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The National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR) is a Washington DC based, right-wing free-market think-tank.

Like many of the right wing think tanks it works closely many others and the <a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Wise_Use&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wise Use (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Wise Use</a> groups. According to CLEAR: NCPPR “is considered to be the DC-based think tank most closely associated with the grassroots environmental backlash movement … In effect, the NCPPR appears to act as a bridge between the DC-based think tank element of the backlash movement, including such groups as the <a href="http://wikispooks.com/wiki/Cato_Institute" title="Cato Institute" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Cato Institute</a>, the <a href="http://wikispooks.com/wiki/Competitive_Enterprise_Institute" title="Competitive Enterprise Institute" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Competitive Enterprise Institute</a> and <a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Citizens_for_a_Sound_Economy&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Citizens for a Sound Economy (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Citizens for a Sound Economy</a>, and the activist element, including <a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Chuck_Cushman&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Chuck Cushman (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Chuck Cushman</a>'s <a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=League_of_Property_Rights_Voters&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="League of Property Rights Voters (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">League of Property Rights Voters</a> and <a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=American_Land_Rights_Association&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="American Land Rights Association (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">American Land Rights Association</a>, and<a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Myron_Ebell&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Myron Ebell (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Myron Ebell</a>'s <a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Frontiers_of_Freedom_Institute&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Frontiers of Freedom Institute (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Frontiers of Freedom Institute</a>. NCPPR convenes regular ‘strategy lunches’ that feature a who's who of conservative activists and members of Congress.[2]”

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[<a href="http://wikispooks.com/wiki/National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research#" class="internal" id="togglelink" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">hide</a>] </div>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://wikispooks.com/wiki/National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research#Funding:" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">1 Funding:</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://wikispooks.com/wiki/National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research#Links_to_Republicans:" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">2 Links to Republicans:</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://wikispooks.com/wiki/National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research#Staff:" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">3 Staff:</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://wikispooks.com/wiki/National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research#Issues:" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">4 Issues:</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://wikispooks.com/wiki/National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research#.E2.80.9CEnvirotruth.org.E2.80.9D" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">5 “Envirotruth.org”</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://wikispooks.com/wiki/National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research#Contact" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">6 Contact</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://wikispooks.com/wiki/National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research#References" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">7 References</a></li>

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According to the NCPPR “In 2002 The National Center had income of $6,674,575 and expenses of $6,899,509 …Our audited figures show that most -- 81.5% in 2002, 93% in 2001, 93% in 2000, 88% in 1999 and 80% in 1998 -- of The National Center's funding comes from small gifts from individuals”[3]

From 1985 to 2002 the NCPPR received some $1,689,100 from 36 grants from just 7 foundations[4]:

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Carthage_Foundation&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Carthage Foundation (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Carthage Foundation</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Castle_Rock_Foundation&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Castle Rock Foundation (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Castle Rock Foundation</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Earhart_Foundation&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Earhart Foundation (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Earhart Foundation</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=John_M._Olin_Foundation&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John M. Olin Foundation (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">John M. Olin Foundation</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Sarah_Scaife_Foundation&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sarah Scaife Foundation (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Sarah Scaife Foundation</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Lynde_and_Harry_Bradley_Foundation&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation</a></li>

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<a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Philip_Morris&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Philip Morris (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Philip Morris</a> has also funded the Center. In 1998 <a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Amy_Ridenour&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Amy Ridenour (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Amy Ridenour</a> wrote to Philip Morris: “Last year Philip Morris was kind enough to support the National Center for Public Policy Research’s website operations with a grant of $25,000. We are writing today to thank you for that support and request that Philip Morris make a grant to the National Center in the amount of $25,000 to permit us to continue our website and Internet operations through 1998”[5]. Other Center projects have been funded by <a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=RJ_Reynolds&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="RJ Reynolds (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">RJ Reynolds</a>[6]. It has also received some $80,500 from Exxon since 1998[7].

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Co- sponsor of the <a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Conservative_Political_Action_Conference&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Conservative Political Action Conference (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Conservative Political Action Conference</a>, in January / Feb 2003 in Virginia where <a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=David_Almasi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="David Almasi (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">David Almasi</a>, the ED from the Center spoke.[8]

In September 2000, the <a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=National_Center_For_Public_Policy_Research&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="National Center For Public Policy Research (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">National Center For Public Policy Research</a> and the <a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Committee_For_A_Constructive_Tomorrow&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow</a>(CFACT) presented their first “Friend of American Freedom Award” to Idaho Congressman Helen Chenoweth-Hage [9], a long-term Wise Use and anti-environmental activist, whose anti-green and anti-government speeches are distributed by the Militia of Montana[10].

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Amy_Moritz_Ridenour&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Amy Moritz Ridenour (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Amy Moritz Ridenour</a> – President – ex-Deputy Director of the <a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=College_Republican_National_Committee&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="College Republican National Committee (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">College Republican National Committee</a>; as Regional Co-ordinator for the Reagan/Bush 1980 campaign; as Chairman of the Maryland Federation of College Republicans and on Maryland Republican State Central Committee. She is a member of the Board of Directors of <a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Black_America%E2%80%99s_PAC&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Black America’s PAC (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Black America’s PAC</a>[11], whose mission is to elect black republican candidates.[12]</li>

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<dd style=" line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">According to internal tobacco industry documents Ridenour is described in a 1995 memo by the Philip Morris tobacco company as “a willing ally”. A <a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Philip_Morris&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Philip Morris (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Philip Morris</a> states that she had just called his office ‘offering to use any information we can provide [regarding] the current anti-tobacco onslaught . . .. <a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Tom_Borelli&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tom Borelli (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Tom Borelli</a> and I have both been in touch with Amy on various issues and are awaiting proposals for use of an internet website as an accessible repository of PM-related information’”[13]. Philip Morris later provided funding for the website.</dd>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=David_Ridenour&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="David Ridenour (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">David Ridenour</a> - Vice- President. Amy Moritz Ridenour’s husband. Ridenour also serves on the Executive Committee of the <a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Grassroots_Endangered_Species_Act_Coalition&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Grassroots Endangered Species Act Coalition (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Grassroots Endangered Species Act Coalition</a>. Board member of Oregon's 1984 Reagan/Bush campaign; and as Chairman of the <a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=College_Republican_Federation_of_Oregon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="College Republican Federation of Oregon (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">College Republican Federation of Oregon</a> (1982-1984).</li>

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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=David_Almasi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="David Almasi (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">David Almasi</a> - Executive Director – a 12-year public relations veteran having served as director of media programs for the wise use / right wing groups <a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Defenders_of_Property_Rights&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Defenders of Property Rights (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Defenders of Property Rights</a>, <a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Putting_People_First&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Putting People First (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Putting People First</a> and <a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Accuracy_in_Academia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Accuracy in Academia (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Accuracy in Academia</a>.</li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Christopher_Burger&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Christopher Burger (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Christopher Burger</a> – Program Co-ordinator for John P. McGovern, M.D. <a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Center_for_Environmental_and_Regulatory_Affairs&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Center for Environmental and Regulatory Affairs (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Center for Environmental and Regulatory Affairs</a>. Was <a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Citizens_Against_Government_Waste&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Citizens Against Government Waste (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Citizens Against Government Waste</a>.</li>

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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Bonner_Cohen&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bonner Cohen (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Bonner Cohen</a> - who used to edit EPA Watch, which “was part of a campaign by the tobacco industry to destroy the EPA's credibility, after an EPA study concluded in 1992 that second-hand cigarette smoke causes lung cancer”[14]. A <a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Philip_Morris&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Philip Morris (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Philip Morris</a> document says that EPA Watch was an “asset” established to assist Philip Morris achieve a broader impact than just on the issue of second-hand smoke[15]. Another Philip Morris document argues the need to “develop a plan for <a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=EPA_Watch&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="EPA Watch (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">EPA Watch</a> / <a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Bonner_Cohen&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bonner Cohen (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Bonner Cohen</a> as expert on EPA matters, i.e. regular syndicated radio features on EPA activities.”[16]</li>

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<dd style=" line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">Cohen also set up the <a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=No_More_Scare&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="No More Scare (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">No More Scare</a> website with <a href="http://wikispooks.com/wiki/Cato_Institute" title="Cato Institute" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Cato Institute</a> “junkman” <a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Steven_Milloy&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Steven Milloy (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Steven Milloy</a>. He is also a co-editor of "The Fear Profiteers" along with “The Junkman” <a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Steve_Milloy&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Steve Milloy (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Steve Milloy</a>, <a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=John_Carlisle&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Carlisle (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">John Carlisle</a> (now <a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Capital_Research_Center&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Capital Research Center (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Capital Research Center</a> and ex-National Center for Public Policy Research; <a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Michael_Gough&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Michael Gough (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Michael Gough</a>, <a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Michael_Fumento&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Michael Fumento (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Michael Fumento</a> from the <a href="http://wikispooks.com/wiki/Hudson_Institute" title="Hudson Institute" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Hudson Institute</a> and <a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Henry_Miller&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Henry Miller (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Henry Miller</a> from the <a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Hoover_Institute&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hoover Institute (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Hoover Institute</a> and <a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Elizabeth_Whelan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Elizabeth Whelan (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Elizabeth Whelan</a> from <a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=ACSH&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="ACSH (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">ACSH</a>[17]</dd>

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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Candace_Crandall&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Candace Crandall (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Candace Crandall</a> - Adjunct Fellow - Crandall spent a decade as a policy analyst and executive director with <a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Fred_Singer&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Fred Singer (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Fred Singer</a>’s<a href="http://wikispooks.com/wiki/Science_and_Environmental_Policy_Project" title="Science and Environmental Policy Project" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Science and Environmental Policy Project</a>, where she specialized in health risk issues, climate change and environmental politics. For three years, she served as communications director with the <a href="http://wikispooks.com/wiki/Center_for_Strategic_and_International_Studies" title="Center for Strategic and International Studies" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Center for Strategic and International Studies</a>. Before that she was the PR person for the Saudi Arabian Embassy[18].</li>

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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Thomas_M._Bonnicksen&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Thomas M. Bonnicksen (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Thomas M. Bonnicksen</a> - Ph.D - Science Advisory Board</li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Dana_Gattuso&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dana Gattuso (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Dana</a><a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Dana_Gattuso&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dana Gattuso (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"> Gattuso</a> - Senior Fellow</li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Eric_Peters&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Eric Peters (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Eric Peters</a> - Senior Fellow</li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Brian_Seacholes&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Brian Seacholes (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Brian Seacholes</a> - Senior Fellow</li>

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The NCPPR is also a member of the Cooler Heads Coalition and works with the CEI on climate issues. The NCPPR also runs the following “information” centers:

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Information_Center&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Global Warming Information Center (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Global Warming Information Center</a>;</li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Forest_Policy_Information_Center&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Forest Policy Information Center (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Forest Policy Information Center</a>,</li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Nuclear_Policy_Information_Center&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nuclear Policy Information Center (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Nuclear Policy Information Center</a></li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Fuel_Economy_Information_Center&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Fuel Economy Information Center (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Fuel Economy Information Center</a></li>

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They perpetuate the same old “myths “ and “facts” about environmental issues:

“There is no serious evidence that man-made global warming is taking place”. The footnotes for the section on climate change include references to the same self-perpetuating number of climate sceptics: James K. Glassman (<a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=AEI&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="AEI (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">AEI</a> ) and Sallie Baliunas (George C. Marshall); Richard Lindzen (known climate sceptic from MIT; and the Heritage Foundation[19]. The site also has a testimony by Dr. Fred Singer from The <a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Science_%26_Environmental_Policy_Project&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Science & Environmental Policy Project (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Science & Environmental Policy Project</a>, affiliated to <a href="http://wikispooks.com/wiki/Frontiers_of_Freedom" title="Frontiers of Freedom" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">Frontiers of Freedom</a> which states “Contrary to the conventional wisdom and the predictions of computer models, the Earth's climate has not warmed appreciably in the past two decades”[20]

The Earth Day site attacks the environmental movement and uses references from the usual suspects: Ron Arnold from the <a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defence_of_Free_Enterprise&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Center for the Defence of Free Enterprise (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Center for the Defence of Free Enterprise</a>; www.consumerfreedom.com, the front organisation of tobacco and food lobbyist <a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Rick_Berman&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rick Berman (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Rick Berman</a> and international contrarian Bjorn Lomborg. One of the facts put out is: “There are many indications that carbon dioxide does not play a significant role in global warming”. One of the many myths is that “Drilling for oil in the <a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Arctic_National_Wildlife_Refuge&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Arctic National Wildlife Refuge</a> (ANWR) is dangerous to the environment and would only provide the United States with six months of oil.[21]”

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The NCCPR also sponsors the website “Envirotruth.org” which was created by Amy Ridenour on 6 December 2002. It has sections on Biotech food, Chlorine, Climate Change, PVC and Perchlorate. It urges people to contact President Putin to “Say no to Kyoto”[22].

