of Clinton aide Vince Foster had marked him as too partisan to warrant his confirmation as a judge—the war room kicked in. JCN openly threatened Democratic senators with the Daschle treatment. If lawmakers filibuster Kavanaugh, JCN warned in 2006, a midterm-election year, “Americans in key states will react just as they did when former Senate Democrat leader Tom Daschle did the same thing. Americans care about judges and the role of the courts in our society.” The Senate confirmed Kavanaugh two weeks later, by a vote of 57-36.<p mercury="Mercury" display="Display" a="A" b="B" font-size="font-size" px="px" outline="outline" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" line-height="line-height" word-spacing="word-spacing" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px;">Today, the president of JCN is not a public figure like Marx but a player so behind-the-scenes as to barely leave a public trace. But Daniel Casey, a public-relations, political, and “crisis” consultant, is a veteran of the Bork confirmation battle—a fight that conservatives painfully lost, triggering the scorched-earth organizing JCN spearheads today.<p mercury="Mercury" display="Display" a="A" b="B" font-size="font-size" px="px" outline="outline" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" line-height="line-height" word-spacing="word-spacing" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px;">Then the executive director of the American Conservative Union, Casey was “a crucial player” in the Bork fight, said Patrick McGuigan, who worked then for the Free Congress Foundation, a political advocacy group founded by religious-right architect Paul Weyrich that helped push the GOP to the right. The dust jacket of Ninth Justice, a book McGuigan wrote with Weyrich’s daughter Dawn, detailing each move and countermove in the Bork fight, describes McGuigan and Casey as “intensely Republican, devout Catholics, ardent admirers of the nominee—who understood from the first moment of the battle that they were involved in the most significant political confrontation of their lives.”<p mercury="Mercury" display="Display" a="A" b="B" font-size="font-size" px="px" outline="outline" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" line-height="line-height" word-spacing="word-spacing" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px;">McGuigan, who now works as a journalist in Oklahoma, described his relationship with Casey as “co-captains” in the Bork battle, in which conservatives were heavily outspent and outmaneuvered by the liberal opposition. He said that at the time, there was “insufficient organization of ideas and messaging on the conservative side of things compared to the left side.” Casey’s forte, said McGuigan, was “neighborhood by neighborhood, precinct by precinct, household by household organization patterned after the labor unions, but on the conservative end of the spectrum instead. I think that’s what Dan was good at.” (Casey declined to be interviewed for this article, referring interview requests to Peter Robbio at CRC, who did not respond.) In the years after the failure of the Bork nomination, conservatives saw the appointment of Kennedy, and then of Bill Clinton’s nominees Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer. Although Kennedy was nominated by a Republican, he proved a bitter disappointment to conservatives, particularly for his majority opinion in Lawrence in 2003, ruling anti-sodomy laws unconstitutional—a ruling that led, 12 years later, to the legalization of same-sex marriage nationwide.<p mercury="Mercury" display="Display" a="A" b="B" font-size="font-size" px="px" outline="outline" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" line-height="line-height" word-spacing="word-spacing" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px;">During the Bork hearings, Casey argued that “the American people should be outraged that the liberals are spending millions of dollars to try to buy a Supreme Court seat.” Three decades later, Casey is the president of the moneyed advocacy organizations JCN and the related Judicial Education Project, as well as of Catholic Voices. He is also treasurer and director of the Catholic Association Foundation and the Catholic Association. Together, they are part of a multimillion-dollar dark-money campaign backing a relentless drive by Trump and his Republican allies in the Senate to reshape the federal judiciary for generations, from federal trial courts all the way to the Supreme Court, and to shape public opinion about Catholicism and religious liberty.<p mercury="Mercury" display="Display" a="A" b="B" font-size="font-size" px="px" outline="outline" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" line-height="line-height" word-spacing="word-spacing" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px;">JCN does not disclose the identity of its donors. But the group has said it anticipates spending at least $10 million advocating for Kavanaugh’s nomination. While many of the early ads focused on promoting Kavanaugh as a mainstream, impartial jurist admired by former clerks of all political stripes, the most recent ads touted him a “grand slam for conservatives” and warned Democrats against succumbing to “pressure from East Coast liberals.”<p class="drop_c" mercury="Mercury" display="Display" a="A" b="B" font-size="font-size" px="px" margin-right="margin-right" margin-left="margin-left" outline="outline" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" line-height="line-height" word-spacing="word-spacing" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" margin-top="margin-top" important="important" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px;"><span class="wpsdc-drop-cap" knockout="Knockout" a="A" b="B" font-size="font-size" px="px" font-weight="font-weight" bold="bold" margin="margin" outline="outline" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" float="float" left="left" line-height="line-height" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px;">After 2008, the Judicial Confirmation Network changed tacks, from battering the opponents of Bush’s court nominees to blocking President Barack Obama’s. JCN, now renamed the Judicial Crisis Network, was the first conservative organization to blast Obama’s selection of Sonia Sotomayor—a Catholic—as “a liberal judicial activist of the first order who thinks her own personal political agenda is more important that the law as written.” Although JCN had repeatedly claimed that liberal Democrats had unfairly attacked conservative Catholics, it again did not hesitate to attack a liberal Catholic.