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</font></div><div><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Friday, January 6, 2023 marks the second anniversary of what <a href="https://www.thewrap.com/nbc-news-beschloss-wants-capitol-riot-memorialized-9-11/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">historian Michael Beschloss</a> has described as one of the darkest days in United States history: the January 6, 2021 insurrection. That day, a violent mob of MAGA Republicans and Donald Trump supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol Building in the hope of preventing the certification of now-President Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory.</p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As violent as that attack was, Beschloss has emphasized that it could have been much worse and escalated into “assassinations and/or hostage-taking” if the insurrectionists had been able to get to either members of Congress or then-Vice President Mike Pence. Some of the insurrectionists were calling for Pence’s murder that day, chanting, “Hang Mike Pence, hang Mike Pence.” And a hangman’s gallows was set up outside the Capitol.</p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Two years ago, Corporate America was quick to condemn the Capitol insurrection. But in an <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/01/top-corporations-still-funding-election-deniers-january-6-insurrection/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">in-depth report published by Mother Jones</a> on January 5, journalist Tim Murphy laments that some companies have since made campaign contributions to “Stop the Steal” Republicans who tried to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.</p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong>READ MORE:</strong> <a href="https://www.alternet.org/january-6-committee-2658988065/" target="self" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><strong>Law professor’s Jan. 6 takeaway: the 'threat of political violence' is 'far from over'</strong></a></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Two years after President Donald Trump incited a mob to storm the U.S. Capitol and halt the certification of the Electoral College results, the January 6 insurrection is still a live wire in American politics,” Murphy explains. “Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes was convicted of seditious conspiracy last month for his role in the riot. Advocates of Trump’s election lies received such an intense electoral rebuke in the midterm election that Democrats actually expanded their majority in the Senate…. <b>But many of America’s largest companies have long since moved on.”</b></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Murphy adds, “In the first national election since a sitting president tried to overturn the popular will, some of the country’s biggest brands showered election deniers with millions of dollars in donations via their political action committees.”</p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Mother Jones reporter goes on to cite specific examples of companies that condemned “Stop the Steal” Republicans and election denialists two years ago but have since given them donations.</p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“In the days after the insurrection,” Murphy recalls, “dozens of companies told <a href="https://popular.info/p/three-major-corporations-say-they" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Popular Information</a> and other outlets that they were pausing or reconsidering their political donations.<b> Hallmark, which had donated to Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo</b>.) in the past, singled him out by name in its statement condemning the attack. <b>Big-pocketed corporations such as Pfizer, Eli Lilly, Comcast, PricewaterhouseCoopers and AT&T promised to suspend all contributions to members of Congress who voted against certifying the results either temporarily or for the entire 2022 cycle.”</b></span></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong>READ MORE: </strong><a href="https://www.alternet.org/fake-elector-scheme-clear-path/" target="self" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><strong>January 6th 'fake elector scheme' offers a clear 'path to prosecuting Trump': attorney</strong></a></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Murphy continues,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> “But not only did each of those six companies eventually turn the spigot back on, they all ended up writing checks to help reelect<b> Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.) — </b></span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">a leading opponent of certification whose own chief of staff attempted to distribute a fake slate of electors on the day of the insurrection</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">, according to the January 6 Committee. Kelly, a member of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee from a heavily Republican district, was a major recipient of corporate cash. Other contributors included PACs belonging to</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Intel and Verizon,</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> both of which had told Popular Information they were suspending donations to the election-rejecters; </span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Aflac</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">, which had said it would be pausing all its political donations for an unspecified amount of time;</span><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Johnson & Johnson; </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">FedEx</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">;</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> and the spirits-producing Sazerac Company.”