Reply #3: And CFACT seems to be tied in with NCPPR

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You all remember NCPPR, right -- the sleazy group run by an old associate of Jack Abramoff's which reliably provided propaganda pieces for Abramoff's clients and was the nominal sponsor of several of his oversees junkets. (That's when they weren't conning little old ladies out of their life savings, which is how we first became aware of them here at DU back in 2004.)

A little quick googling on the "Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow" keeps bringing its name up in connection with NCPPR.

Here's a 1995 item from NCPPR's newsletter concerning activities at its recent "Environmental Policy Task Force Meeting":

http://www.nationalcenter.org/ScoopIss103.html

Craig Rucker of the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow discussed the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), an official arm of the U.S. Congress, which, he said, remains staffed by liberal environmentalists held over from Democrat years. Rucker explained that the old staff was not replaced because the GOP was going to abolish the OTA, but as that decision has been reversed it is now time to appoint new staff.

Here they are jointly presenting an award in 2000:

http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=25

27 September, 2000
In 2000, The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow and the National Center for Public Policy Research awarded Congressman Helen Chenoweth- Hage (R-ID) the new "Friend of American Freedom Award" for her support of private property rights.

And here they are working together in 2006:

http://www.cne.org/pub_pdf/monatsmag/2006_12_00_CNE_Monatsmagazin_eng.htm

CNE Monatsmagazin Digest
December 2006

The National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR) and the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) are distributing "Kyoto Protocol Survival Kits" at the United Nations Global Warming Conference in Nairobi. The kits contain several examples of technologies that, while impractical, would be considered "Kyoto-friendly" because they produce minimal greenhouse gas emissions, like a balsa wood airplane that represents "Kyoto Airlines".

It seems like this might be something worth looking into. NCPPR has been known to work through front groups, and the relationship here has gone on too long to be merely casual.