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Esta organización se originó con la fusión de Empower America («guerra contra el terrorismo», grasstops) y una escisión de Citizens for a Sound Economy (libertarismo económico, astroturfs). Declara ser promotora del Tea Party, pero otras fuentes opinan que su generación de astroturfs es más ficticia que real, pues su política consiste más en cooptar a organizaciones preexistentes. La otra parte de la escisión de Citizens for a Sound Economy formó Americans for Prosperity, organización fuertemente financiada por las fundaciones caritativas de Charles y David Koch y que a su vez aporta grandes cantidades de dinero al Tea Party.
Fundadores:
Dick Armey
Jack Kemp
C. Boyden Gray
Presidente:
Dick Armey
Republicano de Texas quien, junto a Newt Gingrich, redactó el «Contrato con América»
Consejero delegado:
Matt Kibbe
Año de fundación:
2004
Descripción propia:
Misión declarada:
Policy change by training and mobilizing grassroots Americans to engage their fellow citizens and encourage their political representatives to act in defense of individual freedom and economic opportunity – Austrian School of economics and public choice theory
Personas:
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
Jack Kemp
Rand Paul
Orientación religiosa:
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Agencias de PR:
Medios de comunicación:
Posicionamiento negacionista climático:
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Procedencia de la financiación documentada:
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Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation
Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation
Earhart Foundation
John M. Olin Foundation
Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
Sarah Scaife Foundation
Referencias
Frank Rich – The Billionaires Bankrolling the Tea Party – The New York Times – 28/08/2010 – http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/opinion/29rich.html
«This weekend, the scene shifted to Washington, where the avatars of oppressed white Tea Party America, Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin, were slated to “reclaim the civil rights movement” (Beck’s words) on the same spot where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. had his dream exactly 47 years earlier. Vive la révolution! There’s just one element missing from these snapshots of America’s ostensibly spontaneous and leaderless populist uprising: the sugar daddies who are bankrolling it, and have been doing so since well before the “death panel” warm-up acts of last summer. Three heavy hitters rule. You’ve heard of one of them, Rupert Murdoch. The other two, the brothers David and Charles Koch, are even richer, with a combined wealth exceeded only by that of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett among Americans.»
Matt Taibbi – Matt Taibbi on the Tea Party – Rolling Stone – 15/10/2010 – http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/210904
“Prior to the Tea Party phenomenon, FreedomWorks was basically just an AstroTurfing-lobbying outfit whose earlier work included taking money from Verizon to oppose telecommunications regulation. Now the organization’s sights were set much higher: In the wake of a monstrous economic crash caused by grotesque abuses in unregulated areas of the financial-services industry, FreedomWorks—which took money from companies like mortgage lender MetLife—had the opportunity to persuade millions of ordinary Americans to take up arms against, among other things, Wall Street reform.”
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