Progress and Freedom Foundation

==<a href="http://www.teletruth.org/FTCspeakercorporateties.htm">http://www.teletruth.org/FTCspeakercorporateties.htm</a>The FTC Conference on Net Neutrality and Broadband and Corporate Influence.<o:p xmlns:o="o" /> During February 2007 the FTC held a meeting titled: <o:p xmlns:o="o">"Broadband Connectivity, Competition Policy”<o:p xmlns:o="o" /></o:p><a href="http://www.ftc.gov/opp/workshops/broadband/index.html">http://www.ftc.gov/opp/workshops/broadband/index.html</a><o:p xmlns:o="o" /> This resulted in a report which quoted the work of many of the speakers. In going through the speaker list, it is clear that many of the speakers had ties to Verizon or AT&T.  (This list was created simply going to Google and typing in the name and "Verizon" or "AT&T"... not exhaustive.) We are in no way implying any wrongdoing on the part of any person or organization, or that these presenters are not respected experts and scholars. However, we are concerned that:a) <o:p xmlns:o="o">The “FTC Bios” listed for these speakers (see above link) did not include their ties to AT&T or Verizon, the corporations they are discoursing about and who are former and current clients.<o:p xmlns:o="o" /></o:p>b) The FTC may not checked the backgrounds of the speakers and required them to indentify their corporate relationships. This weighted the analysis in favor of the corporate position as opposed to the public interest position.c) Both the FTC and the Department of Justice have quoted the experts' data without discussing the influence of their funding sources, many of whom are paid as 'experts' by AT&T or Verizon et al.d) Many of these experts are also part of New Millennium Research Council or Progress & Freedom Foundation's projects, which are also funded by the phone and cable companies. Did these groups help to influence these discussions?<o:p xmlns:o="o" /><o:p xmlns:o="o">We are not the only group to notice that the positions of the Department of Justice or the Federal Trade Commission on Net Neutrality relies heavily on experts funded by the phone and cable companies. Free Press has filed a FOIA to "uncover whether industry lobbyists or White House politics unduly influenced a recent Justice Department filing against Net Neutrality — the longstanding principle that prevents phone and cable companies from discriminating against Web sites and services." <a href="http://www.freepress.net/press/release.php?id=271">http://www.freepress.net/press/release.php?id=271</a></o:p> PARTIAL LIST OF SPEAKERS: Broadband Connectivity, Competition Policy    George S. Ford<o:p xmlns:o="o" /><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><st1:place w:st="on" xmlns:st1="st1" xmlns:w="w"><st1:placename w:st="on" xmlns:st1="st1" xmlns:w="w">Chief</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on" xmlns:st1="st1" xmlns:w="w">Economist</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on" xmlns:st1="st1" xmlns:w="w">Phoenix</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on" xmlns:st1="st1" xmlns:w="w">Center</st1:placetype></st1:place> for Advanced Legal & Economic Public Policy Studies.</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">The Phoenix Center hides its funding sources, but a number of different organizatons claim that the group is funded by the phone companies.</li><li>See the cable companies' Phoney Baloney: <a href="http://www.phoneybaloney.net/PC.htm">http://www.phoneybaloney.net/PC.htm</a></li><li>Other mentions of funding sources:</li><li>“Spiwak said the Phoenix Center is funded by ‘the old AT&T, the new AT&T, wireless companies, software providers’ and other Bell competitors.” [Technology Daily, 7/26/06]</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">“In a telephone interview last week, Lawrence Spiwak, president of the <st1:place w:st="on" xmlns:st1="st1" xmlns:w="w"><st1:placename w:st="on" xmlns:st1="st1" xmlns:w="w">Phoenix</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on" xmlns:st1="st1" xmlns:w="w">Center</st1:placetype></st1:place>, acknowledged receiving funding from AT&T and Verizon<o:p xmlns:o="o"> Communications.” [Television Week, “Cable Group: Telcos Paying for Support,” 2/27/06]  </o:p></li></ul>  Alfred E. Kahn<o:p xmlns:o="o" /><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Robert Julius Thorne Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus, at <st1:place w:st="on" xmlns:st1="st1" xmlns:w="w"><st1:placename w:st="on" xmlns:st1="st1" xmlns:w="w">Cornell</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on" xmlns:st1="st1" xmlns:w="w">University</st1:placetype></st1:place> and special consultant to National Economic Research Associates (NERA).