The site also has a “Eco-terrorist” section which includes articles such as “Is Greenpeace a tool of state-sponsored eco-terrorism”? [23] The site is an extension of NCPPR’s strategy to use the rhetoric of anti-terrorism to attack environmentalists[24]. To that end it links to ActivistCash.com, a front website run by food and tobacco lobbyist Rick Berman[25].

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Address: The National Center for Public Policy Research</li>

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777 N. Capitol St. NE, Suite 803 Washington, D.C. 20002

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">[1] <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/NCPPRHist.html" style=" text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,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) 100% 50%;">http://www.nationalcenter.org/NCPPRHist.html</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">[2] <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.ewg.org/pub/home/clear/view/CV_Vol4_No16.html" style=" text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,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) 100% 50%;">http://www.ewg.org/pub/home/clear/view/CV_Vol4_No16.html</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">[3] <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/NCPPRHist.html" style=" text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,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) 100% 50%;">http://www.nationalcenter.org/NCPPRHist.html</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">[4] <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.mediatransparency.org/search_results/info_on_any_recipient.php?recipientID=682" style=" text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,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) 100% 50%;">http://www.mediatransparency.org/search_results/info_on_any_recipient.php?recipientID=682</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">[5] A. Ridenour (1998) Letter to Frank Gomez, 26 June, Bates Numbers 2077448763-66</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">[6] <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research" style=" text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,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) 100% 50%;">http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">[7] Source Greenpeace - data from company reports for 98, 00, 01, 02 – data not available for 99 and pre-98</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">[8] <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=8946" style=" text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,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) 100% 50%;">http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=8946</a></li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">[10] A. Rowell (1996) Green Backlash – Global Subversion of the Environment Movement, Routledge, p63-64</li>

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<h1 class="title" style="line-height: 22px; margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mr. John K. Carlisle</h1>

July 13th, 2011

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Posted in: <a href="http://www.calvertinstitute.org/?cat=32" title="View all posts in Environment/Transportation Policy" rel="category" style=" text-decoration: none;">Environment/Transportation Policy</a>, <a href="http://www.calvertinstitute.org/?cat=34" title="View all posts in Housing/Urban Redevelopment/Planning" rel="category" style=" text-decoration: none;">Housing/Urban Redevelopment/Planning</a>

Director, Environmental Policy Task Force , National Center for Public Policy Research

777 N. Capital Street, NE, Suite 803

Washington DC

20002

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Work Fax: (202) 483-6902

Email: jcarlisle@nationalcenter.org

Home: (703) 486-1557

Website: http://www.nationalcenter.org

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<h3 style="line-height: 16px; margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Biography</h3>

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NCPPR is a free-market think-tank emphasizing regulatory reform.

Promotes market-based environmental policies through op-eds, policy papers, radio and television interviews, and task-force meetings with other free-market groups as well as congressional staff in order to address legislation. 

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<h3 style="line-height: 16px; margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Academic Background</h3>

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B.A.: North Carolina State University (Political Science).

M.A.: Boston College (Political Science) 

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<h3 style="line-height: 16px; margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Publications or Presentations</h3>

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"Urban Sprawl? The Campaign Against the American Dream," National Policy Analysis, No. 235, Apr. 1999.

"The Sun Is to Blame for Global Warming," National Policy Analysis, No. 203, Jun. 1998.

"Nature Not Man to Blame for Salmon Population Decline," National Policy Analysis, No. 254, Jul. 1999.

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<h3 style="line-height: 16px; margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Issue Specialities</h3>

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Environment, global warming, greenhouse gasses, endangered species, urban sprawl, smart growth, regulation. 

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<h3 style="line-height: 16px; margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Calvert Index</h3>

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Environment/Transportation Policy

Housing/Urban Redevelopment/Planning 

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<h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><a href="http://heartland.org/policy-documents/george-soros-and-moveonorg-his-plan-defeat-george-bush-part-ii" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">George Soros and MoveOn.org: His Plan to Defeat George Bush - Part II</a></h3>

John K. Carlisle

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<h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><a href="http://heartland.org/policy-documents/george-soros-his-plan-defeat-george-bush-part-1" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">George Soros: His Plan to Defeat George Bush: Part 1</a></h3>

John K. Carlisle

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<h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><a href="http://heartland.org/policy-documents/dangerous-anti-smoking-lobby-how-its-quit-or-die-hostility-all-tobacco-products-har" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">The Dangerous Anti-Smoking Lobby: How Its 'Quit-or-Die' Hostility to All Tobacco Products Harms Public Health</a></h3>

John K. Carlisle

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<h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><a href="http://heartland.org/policy-documents/sierra-club-crusading-against-u-s-energy-security-group-advocates-wind-and-solar-po" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">The Sierra Club Crusading Against U. S. Energy Security: Group Advocates Wind and Solar Power Mandates</a></h3>

John K. Carlisle

For over 100 years the Sierra Club has been a vanguard of the environmental movement. In the early twentieth century the Sierra Club fought for wilderness preservation while other hunting and fishing groups worked for wildlife and natural resource conservation. ...

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<h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><a href="http://heartland.org/newspaper-article/2001/03/01/smart-growth-anti-poor-and-anti-black" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Is smart growth anti-poor and anti-black?</a></h3>

John K. Carlisle

The national movement to combat the alleged ills of urban sprawl is guilty of false advertising. Proponents of anti-sprawl policies, often termed "smart growth," portray their effort as an environmentally sensitive campaign to protect communities against the ravages of economic progress. In fact, smart growth is often nothing ...

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<h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><a href="http://heartland.org/policy-documents/suburban-snob-politics-fuels-smart-growth-land-use-movement" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Suburban Snob Politics Fuels Smart Growth Land Use Movement</a></h3>

John K. Carlisle

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<h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><a href="http://heartland.org/policy-documents/national-directory-environmental-regulatory-victims" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">National Directory of Environmental & Regulatory Victims</a></h3>

John K. Carlisle

This document from the National Directory of Environmental and Regulatory Victims, accounts for several instances where citizens have been unjustly harmed by government action or policy. It accounts for harmful policies in clean air/pollution, zoning, OSHA standards, etc. Each instance takes note of real instances where individuals ...

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<h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><a href="http://heartland.org/newspaper-article/1999/09/01/victim-impact-statement-new-york-couple-wages-three-year-fight-against-" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Victim Impact Statement: New York Couple Wages Three-year Fight Against Bureaucrats</a></h3>

John K. Carlisle

When Tai and Adele Aguirre renovated a broken-down home in upstate New York in 1994, little did they know that would mark the beginning of a three-year legal nightmare with New York City bureaucrats that nearly cost them their livelihood. Tai and Adele moved from Queens to Putnam County, 100 miles from New York City ...

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<h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><a href="http://heartland.org/newspaper-article/1999/08/01/esa-sends-two-retirees-poorhouse" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">ESA Sends Two Retirees to the Poorhouse</a></h3>

John K. Carlisle

For seven years, Viola Allen, an ailing 72-year-old widow, has been desperately trying to sell her eight-acre property in Lynnwood, Washington so she can finally have enough money to move out of her rapidly deteriorating home. But local environmental activists are stopping Viola from selling the land she has owned for ...

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<h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><a href="http://heartland.org/newspaper-article/1999/04/01/clinton-climate-change-budget-would-strengthen-global-warming-lobby" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Clinton Climate Change Budget Would Strengthen Global Warming Lobby</a></h3>

John K. Carlisle

In his budget request for Fiscal Year 2000, President Bill Clinton called for a dramatic 34 percent increase in funding for climate change research and tax incentives to encourage early action on climate change. The President’s proposals would increase federal spending on climate change from $3.1 billion to more than $4 billion ...

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<h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><a href="http://heartland.org/newspaper-article/1999/03/01/senate-bill-would-advance-kyoto-emission-goals" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Senate Bill Would Advance Kyoto Emission Goals</a></h3>

John K. Carlisle

While the Clinton Administration has been reluctant to submit the Kyoto global warming protocol to the Senate for ratification, that body will soon take up legislation that effectively implements the treaty’s goals by encouraging business to adopt voluntary emission reduction standards. Late last year, Senators John Chafee ...

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<h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><a href="http://heartland.org/newspaper-article/1999/03/01/white-house-co-opting-industry-kyoto" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">White House Co-opting Industry on Kyoto</a></h3>

John K. Carlisle

WASHINGTON--The Clinton administration has racked up some surprising successes in marshalling corporate support for the greenhouse gas reductions called for under the Kyoto climate change treaty. The key to the White House’s success in co-opting such industry giants as Boeing, Sunoco, Weyerhauser, DuPont, and American Electric ...

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<h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><a href="http://heartland.org/policy-documents/national-directory-environmental-regulatory-victims-part-2" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">National Directory of Environmental & Regulatory Victims: Part 2</a></h3>

John K. Carlisle

Frank LaDue lost the right to use 29 of his 30 acres of land - or 96.7% of it - when the Washington Department of Ecology (DOE) designated most of it as a wetland. ...

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<h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><a href="http://heartland.org/policy-documents/national-directory-environmental-regulatory-victims-part-four" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">National Directory of Environmental & Regulatory Victims: Part Four</a></h3>

John K. Carlisle

In the early 1980s, the federal government took several hundred acres of land that the Beggerly family owned on Horn Island, Mississippi. Implementing a law passed by Congress, the Interior Department wanted the land to create the Gulf Island National Seashore Park. ...

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<h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><a href="http://heartland.org/policy-documents/national-directory-environmental-regulatory-victims-part-one" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">National Directory of Environmental & Regulatory Victims" Part One</a></h3>

John K. Carlisle

I never imagined myself becoming a spokesman in the ongoing controversy over the government's regulatory policies. ...

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<h1 style="margin: 0.67em 0px 5px;">BS:  </h1><h1 style="margin: 0.67em 0px 5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">New Kids on the (Tax-Exempt) Block: The Rise of the “527”s</h1>

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<div class="field__item even">Liberal 527 Committees Mobilize Likely Voters, Run TV and Radio Ads</div>

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<div class="publication-type-524">By <a href="http://cei.org/other/john-k-carlisle" style=" text-decoration: none;">John K. Carlisle</a>, <a href="http://cei.org/other/neil-hrab" style=" text-decoration: none;">Neil Hrab</a> • August 4, 2004 NCCPR</div>

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History will remember the 2004 election for many things, most notably for its effect on the political futures of George W. Bush and Iraq. But the election also marks the emergence of a previously obscure tax-exempt, nonprofit organization. We refer, of course, to the rise of so-called “527” political committees. The impact of these groups on voters may well determine the election’s outcome.

A “527” organization—the name denotes the portion of the federal tax code that regulates its operation—can accept unlimited contributions from unions, individuals and otherprivate sources to spend on political activities such as television and radio ads, voter mobilization drives and other advocacy efforts. There are two significant legal limits on 527s: 1) its activities are permissible as long as the group doesn’t directly coordinate them with a political party or candidate; and 2) the activities must be focused on issues.

“527” groups have existed for many years, but it wasn’t until 2003 that they became major players in election campaigns. The catalyst was a series of huge donations made by prominent liberal activists determined to defeat President Bush and the GOP. Billionaire financier George Soros donated more than $15 million in just a few months to three 527 groups—America Coming Together, MoveOn.org and the

Media Fund. Other liberal activists, such as Soros’ friend and ideological partner Peter Lewis, donated millions more to these and other 527 groups set up by labor unions, environmental groups, feminist organizations, the trial lawyers and other liberal special interests.

