Ameritech

<p style=" margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 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);">Dr. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cfr.org/about/board_bios.php#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;">Laura D'Andrea Tyson</a>, a member of the board of directors of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Council_on_Foreign_Relations" title="Council on Foreign Relations" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Council on Foreign Relations</a>, is "Dean of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/London_Business_School" title="London Business School" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">London Business School</a>. Previously she was <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=BankAmerica&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="BankAmerica (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">BankAmerica</a> Dean of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Walter_A._Haas_School_of_Business&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Walter A. Haas School of Business (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Walter A. Haas School of Business</a> at the University of California, Berkeley, where she earlier held the University's Class of 1939 Chair in economics and was director of its <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Institute_of_International_Studies" title="Institute of International Studies" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Institute of International Studies</a>. She was the national economic adviser to President <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/William_Jefferson_Clinton" title="William Jefferson Clinton" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">William Jefferson Clinton</a> and head of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Economic_Council" title="National Economic Council" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">National Economic Council</a>, she served on the president's National Security and Domestic Policy Councils, and was the first woman to hold the post of chairman of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=White_House_Council_of_Economic_Advisers&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="White House Council of Economic Advisers (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">White House Council of Economic Advisers</a>. She has also been research director of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Berkeley_Roundtable_on_the_International_Economy&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy</a>. She has written extensively on competitiveness and trade, including Who's Bashing Whom? Trade Conflict in High Technology Industries. She is based in London."<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.cfr.org/about/board_bios.php#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>

"Dr. Tyson has been a director of AT&T since October 1999. She served as a director of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ameritech&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ameritech (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Ameritech</a> Corporation from 1997 until the company was acquired by AT&T in 1999. She is a member of the Corporate Development Committee and the Finance/Pension Committee. Dr. Tyson is a director of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Eastman_Kodak_Company&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Eastman Kodak Company (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Eastman Kodak Company</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Morgan_Stanley" title="Morgan Stanley" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Morgan Stanley</a>." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Laura_D%27Andrea_Tyson#cite_note-0" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[1]</a>

Dr. Tyson was also appointed by the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alliance_for_Competitive_Taxation&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Alliance for Competitive Taxation (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Alliance for Competitive Taxation</a> in June 2013 to guide their economic policies <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Laura_D%27Andrea_Tyson#cite_note-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[2]</a>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Director, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/AT%26T" title="AT&T" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">AT&T</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Laura_D%27Andrea_Tyson#Resources_and_articles" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">1 Resources and articles</a>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Laura_D%27Andrea_Tyson#Related_Sourcewatch_articles" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">1.1 Related Sourcewatch articles</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Laura_D%27Andrea_Tyson#References" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">1.2 References</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Laura_D%27Andrea_Tyson#External_articles" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">1.3 External articles</a></li>

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<li id="cite_note-0" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Laura_D%27Andrea_Tyson#cite_ref-0" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.att.com/gen/investor-relations?pid=5636" 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;">AT&T Board</a>, accessed September 2008.</li>

<li id="cite_note-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Laura_D%27Andrea_Tyson#cite_ref-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">↑</a> Michael Cohn, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.accountingtoday.com/news/Corporations-Band-Together-Tax-Reform-Alliance-66997-1.html?ET=webcpa:e7191:497915a:&st=email" 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;">Corporations Band Together for Tax Reform Alliance</a>," Accounting Today, June 4, 2013.</li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Robert Schmidt and Alison Vekshin, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=avQ3LP7o44oU" 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;">FDIC May Run ‘Bad Bank’ in Plan to Purge Toxic Assets,</a> Bloomberg News, January 28, 2009.</li>

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Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA) is a Washington-based association of Republican Attorneys General. The association was created due to "concerns arising out of the industry-wide lawsuits that seek to promote public policy changes via the courthouse rather than the statehouse," and out of a desire to stop those with "a wish list for future mass state lawsuits-car rental companies, pharmaceutical firms, makers of lead paint and gun manufacturers."<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.texasobserver.org/showArticle.asp?ArticleID=64">[1]</a>

RAGA receives funding from major corporations, which can be considered a conflict of interest since some these corporations have, or are, suspected of criminal wrong-doing. Examples of potential conflicts of interest include:

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<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Microsoft" title="Microsoft">Microsoft</a> Corporation donated $10,000 to RAGA while being sued for antitrust violations by the Justice Department and 19 states. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A41820-2000Mar29?language=printer">[2]</a><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.texasobserver.org/showArticle.asp?ArticleID=64">[3]</a>.</li>

