I think I found the Key to the Gannon scandal!

It is a company called 'Quinn Gillespie & Assoc. LLC.'


Here's the chain of connections:

Jeff Gannon worked for Talon News. Talon News and GOPUSA both belong to Bobby Eberle. The members of the board of directors are mostly active GOP Operatives from Texas.

Board member, Richard M. Powell is the Managing Director for Quinn Gillespie & Assoc. LLC.

Gillespie is none other than Ed Gillespie who was on a 'leave of absence' running the RNC for the 2004 Election.

But hang on folks, this doesn't involve just the GOP, it involves the DEMS too!

So who is Quinn, in this Quinn, Gillespie? Surprise, surprise he is a fellowed name Jack Quinn, a top DEM DC lobbyist.


Check out the News Page on their Website. This goes all the way to the Bush Campaign and the Kerry Campaign! They are all in bed together.


http://www.quinngillespie.com/news /


The Hill, June, 2004

"The home of former Democratic White House hand Jack Quinn and Republican Ed Gillespie (when he’s not running the RNC), this firm has become one of the top full-service shops around, combining lobbying and public-affairs prowess."


Roll Call, November 2004

After helping to secure a second term for President Bush, Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie plans to give up his post by year's end and return to the Washington lobbying shop he helped found four years ago . . . While Gillespie's return provides a boost to Quinn Gillespie & Associates, the firm benefited from his reflected glory at the RNC: It added a bit of business during Gillespie's absence, rather than seeing receipts drop off.


National Journal, August 2004

As Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie mixed it up with White House Chief of Staff Andy Card, several Cabinet members, and countless members of Congress over sushi and Chardonnay last night, seven New York police officers patrolled outside the swank Guastavino's restaurant built into the Queensboro Bridge . . . Security plans for last night's "Salute to GOP Chairman Ed Gillespie" were six months in the making. "Given Ed's role as chairman, we fully expected him to attract a very senior VIP crowd -- it was a fundamental part of our thinking from the very beginning," said Rick Powell, managing director at Quinn Gillespie & Associates.


Legal Times, November 2004

If Pennsylvania is a must-have battleground state for Sen. John Kerry, then the four suburban counties flanking Philadelphia could prove his Waterloo. It's Quinn Gillespie & Associates' Bruce Andrews' job to ensure that doesn't happen. As political director for the Kerry-Edwards coordinating committee in Bucks, Montgomery, Delaware, and Chester counties -- an area with more than a sixth of the state's population -- Andrews is charged with directing the push to tip the suburbs into the Democratic column in a state where rural Republican and urban Democratic votes roughly cancel each other out.


The National Journal, March, 2004

"At a time when some lobbyists are making news for all the wrong reasons, Quinn Gillespie's David Hoppe stands out. Ask around town about the former "chief of staff" to ... Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., and expect to hear words such as 'mature,' 'solid,' and 'credible' from Democrats and Republicans alike. With his one-year ban on lobbying 13 Senate leaders and their aides over, Hoppe can now ply his new trade unfettered in the upper chamber. But Hoppe already helped the firm boost earnings nearly 20 percent last year ... according to Managing Director Richard Powell -- even with name partner Ed Gillespie on a leave of absence to run the Republican National Committee. Partner Jeff Connaughton credits Hoppe with helping to fill the rainmaking role that Gillespie left open."

The National Journal, March, 2004

"The Kerry campaign reports that it now has 182 elite fundraisers nationwide, including 59 "co-chairs" who have raised more than $100,000 apiece... Kerry's co-chairs from K Street include Manny Ortiz of Quinn Gillespie & Associates."

Let's begin the investigation, now! (or right after the DNC broadcast on cspan)

Jack Quinn

Ed Gillespie

Jeff Connaughton


Bruce Andrews
Rochelle Behrens
Julie Carney
Christopher Delaney
Michael Hacker
Dave Hoppe
Virginia Hume
Michael Hussey
Scott Hynes
Sue Garman Kranias
Juan Carlos Iturregui
Marc Lampkin
David Lugar
Nicolas Maduros
Donna Marino
Harriet James Melvin
Manuel Ortiz
Andrew Poe
Richard Powell
Marti Thomas


http://www.quinngillespie.com/about/team.phtml

This'll give me something to do this weekend. Send the bastards packing.

. . . only outlaws will have lobbies.

(Sorry -- it's late and I couldn't help myself.)

of American politics.

Or just jokes.

She also led the firm's U.S. Environmental Practice Group. She served in a client leadership or senior counseling role for dozens of clients, including the American Petroleum Institute, BP, Colgate-Palmolive, Enron, Ford Motor Company, the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, Terminix International and Texaco.

Before joining B-M, Ms. Garman worked for the Chemical Specialties Manufacturers Association. There she gained in-depth knowledge of many environmental and regulatory issues facing the chemical and consumer products industry.

A flack for all the finest companies.

which is sorta like Bush Petroleum after all!
http://www.bp.com/home.do?categoryId=1

I think Blair is getting tired of being *'s pony boy.

and sorry he ever rolled over, if you catch my meaning.
Amazing how all this subterfuge seems to be "one step removed" from The Evil One.
Kinda gives me the impression that the source of the trickery isn't actually Babs Bush's bouncing baby boy Doosh, but someone also a step removed.
The shrub himself is a tool.
A monkey wrench, if you will.

CORPORATIONS

Banco Popular de Puerto Rico
Caribbean Property Group, LLC
CEMEX
City of San Juan, Puerto Rico
The Coca-Cola Company
College Loan Corporation
Conservation Trust of Puerto Rico
Cote d’Ivoire
DaimlerChrysler Corporation
Diageo plc
EADS North America
Entergy Corporation
FM Policy Focus
Genworth
Hewlett Packard
ICAP plc
Microsoft Corporation
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC
Sabre Holdings, Inc.
Safeway, Inc.
SBC Communications
Silverstein Properties
Sony Corporation of America
Travelocity.com
Tyson Foods
USEC Inc.
Verizon
Verizon Wireless
Zurich Financial Services Corporation
Confidential FORTUNE 100 Financial Services Client
Confidential FORTUNE 150 Insurance Client
Confidential FORTUNE 250 Consumer Product Client


ASSOCIATIONS & COALITIONS

American Hospital Association
American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers (ASCAP)
British Columbia Lumber Trade Council
Class Action Fairness Coalition
Forest County Potawatomi Community
International Dairy Foods Association
National Air Traffic Controllers Association
National Association of Realtors
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
http://www.quinngillespie.com/about/clients.phtml