<p class="drop_c" mercury="Mercury" display="Display" a="A" b="B" font-size="font-size" px="px" margin-right="margin-right" margin-left="margin-left" outline="outline" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" line-height="line-height" word-spacing="word-spacing" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" margin-top="margin-top" important="important" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px;">...suspended from bs CTT<p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" em="em" font-size="font-size" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;">Ethics and Public Policy Center announced Sunday that its president, Ed Whelan, “will take a leave of absence” from the conservative Washington think tank after peddling a conspiracy theory on social media last week related to a sexual assault allegation against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.<p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" em="em" font-size="font-size" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;">Following a special phone-in meeting of the EPPC board on Friday after Whelan’s Twitter screed, he offered to resign “in light of what he described as an ‘appalling and inexcusable’ error in posting online a series of comments that he has now deleted and for which he promptly publicly apologized,” the organization said in a statement. The board declined Whelan’s offer to step down permanently, according to the statement, and the EPPC’s vice president, Yuval Levin, “will be in charge” during Whelan’s time away.<p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" em="em" font-size="font-size" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;">“The board will meet in a month to review the situation,” the statement said.<p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" em="em" font-size="font-size" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;">Later Sunday, Whelan released a statement of apology.<p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" em="em" font-size="font-size" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">“I apologize deeply and sincerely to all those whom I have harmed by my appalling and inexcusable tweet thread last week — above all, the person whose name I wrongly made public,“ he said.<aside class="story-related" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 344.859px; border-top: 1px solid rgb(232, 232, 232); border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(232, 232, 232); padding: 0.625em 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; overflow: hidden;"><article class="story-frag format-sm" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: table; width: 658px; table-layout: fixed;"><figure class="thumb" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: table-cell; margin: 0px; vertical-align: top; width: 5.625em;"><div class="fig-graphic" style="box-sizing: border-box;">
</div></figure><div class="summary" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 1.2; display: table-cell; vertical-align: top; padding-left: 0.625em;"><header style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/tag/law-and-order" target="top" data-tracking="mpos=inside body&mid=ParentheticalModule&lindex=Unknown&lcol=Unknown" class="js-tealium-tracking" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s;">LAW AND ORDER</a><h3 arial="Arial" narrow="Narrow" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" sans-serif="sans-serif" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/09/21/ed-whelan-tweets-220527" target="top" data-tracking="mpos=inside body&mid=ParentheticalModule&lindex=Unknown&lcol=Unknown" class="js-tealium-tracking" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s;">Ed Whelan’s Troubles Might Be Just Beginning</a></h3></header><footer class="meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 1;"><div itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" style="box-sizing: border-box;">By JOHN CULHANE</div></footer></div></article></aside><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" em="em" font-size="font-size" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Referencing Christine Blasey Ford, he added: “I also apologize to victims of sexual assault and to Dr. Ford for these and other tweets that did not address with respectful consideration the difficult question of how to assess allegations of sexual assault. I do not believe that all such allegations must be accepted as true, and I believe further that the usual inquiries into motivation, cognition, memory and other matters that apply to other charges properly apply to these as well. But my tweets did not advance the discussion in a constructive way.“<p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" em="em" font-size="font-size" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;">Whelan became the target of swift bipartisan criticism on Thursday evening after offering an unsubstantiated alternative explanation for Christine Blasey Ford’s accusation that Kavanaugh forced himself on her at a drunken high school party more than three decades ago.<p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" em="em" font-size="font-size" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;">His conjectures, laid out in a series of tweets, included floor plans of the house in which Whelan said the alleged assault may have taken place. It also featured the name and photo of a high school classmate of Kavanaugh’s whom Whelan identified as a potential suspect and posited that Ford may have misremembered as the federal judge.<p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" em="em" font-size="font-size" style="margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;">POLITICO <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/21/ed-whelan-kavanaugh-tweets-pr-firm-836405" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s;">reported on Friday</a> that CRC Public Relations, a prominent firm based in Alexandria, Va., assisted Whelan in coordinating the rollout of his attempt to discredit Ford’s account and exculpate Kavanaugh.<p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" em="em" font-size="font-size" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;">----<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=CRC_Advisors">https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=CRC_Advisors</a>Creative Response Concepts, an Alexandria, Virginia-based <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Public_relations" title="Public relations">public relations</a> firm, "has many links to the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Republican_Party" title="Republican Party" class="mw-redirect">Republican Party</a> and the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Conservative" title="Conservative">conservative</a> movement," Eric Boehlert <a href="http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2004/09/10/forgery/index_np.html" class="external text" title="http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2004/09/10/forgery/index_np.html" rel="nofollow">wrote</a> September 10, 2004, in Salon.

