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see CSR --> ESG

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promoted to primary, already crypto for trying to kill shareholder revolt; longtime milloy crony

tempted to go evil, as also connected to amy ridenour, core pjt 21 ilsi abramoff

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new trend is sweeping conservative America. It’s called the anti-ESG movement, or anti-”woke capitalism” movement, and it’s one of the biggest emerging barriers to corporate action on climate change.

Anti-ESG proponents want to stop corporations from following environmentally and socially conscious investing principles, commonly referred to as Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) principles. They say companies are prioritizing “left-wing” goals over the financial interests of businesses and their employees, and should be prevented by law from doing so.

This movement has gained a massive following in the last six months. Elon Musk supports it, as do billionaire investors Peter Thiel and Bill Ackman, who are are backing a new financial firm dedicated to anti-ESG investing. Banning “woke investing” is also one of the biggest recent priorities of Leonard A. Leo, the prominent conservative legal activist who runs one of the “best-funded and most sophisticated operations in American politics,” according to a New York Times investigation published Wednesday. In the past year, 17 states have proposed or adopted legislation seeking to bar state investments in “woke” companies[twt]

the anti-ESG movement frames itself as a strictly financial enterprise. Its proponents insist it’s not political movement. They’re simply trying to get politics out of the financial system so people can make the most money as possible.

But the anti-ESG movement is, at its core, a lobbying effort created by climate deniers to make money for fossil fuel companies. It did not originate with financial experts or economists, but with two prominent industry operatives who’ve spent decades spreading disinformation about the human health risks of fossil fuels and cigarettes.

These former coal and tobacco operatives first started their movement to ban socially conscious investing in 2004. Only now, nearly two decades later, have they been able to get mainstream conservative America on board.

The anti-ESG movement is the climate denial movement

Before the anti-ESG movement was the anti-ESG movement, it was the anti-CSR movement, the acronym standing for Corporate Social Responsibility. The two leaders of the anti-CSR movement were Steve Milloy and Tom Borelli.

Milloy is a former coal company executive and paid advocate for Phillip Morris and ExxonMobil. His career focus is developing communication strategies to deny or downplay the risks of tobacco and fossil fuel pollution. He is among the most prominent people “clouding the climate change debate,” according to theThe Washington Post.

Borelli is “one of the best-known of the science corrupters who worked for the tobacco industry,” according to The Center for Media and Democracy. In the 90s, while working for Phillip Morris, he led the tobacco industry’s efforts to team up with other polluting industries—like coal and chemicals—to promote anti-science rhetoric. “The climate denial movement is a direct result of these coalitions,” according to CMD. (He now promotes climate denial).

In 2004, Milloy and Borelli formed a non-profit called the Free Enterprise Education Institute. The non-profit’s purpose, according to its tax forms, was to “educate the public about the American system of free enterprise” by “maintaining a website about its research.”

The website they launched was called CSRwatch.com, and was marketed as a news destination for anyone opposed to “corporate social responsibility.” CSRwatch primarily aggregated news articles attacking corporations that had climate change and other socially conscious policies, like refusing to invest in child labor.

A February 16, 2006 screenshot of CSRwatch.com. Source: Wayback Machine.

One article posted to CSRwatch in 2006, for example, slammed corporations that refuse to invest in overseas sweatshops, saying they deprive children in developing countries of good paying jobs. "They try to shut down so-called sweatshops as though no jobs [are] better than what they consider to be low quality jobs, as though working as a 12-year-old beggar, thief or prostitute is better than working in a garment or shoe factory,” it read.

The article also slammed pro-indigenous corporate policies."I would love to meet just one corporate social responsibility activist … who's willing to go native for even one month and live in a state-of-the-art mud hut in malaria-infested rural Africa under the indigenous conditions they extol and perpetuate,"it read.

CSRWatch was directly funded by the fossil fuel industry. From 2004 to 2005, ExxonMobil gave the Free Enterprise Education Institute $80,000. The non-profit also received grants from a Koch family charity foundation, DonorsTrust, and The Randolph Foundation, all conservative groups with ties to fossil fuels.

The original anti-ESG investing movement was not so great at investing

CSRWatch was not Borelli and Milloy’s only effort to push back against ESG investing in the mid-2000s. They also set up a mutual fund called the The Free Enterprise Action Fund, designed to show that being anti-woke was also good business.

The fund sought to achieve long-term investment returns “while aggressively challenging CEOs who use shareholder assets to advance the liberal political agenda.”But, perhaps because neither Borelli nor Milloy had any experience managing money professionally, the fund didn’t do very well, according to a 2006 Slate piece:

Judging by the early returns, these free-marketers are failing the test of the marketplace. The fund has attracted a paltry $5.2 million in assets as of March 31. Returns have lagged the S&P 500 badly. In its first 10 months in business, the fund returned 2.32 percent while the S&P 500 rose 4.72 percent.

Of course, the fund’s poor performance could also simply have been explained by the fact that it’s bad business to ignore environmental and social risk factors.Indeed, this is why the bulk of the financial and corporate worlds don’t agree with the anti-ESG movement. They know that ESG investing, particularly investing with climate change risk in mind, is not ideological. It’s merely the smartest long-term financial decision.

The anti-ESG movement doesn’t agree with this assessment for one reason, and one reason only: They’re climate deniers. And the fact that they’re climate deniers is not a coincidence. That is what the fossil fuel industry intended.

The new anti-ESG movement: same folks, different face

The original anti-ESG movement eventually appeared to fizzle. CSRwatch.com stopped being updated in late 2007 and the domain expired in 2008. Shortly after, The Free Enterprise Action Fund was merged into a separate mutual fund that had nothing to do with anti-ESG advocacy.

The Free Enterprise Education Institute :{was then acquired by the :(style="background-color:#ffffff;"):}::{National Center for Public Policy Research:(style="background-color:#ff9900;"):}:, a much larger right-wing think tank funded by some of the similar players, including ExxonMobil. The NCPPR announced that Milloy and Borelli would remain at the head of the project, which would from then on be called the Free Enterprise Project.

At the time, Borelli said the merger would “significantly enhance our ability to educate the public on emerging threats to our free enterprise system.” And though it took about 14 years, it appears Borelli was correct.

The new anti-ESG financial firm backed by Peter Thiel and Bill Ackman, Strive Asset Management, is being led by Justin Danhof, the former executive Vice President of the NCPPR. In a recent interview with the Capitol Account newsletter,Danhof explained his qualifications: “I ran a program called the Free Enterprise Project,” he said. “We were really at the beginning of what you would call any sort of pushback against ESG, woke capital — before it was even a term.”

