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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>wife FEDSOC LIAR, subpoenad by&nbsp; Fani GA: jenna, rudy, eastman... claremont inst tppf</b></font></div><div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">off bs tppf</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">jacki brings expertise to the Life: Powered initiative at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. Currently the host of&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: 600; max-width: 100%;"><span style="max-width: 100%;">The Jacki Daily Show</span><em style="max-width: 100%;">,</em></span>&nbsp;she has had an impressive career in energy, law, and politics.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; max-width: 100%; line-height: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Most recently,&nbsp;<b>Deason served as Chief Operating Officer for a free market think tank specializing in health care policy, entitlement reform, and energy policy</b>.&nbsp;Previously, she served many years as legal counsel on Capitol Hill to the Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Constitution and the former Ranking Member of the Commercial and Administrative Law Subcommittee, advising on the oversight of federal agencies. Prior to her career in Washington, she worked as a&nbsp; litigator and as an Assistant Vice President for a national bank.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; max-width: 100%; line-height: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Prior to her legal career, Jacki&nbsp;served as the Public Relations Director for a statewide political organization.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px; max-width: 100%; line-height: 2;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jacki studied Economics, Spanish, and World History at Marshall University (Society of Yeager Scholars)<b>, Oxford University in the United Kingdom,&nbsp;</b>and the University of Zaragoza in Spain. She is an alumna of the<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;Vanderbilt University Law School, where she served as the President of the law school’s Federalist Society chapter.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; max-width: 100%; line-height: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jacki is from the Ohio River Valley, where the shale runs deep. She descends from a long line of energy workers, including roughnecks, railroaders, coal miners, and nuclear energy specialists.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/08/us/politics/trump-donor-dinner-georgetown.html"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/08/us/politics/trump-donor-dinner-georgetown.html</font></a></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kenneth P. Vogel</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">March 8, 2018 MIDTERMS -- BLUE WAVE?</font></b></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">WASHINGTON — President Trump dined at the ornate Georgetown home of a prominent Washington lawyer on Wednesday night with wealthy donors who are expected to play crucial roles in financing his re-election campaign.</font></span></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The dinner was the latest in a series of<b> donor events associated with a pair of independent groups — America First Policies and America First Action</b> — that are <b>aiming to raise $100 million this year,</b> mostly in large donations, to support Mr. Trump’s agenda and the <b>election campaigns of allied congressional candidates.</b></font></span></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Attendees included donors and operatives who are working to raise money for the America First groups, such as the Dallas financial executive <b>Roy W. Bailey and the Oklahoma oil billionaire Harold Hamm,</b> as well as the president’s eldest son,<b> Donald Trump Jr.,</b> according to someone briefed on the list of attendees and published reports.</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mr. Hamm and Mr. Bailey are on the board of America First Policies, a nonprofit group that was created to advocate Mr. Trump’s agenda and that has paid for a series of polls and strategy memos about the political effects of the Trump administration’s efforts. America First Action, on the other hand, is a “super PAC” that is raising money to air advertisements in support of Republican congressional candidates allied with the president.</font></span></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The two groups are headed by the veteran Republican operative Brian O. Walsh, who also attended Wednesday’s dinner.</font></b></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></b></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The gathering was hosted by C. Boyden Gray,</b> a Washington lawyer who served in top positions in both George Bush’s and George W. Bush’s presidential administrations, and who is known for hosting gatherings of the capital’s Republican elite.</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It was a rare night on the town for a president who mostly remains cloistered in the White House when he is in Washington, and who, when he does dine out, usually goes to the steakhouse in the hotel he owns five blocks away.</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The evening also highlights the extent to which Mr. Trump has embraced features of Washington politics that he denounced on the campaign trail. He had pledged to “drain the swamp” of the city’s permanent political class and to forsake the contributions of wealthy donors, who he said had too much power.</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mr. Gray could not be reached for comment. Mr. Walsh and Donald Trump Jr. did not respond to requests for comment.</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lindsay Walters, a deputy White House press secretary, stressed that the dinner was not a fund-raiser.</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Tonight the president had dinner with a small group of supporters at the private residence of C. Boyden Gray,” she said on Wednesday night.</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Image</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[Mr. Gray at his home in 2005. He is known for hosting gatherings of Washington’s Republican elite.]</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Even if no money was collected Wednesday night, the gathering was part of a fund-raising campaign by the two groups that has ramped up in recent weeks with assistance from Mr. Trump, his family and top officials in his administration.</font></b></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Vice President Mike Pence spoke last month at an America First round table in Dallas, and Donald Trump Jr. has attended events for the groups, as well.</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Secretary of Energy Rick Perry spoke Tuesday afternoon at a round table in Houston, which was attended by</span><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Mr. Bailey and a number of prominent Texas donors, including the </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Dallas investor Doug Deason.</span></b></font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“They’re making a pretty serious push,” said Mr. Deason, who is on the finance committee of the America First groups.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> “It’s an all-out effort to knock it out of the park with this super PAC.”</span></font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mr. Deason explained that the groups are careful not to ask for contributions, or to discuss spending strategies, in the presence of administration officials.</font></b></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That is because officials are barred by campaign finance rules from coordinating spending strategies with — or raising large sums for — entities like the America First groups, which, unlike campaign and party committees, are not subject to federal contribution limits.