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Conservative group to launch ad supporting Senate immigration bill

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• Senate passes its major immigration overhaul
• In Mexico, U.S. border 'surge' proposal stirs outcry
• House Republicans refuse to budge on Senate immigration bill
• Bush backs immigration overhaul, but may not sway GOP lawmakers
  
  By Lisa MascaroJuly 7, 2013, 9:00 p.m.
  
  WASHINGTON -- As an overhaul of immigration laws shifts to the House, a right-leaning group is launching a new television ad campaign Monday that will call on House lawmakers -- and, implicitly, resistant Republicans -- to support the Senate-passed “border surge” as part of “conservative immigration reform."
  The ad seeks to influence rank-and-file lawmakers as House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) convenes Republicans behind closed doors to assess how the GOP majority will respond to the bipartisan Senate bill.
  Many House Republicans oppose the legislation because it includes a 13-year citizenship path for immigrants here without legal status. But influential party leaders think other rank-and-file lawmakers may be interested in a compromise that could help the party’s outreach to the growing Latino electorate.
  “This is the tough border security America needs,” said the television ad, the first to specifically target the House from American Action Network, whose Hispanic Leadership Network has sought to educate lawmakers about immigration. It notes that the surge is supported by conservative leaders, including what is essentially a who’s who of potential 2016 presidential contenders: Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the former vice presidential nominee. The ad will run nationally in prime time this week on the Fox News channel.
  Former President George W. Bush, who will give a high profile immigration speech this week, said Sunday he thinks an overhaul “has a chance to pass.”
  It is unclear whether Bush's views will sway the new generation of Republican lawmakers who are more conservative; they view the Bush administration with skepticism because of its runup of the national debt. Bush will discuss immigration in a keynote address Wednesday during a naturalization ceremony at his new presidential library in Texas.
  “I think it's very important to fix a broken system, to treat people with respect and have confidence in our capacity to assimilate people,” Bush said Sunday in an interview with ABC’s Jonathan Karl on “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.” “The legislative process is -- can be ugly. But it looks like they're making some progress.”
  The $46-billion border surge, engineered by two Republican senators, emerged as a crucial component of the Senate immigration overhaul. Under the bill, the unprecedented military-style buildup along the southern border with Mexico must be underway before the estimated 11 million immigrants in the country without legal status can finish their 10-year transition to green card status or 13-year path to citizenship. It includes 20,000 new Border Patrol agents, the completion of 700 miles of fencing and 24-hour drones and other surveillance.
  Liberal critics decried the surge as an unnecessary intrusion into border communities. But they have also largely muted their criticism because the surge became instrumental in attracting Republican support for the bipartisan Senate overhaul, which passed 68-32.
  “The conservative border surge plan is tough, enforceable, takes away discretion from the Obama administration, and that would finally secure the border,” said the American Action Network's communications director, Dan Conston. “We hope Americans call their congressperson and tell them to support the conservative plan to secure the border.”
  lisa.mascaro@latimes.com
  
  http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-pn-immigration-gop-ad-20130707,0,42602.story

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   The American Action Network is unveiling a new ad this week that it hopes will spur the House to adopt immigration reform legislation, ...

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Elite money folks working to make more money turning their heads to the problems of the American worker, total arrogance.

ok, what kind of frauds are behind this ruse?

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Originally Posted by ALIPAC

ok, what kind of frauds are behind this ruse?

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Norm Coleman sees big paydays from nonprofits

By Michael Beckel, The Center for Public Integrity | 05/31/13



REUTERS/Brian Snyder

Norm Coleman earned more than $570,000 during a nearly three-year tenure at the helm of the American Action Network and the American Action Forum.

This story was originally published by The Center for Public Integrity, which is a nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative news organization in Washington, D.C.
Leading two politically focused nonprofits has generated big money for former Republican Sen. Norm Coleman of Minnesota — with paydays better than when he served in Congress’ upper chamber.
Coleman collected more than $570,000 during a nearly three-year tenure at the helm of the American Action Network and the American Action Forum, for an average of about $190,000 annually, according to a Center for Public Integrity review of federal filings.
That includes a combined salary of more than $116,000 in 2011, according to the groups' most recent annual reports — though Coleman was only a paid, full-time employee of the organizations for a portion of that year.

