Childs, JW

<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>John Childs: </strong>Childs is the <a href="http://www.jwchilds.com/professionals_bios.html#" target="blank">founder and CEO</a> <span class="print-footnote">[3]</span> of private equity firm JW Childs Associates. In 2006, <a href="http://www.bostonmagazine.com/articles/the_50_wealthiest_bostonians/" target="blank"><em>Boston Magazine</em></a> <span class="print-footnote">[4]</span> placed the "notoriously media-shy" magnate—a.k.a. "the Republican ATM"—among the city's wealthiest residents, reportedly worth $1.2 billion. Childs <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/summ.php?cycle=2010&disp=D&type=V" target="blank">donated $750,000</a> <span class="print-footnote">[5]</span> to outside political expenditure groups in 2010. <span style=" background-color: #FFF200;">He's also been involved in</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> Florida <a href="http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2008/jun/16/monday-chat-john-w-childs/" target="blank">wetlands conservation</a> <span class="print-footnote">[6]</span> efforts. &nbsp;mojo SEE CRYPTO BS</span></font>

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</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">alex k</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" box-sizing="box-sizing" inherit="inherit" padding="padding" px="px" word-spacing="word-spacing" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">right-wing, billionaire-funded Club for Growth Action super PAC has a message for liberal voters: Billionaires behind&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Joe_Biden" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">Joe Biden</a>&nbsp;are helping the Democratic Party rig the presidential primary against&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bernie_Sanders" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">Bernie Sanders</a>.</font></span></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" inherit="inherit" padding="padding" px="px" word-spacing="word-spacing" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“After Mike [Bloomberg’s] $600 million couldn’t get it done, now the billionaires are propping up Joe Biden…because they own him,” says the narrator of the&nbsp;<a href="https://youtu.be/p8MLgSVdMIc" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">digital ad</a>. “Don’t let them steal it.”</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" inherit="inherit" padding="padding" px="px" word-spacing="word-spacing" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Just weeks ago, the same super PAC ran an ad attacking Sanders for his progressive positions on health care and climate change.&nbsp;</b>At the time, the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD)&nbsp;<a href="https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2020/01/28/right-wing-business-billionaires-launch-attack-bernie-sanders/" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">reported</a>&nbsp;that Club for Growth Action’s biggest donors included billionaires&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Richard_Uihlein" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">Richard Uihlein</a>, owner and CEO of shipping supplies company ULINE, Jeff Yass, managing director and co-founder of financial firm Susquehanna International Group, and private equity owner John Childs.</span></font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" inherit="inherit" padding="padding" px="px" word-spacing="word-spacing" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A March 10 Club for Growth Action press release says the&nbsp;<b>group will spend five figures on the digital ad, which will run in the four states set to vote on Tuesday, March 17: Arizona, Florida, Illinois, and Ohio.</b></font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" inherit="inherit" padding="padding" px="px" word-spacing="word-spacing" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Remember” is the fourth ad that Club for Growth Action has released in the Democratic presidential primary. The group has also run an ad attacking former candidate Beto O’Rourke and another criticizing Biden for working with “racist Dixiecrats” to oppose school busing integration. The super PAC has spent a total of nearly $180,000 on ads against Democratic presidential contenders Biden ($86,000), Sanders ($59,000), and O’Rourke ($35,000), according to Federal Election Commission data.</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" inherit="inherit" padding="padding" px="px" word-spacing="word-spacing" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Club for Growth Action has made&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/recips.php?cmte=" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">over $5 million</a>&nbsp;worth of independent expenditures in the 2020 elections so far,</b>&nbsp;much of it going towards Republican congressional primaries, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" inherit="inherit" padding="padding" px="px" word-spacing="word-spacing" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Other conservative super PACs have made independent expenditures opposing Biden and Sanders, as CMD recently&nbsp;<a href="https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2020/03/04/independent-spending-biden-warren-dwarfs-outside-support-sanders/" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">reported</a>. As of March 4, The Committee to Defend the President had spent nearly $900,000 against Biden, while the Republican Jewish Coalition Victory Fund spent $69,000 against Sanders. Additional conservative groups have spent smaller amounts attacking both candidates.</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" box-sizing="box-sizing" inherit="inherit" padding="padding" px="px" word-spacing="word-spacing" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Club_for_Growth" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">Club for Growth</a>, the 501(c)(4) social welfare nonprofit linked to Club for Growth Action, with an annual revenue of $6.7 million, is also reliant on conservative billionaires. For example, the Charles Koch-backed trade association now called The Seminar Network Chamber of Commerce donated&nbsp;<a href="https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/453732750/201813199349312776/IRS990ScheduleI" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">$175,000</a>&nbsp;to Club for Growth in 2017. A few years before, the group received&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/contrib.php?cmte=C90009945&cycle=2010" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">over $1 million</a>&nbsp;from the Koch-backed Center to Protect Patient Rights.</font></span></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">John Childs, the head of the Boston-based private equity firm J.W. Childs & Associates, has contributed <b>$3.375 million to super PACs.