</span></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Mother Jones reporter points out that during the “2022 cycle,” <b>Anheuser-Busch</b> “gave $139,500 to election-denying members of Congress” in addition to giving a “maximum contribution” to the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC).</span></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Among the dozens of recipients: Rep. Billy Long (R-Mo.), who tweeted that the election was ‘RIGGED’ for Biden in the run-up to January 6 and afterwards shared misinformation alleging that ‘Antifa thugs’ were responsible for the riot,” Murphy reports. “<b>Airlines were major supporters of Stop the Steal candidates. Delta Airlines gave $225,000 to election-denying members of Congress, according to ProPublica‘s searchable database. Southwest Airlines</b>’ ‘Freedom Fund’ gave $39,500 to election-rejecting candidates, including Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas), who tweeted on January 3, 2021 that he’d just met ‘with folks from Stop the Steal’ at our nation’s Capitol’ and ‘encouraged them to keep fighting.’”</span></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Murphy adds, “<b>American Airlines</b>, which told Popular Information that it was pausing all political contributions for three months, eventually funneled $165,000 to dozens of Republicans who voted not to certify the election results, including Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.), who asked Trump for a pardon after helping to organize congressional opposition to certification.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">”</span></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong>READ MORE: </strong><a href="https://www.alternet.org/highlights-january-6th-committee-transcripts/" target="self" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><strong>Highlights from the latest batch of January 6th Select Committee transcripts</strong></a></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div><p style="font-size: 20px; font-family: arial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></p><p style="font-size: 20px; font-family: arial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">odd that ups and fedex both made top 7 evil? in compet w/ USPS? gig economy?</font></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/07/billionaires-gop-congress/">https://www.alternet.org/2022/07/billionaires-gop-congress/</a></font></font></font></font></div><div>
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</div><div><b>Just 27 billionaires have spent $90 million to buy GOP congress: report</b></div><div><b>
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</div><div>Kenny Stancil and Common Dreams July 19, 2022</div><div><b>   </b></div><div><b>A few dozen billionaires are spending tens of millions of dollars on the 2022 midterm elections—mostly to support Republican candidates, including many who have parroted the dangerous lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen—in a bid to ensure that Congress is full of lawmakers willing "to make their wealthy benefactors even richer," according to a fresh analysis.</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">Titled Billionaires Buying Elections, the report from Americans for Tax Fairness (ATF) details how "billionaires are increasingly using their personal fortunes and the profits of connected corporations to drown out regular voters' voices and elect hand-picked candidates who further rig the nation's economy—especially the tax system."</span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">A pair of super PACs tasked with securing Republican majorities in the House and Senate—the Congressional Leadership Fund (CLF) and the [cnp?] Senate Leadership Fund (SLF)—raised a combined $188.3 million through the first 16 months of the 2022 campaign cycle, according to ATF. </span><b>Nearly half—$89.4 million, or 48%—came from just 27 billionaires. A whopping 86% of the GOP's billionaire money came from "Wall Street tycoons" who are arguably the biggest beneficiaries of glaring loopholes in the tax code.</b></div><div>
</div><div><b>The Democratic counterparts of those two super PACs—the House Majority PAC and the Senate Majority PAC—raised a combined $154 million over the same time period.</b> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">A smaller share—$25.8 million, or 17%—came from 19 billionaires. A majority of billionaire contributions to Democratic candidates also came from the finance and investment sector (35%), but other industries were also well-represented, including <b>cryptocurrency (26%), and tech (18%).</b></span></div><div>
</div><div>"Unlike candidates and party committees, super PACs can raise unlimited donations from individuals and corporations," ATF explained. "In return they are not supposed to coordinate activities with the campaigns they support but instead act independently, though that rule is often flouted."</div><div>
</div><div><b>Top billionaire donors to congressional super PACs include hedge fund magnate Ken Griffin, who has given more than $28.5 million to CLF and SLF, and private equity mogul Stephen Schwarzman, who has pumped $20 million into the GOP's two super PACs.</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"Anti-democratic vote-buying," ATF wrote, "has been facilitated by—and is facilitating—the accelerating wealth growth of the billionaire class and the record profits of the corporations they own."</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>The combined net worth of the nation's roughly 750 billionaires surged by $2 trillion, or 70%, during the first two years of the Covid-19 pandemic. The collective wealth of the 27 billionaires bankrolling the GOP's super PACs alone soared by $82.4 billion over that time period, meaning that the $89.4 million they have donated to CLF and SLF constitutes less than 0.1% of their overall pandemic-era gains.</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Meanwhile, the return on that modest investment could amount to billions of dollars if Republicans take back Congress in November and preserve their 2017 tax cuts or further slash taxes on superrich people and the <b>corporations</b> they own.</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>Over a recent nine-year period, the 400 wealthiest people in the U.S. paid an average effective federal income tax rate of just 8.2% when the increased value of their stock holdings is included in their income. That is a lower rate than the nationwide average of 13.3% in 2019.</b></div><div>
