Ralph Reed = focus grouping/"fellowship" = specific selective brands of political activism

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coming out of (how many?) churches:

http://www.thenation.com/blog/170103/koch-group-kicks-massive-voter-mobilization-effort-summons-tea-party-country-club-outsou

Koch is now financing more than 200 organizers and paid political staff in thirty-one states. Its likely much of the money Koch now donates to the NRA and groups like the Faith and Freedom Coalition (run by Tim Phillip’s longtime business partner, Ralph Reed), will also be spent on organizers on the ground. Using the Wisconsin model, Koch hopes to partner with local conservative groups to build a rapid mobilization system that can compete on Election Day, in every critical state.

Too much attention is given to the television ads. The Koch network, which is actively training Tea Partiers, via a partnership with True the Vote, to harass and intimidate voters, may tip the scales in this election. And you won’t see their work on television, or through FEC disclosures (they refuse to register their grassroots electioneering as independent expenditures). Like Wisconsin, liberals might see the ground shifting beneath them, and wonder what happened.

This answers my questions about how a random Catholic high school coach I spoke to recently could come up with full blown conspiracy theories about how environmentalism and alternative energy technologies are a U.N. plot to take over the U.S.A.

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1. The same group who threatened the Bush agenda in the months preceding March 19, 2003. link:

The Bush administration was threatened by this VERY same group, when he made mild criticism of Israel in the months before March 19, 2003, these people cranked out 100K phone calls to the WH, basically threatening the Bush agenda (which at some point in that time frame was still to privatize social security, i.e. one of the actual objectives of the "political capital" that he expected to gain from a war).

Info here:

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2. Why isn't this asshole in jail?!?!?!?

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3. You'd think the murder of appx. 4000 American troops + appx. 100k Iraqis would qualify him for

jail time wouldn't you.