The firm was started by Democratic White House veteran Jack Quinn and Republican communications specialist Ed Gillespie after they and Jeff Connaughton, another QGA principal, successfully collaborated on behalf of American high tech companies to reverse U.S. policy on encryption technology. As leaders of QGA, Jack Quinn and Ed Gillespie provide an unparalleled combination of strategic abilities, bipartisan experience and understanding of the Washington policy and communications landscape.
Quinn and Gillespie have surrounded themselves with the best public affairs talent in Washington. Our team of nearly 20 government relations and communications professionals have broad and extensive experience in Republican and Democratic politics and government service, and are held in high regard by the people currently shaping policy in the nation's capital. Collectively, their bios are an impressive show of legislative, executive branch, association, public relations, coalition, political and private sector experience and skills.
Quinn Gillespie & Associates believes that shaping public policy in the 21st Century is about more than just relationships and lobbying. QGA attacks client problems with a "campaign style" integrated approach. We believe that sound policy, careful research, pinpoint political and audience targeting, bold and succinct messages and an experienced understanding of the political and policy process are crucial to success.
Quinn Gillespie & Associates knows Washington and we know how to solve the public policy problems our clients confront every day. QGA offers a full range of public affairs services, including strategic planning, message development, legislative and executive branch lobbying, public relations, coalition management, corporate positioning and advertising production and placement.
http://www.quinngillespie.com/about/

any of the campaigns that they've worked on.

I guess they don't want people to notice they they ran both the Kerry Campaign and the Bush Campaign.

neither of them won the election.

Strategic Partners
Mindshare Interactive Campaigns L.L.C.
Opinion Media

In less than 24 hours, Mindshare can easily integrate Letter Campaign into your extranet, intranet or existing public Web site or behind your firewall. Letter Campaign can also be configured to have the same look and feel as your site to ensure a seamless experience for your supporters.
Your organization can pre-determine the message to be sent and can decide which format is most effective: postal mail, telegram, fax or e-mail -- automatically.
http://www.mindshare.net/services/technology/lettercamp... /

GSA Schedule
For U.S. Federal Government Agencies who are interested in services from Mindshare Interactive Campaigns, we offer services through the AIMS schedule.

Schedule type:
GSA Federal Supply Schedule Advertising and Integrated Marketing Solutions (AIMS) Schedule 541

Restricted to clients:
All US Federal Government Agencies
http://www.mindshare.net/gsa /

So,
was GannonGuckert rendering services via a GSA Schedule?
Both GOPUSA and Mindshare appear on
Townhall.com RightPages
http://www.townhall.com/rightpages/60.asp
Townhall.com is the first truly interactive community on the Internet to bring Internet users, conservative public policy organizations, congressional staff, and political activists together under the broad umbrella of "conservative" thoughts, ideas and actions. Townhall.com is a one-stop mall of ideas in which people congregate to exchange, discuss and disseminate the latest news and information from the conservative movement. Townhall.com is committed to inform, educate and empower the public through this emerging electronic medium.
http://www.townhall.com/about /

If you look at the Regular contributors
you will see
Maggie Gallagher and Armstrong Williams,
both of whom have been caught presstituting for the Bush Administration.
Now, GannonGuckert is may be linking up to the same media-machine.

The trail goes through here...now how is "Gannon" really connected?

I wonder if this site advertised on either his or his webcast.

I'm still trying to decifer the "Congressional Gallery" remark "Gannon" made in an NPR interview early in the week as his source of his being accredited to cover White House activities. The preliminary trace I made led to the Senate Repugnican leadership...and what appears to be an alternative credential system for their pet "journalists" and to bypass the "conventional" press.

The Gillespie link really makes a ton of success, since his operations were based in Va...right near the Eberles and eagerly played the role of hatchet-man and fixer throughout the campaign.

I still don't know what to make of Quinn.

Thanks for all your hard work. It's been appreciated and hopefully will find its way into this labrynth.

Cheers

Bobby Eberle owns Talon News and GOPUSA.

Richard Powell is on the Board of Directors for GOPUSA.

Richard Powell is the Managing Director for Quinn Gillespie & Associates.

politics in the US is looking like ice cream containers in a Baskin Robbins.
It doesn't matter which one of the 31 flavors you pick,
the same guy owns them all.

We can see the branches.
Now we need to trace them down to the truck,
and strike the root.

And I've checked the strings here...how does Powell leap to Quinn...or is he conduit to Gillespie. Still a little too grey...but a lot more solid material than there was 24 hours ago.

The one who still gets my interest is Elizabeth Eberle. I've seen references that she has served on several executive boards and as a treasurer. The bios posted have her political connections, I'm curious about her, and others corporate ones.

The only thing that would be a more direct connection would be if they were all married to each other.

Gannon works for Powell, Powell works for Quinn & Gillespie.

On the surface, looks like a duck. From some of the reading I've been doing, this firm looks like it's two seperate operations...except for where the checks are written. Quinn doing Democratic stuff, Gillespie doing the other and Quinn playing bag man.

I see the connection (still not really proven) to Gillespie through Eberle, but not how Quinn or Powell would be involved other than guilt by association at this point.

There's no giving a pass to any Democrat who abets Repugnicans, just let's not get too far ahead here...let's get some solid evidence that gets "Gannon" to at least Gillespie and the RNC...and then see how that relationship evolved. If Quinn & or Powell are involved, then we have a serious problem.

Dina Powell, the West Wing's Hire Power

By Ann Gerhart
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, January 11, 2005; Page C01

<snip>

Powell is the president's headhunter, charged with filling hundreds of jobs in the next several weeks -- ambassadors, Cabinet heads, undersecretaries, commissioners. She is the soul of discretion. What's in the safe? Forget it.

Those new people tramping the corridors of federal power will have left some part of themselves with Powell, who at 31 is the youngest person ever to direct the presidential personnel office and its roughly 35 employees.

<snip>

About this, Powell will say only that she meets with the president "regularly." In this disciplined White House, there are usually only four people, outside the legal vetters, who know which people have gotten the nod -- Bush, Vice President Cheney, political adviser Karl Rove and Powell. Asked if Powell simply prepares the paperwork or actually makes recommendations on hiring, Office of Management and Budget director Josh Bolten says, "Both."

<snip>

Powell, who is married to public affairs executive Richard Powell, and has a 3-year-old daughter, always seems to have been mature beyond her years. She worked her way through the University of Texas by serving as a full-time legislative assistant to a state senator. After graduation, she took an internship with Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Tex.), intending to go on to law school. Instead, she moved over to work in the office of fellow Texan Dick Armey, then the House majority leader. "We immediately recognized her brains and her ability," says Armey, "and then her charm, and finally, I think somebody noticed she was gorgeous, too."


http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A64575-2005Jan...

This resume drips Texas Repugnican...now I'm still not sure Powell's relationship to Quinn. I can definitely see how he intertwines with the Eberles and Gillespie. Again, Elizabeth Eberle's name keep coming to mind...and Mrs. Powell appears to be in a similar situation.

Again, the thing missing here are the cross links to commercial, religious groups and "think tanks" or other such groups where the networking and money laundering can go on and no one is the wiser.

New question...would Mrs. Powell, through her access to Armey and DeLay...able to run interference for "Gannon"...for such things like his hard press pass.

