TBR News July 23, 2018

The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Isaiah 40:3-8

Washington, D.C. July 23, 2018:”There is a book that ought to be read by anyone interested in the realities of the operation of governments, local and federal. This is ‘The Power Elite’ by C. Wright Mills. Published in 1954, the names of individuals and entities are dated but the basic concepts hold very true today. Every government, be it a small town, a county, or state and especially federal, are controlled by small groups of indivuduals, unknown to the public, who suggest, pressure, reward their legislators and officials into doing what they wish. This sort of system has existed since the days of George Washington but at present, is obviously forcing the federal government to pressure both Russia and Iran into a form of submission. Why? Because both countries are not obedient to American wishes and economic necessities and in the long run, both countries have large deposits of oil . Remember the poem: ‘Whatever happens, Putin’s got, The oil and gas which we have not.’ ”

 

The Table of Contents

• Donald Trump lashes out at Iran in all-caps tweet
• Trump plays dangerous game with anti-Iran Twitter rant
• The Establishment Strikes Back
• Mortgage, Groupon and card debt: how the bottom half bolsters U.S. economy
• Martyrs to the Cause: Carter Page and Julian Assange
• The Establishment

 

Donald Trump lashes out at Iran in all-caps tweet

In an escalating war of words with Iran, Trump fired back at Iran’s President Rouhani telling him to “NEVER EVER” threaten the US. Rouhani earlier said he could shut down oil shipments if Trump continued provoking Iran.

July 23, 2018

DW

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also criticized Iran on Sunday evening during a speech in California. He said Iran’s leaders were a “mafia,” and accused several of them of being corrupt. He also promised the US would support Iranians who are unhappy with their government.

Members of Trump’s administration have ramped up their rhetoric against Iran in an effort intended to foment unrest and put pressure on Iran to end its nuclear program, US officials told Reuters news agency.

Ramping up tensions with Iran

Earlier on Sunday, Rouhani warned the US that Iran could shut down international oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz if Washington continued to provoke and threaten Tehran.

“America must understand well that peace with Iran is the mother of all peace and war with Iran is the mother of all wars,” Rouhani told Iranian diplomats.

In May, Trump withdrew the US from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and said Washington would move to fully restore economic sanctions against Tehran in November.

The international deal saw six countries — the US, the UK, France, Germany, Russia and China — agree to lift sanctions against Iran in exchange for limitations on Iran’s nuclear program.

Although European and Iranian leaders have been scrambling to save the deal, many companies and banks have stopped doing business in Iran amid fears they could be targeted by US sanctions.

 

Trump plays dangerous game with anti-Iran Twitter rant

US threats of regime change resemble ever more closely the buildup to Iraq war

July 23, 2018

by Simon Tisdall

The Guardian

The beat of war drums over Iran has been growing steadily louder in Washington since May, when Donald Trump trashed the UN-backed nuclear pact with Tehran. But the wild threats that Trump tweeted on Sunday evening in reaction to comments by Iran’s president have taken the confrontation to a new and dangerous level.

Trump’s escalation does not appear premeditated or thought through. He faced intense bipartisan criticism after last week’s inept summit with Russia’s leader, Vladimir Putin. He is under relentless pressure from the official inquiry into alleged 2016 campaign collusion with Russia. Trump may have been looking for an easy target on which to vent his pent-up frustration.

The remarks by Hassan Rouhani, Iran’s president, warning the US not to “twist the lion’s tail” provided the spark. Intentionally or not, Trump has distracted attention from his domestic troubles, at least for now.

Trump’s vow to visit consequences on Iran “the like of which few throughout history have ever suffered” recall his scary threat last year to rain “fire and fury” on North Korea. He later switched tack completely, praising Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s dictator, after meeting him in Singapore in June.

But it would be unwise to assume Trump is merely sounding off again or that his Iran sabre-rattling is just noise. Influenced by the Saudis, who are engaged in a Middle East power struggle with Iran, and by the rightwing Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu, which regards Iran as an existential threat, the US has been putting more pressure on Tehran since Trump took office.

The US president’s intemperate outburst raises questions about whether he discussed a secret deal with Putin on Iran, as rumoured before the Helsinki summit. Little has been publicly disclosed about the talks. But Netanyahu, for example, has been pushing for both leaders to up the ante and force an Iranian withdrawal from Syria.

Iran’s leaders will certainly not dismiss Trump’s words lightly. They look at the US’s reimposition of sweeping sanctions next month, its plans to impose a worldwide embargo on vital oil exports and its incitement of Iranians to rise up in revolt, and they see an alarming pattern: made-in-America regime change.

In his eagerness to pick a fight, Trump appears to have over-interpreted Rouhani’s remarks, which were not obviously provocative. “America should know that peace with Iran is the mother of all peace, and war with Iran is the mother of all wars,” Rouhani said.

That was a reference to Saddam Hussein’s famous 1991 vow to fight “the mother of all battles” against the US. But Rouhani, known as a cautious moderate, was not threatening to attack America. His comment could be read as an offer to talk. It was also a timely reminder of what happened in 2003, when the US sought forcible regime change in Iraq. Trump’s Iran war dance is resembling ever more closely the buildup to that disaster.

Potentially even more serious were remarks on Sunday by Mike Pompeo, the US secretary of state. He reiterated familiar US-Saudi-Israeli complaints that Iran was undermining regional stability and was “committed to spreading the Islamic revolution to other countries, by force if necessary”. But Pompeo went further.

He accused senior ayatollahs, including the supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, of corruption, he offered support for an anti-regime uprising, and, most surprisingly, he attacked Rouhani and his foreign minister, Javad Zarif, personally. They were “polished frontmen for the ayatollahs’ international con artistry. Their nuclear deal didn’t make them moderates,” he said.

Pompeo’s claim that mild-mannered Rouhani and Zarif are “violent Islamic revolutionaries” starkly illustrates how deeply ignorant US officials are about Iran after nearly 40 years of estrangement. It’s true there is much high-level corruption and human rights abuses; it’s true the country is in dire economic straits. Iran’s actions in Syria are anti-democratic and destructive.

But by undercutting moderate leaders who offer the best hope of reform and by threatening regime change, Trump and Pompeo risk entrenching the hardline mullahs and Revolutionary Guards they most revile – and bringing closer the prospect of violent confrontation.

 

The Establishment Strikes Back

July 19, 2018

by Philip Giraldi

The Unz Review

There are a number of elements in the recent release of an indictment of twelve named alleged Russian military intelligence GRU officers by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein looking into possible ties between Moscow and the Trump Administration that I find either implausible or even incoherent. But before considering that, it is necessary to consider the context of the announcement.