</font></b></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Instead, Mr. Deason said, the administration officials have generally discussed Mr. Trump’s agenda and answered questions from the assembled donors. Mr. Perry, for instance, was asked about the president’s proposed tariffs on steel and aluminum by donors who were concerned about them.</font></span></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></span></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After such events, representatives from the America First groups will follow up with donors to solicit contributions — a common fund-raising strategy for super PACs and other unlimited-money political groups.</font></span></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Someone with direct knowledge of the America First groups said they had been telling donors that they had already raised $40 million and intended to raise another $60 million for their 2018 efforts.</font></b></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></b></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>A majority of the funds raised so far have been collected by America First Policies, </b>a nonprofit group registered under a section of the tax code — 501(c)(4) — that allows it to shield most information about its finances, including the identity of its donors.</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">America First Action, on the other hand, is required to disclose its donors and expenditures on a periodic basis to the Federal Election Commission.</font></span></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The group’s most recent report revealed that it raised $4 million last year, with half of that coming from the</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Los Angeles developer Geoffrey H. Palmer. </b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">An additional $1 million came from the Murray Energy Corporation, a coal company based in Ohio that has assiduously courted Mr. Trump as it pressed the new administration to repeal President Barack Obama’s climate change policies intended to shut down old coal-burning power plants.</span></font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>America First Action spent tens of thousands of dollars at the Trump International Hotel on events for donors,</b> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">and also paid tens of thousands of dollars each to firms associated with Mr. Trump’s first campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, and his newly named re-election campaign manager, Brad Parscale, among other loyalists.</span></font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"><b>Dallas Republican donor Doug Deason</b> and his billionaire father gave more than a million dollars to the pro-Trump America First PAC.</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Their generosity seems to have greased the pardon of David Safavian, a former federal official convicted of obstruction and perjury in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Casino magnate Sheldon Adelson and his wife, Miriam Adelson, have given more than $200 million to Republican causes, including at least $30 million to Trump-related committees in recent years and $500,000 to a defense fund for Trump aides coping with special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe. They asked that Trump pardon junk-bond crook Michael Milken and got their wish. (Mrs. Adelson also got the Presidential Medal of Freedom.)</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And then there’s the Pogue family, also from Dallas, which forked over $85,000 last year jointly to the president’s reelection committee and the Republican Party — and got a gift-wrapped pardon for its patriarch, Paul Pogue, a construction magnate convicted of tax fraud. Pushing the<b>&nbsp;Pogue pardon was former Sen. Rick Santorum,&nbsp;</b>the Pennsylvania Republican who brayed loudly about the Rich case.</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">deason capital 2018: 350K? 180k fed</font></div><div><table class="DataTable datadisplay dataTable no-footer" id="recips" role="grid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; padding: 0px; background: rgb(224, 230, 236); width: 574px;" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><tbody><tr role="row" class="even" style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);" /><tr role="row" class="odd"><td nowrap="" style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Mandel, Josh (R-OH)</b></font></td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Senate</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$16,200</font></td></tr><tr role="row" class="even" style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td nowrap="" style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ratcliffe, John Lee (R-TX)</font></td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">House</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$16,200</font></td></tr><tr role="row" class="odd"><td nowrap="" style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gallagher, Mike (R-WI)</font></td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">House</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$10,800</font></td></tr><tr role="row" class="even" style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td nowrap="" style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hensarling, Jeb (R-TX)</font></td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">House</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$10,800</font></td></tr><tr role="row" class="odd"><td nowrap="" style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hurd, Will (R-TX)</font></td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">House</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$10,800</font></td></tr><tr role="row" class="even" style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td nowrap="" style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nicholson, Kevin (R-WI)</font></td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Senate</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$10,800</font></td></tr><tr role="row" class="odd"><td nowrap="" style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Roy, Chip (R-TX)</b></font></td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">House</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$10,800</font></td></tr><tr role="row" class="even" style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td nowrap="" style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sessions, Pete (R-TX)</font></td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">House</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$10,800</font></td></tr><tr role="row" class="odd"><td nowrap="" style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">T<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">rump, Donald (R)</span></font></td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pres</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$10,800</font></td></tr><tr role="row" class="even" style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td nowrap="" style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Burgess, Michael (R-TX)</font></td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">House</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$8,100</font></td></tr><tr role="row" class="odd"><td nowrap="" style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cruz, Ted (R-TX)</font></td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Senate</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$8,100</font></td></tr><tr role="row" class="even" style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td nowrap="" style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">McCarthy, Kevin (R-CA)</font></td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">House</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$8,100</font></td></tr><tr role="row" class="odd"><td