"Among its clients are the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Republican_National_Committee" title="Republican National Committee">Republican National Committee</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Republican_Congressional_Committee" title="National Republican Congressional Committee">National Republican Congressional Committee</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Republican_Senatorial_Committee" title="National Republican Senatorial Committee">National Republican Senatorial Committee</a>. Its client list also includes the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Christian_Coalition" title="Christian Coalition" class="mw-redirect">Christian Coalition</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Taxpayers_Union" title="National Taxpayers Union">National Taxpayers Union</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Media_Research_Center" title="Media Research Center">Media Research Council</a> [sic] and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Regnery_Publishing" title="Regnery Publishing">Regnery Publishing</a>. Regnery is the firm that published Unfit for Command, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Swift_Boat_Veterans_for_Truth" title="Swift Boat Veterans for Truth">SBVT</a> screed against [John] <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_Forbes_Kerry%27s_military_service" title="John Forbes Kerry's military service" class="mw-redirect">Kerry's military record</a>," Boehlert wrote.

"Interview requests for CRC's clients are routed through the main switchboard at a single telephone number; extensions 108 and 110 at the same number handle <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Swift_Boat_Veterans_for_Truth" title="Swift Boat Veterans for Truth">Swift Boat Veterans for Truth</a>, while extensions 109 and 130 are for the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Judicial_Confirmation_Network" title="Judicial Confirmation Network">Judicial Confirmation Network</a>," Todd Johnston <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/7/5/91341/50154" class="external text" title="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/7/5/91341/50154" rel="nofollow">wrote</a> July 5, 2005, in ePluribus Media.

<h2>Contents</h2>

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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Creative_Response_Concepts#CPR_and_Rick_Scott">1 CPR and Rick Scott</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Creative_Response_Concepts#IndyMac_Bank_and_Charles_Schumer">2 IndyMac Bank and Charles Schumer</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Creative_Response_Concepts#Swift_Boat_Veterans_for_Truth_.26_CBS">3 Swift Boat Veterans for Truth & CBS</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Creative_Response_Concepts#Alito_Confirmation_Hearings">4 Alito Confirmation Hearings</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Creative_Response_Concepts#Romancing_Viewers_for_Stone">5 Romancing Viewers for Stone</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Creative_Response_Concepts#WI_Supreme_Court_Race">6 WI Supreme Court Race</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Creative_Response_Concepts#National_Abstinence_Education_Association">7 National Abstinence Education Association</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Creative_Response_Concepts#Personnel">8 Personnel</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Creative_Response_Concepts#Income_and_Employee_Totals">9 Income and Employee Totals</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Creative_Response_Concepts#Clients">10 Clients</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Creative_Response_Concepts#Contact_Information">11 Contact Information</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Creative_Response_Concepts#Articles_and_resources">12 Articles and resources</a>

<ul>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Creative_Response_Concepts#Related_SourceWatch_articles">12.1 Related SourceWatch articles</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Creative_Response_Concepts#References">12.2 References</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Creative_Response_Concepts#External_resources">12.3 External resources</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Creative_Response_Concepts#External_articles">12.4 External articles</a></li>

</ul>

</li>

</ul>

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<h2>CPR and Rick Scott</h2>

<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Scott" title="Rick Scott">Rick Scott</a> is a multimillionaire former hospital CEO who, in 2009, emerged as a prominent leader of the opposition to U.S. President Barack Obama's healthcare reform plans. Scott founded a group called <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Conservatives_for_Patients%27_Rights" title="Conservatives for Patients' Rights" class="mw-redirect">Conservatives for Patients' Rights</a> and put $5 million of his own money towards a television advertising campaign aimed at trying to build resistance to any proposal for a government-run health insurance program. Creative Response Concepts is running the campaign.[<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=SourceWatch:Citation_needed" title="SourceWatch:Citation needed">citation needed</a>]

<h2>IndyMac Bank and Charles Schumer</h2>

In August 2008, former employees of the failed California <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=IndyMac_Bank&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="IndyMac Bank (page does not exist)">IndyMac Bank</a> began working with Creative Response Concepts (CRC), in an attempt to hold Senator <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Charles_Schumer" title="Charles Schumer" class="mw-redirect">Charles Schumer</a> responsible for the bank's collapse. Schumer, who chairs Congress' Joint Economic Committee, went public with his concerns about the bank on June 26, 2008. His negative assessments of IndyMac led to a run on the bank, "with depositors taking out a net $1.3 billion in the following two weeks," according to the Los Angeles Times. With help from CRC, 51 former IndyMac employees are accusing Schumer of "a malicious, politically motivated act." CRC circulated a letter from the employees to California Attorney General Jerry Brown to major media. "The letter, signed mostly by former staffers at IndyMac's now-shuttered mortgage operation, asks Brown to investigate Schumer and to prosecute him under a state law making it a misdemeanor to spread false and damaging statements or rumors about a bank." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Creative_Response_Concepts#cite_note-0" title="">[1]</a>

<h2>Swift Boat Veterans for Truth & CBS</h2>

PR Week reported on September 20, 2004: "Creative Response Concepts (CRC), the VA-based agency promoting the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, used <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Right-wing" title="Right-wing">right-wing</a> blogs and news sites to turn a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=CBS" title="CBS">CBS</a> report casting doubt on President <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush" class="mw-redirect">George W. Bush</a>'s National Guard service into a potential black eye for both the network and the Democrats. A CRC client, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cybercast_News_Service" title="Cybercast News Service">Cybercast News Service</a> (CNS), was among the first to voice suspicion that documents suggesting Bush had received preferential treatment in the Guard were forgeries. ... 'After the CBS story aired, [CNS] called typographical experts, got them on the record that these papers were fishy, and posted a story by 3pm Thursday,' said CRC SVP <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Keith_Appell&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Keith Appell (page does not exist)">Keith Appell</a>. 'We were immediately in contact with <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Matt_Drudge&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Matt Drudge (page does not exist)">Matt Drudge</a>, who loved the story.' CRC worked with CNS and the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Media_Research_Center" title="Media Research Center">Media Research Center</a>, another media watchdog client, to push the story into the mainstream press." <a href="http://www.prweek.com/news/news_story.cfm?ID=222586&site=3" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.prweek.com/news/news_story.cfm?ID=222586&site=3" rel="nofollow">[1]</a>

CRC "was paid $165,000 for repping both the Swift vets and the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Conservative" title="Conservative">conservative</a> book company Regnery Publishing, which issued a tome about Kerry's military service, Unfit for Command," William Triplet <a href="http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117937405?categoryid=18&cs=1" class="external text" title="http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117937405?categoryid=18&cs=1" rel="nofollow">wrote</a> in Variety, February 5, 2006.