The Department of Justice, which had, based on evidence already revealed, actually interfered in the 2016 election more that Moscow could possibly have done, continued in that proud tradition by releasing the indictment three days before President Donald Trump was due to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Helsinki Summit between the two leaders was critically important to anyone interested in preserving the planet Earth as we know it and there was no reason at all to release a non-time sensitive document that was clearly intended to cast a shadow over the proceedings. In fact, the surfacing of the indictment might easily be explained as a deliberate attempt by a politicized Justice Department and Special Counsel Robert Mueller to torpedo President Trump over concerns that he might actually come to some understanding with Putin.

The 30-page long indictment is full of painstaking details about alleged Russian involvement but it makes numerous assertions that the reader is required to accept on faith because there is little or no evidence provided to back up the claims and the claims themselves could be false trails set up by any number of hostile intelligence services to implicate Moscow. From an intelligence officer’s point of view, there are even some significant areas where operational implausibility completely undermines the case being made.

The indictment identifies by name and position the twelve alleged GRU officers who “knowingly and intentionally conspired with each other, and with persons known and unknown to the Grand Jury (collectively the ‘Conspirators’), to gain unauthorized access (to ‘hack’) into the computers of US persons and entities involved in the 2016 US presidential election, steal documents from those computers, and stage releases of the stolen documents to interfere with the 2016 US presidential election.”

All twelve alleged GRU officers are described in detail, together with the cover mechanisms they reportedly used and the targets they pursued. But they are all in Russia and there is virtually no chance that they will be extradited to stand trial in Washington, which was certainly understood when the indictment was prepared. That means the “facts” as stated in the document will never be subjected to the normal judicial review process or discovery that takes place whenever someone is accused of a crime, which in turn means that information contained in the indictment will never be challenged.

The document itself also provides no information on how the Russian officers and their positions were identified, which suggests that it could have been a US hack or agent in place, either run by CIA or NSA, that came up with a list of those individuals connected to GRU cyber operations. That would be information involving sources and methods, codeword protected material beyond Top Secret.

If the GRU list is authentic, it would expose US ability to penetrate that organization, leading to Moscow tightening up security to the detriment of American intelligence. But it might alternatively be suggested that the drafters needed a group of plausible Russians and used a generic list provided by either CIA or NSA to come up with the culprits and then used those identities and the detailed information regarding them to provide credibility to their account. What they did not do, however, is provide the actual evidence connecting the individuals to the “hack/interference” or to connect the same to the Russian government. If the information in the indictment is completely accurate, which may not be the case, there is some suggestion that alleged Moscow linked proxies may have deliberately sought to undermine the campaign of Hillary Clinton to favor Bernie Sanders, but absolutely no evidence that they did anything to help Donald Trump.

Beyond what is or is not contained in the document itself, there is a clear misunderstanding regarding how a sophisticated intelligence organization, which certainly includes the GRU, operates. If there had been a large-scale Kremlin sanctioned plan to disrupt the US election, it would not be run by twelve identifiable GRU officers working with what appears to be only limited cover and resources. If the facts are correct, the activity might have been a routine probing, collecting and selective dissemination of information effort that all intelligence agencies engage in. The United States does so routinely in many countries, interfering in elections worldwide, far more than Russia with its limited resources, and even carrying out regime change.

If the Kremlin’s objective were truly to undermine American democracy, a task that is already being undertaken very ably by the GOP and Democrats, hundreds of officers would be involved, all working under deep cover and operating securely out of dispersed sites. And no one involved would be using computers connected to networks that could be penetrated to enable personal identification or discovery of the ultimate source of the activity. Everyone would be working in alias on stand-alone machines and the transmission of information would be done using cut-outs to break any chain of custody. A cut-out might consist of using thumb drives to transmit information from one computer to another, for example. There would be no sending or receiving of information by channels that could be identified by NSA or CIA and compromised.

So the idea that the United States government identified twelve culprits who were responsible for trying to overthrow American democracy is by any measure ludicrous, if indeed there was a major plan to disrupt the election at all. The indictment is little more than a political document seeking to undermine any effort by Donald Trump to establish rapprochement with Vladimir Putin. It will also serve to give fuel to the Democrats, who are still at a loss to understand what happened to Hillary Clinton, and Republican hawks like John McCain, Lindsay Graham, Jeff Flake and Ben Sasse who persist in seeking to refight the Cold War. As Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin said in their Helsinki press conference, the coming together of the leaders of the world’s two most powerful nuclear armed countries is too important an opportunity to let pass. Cold Warriors in Washington should take note.

 

 

Mortgage, Groupon and card debt: how the bottom half bolsters U.S. economy

July 23, 2018

by Jonathan Spicer

Reuters

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – By almost every measure, the U.S. economy is booming. But a look behind the headlines of roaring job growth and consumer spending reveals how the boom continues in large part by the poorer half of Americans fleecing their savings and piling up debt.

A Reuters analysis of U.S. household data shows that the bottom 60 percent of income-earners have accounted for most of the rise in spending over the past two years even as the their finances worsened – a break with a decades-old trend where the top 40 percent had primarily fueled consumption growth.

With borrowing costs on the rise, inflation picking up and the effects of President Donald Trump’s tax cuts set to wear off, a negative shock – a further rise in gasoline prices or a jump in the cost of goods due to tariffs – could push those most vulnerable over the edge, some economists warn.

That in turn could threaten the second-longest U.S. expansion given consumption makes up 70 percent of the U.S. economy’s output.

To be sure, the housing market is far from the dangerous leverage reached in 2007 before the crash. With unemployment near its lowest since 2000 and job openings at record highs, people may also choose to work even more hours or take extra jobs rather than cut back on spending if the money gets tight.

In fact, a growing majority of Americans says they are comfortable financially, according to the Federal Reserve’s report on the economic well-being of U.S. households published in May and based on a 2017 survey.

Yet by filtering data on household finances and wages by income brackets, the Reuters analysis reveals growing financial stress among lower-income households even as their contribution to consumption and the broad economy grows.

The data shows the rise in median expenditures has outpaced before-tax income for the lower 40 percent of earners in the five years to mid-2017 while the upper half has increased its financial cushion, deepening income disparities. (Graphic: tmsnrt.rs/2LdUMBa )

It is this recovery’s paradox.

A hot job market and other signs of economic health encourage rich and poor alike to spend more, but tepid wage growth for many middle-class and lower-income Americans means they need to dip into their savings and borrow more to do that.

As a result, over the past year signs of financial fragility have been multiplying, with credit card and auto loan delinquencies on the rise and savings plumbing their lowest since 2005.

Myna Whitney, 27, a certified medical assistant at Drexel University’s gastroenterology unit in Philadelphia, experienced that firsthand.

Three years ago, confident that a steady full-time job offered enough financial security, she took out loans to buy a Honda Odyssey and a $119,000 house, where she lives with her mother and aunt.

Since then she has learned that making $16.47 an hour – more than about 40 percent of U.S. workers – was not enough.

“I was dipping into my savings account every month to just make all of the payments.” Whitney says. With her savings now down to $900 from $10,000 she budgets down to toilet paper and electricity. Cable TV and the occasional $5 Groupon movie outings are her indulgences, she says, but laughs off a question whether she dines out.

