The Chamber of Commerce says it speaks for 3 million businesses. That just doesn't add up—we did the math. (click here)
The sources of the monies for these organizations is coming from The United States Chamber of Commerce. They are spinning off all kinds of organizations with the same theme.
...But the disclosure (click here) did little to shed light on who was behind the $11-million donation to a California campaign fund. The Arizona group, Americans for Responsible Leadership, identified its contributors only as other nonprofits.
The money was passed from Americans for Job Security to the Center to Protect Patient Rights to Americans for Responsible Leadership, according to state authorities. From there, the money was sent to a California campaign committee fighting Gov. Jerry Brown's tax-hike plan, Proposition 30, and pushing a separate ballot measure to curb unions' political influence, Proposition 32.
As of Sunday night, the Arizona nonprofit Americans for Responsible Leadership appeared ready to fight all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court to avoid disclosing any records to state authorities by election day on Tuesday.
The Fair Political Practices Commission has been trying for two weeks to audit the group to determine whether it is improperly shielding the identities of its donors. California regulations says contributors must be identified if they give to nonprofits with the intention of spending money on state campaigns.
Americans for Responsible Leadership reached an agreement with the commission to reveal its contributors on Monday morning, allowing state authorities to skip the audit process. However, the disclosure of more nonprofits did little to satisfy activists who were seeking contributors' true identities.
Derek Cressman of Common Cause, which originally filed the complaint against the Arizona nonprofit, called the group "irresponsible, cowardly money launderers."...
How many of these groups exist with funneled monies from the US Chamber of Commerce? The US Chamber of Commerce stacks the odds against the American people and in favor of Wall Street. No, they are not the same thing.
Fortunately, companies like Chrysler are making a difference. Chrysler is finding a good practice in any market they seek profits, FIRST, hire employees to build an economy that can actually afford their products. Destroying American jobs to outsource is the worst practice a company can participate in. Chrysler has found out that is the truth.
I support Chrysler in seeking to maintain its markets through good paying jobs in the USA while building markets in once third world countries. Nothing short of such dynamics works to grow a global economy.
Those countries will have vibrant economies, increase the quality of life of their citizens and add to increases in demand of many products, not just cars. They are incredibly huge markets for products, just as soon as the people have a disposable income. These markets don't happen overnight, but, once begun they do grow exponentially. Imagine the quality of life uptick a Chinese family will receive when just one of their members are employed by Chrysler producing cars for the Chinese market?
The idea Chrysler could ever expand their markets into China without an investment in their economy is hideous. How is a Chinese citizen suppose to purchase an American Jeep on subsistence wages? Americans are stupid, they just want their markets intact backed by good paying jobs. The Chinese will want to import our cars too, among so many other products. The reason the balance of trade has been so terrible between China and the USA was because the Chinese people were impoverished and their bothers and sisters in the USA were matching the loss of income. Greed was at work and it only served to crash the industry, not grow it.
Americans for Job Security (AJS) (click here) is a "pro-business advocacy organization" based in Arlington, VA. AJS spun off in the late 1990s from a group called The Coalition: Americans Working for Real Change, a group that had been formed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to counteract the extensive soft money spending by the AFL-CIO starting in the 1996 elections....
We don't need draconian organizations such as the United States Chamber of Commerce to undermine everything the people of the world are trying to build. The US Chamber of Commerce is promoting corruption and obstructionism. The US Chamber of Commerce didn't just want to compete with unions of American employees, they wanted to destroy them.
By Viveca Novak and Robert Maguire on May 18, 2012 2:35 PM
...The donors to the Center to Protect Patient Rights(CPPR) are almost entirely unknown. Such tax-exempt organizations must detail the groups to whom they gave grants, but not the sources of their own funds. A small grant of $200,000 came to CPPR from American Action Network, yet another 501(c)(4), according to the Form 990 tax return that American Action filed with the Internal Revenue Service this week.
And if its donors are unknown, so is much else about CPPR. According to its own 2010 tax return, which was filed last November, it is run by Sean Noble, who is listed as its director, president and executive director. Noble describes himself on his Twitter account as a "PR/Political consultant, conservative strategist/operative, former GOP Hill chief of staff, blogger, proud father, fighting for liberty." Noble was chief-of-staff to former Republican Rep. John Shadegg of Arizona, for whom he worked for 13 years, and since then has worked as a political consultant and in public relations.
Noble took no salary from CPPR, but his firm, Noble Associates, was paid $340,000 by the group for "management services." Noble was also paid $10,000 to lobby for the group....
Why are all these organizations in Arizona? What is this all about? What is so attractive about Arizona to these organizations? How much duplicity is there and why? Who is pulling in the bucks here? What is the money trail?
By Viveca Novak and Robert Maguire on May 18, 2012 2:35 PM
...The donors to the Center to Protect Patient Rights(CPPR) are almost entirely unknown. Such tax-exempt organizations must detail the groups to whom they gave grants, but not the sources of their own funds. A small grant of $200,000 came to CPPR from American Action Network, yet another 501(c)(4), according to the Form 990 tax return that American Action filed with the Internal Revenue Service this week.
And if its donors are unknown, so is much else about CPPR. According to its own 2010 tax return, which was filed last November, it is run by Sean Noble, who is listed as its director, president and executive director. Noble describes himself on his Twitter account as a "PR/Political consultant, conservative strategist/operative, former GOP Hill chief of staff, blogger, proud father, fighting for liberty." Noble was chief-of-staff to former Republican Rep. John Shadegg of Arizona, for whom he worked for 13 years, and since then has worked as a political consultant and in public relations.
Noble took no salary from CPPR, but his firm, Noble Associates, was paid $340,000 by the group for "management services." Noble was also paid $10,000 to lobby for the group....
Why are all these organizations in Arizona? What is this all about? What is so attractive about Arizona to these organizations? How much duplicity is there and why? Who is pulling in the bucks here? What is the money trail?
