Launched in February 2010, American Action Network is a conservative 501(c)(4) group chaired by Norm Coleman, a Republican former senator from Minnesota. The group reported spending more than $18.9 million in the 2010 congressional elections, targeting dozens of Democratic House and Senate candidates. Because it is a 501(c)(4), it is not required to release the names of its donors. American Action shares office space with Crossroads GPS/American Crossroads, one of the largest outside spending networks, which has ties to GOP operative Karl Rove. As a nonprofit organization, it does not disclose the donors to its outside spending efforts.
http://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/detail.php?cmte=American+Action+Network
(Center for Responsive Politics)
http://americanactionnetwork.org/
http://hispanicleadershipnetwork.org/
Board Members of the American Action Network
Senator Norm Coleman, Chairman, American Action Network and Of Counsel, Hogan Lovells US LLP
Fred Malek, Founder, American Action Network and Chairman, Thayer Lodging Group
Isaac Applbaum, founding General Partner, Opus Capital
Dylan Glenn, Managing Director, Guggenheim Advisors
Congressman Jim Nussle, President and CEO, The Nussle Group
Congressman Tom Reynolds, Senior Strategic Policy Advisor, Nixon Peabody
Ambassador Gregory Slayton, Adjunct Professor, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College
Congressman Vin Weber, Managing Partner, Clark and Weinstock
In January 2011, the American Action Network created the Hispanic Leadership Network to bring more Hispanics to the Republican party.
According to the organization’s website, the Hispanic Leadership Network is a “sustained effort to engage the Hispanic Community on center right issues”. Key members include executive director Jennifer Korn, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, former United States Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and former United States Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez.
Norm Coleman? There’s a blast from the past...
So then in other words it’s NOT Conservative by any means. As I’ve been posting since I joined FR in Jan. of 2004 “THEY” are redefining Conservatism. By calling themselves “Conservatives”, their politics as “Conservative” “THEY” are redefining what Conservatism is to suit their agenda. “THEY” are actually todays “Republicans”, the GOPe, who are nothing less than sychophants of the Democrat rule. Stealth Democrats if you will. That IS my personal opinion.