It may be more sophisticated today, but the anti-ESG movement is the same as it ever was: a political effort to delay climate action led by fossil fuel industry propagandists. It follows the classic playbook of climate disinformationby trying to “both sides” the idea of climate risk. But Witold Henisz, the director of the Wharton School’s ESG program, put it best: “Climate risk is investment risk. There is no credible other side, only an ideological opposition cynically seeking a wedge issue for upcoming political campaigns.”

“Proponents of climate science and more sustainable investing need to plan and execute their counterattack,” he added. “Silence in the face of such an attack is complicity. Which side are you on?”

How regulations are killing the coal industry

Brian Brenberg, economics professor at The King's College, Conservative Review contributor Tom Borelli and political commentator Eric Guster (defense atty) blk weigh in on the impact coal regulations have on the industry.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/**2013**/04/the-case-against-cronies-libertarians-must-stand-up-to-corporate-greed/275404/

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Name and Shame

Tom Borelli spent much of last decade trying to steer companies away from big government. He co-founded the Free Enterprise Action Fund, a mutual fund that bought stocks in companies for the sake of filing shareholder motions. The fund has typically targeted corporate execs who embraced big government policies that would reduce profits, such as members of the U.S. Climate Action Partnership supporting federal climate legislation that would raise taxes on energy companies.

But lately, Borelli has targeted companies who are cozying up to government to increase their profits -- such as Boeing designing export legislation that improves their lot and tax laws that squeeze out competition for H&R Block.

When the Obama administration issued new IRS rules in early 2010, analysts at UBS said the regulations would "help Block by ... add[ing] barriers to entry (or continuation) for small preparers, [and] provid[ing] revenue as Block may sell their continuing education and competency tests to others."

It is these arrangements -- in which the industry loses, but one company wins, or a few big companies win -- that free-marketeers should pay more attention to.

While Borelli's first trigger for a complaint was an executive selling out his shareholders, Borelli's second trigger is far loftier. It is, in his own words: "Is this ultimately good for the free market? Is this ultimately good for liberty?"

Borelli has given up the shareholder suits -- executives have too much power to quash them -- but he's still trying to pry corporations away from government. His new tactic: "Shaming." This can move businesses, because they care about their "billion-dollar brands being tarnished," Borelli argues.

Liberal groups try to impose a reputation cost on companies that don't protect the environment, hire enough women, or pay high enough wages. Conservatives can create a reputation cost for companies that embrace big government.

"I want to do business with a bank that acts on principle."

To some extent, Borelli argues, it's working: "If I go to a Tea Party rally, all I have to do is mention General Electric, and there are audible boos."

The Rickety Big-Government Bandwagon

Another way for free-marketeers to talk businessmen out of seeking profit (besides name and shame) might be to persuade them that getting into bed with Washington often ends messily.....

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/02/22/al-gore-accused-of-abusing-his-spot-on-apple-s-board-for-personal-gain.html

gary rivlin

Nine years ago, Al Gore, unemployed after eight years as vice president and after nearly becoming president, took a position on the board of directors of Apple. The gig pays $50,000 annually (more than the average American earns in a year) for maybe a couple of weeks' worth of work. But it’s the stock-option grants each director receives that make the arrangement so lucrative.

In the last few years alone, Gore has cashed out more than $2 million in Apple stock options he's been awarded for serving as a company director since 2003. And he's sitting on tens of millions of dollars more in Apple stock, all for attending a few meetings a year.

By contrast, Foxconn, the infamous Apple supplier, announced in mid-February that it was boosting worker salaries at its Chinese factories by 16 to 25 percent—so now the average worker would earn just under $5,000 a year.

Gore promises to be a topic of debate when shareholders gather in Cupertino on Thursday for Apple’s annual meeting. The issue, however, won’t be his compensation as an Apple board member or the atrocious, shameful treatment of those assembling Apple products on the former vice president’s watch.

Instead, Apple shareholders are being asked to consider a resolution sponsored by a conservative, D.C.-based think tank that is accusing the company of letting Gore manipulate its policies for his own personal gain. The initiative is being championed by Tom Borelli, who wears the title of Free Enterprise Project Director at the National Center for Public Policy Research.

Gore’s supposed crime? Near the end of 2009, Apple resigned from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over the chamber’s high-profile opposition to “cap and trade” legislation then being debated in Congress—legislation that would have used economic incentives to cap carbon emissions. The chamber also fought the EPA’s efforts to (finally) limit greenhouse gases and ran a series of ads questioning the science behind global warming.

One might extol Apple for acting in the fashion of a responsible corporate citizen with its decision. It wasn’t about profits but principles. But Apple’s lack of a clear economic motive is precisely what drives Borelli to see darker motives in Apple’s decision to quit the chamber. Gore has personally invested in a range of clean technologies. He’s a partner in the venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, where he is part of a team in search of green investments that will earn him and his partners riches that dwarf his compensation as an Apple director.

And cap-and-trade, while irrelevant to Apple’s bottom line, would help Gore’s. “The question is why Apple is applying pressure on an issue that it has no business interest in,” Borelli says. The answer: “Apple doesn’t have a financial interest in climate-change regulations, but Al Gore does.”

Borelli’s resolution, one of four on the agenda for Thursday’s meeting, asks shareholders to request that the company generate a “conflict of interest report” over a policy “developed to personally benefit a board member.”[scam picked up by breakthru?]

“Shareholders have a right to know if Apple’s involvement in greenhouse gas regulations is being driven by Gore’s personal interests,” Borelli argues in the “supporting statement” that accompanies his proposal.

In its response to Borelli, Apple notes that it “resigned its membership because the Chamber’s position on climate change differed so sharply with the company’s.” It might also have noted that Nike resigned from the chamber’s board of directors over its global-warming policies, and that General Electric, Alcoa, Johnson & Johnson, Dow, and Microsoft were among the businesses criticizing the chamber over its stance. Presumably, Gore’s influence does not reach into the executive suites of those companies. Apple also notes that the decision hasn’t exactly hurt its bottom line, either—an understatement for a company that earned $26 billion in profits in 2011, compared with $8 billion in 2009, the year it cut its ties with the chamber.