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Childs has contributed $1.125 million to Club for Growth Action, $1 million to Restore Our Future (supporting Mitt Romney), $1 million to American Crossroads and $250,000 to Congressional Leadership Fund.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Conservative mega-donors David and Charles Koch have created one of the most powerful political forces in the United States. The two brothers made their combined $86 billion at the helm of the country's second-largest privately-held corporation, Kansas-based Koch Industries, and have poured money into a web of political advocacy organizations, limited-liability corporations, a trade association and a super PAC that have helped elect conservative politicians and opposed environmental protections and the Affordable Care Act.</span><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The network, which includes political nonprofits Americans for Prosperity, the 60 Plus Association and Generation Opportunity,&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ga8Ha0skI3GYkpNtGVUbJPn2u%2BV%2FK%2F%2BW" style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">raised over $400 million</a><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;for the 2012 elections.</span><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Earlier this year, the Kochs announced at a donor gathering that they&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=2D1FMrnZvJaU0AJE5f6%2By%2Fn2u%2BV%2FK%2F%2BW" style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">plan to spend nearly $900 million</a><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;on the 2016 elections, significantly more than the entire Republican Party spent in 2012. To help raise that enormous sum, the Kochs will rely on about 300 donors from their conservative network.</span><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The identities of the Kochs' allied donors, shielded by weak disclosure laws for political nonprofits and the use of private LLCs, have been mostly a mystery -- until recently.</span><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Freedom Partners Action Fund (FPAF)&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=1ov6ughyqaQOQCmRs2FBafn2u%2BV%2FK%2F%2BW" style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">was launched in June 2014</a><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;as an extension of the original Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce, a trade organization in the Koch network that raises and disperses money. It made over $23 million in independent expenditures in the 2014 election benefiting conservative U.S. House and Senate candidates, according to federal campaign finance reports. FPAF is a super PAC that's legally required to disclose its donors.</span><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Records show that 15 businesspeople from Southern states made donations of $100,000 or more to FPAF in 2014. Of those, seven have contributed $400,000 or more:</span><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><b style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">* Ronnie Cameron</b><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;is chair of the Arkansas-based agribusiness giant</span><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=PJZmA7Lk53U9pxZOFw%2BHdPiaKob6o6wT" style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mountaire Corp.</a><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, which gave a whopping $3 million to FPAF between June and October last year. A document from&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=S8nmqbK5wi4Uu%2Fs%2FYnF1l%2Fn2u%2BV%2FK%2F%2BW" style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">a confidential Koch donor gathering</a><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;near Palm Springs, California in early 2014 found in a hotel showed Cameron had a personal meeting with Charles Koch, the elder brother and chair and CEO of Koch Industries, along with Kevin Gentry, vice president for development at Koch Companies Public Sector, a limited liability corporation that both lobbies and spends politically. At another donor gathering in 2011, Charles Koch</span><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=HaZwriIPeBmK1gFks8aqvPn2u%2BV%2FK%2F%2BW" style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">praised Cameron</a><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;for having given over $1 million to Koch-related causes over the previous 12 months.</span><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><b style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">* Paul L. Foster</b><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, chair of oil refining company&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=SBiaqUUGUkguQEqTT2vTK%2Fn2u%2BV%2FK%2F%2BW" style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Western Refining</a><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;in El Paso, Texas, gave $1 million to FPAF in October. With a personal fortune&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=wa9isNLvyD3BM9pdK3%2FBRfn2u%2BV%2FK%2F%2BW" style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">worth $1.5 billion</a><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, Foster (center in photo)&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=B8ADUJT7aXTQLQCtKvYHjPn2u%2BV%2FK%2F%2BW" style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">met with Charles Koch</a><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;personally at last year's donor gathering.</span><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none;">* John W. Childs</b><span style="line-height: 16.8px;">, founder and CEO of the private equity firm&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Ktkdj4YT6O0l6hUMM5SrEvn2u%2BV%2FK%2F%2BW" style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none;">J.W. Childs Associates</a><span style="line-height: 16.8px;">, gave $700,000 to FPAF in 2014. While his firm is based on Boston, Childs has a home in Vero Beach, Florida, the address listed in campaign finance documents. He&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=afcctD7Sl2kKmqHkBMNNmfn2u%2BV%2FK%2F%2BW" style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none;">scored a private meeting</a><span style="line-height: 16.8px;">&nbsp;at the "Koch Residence" with Charles Koch at the 2014 donor gathering and was also&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=1ov6ughyqaTR%2FuVuAkNi5fn2u%2BV%2FK%2F%2BW" style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none;">recognized in 2011</a><span style="line-height: 16.8px;">&nbsp;for donating over $1 million to the Koch network. Childs was the country's&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=NDe9hGZLDFgieAbBr6usevn2u%2BV%2FK%2F%2BW" style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none;">12<span style="vertical-align: text-top; line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;">th</span>-biggest individual donor</a><span style="line-height: 16.8px;">&nbsp;to outside spending groups in 2012 ($4.2 million) and No. 22 in 2014 ($2.4 million).