Thanks for all your digging and replies.

Quinn was running the whole show while Gillespie was on leave to run the Bush Campaign. I don't think he can claim that he only handled the DEM clients at that point?


The Hill, March, 2004

"Jack Quinn named one of Washington, DC's Top Lobbyist: The Democratic half of the Quinn Gillespie team, Quinn is holding down the fort now that partner Ed Gillespie is heading the Republican National Committee."

http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:zaOlRmANA9IJ:www.qui...

Playing devil's advocate here...if Gillespie was off on RNC business (and most of the campaign he was doing that dog & pony voter registration/intimidation thing), then didn't his Repugnican clients go with him?

Again, no pass to Quinn whatsoever, and your revelations have given me a very bad taste as well...I just want this stuff to be solider than diamonds...cause we know the wingnuts and Freepers will find any little whole and pick it apart.

Cheers!

to Quinn Gillespie as soon as the election was over. Everything that I've read indicates that Gillespie was on a leave of absence.

There is no indication that Gillespie continued any of his consulting work, while he was employed full time by the GOP.

Sure, while Gillespie (that weaseldick...thank-you that felt good to write that) was "on hiatus"...at least in an official capacity, the big question is how well connected he remained in an "unofficial capacity". Also, I would imagine that "Gannon" was already rolling along by then and Eddie had better fish to fry.

Before we go even deeper, let's take a step back and try to put things in a perspective. We know that there are connections from "Gannon" through the Eberles to Powell and on to Quinn-Gillespie. (Stop me at any point if I miss something)

The address Eberle lists as their GOPUSA/Talon is in northern Virginia...as is the RNC headquarters...Gillespie's digs while on hiatus from Quinn-Gillespie.

Powell fits into this picture very neatly...especially his wife, who, one could draw parallels to Elizabeth Eberle...Bobby's wife...who both appear to be conduits to other organizations and corporations.

The hunt goes in two directions...one is the money, the other is the access. Gillespie and Powell come dead red as people who could make the connections, but I don't think they'd be the ones getting their hands dirty.

Quinn's role is undetermined...as he was the sole partner in charge of Quinn-Gillespie throughout 2004...but was Eberle or "Gannon" using or networking with that company by then...or had they moved along with Gillespie into the RNC...along with other dirty tricksters (from the Lee Atwater/Floyd Brown school) who were already in place and ready to do their dirty tricks.

Just in writing this I can still see myself getting way ahead of things here.

The missing link, IMHO, is finding out more about the corporate/money connections of this firm and anyone associated with the Eberles. These folks sure had plenty on hand...now how did they get it and where did that money originate from.

This is almost as fun as watching CSI...sadly, it's reality!

He's on the Board of Directors for GOPUSA, which is owned and operated by Bobby Eberle.

Richard Powell is the Managing Director for Quinn Gillespie. He is the guy that runs the day to day operation of the place. That's seems to me to be a major direct connection.

Here's another direct link to the Dem side:

Kerry's fundraiser Manuel Ortiz,


The National Journal, March, 2004
"The Kerry campaign reports that it now has 182 elite fundraisers nationwide, including 59 "co-chairs" who have raised more than $100,000 apiece... Kerry's co-chairs from K Street include Manny Ortiz of Quinn Gillespie & Associates."


http://www.quinngillespie.com/news /


MANUEL ORTIZ

Manuel Ortiz works with national & international clients providing strategic planning and government affairs counseling. Mr. Ortiz participates actively in the National Democratic Party and its overall leadership structure. He is also actively involved in national Democratic campaigns with both policy and fund raising efforts.

Prior to joining Quinn Gillespie in April 2003, Mr. Ortiz served as a transactional attorney with the international law firms of Verner Liipfert Bernhard McPherson & Hand and Greenberg Traurig LLP. During this time, Mr. Ortiz counseled private and public sector clients in the following areas: public infrastructure, energy, transportation, capital markets, communications, environmental, and technology. He gained significant experience dealing with Latin American clients and Fortune 100 companies doing business in the region. Mr. Ortiz frequently counseled entities doing business with the Federal Government as well as international companies developing business in Latin America.

Mr. Ortiz has experience representing and advancing the interest of US territories with federal agencies, Congress and the White House.

Mr. Ortiz, a native of San Juan, Puerto Rico, obtained a Bachelor of Arts and Juris Doctor Degrees from the University of Kansas, where he also served as Captain of the Men’s Tennis Team.

http://www.quinngillespie.com/about/ortiz.phtml


Quinn Gillespie is not just some lobbying firm. They have placed key people inside both campaigns and are directly involved in the policy and operation of both parties. The whole thing is rigged and these are the folks who are doing the rigging.

Both Powells seem intertwined in a lot of different parts here, and now the question turns to what other connections he has other than with Quinn-Gillespie...especially with other people like Eberle. Someone posted about Bernie Finkelstein...another GOOP dirty trickster who goes after Hillary...these guys seem to have very similar MOs.

Next is how do you connect Powell to "Gannon" and how does this also play into Quinn-Gillespie. Assuming Powell took over for Gillespie (who from my reading pretty much dominated the firm's billing), I'm sure the two didn't sever contacts over the time and it'd be interesting if there was a way to see where these two could or would have caught up with one another...then to see if any of our other principals are not too far away.

The other wild card here is how this cabal intersects with others...especially in the media...that link is still not as clear.

There's good stuff on DailyKos about Morton Blackwell and his "journalism school"...the one "Gannon" went to. He also was involved with the Slime Boaters and I remember reading he also was "consulting" Indian gambling interests. He's gotta connect in somewhere.

Cheers!

His Bio URL is still listed in Google, but currently not listed. However, wayback machine found it.

Wayback machine - Mar 16, 2004.

http://web.archive.org/web/20040316202356/http://www.go...

Richard M. Powell
Member, Board of Directors, GOPUSA

"Richard Powell brings a wealth of political and business experience to GOPUSA.com. He is the founder and president of JPX Interactive Technologies, Inc., a comprehensive technology integration firm offering consulting, deployment and integration services in the business, government and education market segments. The firm has a specialty practice area focusing on the development and implementation of web portals that channel best practice content to educators and students. Richard also consults privately for political candidates and policymakers, helping them develop their education message and K-16 education reform policy initiatives. He is a former policy advisor to Texas Governor Rick Perry, and is active in national, state and local political and civic causes. Richard is a graduate of St. Edward's University. He resides in Austin, Texas where he likes to spend his free time running competitively, traveling and working with at-risk youth.



Missing Google Listing:

GOPUSA - Richard Powell
... GOPUSA Online Market. >> Click here for more details! Richard M. Powell
Member, Board of Directors, GOPUSA. Richard Powell brings ...
www.gopusa.com/bios/richardpowell.shtml
redirects to
http://www.gopusa.com/missing /

Let me tell you about one of the largest, most influential law firms in Texas.

