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Bill Gates, allegedly yearned to get an invitation for years before he recently got one.
Did he get one? I thought he still had to play with us unwashed masses.

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Center for Advancement of Public Policy

Who we are

CAPP was founded by Martha Burk and Ralph Estes in 1991

Dr. Martha Burk
is president of the Center and publisher of the Washington Feminist Faxnet, is a political psychologist long active in policy analysis and research on women's equity. She has served as a consultant to national organizations and government agencies, and as a national board member for the National Organization for Women, the National Woman's Party, the National Committee on Pay Equity, and Wider Opportunities for Women.

Dr. Ralph Estes
is a fellow with the Center, a CPA, and accounting professor emeritus at the American University. He directs the Stakeholder Alliance, a project of the Center. A national authority on the role of corporations in society, he has published extensively; his books include Tyranny of the Bottom Line, Who Pays? Who Profits? The Truth About the American Tax System, and Corporate Social Accounting. He is a past president of Accountants for the Public Interest and of the Texas Civil Liberties Union.

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Dr. Martha Burk is a political psychologist and women's equity expert who is co-founder and President of the Center for Advancement of Public Policy, a research and policy analysis organization in Washington, D.C.

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Martha Burk, head of the Center for Advancement of Public Policy recently wrote a thoughtful article explaining the white male flight to the radical right, religious supremacists politics of the Republican party in the last election. This is the heart of it:

"The mostly male face of the Republican landslide is no surprise. The male/Republican female/Democratic trend has been evident since 1980, paralleling increasing Republican efforts to deprive women of abortion rights and consign them to second-class economic citizenship.

"Beside women and men sometimes have opposite priorities, and there was a smidgen of testosterone in this election. Many guys who don't actually own a gun still want to be able to buy one easily - just in case they're called on to clean up Dodge. Women tend to worry about getting raped at gunpoint. Basic difference.

"Does this mean we are head for a new politics of gender - a 'men's party' and a 'woman's party?' Hardly.

"The white male roar was in response to something much more basic: fear of the future. For the first time since World War II men are facing long-term systemic job insecurity. When people are fearful, theylook for scapegoats and saviors. Republicans produced scapegoats - welfare (blacks), affirmative action (women), and immigrants (all the rest) - while pointing to themselves as saviors. Desperate white guys went for it.

-- Martha Burk, president, Center for Advancement of Public Policy.