It’s no coincidence that the political left has the current monopoly on 527 committees. Faced with the Bush-Cheney campaign’s substantial “hard money” fundraising advantage (i.e. direct contributions of up to $2,000 per person per political candidate), Democrats are using major infusions of “soft money” to groups like the Media Fund and MoveOn.org to level the fundraising playing field. Thanks to the 527s, left-leaning activists may raise as much as $400 million. As of late June, the

Bush-Cheney campaign had $216 million on hand, putting it ahead of Senator John Kerry’s campaign, which reported contributions of about $149 million. However, to the surprise of many political observers, Kerry fundraising exceeded Bush in the period between March and June 2004. It raked in “hard money” contributions of more than $100 million – the most money ever raised by a presidential candidate in such a short period of time.

The Conservative “527” Counterattack

The spread of 527s has figured prominently in the news. In mid-May the Federal Election Commission (FEC) opted not to place any restrictions on 527 fund-raising activities. In effect, it dismissed Republican Party charges that the 527s were breaking the new campaign finance law. In an ironic twist, GOP officials charged that Democrats, who strongly supported strict limits on campaign donations, were now violating the campaign finance law they sought, and thatthe GOP had once strongly opposed. Jill Holtzman Vogel, chief counsel for the Republican National Committee (RNC), declared, “Senator Kerry, who supported the Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act, is now the beneficiary of the single largest conspiracy to violate campaign finance laws in history.”

The FEC didn’t see it that way, ruling that the McCain-Feingold law did not restrict donations to 527 committees. Bradley Smith, the FEC’s chairman (and a Republican), was particularly derisive about GOP complaints: “IfRepublicans think they can win by silencing their oppo sition, they are wrong and they are going to deserve to lose.”

Observers now expect the FEC ruling to provoke the creation of a constellation of conservative 527s. Immediately after the FEC decision, RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie and top Bush campaign staffer Marc Racicot predicted that “the battle of the 527s is likely to escalate to a full-scale, two-sided war.” For instance, a conservative 501(c)(4) group called Progress for America (PFA) announced plans to turn itself into a 527. As a 501 (c)(4), PFA could support ballot initiatives and lobby without any limits, but it still had to be careful about working for or against a political candidate. However, 527 groups can be more politically involved as long as they do not coordinate their activities with the candidate.

The Washington Post (May 25) predicted that important GOP financial supporters such as James Francis, Jr. would play major roles in a reconstituted PFA. Indeed, PFA may well be the flagship of any conservative 527 fleet that forms between now and November. PFA president Brian McCabe says his group wants “to match what the liberals have done in the last year and counter their message.”

On June 25, the Progress for America Voter Fund went public. The new 527 group is producing hard-hitting TV ads asking viewers to consider how Sen. John Kerry would have responded to the September 11 attacks given his record ofvoting against defense and intelligence appropriations. The PFA Voter Fund vows to spend more money on similar ads to fulfill its mission: “keeping the record straight on the campaign trail and serving as a ‘Political Truth Squad.’” Columnist James Glassman has said PFA will energize conservatives in the election. However, he predicts that, thanks to the McCain-Feingold law, the presidential election will no longer be “simply a battle between two campaign organizations or two parties.”

Another new conservative 527 is the Leadership Forum, which is organizing support from members of Congress, including House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) and Senate Republican Conference chairman Rick Santorum (R-Pa.). The Forum is headed by Susan Hirschmann, Majority Leader Tom DeLay’s (R-Texas) ex-chief of staff, and former Rep. Bill Paxon (R-N.Y.). But fundraising is a challenge because the group got such a late start. The Center for Responsive Politics reports that donations are less than $500,000 this year. Says Hirschmann, “We’re playing catch-up.”

How effective will the pro-Republican 527 groups be in this election and afterwards? Recent media reports suggest that the liberal 527s are important for activist strategies. Newsweek magazine calls the 527s “a flotilla of Bush haters.” The radical Nation calls them the “beat Bush brigades.” Washington Post reporter Thomas Edsall says they may herald the rise of a “shadow version of the Democratic Party.” And Business Week calls the 527s “a web of interlocking, like-minded organizations that could at once save and partly supplant the Democratic Party.”

Over the past several months Capital Research Center has published in-depth profiles of emerging liberal 527 groups. (See the April 2004 Labor Watch on labor union-based 527s; John Gizzi’s analysis of 527 group links to the Democratic Party in the May Organization Trends; and John Carlisle’s two-part look at George Soros’ involvement with 527s in the February and March Foundation Watch.) This article explains why 527s have become so important and describes some of their most recent activities. It also offers an update on how liberal 527 groups are helping the Kerry-Edwards campaign offset Bush-Cheney campaign spending.

Why Liberals Need 527s: A Substitute for the Democratic Party?

What explains the sudden prominence of 527 groups? Four explanations are circulating in left/liberal political circles.

The first sees 527 groups as the product of Democratic Party failings under President Bill Clinton. Many partisan Democrats look back to the 1990s as a golden time dominated by the charismatic Clinton who twice led the party to victory. But other activists have had second thoughts – they think liberals got lazy under Clinton.

Jim Jordan was for five years a senior political advisor to Senator John Kerry and managed his presidential campaign until Kerry fired him in November 2003. He now

has his own political consulting firm, Thunder Road, which represents three major 527 groups: America Coming Together, the Media Fund, and America Votes. Jordan diagnoses the situation this way: “Wehave a lot of energy... but we too often lack discipline... Frankly, after eight years of Clinton in the White House, [we] got a little selfish and a little fat. [We] forgot what it takes to put together a winning coalition.”

According to activists like Jordan, liberals relied too much on the charisma of their leading-lights and avoided the hard work of mobilizing the grassroots. That view is a common complaint. According to leftist reporter John Nichols, “The party apparatus has withered in much of the nation. You can now drive for hundreds of miles across the western United States without touching a county where the party has a viable local organization.” (Nation magazine, April 26, 2004.) Nichols argues that to compensate for the party’s failings liberal 527 groups have raised as much as $200 million “from wealthy liberals and allied labor and issue-advocacy groups ranging from the AFL-CIO to the League of Conservation Voters and the Association of Trial Lawyers of America.” Columnist Harold Meyerson concludes that the 527s represent “a new range of organizations that would in effect privatize the Democratic Party.” (American Prospect, March 2004), while Harold Ickes, Jr., a former Clinton White House official and the founder of the Media Fund, told Business Week: “We’re a lot like a campaign, but without a candidate.”

A second group of liberal activists is more upbeat. They see in the 527s a sign of liberal renewal and competitiveness. RobertBorosage, co-director ofCampaign for America’s Future, a leading liberal advocacy group, has argued that the left needs to build an “independent capacity to drive” its agenda. It can’t rely solely on unions, the Democratic Party, or Hollywood high-dollar donors. Borosage, who was once issues manager for Jesse Jackson’s presidential campaign, believes 527s can be the “independent vehicles” that steer citizens into left-wing political activism (Nation, June 2, 2003).

Others see the 527s’ rise as mainly a consequence of campaign finance law changes resulting from the 2002 enactment of the McCain-Feingold law. Governor Bill Richardson (D-NM) told Fortune last November that “now that campaign finance reform is law, [527s] have become the replacement for the national Democratic Party.”

America Votes: Targeting the Base

A fourth explanation offers a more organizational focus: it holds that 527 political groups can best target the Democratic base vote, identifying potential voters while avoiding the duplication of effort. However, the left has so many 527 political committees that there is even one called America Votes whose mission is, in the words of one staffer, “making sure [the 527s aren’t] tripping over each other out in the field” and “all block-walking the same block on the same evening.”

Twenty-two nonprofit advocacy groups and labor unions reportedly have contributed $50,000 each to finance America Votes. They include ACORN, AFL-CIO, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA), EMILY’s List, League of Conservation Voters,

MoveOn.org, Moving America Forward, NAACP National Voter Fund, NARAL Pro-Choice America, Partnership for America’s Families, People For the American Way, Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Service Employees International Union (SEIU), and the Sierra Club.

As the above list demonstrates, a 527 group delivers more than money. Liberal 527 groups pose a threat to the GOP in 2004 precisely because their purpose is to coordinate the activities of deeply committed political groups and activists. With a sharply divided electorate, these activists are more important than ever. The journal Campaigns & Elections (February 2004) reports that with “current polls showing nearly 90 percent of Republicans approving of [the Bush administration performance] and less than 20 percent of Democrats expressing that same opinion,” Democratic campaign staffers and advisors believe that it makes more sense to mobilize sure-fire supporters rather than people who “are still on the fence.”

Partnership For America’s Families: A Minority Strategy

Yet another liberal 527 group, the Washington, DC-based Partnership for America’s Families (PAF), targets “working families, communities of color and women.” Heavily backed by organized labor, PAF reportedly has raised $3.5 million so far and plans to raise another $12 million this year.

PAF began its mobilization strategy in November 2003, when it supported liberal Democrat John Street in Philadelphia’s mayoral race. Street owes his victory in large part to PAF efforts. Its activities on his behalf provide a taste of what 527s can achieve on the national level.

The strategy in Philadelphia was straightforward – meet with potential voters from the Hispanic and black communities early on and follow-up repeatedly with phone calls and leaflets. According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, PAF and other activist groups started mobilizing as early as April 2003. In seven months the mobilization drive registered 85,000 people to vote. “We went back to [the] same homes three and four times,” said PAF worker Tom Lindenfeld.

Street won by 85,000 votes. Harold Meyerson called the PAF campaign “a mind-boggling achievement.” The St. Petersburg Times estimates that ofthe 85,000 voters registered by PAF, 38,000 turned out to vote. PAF’s voter registration drive continues; a PAF spokesman says his group expects to register another 85,000 Philadelphia area minority voters by November.

The PAF “multiple visit” strategy is the brainchild of its chief, Steve Rosenthal, a former AFL-CIO organizer and a master of union get-out-the-vote drives. “If we talk to people in as personal a way as we can and as many times as we can, we will win them over,” he says. Rosenthal’s theory is that the “base on the [left-wing] side [of the political aisle] is much more expandable” than the right’s base. Rosenthal hopes PAF can register, educate and turn out “hundreds of thousands of progressive voters” in 2004.

Rosenthal puts great stock in mobilizing minority voters because he believes the Democratic Party takes them for granted. The Party’s usual plan of action “has been often to ignore [minority communities] 50 weeks out of a two-year election cycle, then send in recorded phone messages... and last minute mail ... Our goal is to try to keep communicating with people over a two-year process.”

America Coming Together (ACT)

Rosenthal has a second job. He is the chief executive officer of America Coming Together (ACT). Unlike PAF, which mobilize minority voters in specific cities— Philadelphia, St. Louis, Cleveland—ACT is a 527 that is set up to mobilize minority voters statewide.

The ACT leadership is the red-hot center of liberal special interest groups. Besides Rosenthal, there is Carl Pope, executive director of the Sierra Club, Andrew Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), and Ellen Malcolm, president of the pro-abortion Emily’s List. Benefiting from a $10 million start-up donation from George Soros in 2003, ACT’s goal in 2004 is to raise $75 million for voter mobilization campaigns in 17 battleground states, including Florida, Ohio andPennsylvania. ACT and the Media Fund are the largest and most formidable of the liberal 527s. Harold Ickes, who is spearheading fundraising for ACT and the Media Fund, says that by the end of May the two groups already had amassed $100 million.

Florida is, of course, a crucial battleground state – President Bush won it by only 537 voters. ACT hopes to deploy 4,000 activists who will go house-to-house in all of Florida’s 88 counties to round up 200,000 new voters, especially from minority communities. As early as November 2003, just months after it was formally

established, ACT already had registered 12,000 voters. ACT canvassers distributed pamphlets claiming that racial minorities suffered economically under Bush Administration policies. Whatever useful information ACT canvassers glean while chatting with potential voters is dumped into a huge computer file that stores data for follow-up visits, phone conversations, and direct mail pieces.