They had lobbying contracts. They made political donations. Lots of 'em. I saw judges walk into the offices, and other political candidates, to see the top guy.

BUT, the firm was determinedly neither Democrat nor Republican. It donated to BOTH SIDES often. It had high-ranking partners, some who were fluent with Dems, some with Repubs.

They played both sides of the fence, and it was no secret. That way, when the power changed, they would still have their entree.

That said, it wouldn't surprise me to find collusion at the tops of the two parties, but I don't think a lobbying firm with a foot in each camp is proof of it. Couldn't it be just an "eggs in two baskets" strategy?

who at various times worked in 'official' capacities in the White House and the presidential candidates.

Quinn was Gore's Chief of Staff until Jan 2000, 11 months before the 2000 Election when he left to start this PR company with Gilespie.

Then Gillespie goes on a leave of absence to Chair the RNC for the 2004 campaign.

These are key people, in key positions working inside and outside of the WH.

What it boils down to is that the same PR firm, ran the DEM and the REP campaign for the 2004 election. The whole thing was an inside job.

Lloyd Bentsen, for example, was a Democrat, but he was part of the same business circles as Bush Sr.'s pals Walt Mischer and Jack Trotter. According to my notes, at one point Mischer was the largest single donor to both Bush and Bentsen -- and this was in the 80's, when it looked as though the two of them might even run for president against one another.

I think what it comes to is that business trumps politics with these people every time.

The only reasons I can think of aren't good ones.

Kerri Houston, one of the GOPUSA board members, is also connected with the American Conservative Union and is Vice President of Policy for an anti-environmental group called Frontiers of Freedom:

http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=35

In 1996, former Senator Malcolm Wallop (R-WY) started Frontiers of Freedom to fight environmental regulations, particularly the Endangered Species Act and any law seen as infringing on "property rights." Frontiers of Freedom calls itself the "antithesis" of the green movement.

FoF has strong ties to the western "wise use" movement, and is part of the Alliance for America Network and the Grassroots ESA Coalition. FoF runs The Center for Free Market Environmentalism and Conservation (ff.org/centers/cfmec.html) and The Center for Science and Public Policy.

Frontiers of Freedom receives money from ExxonMobil and is also funded by the usual right-wing foundations. (Scaife, Bradley, Olin, etc.) See http://www.mediatransparency.org/search_results/info_on...

Frontiers of Freedom is also known for having brought suit to withdraw the Rainforest Action Network's tax-exempt status. See:
http://www.organicconsumers.org/Corp/RANBoise.cfm
http://www.globalpolicy.org/ngos/role/globdem/globprot/...

Malcolm Wallop, who founded Frontiers of Freedom, is also a senior fellow with the Heritage Foundation, a signatory of the Project for a New American Century, and a heavy supporter of missile defense. He's associated with the Heritage Foundation's Asian Studies Center, founded by another PNAC signer, Richard V. Allen, and has particularly close ties with the Republic of Korea. See http://rightweb.irc-online.org/ind/wallop/wallop.php

Oh, and there's a Reverend Moon connection for the Asian Studies Center. (Isn't there always?)

http://watch.pair.com/heritage.html

The 1975 Congressional investigation of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA) activities in the U.S. noted a connection between Heritage and the Rev. Sun Myung Moon. Edwin J. Feulner, Jr. was recruited in 1977 by Richard Scaife to become Heritage president, a position he holds today . . .

<snip>

In the early 1980s, the KCIA began making donations to Heritage Foundation. In turn, Heritage established an Asian Studies Center which The Nation magazine of 1/23/89 states "has quartered apologists for Chun's regime."

The Wall Street Journal of August 1995 does not mention Sun Myung Moon, but references the Korea Foundation, one of Heritage's largest donors and an affiliate of the South Korean government. The article clearly states that Heritage Foundation promotes and actually writes pro-Korean legislation.

Bouchey is a long-time Moon operative, and it turns out he's also involved with Frontiers of Freedom.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Conservative...

On the 11 June {2001}, Wallop updated the attack from earlier in the year. In the National Review he attacked the "Enemy": "Combining illegal and legal, violent and non-violent tactics, these so-called "green" revolutionaries employ Lenin's tactical code: Conceal one's true objectives, and mobilize "useful idiots." Led by the likes of Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, and Rainforest Action Network this cult of the latter-day Left crusades against every consumer, marketer, or developer of natural resource-based products. No producer or consumer is immune. They target people who drink milk, use electricity, live in a home built of wood or consume paper products made of wood, drive a car, take Viagra, or enjoy seedless watermelon."

In fact Wallop, and his co-author, L. Francis Bouchey, also from the Frontiers of Freedom Institute, used the old Wise Use analogy that environmentalists were all watermelons, green on the outside, but red inside. Under the headline "From Red to Green?" they noted that within recent history there was "The lineage from red to green to eco-radicalism and violence."

Bouchey, who started off in Young Americans for Freedom back in the 60's, was working for Moon's Unification Church by 1980. In the 80's, he was associated with such Moon-related groups as CAUSA and the American Freedom Coalition. He was also the leader of the Council for Inter-American Security, another group with extensive ties to Moon that had a great deal of input into Reagan's Latin American policy and his support for the Contras.

I'd been wondering what Bouchey had been doing with himself since the 80's, but I can't say I'm exactly happy to see him show up here.

The real question, of course, is whether there's any connection between GOPUSA and Frontiers of Freedom aside from their having Kerri Houston in common.

This is from a a message board thread of a year ago discussing a 1998 news release by the "Science & Environmental Policy Project" attacking the Kyoto Treaty. (The link doesn't post properly, so to view it, take out the space before the ";" and paste it into your browser.)

http://www.newsrake.com/index.php?board=4 ;action=display;threadid=670

The Science & Environmental Policy Project was founded in 1990 by atmospheric physicist S. Fred Singer on the premise that sound, credible science must form the basis for health and environmental decisions that affect millions of people and cost tens of billions of dollars every year.

http://www.sepp.org/abtsepp.html

S. Fred (in full Siegfried Frederick) Singer (b. 1924) is President of The Science & Environmental Policy Project, a non-profit policy research group he founded in 1990. He is also Distinguished Research Professor at George Mason University and professor emeritus of environmental science at the University of Virginia.

Singer is also a director of The Washington Institute for Values in Public Policy, a group founded by the Unification Church in 1982, and an Adjunct Fellow of "Frontiers of Freedom" (http://www.ff.org/about/staff.html ).

And further down, there's a quote from the Frontiers of Freedom webpage about Kerri Houston. The boldface and comments in parentheses are the poster's.