“God forbid I get a ticket, or something breaks on the car. Then it’s just more to recover from.”

DRAINING SAVINGS

Stephen Gallagher, economist at Societe Generale, says stretched finances of those in the middle dimmed the economy’s otherwise positive outlook.

“They are taking on debt that they can’t repay. A drop in savings and rise in delinquencies means you can’t support the (overall) spending,” he said. An oil or trade shock could lead to “a rather dramatic scaling back of consumption,” he added.

Some economists say that without the $1.5 trillion in tax cuts enacted in January spending, which has grown by around 3 percent a year over the past few years, could already be stalling now.

In the past, rising incomes of the upper 40 percent of earners have driven most of the consumption growth, but since 2016 consumer spending has been primarily fueled by a run-down in savings, mainly by the bottom 60 percent of earners, according to Oxford Economics.

This reflects in part better access to credit for low-income borrowers late in the economic cycle.

Yet it is the first time in two decades that lower earners made a greater contribution to spending growth for two years in a row.

“It’s generally really hard for people to cut back on expenses, or on a certain lifestyle, especially when the context of the economy is actually really positive,” said Gregory Daco, Oxford’s chief U.S. economist. “It’s essentially a weak core that makes the back of the economy a bit more susceptible to strains and potentially to breaking.”

JOBS NOT RAISES

While the Fed expects the labor market to get even hotter this year and next, policymakers have been perplexed that wages do not reflect that.

With inflation factored in, average hourly earnings dropped by a penny in May from a year ago for 80 percent of the country’s private sector workers, including those in the vast healthcare, fast food and manufacturing industries, Bureau of Labor Statistics figures show.

“It stinks,” says Jennifer Delauder, 44, who runs a medical lab at Huttonsville Correctional Center in West Virginia. In seven years her hourly wage has risen by about $2 to $14.

She took on two part-time jobs to help pay rent, utilities and a student loan. But she still sometimes trims her weekly $15 grocery budget to make ends meet, or even gathers broken fans, car parts, and lanterns to sell as scrap metal. A $2,000 hospital bill early this year wiped out her savings.

Even so, Delauder, a grandmother, recently signed papers for a mortgage of up to $150,000 on a house. “I’m paying rent for a house. I might as well pay for a house that I own,” she said.

Hourly wages for lower- and middle-income workers rose just over 2 percent in the year to March 2017, compared with about 4 percent for those near the top and bottom, while spending jumped by roughly 8 percent.

That reflects both higher costs of essentials such as rent, prescription drugs and college tuition but also some increased discretionary spending, for example at restaurants.

Economists say one symptom of financial strain was last year’s spike in serious delinquencies on U.S. credit card debt, which many poorer households use as a stop-gap measure. The $815-billion market is not big enough to rattle Wall Street, but could be an early sign of stress that might spread to other debt as the Fed continues its gradual policy tightening.

More borrowers have also been falling behind on auto loans, which helped bring leverage on non-mortgage household debt to a record high in the first quarter of this year.

While painting a broadly positive picture, the Fed’s well-being survey also noted that one in four adults feared they could not cover an emergency $400 expense and one in five struggled with monthly billsThis month the central bank reported to Congress that rising delinquencies among riskier borrowers represented “pockets of stress.”

That many Americans lack any financial safety net remains a concern, New York Fed President John Williams told Reuters in an interview last month. “Even though the overall picture is pretty good, pretty solid, or strong,” he said, “this is a problem that continues to hang over half of our country.”

Reporting by Jonathan Spicer; Additional reporting by Ann Saphir in San Francisco and Howard Schneider in Washington; Editing by Tomasz Janowski

 

Martyrs to the Cause: Carter Page and Julian Assange

The Deep State is after them both

July 23, 2018

by Justin Raimondo

AntiWar

In an unprecedented move, the Justice Department has released the FISA application submitted by the FBI to spy on Carter Page, the rather hapless would-be advisor to the Trump campaign who has been smeared as a “Russian agent” – but has not been charged after almost two years.

We’ve never before even seen a FISA application, in which law enforcement agents explain to a judge why it is necessary for them to conduct surveillance on an American citizen, and so this is a special treat. The document that came out of this unique Freedom of Information Act request shows that the FBI had an ulterior motive in going after Page – and that they lied to the FISA court judge.

In order to get the judge to agree to the surveillance, the FBI had to establish a fairly convincing probable cause: at a minimum, agents had to identify multiple sources indicating that an act of espionage may have occurred or is about to occur imminently. This FISA application shows that the FBI had a single source: the unverified “dossier,” compiled by “former” MI6 agent Christopher Steele, bought and paid for by the Clinton campaign to dig up dirt on Trump. The other ostensible “sources” were news articles by journalists whom Steele had leaked to. There was a clear intent to deceive the judge who read this application.

This technique is a familiar one: remember how the neocons used to quote each other as “proof” that Saddam had “weapons of mass destruction”? It’s the old echo chamber trick, and every third-rate smear artist deploys it. The question arises: so is this how the FBI carries out its “investigations” into espionage?

This whole affair, and the shocking denouement, reminds me of the FBI investigation of … myself and our co-founder, Eric Garris. If you look at the initial memo proposing a “preliminary investigation” of the two of us, it contains an article by raving neocon Ronald Radosh that appeared in the Boston Globe accusing me of trying to create a “red-brown coalition” to oppose the Iraq war. It is full of the most imaginative smears, including a discussion of my alleged sexual proclivities, supposedly proving I’m an “agent of a foreign power” – just like Carter Page.

Apart from fag-baiting, the rest of the Radosh piece is simply a series of epithets – I’m a fascist, a Very Bad Person, etc. etc. Radosh doesn’t bother citing a single complete sentence of anything I’ve written or said. In short, the FBI included this worthless compendium of bile only in order to justify spying on me. But since when does an opinion piece by a clearly biased person serve as “evidence” of anything? Is this how the federal law enforcement authorities routinely guard the nation’s security?

I’m very much afraid that the answer is yes.

Carter Page is just a high profile victim of a widespread practice on the part of those supposedly assigned to guard the nation against espionage, saboteurs, and spies – they make it up as they go along. Since their goal is to conduct surveillance on everyone, they cast as wide a net as possible in hopes of “catching” a real villain. Yet the powerful tools at their disposal married to dubious methods enable the worst excesses – and that is certainly a fair description of what happened in the case of Carter Page. For it wasn’t Page they were really after: they simply used him to get to other members of the Trump campaign staff.

This isn’t mere incompetence: it’s sheer malevolence. This is what happens in police states.

Speaking of unmitigated evil — the Gnostics believed that Satan, not God, reigns in Heaven, and directs the ways of the world, and that certainly explains all too many recent events, especially the continued martyrdom of Julian Assange.

