Tell your US Senator we need a strong man like John Bolton in the UN!

[paineinthearse]

This TV campaign in support of Bolton, produced by "Citizens United", is running on Faux.

http://www.citizensunited.org/



From their website:

Citizens United Launches Ad in Support of John Bolton

Citizens United agrees with President Bush's decision to nominate John Bolton as the new Ambassador to the United Nations. Bolton is one of the United States' top diplomats, and is the kind of no nonsense reformer required to bring much needed change to the corruption and scandal ridden UN.

Bolton's confirmation as UN Ambassador is now coming under attack by partisan Senate democrats who are trying to torpedo Bolton by using their usual smear tactics.

http://www.citizensunited.org/press/2005-05-02.html">View the press release and transcript

Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 2, 2005

CITIZENS UNITED LAUNCHES NATIONAL TELEVISION ADS SUPPORTING BOLTON NOMINATION

David N. Bossie, President of Citizens United, today announced that the grass roots group will launch a national television commercial to support President Bush's nominee for Ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton.

"John Bolton is being unfairly and maliciously attacked in a vicious smear campaign to torpedo his confirmation," Bossie said.

"With corruption running rampant at the UN and countries with abominable human rights records like Syria, Cuba, and the Sudan constantly trashing the United States and trying to thwart our interests in the world at every turn, we need a plain spoken, tough, no-nonsense negotiator representing the interests of the American people. That man is John Bolton and he should be confirmed immediately."

To view the commercial online go to: http://www.citizensunited.org/ and click on the link on the homepage.

The commercial will air beginning on Tuesday morning, May 3rd on FOX News Channel and run through Friday, May 6th.

Citizens United is dedicated to reasserting traditional American values of limited government, freedom of enterprise, strong families, and national sovereignty and security and restoring the founding father's vision of a free nation, guided by the honesty, common sense, and good will of its citizens.

Text of the ad:

"Massive waste.
Fraudulent deals with Saddam Hussein and repeated anti American attacks.
That's the U.N. President Bush is trying to reform.
A tough job demands a tough man like John Bolton.
One of America's top diplomats, Bolton is now under vicious attacks by partisan democrats.
If you agree with President Bush that we need a strong voice in the U.N.
Call 1-800-504-1USA and tell your Senator we need John Bolton in the U.N. now."

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Citizens United
1006 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE Washington, DC 20003
Toll-Free [phone] Or [phone] Fax [phone]
www.citizensunited.org

Contact:
Mark Corallo
[phone]

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

1. Typical.

I can't say I'm surprised. Anyone who thinks the U.S. should be the world's recess bully would love to see Bolton in the U.N. Anyone with half a brain knows that's a horrible idea.

[Bozita]

2. sounds like the "Return of the Swiftboat Liars"

We've got to try to follow the money.

[alfredo]

3. If it was a .com a whois would turn up something.

Not sure how to find the people behind a .org from the command line.

[Bozita]

6. I found this on their website ...

https://www.donationreport.com/init/controller/ProcessEntryCmd?key=N9J6G0O6W6

Information concerning Citizens United Foundation's registration and financial information can be obtained from the following: Florida Division of Consumer Services by calling within the state 1-800-help-fla, CUF's registration no. is SC-09991, 100% of contributions are received by the organization; Mississippi Secretary of State's Office by calling 1-888-236-6167; Attorney General of the State of New Jersey by calling 973-504-6215; New York State Attorney General, Charities Bureau, 120 Broadway, New York, NY 10271; North Carolina Department of the Secretary of State, solicitation licensing section, 919-807-2214; Pennsylvania Department of State, or by calling, from within Pennsylvania, 800-732-0999; Virginia Division of Consumer Affairs; Secretary of State (State of Washington) by calling 1-800-332-4483; West Virginia Secretary of State, State Capitol, Charleston, VA 24305; or by contacting Citizens United Foundation. Registration with a government agency does not imply endorsement by that agency.

[Todd B]

9. Sam Spade works wonders!

Use Sam Spade - great tools!