</div><div>As ATF explained, focusing on contributions to congressional super PACs fails "to capture the full political influence of billionaires, who in addition to personal donations also steer money to favored candidates from related corporations and organizations."</div><div>
</div><div><b>Billionaires are among the ultrawealthy Americans who <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">control corporations through their extensive stock holdings.</span> Many corporate giants have been distorting the upcoming midterms, ATF pointed out, by spending tens of millions to help GOP candidates who have vowed to defend special tax breaks for the top 1% get elected, including 144 far-right members of Congress who voted to overturn President Joe Biden's electoral victory.</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">According to the report, seven powerful corporations—AT&T, Chevron, ExxonMobil,</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> FedEx, GM, Merck, and UPS</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">—have collectively given nearly $1.5 million to dozens of election deniers and various Republican PACs and election committees this campaign cycle.</span> The companies' demonstrated lack of concern for democracy, ATF noted, likely stems from their desire to keep dodging taxes. In 2021, these firms paid an average federal income tax rate of just 2.7% on a combined $78.4 billion in profits.</div><div>
</div><div><b>Notably, Peter Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal who is worth about $5 billion and openly opposed to democracy, has been spending big on his preferred Republican candidates but not through the GOP's congressional super PACs.</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Thiel "has so far spent almost $30 million through super PACs supporting the 2022 senatorial bids of two former employees who share his anti-democratic and anti-tax beliefs," ATF found. "J.D. Vance won the Ohio Republican U.S. Senate primary thanks in part to Thiel's $15 million in spending. Blake Masters has a fighting chance in Arizona's GOP U.S. Senate primary in August due to Thiel's $13.5 million in contributions."</span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Another source of "billionaire dominance of campaign financing, especially on the Republican side," wrote ATF, are so-called "<b>dark money" groups, which are not required to disclose the identity of their donors. Some dark money groups—including Club for Growth,</b> which has received $32 million from billionaire Wall Street trader Jeffrey Yass over the years—are "notorious for having bankrolled insurrectionist members of Congress" like Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), ATF noted.</span></div><div>
</div><div>According to the report:</div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b>Politically active billionaire Charles Koch has not personally donated to either GOP super PAC this cycle, but his corporation—Koch Industries—has so far given them a total of $1.75 million.</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Two of the biggest "dark money" groups, which do not disclose their donors, are essentially sister groups to the<b> two congressional GOP super PACs. American Action Network </b>gave at least $26 million to CLF in the 2020 cycle and $18.7 million so far this cycle.<b> One Nation</b> donated $77.5 million to SLF last cycle and has given $16.5 million so far this cycle.</span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">The ability of the nation's wealthiest individuals to translate their disproportionate economic power into political clout has increased exponentially since the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision eliminated effective limits on campaign contributions.</span></div><div>
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</div><div>According to the report:</div><div>
</div><div><b>Billionaires pumped $1.2 billion into the 2020 elections, almost 40 times more than the $31 million they donated in 2010, when the Citizens United rules were first in effect. In the 2020 election cycle, billionaires contributed nearly $1 out of every $10, while making up just 0.01% of all donors contributing more than $200.</b></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Billionaires donated almost $240 million to the combined campaign efforts of Donald Trump's two runs for president. Over half came from just one billionaire household, that of casino magnate Sheldon Adelson (who has since died).</span></div><div>"Billionaires, who are used to buying whatever they want, have increasingly dedicated their almost unlimited resources to buying American elections," Frank Clemente, executive director of ATF, said in a statement.</div><div>