John Hennelly, the state campaign director for SEIU, coordinates mobilization activities out of the state ACT office in Miami. Hennelly is impressed with the organization and motivation of ACT and its allies. “In my 15 years in politics, I’ve never seen anything on this scale,” says Hennelly. “To win Florida, you have to do everything and do everything well.” Mobilization drives come down to volunteers spending long hours knocking on doors and talking on phones. In a May 24 Christian Science Monitor article, Hennelly reports that in one day 18 activists knocked on 597 doors, talked to 411 people, and registered 19 voters. He concedes that’s a lot of work for 19 people. But those newly registered voters will be contacted nine more times, by phone, mail, or in person before election day.

ACT is conducting similar drives in Ohio and Pennsylvania, according to an April article in the Nation. In those states, “canvassers are trudging from door to door with a video presentation showing laid-off steelworkers explaining the devastating impact of Bush’s decision to lift tariff protections.” In Pennsylvania, ACT has offices in Harrisburg, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, and will open new ones in Johnstown, Scranton, and Allentown.

ACT Pays Convicted Felons to Canvass Voters

In June, it was discovered that ACT was paying convicted felons – some convicted of burglary and sex offenses – to conduct door-to-door voter registration drives in at least three states. ACT says it pays felons $8 to $12 per-hour to canvass neighborhoods and register voters in major metropolitan areas in Missouri, Florida and Ohio. Some of these convicts live in halfway houses; at least four returned to

prison. ACT officials said it’s possible that felons are working in the 14 other states the organization is targeting. ACT employs a total of 1,000 canvassers in the 17 swing states.

The Associated Press discovered that dozens of ACT employees in Missouri, Florida and Ohio had been convicted of crimes such as burglary, sex offenses, assault, drug dealing and forgery. The names of two ACT employees in Ohio matched the names of persons convicted of murder and rape, but the Associated Press was unable to verify that they lived at the addresses listed by ACT.

Felons on probation or parole are ineligible to vote in many states. But election experts are unaware of any laws against felons registering voters. ACT canvassers request personal information such as telephone numbers, driver’s license numbers, birth dates, or partial social security numbers depending on what a state requires for voter registration.

ACT defends the controversial practice. ACT spokesman Mo Elleithee says, “We believe it’s important to give people a second chance.” But the practice has put the Kerry campaign on the defensive. Kerry campaign spokesman Allison Dobson says, “We’re unaware of it and have nothing to do with it.” Kerry officials also stress that they do not coordinate with ACT even though the 527 group is stocked with veteran Democratic operatives.

Florida corrections officials said felons released from prison and not on parole or probation are free to take canvassing jobs with ACT. But Missouri corrections officials don’t agree with the ACT felon-hiring policy. In April, the Missouri Department of Corrections banished ACT from its pool of potential employers for parolees at its halfway houses in St. Louis and Kansas City. Said department spokesman Jim Fougere, “From a public safety standpoint, we didn’t want offenders to be in a situation where they would be handling that information.” ACT’s Elleithee says that at least two felons recently released from a Missouri halfway house are again employed by ACT “and are a tremendous part of our team.” But four of ACT’s former employees living at a halfway house have since been returned to prison—two for drug violations, one for endangering the welfare of a child, and another for walking away from the facility. Fougere says none of the incidents were related to their work for ACT.

Republican Party officials have denounced the ACT policy. RNC chairman Ed Gillespie called the policy “disturbing” and questioned the wisdom of using felons “to go house to house and handle sensitive information.” Ohio Republican Party Chairman Robert Bennett called on ACT to immediately disclose all current employees “and reassure Ohioans that these violent offenders are not canvassing their neighborhood.”

ACT spokesman Elleithee responds that the 527 group has a policy of not employing violent felons, but he wouldn’t describe what the organization considers violent. ACT has also declined to verify the criminal backgrounds of any specific employees.

Soros vs. Soros

The rise of 527 groups has created some interesting problems for liberal reform groups. On June 22, three campaign finance watchdog groups that are usually allied with the Democratic Party on campaign reform issues filed a complaint with the FEC. Democracy 21, the Center for Responsive Politics, and the Campaign Legal Center alleged that ACT was spending money illegally on political campaigns. They said ACT should use limited “hard money” donations, not unlimited “soft money” donations, to pay for its fundraising letters.

According to the complaint, ACT has spent as much as $1 million to finance mailings that target President Bush. “When election day is over, we will have defeated George W. Bush and elected progressive candidates all across the nation,” says one fundraising letter. “The extraordinary effort we’re undertaking is in response to the extraordinary damage Bush and his allies do, on a daily basis, to values we believe in and to people we care about.”

The watchdog groups argue that because the letters name no state and local candidates, but only Bush, a federal candidate, the solicitations must be funded with hard money that is subject to strict limits. Fred Wertheimer, head of Democracy 21, charges that ACT “has illegally spent soft money on direct-mail public communications that attack and oppose President Bush.”

But ACT spokesman Jim Jordan said his group has done nothing improper: “It is, we believe, completely without merit.” ACT admits it paid for the letters with soft money donations (not subject to any limits) provided by individuals, unions and other interest groups. Moreover, ACT knows the complaint will not affect its anti-Bush campaign. It is highly unlikely that the FEC will act before the November election, and it often takes years for the agency to resolve a complaint.

Another irony: ACT and two of the watchdog groups opposing it get their money from the same source—George Soros. As a rich and bitter enemy of George Bush, Soros gave ACT $10 million in startup money. But as an advocate of campaign finance reform, Soros over the last seven years has given $18 million to groups working to remove big money from the election process. This includes $125,000 to Democracy 21 and $75,000 to the Center for Responsive Politics.

The Media Fund’s Air War

PAF and ACT specialize in running the 527 “ground-war offensive” of door-to-door voter mobilization. The Media Fund, by contrast, runs the “air war” – it produces TV and radio ads and buys time to run them across the U.S. The Fund is awash in money; it raised $12 million during the first quarter of 2004. So far, the Media Fund has spent $25 million on national advertising. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the Fund is raising its big bucks from people such as “insurance tycoon Peter Lewis, Hyatt heiress Linda Pritzker and several Hollywood figures, led by mogul Steve Bing, and also including Paul Newman, Kevin Bacon, Norman Lear, Chevy Chase and Rob Reiner.”

Former Clinton adviser Harold Ickes, who founded the Fund, rejects Republican complaints that the ads violate campaign finance law because they are anti-Bush. (See sidebar on page 3 for transcripts of Fund ads). Ickes told the New York Tim es, “Politically, we are trying to really highlight, underscore and push into sharp focus the policies of the Republicans. That may have a certain effect on the Bush or the Kerry campaign, but we are not involved in electing or defeating people. We are raising issues.”

Media Fund radio and newspaper ads lambast Administration policies at every turn. In a 60-second spot, the Media Fund accuses Bush of breaking promises he made at the 2000 Republican nominating convention in Philadelphia. “This is Wednesday, June 23, and George Bush is back in Philadelphia,” says the announcer. “Mr. Bush – before you bring us one more promise, stop breaking the promises you made four years ago.” The Fund says the President is responsible for the loss of 1.9 million jobs nationally and higher health insurance costs. The Media Fund ran a full-page ad with the same message in the Philadelphia Inquirer.

ACT, the Media Fund’s “ground war ally,” amplified the anti-Bush message at a rally it staged at City Hall the day before.

The Media Fund has similar ad campaigns in West Virginia, Ohio, Nevada and Missouri, all battleground states. Media Fund president Erik Smith says polls show that concentrated advertising during a presidential visithas an impact. “We know that presidential visits tend to focus people on politics more than on a typical day,” said Smith. “It’s the same reason advertisers try to sell golf equipment during the U.S. Open: You’ve got an audience focused on something.” On June 21, the Media Fund ran ads hitting Bush for job losses in Ohio while he attended events in Cincinnati. Earlier in Nevada, the group focused on the Administration’s unpopular plan to store radioactive waste at the state’s Yucca Mountain.

The Campaign in Florida

Memories of the Bush-Gore campaign in2000 have concentrated liberal attention on the state of Florida, which has become the focus of much 527 group effort. Press reports note that the Media Fund, MoveOn.Org and the AFL-CIO spent $6.6 million on television “issue” ads across the state from March 3 to May 27. The Bush-Cheney campaign spent $14 million and the Kerry campaign spent $7 million. While the Bush-Cheney campaign spent double the Kerry campaign on television ads, the efforts of the Media Fund and other groups closed the gap to about even — $14 million for Bush to $13.6 million for Kerry and his 527 allies.

A May 24 article in the Orlando Senti n el reports that the Bush campaign spent $2 million on advertising in Orlando through mid-May, compared to $1.3 million spent by the Kerry campaign. But the Media Fund spent nearly $900,000 on TV ads and MoveOn.Org spent $250,000. This gives Kerry the fundraising advantage.

In West Palm Beach, the Bush campaign spent $750,000. That compares to $536,000 by Kerry, $345,000 by the Media Fund and $220,000 by the AFL-CIO—total $1.1 million, or $350,000 more than Bush.

In Tampa’s TV market, Bush spent $2.2 million through mid-May and Kerry $1.5 million. But the Media Fund spent $1.2 million and MoveOn.Org $100,000 -- total $2.8 million, or $600,000 more than Bush.

Conclusion: “527”s – Can They Succeed?

The liberal 527s believe they can become a powerful force in American politics. Cecile Richards, head of America Votes, says that “outside organizations” like hers are going to play a larger and larger political role. But not everyone is so sure. Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, has argued that interest groups on the left are really “competing parasites.” He thinks they will find it hard to coordinate their activities – no matter how much money they raise or how many names they enter into their computers.

The left’s penchant for destructive competition is already on display. In November 2003, the AFL-CIO’s Steve Rosenthal and Gerald McEntee, president of the powerful American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), fought over who would head up the Partnership for America’s Families. The dispute was settled only when McEntee started Voices for Working Families, a separate 527 group.

Moreover, is the 527 focus onmobilizing core supporters a sound political strategy? The well-regarded analyst Stuart Rothenberg argues that winning support fromswingvotersbecomes more important, not less, in periods of closely-divided political polarization.

Liberal commentator George Packer, writing in the Sept/Oct 2003 Mother Jones, is more harsh: “The heart sinks at names like Partnership for America’s Families, or Campaign for America’s Future [another 527 group]. They have the air of futile calculation, like a losing basketball franchise changing its name from Bullets to Wizards... These groups, coalitions and alliances are so obviously missing an ability to speak to Americans as a whole – as Americans.”

It remains to be seen whether the liberal 527s will live up to their founders’ expectations. As Communist China’s Chou En-lai once said when asked to measure the influence of the French Revolution: “It is too early to tell.”

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The hypocrisy offsets parody carbon offsets sold and traded allegedly to allow people to live carbon-neutral lives. The hypocrisy offsets also highlight the insincerity of world-traveling, energy-guzzling COP-15 delegates.

"Many of those in attendance to press for additional commitments for carbon reductions traveled thousands of miles and used substantial amounts of carbon-emitting jet-fuel just to get to the conference," said David Ridenour, vice president of the National Center for Public Policy Research. "We are exposing the hypocrisy by offering them 'hypocrisy offsets' to alleviate their green guilt. As one who is skeptical of the necessity of draconian carbon cuts, I plan to do my part to ensure plenty of hypocrisy offsets are available. I'll refrain from reducing my own personal carbon footprint."

"Environmentalists are in Copenhagen demanding global limits on emissions, but they don't want to follow the very rules they are proposing for the rest of the world," said Amy Ridenour, president of the National Center for Public Policy Research. "Their participation may earn them some media coverage, but it is having no effect on an agreement. In fact, the United Nations mostly banned them from even entering the conference, so their voluntary contribution to carbon emissions -- emissions they insist imperil the planet -- from this unnecessary travel is a stunning act of hypocrisy. Because we know they must be feeling very guilty about what they've done, and in most cases intend to continue doing indefinitely, we invented hypocrisy offsets as a humanitarian act."

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Almasi has served as director of media programs for Defenders of Property Rights, Putting People First and Accuracy in Academia. He is also an experienced writer. His commentaries have appeared in such publications as The Washington Post, The Houston Chronicle, The Detroit Free Press, The Miami Herald, The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Orlando Sentinel, among others.