I won’t reiterate the many tortures Assange has had to endure due to his unique position as the greatest truth-teller of modern times. Suffice to say that his long – six years! – imprisonment in London’s Ecuadorian embassy is a sentence that was neither deserved nor was it legal. As far as we know, Assange has not been charged with any crime: contra journalistic malfeasance, he was never actually charged by the Swedish authorities for supposedly engaging in bad behavior with two women. He sought asylum in the embassy because the Swedes, always subservient to Washington, would have shipped him to the United States to stand trial for “espionage” – despite the fact that we don’t know if a grand jury has proffered charges.

Assange was granted sanctuary due to Rafael Correa, then the President of Ecuador: unfortunately, Correa’s successor – one Lenin Moreno – has caved to pressure from the US and Britain, and it looks like Assange is going to be handed over to the British imminently.

What happens next is anybody’s guess, but my own view is that there has indeed been a grand jury secretly deliberating his case, and charges will be made public: which means Assange will be sent to America, and to an uncertain fate.

Uncertain due to the Supreme Court decision in the Pentagon Papers case, in which the Supremes ruled that the First Amendment protects journalists who report facts that may embarrass or otherwise inconvenience the government.

In other circumstances, and in an earlier era, his fate would not be uncertain, it would be sealed. After all, WikiLeaks has revealed more US government secrets than any single individual or state adversary in history. One after another the revelations came – a US helicopter gunship gunning down Iraqi civilians, the entire secret diplomatic history of the US, complete with original documents and references, the methodology of hi-tech US surveillance on ordinary Americans, and the list goes on and on. Assange is, in short, the greatest journalist of our time – and so naturally the rest of the profession hates his guts, and is calling for his head.

The reasons for this should be clear enough: the Russia-gate mythology, a matter of faith for the Fourth Estate, characterizes Assange as one of its chief demons. He is, in their fake-expert phraseology, a Russian “asset,” Putin’s puppet, who deprived Hillary Clinton of her rightful due and “stole” the 2016 presidential election on behalf of Donald Trump.

There is no evidence for this, although the “mainstream” media and their CIA/FBI handlers carry on as if it’s a settled matter. It isn’t. We have no idea where the DNC files came from, although we do know that John Podesta, Hillary’s top aide, had his email account penetrated because his password was “password.” What anyone who knows anything about attribution of hacking incidents can tell you is that Trump is right: it could have been the Russians, just as it could have been anyone. Assange has strongly hinted that it was an inside job. My own view – no, I can’t prove it — is that it was probably a disaffected Bernie-crat who kept his or her sympathies secret and acted when he or she saw what was going on.

Yet why, we have to ask, is this relevant? The question of whodunit is surely interesting in itself, but ultimately it doesn’t matter: what mattered then and matters now is that the material uncovered is true. The WikiLeaks document dump exposed the fact that the Democratic primary was rigged from the very beginning. Bernie Sanders never had a chance, due to the machinations of the Democratic National Committee in cahoots with the Clinton campaign. So when the media refers to “stolen emails,” translate that into “rigged primary” and you get an accurate picture of the reality.

There will be considerable pressure on President Trump from his base to pardon Assange if charges are made public and he’s dragged to the US by his British captors. I don’t see how he can pull that one off, politically: I have no doubt that the top leadership of the CIA, the FBI, and various other agencies would collectively resign in protest.

From my perspective, that would be a good thing: it’s one way to get rid of the Deep State, or at least pry the worst ones from the levers of power. Then again, I’m not the President of the United States, Donald Trump is, and I can’t imagine him deliberately provoking an unbelievable uproar and taking the slings and arrows that would come his way if he dared to do it.

On the other hand, I can imagine it. Can’t you?

This is the really interesting thing about such a turn of events: predicting who will be howling for Assange’s blood and who will be demanding that he be set free. It’s the same division that’s occurring over the Russia-gate hoax: the believers (and I mean that in the religious sense) will form a mob straight out of The Lottery. The few skeptics – Tucker Carlson, Glenn Greenwald, a scattering of honest leftists, and most of us libertarians (although who knows if the Kochs will let Reason magazine come out for Assange) – will be his only defenders.

As long as WikiLeaks was exposing the dark underside of the Bush administration’s murderous foreign policy, our virtue-signaling “liberals” were all for it: Assange was a hero in their eyes. Just as soon as Obama took office, however, his left-wing fan club largely turned their backs on him. And during the 2016 presidential election they went after him with a vengeance: Hillary herself wondered aloud if the US could drone strike him. She was only half-joking.

As in the case of war and peace, so in this very important civil liberties case, the traditional positions of the left and the right are transposed, with the “left” arguing for the continued imprisonment of the man they used to lionize, and the “right” (populist version) rising to defend the civil liberties of journalists everywhere. This division won’t be clean, however: a few liberals (see above) will join with Trump’s base to campaign for Assange’s freedom, and I think we’ll even see some alleged libertarians go A.W.O.L. in this fight. Trump Derangement Syndrome has some pretty ugly symptoms.

Assange, who is very sympathetic to libertarianism, has been swimming against the tide for all of his public life. To say he hasn’t taken the easy way out is a bit of an understatement. Instead of mouthing the expected leftist bromides, and exhibiting the well-known prejudices of the species, Assange has gored everyone’s ox without fear or favor. As a result, his enemies are legion – a situation I can personally sympathize with.

The aura of inevitable doom that has permeated the air around Assange has finally descended on him, and may very well devour him in the end. We can’t let him go down without a fight. President Trump – who hailed WikiLeaks during the campaign! – is his only hope. Yes, yes, I know – that’s not exactly reassuring. But it’s all we have: it’s all Assange has, at this point.

Call the White House: (202) 456-1111. If Assange is being held by the British, bombard the Brits with your protests – call their Washington embassy and give them holy hell. Don’t let this horrific injustice pass in silence: make noise. Speak up. Fight back.

 

The Establishment

July 23, 2018

by Christian Jürs

What is meant by the ‘Establishment’ or ‘The Deep State’ are groups of individuals and organizations who exert a powerful influence over the American political scene.They have economic and social needs that they wish fulfilled and to this end, use their economic and political power to force the government to do their bidding.

Here is a list that was begun in the 1970s and has been kept up to date to the present time. Few, if any, of these people are known to the general public and the subjects prefer to keep it that way.

They are,in essence, the puppet masters of America. And if they were all suddently lifted up to Heaven to sup with Jesus, believe it, within ten years, the machinery would be back in force, whispering, having private meetings in someone’s library on the Hamptons, discussing the whys and wherefores with government enablers and rubbing their hands in satisfaction when a goal is achieved, be it a political assassination in a foreign country, a successful war or a change of an unwanted and interfering foreign government.

Congress and the Presidency are at their beck and call, eager for support and, most important, bribe money.