CRC, "run by former <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pat_Buchanan" title="Pat Buchanan" class="mw-redirect">Pat Buchanan</a> communications director Greg Mueller, with help from former Pat Robertson communications director <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mike_Russell&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mike Russell (page does not exist)">Mike Russell</a>, sent out a media advisory [September 9, 2004] to hawk a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Right-wing" title="Right-wing">right-wing</a> news dispatch: <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=%5CPolitics%5Carchive%5C200409%5CPOL20040909d.html" class="external text" title="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=%5CPolitics%5Carchive%5C200409%5CPOL20040909d.html" rel="nofollow">'60 Minutes' Documents on Bush Might Be Fake.'</a> Creative Response Concepts has played a crucial role in hyping the inaccurate, secondhand <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Swift_Boat_Veterans_for_Truth" title="Swift Boat Veterans for Truth">Swift Boat</a> allegations, with Russell serving as the group's official spokesman. A company spokesman could not be reached for comment," Eric Boehlert <a href="http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2004/09/10/forgery/index_np.html" class="external text" title="http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2004/09/10/forgery/index_np.html" rel="nofollow">wrote</a> September 10, 2004, in Salon.

"That was just one day after the '60 Minutes' installment aired," Boehlert said.

<h2>Alito Confirmation Hearings</h2>

During the January 2006 U.S. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Senate_Judiciary_Committee" title="Senate Judiciary Committee" class="mw-redirect">Senate Judiciary Committee</a>'s confirmation hearings on Supreme Court nominee <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Samuel_A.Alito,Jr." title="Samuel A. Alito, Jr.">Samuel A. Alito, Jr.</a>, his wife, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Martha-Ann_Bomgardner&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Martha-Ann Bomgardner (page does not exist)">Martha-Ann Bomgardner</a>, left the hearing in tears. (She left as Senator <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lindsey_Graham" title="Lindsey Graham">Lindsey Graham</a> was apologizing for Democratic Senators' questions about Mr. Alito's membership in the ultra-<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Conservative" title="Conservative">conservative</a> group <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Concerned_Alumni_of_Princeton&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Concerned Alumni of Princeton (page does not exist)">Concerned Alumni of Princeton</a>.) Time magazine reported that, following this incident: <a href="http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1148113,00.html" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1148113,00.html" rel="nofollow">[2]</a>

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<dd>The always-alert Creative Response Concepts, a conservative public relations firm, sent this bulletin: "Former Alito clerk Gary Rubman witnessed Mrs. Alito leaving her husband's confirmation in tears and is available for interviews, along with other former Alito clerks who know her personally and are very upset about this development." In case that was too much trouble for the journalists, the firm also e-mailed out a statement from the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Judicial_Confirmation_Network" title="Judicial Confirmation Network">Judicial Confirmation Network</a> calling "for the abuse to stop."</dd>

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<h2>Romancing Viewers for Stone</h2>

In July 2006, O'Dwyer's PR Daily reported that "<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Viacom" title="Viacom">Viacom</a>'s Paramount Pictures is using Creative Response Concepts ... to build support among conservatives and evangelicals for <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Oliver_Stone" title="Oliver Stone">Oliver Stone</a>'s <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=World_Trade_Center" title="World Trade Center" class="mw-redirect">World Trade Center</a> film that opens nationwide Aug. 9. ... CRC arranged a screening in Washington last month for conservatives such as Washington Times columnist <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cal_Thomas" title="Cal Thomas">Cal Thomas</a>, National Review's <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jack_Fowler&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jack Fowler (page does not exist)">Jack Fowler</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Media_Research_Center" title="Media Research Center">Media Research Center</a> head <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Brent_Bozell" title="Brent Bozell">Brent Bozell</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Foundation_for_the_Defense_of_Democracies" title="Foundation for the Defense of Democracies">Foundation for the Defense of Democracies</a>' <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Clifford_D._May" title="Clifford D. May">Cliff May</a>." <a href="http://www.odwyerpr.com/members/0725crc_stone.htm" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.odwyerpr.com/members/0725crc_stone.htm" rel="nofollow">[3]</a>

<h2>WI Supreme Court Race</h2>

The Spring 2007 election for Wisconsin Supreme Court pitted conservative <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Annette_Ziegler&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Annette Ziegler (page does not exist)">Annette Ziegler</a> against progressive <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Linda_Clifford&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Linda Clifford (page does not exist)">Linda Clifford</a>. On February 23, 2007, Madison reporter Dave Zweifel wrote about a pro-Ziegler pitch "from a public relations flack named <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tim_Scheiderer&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tim Scheiderer (page does not exist)">Tim Scheiderer</a>." Scheiderer's email stated: <a href="http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/column/index.php?ntid=120276&ntpid=0" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/column/index.php?ntid=120276&ntpid=0" rel="nofollow">[4]</a>

<dl>

<dd>"The court's impact on taxes, employment, health care, and many other areas will be felt by all. Recently, the court has had a propensity to re-create laws rather than enforcing them. This is very problematic for Wisconsin because it turns the law into an unpredictable guessing game and produces no confidence in the judiciary's neutrality."</dd>

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Scheiderer is a staffer with Creative Response Concepts. "Scheiderer acted surprised when I asked him who was paying his firm," reported Zweifel. "He ducked the question, claiming instead that CRC works closely with the '<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Federalist_Society" title="Federalist Society" class="mw-redirect">Federalist Society</a>,' a group comprised mainly of conservative lawyers, but not known for shelling out money on election campaigns. I asked if they were filing campaign finance reports and, remarkably, he insisted that his clients aren't promoting a candidate, merely providing 'information' about the race. And I've got a bridge to sell." <a href="http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/column/index.php?ntid=120276&ntpid=0" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/column/index.php?ntid=120276&ntpid=0" rel="nofollow">[5]</a>