Almasi is also co-author, with David Ridenour, of the 1990 book Nicaragua's Continuing Revolution (Signal Books).

Almasi is a 1989 graduate of Northwestern University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science with a specialization in both American Government and Comparative Political Systems. He lives in Virginia with his wife, Nancy.

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Cupertino, CA / Washington, D.C. - At today's annual meeting of Apple shareholders in Cupertino, California, Apple CEO Tim Cook informed investors that are primarily concerned with making reasonable economic returns that their money is no longer welcome.

The message came in response to the National Center for Public Policy Research's shareholder resolution <a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/Apple_Proposal_Statement_2014.pdf">asking</a> the tech giant to be transparent about its environmental activism and a question from the National Center about the company's environmental initiatives.

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Why Tim Cook Doesn't Care About 'The Bloody ROI'

Steve Jobs was once asked at an Apple [AAPL] shareholder meeting by a shareholder who wanted get some insights into his deepest thinking: “What keeps you awake at night?” Mr. Jobs replied, “Shareholder meetings.”

The wisdom of this insight was borne out last week when Mr. Jobs’s successor at Apple, Tim Cook, was asked at the annual shareholder meeting by the NCPPR, the conservative finance group, to disclose the costs of Apple’s energy sustainability programs, and make a commitment to doing only those things that were profitable.

Mr. Cook replied –with an uncharacteristic display of emotion–that a return on investment (ROI) was not the primary consideration on such issues. “When we work on making our devices accessible by the blind,” he said, “I don’t consider the bloody ROI.” It was the same thing for environmental issues, worker safety, and other areas that don’t have an immediate profit. The company does “a lot of things for reasons besides profit motive. We want to leave the world better than we found it.”

Reportedly looking directly at the NCPPR representative, he said, “If you want me to do things only for ROI reasons, you should get out of this stock.”

The National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR) attended the meeting as shareholder. It describes itself as a conservative think tank and was pushing a shareholder proposal that would have required Apple to disclose the costs of its sustainability programs and to be more transparent about its participation in “certain trade associations and business organizations promoting the amorphous concept of environmental sustainability.”

Mr. Cook made clear that Apple would continue with energy sustainability and its other initiatives. Most of the shareholders went along with that: the NCPPR’s proposal received just 2.95 percent of the vote.

How Apple makes money

One can understand Mr. Cook’s emotion, as the CEO of the one of the most profitable companies on the planet, to be attacked for insufficient attention to making money. What the question revealed was a fundamental misunderstanding on the part of the NCPPR as to how and why Apple is so successful in making money....

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<h3 class="r" style=" font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/MarriottShareholderQuestion2014.pdf" style=" color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Question - National Center for Public Policy Research</a></h3>

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<div class="f slp" style=" color: rgb(128, 128, 128);"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:YRN9NwMXKSQJ:www.nationalcenter.org/MarriottShareholderQuestion2014.pdf+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">May 9, 2014 - I'm Justin Danhof of the National Center for Public Policy Research, a free-‐market ... Judy Kent at (703) 759-7476 or jkent@nationalcenter.org.</a></div>

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<h3 class="r" style=" font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:YRN9NwMXKSQJ:www.nationalcenter.org/MarriottShareholderQuestion2014.pdf+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"> </a><a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/Apple_Proposal_Statement_2014.pdf" style=" color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Proposal - National Center for Public Policy Research</a></h3>

</li><li class="action-menu-item ab_dropdownitem" role="menuitem" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 1.2; list-style: none; -webkit-user-select: none; cursor: pointer;"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:mZPc38HbhtQJ:www.nationalcenter.org/Apple_Proposal_Statement_2014.pdf+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"> </a></li>

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<div class="f slp" style=" color: rgb(128, 128, 128);"><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?espv=2&biw=1191&bih=724&q=related:www.nationalcenter.org/Apple_Proposal_Statement_2014.pdf+jkent%40nationalcenter.org&tbo=1&sa=X&ei=_JeoU5XAEdProASN1IDYAw&ved=0CCcQHzAB" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">The National Center for Public Policy Research. February 28, 2014 ... Judy Kent at (703) 759-7476 or jkent@nationalcenter.org. The National Center for Public  ...</a></div>

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<h3 class="r" style=" font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?espv=2&biw=1191&bih=724&q=related:www.nationalcenter.org/Apple_Proposal_Statement_2014.pdf+jkent%40nationalcenter.org&tbo=1&sa=X&ei=_JeoU5XAEdProASN1IDYAw&ved=0CCcQHzAB" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"> </a><a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/WellpointShareholderQuestion2014.pdf" style=" color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">here - National Center for Public Policy Research</a></h3>

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<div class="f slp" style=" color: rgb(128, 128, 128);"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:w3h7dTGooHcJ:www.nationalcenter.org/WellpointShareholderQuestion2014.pdf+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">May 14, 2014 - I'm David Hogberg, policy analyst at the National Center for Public Policy Research ... Judy Kent at (703) 759-7476 or jkent@nationalcenter.org.</a></div>

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<h3 class="r" style=" font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:w3h7dTGooHcJ:www.nationalcenter.org/WellpointShareholderQuestion2014.pdf+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"> </a><a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/AmazonShareholderQuestion2014.pdf" style=" color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">here - National Center for Public Policy Research</a></h3>

</li><li class="action-menu-item ab_dropdownitem" role="menuitem" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 1.2; list-style: none; -webkit-user-select: none; cursor: pointer;"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:jEKOW97bhKkJ:www.nationalcenter.org/AmazonShareholderQuestion2014.pdf+&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"> </a></li>

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<div class="f slp" style=" color: rgb(128, 128, 128);"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:jEKOW97bhKkJ:www.nationalcenter.org/AmazonShareholderQuestion2014.pdf+&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">May 21, 2014 - colleague at the National Center, Amy Ridenour, who is an Amazon shareholder. ... Judy Kent at (703) 759-7476 or jkent@nationalcenter.org.</a></div>

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<h3 class="r" style=" font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:jEKOW97bhKkJ:www.nationalcenter.org/AmazonShareholderQuestion2014.pdf+&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"> </a><a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/MerckShareholderQuestion2014.pdf" style=" color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">who have done just that - National Center for Public Policy ...</a></h3>

</li><li class="action-menu-item ab_dropdownitem" role="menuitem" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 1.2; list-style: none; -webkit-user-select: none; cursor: pointer;"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:RzLusvjJ2ugJ:www.nationalcenter.org/MerckShareholderQuestion2014.pdf+&cd=5&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"> </a></li>

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<div class="f slp" style=" color: rgb(128, 128, 128);"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:RzLusvjJ2ugJ:www.nationalcenter.org/MerckShareholderQuestion2014.pdf+&cd=5&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">May 27, 2014 - I'm Justin Danhof of the National Center for Public Policy Research, a free-‐market ... Judy Kent at (703) 759-7476 or jkent@nationalcenter.org  ...</a></div>

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<h3 class="r" style=" font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:RzLusvjJ2ugJ:www.nationalcenter.org/MerckShareholderQuestion2014.pdf+&cd=5&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"> </a><a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/HumanaShareholderQuestion2014.pdf" style=" color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">here - National Center for Public Policy Research</a></h3>

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<div class="f slp" style=" color: rgb(128, 128, 128);"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:sLkkDKA8OS0J:www.nationalcenter.org/HumanaShareholderQuestion2014.pdf+&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">Apr 29, 2014 - I'm David Hogberg, senior fellow at the National Center for Public Policy Research. ... Judy Kent at (703) 759-7476 or jkent@nationalcenter.org.</a></div>

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<h3 class="r" style=" font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:sLkkDKA8OS0J:www.nationalcenter.org/HumanaShareholderQuestion2014.pdf+&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"> </a><a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/GrouponShareholderQuestion2014.pdf" style=" color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">here - National Center for Public Policy Research</a></h3>

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<div class="f slp" style=" color: rgb(128, 128, 128);"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:cZB-JmUHya4J:www.nationalcenter.org/GrouponShareholderQuestion2014.pdf+&cd=7&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">May 20, 2014 - colleague at the National Center, David Ridenour, who is a Groupon shareholder. ... Judy Kent at (703) 759-7476 or jkent@nationalcenter.org.</a></div>

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<h3 class="r" style=" font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:cZB-JmUHya4J:www.nationalcenter.org/GrouponShareholderQuestion2014.pdf+&cd=7&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"> </a><a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/GannettShareholderQuestion2014.pdf" style=" color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">here - National Center for Public Policy Research</a></h3>

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<div class="f slp" style=" color: rgb(128, 128, 128);"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:JyxJHqSWUTsJ:www.nationalcenter.org/GannettShareholderQuestion2014.pdf+&cd=8&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">The National Center for Public Policy Research. May 1, 2014 ... Judy Kent at (703) 759-7476 or jkent@nationalcenter.org. The National Center for Public Policy  ...</a></div>

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<div class="f slp" style=" color: rgb(128, 128, 128);"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:OQ43tLLSlbEJ:www.nationalcenter.org/UnitedHealthShareholderQuestion2014.pdf+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">Jun 2, 2014 - I'm David Ridenour of the National Center for Public Policy Research, ...Judy Kent at (703) 759-7476 or jkent@nationalcenter.org.</a></div>

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<h3 class="r" style=" font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:OQ43tLLSlbEJ:www.nationalcenter.org/UnitedHealthShareholderQuestion2014.pdf+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"> </a><a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/Shareholder_Statement_Monstanto_GMOs_2014.pdf" style=" color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">urge Monsanto shareholders - National Center for Public ...</a></h3>

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<div class="meta" style="line-height: 15px;"><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?espv=2&biw=1191&bih=724&q=related:www.nationalcenter.org/Shareholder_Statement_Monstanto_GMOs_2014.pdf+jkent%40nationalcenter.org&tbo=1&sa=X&ei=_JeoU5XAEdProASN1IDYAw&ved=0CFYQHzAJ" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"> by </a><a href="http://www.prwatch.org/users/35268/lisa-graves" title="View user profile.">Lisa Graves</a> — April 19, 2012 - 3:22pm </div>

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</div><div>Just as the <a href="http://www.ALECexposed.org" title="reference on American Legislative Exchange Council" target="blank" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;">American Legislative Exchange Council</a> (ALEC) <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2012/04/11456/grassroots-campaign-makes-alec-try-stanch-bleeding-corporate-donors-alec-companie" title="reference on tried to distance" target="blank" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;">tried to distance</a> itself from its role pushing parts of the NRA's gun agenda and making it more difficult for American citizens to vote, a controversial right-wing operation has announced that it will step in to help carry forward the "voter ID" agenda. The "<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research" title="reference on National Center for Public Policy Research" target="self" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;">National Center for Public Policy Research</a>" (NCPPR) <a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/PR-VoterID_041812.html" title="reference on announced Wednesday" target="blank" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;">announced Wednesday</a> that it will form a "Voter Identification Task Force."</div></div></div><div class="content clearfix" style="line-height: 15px;">

This comes in response to ALEC's announcement Tuesday that it will dismantle its "<a href="http://alecexposed.org/wiki/Guns,Prisons,Crime,and_Immigration" title="reference on Public Safety and Elections Task Force" target="blank">Public Safety and Elections Task Force</a>" through which corporate lobbyists and elected officials voted behind closed doors to approve "model" legislation that creates obstacles to American citizens voting through restrictive voter ID bills, as well as other damaging legislation, such as reckless gun laws that have been cited to protect violent vigilantes from being held accountable.

NCPPR's press release scolds the 11 corporations, as of yesterday, that have recently announced they had dropped out of ALEC, which has come under intense scrutiny as a result of the Center for Media and Democracy's <a href="http://www.ALECexposed.org" title="reference on ALEC Exposed" target="_blank">ALEC Exposed</a> investigation and the efforts CMD, Color of Change, Common Cause, People of the American Way, Progress Now!, and other groups as well as Daily Kos bloggers. A growing number of concerned citizens are speaking up about ALEC across the country.

NCPPR even set up an email for corporations to reach out to if they "regret" their decision to cut ties with ALEC under the theme "we are not yellow." NCPPR asserts that corporations have succumbed to the "left-wing" which is supposedly using a "trotskyite strategy of making relentless demand-after-demand."