<o:p xmlns:o="o"> a <st1:city w:st="on" xmlns:st1="st1" xmlns:w="w">Bell</st1:city> funded group)</o:p></li><li>Testifies on behalf of Verizon, SBC, Qwest in multiple states, such as <st1:state w:st="on" xmlns:st1="st1" xmlns:w="w">New Jersey</st1:state>, <st1:state w:st="on" xmlns:st1="st1" xmlns:w="w">Virginia</st1:state> and <st1:place w:st="on" xmlns:st1="st1" xmlns:w="w"><st1:state w:st="on" xmlns:st1="st1" xmlns:w="w">Maryland</st1:state></st1:place>. <o:p xmlns:o="o" /></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><a href="http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:APTm00h71aQJ:www.wutc.wa.gov/rms2.nsf/0/CB77BAF6B87B52B088256E830074A999/%24file/UT-023003%2BExhibit%2BTJT-2%2BVerizon%2B042704.pdf+Alfred+E.+Kahn+Verizon&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=10&gl=us">http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:APTm00h71aQJ:www.wutc.wa.gov/rms2.nsf/0/CB77BA</a></li><li><a href="http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:APTm00h71aQJ:www.wutc.wa.gov/rms2.nsf/0/CB77BAF6B87B52B088256E830074A999/%24file/UT-023003%2BExhibit%2BTJT-2%2BVerizon%2B042704.pdf+Alfred+E.+Kahn+Verizon&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=10&gl=us">F6B87B52B088256E830074A999/%24file/UT-023003%2BExhibit%2BTJT-2%2BVerizon%2B042704.pdf+Alfred+E.+Kahn+Verizon&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=10&gl=us</a>  <o:p xmlns:o="o"> </o:p></li></ul>   William Lehr<o:p xmlns:o="o"><o:p xmlns:o="o" /></o:p><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> “Testimony of William Lehr, Ph.D.---On Behalf Of AT&T… In addition, I comment on the trigger case for mass market switching presented on behalf of Verizon.<o:p xmlns:o="o" /></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><a href="http://www.teletruth.org/www.ripuc.org/eventsactions/docket/3550-ATT-Lehr(2.25.04).pdf">www.ripuc.org/eventsactions/docket/3550-ATT-Lehr(2.25.04).pdf<o:p xmlns:o="o" /></a><o:p xmlns:o="o" /></li></ul>    Thomas M. Lenard<o:p xmlns:o="o" /><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Senior Fellow and Senior Vice President for Research The Progress & Freedom Foundation <a href="http://www.pff.org/about/supporters.html">http://www.pff.org/about/supporters.html</a></li></ul><o:p xmlns:o="o"> </o:p><o:p xmlns:o="o" />   Timothy J. Muris<o:p xmlns:o="o" /><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><st1:place w:st="on" xmlns:st1="st1" xmlns:w="w"><st1:placename w:st="on" xmlns:st1="st1" xmlns:w="w">Professor</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on" xmlns:st1="st1" xmlns:w="w">George</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on" xmlns:st1="st1" xmlns:w="w">Mason</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on" xmlns:st1="st1" xmlns:w="w">University</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on" xmlns:st1="st1" xmlns:w="w">School</st1:placetype></st1:place> of Law.</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Verizon is a “partner” with George Mason University School of Public Policy’s Executive Education Partnering Organization, one of the only corporations on the list and also built the 300 seat- state of the art, Verizon Auditorium.<o:p xmlns:o="o" /></li></ul><a href="http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:cDJeXVuStu0J:policy.gmu.edu/programs/List_of_Partners.pdf+George+Mason+University+Foundation+Verizon&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=8&gl=us">http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:cDJeXVuStu0J:policy.gmu.edu/programs/</a><a href="http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:cDJeXVuStu0J:policy.gmu.edu/programs/List_of_Partners.pdf+George+Mason+University+Foundation+Verizon&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=8&gl=us">List_of_Partners.pdf+George+Mason+University+Foundation+Verizon&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=8&gl=us</a>    Gregory L. Rosston<o:p xmlns:o="o"><o:p xmlns:o="o" /></o:p><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research<o:p xmlns:o="o" /></li></ul><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Part of the Progress and Freedom Foundation, The Digital Age Communications Act Project group. His FTC bio omits his telco clients.