Reply #108: And what a swell bunch the Second Amendment Foundation are too...

[MrBenchley]

Our trigger-happy "progressives" (chortle) have just the NICEST friends....

""All I have to do is turn the spigot on and the money just flows," Alan Gottlieb once told a reporter. Every month, Gottlieb reaches out to 10 million of his closest friends, asking for contributions or votes. A prominent leader in both the pro-gun and anti-environment Wise Use movement, Gottlieb is likely one of the most powerful men in America.
Gottlieb sounds like part buccaneering entrepreneur and part political gunslinger. He has a remarkable knack for cashing in big on right-wing causes. "I am," he says, "the premier anti-communist, free-enterprise, laissez faire capitalist." He is also:
* President and founder of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, which in 1988 launched the Wise Use movement, today the most powerful anti-environmental force in the country.
* President of two nonprofit corporations, the Second Amendment Foundation and the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, which form the most potent pro-gun force in the country, aside from the National Rifle Association.
* A master fund raiser for conservative causes and candidates -- the most successful one outside Washington, DC.
* A member of the board of governors on the powerful and ultrasecretive Council for National Policy, whose membership is said to include such familiar right-wing stalwarts as CNP president and former Attorney General Edwin Meese; Paul Weyrich, founding president of the Heritage Foundation; Jerry Falwell; and Oliver North.
* Sole proprietor of a profitable right-wing publishing complex that writes, edits, and distributes conservative books and magazines.
* Owner of KBNP, a business radio station in Portland, and chairman of the board of the Talk America Radio Network, which has 196 affiliated radio stations across the nation.
* A convicted felon. In 1984, Gottlieb pleaded guilty to underpaying income-tax returns by $17,000 and served ten months in federal prison."

http://www.monitor.net/monitor/8-19-95/merchant.html