NCPPR is not well known but has hosted other attacks on good government and watchdog groups through a site called "GroupSnoop," which posts highly inaccurate "profiles" of organizations like the Center for Media and Democracy.

With NCPPR taking the mantle of fighting voter fraud, NCPPR's historical role in troubling operations is worth a closer look.

<h2>Distributing Millions in Charitable Donations as Directed by Jack Abramoff</h2>

As documented by CMD's SourceWatch, NCPPR was involved in part of the scandal that brought down RNC buddy and disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff. According to a U.S. Senate investigation of the financial dealings and influence peddling of Abramoff, NCPPR's founder and president, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Amy_Moritz_Ridenour" title="reference on Amy Moritz Ridenour" target="_self">Amy Moritz Ridenour</a>, directed money received by NCPPR at Abramoff's direction, to other "charities," again at his direction. Specifically, Ridenour admitted that in 2002 she received a one million dollar gift to NCPPR from the Mississippi Band of Choctaws. That tribe had been paying Abramoff to help secure its casino business. NCPPR also received $1.5 million from Abramoff's then-law firm, Greenberg Traurig.

She told the Senate that, at Abramoff's direction, she gave $700,000 of the money NCPPR received to one of his "charities," called the "Capitol Athletic Foundation" (CAF). CAF, which was publicly touting that it was established to help inner city kids get more involved in athetics, reportedly used donations to fund luxury golf trips for (then) Members of Congress, like Ohio Representative Bob Ney. Ney served 17 months in prison for his role in the scandal. CAF also bought sniper scopes and camouflage for West Bank settlers in Israel, among other things.

She also testified that she directed $1.275 million received by NCPPR to another Abramoff entity called "Kaygold, LLC," whose address was listed as that of her then-board member, Abramoff. Ridenour testified that she thought Kaygold was controlled by Michael "Sean" Scanlon, Congressman <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tom_DeLay" title="reference on Tom DeLay" target="_self">Tom DeLay</a>'s former communications director, who later pleaded guilty to the criminal charge of conspiracy to bribe public officials. Scanlon was publicly known to be working closely with Abramoff.

In addition, NCPPR's Ridenour told congressional investigators that she also gave $500,000 to Scanlon's "Capital Campaign Strategies."

Abramoff was convicted of mail fraud and conspiracy for his dealings with legislators, and he resigned from the board of NCPPR. Ridenour was not charged with any federal crimes for distributing tax-deductible donations NCPPR's received to entities controlled by Abramoff and his associates.

<h2>NCPPR Has a History of Sending "Fright Mail" to Senior Citizens</h2>

Also, as noted in CMD's SourceWatch, about a decade ago, NCPPR came under intense scrutiny for its fundraising tactics. NCPPR had been accused of bombarding senior citizens with "fright mail." According to an article by Diane Walsh of the San Francisco Examiner, NCPPR had contracted out its mailing of <a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002075044_repubs28m.html" title="reference on repetitive and frightening letters" target="_blank">repetitive and frightening letters</a> to the direct mail mill, Response Dynamics, which helps right-wing politicians and groups raise money.

NCPPR's leader Ridenour told the press that "her organization sent donors up to a dozen major pitches a month. The appeals are sent on four different letterheads. She said anyone receiving more than a dozen solicitations in a month probably was on mailing lists the National Center has 'rented' from other organizations, which she said were outside her control."

Another commentor in 2010 urged fellow citizens to "Be VERY careful before giving money to this organization. You will be swamped by mail and they do not honor requests to be removed from mailing lists." Yet another commentor stated "the National Center for Public Policy Research has several 'projects' such as The National Retirement Security Task Force, etc. These projects simply acquire the names of older people and mail them requests for donations. These requests are sent with letters intended to scare the recipient into donating. Often these requests are sent via Certified Mail in the hope that the recipient will think the contents more important." NCPPR was cited by three other anonymous commentors for praise who said the group shed light on government corruption.

<h2>Who Else Has Funded NCPPR, Aside from Friends of Jack Abramoff?</h2>

Over the years, NCPPR <a href="http://mediamattersaction.org/transparency/organization/National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research/funders" title="reference on has received funding" target="blank">has received funding</a> from numerous charitable foundations created by billionaires and millionaires who are funding an array of right-wing ventures to dramatically change American public policy. These include the foundation of the Coors family, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Castle_Rock_Foundation" title="reference on Castle Rock Foundation" target="self">Castle Rock Foundation</a>, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_M.Olin_Foundation" title="reference on John M. Olin Foundation" target="self">John M. Olin Foundation</a>, the Milwaukee-based <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lynde_and_Harry_Bradley_Foundation" title="reference on Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation" target="self">Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation</a>, and the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sarah_Scaife_Foundation" title="reference on Sarah Scaife Foundation" target="self">Sarah Scaife Foundation</a>. Other NCPPR funders have included the Armstrong Foundation, Brady Education Foundation, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Carthage_Foundation" title="reference on Carthage Foundation" target="self">Carthage Foundation</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Earhart_Foundation" title="reference on Earhart Foundation" target="self">Earhart Foundation</a>, Gordon and Mary Cain Foundation, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Leadership_Institute" title="reference on Leadership Institute" target="self">Leadership Institute</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Randolph_Foundation" title="reference on Randolph Foundation" target="self">Randolph Foundation</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Roe_Foundation" title="reference on Roe Foundation" target="self">Roe Foundation</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Shelby_Cullom_Davis_Foundation" title="reference on Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation" target="self">Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation</a>, and the William H. Donner Foundation.

According to Greenpeace's research, NCPPR has also <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=59" title="reference on received" target="blank">received</a> several hundreds of thousands of dollars from the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Exxon_Mobil_Corporation" title="reference on Exxon Mobil Corporation" target="self">Exxon Mobil Corporation</a>. Exxon is also a member of ALEC's corporate board and funder of ALEC. So, perhaps it should surprise no one that NCPPR is part of the so-called "Cooler Heads Coalition," an effort of the "Competitive Enterprise Institute," which is focused on part of the oil industry's climate change denial machinery. ALEC has also helped advance this agenda, as noted by PRWatch, opposing regional agreements to address climate change and even hosting a workshop for ALEC politicians last year about "Warming Up to Climate Change," about how increased carbon dioxide is supposedly good for you and leads to longer lifespans.

<h2>Now NCPPR Takes on Voter Fraud, along with a Threat?</h2>

In the wake of ALEC's termination of its task force that had advanced "Voter ID" legislation that may thwart and chill citizen voting in this year's elections, NCPPR has jumped into the fray, claiming to take up ALEC's mantle on voter fraud, despite the fact that numerous studies have documented that <a href="http://www.brennancenter.org/content/resource/policy_brief_on_the_truth_about_voter_fraud/" title="reference on voter fraud in the U.S. is exceedingly rare" target="_blank">voter fraud in the U.S. is exceedingly rare</a>.

In NCPPR's press release on its new role as a watchdog against fraud in voting ends with the following threat, an unusual choice in the wake of the controversy over the shooting of unarmed high school student Trayvon Martin, which helped shine the spotlight on ALEC's pushing the NRA's extreme gun agenda: "Unlike the Center for American Progress, the National Center for Public Policy Research eschews the use of violent references such as 'War Room.' We are, however, inspired by a particular passage in the 1987 movie The Untouchables: 'They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way.' Indeed."

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(Sara Jerving contributed to this report.)  <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/node/11466">http://www.prwatch.org/node/11466</a>

image: National Center for Public Policy Research Chairman Amy Ridenour testifying before Congress.

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<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" style="line-height: 15px;">National Center for Public Policy Research</h1>

(This article is under review and being updated.)

The National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR) conducts an array of operations to advance its policy and financial agenda.

<h2>Contents</h2>

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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research#Controversies_regarding_the_NCPPR">1 Controversies regarding the NCPPR</a>

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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research#.22Fright_Mail.22_Firm">1.1 "Fright Mail" Firm</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research#Distributing_Millions_in_Charitable_Donations_as_Directed_by_Jack_Abramoff">1.2 Distributing Millions in Charitable Donations as Directed by Jack Abramoff</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research#Funding_Sources">2 Funding Sources</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research#Issue_Positions">3 Issue Positions</a>

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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research#Environment.2FGlobal_warming_denial">3.1 Environment/Global warming denial</a></li>

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

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research#Historical_information">5 Historical information</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research#Contact_information">6 Contact information</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research#SourceWatch_resources">7 SourceWatch resources</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research#External_resources">8 External resources</a>

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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research#External_articles">8.1 External articles</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research#References">9 References</a></li>

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<h2>Controversies regarding the NCPPR</h2>

<h3>"Fright Mail" Firm</h3>

NCPPR has been criticized for bombarding senior citizens with "fright mail." According to an article by Diane Walsh of the San Francisco Examiner, NCPPR contracts out its mailing of repetitive and frightening letters to the right-wing direct mail mill, Response Dynamics.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research#cite_note-0" title="">[1]</a> NCPPR's leader <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Amy_Moritz_Ridenour" title="Amy Moritz Ridenour">Amy Moritz Ridenour</a> admitted to an investigative reporter that "her organization sent donors up to a dozen major pitches a month. The appeals are sent on four different letterheads. She said anyone receiving more than a dozen solicitations in a month probably was on mailing lists the National Center has "rented" from other organizations, which she said were outside her control."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research#cite_note-1" title="">[2]</a>

According to comments on Guidestar, adult children of senior citizens targeted by NCPPR are not happy with the group's tactics. One commentor asserted "Amy R. is the Queen of Scare Mail. My father receives 5-15 letters from them per day under four different names (maybe more I hadn't realized the association). He started giving to them in 2009 and gave them thousands of dollars little by little. When I found out he was spending all his money, I started tracking his junk mail and putting him on a charity budget."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research#cite_note-2" title="">[3]</a>. That commentor added that: "In my opinion, the biggest challenges facing this organization are... Children of the elderly who find out what they are doing" and "They are Parasites feeding off the elderly!"<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research#cite_note-3" title="">[4]</a> Another commentor in 2010 urged fellow citizens to "Be VERY careful before giving money to this organization. You will be swamped by mail and they do not honor requests to be removed from mailing lists."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research#cite_note-4" title="">[5]</a> Yet another commentor stated "the National Center for Public Policy Research has several 'projects' such as The National Retirement Security Task Force, etc. These projects simply acquire the names of older people and mail them requests for donations. These requests are sent with letters intended to scare the recipient into donating. Often these requests are sent via Certified Mail in the hope that the recipient will think the contents more important." NCPPR was cited by three other anonymous commentors for praise for supposedly shedding light on government corruption.

<h3>Distributing Millions in Charitable Donations as Directed by Jack Abramoff</h3>

According to a U.S. Senate investigation of the financial dealings and influence peddling of disgraced right-wing lobbyist <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jack_Abramoff" title="Jack Abramoff">Jack Abramoff</a>, NCPPR's Amy Ridenour directed money received from tribes and others, at Abramoff's direction, and distributed it to other "charities," again at his direction.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research#cite_note-5" title="">[6]</a>. Specifically, Ridenhour admitted that in 2002 she received a one million dollar gift from the Mississippi Band of Choctaws, who had been paying Abramoff to help secure its casino business, and also received $1.5 million from Abramoff's law firm, Greenburg Traurig. At Abramoff's direction, she gave $700,000 of this money to one of Jack Abramoff's "charities" called the "Capitol Athletic Foundation" (CAF). <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research#cite_note-6" title="">[7]</a> CAF reportedly used money it received from a variety of sources not to help inner city kids but to fund luxury golf trips for Members of Congress, like Bob Ney, and to buy sniper scopes and camouflage for West Bank settlers in Israel, among other things. Ridenour also directed $1.275 million to received at another Abramoff entity called "Kaygold, LLC," whose address was listed as her board member, Abramoff's. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research#cite_note-7" title="">[8]</a> Ridenour testified that she thought Kaygold was controlled by Abramoff's colleague Michael "Sean" Scanlon, Congressman Tom DeLay's former communications director, who later pleaded guilty to the criminal charge of conspiracy to bribe public officials. She also gave $500,000 to Scanlon's "Capital Campaign Strategies." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research#cite_note-8" title="">[9]</a> Abramoff was convicted of mail fraud and conspiracy, and he resigned from the board of NCPPR. Ridenour was not charged with a crime for distributing tax-deductible donations NCPPR's received to entities controlled by Abramoff and his associates.