Name State Occupation Employer Industry Sector Jack A. Abramoff DC Lobbyist Cassidy & Associates Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Duane W. Acklie NE Chair Crete Carrier Corp. Transportation Trucking W. Andrew Adams TN President National Healthcare Corp. Health Nursing Homes/Home Care Peter W. Adams OH Executive Alliance Capital Management Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Sheldon Adelson NV Chair Las Vegas Sands, Inc. Miscellaneous Business Entertainment Richard B. Ainsworth OH Investment Adviser Self-Employed Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Stephen Albano MA Founder, President & CEO Offtech, Inc. Miscellaneous Business Misc. Manufacturing & Distributing David G. Albert MD Lobbyist Park Strategies Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Anthony J. Alexander OH President FirstEnergy Corp. Energy & Natural Resources Electric Utilities Thomas A. Allegretti MD President American Waterways Operators Transportation Marine Jay Allen AR Sr. Vice President Corporate Affairs Wal-Mart Miscellaneous Business Retail Sales Joe B. Allen III TX Lobbyist Allen Boone Humphries Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Ms. Ruth Collins Sharp Altshuler TX Investor, philanthropist Retired Unknown Wealthy Private Investor Teresa Amend TX Executive WorkplaceUSA Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Jeffrey S. Amling MD Managing Partner of Global Media Deutsche Bank Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Lee S. Anderson TX President Retina Consultants PA Health Health Professionals A. Paul Anderson FL Commissioner U.S. Federal Maritime Commission Other Civil Servants/Public Officials Cathy Anderson KY Spouse of President Sun Windows, Inc. Miscellaneous Business Misc. Manufacturing & Distributing Mark Andrews TX President Great Spirits Co. Miscellaneous Business Food & Beverage Mr. Scott Andrews III VA Co-founder, Managing Partner Winston Partners Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Hushang Ansary TX Chair Parman Capital Group Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Anthony G. Antone MI Vice President of Development Kojaian Companies Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate William A. Antonoplos OH Lobbyist Antonoplos & Associates Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Mr. George Leon Argyros CA Ambassador to Spain U.S. Government Other Civil Servants/Public Officials Victor Arias Jr. TX Executive consultant Spencer Stuart Miscellaneous Business Business Support Services J. Gaylord Armstrong TX Lobbyist McGinnis Lochridge & Kilgore Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Katharine Armstrong TX Owner Katharine Armstrong, Inc. Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Mr. & Mrs. Tobin Armstrong TX Owner Armstrong Ranch Agriculture Livestock & Poultry Roland & Dawn E. Arnall CA Chair Ameriquest Capital Corp. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Jorge L. Arrizurieta FL Executive Director FTAA, Inc. Miscellaneous Business Business Boosters Alexander Arshinkoff OH Partner Arshinkoff & Associates Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Robert H. Asher IL Retired President Chilo Manufacturing Miscellaneous Business Misc. Manufacturing & Distributing Robert Asher PA Chair Ashers Candies Miscellaneous Business Food & Beverage Edward G. Atsinger III CA CEO & President Salem Communications Communications & Electronics Media & Media Entertainment Alfred S. Austin FL President Austin Companies Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Jeanie Austin FL President Jeanie Austin and Associates Miscellaneous Business Business Support Services John Avila Jr. TX President Thomas S. Byrne Inc. Construction Other Contractors Catherine Todd Bailey KY Spouse of Managing Director Chrysalis Ventures Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Irving W. Bailey II KY Managing Director Chrysalis Ventures Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment James A. Baker IV DC Attorney Baker Botts Lawyers & Lobbyists Lawyers/Law Firms Jeffrey Ballabon NY Vice President of Publicity Primedia Communications & Electronics Media & Media Entertainment Jeffrey C. Barbakow CA Ousted CEO & Chair Tenet Healthcare Health Hospitals/HMOs/Clinics Mr. Haley Barbour MS Governor State of Mississippi Other Civil Servants/Public Officials H. Doug Barclay NY Attorney Hiscock & Barclay Lawyers & Lobbyists Lawyers/Law Firms Mr. & Mrs. Robert Barnes TX Owner Bob Barnes Companies Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Gregory C. Barnes TX Lobbyist Self-employed Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists E. William Barnett TX Senior Counsel Baker Botts Lawyers & Lobbyists Lawyers/Law Firms John W. Barnhill Jr. TX Chair Bank of Brenham Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Sam Barshop TX Chair Barshop & Oles Co. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Roger V. Barth DC Attorney Self-employed Lawyers & Lobbyists Lawyers/Law Firms Joe L. Barton TX Representative U.S. Congress Other Civil Servants/Public Officials Roy Howard Baskin III TX Attorney Jackson Walker Lawyers & Lobbyists Lawyers/Law Firms Mr. & Mrs. Lee Bass TX President Bass Family Enterprises Energy & Natural Resources Oil & Gas David Q. Bates TX Senior Advisor Public Strategies, Inc. Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Lawrence E. Bathgate II NJ Attorney Bathgate Wegener & Wolf Lawyers & Lobbyists Lawyers/Law Firms Frank E. Baxter CA Chair & CEO Jefferies & Co. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Mr. George S. Bayoud Jr. TX Managing Partner Texas, Ltd. Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Henry C. Beck III TX Chair Beck Group Construction Other Contractors Mr. & Mrs. Louis A. Beecherl Jr. TX Owner Beecherl Holdings Energy & Natural Resources Oil & Gas J. Carter Beese DC President Riggs Capital Partners Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Juan Carlos Benitez VA Senior Vice President Cassidy & Associates Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Dee Dee Benkie IN National Chair Young Republicans Ideological Republican/Conservative Robert T. Bennett OH Chair Republican Party of Ohio Ideological Republican/Conservative Bruce D. Benson CO Chair & President Benson Mineral Group Energy & Natural Resources Oil & Gas Mr. & Mrs. Wayne & Lea Berman DC Owner Berman Enterprises, Inc. Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Mr. Dennis R. Berman TX CEO & President Denitech Corp. Miscellaneous Business Misc. Services Tom Bernstein NY President Chelsea Piers Management Miscellaneous Business Entertainment Ron Beshear OH Managing Partner Beshear General Agency Northwestern Mutual Life Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Insurance Randy Best TX Chair Voyager Expanded Learning Miscellaneous Business Misc. Services Mr. & Mrs. Roland W. Betts NY Chair Chelsea Piers Management Miscellaneous Business Entertainment Harold Beznos MI CEO Beztak Co’s Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Bruce L. Bialosky CA Accountant Self-Employed Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Accountants Mr. Eric Bing TX Ex-Vice President of Corporate Development Works.com Communications & Electronics Computers John Binkley AK Owner Riverboat Discovery Miscellaneous Business Entertainment Carole L. Bionda CA Vice President Nova Group, Inc. Construction Construction Services Tom Bivins TX Owner Corsino Cattle Co. Agriculture Livestock & Poultry Hon. Teel Bivins TX Ambassador to Sweden U.S. Government Other Civil Servants/Public Officials Charlie & Judy Black VA Lobbyists BKSH & Associates; Brownstein Hyatt & Far Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Bruce A. 