<h2>National Abstinence Education Association</h2>

Writing on a reproductive health blog in April 2007, Scott Swenson reported that, "Using membership dues paid in part by federal tax dollars, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Abstinence_Education_Association&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="National Abstinence Education Association (page does not exist)">National Abstinence Education Association</a> (NAEA) hired the Washington, DC, public relations firm, Creative Response Concepts." <a href="http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2007/04/03/when-abstinence-only-policies-fail-bring-in-the-hatchet-men-to-preserve-bushs-billion-dollar-boondoggle" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2007/04/03/when-abstinence-only-policies-fail-bring-in-the-hatchet-men-to-preserve-bushs-billion-dollar-boondoggle" rel="nofollow">[6]</a> On behalf of the NAEA, CRC will be heading a "proactive rapid response initiative to counteract negative attacks on abstinence education," reported O'Dwyer's PR Daily. <a href="http://www.odwyerpr.com/members/0410crc_abstinence.htm" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.odwyerpr.com/members/0410crc_abstinence.htm" rel="nofollow">[7]</a>

Writing on The Nation blog, Richard Kim noted that the formation of NAEA and its hiring of a well-connected conservative PR firm like CRC comes after "a frigid winter for the abstinence-only crowd." The <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Government_Accountability_Office" title="Government Accountability Office" class="mw-redirect">Government Accountability Office</a> criticized the funding of abstinence-only programs without checking their "education materials for scientific accuracy," while the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Institute_of_Medicine&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Institute of Medicine (page does not exist)">Institute of Medicine</a> faulted abstinence programs in the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=President%27s_Emergency_Plan_for_AIDS_Relief&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (page does not exist)">President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief</a> as jeopardizing "the vitally important end of saving lives." <a href="http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion?pid=182516" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion?pid=182516" rel="nofollow">[8]</a> In addition, abstinence-only programs "favored by Republicans and their conservative allies have lost momentum with the Democratic takeover of Congress," observed O'Dwyer's, adding: "The Prevention First Act, for instance, introduced by Senate Majority Leader <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Harry_Reid" title="Harry Reid">Harry Reid</a> (D-Nev.) and Rep. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Louise_Slaughter" title="Louise Slaughter">Louise Slaughter</a> (D.-N.Y.) backs state level sexual education programs that provide information about abstinence, contraception and disease prevention." <a href="http://www.odwyerpr.com/members/0410crc_abstinence.htm" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.odwyerpr.com/members/0410crc_abstinence.htm" rel="nofollow">[9]</a>

Critics of abstinence-only education warned that the PR work could entail "Swift Boat"-like smear attacks on politicians and groups supporting comprehensive sex education. Swenson wrote, on the "RH Reality Check" blog: <a href="http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2007/04/03/when-abstinence-only-policies-fail-bring-in-the-hatchet-men-to-preserve-bushs-billion-dollar-boondoggle" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2007/04/03/when-abstinence-only-policies-fail-bring-in-the-hatchet-men-to-preserve-bushs-billion-dollar-boondoggle" rel="nofollow">[10]</a>

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<dd>Given CRC's well known track record, as well as an outline of NAEA's plan sent to recruit members and obtained by RH Reality Check, it is a safe assumption that Creative Response Concepts is less likely to promote abstinence only as they are to attack supporters of proven, evidenced-based, comprehensive sexuality education.</dd>

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<dl>

<dd>Specifically, the membership recruiting letter from NAEA outlines "unlimited legislative lobbying" and mobilization in "key Congressional Districts" as well as a "Rapid Response" initiative that is intended to "counter attack negative attacks on abstinence education". That last part makes one wonder if at one time a memo circulated outlining the Swift Boat ads as "rapid response to negative attacks on <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=George_Walker_Bush" title="George Walker Bush">George Bush</a>'s military record", broadly interpreting "negative" as <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_Kerry" title="John Kerry" class="mw-redirect">John Kerry</a> simply discussing his exemplary service in Vietnam.</dd>

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<h2>Personnel</h2>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gregory_R._Mueller&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gregory R. Mueller (page does not exist)">Gregory R. Mueller</a>, President</li>

</ul>

<h2>Income and Employee Totals</h2>

PR Week ranked CRC Public Relations as the fiftieth largest independent PR agency in the United States in 2008, with 2007 revenue of $7,604,274, a 24% increase from the previous year's total revenue of $6,117,110. The ranking also notes its staff total of 27 (2006 total: 24), with $281,640 in revenue per employee.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Creative_Response_Concepts#cite_note-1" title="">[2]</a>

<h2>Clients</h2>

<ul>

<li>Agusta Westland</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Bankruptcy_Institute&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="American Bankruptcy Institute (page does not exist)">American Bankruptcy Institute</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Education_Reform_Foundation&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="American Education Reform Foundation (page does not exist)">American Education Reform Foundation</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Americans_for_Fair_Taxation&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Americans for Fair Taxation (page does not exist)">Americans for Fair Taxation</a> / <a href="http://www.fairtax.org/" class="external text" title="http://www.fairtax.org/" rel="nofollow">fairtax.org</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Americans_for_Hope,Growth%26_Opportunity&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Americans for Hope, Growth & Opportunity (page does not exist)">Americans for Hope, Growth & Opportunity</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ancore&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ancore (page does not exist)">Ancore</a></li>