“This is really about transparency and accountability,” Borelli said on Wednesday, a few hours before boarding a plane west to watch the vote over his initiative. There’s no doubt that Apple (like many publicly traded companies) can do a much better job on that front. But Footnoted.com, a financial blog known for reading the fine print of arcane documents, notes the irony of that argument being raised by Borelli’s group.

The people at the National Center for Public Policy Research are hardly ones for talking about transparency and accountability. “Charity Navigator gives it low marks on that front,” Footnoted blogger Theo Francis writes, “criticizing it in part for not posting the names of its board members or its audited financial statements on its website.”

So why, then, does the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), one of the nation's most storied civil rights groups, organizer of the Freedom Rides and the 1963 March on Washington, attack those who want to curb global warming?ExxonMobil, which in 2003 gave CORE $40,000 ($15,000 was earmarked for "global climate outreach"),

would obviously like to avoid any appearance that its products and policies are a slow-moving assault on poor people of color. How better than to turn the accusation around? In that bit of public relations jujitsu, CORE has been most useful. To those familiar withCORE's recent history, its allegiance to ExxonMobil comes as no surprise. In 1968, Roy Innis seized control of CORE and moved the group to the far right. Innis has been accused by founder James Farmer and other black leaders of renting out CORE's historic reputation to corporations like Monsanto and ExxonMobil. (CORE even mounted a counterprotest to environmentalists picketing an ExxonMobil shareholders' meeting.) [...]

Helping CORE form these talking points is its senior policy adviser, Paul Driessen, the author of Eco-Imperialism: Green Power, Black Death, who also works with several other ExxonMobil-funded groups. At a 2004 ExxonMobil shareholders' meeting, Driessen referred to CORE as "one of America's oldest and most respected civil rights organizations" and called for greater funding for the group.

seeAA wife dineen who accused BO of putting us all on plantation? google suggests uncle tom, so someone is on to her.

big on fox, beck, food stamp nation?

hope: defectors

Large institutional museums have a history of receiving funding from those who might have an interest in slanting how they cover climate issues. Oil company BP, for instance, is a corporate sponsor at Chicago’s venerable Museum of Science and Industry, whose exhibits have long promoted a cheerful upbeat “better living through science” approach and whose interactive coal mine exhibit has been one of its major attractions since 1933.

But BP is doing a little image scrubbing of its own. It announced Monday that it has dropped its membership in the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the rightwing climate denying group that is heavily funded by—you guessed it!—the Koch brothers. BP gave no reason for dropping its membership, but it follows in the footsteps of Walmart, Amazon, McDonald’s, Coca-Cola Co., Best Buy, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, eBay, Wells-Fargo and dozens of others that have dropped their ALEC membership in response to pressure from activist groups.

from stoner txt:

Amy Moritz-->Ridenour harv public health phd w/ sugar king Stare.

crypto center for env justice, screws over black ppl and native americans, (rolls to EEI http://www.nationalcenter.org/eptf.html) Pjt 21 gets busted when pillbury doughboy Almasi has to stand in when front tom Mychal Massie gets flat tire; rentanegro for racist conf of O'Keefe pal marcus karate chop; Amy R heavily involved in Abramoff network/scams; funded the famous Scotland golf trip to meet Thatcher (or similar one). amy ran against jack and GNorquist, got her to drop out in return for exec dir title, he spent 10K on election?[college republicans?]

K str gang Adam Kidan went to jail for fraud, as did jack, bought 90% stake but never paid, boulis still wanted to run it?

adam kidan felt in danger, spent 200K to mob for security? sued Gus Boulis, SunCruz, told Ferrari to kill Boulis?

Evil b/c NCPPR will jump in when others bail, eg voter ID, chides defectors. Linked to Borelli who tried to hijack/staunch shareholder revolts: rear guard action: avant derierre (thank tom l gaarde)

ncppr Free Enterprise Pjt does same anti-SCR:

http://www.nationalcenter.org/fep.html

in fact links to borelli videos eg gore apple

run by http://www.nationalcenter.org/bios/danhof.html

Thank You for Global Warming

A former Phillip Morris exec wages a lonely war on the corporations tackling climate change.

By Kate Sheppard | Mon Nov. 22, 2010

The executives of Duke Energy are used to protesters showing up at shareholder meetings. As one of the nation's biggest greenhouse-gas emitters, the company has long been a target for enviros who demand that it stop blowing up mountains to get coal, burning the stuff, and warming the planet in the process. But the execs were befuddled last May when a man named Tom Borelli stood up at their annual shindig to demand precisely the opposite.

The company, Borelli insisted, should make a detailed accounting of the resources it has wasted lobbying for climate-change regulations—Duke CEO Jim Rogers had spent too much time trying to strike "a deal with the government devil" and "chasing legislative windmills," he said.

Company flacks knew how to deal with lefty protesters, but Borelli and his wife, Deneen, were unfamiliar turf. "We were standing there scratching our heads," recalls spokesman Tom Sheil. "This isn't the way it's supposed to be."

Duke has indeed been a major player in the US Climate Action Partnership, a coalition of corporations and green groups put together in 2007 to build momentum for a cap-and-trade bill. It helped shape the climate-and-energy bill that passed the House last year before faltering in the Senate. And Rogers, a charismatic southerner, has acquired a rep in DC as an unexpected champion of climate policies.

Borelli, for his part, has spent the past five years as a shareholder activist, buying small quantities of stock for the explicit purpose of making a fuss at shareholders meetings, mostly over companies' efforts to curb global warming, which he argues "isn't out of line with normal cycles in the environment." Other Borelli targets have includedGeneral Electric, PG&E, Dow Chemical, Caterpillar, and John Deere.

Borelli's former role as a tobacco scientist at Phillip Morris makes him somewhat of a pioneer in the field of corporate-sponsored denial. As PM's director of corporate scientific affairs during the 1990s, he worked to discredit studies indicating thatsecondhand smoke was unhealthy—a fact you won't find in his online bio.

In 2005, with global warming gaining political currency, Borelli hooked up with Steve Milloy, a well-known climate-change denier, Fox News commentator, and founder of JunkScience.com. Together, they founded the Free Enterprise Action Fund, a mutual fund whose investments were designed to further their anti-regulatory agenda. Early on, the ExxonMobil Foundation contributed at least $70,000 to help the pair, to—in the words of their now-defunct website— "keep big businesses from becoming wholly-owned subsidiaries of Marxist-Socialism, Inc."

