CAP doesn’t publicly disclose the members of its Business Alliance, but I obtained multiple internal lists from 2011 showing that dozens of major corporations had joined. The lists were prepared by Chris Belisle, who at the time served as the alliance’s senior manager after having been recruited from his prior position as manager of corporate relations at the US Chamber of Commerce. According to these lists, CAP’s donors included Comcast, Walmart, General Motors, Pacific Gas and Electric, General Electric, Boeing and Lockheed. Though it doesn’t appear on the lists, the University of Phoenix was also a donor.
Incidentally, Scott Lilly, a Hill veteran who joined CAP in 2004 as a senior fellow covering national security, simultaneously served as a registered lobbyist for Lockheed between 2005 and 2011. Rudy deLeon, CAP’s senior vice president for national security and international policy, was a Boeing executive and directed the company’s lobbying operations between 2001 and 2006, before joining the think tank the following year.
Of the CAP donors mentioned in this story, I contacted Lockheed, which refused to confirm or deny its membership in the Business Alliance, and First Solar and Boeing, both of which confirmed that they had been members but wouldn’t say how much they gave or when. “Our work with think tanks is not political, but is more educational in nature,” Tim Neale of Boeing told me. “We want to learn from and share ideas with scholars across the political spectrum, and we like to get a wide range of viewpoints and ideas rather than focus solely on a particular political bent.
Term limits was supposed to produce fresh blood,” said Jack Pitney, a government professor at Claremont McKenna College in the Los Angeles area. “Instead it’s produced recycled blood.
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It’s the money that is the problem. To that end, I have a suggestion for you.
Advocating Progress: Obama Lowered the Deficit Faster Than Any President Since Clinton
Late Friday afternoon, the Treasury Department published the official report on the U.S. budget deficit for the most recent fiscal year: $1.089 trillion. While that’s obviously still a very large budget shortfall, the deficit is $200 billion smaller than it was last year,…
This is where you get tangled up and made to be a fool with your partisanship.
Democrats frequently cross the line when they are dared by right-wing demagogues in to debt scare tactics. It’s foolish because there is well regarded academic field which has studied what people do in markets and how governments should interact with them. Anyone whose taken Econ 1 and 2 knows that austerity brings economies to a halt. The Obama Administration is bragging about something that is damaging it’s constituencies. If you don’t believe me, read about what it’s doing to Mr. Cameron’s Great Britain.
We are only getting dumber from sequestration.
How is your sequester going, Mister Speaker? Better for you than for others, I see.
Hell Froze Over: UT-San Diego Endorsed Labor Leader Lorena Gonzalez
Gotta wonder if the U-T found any fault with Steve Castañeda.
What did your momma just say, Jeb?
Gun show background checks are pretty universally popular in New Hampshire…and Kelly Ayotte is facing some serious backlash from voters in the state for voting against them last week.
Ayotte now has a negative approval rating with 44% of voters giving her good marks and 46% disapproving. That’s down a net 15 points from the last time we polled on her, in October, when she had a 48% approval with 35% disapproving. 75% of New Hampshire voters- including 95% of Democrats, 74% of independents, and 56% of Republicans- say they support background checks. And 50% of voters in the state say Ayotte’s ‘no’ vote will make them less likely to support her in a future election, compared to just 23% who consider it to be a positive.
Max Baucus Retiring: Montana Democrat Won't Seek Another Term In U.S. Senate
Goodbye Senator K St. Baucus was the true author of Obamacare