<li>Associated Builders and Contractors</li>

<li>Catholic Alliance</li>

<li>Catholic Family Radio Network</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_Security_Policy" title="Center for Security Policy">Center for Security Policy</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Christian_Coalition" title="Christian Coalition" class="mw-redirect">Christian Coalition</a></li>

<li>Coalition for Auto Repair Equity</li>

<li>Coalition for Patient Choice</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Coalition_to_Salute_America%27s_Heroes" title="Coalition to Salute America's Heroes">Coalition to Salute America's Heroes</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Concerned_Women_for_America" title="Concerned Women for America">Concerned Women for America</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Contract_With_America" title="Contract With America" class="mw-redirect">Contract With America</a></li>

<li>Credit Union Campaign for Consumer Choice</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Discovery_Institute" title="Discovery Institute">Discovery Institute</a>: Seattle-based <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Think_tank" title="Think tank" class="mw-redirect">think tank</a> that promotes "<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Intelligent_design" title="Intelligent design">intelligent design</a>" creationism. CRC recently pulled off <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050709/ZNYT02/507090678" class="external text" title="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050709/ZNYT02/507090678" rel="nofollow">quite a stunt</a> for the DI when they got a Roman Catholic Cardinal to write a letter to the New York Times condemning evolution.</li>

<li>Forbes 2000 (Steve Forbes for President)</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Foundation_for_the_Defense_of_Democracies" title="Foundation for the Defense of Democracies">Foundation for the Defense of Democracies</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Free_Enterprise_Fund" title="Free Enterprise Fund">Free Enterprise Fund</a></li>

<li>Golden Rule Insurance Company</li>

<li>Gilder Group</li>

<li>Joseph Seagram & Sons, Inc.</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Judicial_Confirmation_Network" title="Judicial Confirmation Network">Judicial Confirmation Network</a></li>

<li>LifeLine Press</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Manhattan_Institute" title="Manhattan Institute" class="mw-redirect">Manhattan Institute</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Media_Research_Center" title="Media Research Center">Media Research Center</a></li>

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

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Abstinence_Education_Association&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="National Abstinence Education Association (page does not exist)">National Abstinence Education Association</a> <a href="http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion?pid=182516" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion?pid=182516" rel="nofollow">[11]</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Republican_Congressional_Committee" title="National Republican Congressional Committee">National Republican Congressional Committee</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Republican_Senatorial_Committee" title="National Republican Senatorial Committee">National Republican Senatorial Committee</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Taxpayers_Union" title="National Taxpayers Union">National Taxpayers Union</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Wilderness_Institute" title="National Wilderness Institute">National Wilderness Institute</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paramount_Picutres&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Paramount Picutres (page does not exist)">Paramount Picutres</a> <a href="http://www.odwyerpr.com/members/0725crc_stone.htm" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.odwyerpr.com/members/0725crc_stone.htm" rel="nofollow">[12]</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Parents_Television_Council" title="Parents Television Council">Parents Television Council</a></li>

<li>PAX Television</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Privacy_Council&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Privacy Council (page does not exist)">Privacy Council</a></li>

<li>Puerto Rican Federal Affairs Administration</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Regnery_Publishing" title="Regnery Publishing">Regnery Publishing</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Republican_National_Committee" title="Republican National Committee">Republican National Committee</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Small_Business_Survival_Committee" title="Small Business Survival Committee">Small Business Survival Committee</a></li>

<li>Stone Investments, Inc.</li>

<li>Telecel International, LTD</li>

<li>Thomas Nelson Publishing</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Time_Warner" title="Time Warner">Time Warner</a> Inc.</li>

<li>Universal Studios, Inc.</li>

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

<li>U.S. Business & Industrial Council</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Viacom" title="Viacom">Viacom</a> Inc.</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=The_Walt_Disney_Company" title="The Walt Disney Company" class="mw-redirect">The Walt Disney Company</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Warner_Brothers" title="Warner Brothers" class="mw-redirect">Warner Brothers</a> Television Network <a href="http://www.crc4pr.com/firm/clients.asp" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.crc4pr.com/firm/clients.asp" rel="nofollow">[13]</a></li>

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<h2>Contact Information</h2>

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<h2>Articles and resources</h2>

<h3>Related SourceWatch articles</h3>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Federalist_Society" title="Federalist Society" class="mw-redirect">Federalist Society</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Swift_Boat_Veterans_for_Truth" title="Swift Boat Veterans for Truth">Swift Boat Veterans for Truth</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=The_Donatelli_Group" title="The Donatelli Group" class="mw-redirect">The Donatelli Group</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Wendell_Potter" title="Wendell Potter">Wendell Potter</a></li>

</ul>

<h3>References</h3>

<li id="cite_note-0"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Creative_Response_Concepts#cite_ref-0" title="">↑</a> E. Scott Reckard, "<a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-schumer16-2008aug16,0,5472765.story" class="external text" title="http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-schumer16-2008aug16,0,5472765.story" rel="nofollow">Ex-IndyMac workers' complaint against Sen. Charles Schumer may have political undertones</a>," Los Angeles Times, August 16, 2008.</li>

<li id="cite_note-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Creative_Response_Concepts#cite_ref-1" title="">↑</a> "2008 Agency Rankings," PR Week, 28 April 2008.</li>