nowrap="" style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Blackburn, Marsha (R-TN)</font></td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">House</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$5,400</font></td></tr><tr role="row" class="even" style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td nowrap="" style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Hawley, Josh (R-MO)</font></td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Senate</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$5,400</font></td></tr><tr role="row" class="odd"><td nowrap="" style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">James, John (R-MI)</font></td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Senate</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$5,400</font></td></tr><tr role="row" class="even" style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td nowrap="" style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pence, Greg (R-IN)</font></td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">House</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$5,400</font></td></tr><tr role="row" class="odd"><td nowrap="" style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rosendale, Matt (R-MT)</font></td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Senate</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$5,400</font></td></tr><tr role="row" class="even" style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td nowrap="" style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Taylor, Scott W (R-VA)</font></td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">House</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$5,400</font></td></tr><tr role="row" class="odd"><td nowrap="" style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Love, Mia (R-UT)</font></td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">House</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$4,157</font></td></tr><tr role="row" class="even" style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td nowrap="" style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Barrasso, John A (R-WY)</font></td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Senate</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$2,700</font></td></tr><tr role="row" class="odd"><td nowrap="" style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ellzey, Jake (R-TX)</font></td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">House</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$2,700</font></td></tr><tr role="row" class="even" style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td nowrap="" style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hughes, Whit (R-MS)</font></td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">House</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$2,700</font></td></tr><tr role="row" class="odd"><td nowrap="" style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Taylor, Van (R-TX)</font></td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">House</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$2,700</font></td></tr><tr role="row" class="even" style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td nowrap="" style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kinzinger, Adam (R-IL)</font></td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">House

</font></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2016</font></div><div><table class="datadisplay" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; padding: 0px; background: rgb(224, 230, 236); width: 574px;"><thead><tr><th style="padding: 3px; text-align: center; background: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Chamber</font></th><th style="padding: 3px; text-align: center; background: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Member</font></th><th style="padding: 3px; text-align: center; background: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Amount</font></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Senate</font></td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=N00033085&cycle=2016" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Cruz, Ted (R-TX)</font></a></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$24,300</font></td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Senate</font></td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=N00030980&cycle=2016" style="background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Ayotte, Kelly (R-NH)</font></a></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$16,200</font></td></tr><tr style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Senate</font></td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=N00030836&cycle=2016" style="background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Paul, Rand (R-KY)</font></a></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$14,800</font></td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Senate</font></td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=N00003682&cycle=2016" style="background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Portman, Rob (R-OH)</font></a></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$13,500</font></td></tr><tr style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">House</font></td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=N00005681&cycle=2016" style="background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Sessions, Pete (R-TX)</font></a></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$13,500</font></td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">President</font></td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/races/summary?id=PRES&cycle=2016" style="background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Trump, Donald (R)</font></a></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$13,500</font></td></tr><tr style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">House</font></td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=N00005883&cycle=2016" style="background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Brady, Kevin (R-TX)</font></a></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$12,800</font></td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Senate</font></td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=N00002221&cycle=2016" style="background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Burr, Richard (R-NC)</font></a></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$11,800</font></td></tr><tr style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">House</font></td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/races/summary?id=AZ01&cycle=2016" style="background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Babeu, Paul (R-AZ)</font></a></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$10,800</font></td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">House</font></td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=N00034746&cycle=2016" style="background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">DeSantis, Ron (R-FL)</font></a></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$10,800</font></td></tr><tr style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">House</font></td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=N00029679&cycle=2016" style="background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Fleming, John (R-LA)</font></a></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$10,800</font></td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">House</font></td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=N00024922&cycle=2016" style="background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Hensarling, Jeb (R-TX)</font></a></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$10,800</font></td></tr><tr style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Senate</font></td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=N00031696&cycle=2016" style="background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Lee, Mike (R-UT)</font></a></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$10,800</font></td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">House</font></td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=N00035972&cycle=2016" style="background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Ratcliffe, John Lee (R-TX)</font></a></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$10,800</font></td></tr><tr style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">House</font></td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=N00035523&cycle=2016" style="background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Stefanik, Elise (R-NY)</font></a></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$10,800</font></td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">House</font></td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/races/summary?id=CA52&cycle=2016" style="background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Gitsham, Denise (R-CA)</font></a></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">abc</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>for months into the Trump administration, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt's allies from Oklahoma contacted Pruitt and his chief of staff trying to get jobs for family friends and a chemical industry lobbyist – and Pruitt himself tried to recruit from the oil and gas industry, according to internal EPA emails.</b></font></div><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 30px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One of the allies was Oklahoma lawyer Gentner Drummond, who is vying to take Pruitt's former position as state attorney general in the GOP primary runoff in August. The emails were obtained by the Sierra Club through a public records request and provided to ABC News.</font></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 30px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"I am aware that you have visited with [redacted] regarding a position within the EPA. I have known [redacted] for most of [redacted] life, and would love to see another Oklahoman at the Agency," Drummond wrote in a June 29, 2017 email to EPA Chief of Staff Ryan Jackson, who is also from Pruitt’s home state of Oklahoma. "I am pleased to call or email Scott. What is your recommendation? The last cell number that I have for Scott is [redacted]."</font></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 30px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Although the name of the person being recommended is redacted in the body of the email, the subject of the email reads "RE: Katherine English." Drummond told ABC News that English is a niece of one of his former law partners, and that she had asked him to recommend her for the EPA job.</font></p><figure class="e_image e_full" id="e_image_56316314" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; margin: 0px 0px 30px; position: relative; clear: both; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 15px 6px 0px; width: 723px; z-index: 1000029; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; position: relative;"><span class="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The exterior of the headquarters of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in downtown Washington, D.C., April 2, 2017.</font></span></figcaption></figure><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 30px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">English’s name was hardly unfamiliar at the EPA. For nearly a decade, she had lobbied the EPA and Congress on behalf of chemical corporations. Most recently, she was the director of government affairs at Dow Chemical, and one of the company's leading lobbyists.</font></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 30px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In less than an hour, Jackson replied in an email, "Thank you. I know [redacted] really well and that would be fine. Thanks and hope all is well."</font></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 30px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jackson and English go back more than 10 years, when Jackson was chief of staff at the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works in Washington and English was a counsel at the committee. They are both alums of the University of Oklahoma as well.</font></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 30px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Drummond told ABC News that he didn't know which position English was seeking at the EPA, but said that he just knew that English was a qualified lawyer who had worked in Washington for a long time dealing with environmental matters. Drummond said he had not personally interacted with Pruitt, but knew of him as his capacity as a former state attorney general.</font></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 30px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A couple of weeks later, Drummond emailed Jackson again: "I have left Scott a voice message and a text but have not heard back, which is understandable given his ever-expanding role. What are your thoughts on a position for [redacted] within the Agency?"</font></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 30px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Drummond said he never heard back from Jackson after that last email.</font></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 30px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">English was not reachable for an immediate comment.</font></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 30px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The emails show that Drummond was just one of many of Pruitt's old allies asking about positions at the EPA.</font></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 30px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>For example, the emails reveal details about contacts between Jackson and lobbyist J. Steven Hart, a longtime Pruitt supporter. Pruitt rented a Capitol Hill condo&nbsp;</b>from Hart’s wife Vicki Hart – also a Washington lobbyist – for a below market rate. In the emails, Hart invited Jackson out to dinner and often asked him for favors – including trying to get jobs at the EPA for Hart's friends. Both Hart and Pruitt have denied Hart tried to guide and influence EPA decisions.</font></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 30px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hart sent an email to Jackson in April 2017 about a family friend who had applied for a job at the EPA. Jimmy Guiliano was seeking a policy position at the agency when Hart wrote to Jackson that his wife, Pruitt's landlord, spoke to Pruitt directly and he was following up on the matter.</font></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 30px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"He [Pruitt] told Vicki to talk to you about how to handle this," Hart wrote Jackson.</font></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 30px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jackson responded "on it" after Hart wrote that Guliano was "important to us." In a statement to ABC News, EPA spokesman Jahan Wilcox said "the Agency accepts career recommendations from a number of acquaintances. Ultimately, Mr. Guiliano was not hired."</font></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 30px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">According to the emails, Hart also&nbsp;</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">recommended candidates for the&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Science Advisory Board o</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">n behalf of a client, Dennis Treacy, currently a board member of the Smithfield Foundation – the charitable arm of Smithfield Foods.</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;T</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">he EPA also sought recommendations for the advisory board from</b><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"> major Trump donor Doug Deason</b><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> and a former advisory board member Bryan Shaw.