Reply #38: Here's a couple more interesting GOP-connected figures from Rushton's Pioneer Fund

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_F._Ellis">Thomas F. Ellis was the director from 1973-1977. According to his wiki entry, he was Jesse Helms's 1972 campaign manager, and an important backer of Reagan in 1976. In 1982 he followed Tim LaHaye as the director of the powerful http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=121170&page=1">Council for National Policy. He was http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE0D71430F932A05754C0A961948260&n=Top%2fReference%2fTimes%20Topics%2fOrganizations%2fR%2fRepublican%20Party">co-chairman for Jack Kemp's 1988 presidential run, (compared to http://www.skepticfiles.org/socialis/bushnazi.htm">who GHWB had on his campaign that year, Ellis was a lightweight in this regard). In 1996, Ellis was also http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20B14F73E5D0C718DDDAB0894DE494D81&n=Top%2fReference%2fTimes%20Topics%2fPeople%2fF%2fForbes%2c%20Steve">an "informal advisor" for Steve Forbes's presidential run.

Another fellow researcher at the Pioneer Fund was British "racialist" and eugenics advocate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Pearson">Roger Pearson. Pearson started the neo-Nazi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_League_%28neo-Nazi%29">"Northern League" in the UK in 1958. He was brought to the US in 1965 by Willis Carto, who founded the anti-semitic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Lobby">Liberty Lobby. In 1977 Pearson joined the editorial board of the Heritage Foundation's publication Policy Review and it goes without saying how profoundly influential the Heritage Foundation was on the rise of the New Right and still is today.

From 1975-1980 he headed up the Council on American Affairs (CAA), which was the US branch of Reverend Moon's far-Right/neo-Nazi infested World Anti-Communist League (WACL). Pearson ran WACL itself from 1978-1979. After the WaPo did an expose on WACL's Nazi-connections, Pearson was forced to leave his position Policy Review, with several of his Heritage Foundation colleagues joining hte editorial advisory board of Pearson's Journal of Social and Economic Studies. This publication was heavily cited in The Bell Curve. There's some more interesting info on Pearson http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45/047.html">here.

Be sure to pick up Russ Bellant's excellent books http://www.amazon.com/Coors-Connection-Philanthopy-Undermines-Democratic/dp/0896084167/sr=1-1/qid=1169160218/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-2695951-3976711?ie=UTF8&s=books">The Coors Connection: How Coors Family Philanthopy Undermines Democratic Pluralism and http://www.amazon.com/Old-Nazis-Right-Republican-Party/dp/0896084183/ref=ed_oe_p/104-2695951-3976711">Old Nazis, the New Right, and the Republican Party: Domestic fascist networks and their effect on U.S. cold war politics for more on this and similar topics.

Happy reading! :-)