</span></span><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><b style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">* Wayne Laufer</b><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=7gMVwxUP23o4Qn5P26ah0fn2u%2BV%2FK%2F%2BW" style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">co-founder and retired CEO</a><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;of Houston, Texas-based oil and natural gas corporation Bois d'Arc Energy, now lives in Sanibel, Florida. Laufer (at right in photo) donated $600,000 to FPAF last October.</span><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><b style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">* Richard B. Gilliam</b><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, founder of Virginia-based coal mining company Cumberland Resources, contributed $500,000 to FPAF in July. Gilliam (at left in photo), who sold Cumberland to Massey Energy for close to $1 billion in 2010,&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=pA%2BswamPO5vAaWwVf68qVPiaKob6o6wT" style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">gave nearly $1.1 million</a><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;to independent spending groups in 2012. Now a director at rare-metals mining corporation Endurance Gold, he&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=QDQRbDGfwYLMh0LljJkYlfn2u%2BV%2FK%2F%2BW" style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">met privately</a><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">last year with Charles Koch and Richard Fink, CEO of Koch Companies Public Sector and Koch Industries board member. Charles Koch&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Cy6MQPLZgX51F7gnEJegsPn2u%2BV%2FK%2F%2BW" style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">praised Gilliam</a><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;in 2011 for giving over $1 million to the Koch network in a one-year period.</span><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><b style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">* Mrs. P. Mitchell</b><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, a self-employed investor from Dallas, gave $500,000 to FPAF on Oct. 27, 2014. Her identity is unclear.</span><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><b style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">* Art Pope's</b><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;Henderson, North Carolina-based discount store chain&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=HxGxRTQngnliLDq3GyOPG%2FiaKob6o6wT" style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Variety Wholesalers</a><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;gave $400,000 to FPAF through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Variety Stores, on Sept. 16, 2014. Just 11 days earlier, Pope -- a major donor to conservative candidates and causes in North Carolina --&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Nl6FFxKfOm10JVSdLJl1nvn2u%2BV%2FK%2F%2BW" style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">had resigned</a><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;after serving almost two years as state budget director under Gov. Pat McCrory (R), a period in which Pope and Variety Wholesalers halted their political spending. Pope has longstanding ties to the Kochs, having served as a&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Oc2l757C2oeobfUwj0pvaPn2u%2BV%2FK%2F%2BW" style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">founding board member&nbsp;</a><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">of Americans for Prosperity, and his family foundation&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=h1iOhMz7ilOOqJdBs6joofn2u%2BV%2FK%2F%2BW" style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">has given millions</a><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;to AFP's 501(c)(3) nonprofit arm. Pope also&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2BR5ekXwcUp09HqDRr9la4fn2u%2BV%2FK%2F%2BW" style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">attended Koch donor gatherings</a><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;in 2010 and 2011, when Charles Koch&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=dXIeLLbfZXpHmh1Nz%2BEFyPn2u%2BV%2FK%2F%2BW" style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">praised him</a><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;for having given over $1 million to Koch-related causes in the previous year. In turn, the Kochs have&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Kk2cj22zIDQBmHsU5L8EY%2Fn2u%2BV%2FK%2F%2BW" style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">contributed to conservative advocacy groups</a><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;founded by Pope, including the Civitas Institute and the John Locke Foundation.