</div><div><b>"The problem is what's good for billionaires—including cutting taxes on the rich and corporations—is bad for working families," said Clemente. "We need to rein in billionaire political and economic power through campaign finance reforms and tax reforms such as a billionaires income tax."</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Several legislative proposals have emerged to tax the increased value of assets owned by the nation's wealthiest households each year regardless of whether they sell or keep them, which would ensure that income derived from wealth is taxed more like income earned from work.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Biden's plan would raise an estimated $360 billion over 10 years, while Sen. Ron Wyden's (D-Ore.) plan would raise an estimated $550 billion over a decade, and Rep. Jamaal Bowman's (D-N.Y.) proposal possibly even more.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Billionaire-backed Democratic Sen<b>. Joe Manchin (W.Va.), however, has joined Senate Republicans in opposing such a measure.</b></span></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">As it moves into package delivery, Amazon is bringing its labor model along, relying in part on </span><b style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Amazon Flex drivers, who use their own vehicles,</b><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"> take directions from an app, and are paid a piece rate for each batch of boxes they deliver. </span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">The impacts are already being felt at the <b>US Postal Service and UPS,</b> whose hundreds of thousands of unionized employees constitute one of the last surviving corners of the working middle class. A few months ago, over the objections of the Teamsters union, UPS began placing ads for drivers who will use their own vehicles.</span></div><div><p><span class="field field-name-field-sources field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><span class="field-items"><span class="field-item even"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></span></span></span></p><p><span class="field field-name-field-sources field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><span class="field-items"><span class="field-item even"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/save-us-postal-service-heres-corrupt-scheme-privatize-precious-american"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/save-us-postal-service-heres-corrupt-scheme-privatize-precious-american</font></a></span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Unable to find a fatal flaw in our far-flung public mail delivery network, the anti-Postal Service forces manufactured a fake flaw. In 2006, then-president George W. Bush, congressional Republican leaders, the powerful "privatizer lobby" (including FedEx, UPS and Wall Street speculators) and Koch-funded think tanks and Astroturf front groups colluded to put a one-of-a-kind paper "debt" on the books of USPS. Congress enacted a postal-service "enhancement" provision requiring the public postal corporation to <b><em>pre-fund</em> the health and pension benefits for all postal-service retirees 75 years in advance</b>! Think about that. This arbitrary, wholly unprecedented, legislated requirement to pay now for the retirement benefits of future employees (including those not even born yet) has piled a false cost of about $5 billion a year on the debit side of the agency's balance sheet.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">... jim h</font></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div><header class="entry-header" style="box-sizing: inherit; float: left; width: 1048.09px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="post-info" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block; float: left; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><time class="entry-time" itemprop="datePublished" datetime="2017-12-06T15:55:20+00:00" style="box-sizing: inherit;">December 6th, 2017</time> at <time class="entry-time" itemprop="datePublished" datetime="2017-12-06T15:55:20+00:00" style="box-sizing: inherit;">3:55 PM (CST)</time></font></div></header><div class="entry-content" itemprop="text" style="box-sizing: inherit; float: left; width: 1048.09px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Credo Action delivered a petition to the United Parcel Service</b> with 84,453 signatures earlier today asking the company to dump the American Legislative Exchange Council. </font></p></div><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font><div><table width="650" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" style="font-size: 12px;"><p style="font-size: 20px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong>Exclusive: Conservative group offers support for $2M</strong>
<span class="author" style="font-size: 10px; color: rgb(128, 128, 128); margin-top: 3px; margin-bottom: 2px;">By: <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-size: 11px;">Mike Allen</span>
July 17, 2009 05:07 AM EDT</span></font></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="story" style="font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 7px; margin-top: 5px; display: block;" valign="top"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The American Conservative Union asked <a target="blank" href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/25027.html" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153);">FedEx</a> for a check for $2 million to $3 million in return for the group’s support in a bitter legislative dispute, then the group’s chairman flipped and sided with UPS after FedEx refused to pay.</span></p><p>For the $2 million plus, ACU offered a range of services that included: “Producing op-eds and articles written by ACU’s Chairman <a target="blank" href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12646.html" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153);">David Keene</a> and/or other members of the ACU’s board of directors. (Note that Mr.<font color="#ff0000"> Keene </font>writes a weekly column that appears in The Hill.)”</p><p>The <a target="blank" href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0408/9727.html" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153);">conservative group’s</a> remarkable demand — black-and-white proof of the longtime Washington practice known as “pay for play” — was contained in a private letter to FedEx , which was provided to POLITICO. 