<h2>Funding Sources</h2>

Between 1998 and 2008, NCPPR received $445,000 in funding from <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=ExxonMobil" title="ExxonMobil" class="mw-redirect">ExxonMobil</a>. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research#cite_note-9" title="">[10]</a>

NCPPR has also received funding from the following sources:<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research#cite_note-10" title="">[11]</a>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=The_Armstrong_Foundation&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Armstrong Foundation (page does not exist)">The Armstrong Foundation</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Brady_Education_Foundation&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Brady Education Foundation (page does not exist)">Brady Education Foundation</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Carthage_Foundation" title="Carthage Foundation" class="mw-redirect">Carthage Foundation</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Castle_Rock_Foundation" title="Castle Rock Foundation">Castle Rock Foundation</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Earhart_Foundation" title="Earhart Foundation">Earhart Foundation</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gordon_and_Mary_Cain_Foundation&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gordon and Mary Cain Foundation (page does not exist)">Gordon and Mary Cain Foundation</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_M._Olin_Foundation" title="John M. Olin Foundation">John M. Olin Foundation</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Leadership_Institute" title="Leadership Institute" class="mw-redirect">Leadership Institute</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lynde_and_Harry_Bradley_Foundation" title="Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation">Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Randolph_Foundation" title="Randolph Foundation">Randolph Foundation</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Roe_Foundation" title="Roe Foundation">Roe Foundation</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sarah_Scaife_Foundation" title="Sarah Scaife Foundation" class="mw-redirect">Sarah Scaife Foundation</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Shelby_Cullom_Davis_Foundation" title="Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation">Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=William_H.Donner_Foundation&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William H.Donner Foundation (page does not exist)">William H.Donner Foundation</a></li>

</ul>

<h2>Issue Positions</h2>

<h3>Environment/Global warming denial</h3>

The NCPPR retains a "firm belief that private owners are the best stewards of the environment" and "advocates private, free market solutions to today's environmental challenges."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research#cite_note-11" title="">[12]</a> The Center for Environmental and Regulatory Affairs Task Force regularly publishes articles detailing the views of the center on various environmental policy issues. They deny the that a scientific consensus exists on the role of humans in global warming <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research#cite_note-12" title="">[13]</a> and question the credibility of scientists that have publicly defended the science on global warming.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research#cite_note-13" title="">[14]</a> Global warming has been described by the NCPPR as an "unproven premise" and as a science that "is not settled." NCPPR analyst Amy Rideenour even went so far as to claim that global warming is a religion:

"The unquestioned adherence to the theory of Global Warming bears all the markings of what traditionally would be recognized as a religion. Complete with sin (the emitting of carbon dioxide), scriptures (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment reports), commandments (drive a Prius, use Compact Florescent Light bulbs, do not eat meat, etc.), indulgences (carbon offsets), proselytism and prophets (Al Gore), priests (scientists), prophecy and apocalypse (floods, hurricanes, dead polar bears), infidels (Warming skeptics), and salvation (the halting of carbon-emitting industrial progress), the religion of Global Warming fits the mold. "<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research#cite_note-14" title="">[15]</a>

<h2>GroupSnoop</h2>

In October 2011 NCPPR launched GroupSnoop, a project that purports "to provide a candid, documented analysis of the work and impact of the nation’s most influential public policy-oriented non-profits." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research#cite_note-15" title="">[16]</a> NCPPR uses the site to try to attack and discredit organizations which do not promote its agenda, some of which include the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_American_Progress" title="Center for American Progress">Center for American Progress</a>, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Civil_Liberties_Union" title="American Civil Liberties Union">American Civil Liberties Union</a>, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Colored_People" title="National Association for the Advancement of Colored People">National Association for the Advancement of Colored People</a>, and the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_Media_%26_Democracy.&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Center for Media & Democracy. (page does not exist)">Center for Media & Democracy.</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research#cite_note-16" title="">[17]</a>

<h2>Historical information</h2>

NCPPR began operations in 1982. Its website states that the organization "helped change public opinion through vocal national campaigns aimed at supporting Reagan administration initiatives concerning the USSR, arms control, Central America and human rights." Its more recent focus is on environmental policies; it has stated that "private owners are the best stewards of the environment." The organization also promotes "regulatory horror stories" to fight environmental protection policies like the Endangered Species Act.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research#cite_note-17" title="">[18]</a> The NCPPR reported a total revenue in 2009 of $11.6 million.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research#cite_note-18" title="">[19]</a>

<h2>Contact information</h2>

National Center for Public Policy Research

501 Capitol Court NE

Washington DC 20002

Phone: (202) 543-4110

Fax: (202) 543-5975

Email: info@nationalcenter.org

URL: <a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/" class="external free" title="http://www.nationalcenter.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.nationalcenter.org/</a>

<h2>SourceWatch resources</h2>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Amy_Moritz_Ridenour" title="Amy Moritz Ridenour">Amy Moritz Ridenour</a></li>

</ul>

<h2>External resources</h2>

<ul>

<li>"<a href="http://www.mediatransparency.org/recipientprofile.php?recipientID=682" class="external text" title="http://www.mediatransparency.org/recipientprofile.php?recipientID=682" rel="nofollow">National Center for Public Policy Research, Inc.</a>", Media Transparency, accessed May 2005.</li>

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<h3>External articles</h3>

<ul>

<li>"<a href="http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/examiner/a/1998/02/08/NEWS3642.dtl" class="external text" title="http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/examiner/a/1998/02/08/NEWS3642.dtl" rel="nofollow">Diana Walsh, "The Fear Merchants," San Francisco Examiner, February 8, 1998, p. A1.</a></li>

<li>Bill Berkowitz, "<a href="http://www.mediatransparency.org/story.php?storyID=61" class="external text" title="http://www.mediatransparency.org/story.php?storyID=61" rel="nofollow">The National Center for Public Policy Research: Tom DeLay's Right Arm</a>", Media Transparency, May 2, 2005.</li>

<li>James V. Grimaldi and Susan Schmidt, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/12/AR2006101200889.html" class="external text" title="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/12/AR2006101200889.html" rel="nofollow">"Senate Report: Five Nonprofit Groups Sold Clout to Abramoff,"</a> Washington Post, October 12, 2006.</li>

<li>Press release, "<a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/P21PR-Krugman_Race_080709.html" class="external text" title="http://www.nationalcenter.org/P21PR-Krugman_Race_080709.html" rel="nofollow">Black Activists Call on Obama to Condemn Race-Baiting Tactics in Health Care Debate</a>," National Center for Public Policy Research / Project 21, August 7, 2009.</li>

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<h2>References</h2>

<li id="cite_note-0"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research#cite_ref-0" title="">↑</a> Diane Walsh, "The fear merchants: 'Fright mail' fund-raisers targeting elderly with scare tactics?," San Francisco Examiner (Feb. 8, 1998), available at <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/e/a/1998/02/08/NEWS3642.dtl#ixzz1bH7jvahA" class="external free" title="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/e/a/1998/02/08/NEWS3642.dtl#ixzz1bH7jvahA" rel="nofollow">http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/e/a/1998/02/08/NEWS3642.dtl#ixzz1bH7jvahA</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research#cite_ref-2" title="">↑</a> Guidestar.org, available at <a href="http://www2.guidestar.org/organizations/52-1226614/national-center-public-policy-research.aspx" class="external free" title="http://www2.guidestar.org/organizations/52-1226614/national-center-public-policy-research.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://www2.guidestar.org/organizations/52-1226614/national-center-public-policy-research.aspx</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-5"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research#cite_ref-5" title="">↑</a> U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, "Gimme Five--Investigation of Tribal Lobbying Matters," (hereinafter U.S. Senate Investigation of Jack Abramoff and Associates), pp. 299-305 (June 22, 2006) (pdf uploaded and available <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=File:US_Senate_Investigation_of_Jack_Abramoff.pdf" class="external text" title="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=File:US_Senate_Investigation_of_Jack_Abramoff.pdf" rel="nofollow">here</a>; See also More Details on Abramoff's relationship with Ridenhour and NCPPR, available <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=File:Abramoff_and_Ridenhour.pdf" class="external text" title="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=File:Abramoff_and_Ridenhour.pdf" rel="nofollow">here</a>)</li>

<li id="cite_note-6"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research#cite_ref-6" title="">↑</a> U.S. Senate Investigation of Jack Abramoff and Associates, pp. 299-305.</li>

<li id="cite_note-7"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research#cite_ref-7" title="">↑</a> U.S. Senate Investigation of Jack Abramoff and Associates, pp. 299-305</li>

<li id="cite_note-8"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research#cite_ref-8" title="">↑</a> U.S. Senate Investigation of Jack Abramoff and Associates, pp. 299-305</li>

<li id="cite_note-9"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research#cite_ref-9" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=59" class="external text" title="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=59" rel="nofollow">Exxon Secrets Factsheet, A Greenpeace Project</a> accessed October 28 2011</li>

<li id="cite_note-10"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research#cite_ref-10" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://mediamattersaction.org/transparency/organization/National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research/funders" class="external text" title="http://mediamattersaction.org/transparency/organization/National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research/funders" rel="nofollow">Media Matters Action Network</a> accessed October 28, 2011</li>

<li id="cite_note-11"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research#cite_ref-11" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/NCPPRHist.html" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.nationalcenter.org/NCPPRHist.html" rel="nofollow">[1]</a> accessed October 28, 2011</li>

<li id="cite_note-12"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research#cite_ref-12" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.conservativeblog.org/amyridenour/2011/3/10/spot-the-bias-in-ny-times-global-warming-hearing-story.html" class="external text" title="http://www.conservativeblog.org/amyridenour/2011/3/10/spot-the-bias-in-ny-times-global-warming-hearing-story.html" rel="nofollow">Spot the Bias in NY Times Global Warming Hearing Story</a> Amy Ridenour's National Center Blog, May 10, 2011, accessed October 28, 2011</li>

<li id="cite_note-13"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research#cite_ref-13" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA601.html" class="external text" title="http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA601.html" rel="nofollow">Climate of Confusion: Global Warming "Science" a Blizzard of Contradictions</a> Dana Joel Gattuso, National Policy Analysis, February 2010, accessed October 28, 2010</li>

<li id="cite_note-14"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research#cite_ref-14" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/2009/12/church-of-global-warming.html" class="external text" title="http://www.nationalcenter.org/2009/12/church-of-global-warming.html" rel="nofollow">The Church of Global Warming</a> Amy Ridneour, National Center Blog, December 16, 2009, accessed October 28, 2011</li>

<li id="cite_note-15"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research#cite_ref-15" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.americanconservativedaily.com/2011/10/groupsnoop-org-launches-to-monitor-non-profits/" class="external text" title="http://www.americanconservativedaily.com/2011/10/groupsnoop-org-launches-to-monitor-non-profits/" rel="nofollow">GroupSnoop.org Launches to Monitor Non-Profits</a> NCPPR Press Release, October 16, 2011, accessed October 28, 2011</li>

<li id="cite_note-16"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research#cite_ref-16" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.groupsnoop.org/" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.groupsnoop.org/" rel="nofollow">[2]</a> accessed October 28, 2011</li>

<li id="cite_note-17"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research#cite_ref-17" title="">↑</a> National Center for Public Policy Research <a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/NCPPRHist.html" class="external text" title="http://www.nationalcenter.org/NCPPRHist.html" rel="nofollow">About Us</a>, organizational web page, accessed January 25, 2012</li>

<li id="cite_note-18"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research#cite_ref-18" title="">↑</a> National Center for Public Policy Research/Guidestar <a href="http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments//2009/521/226/2009-521226614-06a6e008-9.pdf" class="external text" title="http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments//2009/521/226/2009-521226614-06a6e008-9.pdf" rel="nofollow">2009 IRS Form 990</a>, Government reporting form, accessed January 25, 2012</li>

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Continuing along the Response Dynamics trail led us to the National Center for Public Policy Research. The mother of another DU-er received an almost identical scam letter involving Medicare from this group, also sent out by Response Dynamics. A little Googling revealed that NCPPR had also been cited for sending Social Security scam letters to the elderly back in 1998. (<a href="http://www.clearproject.org/ACVvol9no5.html" target="_blank">http://www.clearproject.org/ACVvol9no5.html</a> )

It also turned out the president of NCPPR, Amy Moritz Ridenour, had worked for Morton Blackwell during the 1980 Reagan campaign and it was he who encouraged her to join up with NCPPR. And there was another connection of interest -- Jack Abramoff, a director of NCPPR, had been national chairman of the College Republican National Committee from 1981 to 1985. It seems that the CRNP underwent its second flowering during these early years of the Reagan administration -- the executive director at this time was first Grover Norquist and then Ralph Reed.