Kerri Houston, Vice President of Policy

Kerri Houston is a public policy analyst and expert in media, marketing and external relations for public policy institutes. Her areas of expertise include tax, social security reform, and healthcare. Prior to joining Frontiers of Freedom, Ms. Houston served as National Field Director for the American Conservative Union. She was also executive director of State Policy Network and director of external affairs for Dallas' Institute for Policy Innovation. A strong proponent of individual and economic liberty, Ms. Houston is a Brain Trust columnist for Investor's Business Daily, and her opeds have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Times - (note - Moonie owned), The Dallas Morning News, Forbes magazine, Intellectual Ammunition, and numerous other print, internet and institutional publications. She has appeared on Fox News and MSNBC, and was a frequent guest on Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher. Ms. Houston is a member of the National Paycheck Protection Working Group and an advisor to the Texas Conservative Coalition's Health and Human Services Task Force. She serves on the Board of Directors for GOPUSA.com (surprised?) and the Board of Advisors for The Project for California's Future. She was also nominated to serve on the President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security. Well known for her dedication to presenting public policy in a way that will "pass the dinner table test," Ms. Houston brings a sharp wit and a practical spin to her areas of expertise.

http://www.ff.org/about/staff.html#

Maybe we can set up a post somewhere where all this info can be all put together. As always, these things get so wide-ranging and it's easy to either duplicate research (many times people coming up with different conclusions) or as a place to launch further probes from.

Great stuff in here, but maybe we're getting a bit off base. We're seeing how tied in all these people and groups are...now to find the money. The missing thing here is which corporates are involved and how all these groups get their funding.

Thanks for all your posts and great work.

Cheers!

everybody in Bush's administration is some how either from Texas or has roots to Texas.

Apparently, they know about them, yet sit in DC with dying grassroots and a lame communications structure.

I guess they would be.
So far on the "team" I've found a Bush Pioneer (Marc Lampkin) and a pair of Kerry bundlers...
Jeff Connaughton Lobbyist Quinn Gillespie
Manuel Ortiz Lobbyist Quinn Gillespie
http://www.whitehouseforsale.org/demfundraising/bundler...

Strange bedfellows indeed!

As in Larry Silverstein??????

... Larry A. Silverstein serves as President and CEO of Silverstein Properties, Inc ... Real Estate, his "Silverstein Workshop" became ... Mr. Silverstein is acknowledged for his philanthropic ...

http://www.silversteinproperties.com/management.htm

Larry "I want to get paid twice, for Tower 1 and Tower 2" Silverstein

i was a delegate to the dem national convention..the first nights sponser was diamler chrysler!!..they paid for a concert for the delegates!!
with bostonpops, and a couple other bands..in open air concert and they paid the fireworks!!

fly
still looking at list for familiar names!!

Is this Larry Silverstein? The guy who Bought the WTC a few weeks before it was hit?

such as "Jane Smith Doe" to search for "Jane Smith" and "Jane Doe" also.

"The NEC takes all charges very seriously," NEC Vice Chairwoman Rochelle Behrens said. The College senior said that although there were two charges filed during elections in the fall, and one during last spring's elections, "this is the first violation over endorsements."

It's only the University of Pennsylvania's NEC but strangely enough, the charge being discussed was this...

The College Democrats selected Rechtschaffen and 14 other candidates running for School of Arts and Sciences UA positions through an application process.

When Rechtschaffen filled out the group's screening questionnaire, College Democrats claim he listed his name as Eric Mordecai and failed to mention that he serves as the executive director of the College Republicans.

"The Executive Board of the Penn Democrats feels that our organization was misled and that we have a responsibility as representatives of our membership" to bring this charge, said Eisenberg, a College junior.
http://www.dailypennsylvanian.com/vnews/display.v/ART/4...

Well I'll be hornswoggled! A stealth Republican sneaking in and running as a Democrat! Who'd a thunk it?
Rochelle Behrens doesn't seem like a very common name to me...

Oldie but goodie:
New Report Outlines Ed Gillespie’s Lucrative Work on
Behalf of Enron, Other Large Corporations

WASHINGTON, D.C. – By appointing Ed Gillespie, a leading corporate lobbyist, to head the Republican National Committee, President Bush has opened a conduit for Corporate America to strengthen its already formidable influence in the White House and Congress, Public Citizen said today.

The lobbying firm Gillespie co-founded in 2000, Quinn, Gillespie & Associates, has grown into one of the capital’s most lucrative, in part because of Gillespie’s strong ties to the Bush administration.

A party chairman works hand-in-hand with the White House and congressional leaders on policy matters and election strategy, and wields a great deal of influence on legislation that may benefit contributors to the national party. Gillespie access to inside information will be invaluable to the clients and partners at Quinn Gillespie – even if Gillespie does not lobby or engage in any policy discussions with clients of his firm, in which he will continue to hold an ownership stake.

-snip-
Gillespie has worked to keep national energy policy in lockstep with the wishes of Enron and other energy giants. Quinn Gillespie earned $700,000 from Enron in 2001 alone to lobby the White House on the electricity crisis on the West Coast. The administration aggressively supported Enron’s position against re-regulating electricity markets. Gillespie also channeled money from DaimlerChrysler and Enron to his 21st Energy Project, which bought print and television ads in July 2001 to promote the administration’s energy plans, including blocking any increase in fuel-economy standards.

-more-
http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:UK1AevjS_YkJ:www.c...

When we're talking sleazy political dirty tricks.

"The home of former Democratic White House hand Jack Quinn and Republican Ed Gillespie (when he’s not running the RNC), this firm has become one of the top full-service shops around, combining lobbying and public-affairs prowess."

Excellent digging, and a shocking (and somewhat unnerving) discovery.
Beautiful work!! DU detectives...sic 'em!



Edited to add I just put in a plug for your post for "The Greatest".

Is he DLC?? And if not, what the fuck is he doing with Ed Gillespie in the first place.

Also, is Richard Powell another one of Colon's hellspawn?

I really doubt if he is related to Colin:



Richard M. Powell
Member, Board of Directors, GOPUSA

Richard Powell brings a wealth of political and business experience to GOPUSA.com. He is the founder and president of JPX Interactive Technologies, Inc., a comprehensive technology integration firm offering consulting, deployment and integration services in the business, government and education market segments. The firm has a specialty practice area focusing on the development and implementation of web portals that channel best practice content to educators and students. Richard also consults privately for political candidates and policymakers, helping them develop their education message and K-16 education reform policy initiatives. He is a former policy advisor to Texas Governor Rick Perry, and is active in national, state and local political and civic causes. Richard is a graduate of St. Edward's University. He resides in Austin, Texas where he likes to spend his free time running competitively, traveling and working with at-risk youth.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...


I haven't had a chance to dig around for this Quinn fellow

http://www.clintonfoundation.org/legacy/070293-presiden...

"For Immediate Release July 2, 1993

VICE PRESIDENT GORE NAMES JACK QUINN CHIEF OF STAFF Long-time Advisor Moves from Counsel Job to Chief of Staff

WASHINGTON -- Vice President Al Gore today named Jack Quinn his chief of staff, and praised Quinn, one of his long-time advisors, as "an experienced, smart, and dedicated leader." Quinn had served as Counsel to the Vice President and Deputy Chief of Staff.