Milloy moved on after a few years, leaving Borelli to carry the torch.These days, Borelli is a senior fellow at the National Center for Public Policy Research, a minor DC think tank best known for its ties to disgraced lobbyist and former board member Jack Abramoff. (NCPPR was the entity that sponsored then-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's infamous Scotland golf junket in 2000.) Borelli won't say who pays his substantial travel bills—only that his work is funded by individual donations from "libertarians, free-market conservatives."

Which is odd, since the corporations arguing for cap-and-trade aren't doing it to be good citizens. They simply believe they have a better chance of gaming Congress than they do of gaming the Environmental Protection Agency, which now has the authority to regulate CO₂ as an air pollutant.Some companies even stand to profit from caps on carbon emissions: GE, for one, brought in $18 billion in revenue last year from clean energy and efficiency technologies. "Mr. Borelli, as a shareowner, is welcome to attend our shareowner meetings," notes company spokesman Peter O'Toole. "But these kinds of proposals are not of interest to nearly all GE shareowners."

It might seem contradictory for a free-enterprise crusader to protest policies that companies have deemed in their business interest, but Borelli says he doesn't consider it free enterprise when a company creates demand by pushing climate-change laws. In any case, he aims to "make the CEO feel uncomfortable."

In practice, Borelli is advocating a strategy that progressives have used to great effect. "When the left looks at a corporation, they see an institution of power. When the right looks at a corporation, they see an institution of investment and finance," he says. "The right generally tends not to think of corporations as a power structure to get a political goal."

True enough. The tactic first emerged in 1971, when the Episcopal Church bought up shares to shame companies that were doing business with South Africa—part of a larger pressure campaign that convinced corporate America to divest from the apartheid regime. This success inspired pension funds and others to apply their shareholder clout, pushing for firms to do the right thing on a host of issues—AIDS, tobacco, climate change.

The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility [1], a coalition of religious interests, has filed at least 282 activist resolutions [2] this year, many aimed at curbing emissions. So it's no surprise that its reps have run into Borelli at shareholder meetings. "He used the tool we had against what we were doing," says Sister Pat Daly, an ICCR climate leader who has taken on the likes of Ford, GM, GE, and ExxonMobil.

But where the ICCR garners respect from many executives, Borelli's targets dismiss him as a pest. At a 2006 Goldman Sachs meeting, one of his co-presenters, Peter Flaherty, leaped over a security barrier to take control ofthen-CEO Henry Paulson's microphone and chastise him for his "environmental activism." The meeting's Q&A period, according to the Free Enterprise Action Fund's website, "was dominated by Borelli's extended colloquy with Paulson about the Chilean land deal and Nature Conservancy chairmanship."

All the drama hasn't amounted to much. GE shareholders, for instance, have repeatedly slapped down Borelli's proposals. Only 7 percent supported his 2006 bid to make the company produce a "global warming report." He fared slightly worse the next year. By 2008, support for his proposal had dropped below 4 percent.

Given Borelli's record of failure as a shareholder activist, he would seem to be little more than a harmless curiosity. But Kert Davies, a Greenpeace research director and head of the ExxonSecrets campaign, which documents the funding of climate-change denial by corporations, isn't so ready to laugh him off. "Borelli represents a class of corporate influence peddlers who make a living causing damage to our society, delaying action on important health issues like smoking and global warming," he insists. "In fact, they kill people: Lives are lost as a result of their actions, and some day they will be held accountable."

Now if only Tom Borelli could buy shares in Greenpeace.

Source URL: http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2010/11/tom-borelli-phillip-morris-climate-change

Links:

[1] http://www.iccr.org/

[2] http://www.iccr.org/shareholder/learn/sampleresolution.php

ur TP

Other third-party groups: tobacco industry and Tea Party affiliations

In 2001, Humber announced that the NSA would be dissolved, with some of its funds being transferred to the Center for Individual Freedom (CFIF, figure 1),133 ,134 which Humber founded in 1998.135 Its mission is to ‘protect and defend individual freedoms and individual rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.’136 As of 2012, CFIF's president was former NSA spokesperson Jeffrey Mazzella137 ,138 and CFIF's corporate counsel and senior vice president was former NSA attorney Renee Giachino.139 ,140

The National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR, figure 1), which promotes ‘principles of a free market, individual liberty and personal responsibility [as] the greatest hope for meeting the challenges facing America in the 21st century,’141 has been a longstanding tobacco industry ally and employs or collaborates with individuals who worked for the tobacco industry. Philip Morris funded NCPPR in the 1990s,142–144 and NCPPR was a member of RJR's GGOOB.31 NCPPR also opposed FDA regulation of tobacco145 and the DOJ RICO lawsuit against the tobacco industry.146 In 2012 NCPPR was continuing efforts, such as its ‘Occupy Occupy D.C. Smoke-in’ to protest about taxes on smokeless tobacco and e-cigarettes.147

Thomas Borelli, also an NCPPR senior fellow and his spouse, Deneen Borelli, an NCPPR fellow (as well as a FreedomWorks’ fellow148) worked for Philip Morris for over 20 years and have spoken at Tea Party events (figure 1 and online supplementary table S2). While atPhilip Morris, Thomas Borelli served on its public policy advisory council, which reviewed and prioritised public policy grants for funding and designated CSE a Category A public policy organisation for funding.54 Dana Joel Gattuso, a NCPPR senior fellow, had been CSE's deputy director of regulatory affairs.149

Steve Milloy, who served as co-director of NCPPR's Free Enterprise Project with Tom Borelli,150 helped the industry contest the link between second-hand smoke and disease.29 Milloy directed The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition151 (TASSC, figure 1), which was created for Philip Morris in 1993 by the public relations firm APCO Associates, as part of the effort to undermine the EPA's second-hand smoke risk assessment.29 Though TASSC was eventually disbanded, Milloy maintained http://junkscience.com as of 2012152 (see online supplementary table S2).

The Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) is another example of a Tea Party-related organisation with strong roots in the tobacco industry. In 2002, Guest Choice Network became the CCF to oppose efforts by ‘the anti-consumer forces [to] expand their reach beyond the restaurants and taverns, going into your communities and even your homes.’153 Lobbyist Richard Berman created Guest Choice Network in 1995, with US$600 000 in startup funds,154 as well as continued funding from Philip Morris.155–157 It was meant to appear as ‘a restaurant-driven programme’ to oppose smoke-free restaurants that was not ‘owned’ by Philip Morris.158

srcwtch?