</span><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The other major Southern donors to FPAF are&nbsp;</span><b style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dian Graves Stai&nbsp;</b><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">of Abilene, Texas, former director of First Financial Bankshares ($250,000);&nbsp;</span><b style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Robert B. Rowling</b><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;of Dallas, chairman of TRT Holdings, which owns Omni Hotels, Gold's Gym International and an oil and gas exploration firm, among other companies ($200,000);&nbsp;</span><b style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">James A. Patterson&nbsp;</b><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">of Louisville, Kentucky, a self-employed investor ($200,000);&nbsp;</span><b style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">George W. Gibbs III</b><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;of Jacksonville, Florida, former CEO of Atlantic Marine Holding Co., a shipbuilding and construction company acquired by BAE Systems in 2010 ($200,000);&nbsp;</span><b style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Edward L. Diefenthal</b><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;of Metairie, Louisiana, president and CEO of the Woodvine Group, which operates companies that buy and sell chemical processing and bulk handling equipment ($150,000);&nbsp;</span><b style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Stephen I. Chazen</b><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;of Bellaire, Texas, president of Occidental Petroleum Corp. ($125,000);&nbsp;</span><b style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Thomas O. Hicks</b><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;of Dallas, chairman of Hicks Holdings, which operates the company that formerly owned the Texas Rangers and the Dallas Stars ($100,000); and</span><b style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;Robert L. Luddy</b><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;of Wake Forest, North Carolina, president of CaptiveAire Systems, which sells commercial kitchen ventilation equipment, and founder of private school chain Thales Academy ($100,000).</span><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">If past is prelude, we can expect these figures to continue bankrolling the Kochs' political efforts in 2016, which in addition to the presidential election will include U.S. Senate races in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, North Carolina and South Carolina.</span><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(To comment on or to share this story, click&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=VkmOxoii%2FHTn0ou4yqwYMvn2u%2BV%2FK%2F%2BW" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;">here</a>.)</span><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;" /><b style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;">INSTITUTE INDEX - The growing oil train threat</b></span><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Train carloads of oil and ethanol expected to be hauled by rail in the U.S. this year:</span><b style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ynlIpjI6%2Ft4nGdmmx7Y%2FlPn2u%2BV%2FK%2F%2BW" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;">nearly 900,000</a></b><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Since 2008, percent increase in train carloads of oil being hauled in the U.S. due to the oil shale drilling boom, which produces a particularly explosive product:</span><b style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=N4S3a%2BBA7%2FIZizsCNoRZTvn2u%2BV%2FK%2F%2BW" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;">4,000</a></b><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Number of Americans living within about 500 yards of an oil train line, which deliver product to refineries on both coasts and the Gulf of Mexico:&nbsp;</span><b style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=kFaFyZELdkCT4PiTI93N3fn2u%2BV%2FK%2F%2BW" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;">16 million</a></b><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Oil train derailments the U.S. government predicts will happen this year:</span><b style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=E%2F3Eri9ZLJZEyJpelgQPb%2Fn2u%2BV%2FK%2F%2BW" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;">about 15</a></b><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Over the next two decades:&nbsp;</span><b style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=oyYFQJoMGCMmKgufLjEgNfn2u%2BV%2FK%2F%2BW" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;">207</a></b><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Average number of "higher consequence" oil train derailments the government expects per year:&nbsp;</span><b style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=tTIAQkHV3m6hiVMk0UbZVPn2u%2BV%2FK%2F%2BW" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;">10</a></b><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Number of people who could be killed in just one of these "higher consequence" accidents:&nbsp;</span><b style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=0oRxUqZSS4O8y1BiTyX1E%2Fn2u%2BV%2FK%2F%2BW" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;">200</a></b><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Estimated amount in damages such an incident could cause:&nbsp;</span><b style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=2pK8iZpM62ynHqL1gHlgjvn2u%2BV%2FK%2F%2BW" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;">$6 billion</a></b><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Number of tank cars of crude oil hauled by the CSX train that derailed in rural Mount Carbon, West Virginia on Feb. 16 while headed to an oil-shipping depot in Yorktown, Virginia:&nbsp;</span><b style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=tUsKi0KtHWLHeH%2FyxlUS1%2Fn2u%2BV%2FK%2F%2BW" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;">107</a></b><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Number of the railcars that caught fire in that disaster, which occurred along the the Kanawha River:&nbsp;</span><b style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=4cZ0oeR4K189uVfzeGX26Pn2u%2BV%2FK%2F%2BW" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;">19</a></b><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Number of days the fire burned:&nbsp;</span><b style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=anAv%2BMtgjHkSfLci7x9Cw%2Fn2u%2BV%2FK%2F%2BW" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;">4</a></b><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Number of people evacuated from the area:&nbsp;</span><b style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=2egHMSOuy2fGSCBZBwTpPPn2u%2BV%2FK%2F%2BW" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;">about 1,000</a></b><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Number of homes destroyed:&nbsp;</span><b style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=yy7ac9nh33GWg1As6l6fVfn2u%2BV%2FK%2F%2BW" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;">1</a></b><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Gallons