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Social Security Scare Calls Begin

Progress for America, a Republican-Run Disinformation Machine, Spreading Lies

UPDATED with link to Anti-Social Security Ad courtesy of Anti-Progress for America

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by S. Roberts

I received a call to day:

Caller: "Mr. Roberts, I want to assure you I am not selling anything."

Me: "mmhuh."

Caller: "I am calling for Progress for America. As everyone knows Social Security is running out of money...."

Me: "THAT IS A BIG FAT LIE! YOU F***ERS BETTER QUIT CALLING PEOPLE WITH THAT KIND OF CRAP!"

Click - the rat bastard hung up on me! I was just warming up. I can cuss like a cowboy.

Of course now I wish I had toyed with the caller to see where the pitch would have gone and wasted his time, but I didn't. Thought you should know the games have begun.

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BuzzFlash Note: We did a little digging and found out a few things about PFA.

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About Progress for America from Disinfopedia.com

PFA was registered as a 501(c)4 group in February 2001 by Tony Feather, a political director of the Bush-Cheney 2000 campaign...

Several high-level Bush supporters and advisors have been associated with Progress for America. Ken Adelman, who would go on to become the Bush-Cheney ’04 campaign director, spoke to the Washington Post in 2002 and identified himself as the group’s chairman.

HISTORY

As the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform bill began working its way toward its eventual passage in Congress in 2002, long-time Republican strategists were already scheming how to get around the law’s ban on soft-money contributions. They found an answer in Progress for America (PFA).

disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Progress_for_America

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Visit Progress for America's web site and tell them to stop spreading lies.

More information about PFA:

The domain is registered to this company:

Sullivan & Mitchell, PLLC (C13480-OR)
1100 CONNECTICUT AVE NW STE 330
WASHINGTON, DC 20036-4154
US
Phone: 202 861-5900
Fax: 202 861-6065

Domain Name: PROGRESSFORAMERICA.COM

Administrative Contact :
Sullivan & Mitchell, PLLC (C13480-OR)
cmitchell@sullivanmitchell.com
1100 CONNECTICUT AVE NW STE 330
WASHINGTON, DC 20036-4154
US
Phone: 202 861-5900
Fax: 202 861-6065

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Cleta Mitchell is the contact above and can be found here:

Ms. Cleta Mitchell
Sullivan & Mitchell, P.L.L.C.
Regular Member
Office:
1100 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Suite 330
Washington, DC 20036

Phone: n/a
Email: cmitchell@foley.com

Law School: n/a (n/a)

From the Republican National Lawyers Foundation web site.

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