<o:p xmlns:o="o"><o:p xmlns:o="o" /></o:p></li><li><a href="http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:R0ibHjiXLDwJ:siepr.stanford.edu/papers/pdf/0519.pdf+Gregory+L.+Rosston+Stanford+Institute+for+Economic+Policy+Research+consulted+with+AT%26T&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=6&gl=us">http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:R0ibHjiXLDwJ:siepr.stanford.edu/papers/pdf/0519.pdf</a></li><li><a href="http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:R0ibHjiXLDwJ:siepr.stanford.edu/papers/pdf/0519.pdf+Gregory+L.+Rosston+Stanford+Institute+for+Economic+Policy+Research+consulted+with+AT%26T&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=6&gl=us">+Gregory+L.+Rosston+Stanford+Institute+for+Economic+Policy+Research+consulted</a></li><li><a href="http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:R0ibHjiXLDwJ:siepr.stanford.edu/papers/pdf/0519.pdf+Gregory+L.+Rosston+Stanford+Institute+for+Economic+Policy+Research+consulted+with+AT%26T&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=6&gl=us">+with+AT%26T&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=6&gl=us</a><o:p xmlns:o="o" /></li></ul><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Footnote: “I have consulted for AT&T, MCI, Pacific Bell, Verizon, various CLECs, and internet-based companies.”<o:p xmlns:o="o"><o:p xmlns:o="o"> </o:p></o:p></li></ul>   Gregory Sidak<o:p xmlns:o="o" /><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><st1:place w:st="on" xmlns:st1="st1" xmlns:w="w"><st1:placename w:st="on" xmlns:st1="st1" xmlns:w="w">Visiting Professor</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on" xmlns:st1="st1" xmlns:w="w">Georgetown</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on" xmlns:st1="st1" xmlns:w="w">University</st1:placetype> <st1:placename w:st="on" xmlns:st1="st1" xmlns:w="w">Law</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on" xmlns:st1="st1" xmlns:w="w">Center</st1:placetype></st1:place>;  Founder of Criterion Economics <a href="http://www.criterioneconomics.com/who/">http://www.criterioneconomics.com/who/</a><o:p xmlns:o="o" /></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Clients include: AT&T, <st1:city w:st="on" xmlns:st1="st1" xmlns:w="w">Bell</st1:city> <st1:country-region w:st="on" xmlns:st1="st1" xmlns:w="w"><st1:place w:st="on" xmlns:st1="st1" xmlns:w="w">Canada</st1:place></st1:country-region>, BellSouth, CTIA-The Wireless Association, Qwest Communications, SBC, Verizon, Verizon Wireless, <o:p xmlns:o="o">
</o:p></li></ul>   Scott Wallsten<o:p xmlns:o="o"> </o:p><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Senior Fellow and Director, Communications Policy Studies The Progress & Freedom Foundation <a href="http://www.pff.org/about/supporters.html">http://www.pff.org/about/supporters.html</a> <o:p xmlns:o="o">  <o:p xmlns:o="o"><o:p xmlns:o="o"> </o:p></o:p></o:p></li></ul>   Hands off the Internet, Christopher Wolf.<o:p xmlns:o="o"> </o:p><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> Christopher Wolf, Co-Chairman Hands off the Internet</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Sourcewatch info <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Hands_Off_the_Internet">http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Hands_Off_the_Internet</a> <o:p xmlns:o="o"><o:p xmlns:o="o"> </o:p></o:p></li></ul>Others:    Walter B. McCormick, Jr., President & CEO United States Telecom Association, The telephone company association and lobbying group.<o:p xmlns:o="o" />    Michael Altschul, Senior Vice President and General Counsel CTIA - The Wireless Association, AT&T and Verizon are the 2 largest wireless providers.<o:p xmlns:o="o" />    John Thorne, Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, Verizon Communications<o:p xmlns:o="o" />    Daniel Brenner, Senior Vice President, Law and Regulatory Policy National Cable & Telecommunications Association.<o:p xmlns:o="o" />    Joseph W. Waz, Jr, External Affairs and Public Policy Counsel, Comcast
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Progress and Freedom Foundation (PFF) is a "market-oriented <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Think_tank" title="Think tank" class="mw-redirect">think tank</a>" that focuses on conservative issues relating to de-regulation of the media. PFF was founded 1993 as a non profit <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/501%28c%29%283%29" title="501(c)(3)">501(c)(3)</a> non-profit group.