Dr. Thomas J. Borelli Ph.D. was the manager of Philip Morris Corporate Scientific Affairs Department circa 1990. Dr. Borelli has a doctorate in biochemistry from the New York Medical College in Valhalla, New York[affiliated w/ albert E, montefiore] . Before entering this position with Philip Morris, Dr. Borelli was a technical specialist for the Products Safety and External Technical Affairs Division of General Foods World Wide. Dr. Borelli also has served as a science consultant for the Committee on Science, Space and Technology of the U.S. House of Representatives. (DOCS 000033) Thomas J. Borelli worked for Philip Morris Corporate Services, Inc. in Brussels. (PMI's Introduction to Privilege Log and Glossary of Names, Estate of Burl Butler v. PMI, et al, April 19, 1996)

As of November 2010, Thomas Borelli was a senior fellow at the National Center for Public Policy Research in Washington, D.C.^[1] Borelli is a managing partner with Action Fund Management, an investment advisory firm, and a portfolio managerr for the Free Enterprise Action Fund.^[2]

As of 2012 Borelli was working at the right-wing think tank FreedomWorks as a Senior Fellow and an"expert" on the coal industry.^[3]

Articles by Thomas Borelli

The Anti-Capitalism Virus, National Policy Analysis, Feb. 2006 (a publication of the National Center for Public Policy Research)

Tobacco industry documents

A brief internal email from Tom Borelli (then Manager of Corporate Scientific Affairs for Philip Morris) relates PM's efforts to influence a scientific meeting about secondhand smoke (environmental tobacco smoke, or ETS). It reveals the subsequent scorn the company received, and the company's future plans to find ways to influence the group.

Borelli

only member of pjt 21 core who's actually black?

Blacklash: How Obama and the Left Are Driving Americans to the Government Plantation

threshold/simon and shuster 2012

http://www.amazon.com/Blacklash-Driving-Americans-Government-Plantation/dp/1451643640