</b></font></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 30px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The emails also appear to indicate that the EPA has been recruiting agency employees from the oil and gas industry, which has backed Pruitt since his time as attorney general in Oklahoma.</font></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 30px 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">According to an email from ConocoPhillips lobbyist Kevin Avery, Pruitt "made a plea for candidates to fill some of the regional director positions within the agency" when he met with the<b> American Petroleum Institute </b>executives in March last year. ConocoPhillips was one of the oil companies that met up with Pruitt at the meeting.</font></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 30px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On March 27, just a week after the meeting, Avery reached out to one of<b>&nbsp;Pruitt's closest aides, Samantha Dravis,&nbsp;</b>with recommendations from the company.</font></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 30px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"As the communique indicates API member companies were asked to consider providing names of candidates who may be interested in government service," ConocoPhillips spokesperson Daren Beaudo said in a statement to ABC News. "We submitted two candidates for consideration at the EPA’s request. We were not involved in any other aspect of the process, and neither was ultimately appointed."</font></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 30px 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Meanwhile,<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">&nbsp;Henry Darwin, a former state of Arizona Chief of Operations who joined the EPA as the assistant deputy secretary in July last year, also got his wife a job at the agency.</span></font></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 30px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While negotiating his potential job offer at the EPA in May 2017, Darwin expressed concerns about the potential salary to Jackson, and asked if his wife, who is a "legitimate environmental professional" can also have a job at the EPA.</font></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 30px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"It would help our financial decision immensely," Darwin wrote to Jackson. "If not out of the question, I would be happy to forward her resume and references (which I would suggest you check - everyone loves her almost as much as I do)."</font></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 30px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Henry Darwin's wife, Veronica Darwin, eventually got a job at the EPA as a senior adviser to the administrator for Land and Emergency Management.</font></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 30px 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Veronica Darwin has spent more than 18 years working extensively on environmental waste issues that included roles as a&nbsp;<b>compliance officer with EPA’s Region 9</b>&nbsp;office and as&nbsp;<b>deputy division director for the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality’s Waste Divisions Program,</b>" EPA spokesperson Kelsi Daniell said in a statement to ABC News. "As EPA was looking to bolster its Superfund program and OLEM team, Ms. Darwin was an ideal fit for her current role.</span>"</font></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 30px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">An anti-nepotism statute to a presidential appointment in the executive branch, a public official may not "advocate for appointment, employment, promotion, or advancement, in or to a civilian position in the agency in which he is serving or over which he exercises jurisdiction or control any individual who is a relative of the public official."</font></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 30px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It is unclear whether there is a statute that prohibits a candidate for a politically appointed position from recommending a family member for a job at the same agency.</font></p><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Deason</span>&nbsp;has been the President of Deason Capital Services, LLC (DCS), the Deason family office, since joining the firm in 2009. DCS has an AUM of approximately $1.5 Billion, and manages a diversified portfolio of public and private assets including a large portfolio of public equity and debt securities (including a significant holding in Xerox Corporation) and hedge funds, and private equity and real estate holdings</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> that includes direct and fund based holdings in private equity, private debt, oil and gas, real estate and other assets.&nbsp; DCS private assets include a majority holding in FUNimation Entertainment and 1200 Media, a producer and distributor of anime content; a substantial holding in Park Cities Financial Group, Inc. (the owner of Dallas Capital Bank), and large holdings in Foreland Resources, LLC, an oil and gas operating company, and Ryan, LLC, one of the largest tax consulting firms in the world.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Prior to joining DCS, Doug was CEO of Precept Builders, Inc., a nationwide commercial builder, from 1993 to 2009 and co-managing partner of Evergreen Realty Partners, a commercial and multifamily development company based in Dallas.&nbsp; He also previously served as CEO of Precept Business Services, a NASDAQ listed services firm. &nbsp;He currently serves on the board of directors of FUNimation and 1200 Media Group, Foreland Resources, Deason Capital Services, Intrexon Energy Partners, Ryan LLC, ID Life, Park Cities Financial Group (parent of Dallas Capital Bank), and DCS Finance. In addition, Doug serves on the Advisory Board of Valesco Industries; a Dallas based private equity fund, the Executive Board of The School of Engineering at Southern Methodist University (SMU), the Advisory Board of MD Anderson Cancer Center, and is Chairman of the Advisory Board of The Institute for Cyber Security at SMU.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Over his career, in addition to those noted above, Doug has served on numerous boards including both private and public companies as well as charitable organizations and private schools. He has served on the finance committee of the Dallas County Republican Party for four years, and on the Executive Committee and as Membership Chair for the West Texas Chapter of the Young Presidents Organization.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Doug is an outspoken advocate for Criminal Justice Reform in Texas and in Washington DC, and was responsible for groundbreaking legislation being passed in support of reform in Texas in 2015.&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Doug holds a degree in Data Processing Quantitative Analysis (Computer Science) from the University of Arkansas earned in 1984.</span></font></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=
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</font><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" /><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Scott Pruitt last year had a top aide help contact Republican donors who might offer his wife a job, eventually securing her a position at a conservative political group that has backed him for years, according to multiple individuals familiar with the matter.&nbsp;</span></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
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</div><div><b>And when one donor, Doug Deason, said he could not hire Marlyn Pruitt because of a conflict of interest, Pruitt continued to solicit his help in trying to find other possibilities.</b></div><div>