"Jack has been an invaluable part of my staff and will be able to play an even more effective role now," said the Vice President. "He is a good friend, whose advice and counsel I value greatly."

Quinn, 43, had been serving as Acting Chief of Staff since Roy Neel, Gore's long-time Chief of Staff, was named Deputy Chief of Staff to the President."

I've thought for years that we've been kneecapped by people who are secretly working for the other side. Not saying Quinn is a mole, but I find it hard to believe a person working for Al Gore could form a partnership with Ed Gillespie.

It doubles the number of potential clients. The Dems work for the Dems and the Repubs for the Repubs. Some work for both.

One thing about politics is that you really can't hide your strategies. You can keep the planning secret, but often the best strategies are the most obvious, and once you start implementing them, they're out there for everyone to see.

The term "co-mingling" comes to mind. And the firm's goals will inevitably supercede the client's goals.

get hired.

You build up a career of doing great work, and then you find that you can create these Dem-Repub partnerships which open you to way more money and a guaranteed revenue stream regardless of who is in power.

Want to have some quality time with a senator or ten? Easy. All you have to do have the cash to hire Clinton's former lawyer and the chairman of the GOP. Or maybe you can head down K street to the offices of two former Seanate majority leaders--dole and mitchell.

Ed Gillespie and Jack Quinn Turned a Talk Show Encounter into a Butch-and-Sundance Business Plan.


Ed Gillespie strolls around the newly-designed Connecticut Avenue office space for his startup company, showing off the amenities to a visitor. He points to a construction worker's mark noting where a sliding glass door will be built between his office and that of partner Jack Quinn. "This," he says, gesturing, "shows how much we like each other."

They'd better. Both men quit good jobs to launch Quinn Gillespie and Associates, a policy and lobbying shop built around the connections of the partners, Gillespie a long-time Republican operative, and Quinn a top echelon Democratic mover and shaker. The duo pumped in $750,000 in seed money, taking a bank loan and temporarily draining children's college education funds to launch the new firm.

The decision was stressful, but both Quinn and Gillespie say they didn't lose a night's sleep worrying. On the same day at the end of 1999, the two men coordinated their resignations. "I went first and I called Jack, and left a voice mail saying, 'Butch, it's Sundance, and we have jumped off the cliff,'" Gillespie remembers with a laugh.

Unlike the myriad of new technology startups across the region, there is no exit strategy for Quinn Gillespie. The firm is an unlikely target for a corporate roll-up effort, and is never going to have an IPO. So the now-traditional entrepreneurial route to riches is closed off. What Quinn and Gillespie have is cash flow. From day one. And a sizzling reputation.

more...

http://www.bizforward.com/wdc/issues/2000-07/bestpracti... /

Here's his bio from Quinn Gillespie.


Jack Quinn is co-chairman of Quinn Gillespie & Associates, LLC, a strategic consulting company he formed in January 2000 with Ed Gillespie. Quinn Gillespie & Associates provides clients with strategic planning advice and government and public affairs counseling in a wide range of areas including high technology, energy, financial services and insurance, telecommunications, international transactions, health care, regulatory issues and a host of legislative matters.

Before co-founding Quinn Gillespie & Associates, Mr. Quinn was a partner in the Washington, D.C. law firm of Arnold & Porter for twenty years. In addition, Mr. Quinn served as Counsel to the President of the United States from November 1995 to February 1997. At the time of his appointment by President Clinton, he was Vice President Gore’s Chief-of-Staff and Counselor, a position he undertook in June 1993. Between January 1993 and May of that year, Mr. Quinn was the Vice President’s Counsel and deputy Chief-of-Staff. Mr. Quinn was also an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center where he taught a seminar in constitutional law for three years.

Mr. Quinn has served on the Boards of Directors of the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), Neuralab, Ltd., the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial, the Philadelphia Stock Exchange and TF Software. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Mr. Quinn is a 1971 graduate of Georgetown University College of Arts and Sciences and is a 1975 graduate of Georgetown University Law Center where he was an editor of the Georgetown Law Journal. While in college and law school, Mr. Quinn served on the staff of the United States Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs (1969-73), the Democratic National Committee (1973) and Senator Floyd Haskell (D-CO, 1974-75). In 1975-76, at the age of 26, Mr. Quinn served as Campaign Director of the Udall for President campaign.

http://www.quinngillespie.com/about/quinn.phtml


I think my head is going to explode. They are all in it together these bastards.

Thanks for digging that up! The co-habitation needs to end.

====

AFJ reports that Clinton simply “failed to make judicial appointments a priority” and “failed to use his bully pulpit”, leaving many seats vacant for long periods of time. In effect, as Temple University Law Professor David Kairys recently observed, Clinton “essentially turned over the selection of judicial appointees to a small group of conservative Republicans.”

Kairys makes the important point that the “Clinton administration's disappointing nomination record has been accompanied by an utter failure to challenge or engage conservative dominance of the public debate about law and justice. This is one of the most disastrous failures of the Clinton administration.” Gore, who is more conservative than Clinton, “is apt to be worse.”

Indeed, we get a little honesty from the White House itself on the matter. "Our mission is not to counteract the conservative appointments of the Reagan and Bush years," said White House Counsel Jack Quinn. Peter Erichsen, Associate Counsel to the president, described the Clinton judges as "militantly moderate," while Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick reiterated this point, stating "The president is quite a conservative person, and the people he is attracted to judicially are moderate."

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Articles/Sunil_SupremeSca...

Even 9-11 Commissioner Gorelick? She's one of THEM too? Oh why am I not surprised?

I'm not a drinker, but I think I need to go get drunk and sort this all out.

in the results.

and away from the far right. By making appointments that didn't get the repubs into a butt ugly storm he was able to keep things moving forward and get things done.

The amount of Bushit that has piled up (and kept) the legislature from actually doing its job is simply evidence that Clinton was focused on getting the most things actually accomplished that would make America better instead of just trying to push through the DEM agenda and spend time arguing with repubs.

time. Problem is, most Dems are too trusting and don't think along the lines of evil deeds. I think for all his brains, Clinton was very naive about certain people working with and for him. He was burned badly by several of these people.

gets thicker:
Roy Neel-Howard Dean campaign manager, directed The Nader Project-to minimize the impact of the nader vote.
Served as chief of staff for Sen & V.P. Gore/ policy &communications

Deputy chief of staff for Clinton.

Previous: Pres & CEO U.S. Telecom representing the regional Bells and 1000 local Bell for seven years led the crew on passing landmark legislation reducing the regulations on telecom industry.
Director of AMTRAK

From pdf at:httphttp://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/files/c/c4uDeM/Neel%20Roy
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20Roy%20BIOROYNEEL.pdf
Looks like he works both sides of the fence, too.