<ul>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Progress_and_Freedom_Foundation#Mission_Statement">1 Mission Statement</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Progress_and_Freedom_Foundation#History">2 History</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Progress_and_Freedom_Foundation#Funding">3 Funding</a>

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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Progress_and_Freedom_Foundation#Telecom_Industry">3.1 Telecom Industry</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Progress_and_Freedom_Foundation#Drug_Companies">3.2 Drug Companies</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Progress_and_Freedom_Foundation#Tobacco_Industry">3.3 Tobacco Industry</a>

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<li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-7"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Progress_and_Freedom_Foundation#R.J._Reynolds_Tobacco_Company">3.3.1 R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-8"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Progress_and_Freedom_Foundation#Philip_Morris">3.3.2 Philip Morris</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Progress_and_Freedom_Foundation#Microsoft">3.4 Microsoft</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Progress_and_Freedom_Foundation#Music_Industry">3.5 Music Industry</a></li>

</ul>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Progress_and_Freedom_Foundation#Personnel">4 Personnel</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Progress_and_Freedom_Foundation#Contact_Information">5 Contact Information</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Progress_and_Freedom_Foundation#External_links">6 External links</a></li>

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<h2>Mission Statement</h2>

As stated on its website, PFF's mission is: "to educate policymakers, opinion leaders and the public about issues associated with technological change, based on a philosophy of limited government, free markets and individual sovereignty."<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.pff.org/about/">[1]</a>

<h2>History</h2>

PFF was initially started with funds raised from large corporate donors by Rep. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Newt_Gingrich" title="Newt Gingrich">Newt Gingrich</a>.<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.insidepolitics.org/Ch8.doc">[2]</a> Many feel PFF was created as an attempt to to circumvent limits on corporate campaign contributions.<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=odUorueWYK0C&pg=PA36&lpg=PA36&dq=who+contributes+money+to+%22progress+and+freedom+foundation%22&source=web&ots=zdFoWQxUqM&sig=jqobShv6FQSOAgqQ2iTDaAEyLds#PPP1,M1">[3]</a> These theories are lent credence by the fact that one of PFF's founders was <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jeffery_A._Eisenach&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jeffery A. Eisenach (page does not exist)">Jeffery A. Eisenach</a>, formerly executive director of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/GOPAC" title="GOPAC">GOPAC</a> Rep. Gingrich's controvertial political action committee.

In November 2002, PFF opened a new "Center for the Study of Digital Property" directed by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=James_V._DeLong&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="James V. DeLong (page does not exist)">James V. DeLong</a>, formerly of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Competitive_Enterprise_Institute" title="Competitive Enterprise Institute">Competitive Enterprise Institute</a>.<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A39246-2002Nov25?language=printer">[4]</a>

<h2>Funding</h2>

Unlike other think tanks, PFF is quite open about at least some of their <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pff.org/about/supporters.html">supporters</a>.

<h3>Telecom Industry</h3>

According to Common Cause.org, The Progress and Freedom Foundation’s list of corporate donors "reads like a who’s who list of the telecommunications industry. Telephone companies like <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/AT%26T" title="AT&T">AT&T</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/BellSouth" title="BellSouth" class="mw-redirect">BellSouth</a>, and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Verizon" title="Verizon" class="mw-redirect">Verizon</a>; technology companies like <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Microsoft" title="Microsoft">Microsoft</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Intel" title="Intel">Intel</a>; telecom trade associations like the National Cable & Telecommunications Association and the Entertainment Software Association; cable companies like <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Comcast" title="Comcast" class="mw-redirect">Comcast</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Time_Warner" title="Time Warner">Time Warner</a>; cell phone companies like <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=T-Mobile&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="T-Mobile (page does not exist)">T-Mobile</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Sprint" title="Sprint" class="mw-redirect">Sprint</a>; and broadcasters like <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Clear_Channel_Communications" title="Clear Channel Communications">Clear Channel Communications</a> and Viacom19 have all helped fill PFF’s coffers to the tune of a $3 million per year operating budget." <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.freepress.net/docs/wolvesinsheepsclothing.pdf">[5]</a>