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<h3>External resources</h3>

<h3>External articles</h3>

<ul>

<li>Robert B. Bluey, <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=%5CPolitics%5Carchive%5C200409%5CPOL20040909d.html" class="external text" title="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=%5CPolitics%5Carchive%5C200409%5CPOL20040909d.html" rel="nofollow">"'60 Minutes' Documents on Bush Might Be Fake,"</a> Cybercast News, September 9, 2004.</li>

<li>Eric Boehlert, <a href="http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2004/09/10/forgery/index_np.html" class="external text" title="http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2004/09/10/forgery/index_np.html" rel="nofollow">"Swift Boat flacks attack CBS. As the controversy over Bush's military record builds, a right-wing firm that works for the RNC pitches in,"</a> Salon, September 10, 2004.</li>

<li>Douglas Quenqua, "<a href="http://www.prweek.com/news/news_story_free.cfm?ID=222586&site=3" class="external text" title="http://www.prweek.com/news/news_story_free.cfm?ID=222586&site=3" rel="nofollow">Two DC firms ramp up efforts over latest presidential controversies</a>," PR Week, September 20, 2004.</li>

<li>Todd Johnson <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/7/5/91341/50154" class="external text" title="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/7/5/91341/50154" rel="nofollow">"Swift Boat PR Team Reassembles to Market Bush Supreme Court Candidate,"</a> ePluribus Media, July 5, 2005.</li>

<li>Deb Reichmann, <a href="http://committeeforjustice.org/cgi-data/news/files/72.shtml" class="external text" title="http://committeeforjustice.org/cgi-data/news/files/72.shtml" rel="nofollow">"Activists Priming for Supreme Court Battle,"</a> Associated Press (<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Committee_for_Justice" title="Committee for Justice">Committee for Justice</a>), June 9, 2005.</li>

<li>William Triplet, <a href="http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117937405?categoryid=18&cs=1" class="external text" title="http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117937405?categoryid=18&cs=1" rel="nofollow">"'Swift-boat' pros in demand in D.C. Spinmeisters go negative,"</a> Variety, February 5, 2006.</li>

<li>Mike Allen, "<a href="http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1148113,00.html" class="external text" title="http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1148113,00.html" rel="nofollow">GOP Confident as Alito Hearings Wrap: Despite frustrating Democrats with his answers, the nominee has made no major slip-ups</a>," Time, January 11, 2006.</li>

<li>"<a href="http://www.odwyerpr.com/members/0725crc_stone.htm" class="external text" title="http://www.odwyerpr.com/members/0725crc_stone.htm" rel="nofollow">CRC Gets Praise for Stone</a>," O'Dwyer's PR Daily (sub req'd), July 25, 2006.</li>

<li>Dave Zweifel, "<a href="http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/column/index.php?ntid=120276&ntpid=0" class="external text" title="http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/column/index.php?ntid=120276&ntpid=0" rel="nofollow">Swift Boat firm aiding Zeigler campaign</a>," The Capital Times (Madison, WI), February 23, 2007.</li>

<li>Scott Swenson, "<a href="http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2007/04/03/when-abstinence-only-policies-fail-bring-in-the-hatchet-men-to-preserve-bushs-billion-dollar-boondoggle" class="external text" title="http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2007/04/03/when-abstinence-only-policies-fail-bring-in-the-hatchet-men-to-preserve-bushs-billion-dollar-boondoggle" rel="nofollow">When Abstinence Only Policies Fail, Bring In The Hatchet Men to Preserve Bush's Billion Dollar Boondoggle</a>," RH Reality Check blog, April 04, 2007.</li>

<li>Richard Kim, "<a href="http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion?pid=182516" class="external text" title="http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion?pid=182516" rel="nofollow">Abstinence Takes a Blow</a>," The Nation blog, April 5, 2007.</li>

<li>"<a href="http://www.odwyerpr.com/members/0410crc_abstinence.htm" class="external text" title="http://www.odwyerpr.com/members/0410crc_abstinence.htm" rel="nofollow">CRC Supports Abstinence Education</a>," O'Dwyer's PR Daily (sub req'd), April 10, 2007.</li>

<li>Andrew Clevenger, "<a href="http://blogs.wvgazette.com/watchdog/2009/06/09/legal-experts-weigh-in-on-scotus-benjamin-ruling/" class="external text" title="http://blogs.wvgazette.com/watchdog/2009/06/09/legal-experts-weigh-in-on-scotus-benjamin-ruling/" rel="nofollow">'Legal experts' weigh in on U.S. Supreme Court's Benjamin ruling</a>," "Managed Outrage" blog of The Charleston Gazette (West Virginia), June 9, 2009.</li>

<li>Kathy Kiely, "<a href="http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2009/06/68175829/1" class="external text" title="http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2009/06/68175829/1" rel="nofollow">Duelling health care ads</a>," USA Today "The Oval", June 16, 2009.</li>