The letter exposes the practice by some political interest groups of taking stands not for reasons of pure principle, as their members and supporters might assume, but also in part because a sponsor is paying big money.</p><p>In the <a target="blank" href="http://www.politico.com/static/PPM130_fedex_grassroots_proposal_6-30-09_final.html" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153);">three-page letter</a> asking for money on June 30, the conservative group backed FedEx. After FedEx says it rejected the offer, Keene signed onto a <a target="blank" href="http://www.politico.com/static/PPM130_feex_letter.html" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153);">two-page July 15 letter</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> backing UPS.</span> Keene did not return a message left on his cell phone.</p><p>Maury Lane, FedEx’s director of corporate communications, said: “Clearly, the ACU shopped their beliefs and UPS bought.” 

ACU's executive vice president, Dennis Whitfield, said that neither the group nor David Keene, the chairman, took any money from UPS. Whitfield said the group has never received a response to its original proposal to FedEx. He said Keene endorsed the second letter as an individual, even though the letter bore the logo of ACU. 

"Our position hasn't changed," said Whitfield, who was a deputy secretary of labor in the Reagan administration. "It won't change. I am fundamentally, philosophically opposed to doing what the Obama administration wants to do [to FedEx], and so is our organization." </p><p>FedEx and UPS, fierce competitors in the package delivery business, are at war over a provision under consideration in Congress that would expand union power at FedEx.</p><p>FedEx currently has one U.S. union contract for its entire express business. Under a change passed by the House and awaiting action in the Senate, FedEx — like UPS — would have to negotiate union contracts for individual locations, which FedEx claims would make it much more difficult to promise worldwide regularity for deliveries.</p><p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The American Conservative Union, which calls itself “the nation's oldest and largest <font color="#ff0000">grass-roots </font>conservative lobbying organization,” took UPS’s side on Wednesday as part of a conservative consortium that accused FedEx of “misleading the public and legislators.”</span> ACU's logo is at the top of the letter, along with those of six other conservative groups. </p><p>Just two weeks earlier, ACU had offered its endorsement to FedEx, saying in a letter to the company: “We stand with FedEx in opposition to this legislation.”</p><p>But there was a catch — an expensive one. ACU asked FedEx to pay as much as $3.4 million for e-mail and other services for “an aggressive grass-roots campaign to stop the legislation in the Senate.”</p><p>“For the activist contact portion of the plan, we will contact over 150,000 people per state multiple times at a cost of $1.39 per name or $2,147,550 to implement the entire program,” the letter says. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“If we incorporate the targeted, senator-personalized radio effort into the plan, you can figure an additional $125,000 on average, per state”</span> for an estimated 10 states. The total would be $3,397,550.”</p><p>The letter shows one reason why activists get so much junk mail, both on paper and electronically: Some groups that send it charge handsomely for the service.</p><p>Under the grass-roots program ACU proposed, “Each person will be contacted a total of seven times totaling nearly 11 million contacts total in the 10 targeted states.” “Within 72 hours of an agreement on the whole plan, we can have the data sets delivered and the first round of e-mail ready for delivery,” the offer states. “Within seven days, the mail can be in the USPS system and the phone call delivered.”</p><p>Lane, the FedEx official, said the offer was refused. "The proposal didn’t fit with our strategy of taking a straightforward approach to discussing the issue,” he said.</p><p>After the rebuff, American Conservative Union changed sides. ACU Chairman David A.<b>Keene was one of eight conservative leaders who signed a letter to FedEx Chairman Frederick W. Smith, a champion of capitalism who in the past has been a favorite of conservatives.</b></p><p>The letter accuses FedEx of “falsely and disingenuously” labeling the rules change a<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“bailout”</span> for UPS, since FedEx would become subject to the same arduous union structure.</p><p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The letter is also signed by Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, who is also on ACU’s board.</span> FedEx is pushing its case with a website called<a target="blank" href="http://www.brownbailout.com/" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153);">www.BrownBailout.com</a>.</p><p>The letter signed by the conservative leaders concludes: “To paraphrase the words of Ronald Reagan, ‘Mr. Smith, tear down this website.’”</p><p>Among the services ACU had offered to provide for the $2 million-plus price tag: 