of crude oil spilled into the James River last year after an oil train derailed near downtown Lynchburg, Virginia:&nbsp;</span><b style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2FBJu8zYWUIJehHNLifBJF%2Fn2u%2BV%2FK%2F%2BW" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;">30,000</a></b><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Gallons of crude spilled into wetlands near the rural, majority African-American community of Aliceville, Alabama in a November 2013 oil train derailment:</span><b style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=L4%2FPpOBNLL7defsMK%2F7dwfn2u%2BV%2FK%2F%2BW" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;">nearly 750,000</a></b><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Number of months later that crude oil was still oozing into the wetland, which a reporter described as smelling "like a garage":&nbsp;</span><b style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=HdHsvXBMWOFimAHnN2XTNPn2u%2BV%2FK%2F%2BW" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;">4</a></b><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Number of people killed in a July 2013 oil train explosion in Lac-Megantic, Quebec after flaming oil engulfed a crowded bar and restaurant on a Saturday night:&nbsp;</span><b style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=W8J%2FAvmGq6XsqzOzNIJUHviaKob6o6wT" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;">47</a></b><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Number of victims whose remains were never found because the intense heat vaporized them:&nbsp;</span><b style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=LdHqG1LRnWFrPxSYrfN9MPn2u%2BV%2FK%2F%2BW" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;">5</a></b><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Date by which new federal oil train regulations were supposed to be finalized and implemented by regulators:&nbsp;</span><b style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=pA%2BswamPO5tG8S%2FvWGSdbPiaKob6o6wT" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;">1/15/2015</a></b><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Number of days before the deadline that the federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration posted documents to its website related to recent meetings with oil and rail industry lobbyists, who have objected to the additional costs:&nbsp;</span><b style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=1X6EC6ij8WKoswqf2KvDuvn2u%2BV%2FK%2F%2BW" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;">2</a></b><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Month to which the rollout of the regulations has been pushed back:&nbsp;</span><b style="line-height: 16.8px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=S47%2FPlTq35sQQFpFe9zUZPn2u%2BV%2FK%2F%2BW" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;">5/2015</a></b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://publicintegrity.org/politics/donor-profile-john-childs/">https://publicintegrity.org/politics/donor-profile-john-childs/</a></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 32px 0px; max-width: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;">Corporate name</span>: J.W. Childs Associates</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 32px 0px; max-width: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;">Corporate subsidiaries</span>: None found</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 32px 0px; max-width: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;">Total spent on lobbying (2007-2012)</span>: None found</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 32px 0px; max-width: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Biography:</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 32px 0px; max-width: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">John Childs, 70, is CEO and board chairman of J.W. Childs Associates, a private equity firm based in Boston. He spends much of his time in Florida, where he has a home in Vero Beach.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 32px 0px; max-width: 100%;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Childs is a pioneer of the leveraged buyout</b></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>, </b>in which a typically public company is paid for with borrowed money and taken private, often to the detriment of its workers. He mastered these transaction at Thomas H. Lee Company, one of the leaders in leveraged buyouts, in the late-1980s to mid-1990s. He spearheaded what is considered one of the most successful leveraged buyout in history with THL’s acquisition of Snapple, which it bought for $135 million and flipped for $1.7 billion, according to&nbsp;</span><em style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit;"><a href="http://www.bostonmagazine.com/articles/2006/05/the-50-wealthiest-bostonians/" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; transition: color 110ms ease-in-out 0s;">Boston Magazine</a></em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 32px 0px; max-width: 100%;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In 1995, Childs founded his “private equity” firm, the new name for leveraged buyout specialists. J.W. Childs has overseen buyouts of NutraSweet, Sunny Delight Beverages Co. and Brookstone, according to the firm’s&nbsp;<a href="http://www.jwchilds.com/" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: color 110ms ease-in-out 0s;">website</a>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 32px 0px; max-width: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Before THL, Childs spent 17 years as an executive at Prudential Insurance Company of America, where he became senior managing director and oversaw Prudential’s $77 billion fixed income portfolio, including investments in leveraged buyouts, his&nbsp;<a href="http://www.jwchilds.com/team/john-childs" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; transition: color 110ms ease-in-out 0s;">profile</a>&nbsp;says.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 32px 0px; max-width: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">Boston Magazine</span>&nbsp;says Childs is known as the “Republican ATM” for his generous contributions to Republican causes — nearly $3.7 million to federal candidates since 2008.