CRC Public Relations - remember that name

http://www.crcpublicrelations.com/



They were involved with the swiftboaters. They are the lead agency strategizing the PR charge to defeat health care reform.

Who is paying them?

Were any of them in the meeting with Obama today?

It would be VERY interesting to see their client list.


;-)

They had their client list on their website.AgustaWestland
American Bankruptcy Institute
American Education Reform Foundation
American International Automobile Dealers Assoc.
Americans for Fair Taxation
Americans for Hope, Growth & Opportunity
Associated Builders and Contractors
AT&T
Coalition for Patient Choice
Contract With America
Corn Refiners Association
Credit Union Campaign for Consumer Choice
Discovery Institute
Federalist Society
Forbes 2000 (Steve Forbes for President)
Foundation for the Defense of Democracies
Free Enterprise Foundation
Golden Rule Insurance Company
Joseph Seagram & Sons, Inc.
LexisNexis
Manhattan Institute
Media Research Center
Microsoft Corporation
National Republican Congressional Committee
National Republican Senatorial Committee
National Taxpayers Union
Parents Television Council
PAX Television
Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers Assoc.
Privacy Council
Puerto Rican Federal Affairs Administration
Regnery Publishing
Republican National Committee
Simon & Schuster
Small Business Survival Committee
Stone Investments, Inc.
Telecel International, LTD
TIME Warner Inc.
Universal Studios, Inc.
U.S. Business & Industrial Council
Viacom Inc.
Visa USA
Walden Media
The Walt Disney Company
Warner Brothers Television Network

edit to add a few I missed:

American Bankruptcy Institute - my sense is they work for the credit card companies

American Education Reform Foundation - charter and christian schools and pro-voucher/kill urban school systems

American International Automobile Dealers Assoc. - fat cats

Americans for Fair Taxation - antitax assholes/club for growth types

Americans for Hope, Growth & Opportunity - Hahahahahahahahahaha

Associated Builders and Contractors - no need to comment

AT&T - oh kewl :eyes:

Coalition for Patient Choice - In other words: NO SINGLE PAYER/No Socialized Medicine.

Contract With America - Newt! How ya doin' ... ya shitbird.

Corn Refiners Association - Keep HFCS legal/Kill Americans slowly

Credit Union Campaign for Consumer Choice - Guaranteed this is not about credit unions

Discovery Institute - Dunno

Federalist Society - Hahahahaha

Forbes 2000 (Steve Forbes for President) - How'd that work out for ya?

Foundation for the Defense of Democracies - Cliff May! Oh My Gawd

Free Enterprise Foundation - Unfettered free marteteering forever!

Golden Rule Insurance Company - How benign that name sounds

Joseph Seagram & Sons, Inc. - no comment

LexisNexis - interesting

Manhattan Institute - don't know them

Media Research Center - dunno

Microsoft Corporation - hahahaha

National Republican Congressional Committee - nice job last go-round, guys

National Republican Senatorial Committee - how special

National Taxpayers Union - another right wing, ayn rand anti-tax bunch.

Parents Television Council - Yeah haw ...... can't have no titty teevee, nosiree ... and teh gays ... ooooooh teh gays

PAX Television - religiofreaks

Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers Assoc. - Big Pharma front ... but who funds *them* :cough:Merck:cough:sandoz:cough:cough:

Privacy Council - I bet Roe v Wade is not on *their* agenda.

Puerto Rican Federal Affairs Administration - not sure here

Regnery Publishing - Every right wing, bulk sold screed ever written. by the way, did oyu know their CEO is Bob Novak's son? I bet you didn't.

Republican National Committee - Bwahahahahaha

Simon & Schuster - Really?

Small Business Survival Committee - I'm a small business - fuck them. this is another anti-tax group masquerading as people who care about ittle guys. Lying motherfuckers.

Stone Investments, Inc. - I know nothing about them

Telecel International, LTD - I have no idea who they are.

TIME Warner Inc. - CNN - case closed.

Universal Studios, Inc. - MSNBC is in the same family

U.S. Business & Industrial Council - sounds benign/outsourcing kings

Viacom Inc. - Hahahahaha

Visa USA - Credit cards are all left wing. everyone knows that.

Walden Media - dunno them

The Walt Disney Company - at least they gave equal benefits to gay partners.

Warner Brothers Television Network - okay ...... ?

Telecel International: Switzerland:
http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=24022369

Puerto Rican Federal Affairs Administration:

http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1GGLS_enUS307US307&aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=Puerto+Rican+Federal+Affairs+Administration


http://www.afdevinfo.com/htmlreports/org/org_69557.html

European cellular company trying to get a toe hold here

Iteresting about the Puerto Rican thing .... it s a government agency.

I'm so glad to know them.

Fine client list and connections, too.

Swell people, huh?

They handled the Alito nomination PR too.
And protected the Swiftboat cads.
And to show their softer side, they handled National Abstinence Education

Kind of presents another angle on the eversogenerous offer of the healthcare industry to save us 2 trillion over the next ten years just by cutting cost increase projections by 1.5% !!

I just hate the industry offer because if they can cut costs by two trillion over the next ten years by making such a small adjustment in cost increases-- why the hell didn't they do that over the last ten years?

I'm bookmarking it for later and deeper study. THANKS!

pnorman

This thread from 2005 looked at CRC's connections in some detail:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3137074

At the time, I posted there about its founder, Greg Mueller:

Mueller's connections with Brent Bozell go back at least to the World Freedom Foundation, a pro-Contra group connected to Reverend Moon which Bozell founded in 1987. According to http://rightweb.irc-online.org/groupwatch/wff.php , writing as of 1990:

"Greg Mueller, director of public relations for WFF, is with the public relations firm of Keene, Shirley & Associates. Keene, Shirley is a registered agent for Jonas Savimbi of UNITA, the opposition army in Angola, and the Nicaraguan Development Council, a contra front group. He also represents the Nicaraguan Democratic Resistance. Keene, Shirley was hired as the first public relations firm for the Nicaraguan American National Foundation, a pro-contra lobbying group formed by Nicaraguan exiles. Reportedly, the funds to pay the Keene, Shirley bill came from WFF and the Conservative Victory Committee. At Keene, Shirley, Mueller has also represented Christian Voice and has coordinated a conference for the AFC. Mueller worked with Bozell at the National Conservative Fdn as a research analyst for Newswatch."

David Keene is the long-time head of the American Conservative Union -- which annually puts on CPAC, at which Rush Limbaugh was anointed leader of the Republican Party last winter. And Craig Shirley now heads the PR firm of Shirley & Banister which represents almost every extreme right-winger you can think of -- from Ann Coulter to David Bossie, as well as many extremists from the religious right.

To put it bluntly, Keene, Shirley, and Mueller are all at the heart of what used to be quaintly known as the vast-right wing conspiracy -- which was never actually all that vast, but consisted of about five people and their very noisy friends. They haven't been particularly visible since 2004, but with the official GOP going into some sort of death spiral, they all seem to be coming out of the woodwork.

According to my notes, CRC was deeply involved in pushing the "Memogate" story in 2004 and also represented Progress for Freedom -- the 527 set up by Karl Rove's old pal Tony Feather, which overlapped with the Swiftboaters in many ways (such as employing Ben Ginsberg, now Norm Coleman's attorney) and was the other massive outside issues group in the 2004 election.

Gawd help us all .....





Thanks for the info. It is useful again as we once again face down these motherfuckers.