If you've paid attention to K Street operations, the founding and flourishing of Quinn Gillespie isn't news. I was outraged when I heard about the founding of this in 2000 but it was a mere drop in the bucket of flourishing conflicts of interest that have taken over our government in the last few decades. At the time, Quinn Gillespie was touted as a way for Quinn ("and his ilk") to survive since the K Street Project had frozen out Dems. As I recall, Quinn was even in one of the shows in the short-lived K Street HBO project with Mary Matalin and James Carville.

I appreciate the research that is going on in this thread but I am failing to see how it ties to Guckert/Gannon just yet as it is hardly surprising that Quinn Gillespie exists or that members of the board of one politically active group -- GOP-USA -- would be an active employee in another politically active group -- Quinn Gillespie.

The problem here, that we must always be aware of, is when do logical connections -- i.e., people active in politics will be active in politics -- into "insider trading type" behavior.

Keep in mind simple facts. For instance, you'd expect the plumbers in your town to know the other plumbers. And they'd possibly even be good friends. They might even go on trips together. Or go to trade shows. They will probably even all have similar fee schedules. None of that, in and of itself, proves anything nefarious is happening.

But, if all the plumbers in town go together somewhere for a weekend and the next Monday all of them are charging the same amount, and more than before, for their services, you've got a good circumstantial case that something else has happened.

Right now, I don't think we're there with Quinn Gillespie & Guckert/Gannon.

You just know with the shit the RNC pulls, how they were able to get all the stuff going against Clinton, Gore, Dean, and Keerry that someone had to be on the "inside" helping them out. Not "Deep Throat" but "Deep Spy" They fight dirty, always have, always will. Many southern Dems are really Republicans in place to make sure they control from all aspects of local and state politics. We call them "Dixicrats."

took money from RNC. Which was where I was thinking when I did an earlier post?

Same office and such, but any proof Quinn did actual wrong?

Quinn and Gillespie are Managing Partners? It doesn't matter who generated the business, it's all going to the same company with the same bank account.

There are other ways of setting up a company. They could have different divisions with fully separate accounting systems.

I'm just saying I don't know. It smells entirely too fishy to me, but I don't want to jump to conclusions unless I have facts.

nt

I say make professional lobbying illegal. The system has become too sophiticated and is rife with graft and corruption.

Only allow Senators and Congressman to talk to citizens in public meetings. More town hall forums in their respective states. Require that media report on what was discussed, what messages are being relayed to their elected officials, in EVERY meeting. Let the people truly have a voice.

I hope Dean will use this to purge Democrats whose 1st alleigance is to their corporate sponsers. Probably not a lot we can do about a person who decides to trade on their influence, but the DNC ought to expose this and disavow anyone who works with the enemy.

He designed the Iraq War.
God, I hate him.

I have been saying all along that the Neocons and the NeoDems are in cahoots. They are basically one group that divided up and infiltrated both parties.

They are global power seekers.

Here we've been, many of us, wondering what to do when old friends and indeed family members get sucked in by the right wing. I personally haven't had an enjoyable talk with my little brother since 2000, and these bastards all this time have been in league together stirring the friggin' pot and cackling about it!!
This division of the citizenry was planned all along.
Damn them to hell.

show them how the Neocons and Neodems are really in cahoots together and that their agenda is for world domination and is NOT for the betterment of American society, perhaps with the latest incidents they will look a little more closely.

This may just do the trick!

...In the person of one Will Marshall - co founder of the DLC, chairman of the PPI and PNAC signator. That evidence is available to anybody with an internet connection.

And several other "neodems" such as Joe Biden, Madeline Albright, Richard Holbrooke, Ivo Daalder, etc. have been turning up in PNAC documents lately.

Then you have someone like Steny Hoyer showing up at an AIPAC conference and giving a speech that could have been written by Ariel Sharon himself.

This shit goes deep into this party, at least at the Congressional level, and like any cancer, it needs to be cut out before it kills us.

Thank God there's now a Doctor in the house.

He's got a lot of major surgery ahead of him. I hope he's really up for the job.

folks like Rush Limbaugh and Hate Radio. They want Americans to be fighting their fellow Americans. They are all about death and destruction.

early on we recognized the destructive nature of factions in our democracy. that's why we have a Republican form of governement with represenation taken across the board.

"Among the numerous advantages promised bya well-constructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendecy to break and control the violence of FACTION."

"There are again two methods of removing the causes of faction: the one, by destroying the liberty which is essential to its existence; the other, by giving to every citizen THE SAME OPINIONS, THE SAME PASSIONS, AND THE SAME INTERESTS."

... "Liberty is faction what air is to fire, and aliment without which it instantly expires. But is could not be a less folly to abolish libery, which is essential to politcal life, because it nourishes faction than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency."

Madison goes on to conclude that you can't remove FACTIONALISM'S causes, because it's largely rooted in properrty and class, so the only thing for a REPUBLIC to do is to control its effect. he is arguing in general for a Republic, so he claims a large republic will naturally control factions.

"Extend the sphere and you take a in a greater variety of parties and interests; you make it less probable that a mjority of the whole will have a common motive to invade he rights of ther citizens; or if such a common motive exists, it will be more difficult for all who feel it to discover their own strength and and to act in unison with each other."

Madison's solution to factionalism is not working.

who agree with the pro-war bullshit have to also believe that the Left is evil (and also the enemy - just like the terrorists) or they might start believing us instead of the propaganda.


The left doesn't have to believe the right is evil for the propaganda to work - BUT when you have someone like Ann Coulter out there saying, "I think a baseball bat is the most effective way these days" to talk to liberals. 10/7/04 it helps to get the right-wing fired up and it also gets the left pissed off at the right. So there you go.

but let me throw out three names that are stirring in my head..

1. Joe Lieberman
2. Zell Miller
3. Barrack Obama

I hope I'm wrong about Obama, but his ugly freshman performance to date has me spooked.

who love him, and are promoting him highly. True he's bright, but he's spineless. And that's why they love him, and trust him.

(Apologies to Obama supporters.)

which made it a cake walk for him to win????

I've been wondering since this began, how could Gannon/Talon operate so pervasively in DC without the mainstream news media and Dems knowing what was going on?

Are our party leaders and candidates really this clueless?

has been bending over backwards trying to defend Gannon and why they put up with him to begin with.

They are all corrupt, ever single one of them.

I take my hat off to you, DoYouEverWonder.

Those Public Relations firms are ALWAYS to be found
lurking at the scene of anything done by the BFEE.

In France they say, cherche la femme.
In the US, show me the money. And right next to that money is a PR firm.

Could you provide me a link so I can review the board of directors? Is Powell on the board at GOPUSA or Talon or both?

but Bobby Eberle is the owner/operator of both companies. It is assumed that Talon is a subsidiary of GOPUSA.


