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</p><p>srcwtch stub</p><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px;"><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Jeff Crank</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> is the State Director of the Colorado chapter of </span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Americans_for_Prosperity" title="Americans for Prosperity" style="background: none; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);">Americans for Prosperity</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, a free market advocacy group opposing proposals by U.S. President </span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama" style="background: none; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);">Barack Obama</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> to reform heath care system and institute a </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">cap and trade system to address global warming</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jeff_Crank#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[1]</a></sup></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;">
</p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;">Crank is based in Colorado Springs, Colorado and has an AM radio talk show based there called "The Jeff Crank Show" which airs every Saturday at 8:00 a.m. on Colorado's KVOR 740 AM. Crank is politically conservative.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jeff_Crank#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[2]</a></sup>He was also a candidate for U.S. Congress in the 5th Congressional District Republican Primary in 2008 and 2006 and served as the Senior Vice President for Governmental Affairs for the Greater<b> Colorado Springs Chamber of Commerce</b>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jeff_Crank#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[3]</a></sup></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;">
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color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%20standalone%3D%22no%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2212%22%20height%3D%2212%22%3E%3Cpath%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%20d%3D%22M1.5%204.518h5.982V10.5H1.5z%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M5.765%201H11v5.39L9.427%207.937l-1.31-1.31L5.393%209.35l-2.69-2.688%202.81-2.808L4.2%202.544z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M9.995%202.004l.022%204.885L8.2%205.07%205.32%207.95%204.09%206.723l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E"); padding-right: 13px;">"Staff"</a> Americans for Prosperity website, accessed September 2009.</span></li><li id="cite_note-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jeff_Crank#cite_ref-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Jeff Crank <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jeffcrank.com/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%20standalone%3D%22no%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2212%22%20height%3D%2212%22%3E%3Cpath%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%20d%3D%22M1.5%204.518h5.982V10.5H1.5z%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M5.765%201H11v5.39L9.427%207.937l-1.31-1.31L5.393%209.35l-2.69-2.688%202.81-2.808L4.2%202.544z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M9.995%202.004l.022%204.885L8.2%205.07%205.32%207.95%204.09%206.723l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E"); padding-right: 13px;">The Jeff Crank Show</a>, radio show web site, accessed January 8, 2011</span></li><li id="cite_note-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jeff_Crank#cite_ref-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">KVOR <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.kvor.com/showdj.asp?DJID=48714" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%20standalone%3D%22no%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2212%22%20height%3D%2212%22%3E%3Cpath%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%20d%3D%22M1.5%204.518h5.982V10.5H1.5z%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M5.765%201H11v5.39L9.427%207.937l-1.31-1.31L5.393%209.35l-2.69-2.688%202.81-2.808L4.2%202.544z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M9.995%202.004l.022%204.885L8.2%205.07%205.32%207.95%204.09%206.723l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E"); padding-right: 13px;">On Air Staff</a>, KVOR.com (Colorado Springs, CO), Web page, accessed January 11, 2011</span></li></ol></div><h3 style="background: none; color: black; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: none; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.6;"><span class="mw-headline" id="External_resources">External resources</span></h3><table style="background: rgb(255, 250, 205); font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0.57em 0.5em 0.7em; border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid rgb(218, 210, 109);"><tbody><tr><td width="100%" style="padding: 0.25em;"><b>This article is a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/SourceWatch:Find_or_fix_a_stub" title="SourceWatch:Find or fix a stub" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">stub</a>. <i>You</i> can <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/SourceWatch:Find_or_fix_a_stub" title="SourceWatch:Find or fix a stub" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); 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The Jeff Crank show on Colorado station KVOR AM 720 is promoted as a “weekly respite from socialism.” Crank led AFP Colorado at a tea party rally in early 2010 in cooperation with the Independence Institute, which has received $141,000 from Koch foundations since 1997.
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On Monday morning, conservative radio host and former Koch operative Jeff Crank was to interview Representatives Cotton and Gardner in a session titled “The Senate: A Window of Policy Opportunity for Principled Leaders.” Senator Rubio was to hold a small group discussion on an unnamed topic that afternoon and headline what was called internally “The Immigrant Experience” dinner, closing out the conference. Some interesting entries include “Texas: Sustaining a Culture of Freedom in the Lone Star State” and “Well-Being: What It Is and Why It’s Important.”
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