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 32px 0px; max-width: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Childs is on the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.clubforgrowth.org/aboutus/?subsec=0&id=122" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; transition: color 110ms ease-in-out 0s;">board of directors</a>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<b>Club for Growth</b>, a free-market organization with several iterations. According to the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/detail.php?cmte=Club+for+Growth&cycle=2012" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; transition: color 110ms ease-in-out 0s;">Center for Responsive Politics</a>, Club for Growth’s nonprofit and super PAC,&nbsp;<a href="http://publicintegrity.org/2012/08/22/10740/pac-profile-club-growth-action" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; transition: color 110ms ease-in-out 0s;">Club for Growth Action</a>, have spent more than $20 million this election cycle on ads designed to aid numerous tea party-aligned candidates.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 32px 0px; max-width: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Childs supports wetlands conservation, volunteering as president of&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ducks.org/philanthropy/wetlands-america-trust" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; transition: color 110ms ease-in-out 0s;">Wetlands Americas Trust</a>, which provides the financial support for Ducks Unlimited, a Florida-based nonprofit that conserves and restores wetland habitat for waterfowl.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 32px 0px; max-width: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Last updated: Jan. 30, 2013</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 32px 0px; max-width: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">*2011-2012 election cycle. Source: Center for Responsive Politics and Center for Public Integrity analysis of Federal Election Commission records. 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</font></a><h3 class="LC20lb MBeuO DKV0Md" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 5px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.3; display: inline-block;"><a href="https://www.wetlandsamerica.org/about-wetlands-america-trust" data-ved="2ahUKEwicvM-iv4L2AhUFlGoFHSjFD9UQFnoECBMQAQ" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.wetlandsamerica.org/about-wetlands-america-trust&ved=2ahUKEwicvM-iv4L2AhUFlGoFHSjFD9UQFnoECBMQAQ" style="text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">About Wetlands America Trust</font></a></h3><div class="TbwUpd NJjxre" style="display: inline-block; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 1px; text-size-adjust: none; position: absolute; left: 0px; top: 0px;"><cite class="iUh30 qLRx3b tjvcx" role="text" style="font-style: normal; line-height: 1.3; padding-top: 1px;">https://www.wetlandsamerica.org<span class="dyjrff qzEoUe" role="text">&nbsp;› about-wetlands-ame...</span></cite></div><div class="B6fmyf" style="position: absolute; top: 0px; height: 0px; visibility: hidden; white-space: nowrap;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div class="TbwUpd" style="display: inline-block; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 1px; text-size-adjust: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><cite class="iUh30 qLRx3b tjvcx" role="text" style="font-style: normal; line-height: 1.3; padding-top: 1px;"><span class="dyjrff qzEoUe" role="text" /></cite></font></div><div class="eFM0qc" style="display: inline-block; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 1px; padding-left: 2px; visibility: visible;" /><div class="csDOgf" style="display: inline; visibility: visible; position: absolute;"><div jscontroller="exgaYe" data-acc="n" data-enjspb="true" jsdata="l7Bhpb;;Cm1QwU" data-ved="2ahUKEwicvM-iv4L2AhUFlGoFHSjFD9UQ2esEegQIExAE"><div jsaction="KyPa0e:WZTn;wjOG7e:edHC5b;al5F3e:edHC5b;"><g-popup jsname="Y3ZMZd" jsshadow="" jscontroller="DPreE" jsaction="A05xBd:IYtByb;EOZ57e:WFrRFb;" jsdata="mVjAjf;;Cm1QvA"><div jsname="oYxtQd"><div jsslot=""><div aria-expanded="false" aria-haspopup="true" role="button" tabindex="0" jsaction="Ndrj7;keydown:tXc2mb" jsname="I3kE2c" class="iTPLzd GUHazd lUn2nc eY4mx" aria-label="About this Result" style="cursor: pointer; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 28px; z-index: 1; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 12px; padding-right: 5px; outline: 0px; position: absolute;"><span jsname="czHhOd" class="D6lY4c" style="height: 22px; width: 22px; position: absolute; border-radius: 11px; top: -1px;"><span jsname="Bil8Ae" class="xTFaxe IjabWd z1asCe SaPW2b" style="display: inline-block; fill: rgb(112, 117, 122); height: 18px; line-height: 18px; position: relative; width: 18px; margin-left: 2px; top: 2px;"><svg focusable="false" viewbox="0 0 24 24" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" /></span></span></div></div></div></g-popup></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="NJo7tc Z26q7c uUuwM" data-content-feature="1" style="flex-direction: row; flex: 1 1 auto;"><div class="VwiC3b yXK7lf MUxGbd yDYNvb lyLwlc lEBKkf" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; padding-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; display: -webkit-box; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; overflow: hidden; -webkit-line-clamp: 2;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Wetlands America Trust</span>&nbsp;is organized and operated exclusively for charitable, educational, scientific and conservation purposes for the sole benefit of Ducks&nbsp;...</font></div></div><div class="NJo7tc Z26q7c" data-content-feature="2" style="flex-direction: row; flex: 0 0 auto;"><div class="TXwUJf"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Missing:&nbsp;<s>Vero</s>&nbsp;‎<s>Beach,</s>&nbsp;‎<s>Fl.</s></font></div></div><div class="NJo7tc Z26q7c" style="flex-direction: row; flex: 0 0 auto;"><div jscontroller="K6HGfd" id="eob_3" jsdata="fxg5tf;;Cm1Qv0" jsaction="rcuQ6b:npT2md" data-ved="2ahUKEwicvM-iv4L2AhUFlGoFHSjFD9UQ2Z0BegQIEBAA" /></div></div></div><div class="g tF2Cxc" data-hveid="CC8QAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwicvM-iv4L2AhUFlGoFHSjFD9UQFSgAegQILxAA" style="line-height: 1.58; width: 600px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 30px; position: relative; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="jtfYYd" data-sokoban-container="SOKOBAN_5248637756987615769" style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; position: relative; overflow: hidden; contain: layout paint; flex-shrink: 0;"><div class="NJo7tc Z26q7c jGGQ5e" data-header-feature="0" style="flex-direction: row; flex: 0 0 auto;"><div class="yuRUbf" style="line-height: 1.58;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/John_Childs" data-ved="2ahUKEwicvM-iv4L2AhUFlGoFHSjFD9UQFnoECBsQAQ" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://ballotpedia.org/John_Childs&ved=2ahUKEwicvM-iv4L2AhUFlGoFHSjFD9UQFnoECBsQAQ" style="text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