</div><div>A spokesman for the Judicial Crisis Network confirmed Tuesday that it employed the onetime school nurse “temporarily as an independent contractor,” but it did not disclose via email how long she worked there or what she was paid. The spokesman said the position came about after the group received her résumé from Leonard Leo, executive vice president of the Federalist Society. The two organizations have financial ties.</div><div>
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</div><div>Leo is a prominent Pruitt backer and longtime friend who was involved in arrangements for the administrator’s visit to Italy last year. Taxpayers spent more than $100,000 on the trip, which included private tours of the Vatican and meals at some of Rome’s finest restaurants.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div>
</div><div>Marlyn Pruitt left the JCN earlier this year, the spokesman said, adding that the group was pleased with her work. But the search and hiring raises more ethics questions about Scott Pruitt’s use of EPA staff as well as his contacts with GOP contributors and outside allies for his personal benefit. Federal ethics rules prohibit public officials from using their posts for private gain or receiving free services or other gifts from their subordinates</div><div>...</div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font><div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Grim Future for the Environment</font></strong></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Scott Pruitt,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;the Oklahoma attorney general who recently sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over its plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, is, incredibly, Trump's pick to head that very agency. Pruitt has called the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/climate-change/" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">climate change</a>&nbsp;debate "<a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-trump-pruitt-epa-20161207-story.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">far from settled</a>."</span></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Texas oil and gas investor Doug Deason, who, along with his billionaire father, Darwin, is a Republican political mega-donor and key figure in the Koch political network,</b> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">pushed for his friend Pruitt to head the EPA.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (Doug and his wife Holly wrote&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2015/02/02/holly-and-doug-deason-what-do-the-koch-brothers-want-to-defend-the-american-dream" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">a tribute to the Koch brothers</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;last year, supported by Freedom Partners.)</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It's hard to imagine anyone whose anti-environmental policies would benefit Koch Industries' profits more than Pruitt, who is bound to deregulate the environment and encourage fossil fuel production as much as possible, benefiting large fossil fuel corporations like Koch Industries, which operates oil refineries and gas pipelines, sells natural gas and owns tar sands land in Canada. As Oklahoma attorney general, he established a "federalism unit&nbsp;<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20161223134435/https://www.ok.gov/oag/Media/About_the_AG/index.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">to combat unwarranted regulation</a>&nbsp;and overreach by the federal government." As the Chicago Tribute&nbsp;<a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-trump-pruitt-epa-20161207-story.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">reported</a>, Pruitt defended Exxon against allegations that it knew about&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/climate-change-deleted-dnr-website-2166939088.html" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">climate change</a>&nbsp;for decades and misled the public; fought to restrict clean water protections; and submitted a letter to the EPA that was actually written by Devon Energy, whose corporate PAC donated to his attorney general campaigns.</font></p><p style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sure enough, Koch Industries PAC also contributed&nbsp;<a href="http://www.followthemoney.org/show-me?c-t-eid=6583668&d-eid=1457#[%7B1%7Cgro=d-id" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">$10,000</a>&nbsp;to Pruitt's attorney general campaigns in 2010 and 2014. Other top contributors include Chesapeake Energy, Devon Energy and ExxonMobil. What's more, the independent Republican State Leadership Committee, to which Koch Industries has given&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/527s/527cmtedetail_donors.php?url=527cmtedetail_donors.php%3Fcycle%3D2010%26ein%3D050532524&cname=koch&ein=050532524&cycle=2010" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">nearly $1.3 million</a>&nbsp;in the last decade, spent&nbsp;<a href="http://www.followthemoney.org/show-me?dt=2&is-t-eid=6583668&is-f-eid=8677#[%7B1%7Cgro=is-t-id,is-y" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">$150,000</a>&nbsp;supporting Pruitt in the 2010 race. In 2014, Freedom Partners even gave&nbsp;<a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/congress-democrats-epa-pruitt-232989" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">$175,000</a>&nbsp;the political nonprofit Pruitt directed.</font></span></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ref</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2015/02/02/holly-and-doug-deason-what-do-the-koch-brothers-want-to-defend-the-american-dream</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; line-height: 2.125rem;" pt="PT" serif="serif" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" xmlns=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What do Charles and David Koch want? What about the hundreds of men and women who joined them at their recent meeting in Southern California? Pundits across the country have asked this question over the past week, including&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Dallas Morning News</em>&nbsp;editorial board member Rudolph Bush.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2.125rem 0px 0px; line-height: 2.125rem;" pt="PT" serif="serif" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We attended that meeting — and we have an answer. We want Washington to do what it hasn’t done for years: work for, not against, the American people.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2.125rem 0px 0px; line-height: 2.125rem;" pt="PT" serif="serif" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This is not an easily achievable goal. It requires an impartial government that treats everyone equally. It requires an accountable government that is transparent and respects citizens’ rights. It requires an efficient government that spends taxpayer money prudently and understands what it should — and shouldn’t — do. 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Texas shows that this is possible — but Washington looks nothing like what we’ve described.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2.125rem 0px 0px; line-height: 2.125rem;" pt="PT" serif="serif" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Impartial? Special interests have never been more powerful in Washington. Both Democrats and Republicans hand out corporate welfare like it’s candy, spending billions of taxpayer dollars every year to prop up well-connected businesses and individuals. Meanwhile, politicians make millions of dollars through questionable deals and insider knowledge. We oppose everything that props up this self-serving system, including subsidies, favorable regulations, pork and special favors.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2.125rem 0px 0px; line-height: 2.125rem;" pt="PT" serif="serif" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Accountable? The federal government increasingly stifles the free speech of its opponents.