In light of this line up, PFF's proposal in 2000 to reform and downsize the FCC is hardly suprising.<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.phoneplusmag.com/articles/0c1rnew3.html">[6]</a>

PFF seems to have been funded by communications companies from the outset. In an advertisement placed by PFF in the December 1994 issue of Wired, there was already a whole list of supporters from the telecom industry. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/tno/december-1994.html">[7]</a>

<h3>Drug Companies</h3>

From the Wall Street Journal December 12, 1994:

"In September, Rep. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Newt_Gingrich" title="Newt Gingrich">Gingrich</a> told a biotechnology trade group that he was launching a project to design a replacement for the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/FDA" title="FDA" class="mw-redirect">FDA</a>. Leading the effort is the Progress and Freedom Foundation, whose head, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jeffrey_A._Eisenach&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jeffrey A. Eisenach (page does not exist)">Jeff Eisenach</a>, formerly ran <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gopac&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gopac (page does not exist)">Gopac</a>, Mr. Gingrich's political action committee. Without apology, Mr. Eisenach acknowledges that drug companies are financial contributors to the foundation, and notes that drug companies will be involved in the project. And he dismisses suggestions that drug-company involvement could taint the results." <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/tno/december-1994.html">[8]</a>

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From the New York Times, February 11, 1995:

"One source of financing of Mr. Gingrich's college video courses is the Progress and Freedom Foundation, a conservative advocacy group in Washington. Among the foundation's donors are half a dozen companies that do business with the agency, including two for which Mr. Gingrich has personally written letters urging approval of their products, [FDA] documents show." <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.pmdocs.com/getimg.asp?pgno=0&docid=2072055111/5112">[9]</a>

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<h3>Tobacco Industry</h3>

On the list of supporters in 1998 <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://web.archive.org/web/19980110134043/www.pff.org/pff/pffmembers.html">[10]</a> you will find: <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Philip_Morris" title="Philip Morris" class="mw-redirect">Philip Morris</a> Companies, Inc., <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/R.J.Reynolds" title="R.J. Reynolds" class="mw-redirect">R.J. Reynolds</a>, and [U.S. Tobacco]]. PFF included on that page a quote from Mr. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Thomas_J.Collamore" title="Thomas J. Collamore" class="mw-redirect">Thomas J. Collamore</a> (Vice President, Public Affairs, Philip Morris):

"…Philip Morris is pleased with the exciting work you have done, especially in the area of deregulation, and are glad to continue working with you."

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<h4>R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company</h4>

<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Amy_L.Liker&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Amy L. Liker (page does not exist)">Amy L. Liker</a> (Legislative Representative & Federal Government affairs, RJR Tobacco) sent an email on May 22, 1995 to <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tommy_J.Payne&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tommy J. Payne (page does not exist)">Tommy J. Payne</a> (Vice-President, Federal Government Affairs, RJR Tobacco) in which she wrote about <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tim_N._Hyde&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tim N. Hyde (page does not exist)">Tim N. Hyde</a> (Public issues, RJR)

"we need a sheet of paper from a think tank outlining the how fda has gone off course from its core mission. it may not be available. Hyde is talking to Progress and Freedom foundation about putting something out on a weekly basis." <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://tobaccodocuments.org/rjr/522608651-8651.html">[11]</a>

</blockquote>

Tim Hyde had already a good contact with <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jeff_Eisenach&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jeff Eisenach (page does not exist)">Jeff Eisenach</a> in 1990 <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://tobaccodocuments.org/rjr/507700142-0148.html?pattern=eisenach&">[12]</a> even before Jeff Eisenach co-founded PFF in 1993.

One day later <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bethany_Noble" title="Bethany Noble">Bethany Noble</a> (former Vice President of the Progress and Freedom Foundation <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.gtlaw.com/biographies/biography.asp?id=5639">[13]</a>) sent a memo to the 'Supports and Friends of PFF' which ended up in the archive of R.J. Reynolds <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://tobaccodocuments.org/rjr/522618056-8057.html">[14]</a> In it they announce a book written by several people including Jeff Eisenach and "Chairman of the House Budget Committee will write the forward [sic] to The People's Budget." FPP wants to get the thoughts of their friends and supports about that book. In draft version of The People's Budget they wrote on page 8-5 about how to reduce taxes after downsizing the government

"First, we would eliminate most Federal excise taxes, including taxes on gasoline, cigarettes, alcoholic beverages and telephone service."

