Posted on 10/04/2006 6:32:46 AM PDT by new yorker 77
Michael Lux is president of a group called American Family Voices, which has both a commercial and non-profit registration. It is now making a zillion recorded phone calls to Republicans telling them to call their Republican House members and urging them to ask for the resignation of the GOP leadership. Numerous callers to my radio show tonight, from different parts of the country, received the recorded phone calls.
It turns out that Lux served at the White House from Jan. ‘93 to‘95 as a Special Assistant to the President for Public Liaison. In 1992, Lux served as the Constituency Director on both the Clinton-Gore campaign and the Presidential transition.
Carol Trevelyan Strategy Group is the registed agent for American Family voices, which is linked here. She is also involved in The Emerging Democratic Majority website and E-newsletter linked here.
The Clintonoids are trying to take out Hastert — for the kids, of course.
The more money the Clintons control. The more they will be in our lives.
You will not see this connection on O'Reily EVERY.
You will not see this ANYWERE in the visual media.
You MIGHT see this on Rush.
Rush is the only large audience beacon on this one.
No insult to Levin, but Rush's numbers are needed here.
VOTE FOLKS!
MICHAEL LUX
Michael Lux is the co-founder and CEO of Progressive Strategies, L.L.C., a political consulting firm focused on strategic consulting for non-profits, PACs, and progressive donors. Since starting the company, Lux has launched a number of important new projects, including American Family Voices, an issue advocacy group working on pocketbook issues for American families, and the Progressive Donor Network, which works to coordinate a network of individual donors, issue advocacy groups, and top flight political consultants and strategists.
Lux's recent projects have garnered a great deal of media coverage and have been extremely effective. Frequent attacks by Rush Limbaugh and an expose by William Buckley's National Review magazine only offer validation to his cause.
In addition to those projects, Lux serves on the boards of several important organizations, including the Arca Foundation, the Proteus Fund, 21st Century Democrats, Progressive Majority, the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center, and the Clinton-Gore alumni association.
In the late 1990's, Lux was Senior Vice President for Political Action at People For the American Way (PFAW), and the PFAW Foundation. He oversaw lobbying and legal advocacy, field operations, state and regional offices, voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts. He was also responsible for coalition building with other organizations and interest groups. He continues to serve as treasurer for PFAW Voters Alliance, a state and federal PAC launched in 1998.
Before joining People For the American Way, Lux served at the White House from January 1993 to mid-1995 as a Special Assistant to the President for Public Liaison, where his role on health care and budget issues involved working closely with a wide range of constituency groups including labor, seniors, churches, disability groups, businesses, health care providers, trial lawyers, consumer groups and farm groups.
Prior to his service at the White House, Lux was Constituency Director on both the 1992 Clinton-Gore campaign and the presidential transition. Lux was also on the senior staff for the Biden and Simon campaigns in the 1988 cycle.
Lux has a diverse background in the consulting, labor and consumer advocacy world. He was a partner and cofounder of the Chicago-based political consulting firm, Strategy Group. He was Executive Vice President, PAC director and chief lobbyist for the Iowa AFL-CIO in the early 1990s. During his tenure as Executive Director of the Iowa Citizen Action Network, Lux doubled the organization's annual budget from $500,000 in 1984 to almost $1 million in 1987 while raising the organization's membership from 30,000 to 75,000. His first organizing job was as a VISTA volunteer working with moderate income family farmers in southeast Nebraska.
Lux is a native of Lincoln, Nebraska.
http://www.progressivestrategies.net/introduction/partners.asp
CORPORATE CONDUCT: THE POLITICS; Secretive Group Re-emerges With Advertising Hostile to Bush
*Please Note: Archive articles do not include photos, charts or graphics. More information. July 10, 2002, Wednesday
By DANIEL ALTMAN (NYT); Business/Financial Desk
Late Edition - Final, Section C, Page 6, Column 1, 588 words
Correction Appended
DISPLAYING ABSTRACT - American Family Voices, small, secretive group that used television advertisements to attack George W Bush during his campaign for president, re-emerges to point links between oil companies with questionable accounting practices and Bush administration; group has paid for 30-second commercial on cable news programs in New York that calls Bush 'sly like a fox' for talking down his dealings with Harken Energy, oil company on whose board he once sat; Bush sold stock in Harken twelve years ago just before it reported $23.2 million loss, and he reported sale to Securities and Exchange Commission eight months late; commercial also criticizes Vice Pres Dick Cheney for his ties to Halliburton, oil services company that SEC is investigating; commercial suggests that SEC chairman Harvey L Pitt is unfit for job because he was once lawyer for several accounting firms, including Arthur Andersen; group's president Michael Lux declines to say who donated money for television time, but group and its ad agency Glover Park Group have significant links to Clinton administration; Lux was aide to Clinton, and partners at Glover Park include Joe Lockhart, who was once Clinton's press secretary, and Carter Eskew and Michael Feldman, who advisers to Al Gore's unsuccessful campaign for president in 2000; Democratic National Committee spokeswoman Jennifer Palmieri says committee has nothing to do with commercial; adds James Carville, once top campaigner for Clinton, is involved with American Family Voices
Correction: July 11, 2002, Thursday An article in Business Day yesterday about a television commercial highlighting the Bush administration's links to companies involved in accounting investigations included one political strategist erroneously among those involved with American Family Voices, the group that produced it. James Carville said he had not participated.
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Any idea who fronts the money for Lux and his spinoff groups?
bump
See STARWISE's posts, particularly this one:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1713059/posts?page=650#636
Yes, Mark discussed this on his radio show last night when a woman "moonbat" caller called into the show. How low will the rats go?
If you Google this group's phone number, (202) 393-4352:
http://tinyurl.com/zopsx
You'll see all the various rackets they have going.
Top of the list -- Progressive Donor Network
This is all about fundraising and spreading lies.
They also violate the Do Not Call Registry with impunity.
I think a bunch of FReepers have been getting these phone calls, judging by the lemming-like response we're seeing here.
So we would be right to say the Klinton war room is at it again?
Is he married????????????
Ping
Thanks Sleuth! Who hoo! got in the Nat'l Review - that's a good start. I've emailed a few people and made a post on blog that some may see. I suspect Mark will be talking about this more today (I don't get him on the radio here until 6, and, unfortunately have to work during the day, so hard to listen to a stream of his show)
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