[Alberta's Child]

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is named after the original Robert Wood Johnson, and from what I understand the involvement of RWJ #4 is pretty minimal -- it's mainly comprised of medical doctors. Robert Wood Johnson IV is the president and CEO of The Johnson Company, an investment/securities firm that I believe only has one "client" -- the Johnson & Johnson family fortune.

He also serves as the chairman of the Alliance for Lupus Research. I seem to remember reading somewhere that there is some kind of genetic predisposition for lupus among women in the Johnson family, so this issue has been an important one for him.

He can't be all that bad, considering the fact that he's now considered a "two-time Pioneer" for George W. Bush . . .

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[Gabz]

I appreciate you finding that info for me, and it is (semi) comforting to know that RWJ#4 is not heavily involved in the Foundation.

The Foundation has become one of the most prohibitionist organizations I've encountered in quite some time. They started with going after the tobacco companies and fund anti-smoker groups across the country pushing smoking bans such as those now in California, Delaware, New York, and Maine.

While RWJF has started down sizing it's financial support to these groups, they have seriously vamped up their support of groups promoting gun control, lowered BAC's (they've recently taken control of MADD) and are getting involved in the "twinkie tax" promotions.

The RWJFoundation is one very scary group...