</blockquote>

<h4>Philip Morris</h4>

In ±1995 <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_P._Nicoli" title="David P. Nicoli">David P. Nicoli</a> (Legislative Counsel, Philip Morris Management, Washington Relations Office) wrote

"The WRO [Washington Relations Office] also continues to work with outside groups like <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Citizens_for_a_Sound_Economy" title="Citizens for a Sound Economy">Citizens for a Sound Economy</a>, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Washington_Legal_Foundation" title="Washington Legal Foundation">Washington Legal Foundation</a>, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Competitive_Enterprise_Institute" title="Competitive Enterprise Institute">Competitiveness Enterprise Institute</a>, and the Progress and Freedom Foundation, who all have significant and very high-profile FDA reform activities underway. The work of these groups has put FDA on the defensive, with media stories featuring their efforts appearing recently in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the National Journal, Business Week, and the FDA trade press." (emphasis added) <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://tobaccodocuments.org/pm/2062526590-6591.html">[15]</a>

</blockquote>

and in the January 1995 'Activity Sheet' Mr. Nicoli mentioned in the category 'Non-tobacco Attacks On FDA'

<dl>

<dd>"• Progress and Freedom Foundation, through <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/James_Tozzi" title="James Tozzi">Tozzi</a>, set to release FDA attack piece on 2/1/95 with <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Powell_Tate" title="Powell Tate">Powell Tate</a> publicizing." <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.pmdocs.com/getimg.asp?DOCID=2047993022/3026&PGNO=2047993024">[16]</a></dd>

</dl>

On April 16, 1996 <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Garland_McCoy&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Garland McCoy (page does not exist)">Garland McCoy</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Libby_Wright&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Libby Wright (page does not exist)">Libby Wright</a> sent a fax from PPF to Ms. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Beverley_McKittrick&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Beverley McKittrick (page does not exist)">Beverley McKittrick</a> (Legislative Counsel, Philip Morris Management)

<dl>

<dd>"Attached is a new proposal The Progress & Freedom Foundation is undertaking which will address the issue of public education on the importance of FDA reform. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Garland_McCoy&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Garland McCoy (page does not exist)">Garland McCoy</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Libby_Wright&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Libby Wright (page does not exist)">Libby Wright</a> will follow-up with a phone call in the next couple of days." <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.pmdocs.com/getimg.asp?pgno=0&docid=2074032173">[17]</a></dd>

</dl>

PFF kept involved with Philip Morris for at least a few more years as can be seen in the weekly activity lists of Ms. Beverley McKittrick

<dl>

<dd>

<ul>

<li>Met with Jeff Eisenach and Garland McCoy of Progress & Freedom Foundation to present 1997 general support contribution and to explain briefly reasons for settlement agreement. (July 18, 1997) <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.pmdocs.com/getimg.asp?DOCID=2078293781/3787&PGNO=2078293785">[18]</a></li>

</ul>

</dd>

</dl>

<dl>

<dd>

<ul>

<li>Met with Progress and Freedom Foundation re: proposed conference on teen smoking. (May 29, 1998) <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.pmdocs.com/getimg.asp?DOCID=2078294691/4693&PGNO=2078294692">[19]</a></li>

</ul>

</dd>

</dl>

<dl>

<dd>

<ul>

<li>Attended Progress & Freedom Foundation luncheon with <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/FTC" title="FTC" class="mw-redirect">FTC</a> Chairman Pitofsky. (November 20, 1998) <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.pmdocs.com/getimg.asp?DOCID=2078707458/7461&PGNO=2078707459">[20]</a></li>

</ul>

</dd>

</dl>

<dl>

<dd>

<ul>

<li>Met with Progress & Freedom Foundation re: activities (April 16, 1999) <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.pmdocs.com/getimg.asp?DOCID=2047993022/3026&PGNO=2047993024">[21]</a></li>

</ul>

</dd>

</dl>

(see also <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Smoking_as_a_civic_duty" title="Smoking as a civic duty">Smoking as a civic duty</a>)

PFF also accepted money from the tobacco industry. For example from Philip Morris

<ul>

</ul>

However, tobacco companies no longer appear on PFF's list of corporate 'supporters'.