—Acquiring <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">data</span> of known conservatives in the targeted states (to be determined by FedEx), matching that data to an e-mail database and then incorporating those e-mail addresses with the current ACU e-mail database to create one targeted database of all potential activists. 

—Sending a piece of targeted direct mail to these potential activists to ensure that they are well-educated prior to their contact with their senators. 

—E-mailing the identified voter activists, in five rounds, in order to educate them on the issue(s) and to urge them to call their senators based on key dates. The ACU would include the phone number of their personal senators directly in the correspondence.</p><p>—Conducting targeted phone call campaign that will contact all voter activists to urge them to make a personal call to their senators. Each state would have a specialized message just for that state.</p><p>—Encouraging activists <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">who live within 30 miles </span>of a senator’s district office to consider making a personal visit to register their concerns at the office. ACU has proved that we can turn out well-informed, quality voters who present a good image to represent our concerns.</p><p>—As the vote for the legislation nears, distributing ACTION ALERT e-mails, and after the vote has taken place, distributing MegaVote e-mails to ACU’s members letting them know how their senators vote.</p></span></font></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>FedEx</b> is the world's largest express transportation company,

delivering some 3.3 million packages daily. It includes FedEx Freight,

which hauls heavier items throughout the U.S., and FedEx Kinko's, which

offers copying, printing, and graphic design services and sells office

supplies, and serves as a drop-off point for customers mailing packages.

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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a name="Ties_to_the_American_Legislative_Exchange_Council" id="Ties_to_the_American_Legislative_Exchange_Council">FedEx lobbyist Bill Primeaux is on the Executive Committee of the </a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Legislative_Exchange_Council" title="American Legislative Exchange Council">American Legislative Exchange Council</a>'s (ALEC's) <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Commerce,_Insurance_and_Economic_Development_Task_Force" title="Commerce, Insurance and Economic Development Task Force">Commerce, Insurance and Economic Development Task Force</a> as of 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=FedEx#cite_note-1" title="">[2]</a></sup> <sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=FedEx#cite_note-2" title="">[3]</a></sup> It was a "Vice-Chairman" level sponsor of 2011 <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Legislative_Exchange_Council" title="American Legislative Exchange Council">American Legislative Exchange Council</a> Annual Conference, which in 2010, equated to $25,000.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=FedEx#cite_note-3" title="">[4]</a></sup> FedEx was also the sponsor of the ALEC 39th Annual Meeting Preview Reception.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=FedEx#cite_note-4" title="">[5]</a></sup></font></p>

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is a corporate bill mill. It is not just a lobby or a front group; it

is much more powerful than that. Through ALEC, corporations hand state

legislators their wishlists to benefit their bottom line. Corporations

fund almost all of ALEC's operations. They pay for a seat on ALEC task

forces where corporate lobbyists and special interest reps vote with

elected officials to approve “model” bills. Learn more at the Center for

Media and Democracy's <a href="http://alecexposed.org/" class="external text" title="http://alecexposed.org/" rel="nofollow">ALECexposed.org</a>, and check out breaking news on our <a href="http://www.PRWatch.org" class="external text" title="http://www.PRWatch.org" rel="nofollow">PRWatch.org site</a>.</font></div>

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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a name="Tax_Dodging" id="Tax_Dodging">For fiscal year 2010, writes the anti-austerity organization US

Uncut, “When it comes to paying their fair share of taxes, FedEx simply

does not deliver. When FedEx made $1.9 billion in profits, they managed

to pay less than .0005% of it in taxes by using 21 tax havens. FedEx

also spent 42 times (4200%) more on lobbying Congress than they did in

taxes.”</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=FedEx#cite_note-5" title="">[6]</a></font>

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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a name="2010_Revenue_and_CEO_Compensation" id="2010_Revenue_and_CEO_Compensation">In 2010, FedEx had revenue of $34.734 billion, and its CEO, Frederick W. Smith, took home a paycheck of $1.19 million.</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=FedEx#cite_note-6" title="">[7]</a> <sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=FedEx#cite_note-7" title="">[8]</a></sup></font>

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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a name="Ad_boycott_against_Air_America_Radio" id="Ad_boycott_against_Air_America_Radio">FedEx refused to advertise on the progressive </a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Air_America_Radio" title="Air America Radio">Air America Radio</a>. In October 2006, around 90 companies, including FedEx, told <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=ABC_Radio_Networks" title="ABC Radio Networks">ABC Radio Networks</a> that they did not want their ads to play on any radio stations that carried Air America Radio. <sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=FedEx#cite_note-8" title="">[9]</a></sup> <sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=FedEx#cite_note-9" title="">[10]</a></sup> <sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=FedEx#cite_note-10" title="">[11]</a></sup></font>