|> Deneen Borelli is a member of Project 21, a network of black conservativeswhich is an initiative of The National Center for Public Policy Research, a national public policy group based in Washington, D.C. > In addition, Deneen serves as an official contributor on the Fox News Channel programs and has appeared on FNC programs such as "Glenn Beck," "The O'Reilly Factor," "Your World with Neil Cavuto," "Hannity" and "Fox and Friends." Deneen has also appeared on MSNBC, CNN, the BBC and C-SPAN. Deneen is a columnist with The Daily Caller, and her commentaries on the importance of freedom and limited government have been published by newspapers such as the Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Chicago Tribune, Sacramento Bee, Baltimore Sun, Washington Examiner and Washington Times. Deneen testified before the House Committee on Natural Resources. She has also been a frequent speaker at political rallies and events, including the FreedomWorks 9.12 March on D.C. that drew a crowd estimated at over 800,000 people. > > Deneen served on the Board of Trustees with The Opportunity Charter School in Harlem, New York. Previously, she served as Manager of Media Relations with the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). In that capacity, Deneen was the Executive Producer and co-host on "The CORE Hour," a weekly internet radio talk show. Prior to joining CORE, Deneen worked at Philip Morris USA for 20 years.While at PM USA she worked in various positions, her last as Project Management Coordinator in the Information Management department where she was responsible for the department’s mandated quality processes, communications, sales information and database management. Deneen began her Philip Morris career as a secretary and advanced to positions of increasing responsibilities while attending college in the evenings. [and by marrying borelli?] > > Deneen has a B.A. in Managerial Marketing from Pace University, New York. Deneen has appeared ineducational videos for children, worked as a runway fashion model, and auditioned for television commercials. Her interests include ancient history, pistol target shooting,photography, and volunteering at her church. She currently resides in Westchester County, New York. > > * > > Sample of Public Appearances by Deneen Borelli: > On Fox News Channel's "America's News Headquarters," Deneen discusses women in combat and coffeeshops (5/27/12) > On Fox News Channel's "America's News Headquarters," Deneen says Nancy Pelosi is "exaggerating" about Chinese human rights advances(5/20/12) > On Fox News Channel's "Happening Now," Deneen says President Obama has "thrown the black community… under the bus" with the announcement of his support for same-sex marriage (5/15/12) > On Fox News Channel's "America's News Headquarters," Deneen notes that it is good to know that the war on terrorism is still taking the fight to the terrorists' bases rather than only concentrating on frisking American kids and the elderly in airports(5/13/12) > On the Fox News Channel's "America's News Headquarters," Deneen debates gay marriage, Islamic law and gender politics (5/6/12) > On the Fox News Channel's "Hannity," Deneen says that Obama and Holder are partly responsible for the "ginned up" racial tensions over the Trayvon Martin shooting (4/9/12) > On the Fox News Channel's "America's News Headquarters," Deneen discusses presidential responsibility, missile defense, and ObamaCare (3/31/12) > On the Fox News Channel's "America Live," Deneen says Obama's energy policy is "a war against hard-working Americans" (3/30/12) > On the Fox News Channel's "Hannity," Deneen says **:{Obama needs to control Trayvon-related**radicalism}: (3/29/12) > On the Fox News Channel's "The O'Reilly Factor," Deneen discusses the **Left's war on free speech (3/22/12) > On the Fox News Channel's "Hannity," Deneen discusses Alexandra Pelosi's new film short of people in line at a New York City welfare office (3/19/12) > On GBTV.com, Deneen discusses discrimination against black conservatives (3/13/12) > On the Fox News Channel's "America's News Headquarters," Deneen talks about the state of the economy and a potential new :{green crony capitalist mishap involving the Danish **carmaker Fisker}: (3/10/12) > On the Fox News Channel's "Fox & Friends," Deneen says Obama has done more to push people to welfare than to stabilize the American economy (3/6/12) > On the Fox News Channel's ":{Hannity:(style="background-color:#ffff66ff"):}:," Deneen talks about assaults on faith by entertainers and the Obama Administration(2/13/12) > On the Fox News Channel's "America's News Headquarters," Deneen discusses NYU courses about Occupy Wall Street as well as criticism of the Rudolph story (12/10/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "America's News Headquarters," Deneen discusses NYU courses about :{Occupy Wall Street:(style="background-color:#ffff66ff"):}: as well as criticism of the Rudolph story (12/10/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "America's News Headquarters," Deneen says President Obama is "responsible for our failed economy and high unemployment" (12/10/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "America Live," Deneen says AG :{Eric Holder should "produce the documents or step down" with regard to the failed "Operation Fast and Furious":(style="background-color:#ffff66ff"):}: sting (12/9/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "America's News Headquarters," Deneen discusses new revelations that :{smartphones could be turned into tools to track Americans}: (12/3/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "Hannity," Deneen criticizes Obama's economic policies (12/2/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "America's News Headquarters," Deneen discusses the failure of the deficit-related congressional supercommittee as well as taxpayer costs for Occupy protests (11/26/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "America's News Headquarters," Deneen discusses school-related issues such as bans on balls and the alleged "sex crime" of two 12-year-olds kissing on the playground (11/19/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "America's News Headquarters," Deneen calls the debt-related congressional "supercommittee" a "super cop-out" (11/19/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "America's News Headquarters," Deneen argues for the **:{privatization** of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA)}: (10/30/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "America's News Headquarters," Deneen discusses reality TV's bad influence (10/23/11) > On the Fox Business Network's "Follow the Money," Deneen says it's "insane" for President Obama to equate the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street movements (10/19/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "Hannity," :{Deneen notes that the Occupy Wall Street effort fails to police itself in the way that the Tea Party movement has dealt with radical supporters}: (10/17/11) [Like Bundy?] > On the Fox News Channel's "America's News Headquarters," Deneen laments the politicization of the MLK Memorial dedication (10/16/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "Fox & Friends," Deneen cites the differences between MLK's legacy and the Occupy Wall Street agenda (10/15/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "America's News Headquarters," Deneen says Obama is right on antiterrorism tactic, wrong on shifting economic blame (10/1/11) > On the Fox Business Network's "Follow the Money," Deneen complains that Congressional Black Caucus members are "not being independent thinkers" (9/26/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "America's Newsroom," Deneen says :{Morgan Freeman's tea party accusation is "utterly outrageous" and "dangerous:(style="background-color:#ffff66ff"):}:" (9/26/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "America's News Headquarters," Deneen calls the recent repeal of the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy a "purely political" move (9/25/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "Hannity," Deneen notes that Obama no longer appears interested in maintaining a civil discourse on the issues (9/19/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "Hannity," Deneen says Obama's class warfare is "not solving the problem" (9/19/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "America's News Headquarters," Deneen says giving stimulus money to Solyndra was an apparent case of crony capitalism that is "just the tip of the iceberg" (9/17/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "America's News Headquarters," Deneen discusses how 9/11 changed America (9/10/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "America's News Headquarters," Deneen says today's "battle of ideas" over big and small government came about in large part because of September 11th (9/10/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "America's Newsroom," Deneen responds to Rep. Carson's hateful comments about the tea party (9/1/11) > On the Fox Business Network's "FreedomWatch," Deneen says the policies of Pres. Obama and the