Domain ID:D78731954-LROR
Domain Name:CITIZENSUNITED.ORG
Created On:18-Oct-2001 12:58:39 UTC
Last Updated On:10-Jan-2004 21:56:04 UTC
Expiration Date:18-Oct-2005 12:58:39 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:TierraNet Inc. dba DomainDiscover (R86-LROR)
Status:OK
Registrant ID:DDDD-0000553965
Registrant Name:David Bossie
Registrant Organization:Citizens United
Registrant Street1:109 Carpenter Dr Ste 210
Registrant Street2:
Registrant Street3:
Registrant City:Sterling
Registrant State/Province:VA
Registrant Postal Code:20164-4467
Registrant Country:US
Registrant Phone:[phone]
Registrant Phone Ext.:
Registrant FAX:[phone]
Registrant FAX Ext.:
Registrant mailto:Email:[e-mail]
Name Server:NS2.LNHI.NET
Name Server:NS1.LNHI.NET

[tofubo]

14. bob barr is with this group

remember him ??
National Honorary Chairman Citizens United / Citizens United Foundation / American Sovereignty Action Project / Center for Government Integrity / National Citizens Legal Network
Bob is a Life Member of the National Rifle Association and serves on its Board of Directors. He also is a member of the Federalist Society Advisory Board, Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity, and Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity.
He has received awards from many grassroots organizations, including the Christian Coalition, the American Shooting Sports Council, the Conservative Political Action Committee, and the Law Enforcement Alliance of America.
(R-Georgia, 1995-2003) Was a member of the Republican Study Committee, the Pro-Life Caucus, the National Guard and Reserve Caucus, and the Congressional Chapter of the Civil Air Patrol.
He authored the Defense of Marriage Act, signed into law in 1996 and in 1998 led the successful effort to rename Washington National Airport in honor of President Ronald Reagan.
He has worked consistently to make government officials accountable to the people and our Constitution. Bob's continued leadership in the war against mind-altering drugs is evidenced by his service as a Member of the Speaker's Task Force for a Drug-Free America.
His prior public service included serving as United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, with the CIA, and as President of Southeastern Legal Foundation.

[alfredo]

15. David Bossie exposed.

This guys is a real asshole.

http://www.americanpolitics.com/050798DISpatch.html

In 1992, Bossie was working for the right-wing organization Citizens United (the group that "invented" Willie Horton). As executive director of Citizens United chairman Floyd Brown's "Presidential Victory Committee," he used taped conversations allegedly between then-Governor Bill Clinton and Gennifer Flowers as part of an advertising and "800" number scheme to smear Clinton. The tapes have since been discredited because they were edited and doctored. A direct mailing from Citizens United using this material was made to look as if it were an "official" mailing from Bush campaign -- and the Bush people alerted the FEC to the mailings in an effort to stop them!

Bossie spent a great deal of time in 1992 in Arkansas, digging dirt on Clinton. David Corn reports in the May 6, 1998 issue of Salon that "at one point, Bossie got into a fistfight in Arkansas with a private detective who claimed Bossie had welshed on a $10,000 payment for anti-Clinton material."

That same year, Bossie harassed the family of a suicide victim. "An anonymous and untraceable letter" was faxed to some 30 news organizations "claiming Clinton had had an affair with a former law student who committed suicide 15 years ago," an "emotionally distraught young woman, seven-months pregnant" named Susan Coleman. Only after the fact of the fax campaign did Bossie attempt to contact the family for "confirmation," and did so in a repetitive and unrelenting manner suggestive more of harrassment than fact-checking. Bossie, with help from former Washington DC police officer James Murphy, went so far as to follow Susan's mother to a hospital in Augusta, Georgia, where her husband was seriously ill and recovering from a stroke. They "burst into the sick man's room and began questioning the shaken mother about her daughter's suicide." (Source: CBS News, July 13, 1992, quoted at The Allodium web site)

More at site

[paineinthearse]

16. Thanks for the bio

Now I need to fumigate.

Where do these assholes come from?

[alfredo]

17. University of Chicago.

An amoral breeding ground of Neo Conservatives.

[punpirate]

4. Ah, more stupendous video...

... from the group that brought you that smash hit, "Celsius 41.11."

:)

[paineinthearse]

5. people behind http://www.citizensunited.org/

Officers & Board of Directors

David N. Bossie, President
President, Citizens United & Citizens United Foundation
Burtonsville, Maryland

Michael Boos, Vice President & General Counsel
General Counsel & Director of Citizens United American Sovereignty Action Project
Manassas, Virginia

Floyd G. Brown, Chairman of the Board
Executive Director, The Reagan Ranch & Young America's Foundation
Santa Barbara, California

Brian Berry, Director
Media Consultant
Austin, Texas

Douglas L. Ramsey, Secretary-Treasurer
Seattle, Washington

Ron Robinson, Director
President, Young America's Foundation
Reston, Virginia

Citizens United Honorary Chairman: Congressman Bob Barr Congressman Bob Barr (R-Georgia, 1995-2003) serves as our National Honorary Chairman. Together Citizens United and Bob Barr can help shape our public policy issues and preserve our traditional American values. We are honored to have his guidance and leadership to help us be the most effective conservative grassroots organization in America.