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wiki<div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Creative Response Concepts (CRC) Public Relations is an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">American</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_relations" title="Public relations" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">public relations</a> firm best known for helping to devise the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_Vets_and_POWs_for_Truth" title="Swift Vets and POWs for Truth" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Swift Boat Veterans for Truth</a>campaign attacking <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kerry" title="John Kerry" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">John Kerry</a>’s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Vietnam War</a> record in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,2004" title="United States presidential election, 2004" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2004 presidential race</a>.With one <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria,Virginia" title="Alexandria, Virginia" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Alexandria, Virginia</a> office, it is run by former <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Buchanan" title="Pat Buchanan" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Pat Buchanan</a> communications director Greg Mueller, with help from former <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Robertson" title="Pat Robertson" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Pat Robertson</a> communications director Mike Russell.CRC was also hired by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_Institute" title="Discovery Institute" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Discovery Institute</a> during the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitzmiller_v.Dover_Area_School_District" title="Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District</a> trial over teaching <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_design" title="Intelligent design" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">intelligent design</a> in public schools.In 2006, they were retained to help promote the 2006 film <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Center(film)" title="World Trade Center (film)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">World Trade Center</a> directed by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Stone" title="Oliver Stone" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Oliver Stone</a>.The company was hired to promote <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Case_Against_Barack_Obama" title="The Case Against Barack Obama" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The Case Against Barack Obama</a> a 2008 book by David Freddoso and put out by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regnery_Publishing" title="Regnery Publishing" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Regnery Publishing</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Response_Concepts#cite_note-jmp0623-1" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a>CRC is also the PR agency of record for the anti-LGBT anti-Marriage Equality organization, 'The National Organization for Marriage'<h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none;">See also[</h2><ul style="line-height: 1.6; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kerry_military_service_controversy" title="John Kerry military service controversy" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">John Kerry military service controversy</a></li></ul><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none;">References[</h2><ul style="line-height: 1.6; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Boehlert, Eric (September 10, 2004). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://archive.salon.com/news/feature/2004/09/10/forgery/index.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" base64="base64" pd94bwwgdmvyc2lvbj0ims4wiiblbmnvzgluzz0ivvrgltgipz48c3znihhtbg5zpsjodhrwoi8vd3d3lnczlm9yzy8ymdawl3n2zyigd2lkdgg9ijewiibozwlnahq9ijewij48zyb0cmfuc2zvcm09inryyw5zbgf0zsgtodi2ljqyosatnjk4ljc5mskipjxyzwn0ihdpzhropsi1ljk4miigagvpz2h0psi1ljk4miiged0iodi2ljkyosiget0inzayljmwosigzmlsbd0ii2zmziigc3ryb2tlpsijmdzjii8="PD94bWwgdmVyc2lvbj0iMS4wIiBlbmNvZGluZz0iVVRGLTgiPz48c3ZnIHhtbG5zPSJodHRwOi8vd3d3LnczLm9yZy8yMDAwL3N2ZyIgd2lkdGg9IjEwIiBoZWlnaHQ9IjEwIj48ZyB0cmFuc2Zvcm09InRyYW5zbGF0ZSgtODI2LjQyOSAtNjk4Ljc5MSkiPjxyZWN0IHdpZHRoPSI1Ljk4MiIgaGVpZ2h0PSI1Ljk4MiIgeD0iODI2LjkyOSIgeT0iNzAyLjMwOSIgZmlsbD0iI2ZmZiIgc3Ryb2tlPSIjMDZjIi8" pgc="PGc" phbhdgggzd0ittgzms4xotqgnjk4ljc5mwg1ljiznhy1ljm5mwwtms41nzegms41ndutms4zms0xljmxltiunzi1idiunzi1ltiunjg5ltiunjg5idiuoda4ltiuoda4lteumzexlteumzexeiigzmlsbd0iiza2ziivpjxwyxroigq9ik04mzuundi0idy5os43otvsljaymia0ljg4ns0xljgxny0xljgxny0yljg4msayljg4ms0xljiyoc0xljiyocayljg4ms0yljg4ms0xljg1ms0xljg1mxoiigzpbgw9iinmzmyilz48l2c="PHBhdGggZD0iTTgzMS4xOTQgNjk4Ljc5MWg1LjIzNHY1LjM5MWwtMS41NzEgMS41NDUtMS4zMS0xLjMxLTIuNzI1IDIuNzI1LTIuNjg5LTIuNjg5IDIuODA4LTIuODA4LTEuMzExLTEuMzExeiIgZmlsbD0iIzA2ZiIvPjxwYXRoIGQ9Ik04MzUuNDI0IDY5OS43OTVsLjAyMiA0Ljg4NS0xLjgxNy0xLjgxNy0yLjg4MSAyLjg4MS0xLjIyOC0xLjIyOCAyLjg4MS0yLjg4MS0xLjg1MS0xLjg1MXoiIGZpbGw9IiNmZmYiLz48L2c" pc9npjwvc3znpg="=" xmlns:data="data">Swift Boat flacks attack CBS.</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salon.com" title="Salon.com" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Salon.com</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Halbfinger, David M. (July 27, 2006). Odd Bedfellows Align to Market Film About 9/11. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times" title="New York Times" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">New York Times</a></li></ul><div class="reflist" style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; list-style-type: decimal;"><ol class="references" style="line-height: 1.6; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: inherit;"><li id="cite_note-jmp0623-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Response_Concepts#cite_ref-jmp0623_1-0" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" 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;">Jump up^{</a> }Martin, Jonathan, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0608/11263.html" style="text-decoration: none; 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For <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Public_relations" title="Public relations">public relations</a>, USA Next has turned to <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Creative_Response_Concepts" title="Creative Response Concepts">Creative Response Concepts</a>, a Virginia firm that represented both Swift Vets - the company was paid more than $165,000 - and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Regnery_Publishing" title="Regnery Publishing">Regnery Publishing</a>, the publisher of "Unfit for Command," a book about Senator <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_Kerry" title="John Kerry" class="mw-redirect">John Kerry</a>'s military service whose co-author was <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_E._O%27Neill" title="John E. O'Neill">John E. O'Neill</a>, one of the primary leaders of Swift Vets.<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/21/politics/21social.html?pagewanted=print&position=" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/21/politics/21social.html?pagewanted=print&position=" rel="nofollow">[7]</a>

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