<h3>Microsoft</h3>

Australian blogger Tim Lambert mentioned in June 2004 PFF as one of several think tanks writing reports critical to open source software while they seem to be funded by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Microsoft" title="Microsoft">Microsoft</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/%7Elambert/blog/computers/tanks.html">[26]</a> Unlike the other think tanks on that list, PFF is quite open about Microsoft being a '<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pff.org/about/supporters.html">supporter</a>'.

<h3>Music Industry</h3>

PFF is also supporting the music industry in its case against <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_to_peer">Peer to Peer</a> software. It has filed an amicus brief in support of MGM in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/MGM_v_Grokster/">MGM v. Grokster</a> now pending before the Supreme Court.

<h2>Personnel</h2>

Board of Directors:

<ul>

<li>George A. (Jay) Keyworth II, Ph.D., Chairman</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Kenneth_Ferree" title="Kenneth Ferree">Kenneth Ferree</a>, President</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jeffrey_A._Eisenach&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jeffrey A. Eisenach (page does not exist)">Jeffrey A. Eisenach</a>, Ph.D. (former member of the administration's transition team for the FCC) <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A52540-2002Jun14&notFound=true">[27]</a><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.criterioneconomics.com/docs/eisenachcv.pdf">[28]</a></li>

<li>Mark F. Grady</li>

<li>Bryce (Larry) Harlow</li>

<li>Peter F. Harter</li>

<li>William P. Roesing</li>

</ul>

Directors Emeritus:

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Philip_M._Burgess&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Philip M. Burgess (page does not exist)">Philip M. Burgess</a>, Ph.D.</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jim_Miller" title="Jim Miller">James C. Miller III</a></li>

</ul>

Officers:

<ul>

<li>Jane Creel, Secretary</li>

<li>Garland McCoy, Treasurer</li>

</ul>

Adjunct Fellows:

<ul>

<li>Michael K. Block</li>

<li>Joseph Kraemer</li>

<li>Richard O. Levine</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_H._Rubin" title="Paul H. Rubin">Paul H. Rubin</a></li>

<li>Douglas C. Sicker</li>

</ul>

Staff:

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Kenneth_Ferree" title="Kenneth Ferree">Kenneth Ferree</a>, President,</li>

<li>William F. Adkinson, Jr., Senior Policy Counsel</li>

<li>Jane Creel, Director of Finance and Operations</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=James_V._DeLong&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="James V. DeLong (page does not exist)">James V. DeLong</a>, Senior Fellow, Director of the Center for the Study of Digital Property</li>

<li>Brooke Emmerick, Special Events and Publishing Coordinator</li>

<li>David M. Fish, Vice President for Communications and External Affairs</li>

<li>Rebecca Fuller, Research Assistant</li>

<li>Andrea Knutsen, Website and Communications Coordinator</li>

<li>Kent Lassman, Research Fellow, Director of the Digital Policy Network</li>

<li>Thomas M. Lenard, Senior Fellow, Vice President for Research</li>

<li>Randolph J. May, Senior Fellow, Director of Communications Policy Studies</li>

<li>Garland T. McCoy, Jr., Vice President for Development</li>

<li>Adam Peters, Research Fellow and Regulatory Counsel</li>

<li>Michael Pickford, Research Associate</li>

<li>Marcia Reed, Receptionist</li>

</ul>

<h2>Contact Information</h2>

The Progress & Freedom Foundation

1401 H Street, NW

Suite 1075

Washington, DC 20005

Phone: 202-289-8928

Fax: 202-289-6079

Web site: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pff.org/">www.pff.org</a>

<h2>External links</h2>

<ul>

<li>Richard Morin and Claudia Deane, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A39246-2002Nov25?language=printer">The Hot New Americans Get Hotter</a>", Washington Post, November 26, 2002, p. A27.</li>

<li>Tim Lambert, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/%7Elambert/blog/computers/tanks.html">When Think Tanks Attack</a>", Deltoid, June 23, 2004</li>

<li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://search.jayde.com/profile10077587.html">About Pff</a>", Jayde</li>

</ul>

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