According to documents filed with the Internal Revenue Service, Coleman worked a combined 40 hours a week for the two conservative nonprofits during 2009 and 2010 — their first two years of existence, when he served as both groups’ chief executive officer.
He dialed back his time and responsibilities during the third year after taking a job at the Washington, D.C.-based law firm and lobbying shop Hogan Lovells, where his clients this year include Airbus Americas Inc. and Hong Kong-based investment firm Primus Holdings Ltd.
In their annual reports filed with the IRS, the two conservative nonprofits state that compensation levels are determined by reviewing compensation “for similar work at peer institutions” and approved by the organizations’ presidents.
Once Coleman stepped down from the chief executive officer posts, he was “no longer compensated by either organization,” Dan Conston, communications director for the two groups, told the Center for Public Integrity.
Coleman continues to serve as the chairman of the board of the American Action Network and sits on the board of the American Action Forum.
When Coleman was first sworn into the U.S. Senate in 2003, senators received an annual salary of $154,700 — a figure that increased to $169,300 during Coleman’s final year in office.
Many other former lawmakers, Republicans and Democrats alike, seek private-sector employment after serving in Congress.
Working in the private sector can be “pretty alluring,” said Viveca Novak, editorial and communications director of the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.
“There is serious money to be made for a former member,” Novak continued, adding that Coleman’s efforts at Hogan Lovells are likely even more lucrative than his nonprofit work.
Coleman, who did not immediately respond to requests for comment, lost a highly contested race to Democrat Al Franken in 2008. An extended recount battle after Election Day went all the way to the Minnesota Supreme Court, which rejected Coleman’s final appeal of the result on June 30, 2009.
In July, Franken was sworn into the Senate, and Coleman helped launch both the American Action Forum, a policy institute organized under Section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. tax code, and the American Action Network, an “action tank” organized under Section 501(c)(4).
Ahead of the 2010 midterms, the American Action Network spent millions of dollars on ads that criticized Democratic candidates, earning the ire of campaign finance watchdogs that alleged the nonprofit spent too significant a portion of its resources influencing elections.
The group, which has denied the allegations, ranked as one of the most politically active nonprofits during both the 2010 and 2012 election cycles, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
Coleman is also the chairman of the Congressional Leadership Fund, a super PAC that seeks to expand the Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives. That group made news last year for receiving a $2.5 million contribution from Chevron Corp., shareholders of which this week rejected an effort to stop the company from making political donations.
http://www.minnpost.com/politics-policy/2013/05/norm-coleman-sees-big-paydays-nonprofits

I just saw a tweet claiming this 'conservative group' was on the same floor as Carl Rove's DC offices? Can anyone verify that?

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Originally Posted by ALIPAC

I just saw a tweet claiming this 'conservative group' was on the same floor as Carl Rove's DC offices? Can anyone verify that?

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American Action Network (AAN) is a "501(c)4" Washington, D.C.-based "action tank" created in February 2010 after the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United decision permitted corporations to spend unlimited money influencing elections. AAN spent $26 million on ads in 2010, making it the second-most active outside political spending group that year behind the Chamber of Commerce.[1] As a 501(c)(4), the American Action Network does not have to disclose its donors.[2] The organization is run by Republican political operatives (including engineers of Nixon's illegal and unethical campaign activities) and billionaires (some of whom personally benefitted from the Wall Street bailout).

Organizers have described the group as a center-right version of the Center for American Progress, [3] but rather than working on policy analysis, it has just been spending large sums of money running ads attacking Democrats.Politico refers to the group as one of the "key outside forces on the right". [4]

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php...Action_Network

In January 2011, AAN created the Hispanic Leadership Network to bring more Hispanics to the Republican party.[5]

American Action Network is linked to Karl Rove's American Crossroads PAC; in fact, they share office space.[6][7]

In January 2011, AAN created the Hispanic Leadership Network to bring more Hispanics to the Republican party.[5]

American Action Network is linked to Karl Rove's American Crossroads PAC; in fact, they share office space.[6][7]

Bingo!

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