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Alliance for Energy & Economic Growth (AEEG)
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Relationship: 60 Plus is a member of the alliance.
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Most Recent Year Confirmed in this Role: 2004
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Group's Stated Purpose: Labor and business groups pushing for fewer regulations, promoting Arctic National Wildlife Refuge legislation and President Bush’s energy plan
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Alliance for Worker Retirement Security
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Relationship: 60 Plus is a member of the alliance.
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Most Recent Year Confirmed in this Role: 2004
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Group's Stated Purpose: A coalition of over forty organizations whose goal is to reform Social Security so that every American worker has the opportunity to create a secure source of wealth for retirement.
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America 21
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Relationship: 60 Plus, the Seniors Coalition and America 21 sent direct mail in many of the same races. The pieces were strikingly similar. In one case, 60 Plus, the Seniors Coalition and America 21 each sent out direct mail items that misspelled a candidate's name identically.
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Most Recent Year Confirmed in this Role: 2002
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Group's Stated Purpose: Educate, engage, and mobilize Christians to influence national policy at every level.
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Bonner & Associates
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Relationship: Pfizer bankrolled a telemarketing campaign in which callers from public relations firm Bonner & Associates called Minnesota residents, identifiying themselves as representatives of 60 Plus and warning them that their access to needed drugs was threatened.
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Most Recent Year Confirmed in this Role: 2002
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Group's Stated Purpose: Provides grassroots consulting services to assist clients in dealings with all levels of government.
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Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW)
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Relationship: CAGW and 60 Plus coordinated to support President Bush's tax cuts.
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Most Recent Year Confirmed in this Role: 2004
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Group's Stated Purpose: Education and research of government inefficiency.
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Citizens for a Sound Economy (CSE) / Freedom Works
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Relationship: CSE and 60 Plus coordinated to support President Bush's tax cuts, and are fellow co-sponsosr of the Conservative Political Action Conference.
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Most Recent Year Confirmed in this Role:
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Group's Stated Purpose: Fights for lower taxes and less regulation.
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Citizens for Better Medicare
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Relationship: 60 Plus was a member of Citizens for Better Medicare
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Most Recent Year Confirmed in this Role: 2000
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Group's Stated Purpose: Medicare reform advocacy.
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Conservative Political Action Conference
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Relationship: 60 Plus has been a sponsor of the conference.
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Most Recent Year Confirmed in this Role: 2003
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Group's Stated Purpose: The country's oldest and largest annual gathering of grassroots conservatives ... where the conservative movement meets.
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National Taxpayers Union
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Relationship: NTU coordinated with 60 Plus to support President Bush's tax cuts.
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Most Recent Year Confirmed in this Role: 2004
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Group's Stated Purpose: A non-partisan, non-profit organization working for lower taxes, less wasteful spending, and more accountability from government officials at all levels.
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Seniors Coalition
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Relationship: 60 Plus, the Seniors Coalition and America 21 sent direct mail in many of the same races. The pieces were strikingly similar. In one case, 60 Plus, the Seniors Coalition and America 21 each sent out direct mail items that misspelled a candidate's name identically.
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Most Recent Year Confirmed in this Role: 2002
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Group's Stated Purpose: Representing senior citizens before federal and state officials through public information, education and grassroots presentations.
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| † This section lists organizations with which this group has collaborated, such as by holding joint press conferences, jointly funding advertising campaigns or participating in coalitions. Also included are organizations to which this group has provided funding. |
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Alliance for Energy and Economic Growth Web site. (Available at www.yourenergyfuture.org. Accessed on May 26, 2004.) |
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Alliance for Worker Retirement Security Web site. (Available at www.retiresecure.org. Accessed April 13, 2004.) |
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Daniel Smith, "Distorted by Outside Money: National Parties and the Race for Colorado's Seventh Congressional District," in "The Last Hurrah? Soft Money and Issue Advocacy in the 2002 Congressional Elections," edited by David E. Magelby and J. Quin Monson, 2003. |
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Mark Brunswick and Ron Nixon, "Prescription Politics, Star-Tribune, Nov. 16, 2003. |
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"Ohio Agrees: It's Time to 'Ax the Double Tax," U.S. Newswire, April 23, 2003. |
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"Ohio Agrees: It's Time to 'Ax the Double Tax," U.S. Newswire, April 23, 2003. |
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"Citizens for Better Medicare: The Truth Behind the Drug Industry's Deception of America's Seniors," Public Citizen's Congress Watch, June 2000. |
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Conservative Political Action Committeee Sponsors, 2000-2002. (Aavailable in cached version at www.cpac.org. Accessed on May 26, 2004.) |
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"Ohio Agrees: It's Time to 'Ax the Double Tax," U.S. Newswire, April 23, 2003. |
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Daniel Smith, "Distorted by Outside Money: National Parties and the Race for Colorado's Seventh Congressional District," in "The Last Hurrah? Soft Money and Issue Advocacy in the 2002 Congressional Elections," edited by David E. Magelby and J. Quin Monson, 2003. |
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