Bobby Eberle:
- delegate to the Republican convention of 2000
- In 1999, Bobby was recognized with a unanimously approved resolution of commendation by the Republican Party of Texas for service and dedication to the Republican cause.
- He served as President of the Houston Young Republicans, the Director of Club Development of the Texas Young Republican Federation, and as a three-term State Chairman of the Texas Young Republican Federation. On the national level, Bobby served as Chairman of the State Chairmen's Association. Most recently, Bobby served as Vice Chairman at Large of the Young Republican National Federation, Inc.
- Bobby is a member of Texas Christian Coalition and Texas Right to Life

Bill Fairbrother
- Bill currently serves as Chairman of the Williamson County
- At the 2000 Republican Party of Texas Convention, Bill was elected by his fellow county chairs to serve as the Texas Republican County Chairmen's Association's liaison to the State Republican Executive Committee. He was also selected as an alternate delegate to the RNC Convention in Philadelphia.

Kerri Houston
- Based in Dallas, she is director of American Conservative Network, a state outreach project of The American Conservative Union (ACU).

Richard Powell:
- He is a former policy advisor to Texas Governor Rick Perry


http://americablog.blogspot.com/2004/05/republican-web-...


This is a different list from another site:


* Board member Bill Fairbrother "has been active in politics since 1984 when he joined the Baylor University College Republicans. Since then, he has served as a delegate to four Republican Party of Texas state conventions and an alternate delegate to one convention. At the 2000 Republican Party of Texas Convention, Bill was elected by his fellow county chairs to serve as the Texas Republican County Chairmen's Association's liaison to the State Republican Executive Committee. He was also selected as an alternate delegate to the RNC Convention in Philadelphia. Bill currently serves as Chairman of the Williamson County Republican Party and has previously served as a Precinct Chairman and chairman of the county Technology Committee. He also chaired his senate district convention's Credentials Committee. Bill has chaired or volunteered on many local and state campaigns in recent election cycles. He is the founder and webmaster for the Williamson County Republican Party web page. Bill recently served on the Republican Party of Texas Finance Committee."



* Board member Steve Findley "has been active in politics since 1984. He is past president to both the East Texas Baptist University College Republicans and the Marshall Young Republicans. He has also served as chaplain for the Texas Young Republican Federation. Since 1984, Mr. Findley has served as a delegate to numerous county and Republican Party of Texas state conventions. In 2000, he was elected to serve as the national delegate for Senate District #1 to the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia. Mr. Findley currently serves as a member of the Rules Committee for the State Republican Executive Committee and is active in the Harrison County Republican Party."

* Board member and vice president of operations Terri Hillhouse "came late to serious political activism. She is very interested in restoring family values and preserving our American system for future generations. She believes that the Internet is the best way to spread the grassroots conservative message. Terri is a member of Colorado Federation of Republican Women, her county Republican organization, The Christian Coalition, and Concerned Women of America."

* Board member Kerri Houston "is a public policy analyst and expert in media, marketing and external relations for public policy institutes. Based in Dallas, she is director of American Conservative Network, a state outreach project of The American Conservative Union (ACU). Prior to joining with ACU to start the American Conservative Network project, Ms. Houston was executive director of State Policy Network, a member organization of free market state-based think tanks. In this capacity, she served as facilitator for the 37 state public institutes in assisting them to meet their communications, publications and governmental outreach needs."

* Board member Richard Powell "brings a wealth of political and business experience to GOPUSA.com. ... Richard also consults privately for political candidates and policymakers, helping them develop their education message and K-16 education reform policy initiatives. He is a former policy advisor to Texas Governor Rick Perry, and is active in national, state and local political and civic causes."

* Treasurer Kathleen Eberle (Bobby Eberle's wife) is "active in grass roots Republican Party politics. In 1996, she was elected to the board of the Houston Young Republicans (HYRs) as the Director of Club Development, -- leading the club to almost double in size in one year. Kathleen served as Vice President of the HYR for the next two years. In 1998, she was appointed as the Texas Young Republican Federation Convention Co-Chairman. She served on several committees within this organization over the years, and chaired the Site Selection Committee in 1999. Kathleen's activities within the Republican Party of Texas (RPT) include serving as an alternate to the Senate District 13 Convention in 1996 and as a delegate in 2000. She also served as a delegate to the RPT State Convention in 2000. Kathleen is a strong believer in the importance of grass roots activism and has volunteered on numerous campaigns over the last eight years ranging from school board and city council elections to campaigns for the U.S. Congress and President of the United States."

http://groups.msn.com/RushversusReality/rushvsreality.m...

Did you send this on to Dean? He needs to know that Powell is on the GOPUSA board. If they continue to use lobbyists, they need to use lobbyists that do not have conflicts of interests.

I personally would prefer to see lobbyists banned, but that is a dream.

I guess the argument could be made that they need someone who has contacts with the otherside, as a type of political spy, let's them know what the other guy is up to. It would be a weak argument, but one that they may try to use to explain away the association.

Some how Dean must be made aware of this conflict, this relationship.

GOPUSA Announces Board of Directors

Houston, TX -- GOPUSA today announced the selection of its Board of Directors and corporate officers for 2001-2002. The Board of Directors is now compromised of six individuals who bring together a wide variety of experiences in both the business and political arenas.

In alphabetical order, the members of the Board of Directors are as follows:

Bobby Eberle -- Co-Founder of GOPUSA; B.S. in Aerospace Engineering (Texas A&M '90); M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (Rice University '93 and '95); Delegate to Republican National Convention (2000); Delegate to Republican Party of Texas State Convention ('96, '98, 2000); Outstanding Young Men in America ('98)

Bill Fairbrother -- Co-Founder of GOPUSA; B.S in Mathematics and Computer Science (Baylor '88); M.S. in Mathematics (Indiana '90); Chairman of Williamson County, Texas Republican Party; Delegate to four Republican Party of Texas State Conventions; Alternate to Republican National Convention (2000)

Steve Findley -- President, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Titan Dynamics Systems, Inc., a military technology corporation, located in Marshall, Texas; Chairman of Rules Committee of the Texas State Republican Executive Committee; Delegate to Republican National Convention (2000)

Kerri Houston -- Public policy analyst and expert in media, marketing and external relations for public policy institutes; Director of American Conservative Network, a state outreach project of The American Conservative Union (ACU); Previously, executive director of State Policy Network, a member organization of free market state-based think tanks

Richard Powell -- Founder and president of JPX Interactive Technologies, Inc., a comprehensive technology integration firm offering consulting, deployment and integration services in the business, government and education market segments; Former policy advisor to Texas Governor Rick Perry

Charlie Weldon -- Associate with Enron Corporation in Houston covering natural gas market research, commodity structuring, and natural gas trading; Board member of the Weldon-Stacey-Blake Corporation, currently serving as Vice President and overseeing corporate portfolio management, shareholder relations, and corporate financing activities.

http://www.gopusa.com/presscenter/release_070901.shtml