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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a name="Political_contributions" id="Political_contributions"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" /></a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Frederick_W.Smith&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Frederick W. Smith (page does not exist)">Frederick W. Smith</a>-- Chair, President & CEO of FedEx-- is a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bush_Pioneer" title="Bush Pioneer" class="mw-redirect">Bush Pioneer</a> having raised at least $100,000 for <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=George_Walker_Bush" title="George Walker Bush">Bush</a> in the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=U.S.presidential_election,_2004" title="U.S. presidential election, 2004">2004 presidential election</a>. <sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=FedEx#cite_note-11" title="">[12]</a></sup></font></p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">

</span><p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">FedEx gave $1,234,900 to federal candidates in the 05/06 election period through its <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Political_action_committee" title="Political action committee">political action committee</a>: 34% to <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Democrats" title="Democrats" class="mw-redirect">Democrats</a> and 66% to <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Republican_Party_%28USA%29" title="Republican Party (USA)">Republicans</a>. <sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=FedEx#cite_note-12" title="">[13]</a></sup></font></span>

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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a name="Lobbying" id="Lobbying">The company spent $3,200,000 for </a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lobbying" title="Lobbying">lobbying</a> in 2006. In-house lobbyists as well as 13 outside <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lobbying_firms" title="Lobbying firms">lobbying firms</a> were used, including <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Van_Scoyoc_Associates,Inc." title="Van Scoyoc Associates, Inc.">Van Scoyoc Associates, Inc.</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=PricewaterhouseCoopers" title="PricewaterhouseCoopers">PricewaterhouseCoopers</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bryan_Cave_Strategies" title="Bryan Cave Strategies">Bryan Cave Strategies</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sonnenschein,Nath%26_Rosenthal&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal (page does not exist)">Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal</a>, and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Womble,Carlyle,Sandridge%26_Rice" title="Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice">Womble, Carlyle et al</a>. <sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=FedEx#cite_note-13" title="">[14]</a></sup></font>

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<table border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Key executives and 2007 pay: <sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=FedEx#cite_note-14" title="">[15]</a></sup></font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">  </font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">  </font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">  </font></td><td align="right"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Options

exercised</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Frederick_W.Smith&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Frederick W. Smith (page does not exist)">Frederick W. Smith</a>, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer</font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">  </font></td><td align="right"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">$6,170,000</font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">  </font></td><td align="right"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">$25,070,000</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_B.Graf,Jr.&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Alan B. Graf, Jr. (page does not exist)">Alan B. Graf, Jr.</a>, Chief Financial Officer</font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">  </font></td><td align="right"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">$2,670,000</font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">  </font></td><td align="right"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">$5,330,000</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_J.Bronczek" title="David J. Bronczek">David J. Bronczek</a>, Chief Executive Officer of FedEx Express</font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">  </font></td><td align="right"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">$3,110,000</font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">  </font></td><td align="right"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">$6,580,000</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Robert_B._Carter&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Robert B. Carter (page does not exist)">Robert B. Carter</a>, Chief Information Officer</font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">  </font></td><td align="right"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">$2,360,000</font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">  </font></td><td align="right"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">$2,010,000</font></td></tr></tbody></table>

<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a name="Personnel" id="Personnel">Selected board members:</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=FedEx#cite_note-15" title="">[16]</a></font></p>

<ul><li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=James_L.Barksdale" title="James L. Barksdale">James L. Barksdale</a>, Chairman and President, Barksdale Management Corporation</font></li><li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=August_A.Busch_IV&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="August A. Busch IV (page does not exist)">August A. Busch IV</a>, President and CEO, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Anheuser-Busch" title="Anheuser-Busch">Anheuser-Busch</a></font></li><li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Shirley_A._Jackson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Shirley A. Jackson (page does not exist)">Shirley A. Jackson</a>, President, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute</font></li></ul>

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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a name="Contact_details" id="Contact_details">942 S. Shady Grove Road

Memphis, TN 38120

Phone: 901-818-7500

Fax: 901-395-2000

Web: </a><a href="http://www.fedex.com" class="external free" title="http://www.fedex.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.fedex.com</a></font>

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