Mary Beth Brown, Program Chairman

[Bozita]

10. Is Bob Barr gonna be its talking head?

tune in tonight for the answer

[gratuitous]

12. David Bossie and Floyd Brown

That tells me all I need to know.

[FSogol]

7. "Top diplomat"? God help us.

:crazy:

[louis-t]

8. If only their target audience could see the truth.

Let's examine this piece of propaganda.
"Citizens United is dedicated to reasserting traditional American values of limited government (corporations run everything), freedom of enterprise (corporations free to do business with world's worst criminals), strong families (no gays), and national sovereignty (screw old Europe) and security (strengthen POTUS and VPOTUS hidey holes) and restoring the founding father's vision of a free nation (Republican's only), guided by the honesty (corruption), common sense (lies), and good will of its citizens (think Farenheit 451)."

"Massive waste.
Fraudulent deals with Saddam Hussein and repeated anti American attacks. (What about Cheney's deals with Saddam)
That's the U.N. President Bush is trying to reform. (dumbass, heal thyself)
A tough job demands a tough man like John Bolton. (It's hard work destroying the UN)
One of America's top diplomats (Good Repubs love a bully), Bolton is now under vicious attacks by partisan democrats (people who care about their country and the future of this world).

[paineinthearse]

11. Who are the Citizens United?

http://ao.nictusa.com/ao/no/040030.html

From Federal Election Commission Advisory Opinion Number 2004-30


FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION
Washington, DC 20463

September 10, 2004

CERTIFIED MAIL
RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED

ADVISORY OPINION 2004-30

Michael Boos, Esq.
Vice President & General Counsel
Citizens United
1006 Pennsylvania Avenue, S.E.
Washington, D.C. 20003

Dear Mr. Boos:

<snip>

Citizens United. Citizens United is a Virginia non-
stock corporation exempt from Federal taxes under Section
501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code. Citizens United was
established in 1988 "to promote social welfare through
informing and educating the public on conservative ideas and
positions on issues, including national defense, the free
enterprise system, belief in God, and the family as the
basic unit of society."1 Citizens United's Mission
Statement states that Citizens United seeks to accomplish
this goal "hrough a combination of education, advocacy,
and grass roots organization."


In support of your advisory opinion request, you
provided the Commission with a copy of an affidavit that was
executed by David N. Bossie, the president of Citizens
United, and used in litigation challenging the Bipartisan
Campaign Reform Act ("BCRA").2 According to the Bossie
Affidavit, Citizens United "represents its views, and the
views of its members and contributors, on legislative and
public policy issues before federal, state, and local
officials and the general public." Bossie Affidavit at 2.
Citizens United "engages in, including spending significant
funds for, communications on such issues during campaigns
for election to federal office." Id. The district court in
McConnell recognized that "the principal function Citizens United] is the dissemination of information
concerning beliefs and advocacy."3

You state that Citizens United accepts donations from
corporations and individuals. It is not owned or controlled
by any political party, political committee or candidate
committee.

Citizens United is an incorporated membership
organization for purposes of the Act, and it has established
a separate segregated fund ("SSF"), the Citizens United
Political Victory Fund. Citizens United's SSF has
contributed to the re-election campaign of President Bush,
and you state that it has communicated its support of the
Bush re-election campaign to members of its restricted
class. You indicate, however, that Citizens United does not
wish to finance any television broadcasts of the proposed
film, or any of the proposed advertisements at issue here,
through its SSF. Furthermore, you state that Citizens
United does not intend to establish a new SSF for the
purpose of making these communications.

more.......

[alfredo]

13. That turns up one name, but who is the money

behind him?

[paineinthearse]

18. It's a 501(c)(4) so they receive donations from all over the map.

I made a post a few days ago based on the initial news release, but the DU search engine is down. That post contained info about the people behind the effort.

You may wish to try using "advanced search" later to see if the earlier post helps.