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height: 0px; visibility: hidden; white-space: nowrap;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div class="TbwUpd" style="display: inline-block; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 1px; text-size-adjust: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><cite class="iUh30 qLRx3b tjvcx" role="text" style="font-style: normal; line-height: 1.3; padding-top: 1px;"><span class="dyjrff qzEoUe" role="text" /></cite></font></div><div class="eFM0qc" style="display: inline-block; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 1px; padding-left: 2px; visibility: visible;" /><div class="csDOgf" style="display: inline; visibility: visible; position: absolute;"><div jscontroller="exgaYe" data-acc="n" data-enjspb="true" jsdata="l7Bhpb;;Cm1QxA" data-ved="2ahUKEwicvM-iv4L2AhUFlGoFHSjFD9UQ2esEegQIGxAE"><div jsaction="KyPa0e:WZTn;wjOG7e:edHC5b;al5F3e:edHC5b;"><g-popup jsname="Y3ZMZd" jsshadow="" jscontroller="DPreE" jsaction="A05xBd:IYtByb;EOZ57e:WFrRFb;" jsdata="mVjAjf;;Cm1QvA"><div jsname="oYxtQd"><div jsslot=""><div aria-expanded="false" aria-haspopup="true" role="button" tabindex="0" jsaction="Ndrj7;keydown:tXc2mb" jsname="I3kE2c" class="iTPLzd GUHazd lUn2nc eY4mx" aria-label="About this Result" style="cursor: pointer; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 28px; z-index: 1; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 12px; padding-right: 5px; outline: 0px; position: absolute;"><span jsname="czHhOd" class="D6lY4c" style="height: 22px; width: 22px; position: absolute; border-radius: 11px; top: -1px;"><span jsname="Bil8Ae" class="xTFaxe IjabWd z1asCe SaPW2b" style="display: inline-block; fill: rgb(112, 117, 122); height: 18px; line-height: 18px; position: relative; width: 18px; margin-left: 2px; top: 2px;"><svg focusable="false" viewbox="0 0 24 24" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" /></span></span></div></div></div></g-popup></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="NJo7tc Z26q7c uUuwM" data-content-feature="1" style="flex-direction: row; flex: 1 1 auto;"><div class="VwiC3b yXK7lf MUxGbd yDYNvb lyLwlc lEBKkf" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; padding-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; display: -webkit-box; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; overflow: hidden; -webkit-line-clamp: 2;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He became senior managing director of THL in 1991, where he remained until 1995.&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Childs</span>&nbsp;founded his own private equity firm, J.W.&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Childs</span>&nbsp;Associates, in 1995 in&nbsp;...</font></div></div><div class="NJo7tc Z26q7c" data-content-feature="2" style="flex-direction: row; 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</font></a><h3 class="LC20lb MBeuO DKV0Md" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 5px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.3; display: inline-block;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-childs-7b13b765" data-ved="2ahUKEwicvM-iv4L2AhUFlGoFHSjFD9UQFnoECBkQAQ" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-childs-7b13b765&ved=2ahUKEwicvM-iv4L2AhUFlGoFHSjFD9UQFnoECBkQAQ" style="text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">John Childs - Chairman & CEO - JW Childs Associates, LP</font></a></h3><div class="TbwUpd NJjxre" style="display: inline-block; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 1px; text-size-adjust: none; position: absolute; left: 0px; top: 0px;"><cite class="iUh30 qLRx3b tjvcx" role="text" style="font-style: normal; line-height: 1.3; padding-top: 1px;">https://www.linkedin.com<span class="dyjrff qzEoUe" role="text">&nbsp;› john-childs-7b13b765</span></cite></div><div class="B6fmyf" style="position: absolute; top: 0px; height: 0px; visibility: hidden; white-space: nowrap;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div class="TbwUpd" style="display: inline-block; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 1px; text-size-adjust: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><cite class="iUh30 qLRx3b tjvcx" role="text" style="font-style: normal; line-height: 1.3; padding-top: 1px;"><span class="dyjrff qzEoUe" role="text" /></cite></font></div><div class="eFM0qc" style="display: inline-block; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 1px; padding-left: 2px; visibility: visible;" /><div class="csDOgf" style="display: inline; visibility: visible; position: absolute;"><div jscontroller="exgaYe" data-acc="n" data-enjspb="true" jsdata="l7Bhpb;;Cm1Qw4" data-ved="2ahUKEwicvM-iv4L2AhUFlGoFHSjFD9UQ2esEegQIGRAE"><div jsaction="KyPa0e:WZTn;wjOG7e:edHC5b;al5F3e:edHC5b;"><g-popup jsname="Y3ZMZd" jsshadow="" jscontroller="DPreE" jsaction="A05xBd:IYtByb;EOZ57e:WFrRFb;" jsdata="mVjAjf;;Cm1QvA"><div jsname="oYxtQd"><div jsslot=""><div aria-expanded="false" aria-haspopup="true" role="button" tabindex="0" jsaction="Ndrj7;keydown:tXc2mb" jsname="I3kE2c" class="iTPLzd GUHazd lUn2nc eY4mx" aria-label="About this Result" style="cursor: pointer; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 28px; z-index: 1; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 12px; padding-right: 5px; outline: 0px; position: absolute;"><span jsname="czHhOd" class="D6lY4c" style="height: 22px; width: 22px; position: absolute; border-radius: 11px; top: -1px;"><span jsname="Bil8Ae" class="xTFaxe IjabWd z1asCe SaPW2b" style="display: inline-block; fill: rgb(112, 117, 122); height: 18px; line-height: 18px; position: relative; width: 18px; margin-left: 2px; top: 2px;"><svg focusable="false" viewbox="0 0 24 24" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" /></span></span></div></div></div></g-popup></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="NJo7tc Z26q7c uUuwM" data-content-feature="1" style="flex-direction: row; flex: 1 1 auto;"><div class="MUxGbd wuQ4Ob WZ8Tjf" style="padding-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Vero Beach, Florida, United States<span aria-hidden="true">&nbsp;·&nbsp;</span>Chairman & CEO<span aria-hidden="true">&nbsp;·&nbsp;</span>J.W. Childs Associates, L.P.