Jack Abramoff's name is not a household word, but he's a big deal in conservative circles. He is a Bush "Pioneer" -- meaning he has made campaign donations to George W. of over $100,000. (<a href="http://www.stealthpacs.org/agent.cfm?agent_id=4920" target="blank">http://www.stealthpacs.org/agent.cfm?agent_id=4920</a> ) He worked to help build up Ralph Reed's Christian Coalition. He ran a front organization in the 80's for the South African apartheid government. And he is currently in a lot of trouble for his involvement with Indian casino gambling. (<a href="http://www.whitehouseforsale.org/ContributorsAndPaybacks/pioneer_profile.cfm?pioneer_ID=834" target="blank">http://www.whitehouseforsale.org/ContributorsAndPayback...</a> )

Remember Abramoff -- he's going to turn up again.

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<table><tbody><tr><td><a href="mailto:aridenour@nationalcenter.org" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Amy Moritz Ridenour</a>, Chairman

(<a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/bios/ridenoura.html" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">bio</a>)</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/images/ridenourd.jpg" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><img src="/f693438e-4b8f-5e97-b288-d53ce001f786.jpg"/></a></td><td><a href="mailto:dridenour@nationalcenter.org" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">David Ridenour</a>, President

(<a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/bios/ridenourd.html" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">bio</a>)  env andd enterprise inst: http://www.nationalcenter.org/bios/ridenourd.html  polar bears etc</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/images/almasi.jpg" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><img src="/98b9ccbc-f606-57ea-847c-768b86e1d539.jpg"/></a></td><td><a href="mailto:DAlmasi@nationalcenter.org" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">David W. Almasi</a>, Executive Director

(<a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/bios/almasi.html" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">bio</a>)</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/images/danhof.jpg" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><img src="/ea359f4a-1375-5eca-9959-fdbcd51485de.jpg"/></a></td><td><a href="mailto:jdanhof@nationalcenter.org" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Justin Danhof</a>, General Counsel & Director of the Free Enterprise Project

(<a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/bios/danhof.html" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">bio</a>)

Justin Danhof is the General Counsel for the National Center for Public Policy Research, as well as Director of the Center's Free Enterprise Project. Mr. Danhof previously worked as a research associate with the National Center for Public Policy Research from 2008 to 2009. Prior to joining the National Center for Public Policy Research, Mr. Danhof worked in the Miami-Dade State’s Attorney’s Office in the Economic Crimes and Cybercrimes Division, for the Massachusetts Alliance for Economic Development and at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Mr. Danhof’s work has been widely published and quoted in major newspapers, including the Christian Science Monitor, Washington Post, Sacramento Bee, Orange County Register, Politico, Bergen County Record and the Canadian National Post, among others.

Mr. Danhof is a member of the Federalist Society and Christian Legal Society.

Mr. Danhof is a graduate of Bentley University (Waltham, MA), where he received a Bachelor of Science in economics and finance and pitched for three seasons on the school’s NCAA Division II baseball team. Mr. Danhof completed his graduate studies at the University of Miami School of Law where he received his Juris Doctor and Master of Laws in Taxation.

Mr. Danhof is licensed to practice law in New York and Washington, D.C.

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<div id="about_CERA" style="padding: 10px; line-height: 19.5px;">About the Free Enterprise Project

The Free Enterprise Project (FEP) exposes efforts by left-wing interest groups to divert businesses away from best practices and into left-wing advocacy. Through research, media appearances, coalition-buildling, and even face-to-face confrontations at stockholder meetings, the FEP works to guard the American free-enterprise system from what is often its worst enemy: Corporate executives who don't adequately evaluate the impact of their decisions on shareholders, the economy and ultimately, the American  people.

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</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/images/stier.jpg" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><img src="/b17a19f4-5fd0-5238-a827-336f734727ed.jpg"/></a></td><td><a href="mailto:jstier@nationalcenter.org" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Jeff Stier</a>, Senior Fellow & Risk Analysis Division Director

(<a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/bios/stier.html" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">bio</a>) Jeff Stier is a Senior Fellow at the National Center for Public Policy Research in Washington, D.C., and heads its Risk Analysis Division.

Mr. Stier is a frequent guest on CNBC, and has addressed health policy on CNN, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, as well as network newscasts. He does over 100 radio shows a year, including on NPR and other nationally syndicated radio shows, as well as top-rated major market shows in cities including Boston, Philadelphia, and Dallas, plus regional broadcasts.

Jeff's National Center op-eds have been published in top outlets including The Los Angeles Times, The New York Post, Newsday, Forbes, The Washington Examiner, and National Review Online.

Stier has testified at FDA scientific meetings, met with members of Congress and their staff about science policy, and has submitted testimony to state government legislative hearings.

Mr. Stier worked both in the office of the Mayor and in Corporation Counsel's office in the Giuliani administration in New York City. His responsibilities included planning environmental agency programs, legal analysis of proposed legislation, and health policy.

Mr. Stier is Chairman of the board of the Jewish International Connection, NY. While earning his law degree at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Mr. Stier served two terms as Editor-In-Chief of the Cardozo Law Forum.</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/images/hogberg.jpg" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><img src="/f582c447-24fe-5c37-a051-8422c7f1c29b.jpg"/></a></td><td><a href="mailto:dhogberg@nationalcenter.org" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">David Hogberg</a>, Policy Analyst

(<a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/bios/hogberg.html" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">bio</a>) David Hogberg, Ph.D., is a health care policy analyst for the National Center for Public Policy Research.

Previously, Dr. Hogberg was a Washington Correspondent for Investor's Business Daily, specializing in his coverage of health care and Medicare.

Prior to IBD, he worked as a policy analyst studying health care and other issues for various think tanks, including the National Center for Public Policy Research, and for the office of Representative Jeff Fortenberry.

Dr. Hogberg holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Iowa. He is currently working on a book entitled Medicare's Victims: How The U.S. Government's Largest Health Care System Harms Patients And Impairs Physicians.

</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/images/cooper.jpg" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><img src="/1df1d101-618e-5270-a367-05abe6501cdf.jpg"/></a></td><td><a href="mailto:hcooper@nationalcenter.org" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Horace Cooper</a>, Adjunct Fellow & Co-Chair of Project 21

(<a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/bios/P21Speakers_Cooper.html" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">bio</a>) Horace Cooper is an adjunct fellow with the National Center for Public Policy Research, co-chairman of the Project 21 National Advisory Board and a legal commentator.

Horace averages over 400 talk radio appearances per year representing Project 21, in addition to regular television appearances and interviews by the print media, also for Project 21.

Horace taught constitutional law at George Mason University in Virginia and was general counsel to U.S. House Majority Leader Dick Armey.

Sample of Public Appearances by Horace Cooper:

<a href="http://www.conservativeblog.org/amyridenour/2014/4/24/black-conservative-schools-liberals-about-supreme-court-race.html">On MSNBC's "Hardball," Horace tackles liberal illogic favoring affirmative action</a> (4/22/14)

</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/images/lebon.jpg" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><img src="/f1fd8af9-eea6-5de2-ad62-87f8da26a330.jpg"/></a></td><td>Cherylyn Harley LeBon, Co-Chair of Project 21 (<a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/bios/P21Speakers_LeBon.html" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">bio</a>) Cherylyn Harley LeBon is Co-Chairman of the Project 21 National Advisory Board. Cherylyn averages over 300 radio/television interviews and news article citations per year on behalf of Project 21.

Cherylyn is currently President and CEO of KLAR Strategies, LLC, a public affairs firm. She previously served as a political appointee in the George W. Bush Administration; as a spokesman at the Republican National Committee; and as Senior Counsel for the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. She is a frequent guest on the FOX News Channel and national broadcast radio shows, and is a contributor to Townhall and Politicalistas. Follow her on Twitter @HarleyLeBon.

Sample of Public Appearances by Cherylyn Harley LeBon:

<a href="http://www.conservativeblog.org/amyridenour/2014/6/19/project-21s-lebon-discusses-logic-of-black-support-for-voter.html">On Soul of the South's "D.C. Breakdown," Cherylyn discusses black support for voter ID</a> (6/17/14)

</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/images/cohen.jpg" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><img src="/7853ce60-24a4-583b-86f4-defc56c48515.jpg"/></a></td><td><a href="mailto:bcohen@nationalcenter.org" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Bonner Cohen, Ph.D.</a>, Senior Fellow (<a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/bios/cohen.html" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">bio</a>)</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/images/smith.jpg" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><img src="/463337b8-4ad2-5c75-b0bd-53ff0ccf7747.jpg"/></a></td><td><a href="mailto:rsmith@nationalcenter.org" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">R.J. Smith</a>, Senior Fellow (<a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/bios/smith.html" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">bio</a>)

</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/images/gattuso.jpg" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><img src="/1d130994-d958-5bf2-af0f-ab4ec06b952f.jpg"/></a></td><td><a href="mailto:dgattuso@nationalcenter.org" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Dana Gattuso</a>, Senior Fellow

(<a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/bios/gattuso.html" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">bio</a>) Dana Joel Gattuso is Senior Fellow at The National Center for Public Policy Research.  Prior to joining The National Center, she served as an adjunct scholar at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, Washington liaison for the Property and Environment Research Center’s Center for Free Market Environmentalism, director of projects and issue management for environmental and regulatory affairs at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, director of research at the Pacific Research Institute, and deputy director of regulatory affairs at Citizens for a Sound Economy.

Mrs. Gattuso’s work has been widely published and quoted in major newspapers, news magazines and trade publications, including the New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, Fortune Magazine, Newsday, and the Dallas Morning News, among others.

She received her Bachelor of Science degree in economics from Butler University (Indianapolis, IN) and did graduate course work at George Mason University.

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In the early 1990s The National Center launched the Center for Environmental and Regulatory Affairs (CERA, originally named the Environmental Policy Task Force), to counter misinformation being spread to the public and policymakers by the environmental left. In 2012, CERA was renamed The Environment and Enterprise Institute (EEI) and Teresa Platt was hired as its Director... (<a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/CERA_about.html">read more</a>)

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</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/images/reagan.jpg" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><img src="/2f71ce17-7c8b-5e0d-8794-b96ef40bf90f.jpg"/></a></td><td><a href="mailto:sreagan@nationalcenter.org" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Scott Reagan</a>, Outreach Manager</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/images/diamond.jpg" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><img src="/bcce4bee-1cf6-57a0-9a7f-448be9f94b63.jpg"/></a></td><td><a href="mailto:bdiamond@nationalcenter.org" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Bethany Diamond</a>, Assistant to the Executive Director</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/images/biddison.jpg" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><img src="/6434877d-0678-52be-9d6f-09916b252dcb.jpg"/></a></td><td><a href="mailto:jbiddison@nationalcenter.org" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Jennifer Biddison</a>, Internet Consultant</td></tr></tbody></table>

<table><tbody><tr><td><a href="mailto:jkent@nationalcenter.org" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Judy Kent</a>, Public Relations</td></tr><tr><td><a href="mailto:info@nationalcenter.org" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Deroy Murdock</a>, Distinguished Fellow</td></tr><tr><td>Joe Roche, Adjunct Fellow</td></tr><tr><td>Julianna Ustica, Program Assistant</td></tr><tr><td><a href="mailto:nkelley@nationalcenter.org" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Nickie Kelley</a>, Program Assistant</td></tr><tr><td>Jennifer Lee, Program Assistant</td></tr></tbody></table>

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