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<li>SBC Communications Inc. (now <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/AT%26T" title="AT&T">AT&T</a>) donated $35,000 while its acquisition of Ameritech Corp. was facing review by state officials.</li>

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<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Aetna" title="Aetna">Aetna</a> U.S. Healthcare gave $10,000 to RAGA while being accused of HMO fraud by Attorney General Dan Morales (D-TX) in 1998 just before he left office. Litigation stalled under Morales' Republican successor, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_Cornyn" title="John Cornyn">John Cornyn</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A41820-2000Mar29?language=printer">[4]</a>.</li>

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<dd>"Since RAGA's creation in 1999, Simmons' two main holding companies, Contran and Valhi, have contributed $350,000 to the Republican <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/PAC" title="PAC" class="mw-redirect">PAC</a> that launders RAGA's money, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Republican_National_State_Elections_Committee&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Republican National State Elections Committee (page does not exist)">Republican National State Elections Committee</a>. RNSEC received another $211,000 since RAGA's creation from other companies that are defendants in the Rhode Island [lead paint] suit. This includes $201,000 from ARCO (and ARCO chairman emeritus Lodwrick Cook) and $10,000 from <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/DuPont" title="DuPont">DuPont</a>."</dd>

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<dd>"[John] <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_Cornyn" title="John Cornyn">Cornyn</a>'s position is even more worth watching because a leading defendant in Rhode Island's lawsuit is NL Industries, which is controlled by Dallas corporate raider <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Harold_Simmons" title="Harold Simmons">Harold Simmons</a>. Simmons is a major donor to Republican PACs and candidates. He gave $90,000 to George W. Bush's two gubernatorial campaigns and has given Cornyn $31,000 since 1998." <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.texasobserver.org/showArticle.asp?ArticleID=64">[5]</a></dd>

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In a two day fundraiser session back in the Spring of 2000 in Austin Texas, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Karl_Rove" title="Karl Rove">Karl Rove</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush" class="mw-redirect">George W. Bush</a>'s chief strategist, was featured. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A41820-2000Mar29?language=printer">[6]</a>

The primary method of contributing money to RAGA is to become a member. Membership costs from $5,000 to $25,000, with increasing levels of access to attorneys general depending on the donation amount.

Unfortunately, knowing the full details of the contributions RAGA receives is very difficult since all money received by RAGA is passed to the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Republican_National_Committee" title="Republican National Committee">Republican National Committee</a> without any public links, especially money received from direct solicitation by attorneys general.

Internal fundraising documents obtained by The Washington Post show that Republican state attorneys general were asked to solicit contributions from corporations and trade groups subject to lawsuits and regulations by their states. The companies solicited include <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Shell_Oil" title="Shell Oil" class="mw-redirect">Shell Oil</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Brown%26_Williamson" title="Brown & Williamson" class="mw-redirect">Brown & Williamson</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Pfizer" title="Pfizer" class="mw-redirect">Pfizer</a> Inc., <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/MasterCard" title="MasterCard">MasterCard</a> Inc., <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Eli_Lilly" title="Eli Lilly">Eli Lilly</a> and Co., <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Anheuser-Busch" title="Anheuser-Busch">Anheuser-Busch</a> Cos., <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Citigroup" title="Citigroup">Citigroup</a> Inc., <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Amway" title="Amway" class="mw-redirect">Amway</a> Corp., <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=U.S.Steel&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="U.S. Steel (page does not exist)">U.S. Steel</a> Corp., <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Sprint_Nextel" title="Sprint Nextel">Nextel Communications Inc.</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/General_Motors" title="General Motors" class="mw-redirect">General Motors</a>, and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Microsoft" title="Microsoft">Microsoft</a> Corp. The documents state that company officials would be allowed to meet, participate in conference calls, and socialize with the attorneys general.

Attorneys general mentioned in the documents include <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_Cornyn" title="John Cornyn">John Cornyn</a>, who was the State Attorney General of Texas before being elected to the Senate in 2002; Alabama Attorney General <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bill_Pryor&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bill Pryor (page does not exist)">Bill Pryor</a>, founder of RAGA and pending President Bush federal appellate court nominee; former Virginia Attorney General <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mark_Earley&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mark Earley (page does not exist)">Mark Earley</a>; Delaware Attorney General <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jane_Brady&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jane Brady (page does not exist)">Jane Brady</a>; former South Carolina Attorney General <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Charlie_Condon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Charlie Condon (page does not exist)">Charlie Condon</a>; and former Ohio Attorney General <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Betty_Montgomery&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Betty Montgomery (page does not exist)">Betty Montgomery</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A3050-2003Jul16?language=printer">[7]</a>