</b> Both parties have attempted to limit Americans’ ability to speak their minds about elections and politicians.<b> Last year, 54 U.S. senators voted to amend the First Amendment to give Congress unlimited power to control political speech. And some federal agencies — especially the Internal Revenue Service — have targeted individuals and groups with which they disagree.</b></font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2.125rem 0px 0px; line-height: 2.125rem;" pt="PT" serif="serif" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" xmlns=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Efficient? Federal spending is out of control — and more wasteful than ever.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Since 2009 alone, the federal government has added nearly $7.5&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">trillion</em>&nbsp;to our national debt, taking it to more than $18 trillion total</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. Nor will America’s financial future improve, with annual federal deficits expected to start climbing back up to $1 trillion or more within the next few years. Americans’ children and grandchildren face paying an unpayable tab, yet politicians in Washington still want to spend more.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2.125rem 0px 0px; line-height: 2.125rem;" pt="PT" serif="serif" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" xmlns=""><span style="text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And limited? The government is so vast that federal officials can’t keep track of the number of federal agencies. The Federal Register, which contains all federal law, is over 79,000 pages long. As for those innumerable federal agencies, they have written over 175,000 pages of regulations — red tape that costs the economy more than $1.9 trillion every year and affects your daily life without you even knowing it.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2.125rem 0px 0px; line-height: 2.125rem;" pt="PT" serif="serif" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In short, Washington is broken. And it’s harming the American people and destroying our country’s future.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2.125rem 0px 0px; line-height: 2.125rem;" pt="PT" serif="serif" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Simply look around you. We’re in the midst of the slowest economic recovery in over 50 years. The labor participation rate is at its lowest level since 1978, when Jimmy Carter was president. Families are making less today than they did six years ago. For the first time in recorded history, more businesses are now dying than starting. And Washington is doing better than ever, while the rest of America falls further behind.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2.125rem 0px 0px; line-height: 2.125rem;" pt="PT" serif="serif" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We believe, as do Charles and David Koch, that America deserves better. Together, we want to help the least fortunate, defend individual freedom and create lasting prosperity for more and more hard-working Americans. But that can’t happen until Washington is impartial, accountable, efficient and limited. That is what we want — and we will pursue it, no matter how long it takes.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2.125rem 0px 0px; line-height: 2.125rem;" pt="PT" serif="serif" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" xmlns=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This column was written by Doug and Holly Deason of Dallas, and co-signed by Dallas residents Thomas O. Hicks, Thomas Hicks Jr., Elaine Marshall, E. Pierce Marshall Jr., Sally and Forrest Hoglund, Tandy and Lee Roy Mitchell and Gayla and Jim Von Ehr. 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Career[edit].&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Deason</span>&nbsp;grew up ... the race,&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Deason</span>&nbsp;asked for his money back.&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Deason's</span>&nbsp;son,&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Doug Deason</span>&nbsp;is a member of the Koch Brothers political network.&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Deason</span>&nbsp;and his family donated $1 million to support Donald&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Trump's</span>&nbsp;2016 presidential candiacy.</font></span></a></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="rc" data-hveid="64" data-ved="0ahUKEwipjLzj-brRAhXjzlQKHdG9Bm4QFQhAKAYwBg" style="position: relative;"><h3 class="r" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/591/transcript" style="cursor: pointer; 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cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b>Born:</b>&nbsp;c.&nbsp;</font></a><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/lists/939/000105624/" class="proflink" style="text-decoration: none;">1940</a>
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Gender:</b>&nbsp;Male
<b>Race or Ethnicity:</b>&nbsp;White
<b>Sexual orientation:</b>&nbsp;Straight
<b>Occupation:</b>&nbsp;Business</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Nationality:</b>&nbsp;United States
<b>Executive summary:</b>&nbsp;Founder of Affiliated Computer Systems</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Wife:</b>&nbsp;(div.)
<b>Wife:</b>&nbsp;(div.)
<b>Wife:</b>&nbsp;Paula (div.)
<b>Wife:</b>&nbsp;(div.)
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Son:</b>&nbsp;Douglas R. Deason</span>
<b>Girlfriend:</b>&nbsp;Katarina (cohabited)
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nndb.com/company/856/000098562/">Affiliated Computer Services</a>&nbsp;Founder and CEO (1988-99)
&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<u>MCorp</u>&nbsp;Chairman and CEO, MTech Corp. (1978-88)
&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<u>MCorp</u>&nbsp;MTech Corp. (20 years total)
&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nndb.com/company/646/000125271/">Gulf Oil</a>&nbsp;(five years)
&nbsp; &nbsp; Member of the Board of&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nndb.com/company/856/000098562/">Affiliated Computer Services</a>&nbsp;(as Chairman, 1988-)
&nbsp; &nbsp; Member of the Board of&nbsp;<u>DDH Aviation</u>&nbsp;(as Chairman, 1997)
&nbsp; &nbsp; Member of the Board of&nbsp;<u>Precept Business Services</u>&nbsp;(1998-, as Chairman, 1999-)
&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nndb.com/org/584/000207960/">McCain-Palin Victory 2008</a>&nbsp;
&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nndb.com/org/661/000205046/">Solutions America PAC</a>&nbsp;
&nbsp; &nbsp; Risk Factors:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nndb.com/lists/352/000083103/">Marijuana</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nndb.com/lists/780/000064588/">Alcoholism</a></font></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</b></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Despite the Koch brothers not backing Donald Trump financially with ads during the election, their network is emerging as a winner from his transition</span></div><div>
</div><div>&nbsp;Charles Koch had tough words for Trump during the campaign, but several mega-donors who back Koch-linked advocacy groups poured millions into fundraising for him.&nbsp;</div><div>
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</div><div>Peter Stone in Washington</div><div>Wednesday 7 December 2016&nbsp;</div><div>
</div><div>Despite deciding not to back Donald Trump financially with ads during the presidential election, the sprawling donor and advocacy network led by the multibillionaire Koch brothers is emerging as a winner in the transition.</div><div>
</div><div>Longtime ally Mike Pence is leading the transition team, and several veteran Koch network donors, operatives and political allies are poised to join the Trump administration when the new president takes office in January.</div><div>
