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Providing some additional references and links to BooMan’s front page diary – Deep Thought on the insane response of the Republicans to a Democratic administration.
FreedomWorks Orchestrates ‘Grassroots’ Movements To Serve Dick Armey’s Corporate Clients
ThinkProgress reported that corporate lobbyists are helping to orchestrate the anti-Obama tea party protests.
- Armey’s FreedomWorks is actively organizing against health care reform.
- Armey’s lobbying firm represents the trade group for the life insurance industry.
- Currently, FreedomWorks is focusing their energy activism on supporting the status quo reliance on fossil fuels.
- In 2006, Armey’s lobbying firm represented the Senado de Republica (Mexican Senate) on “enhancing U.S.-Mexico relations,” and specifically on immigration policy (pdf).
Last year, The Wall Street Journal exposed FreedomWorks for building “amateur-looking” websites to promote the lobbying interests of Armey.
Registration as Foreign Agent (large pdf)
DLA Piper leadership and Time’s article on George Mitchell
Big Money Backs Renters’ Campaign
AngryRenters.com is an amateur-looking Web site that claims to speak for renters fed up with mortgage bailout programs. But it’s actually the brainchild of millionaire billionaire Steve Forbes and Republican conservative Dick Armey.
Alex Chadwick talks with Michael Phillips of The Wall Street Journal about the faux grassroots effort.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."