Congressional :{Black Caucus:(style="background-color:#ffff66ff"):}: are why U.S. faces economic stagnation and joblessness (8/31/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "Fox & Friends," Deneen says more :{EPA regulations will mean fewer jobs}: (8/30/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "Your World with Neil Cavuto," Deneen discusses President Obama’s plan for Alan Krueger to head his Council of Economic Advisers (8/29/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "Fox & Friends,", Deneen says overregulation is "killing our economy and killing jobs" (8/27/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "Fox & Friends," Deneen discusses the economic costs of new EPA rules (8/21/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "America Live," Deneen discusses what President Obama should include in his much-anticipated jobs plan (8/19/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "Fox & Friends," Deneen and Mark Levine debate the merits of expanding the food stamp program (8/18/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "America's News HQ," Deneen discusses the Philadelphia curfew, atheistic bus ads, reading to dogs, and the Barefoot Bandit's movie deal (8/14/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "America's News HQ," Deneen discusses a Long Island school district's decision to install surveillance cameras (8/13/11) > On the Fox Business Network's "The Tom Sullivan Show," Deneen says the U.S.'s fat food stamp roll indicates a White House lean on economic ideas (8/13/11) > On the Fox Business Network's "Freedom Watch," Deneen points out to Judge Andrew Napolitano that the downgrade by Standard and Poor’s came from excessive spending and "Obama’s failed policies" that are the opposite of what is advocated by tea partiers (8/10/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "Happening Now," Deneen says the credit downgrade "blame game" needs to stop and Obama needs to step up and lead (8/9/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "Fox & Friends," Deneen says the decision by Standard and Poor's to downgrade the U.S. credit rating is likely based on the recent debt ceiling compromise not offering a valid solution to government spending (8/7/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "America's News Headquarters," Deneen discusses spending, suing, and social networking (8/6/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "America's News Headquarters," Deneen discusses whether taxpayer dollars should be spent on teen smoking surveys and birth control (7/24/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "America Live," Deneen discusses citizen frustration with politics as usual (7/20/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "America's News Headquarters," Deneen says that the American people "want to see true leadership" in decreasing the debt and getting spending under control (7/16/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "America Live," Deneen discusses the liberal war against conserative women (7/15/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "Fox & Friends," Deneen says "the mainstream media has it in for conservative women" (7/3/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "America's News Headquarters," Deneen discusses Dominique Strauss-Khan, Shriver v. Schwarzenegger and gender-neutral classrooms (7/2/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "America Live," Deneen calls President Obama's decision to siphon 30 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve a "bad move" and a "big mistake" (6/23/11) > [On the Fox News Channel's "Glenn Beck," Deneen and Tom Borelli discuss how the Obama energy agenda is picking corporate winners and losers to advance a policy that is sure to hurt consumers and the economy as a whole](http://www.conservativeblog.org/amyridenour/2011/6/22/borellis-talk-energy-and-the-economy-with-glenn-beck.html) (6/21/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "America's News Headquarters," :{Deneen says student food choices should be the responsibility of parents:(style="background-color:#ffff66ff"):}: and that administrators should be "much more concerned about the graduation rates" (6/19/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "America's News Headquarters," Deneen talks about Jon Stewart’s admission of the media’s liberal bias, why English should be considered the official language of government in America and how the scourge of baggy pants caused air traffic delays (6/19/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "Fox & Friends," Deneen discusses the tea party movement and the banking industry's support of Obama policies (6/15/11) > On the Fox Business Network's "Lou Dobbs Tonight," Deneen says President Obama's green jobs agenda is nothing more than "wealth redistribution" (6/13/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "Fox & Friends," Deneen discusses the "political witch hunt" against Sarah Palin and Rep. Weiner's Tweet saga (6/12/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "America's News Headquarters," Deneen discusses the arrogance of politicians such as John Edwards and Anthony Weiner (6/11/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "America's News Headquarters," Deneen discusses Chris Christie, John Edwards and costly new federal nutrition standards (6/4/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "Fox & Friends," Deneen discusses the Google board's conflict of interest problem (6/3/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "Fox & Friends," Deneen discusses Gov. Mike Huckabee's decision not to run for President (5/15/11) > On the Fox Business Network's "Lou Dobbs Tonight," Deneen says "CEOs are pushing policies that are harmful to our country" (5/6/11) > On the Fox Business Network's "Lou Dobbs Tonight," Deneen says the death of Osama Bin Laden didn't jump-start the economy (5/6/11) > On the Fox Business Network's "Tom Sullivan Show," Deneen discusses high-speed rail, lax air traffic controllers and Donald Trump (4/23/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "Fox & Friends," Deneen notes that Obama's war on fossil fuels is limiting access to energy sources and hurting average Americans (4/23/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "Hannity," Deneen discusses Donald Trump and energy policy (4/21/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "America Live," Deneen says America needs "affordable, reliable energy" (4/21/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "America's News Headquarters," Deneen says Congress "can do better" on the budget negotiations (4/10/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "Fox & Friends," Deneen calls the unwillingness of liberals to substantially cut spending an act of "gross negligence" (4/3/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "Hannity," Deneen discusses the budget debate as well as Obama's troubled ties to Van Jones, Jeremiah Wright and possibly Louis Farrakhan (3/31/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "Fox & Friends," Deneen debates liberal political strategist Christopher Hahn on the Wisconsin protests (2/20/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "America’s News Headquarters," Deneen says that Wisc. Gov. Scott Walker is "taking a stand on principle" to eliminate his state’s budget deficit (2/19/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "Justice with Judge Jeanine Pirro," Deneen says the protests in Madison, WI are "an assault on the taxpayers of Wisconsin" (2/19/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "The O'Reilly Factor," Deneen says Pepsi's Super Bowl ad provokes "selective outrage" among black leaders (2/10/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "Hannity," Deneen advocates for helping underperforming minority students (1/28/11) > On Vicki McKenna's WIBA-Madison radio show, Deneen discusses the unrealistic energy goals of President Barack Obama as laid out in his State of the Union Address (1/26/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "Fox & Friends," Deneen presents a new commercial that asks CEO Jeff Immelt to resign his position with GE (1/25/11) > On the Fox Business Network's "The Tom Sullivan Show," Deneen says the Fairness Doctrine proposal is a "knee-jerk reaction" by liberal lawmakers (1/15/11) > On the Fox Business Network's "The Willis Report," Deneen discusses the risks to some investors should the SEC force Facebook to go public (1/10/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "America Live with Megyn Kelly," Deneen talks about issues that include politicians’ poor treatment of a fallen soldier and the rumored engagement of former senator John Edwards (1/7/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "Fox & Friends," Deneen says the results of the last election show people are "tired of government gone wild" (1/5/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "Fox & Friends," Deneen notes the media is "on board" with Obama Administration energy policies designed to drive up the price of fossil fuels (1/5/11) > On the Fox News Channel's "Hannity," Deneen says President Obama has "lost the confidence" of the American people (12/22/10) > On the Fox News Channel's "Fox & Friends," Deneen discusses excessive government spending (12/18/10) > On the Fox News Channel's "Fox & Friends," Deneen criticizes the idea of further extending unemployment benefits (12/18/10) > (12/15/10) > (12/15/10) > On the Fox News Channel's "Fox & Friends," Deneen discusses a new poll showing that conservatives and tea party activists are significantly less likely to want to patronize businesses that support big government policies (11/26/10) > (11/19/10) > (11/19/10) > (11/12/10) > On Fox News Channel's "Hannity," Deneen discusses the overtly partisan political agenda of the current NAACP leadership (10/21/10) > (10/21/10) > On the Fox News Channel's "Happening Now," Deneen talks about the firing of Juan Wiliiams from National Public Radio (10/21/10) > Deneen Borelli speaks to the crowd at the Tea Party rally in Washington, D.C. (9/12/10) > On the Fox News Channel's "Fox and Friends," Deneen discusses the impact of President Obama's economic policies on his job approval numbers (9/5/10) > On the Fox News Channel's "America Live," Deneen discusses paparazzi, George Clooney, Darfur and Sarah Palin (9/3/10) > On the Fox News Channel's "Fox and Friends," Deneen discusses the Obama Administration's Iraq policy (8/29/10) > On the Fox News Channel, Deneen calls President Obama's UN human rights report the "Obama Apology Tour on Steroids" (8/26/10) > On Fox News Channel's "Hannity," Deneen discusses what Vice President Joe Biden calls 2010's economic "recovery summer" (8/25/10) > On Fox News Channel's "America's Newsroom," Deneen discusses recent poll numbers reflecting public dissatisfaction with President Obama's policy agenda (8/25/10) > On Fox News Channel's "Hannity," Deneen talks about singer Sheryl Crow's song critical of Sarah Palin (8/19/10) > On Fox News Channel's "America Live," Deneen discusses increasing public opposition to the President's takeover of America's health care system (8/18/10) > On Fox News Channel's "Hannity," Deneen Borelli discusses the posting of sensitive military files on the Wikileaks website and the Obama Administration's continuing practice of blaming the Bush Administration for bad news (8/6/10) > On Fox News Channel's "Hannity," Deneen Borelli talks about the controversial mosque planned for the Ground Zero neighborhood(8/6/10) > (8/4/10) > (7/31/10) > On the Fox affiliate station in Philadelphia, Deneen is featured in a story about the inclusiveness of the Tea Party movement > (7/31/10) > At Philadelphia's Uni-Tea Rally, Deneen Borelli discusses "Progressives Gone Wild" (7/31/10) > (7/17/10) > (7/17/10) > (7/16/10) > (7/14/10) > (7/14/10) > On Fox News Channel's "Hannity," Deneen discusses the mounting criticism of President Obama's handling of the oil spill -- including former President Clinton's criticism (6/30/10) > On Fox News Channel's Glenn Beck program, Deneen asks David Barton about black patriots (6/25/10) > (6/11/10) > (6/9/10) > (6/8/10) > (6/8/10) > On Fox News Channel's Glenn Beck program, Deneen asks when the rich history of the contributions of black Founders was erased from our popular histories (5/28/10) > (5/26/10) > On "Fox and Friends," Deneen critiques the performance of Attorney General Eric Holder (5/16/10) > On "Fox and Friends," Deneen disputes Tea Party race bias study (4/28/10) > On "Fox and Friends," Deneen calls on President Obama to attend a Tea Party rally (4/16/10) > Deneen speaks at D.C. Tax Day Tea Party (4/15/10) > Deneen and Tom Borelli discuss the Tax Day Tea Parties, taxation, ObamaCare, and cap-and-trade on G. Gordon Liddy's national radio program (4/15/10) > Deneen discusses the American Dream on "Hannity" (3/16/10) > On "Fox and Friends," Deneen debates Al Sharpton on jobs (2/12/10) > On "Fox and Friends," Deneen discusses President Obama's jobs agenda, tea parties and more (2/7/10) > On "Fox and Friends," Deneen discusses :{populism and the rise of the Tea Party movement (2/1/10)}: > Deneen discusses green jobs on the Glenn Beck program (1/14/10) > Deneen on Sean Hannity's "Great American Panel" (12/28/09) > On the Fox News Channel, Deneen says President Obama must nix cap-and-trade if he cares about jobs (12/6/09) > Deneen discusses the GM bankruptcy on the public affairs program "New Jersey Now" on MY9 WWOR-TV (6/14/09; segment begins approximately 10 1/2 minutes into the program) > :{Deneen discusses the nomination of Judge Sotomayor:(style="background-color:#ffff66ff"):}: on the public affairs program "New Jersey Now" on MY9 WWOR-TV (6/7/09; segment begins approximately 15 minutes into the program) > :{Deneen challenges James Dimon, Chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, to stand up to Jesse Jackson (JPMorganChase}: 2008 Annual Shareholders Meeting, 5/20/08, .wmv file, 8.64 MB) > Interview with Mark Carbonaro on "Wake Up Monterey" (4/29/08, mp3 file, 3.72 MB) > Publications by Deneen Borelli: > There's More Trouble With ObamaCare Than the Mandate! (April 2012) > Out of Touch Obama (March 2012) > Why :{Voter ID:(style="background-color:#ffff66ff"):}: Should Matter to Americans of All Races (February 2012) > Obama Pushes Unwise Energy Policy (February 2012) > Certain Signs of Societal Decline (January 2012) > Morgan Freeman is Wrong (October 2011) > Where's the Proof to Crazy Claims About the Tea Party? (September 2011) > Wasserman Schultz's Racial Double Standard (August 2011) > Obama's Policies are Causing Moral and Economic Decline (July 2011) > Obama's Energy Policy Benefits America's Elites (June 2011) > Tea Party Not to Blame for Budget Breakdown (April 2011) > Obama is Not Heeding to the Lesson of Wisconsin (March 2011) > Racism Double Standard at the NAACP (March 2011) > Obama Energy Policy to Create a Winter of Discontent (January 2011) > NAACP Chief Plays False Race Card Against Beck Supporters (October 2010) > Liberals Crash Tea Party, But Stay Silent On Black Panther Hate Talk (July 2010) > NAACP Puts Politics Above Civil Rights (July 2010) > Climate Claims Could Raise the Prices of What You Buy (April 2010) > Advice for President Obama on Jobs: First, Do No Harm (January 2010) > Voting With Your Feet Against Disastrous Climate Change Policy (November 2009) > Cap-and-Trade is a Ball-and-Chain for Poor Americans (August 2009) > Special Treatment and Sotomayor (July 2009) > Obama's Real Religion: Politics (June 2009) > Obama, the Pickens Plan and the Potential Fire Next Time (March 2009) > Black Backing of Barack Should Not Be Unconditional (November 2008) > Elites Denying Affordable Energy to Average Americans (October 2008) > The Civil Rights Shakedown: Myth or Reality? (July 2008) > Wright Comments Hurt Black Churches (May 2008) > A Charity Bill That Would Keep People from Giving (May 2008) > Global Warming Policies Cool Minority Economic Engines (March 2008) > Don't Waste Your Time If You Can't Pay the Prime (January 2008) > Global Warming Statists Threaten Our Liberty (January 2008) > Earmarks Rob Taxpayers to Benefit Politicians (December 2007) > Live from New York, It's More Regulation (September 2007) > Diversity Doesn't Need to Be Forced (August 2007) > CAFE Tab Too Expensive for America (July 2007) > House-Passed "Price Gouging" Bill No Relief to Consumers (June 2007) > Gun Ownership Becoming a Capital Idea (May 2007) > Oprah Shouldn't Give Up on Our Kids (Feb. 2007) > Supremes Still Working on School Equality (Jan. 2007) > Michigan Voters Quit Quotas (Nov. 2006) > Union Activists' Strong-Arm Tactics (Sept. 2006) > Uncle Sam Isn't Really Your Uncle: You are the Family Member Who Has to Tell Your Kids About S-E-X (Aug. 2006) > Charter Schools Give Students the Fighting Chance They Need (July 2006) > Reckless Anti-Rice Rants Mars Students' Big Day (May 2006) > School Choice Defeat Leaves Minority Students in Florida With No Choice (April 2006) > Urban Communities Lose When Trial Lawyers Win (April 2006) > Terrell Owens Can Teach Kids That Actions Have Consequences (Jan. 2006)||

March 8, 2013

Conservative organization FreedomWorks is fundraising off of Fox News contributor Karl Rove's efforts to, in the group's words, "silence grassroots activists and make sure that only big-government RINO's call the shots in Washington."

Rove, along with allies from his Crossroads political groups, recently launched the Conservative Victory Project. According to The New York Times,the group will work to "recruit seasoned candidates and protect Senate incumbents from challenges by far-right conservatives and Tea Party enthusiasts." The project has sparked a civil war among conservative commentators, with some of Rove's own Fox News colleagues calling the group "absolutely repulsive" and "an incumbency protection racket."

FreedomWorks, which attacked Rove when the project was announced, has launched NotKarlsParty.com. In a touting the effort, FreedomWorks spokeswoman and Fox News contributor Deneen Borelli says that "Karl Rove and his unprincipled establishment candidates" are trying to "take over the GOP." The message asks followers to visit NotKarlsParty.com to "file a petition to give Karl Rove a piece of your mind."alternet

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