</div><div>Analysis&nbsp;</div><div>
</div><div>Trump's billionaire cabinet could be the wealthiest administration ever</div><div>
</div><div>Opponents warn the administration is set to be packed with tycoons who will do nothing to fulfil his promise of helping working-class Americans</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">While Charles Koch and some network officials had tough words for Trump for some of his incendiary campaign rhetoric and positions this year, several mega-donors who back Koch-linked advocacy groups poured millions into Super Pacs and other fundraising efforts to boost Trump, and some of these donors have not been shy about flexing their muscles during the transition.</span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Koch network, which says it spent about $250m this election cycle on politics and policy efforts, comprises several hundred donors who help underwrite numerous free-market, small-government advocacy groups. The network is spearheaded by Charles and David Koch, the libertarian-leaning brothers who control the $115bn-a-year energy and industrial behemoth Koch Industries.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Several Koch network donors who backed Trump, such as Robert Mercer, Joe Craft, Doug Deason, Harold Hamm, Diane Hendricks and Stan Hubbard, have reason to be pleased that his early cabinet picks align with their views on expanding fossil fuels, spurring charter schools, repealing and replacing Obamacare, and slashing government regulations and taxes.</span></div><div>
</div><div>One of Trump’s early cabinet selections, for instance, was Betsy DeVos as education secretary: DeVos is part of a multibillionaire family that have long been hefty donors to advocacy groups linked to the Kochs and championed charter schools and school choice, both popular causes in Koch world.</div><div>
</div><div>&nbsp;David Koch attends the Met Costume Institute Gala in New York in 2016.</div><div>
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</div><div>Further, Trump’s key energy adviser for months has been fracking multibillionaire Hamm, who has been mentioned as a potential energy secretary. While Hamm is expected to keep running his oil and natural gas company Continental Resources, two transition sources say he has pushed for Oklahoma governor Mary Fallin to be named interior secretary, and the state’s attorney general Scott Pruitt to run the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which he has sued to block climate change curbs.</div><div>
</div><div><b>Rebekah Mercer, </b>the daughter of billionaire hedge fund executive Robert Mercer, who ploughed $2m into a pro-Trump Super Pac that she ran, is on the transition’s executive committee. Mercer has talked with chief White House strategist Stephen Bannon about having an outside group hire the big data firm Cambridge Analytica, which her father is a key investor in and Bannon sits on the board of, for messaging and communications drives to boost administration goals, according to a digital strategist familiar with the firm.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“I think most of the network is pretty pleased” with the cabinet selections to date, said Texas investor Doug Deason who, in tandem with his billionaire father Darwin Deason, poured almost $1m into the Republican National Committee to help Trump and other GOP candidates. “They’re pleased Trump has softened his rhetoric.”</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Deason, who said he is “passionate about school choice”, also said that he spoke to Pence for a half hour around Thanksgiving – and then followed up with texts – to tout Rudy Giuliani for secretary of state and, as Hamm did, Pruitt to head the EPA. Giuliani is a partner of Deason’s at Giuliani Deason Capital Interests, a private equity firm.</span></div><div>
</div><div>The early moves by Trump and his transition team have also pleased Hubbard, a billionaire media owner. “I’m feeling a lot better about him than I did earlier,” Hubbard told the Guardian. “Trump’s picked good people for his cabinet.”</div><div>
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</div><div>&nbsp;Donald Trump’s selection for education secretary, Betsy DeVos, is part of a multibillionaire family that have long been hefty donors to advocacy groups linked to the Kochs.</div><div>
</div><div>Hubbard and other donors are also betting that Pence, who some Koch network donors once hoped might lead the GOP ticket, will be a powerful force in the administration. “My guess is that Pence will be a lot more active than most vice-presidents,” said Hubbard.</div><div>
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</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Besides overseeing the transition,<b> Pence has been working closely with House speaker Paul Ryan, whom he served with in the House before he was Indiana governor, to coordinate plans for Obamacare’s repeal, </b>a hugely controversial and risky effort, but a top priority for the <b>Koch network </b>and many Republicans.</span></div><div>
</div><div>Still the Koch network, which spent $42m on ads to help GOP Senate candidates, is expected to have some<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> dust-ups with the Trump administration: Trump’s protectionist trade stances and some of his policy goals, such as a massive infrastructure spending program, pose potential conflicts with Koch world’s free-market views.</span></div><div>
</div><div>But Koch network officials sound cautiously upbeat about the incoming Trump administration. “We are encouraged by the Trump administration’s stated commitment to reduce corporate tax and regulatory burdens and make America more competitive,” <b>James Davis of Freedom Partners, the network’s financial hub,</b> said in an email. Davis added that the network would “try to find areas to work together” with the new administration.</div><div>=</div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Donald Trump and former President George W. Bush have in common? They both want Greg Abbott to be the next governor of Texas. Both men are among contributors in Abbott’s latest campaign finance report, which covers fundraising over the last six weeks. Trump, the millionaire developer and high-profile birther, gave Abbott $25,000 last month. Bush contributed $5,000 in July to the attorney general’s gubernatorial campaign. Some of the donations had been reported before. But disclosure of money raised in July is new — and includes several billionaires.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During July, Abbott raised $1 million. Republican challenger Tom Pauken, former state GOP chairman, raised $44,395. During the same period following her headline-grabbing filibuster against an abortion bill, potential Democratic opponent Wendy Davis raised $412,000.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Abbott’s biggest givers include Dallas investor and nuclear-dump owner Harold Simmons, who gave $150,000; California investor Peter Thiel, the initial big investor in Facebook, $100,000<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">;<b> Dallas billionaire and yachting enthusiast Darwin Deason,</b> $100,000; </span>and Fort Worth oilman and investor Lee Bass, $100,000.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The reports give a snapshot of the initial round of political fundraising following the regular legislative session. Although politicians were not allowed to raise money during a regular session, they could do fundraising during special sessions. During the full six-week period from June 26 through July 30, Abbott raised $4.2 million to launch his campaign for the Republican nomination for governor. During that same period, which followed her filibuster that attracted national attention, Davis raised $1.3 million. Of Davis’ money, 37 percent came from outside Texas. Of Abbott’s total during the six weeks, 8 percent came from outside Texas.</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>