</font></div><div class="VwiC3b yXK7lf MUxGbd yDYNvb lyLwlc lEBKkf" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; padding-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; display: -webkit-box; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; overflow: hidden; -webkit-line-clamp: 2;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">View&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">John Childs</span>' profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community.&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">John</span>&nbsp;has 1 job listed on their profile. See the complete profile on&nbsp;...</font></div></div><div class="NJo7tc Z26q7c" data-content-feature="2" style="flex-direction: row; flex: 0 0 auto;"><div class="fG8Fp uo4vr" style="line-height: 1.58;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Vero Beach, Florida, United States&nbsp;· ‎Chairman & CEO&nbsp;· ‎J.W. 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</font></a><h3 class="LC20lb MBeuO DKV0Md" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 5px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.3; display: inline-block;"><a href="https://deltawaterfowl.org/amo-team/john-w-childs/" data-ved="2ahUKEwicvM-iv4L2AhUFlGoFHSjFD9UQFnoECBoQAQ" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://deltawaterfowl.org/amo-team/john-w-childs/&ved=2ahUKEwicvM-iv4L2AhUFlGoFHSjFD9UQFnoECBoQAQ" style="text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">John W. Childs - Delta Waterfowl</font></a></h3><div class="TbwUpd NJjxre" style="display: inline-block; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 1px; text-size-adjust: none; position: absolute; left: 0px; top: 0px;"><cite class="iUh30 qLRx3b tjvcx" role="text" style="font-style: normal; line-height: 1.3; padding-top: 1px;">https://deltawaterfowl.org<span class="dyjrff qzEoUe" role="text">&nbsp;› amo-team › john-w-childs</span></cite></div><div class="B6fmyf" style="position: absolute; top: 0px; height: 0px; visibility: hidden; white-space: nowrap;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div class="TbwUpd" style="display: inline-block; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 1px; text-size-adjust: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><cite class="iUh30 qLRx3b tjvcx" role="text" style="font-style: normal; line-height: 1.3; padding-top: 1px;"><span class="dyjrff qzEoUe" role="text" /></cite></font></div><div class="eFM0qc" style="display: inline-block; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 1px; padding-left: 2px; visibility: visible;" /><div class="csDOgf" style="display: inline; visibility: visible; position: absolute;"><div jscontroller="exgaYe" data-acc="n" data-enjspb="true" jsdata="l7Bhpb;;Cm1Qw8" data-ved="2ahUKEwicvM-iv4L2AhUFlGoFHSjFD9UQ2esEegQIGhAE"><div jsaction="KyPa0e:WZTn;wjOG7e:edHC5b;al5F3e:edHC5b;"><g-popup jsname="Y3ZMZd" jsshadow="" jscontroller="DPreE" jsaction="A05xBd:IYtByb;EOZ57e:WFrRFb;" jsdata="mVjAjf;;Cm1QvA"><div jsname="oYxtQd"><div jsslot=""><div aria-expanded="false" aria-haspopup="true" role="button" tabindex="0" jsaction="Ndrj7;keydown:tXc2mb" jsname="I3kE2c" class="iTPLzd GUHazd lUn2nc eY4mx" aria-label="About this Result" style="cursor: pointer; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 28px; z-index: 1; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 12px; padding-right: 5px; outline: 0px; position: absolute;"><span jsname="czHhOd" class="D6lY4c" style="height: 22px; width: 22px; position: absolute; border-radius: 11px; top: -1px;"><span jsname="Bil8Ae" class="xTFaxe IjabWd z1asCe SaPW2b" style="display: inline-block; fill: rgb(112, 117, 122); height: 18px; line-height: 18px; position: relative; width: 18px; margin-left: 2px; top: 2px;"><svg focusable="false" viewbox="0 0 24 24" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" /></span></span></div></div></div></g-popup></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="NJo7tc Z26q7c uUuwM" data-content-feature="1" style="flex-direction: row; flex: 1 1 auto;"><div class="VwiC3b yXK7lf MUxGbd yDYNvb lyLwlc lEBKkf" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; padding-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; display: -webkit-box; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; overflow: hidden; -webkit-line-clamp: 2;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="MUxGbd wuQ4Ob WZ8Tjf" style="padding-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Aug 4, 2021&nbsp;—&nbsp;</span>In 1995, he established J.W.&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Childs</span>&nbsp;Associates, a private equity firm based in Boston. Previously, he was senior managing director at Thomas H.</font></div></div><div class="NJo7tc Z26q7c" data-content-feature="2" style="flex-direction: row; flex: 0 0 auto;"><div class="TXwUJf"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Missing:&nbsp;<s>Vero</s>&nbsp;‎<s>Beach,</s>&nbsp;‎<s>Fl.</s></font></div></div><div class="NJo7tc Z26q7c" style="flex-direction: row; flex: 0 0 auto;"><div jscontroller="K6HGfd" id="eob_4" jsdata="fxg5tf;;Cm1QwE" jsaction="rcuQ6b:npT2md" data-ved="2ahUKEwicvM-iv4L2AhUFlGoFHSjFD9UQ2Z0BegQIFRAA" /></div></div></div><div class="hlcw0c" style="margin-bottom: 44px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.58; width: 600px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 30px;"><div data-hveid="CB4QAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwicvM-iv4L2AhUFlGoFHSjFD9UQFSgAegQIHhAA"><div class="tF2Cxc" style="position: relative;"><div class="yuRUbf" style="line-height: 1.58; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://duckscdn.blob.core.windows.net/imagescontainer/landing-pages/aboutDU/AR2020.pdf" data-ved="2ahUKEwicvM-iv4L2AhUFlGoFHSjFD9UQFnoECBEQAQ" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://duckscdn.blob.core.windows.net/imagescontainer/landing-pages/aboutDU/AR2020.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwicvM-iv4L2AhUFlGoFHSjFD9UQFnoECBEQAQ" style="text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
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