Edited on Tue Mar-08-11 12:17 PM by L. Coyote
Rachel Maddow Show:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#41959570March 07, 2011
Rachel Maddow Reminds Us of AFP's Tim Phillips Former Ties to Jack Abramoff
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/rachel-maddow-reminds-us-afps-tim-phillipsAs the Koch brothers attempt to counter the protests in Wisconsin with an astroturf bus tour of their own, brought to you by Tim Phillips and Americans for Prosperity, Rachel reminds us of Tim Phillips lovely past before he went to work for the Koch brothers -- working with Ralph Reed helping to rip off Indian casinos and fooling Christian groups along with Ralph Reed to support the exploitation in the Northern Mariana Islands because the Chinese workers there were being converted to Christianity. What a guy.
Here's part of a report on him from Think Progress' The Wonk Room from back in May of 2009 -- Tim Phillips, The Man Behind The ‘Americans For Prosperity’ Corporate Front Group Factory:
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Tim Phillips, The Man Behind The ‘Americans For Prosperity’ Corporate Front Group Factory
May 29th, 2009 -
http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/05/29/afp-timphillips-astroturf/The rate at which the Koch Industries funded Americans for Prosperity (AFP) churns out front groups to promote its right-wing corporate agenda sets the organization out among similar conservative “think tanks.” This week, AFP created their latest front group called “Patients United Now,” an entity set up to defeat health care reform. Patients United follows a familiar pattern AFP has used for their other front groups: create a new stand alone website, fill it with lines like “We are people just like you” to give the site a grassroots feel, and then use the new group to recruit supporters and run deceptive advertisements attacking reform. This “astroturfing” model has been used by AFP to launch groups pushing distortions against other progressive priorities: ......
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Tim Phillips, Jack Abramoff, Citizens United
DRILL DOWN: Citizens United<->, Jack Abramoff<->, Tim Phillips<->
August 16, 2010 -
http://crooksandliars.com/taxonomy/term/11256,10299,9404Americans for Prosperity Launches $4.1 Million Ad Campaign Slamming the Stimulus Bill
Americans for Prosperity. Such a misleading name. Rich Americans for Prosperity might be more apt. Americans for Prosperity is, of course, the Koch mouthpiece that funded last summer's town hall protests, the Sarah Palin bus tour, partners with every teabag operation out there, and lays astroturf in every town with a sidewalk.
And lest we forget, AFPs Tim Phillips got his start with Century Strategies, Ralph Reed's lobbying firm and close ally of Jack Abramoff. Rachel Maddow peeled that onion last year during health care reform.
So they're going to saturate key markets with claims of pork and waste .........
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Tim Phillips, Background
Phillips is the president of the non-profit organizations Americans for Prosperity (AFP) and Americans for Prosperity Foundation. Since Phillips took over as president of the AFP in 2006, the organization has expanded to over 17 states and has increased its membership to 700,000. In 2007, Phillips earned $250,000 as President of AFP. .....
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... (AFP) was started by the oil billionare David Koch and is the third largest recipient of funding from the Koch Family Foundations, behind the Cato Institute and the George Mason University Foundation.
Before 2003, when the AFP was still named the Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation, it received $18,460,912 in funding. 84% of that funding came from the Koch Family Foundations ($12,906,712) and the Scaife Family Foundations ($2,510,000).
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In 1997, Tim Phillips joined forces with Ralph Reed to found the public relations firm, Century Strategies, as well as the marketing firm, Millennium Marketing. ... Century Strategies was contracted by lobbyist Jack Abramoff to generate anti-lottery grassroots support ... Jack Abramoff was convicted of fraud, tax evasion, and conspiracy to bribe public officials. .... In 2000 Century Strategies worked on the "Bush for President" campaign. ......
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Americans for Prosperity (AFP)
Background =
http://www.desmogblog.com/americans-prosperity-history-research-background-fundingAmericans for Prosperity (AFP) is a conservative think-tank established in Washington, D.C. in 2003. It replaced the Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation. AFP is the sister organization to FreedomWorks. FreedomWorks is an organization that formed in 2004 when Citizens for a Sound Economy merged with the think tank Empower America. Both the Citizens for a Sound Economy and Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation were created by the Koch Foundations.
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Americans for Prosperity - research and background information
http://www.desmogblog.com/americans-prosperity-history-research-background-fundingFunding
AFP is a non-profit organization which chooses not to disclose its donors. However, Media Transparency shows from 2003-2006, Americans for Prosperity received $1,181,000 from conservative foundations. $1 million of that funding was given by the Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation--one of the Koch Family Foundations.
The AFP is the third largest recipient of funding from the Koch Family Foundations, behind the Cato Institute and the George Mason University Foundation.
Before 2003, when the AFP was still named the Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation, it received $18,460,912 in funding. 84% of that funding came from the Koch Family Foundations ($12,906,712) and the Scaife Family Foundations ($2,510,000). Koch Family Foundations is funded by Koch Industries. According to Forbes, Koch Industries is the second largest privately-held company, and the largest privately owned energy company, in the United States. ....... Americans for Prosperity is also connected to oil giant ExxonMobil. According to ExxonSecrets, between the years 1998-2001, Citizens for A Sound Economy and Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation received $380,250 from ExxonMobil.
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