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Boone TX Co-Founder & Attorney Haynes & Boone Lawyers & Lobbyists Lawyers/Law Firms Mollly Bordonaro OR Principal Gallatin Group Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Rudy Boschwitz MN Chair Home Valu Miscellaneous Business Misc. Services Ms. Katherine E. Boyd CA President Katherine Boyd Interior Decoration Miscellaneous Business Misc. Services James E. Bradley TX President Capital Excavation Contractor Construction Heavy Construction Darlene Bramon ID Vice Chair Idaho Housing & Finance Assoc. Other Civil Servants/Public Officials Charles L. Branch Jr. MD NC Neurosurgeon Self-employed Health Health Professionals Mr. & Mrs. Daniel H. Branch TX State Representative State of Texas Other Civil Servants/Public Officials Theldon R. Branch III TX President & CEO Branch Companies Miscellaneous Business Food & Beverage Sanford P. Brass TX President Gulf Coast Asphalt Co. Construction Building Materials & Equiptment Mr. & Mrs. Stephen & Kimmy F. Brauer MO Chair, CEO Hunter Engineering Miscellaneous Business Misc. Manufacturing & Distributing David L. Brennan OH Chair Brennan Industrial Group Miscellaneous Business Misc. Manufacturing & Distributing Tim Bridgewater UT Managing Director Interlink Capital Strategies Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Tucker Bridwell TX President Mansefeldt Investment Corp. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Mrs. Nancy Goodman Brinker TX Spouse of Retied Chair Brinker International Miscellaneous Business Food & Beverage William O. Brisben OH CEO W.O. Brisben Companies Construction Home Builders Elliott B. Broidy CA Owner Elliott Capital Management Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Mr. & Mrs. Dick Brooks TX Retired Chair, CEO & President Central & South West Corp. Energy & Natural Resources Electric Utilities Richard E. Brophy TX Attorney Naman Howell Smith & Lee Lawyers & Lobbyists Lawyers/Law Firms Leslie J. 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Bruce Bugg Jr. TX Chair & CEO Argyle Partners, Ltd. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Herbert C. Buie TX CEO Tyler Packing Corp. Agriculture Livestock & Poultry Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Bullin TX President Bryan Research & Engineering Communications & Electronics Computers Steven A. Burd CA President, Chair & CEO Safeway, Inc. Miscellaneous Business Food & Beverage Stephen B. Burke PA Executive Vice President Comcast Corp. Communications & Electronics Media & Media Entertainment Hon. Christopher B. Burnham CT Chief Financial Officer U.S. State Deparment Other Civil Servants/Public Officials Edward Burr FL CEO Landmar Group LLC Construction Home Builders William G. Burris NJ Executive Care One Health Nursing Homes/Home Care Robert N. Burt IL Retired Chair & CEO FMC Corp. Energy & Natural Resources Chemical & Related Manufacturing August Busch III MO Chair & President Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc. Miscellaneous Business Food & Beverage Neil Bush TX CEO Ignite! Inc. Miscellaneous Business Misc. Services Mr. William H. T. ‘Bucky’ Bush MO Chair Bush-O’Donnell Co. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Mr. Jonathan Bush CT CEO & President Riggs Investment Management Co. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Marvin Pierce Bush VA Co-Founder Winston Partners Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Bill Butler KY President & CEO Corporex Companies Construction Other Contractors Roger P. Byrne TX Dentist Self-employed Health Health Professionals Anna Cablik GA President & CEO Anasteel Construction Building Materials & Equiptment Cesar B. Cabrera PR President Rocca Development Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate James P. Cain NC Lobbyist Kilpatrick Stockton Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Raymond P. Caldiero CT Chair Sequoia Group Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Mr. & Mrs. Douglas B. Campbell TX Executive Highway Pavement Specialties Construction Heavy Construction Mr. Joseph C. Canizaro LA CEO Columbus Properties Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate John A. Canning IL Chair & CEO Madison Dearborn Partners Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Stephen G. Canton MD Retired CEO Teleglobe Buisness Solutions Communications & Electronics Telecommunications Wendy Cantor Hales CA Executive Director New Majority Ideological Republican/Conservative Alberto R. Cardenas FL Lobbyist Tew Cardenas Rebak Kellogg et al. Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists F. Lewis Carlisle MD Retired stockbroker MC Carlisle, LCC Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment David Carmen DC President & CEO Carmen Group Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Alvin “Pete” R. Carpenter FL Retired Vice Chair CSX Transportation Transportation Railroad Claiborne Carrington TX President C. Clarrington and Co. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate John D. Carswell GA insurance Marsh USA, Inc. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Insurance Joey Carter TX Chair & CEO Home Interiors & Gifts Miscellaneous Business Retail Sales Richard J. Caruso CA President & CEO Caruso Affiliated Holdings Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Robert Castellini OH President & CEO Castellini Co. Miscellaneous Business Food & Beverage Michael Castine CT President Dover Management, LLC Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Mr. & Mrs. Charles M. Cawley DE Chair, CEO & President MBNA Corp. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment James E. Cayne NY Chair & CEO Bear Stearns & Co. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Mr. & Mrs. G.W. “Bill” Ceverha TX Lobbyist Self-employed Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists John T. Chain Jr. TX Chair Thomas Group, Inc. Miscellaneous Business Business Support Services Wen Pin Chang CA President Trade Union International Miscellaneous Business Misc. 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Cobb Jr. FL CEO Cobb Partners Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Thad Cochran MS U.S. Senator U.S. Government Other Civil Servants/Public Officials Robert Edward Coker FL Senior Vice President Public Affairs U.S. Sugar Corp. Agriculture Crop Production & Basic Processing Ray Cole AL Vice President Van Scoyoc Associates Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Norman Coleman MN Senator U.S. Congress Other Civil Servants/Public Officials Leonard S. Coleman Jr. NJ Senior Advisor Major League Baseball Miscellaneous Business Entertainment Mr. Herbert F. Collins MA Chair Boston Capital Partners Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Mr. Glenn Collins TX Founder Crystion Communications & Electronics Computers Mr. John D. Collins FL President Gulf Building Corp. Construction Other Contractors Cesar V. Conda VA Partner D.C. Navigators LLC Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Mr. & Mrs. Peter R. Coneway TX Limited Partner Goldman Sachs & Co. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Robert J. Congel NY Managing Partner Pyramid Companies Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate James Michael Connolly MA President James Michael Connolly Associates Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists John Connors WA Chief Financial Officer Microsoft Communications & Electronics Computers Natale “Nat” G. Conti NJ President Conti Construction Construction Other Contractors Lou Cook UKN   Unknown Unknown Other Unknown Dan W. Cook III TX Senior Advisor MHT Partners Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Fred E. Cooper GA Chair Cooper Capital Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Mr. Louis Cordia VA President Cordia Compaines Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Bob Corker TN President Corker Group, Inc. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Douglas E. Corn OH Agent Northwestern Mutual Life Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Insurance Alfred W. Cortese Jr. DC Lobbyist Cortese, PLLC Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists James Courter NJ CEO IDT Corp. Communications & Electronics Telecommunications Will A. Courtney, Sr. TX Owner Courtney & Courtney Properties Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Robert Cowles GA Physician Self-Employed Health Health Professionals Joe B. Cox FL Attorney Cox & Nici Lawyers & Lobbyists Lawyers/Law Firms Mr. & Mrs. Tom Craddick TX House Speaker State of Texas Other Civil Servants/Public Officials Mr. & Mrs. Nathan E. Crain TX President ShopOnline Communications & Electronics Computers Mr. & Mrs. Ben Crenshaw TX President Crenshaw Golf Miscellaneous Business Entertainment Richard T. Crotty FL Chair Orange County Other Civil Servants/Public Officials Ted & Heidi Cruz TX Solicitor General State of Texas Other Civil Servants/Public Officials Les T. Csorba TX Partner Heidrick & Struggles Miscellaneous Business Business Support Services James B. Culbertson NC Founder & President Financial Computing, Inc. Communications & Electronics Computers Husein A. Cumber FL Assistant Vice President Public Affairs Florida East Coast Industries Transportation Railroad Bill Cunningham TX President & CEO Bill Cunningham Insurance, Inc. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Insurance Sen. Alfonse D’Amato NY Partner Park Strategies Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists John C. Danforth MO Attorney Bryan Cave Lawyers & Lobbyists Lawyers/Law Firms William J. Danhof MI Attorney Miller Canfield Paddock & Stone Lawyers & Lobbyists Lawyers/Law Firms George A.L. David CT CEO & Chair United Technologies Corp. Transportation Air Peter Davidson VA Senior vice president Verizon Communications & Electronics Telecommunications Richard K. Davidson NE Chair, CEO & President Union Pacific Corp. Transportation Railroad Robert G. Davis TX Chair & CEO USAA Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Insurance John F. Davis III TX Chair & CEO Pegasus Systems Inc Communications & Electronics Computers Mr. Robert Addison Day Jr. NY Chair & CEO Trust Co. of the West Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Francois de Saint Phalle NY U.S. Equities Co-head Warburg Dillon Read Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Dwight W. Decker CA Chair & CEO Conexant Systems, Inc. Communications & Electronics Computers Fred Decosimo TN Senior Partner Joseph Decosimo & Co. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Accountants Mr. & Mrs. Robert H. Dedman Jr. TX Chair & CEO Club Corp International Miscellaneous Business Entertainment John Delaney MD Attorney Linowes & Blocher Lawyers & Lobbyists Lawyers/Law Firms Randolph L. DeLay TX President DeLay Group Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Hector Delgado TX Attorney Delgado Acosta & Braden Lawyers & Lobbyists Lawyers/Law Firms Robert M. Devlin TX Ex-Chair & Ex-CEO American General Financial Corp. 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Dorkey III NY Managing Partner NY Office Torys, LLP Lawyers & Lobbyists Lawyers/Law Firms Lacey Neuhaus Dorn TX Art Dealer Self-employed Miscellaneous Business Entertainment Thomas C. Dorr IA Undersecretary for Rural Development U.S. Department of Agriculture Other Civil Servants/Public Officials John E. Drury TX Ex-Chair & CEO Waste Management, Inc. Energy & Natural Resources Waste Management Craig J. Duchossois IL CEO Duchossois Industries, Inc. Miscellaneous Business Misc. Manufacturing & Distributing Emily Duda FL Owner A. Duda & Sons Agriculture Crop Production & Basic Processing Frank Dulcich WA President & CEO Pacific Seafood Miscellaneous Business Food & Beverage Robert M. Duncan KY CEO Inez Deposit Bank Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Archie W. Dunham TX Chair ConocoPhillips Energy & Natural Resources Oil & Gas Mr. Alan M. Dunn VA Attorney Stewart & Stewart Lawyers & Lobbyists Lawyers/Law Firms Jennifer Dunn WA Representative U.S. Congress Other Civil Servants/Public Officials Charles ‘Buzz’ E. DuPont Jr. CA President Charles DuPont Co. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Mr. Patrick J. Durkin CT Managing Director Credit Suisse First Boston Corp. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment James Dwyer NJ CEO Dwyer Real Estate Equities International Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Dale Dykema CA Chair & CEO TD Service Financial Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment James C. Edenfield GA Co-founder American Software Communications & Electronics Computers Christopher F. Egan MA Founder & President Carruth Capital, LLC Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Michael J. Egan MA Founder & Managing Member Carruth Management, LLC Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Richard J. Egan MA Chair Emeritus EMC Corp. Communications & Electronics Computers Lewis Eisenberg NJ CEO Granite Capital International Group Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Kenneth M. Endelson FL Chair Kenco Communities Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Irl Engelhardt MO CEO & Chair Peabody Energy Corp. Energy & Natural Resources Mining Gov. John Engler VA President State & Local Government Business EDS Communications & Electronics Computers Gregg Engles TX Chair & CEO Suiza Foods Corp. Miscellaneous Business Food & Beverage Mr. Roger A. Enrico CT Ex-Chairman & Ex-CEO PepsiCo Miscellaneous Business Food & Beverage Hon. Donald Burnham Ensenat LA Chief of Protocol U.S. State Deparment Other Civil Servants/Public Officials John Ensign NV U.S. Senator U.S. Government Other Civil Servants/Public Officials Sheldon R. Erikson TX Chair, CEO & President Cooper Cameron Corp Energy & Natural Resources Oil & Gas Melvyn J. Estrin MD Chair & CEO University Research Co., LLC Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment John Etchart MT Partner Gallatin Group Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Dwight H. Evans GA Executive Vice President Southern Company Energy & Natural Resources Electric Utilities Mr. Donald L. Evans TX Secretary of Commerce U.S. Government Other Civil Servants/Public Officials Thomas Everist SD President L.G. Everist Co. Construction Construction Services Charles “Tre” W. Evers III FL President Consensus Communications Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Itchko Ezratti FL President G.L. Homes of Florida Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Alan B. Fabian MD COO Southwest Medical Center Health Hospitals/HMOs/Clinics Mallory Factor NY Founder & President Mallory Factor, Inc. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Elizabeth Fago FL Chair Home Quality Management Health Nursing Homes/Home Care J. Nelson Fairbanks FL Retired President & CEO U.S. Sugar Corp. Agriculture Crop Production & Basic Processing Jose ‘Pepe’ Fanjul FL President, Vice Chair & COO Florida Crystals Corp. Agriculture Crop Production & Basic Processing P. Robert Fannin AZ Lobbyist Steptoe & Johnson Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Todd S. Farha FL Chair & CEO WellCare Health Plans, Inc. Health Hospitals/HMOs/Clinics Richard T. Farmer OH Chair & Founder Cintas Corporation Miscellaneous Business Misc. Manufacturing & Distributing Robert Fee NY President & COO Turner Corp. Construction Other Contractors Alan Feld TX Attorney Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld Lawyers & Lobbyists Lawyers/Law Firms Hon. Thomas H. Fetzer NY Managing Director U.S. Tennis Association First Serve program Miscellaneous Business Entertainment Richard Fink VA Executive Vice President Koch Industries Energy & Natural Resources Oil & Gas James C. Finkle NJ President CB Finkle Jr. Co. Transportation Trucking Julie Hamm Finley DC Republican activist Self-employed Ideological Republican/Conservative Thomas Martin Fiorentino Jr. FL Owner Fiorentino & Associates Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Mr. David Fisher IA Chair & President Onthank Company Miscellaneous Business Misc. Manufacturing & Distributing J. Stuart Fitts TX Lobbyist Dutko Group Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Peter Fitzgerald IL Senator U.S. Congress Other Civil Servants/Public Officials David M. Flaum NY President Flaum Management Co. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate I.D. “Nash” Flores III TX Partner Ceres Capital Partners Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Dr. C. Edward Floyd SC Physician Floyd Medical Associates Health Health Professionals Kevin F. Flynn IL CEO Emerald Ventures Miscellaneous Business Entertainment Mr. & Mrs. William P. Foley II CA Chair & CEO Fidelity Title Co. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Mr. Thomas C. Foley CT Private Sector Development Director Iraq Coalition Provisional Authority Other Civil Servants/Public Officials Gene Fondren TX President Texas Auto Dealers Association Transportation Automotive Matt Fong CA President Strategic Advisory Group Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Richard Fore DC Owner Fore Property Co. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Douglas Forrester NJ President Benecard Services Inc. Miscellaneous Business Misc. Services Edwin G. Foulke Jr. SC Attorney Jackson Lewis, LLP Lawyers & Lobbyists Lawyers/Law Firms Jose Angel Fourquet NY U.S. Executive Director Inter-American Development Bank Other Civil Servants/Public Officials Tillie K. Fowler DC Lobbyist Holland & Knight Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Frank E. Fowler TN Art Consultant Self-employed Miscellaneous Business Entertainment Mr. & Mrs. Sam Fox MO Chair & CEO Harbour Group Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Jeffrey Fox MO President & COO Harbour Group Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Gregory A. Fox MO Group President Harbour Group Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment W. Heywood Fralin VA CEO Medical Facilities of America Health Nursing Homes/Home Care Charles Francis DC Partner DCI Group Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Mr. & Mrs. James B. Francis Jr. TX President Francis Enterprises, Inc. Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Stephen E. Frank CA Chair, CEO & President Southern California Edison Energy & Natural Resources Electric Utilities Hon. Barbara Hackman Franklin CT President & CEO Barbara Franklin Enterprises Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Mr. Bradford M. Freeman CA General Partner Freeman Spogli & Co. 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Garcia FL CEO Sterling Financial Investment Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Charles & Frank Gargano NY Empire State Development Corp. Chair State of New York Other Civil Servants/Public Officials Bruce S. Gelb NY Retired Vice Chair Bristol-Myers Squibb Health Pharmaceuticals/Health Products Rich L. Gelfond NY Co-CEO IMAX Corp Communications & Electronics Media & Media Entertainment Kevin Gentry VA Vice President Strategic Development Koch Charitable Foundation Energy & Natural Resources Oil & Gas Jack N. Gerard DC President National Mining Association Energy & Natural Resources Mining Sander Gerber NY Executive Balfour Asset Management Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Yousif B. Ghafari MI Chair Ghafari Cos Construction Construction Services Ronald Gidwitz IL Partner GCG Partners Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Joseph B. & Alma Gildenhorn DC Owner JBG Companies Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate John T. Gill TX Orthopedic Surgeon Self-employed Health Health Professionals George R. Gilmore NJ Attorney Gilmore & Monahan Lawyers & Lobbyists Lawyers/Law Firms Tony Gioia NY Ambassador to Malta U.S. Government Other Civil Servants/Public Officials David F. Girard-diCarlo PA CEO Blank Rome Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Charles L. Glazer CT President C.L. Glazer Co., Inc. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Christopher K. Gleason PA President Gleason Group Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Insurance Mr. & Mrs. D. Stephen Goddard Jr. TX Ex-Managing Partner Arthur Andersen Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Accountants Ronald J. Goldman TX President Ronnie’s Miscellaneous Business Food & Beverage Stephen Goldsmith IN Senior Vice President Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. Communications & Electronics Computers Leslie A. Goodman CA Senior Vice President of Strategic Communications Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Miscellaneous Business Entertainment Roy Goodman NY State Senator State of New York Other Civil Servants/Public Officials Steven Gordon DC President Steve Gordon & Associates Lawyers & Lobbyists Political Campaign Professionals Sen. William Gormley NJ State Senator State of New Jersey Other Civil Servants/Public Officials Michael Govan VA Lobbyist Legacy Group Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Catherine A. Govan MI CEO & President Dickerson Govan Management, Inc. Lawyers & Lobbyists Political Campaign Professionals Robert E. Grady CA Managing Director, Carlyle Venture Partners Carlyle Group Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Robert T. Grand IN Lobbyist Barnes & Thornburg Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Joseph J. Grano NY Chair & CEO UBS Wealth Management USA Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Bill Graves DC President & CEO American Trucking Association Transportation Trucking Fred L. Green III SC Vice Chair Synovus Financial Corp. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Maurice ‘Hank’ R. Greenberg NY Chair & CEO American International Group Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Insurance Lanny Griffith DC Chief Operating Officer Barbour Griffith & Rogers Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Charles L. Grizzle DC President & Chair Grizzle Co. Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists James Grodnick AL Real Estate Broker Mitchell Brothers, Inc. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate G. Michael Gruber TX Attorney Godwin Gruber Lawyers & Lobbyists Lawyers/Law Firms John R. Guarino UKN Retired green grocer Retired Miscellaneous Business Food & Beverage R. David Guerra TX President International Bank of Commerce Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Stephen L. Guillard MA CEO Harborside Healthcare Health Nursing Homes/Home Care Mark A. Guzzetta FL President Guzzetta Corp. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Michael R. Haas TX Senior Sales Manager Chicago Title Insurance Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Rolf Haberecht TX Chair & CEO VLSI Packaging Corp. Communications & Electronics Computers Craig Haffner CA President Greystone Communications, Inc. Communications & Electronics Media & Media Entertainment Adele Hall KS Homemaker Hallmark Cards Communications & Electronics Media & Media Entertainment Fred Jones Hall OK Chair, CEO & President Fred Jones Companies, Inc. Transportation Automotive Jon D. Hammes WI Retired President Hammes & Co. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Tim Hammonds DC CEO & President Food Marketing Institute Miscellaneous Business Food & Beverage Kent R. Hance TX Lobbyist Hance Scarborough Wright Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists James H. Hance Jr. NC Vice Chair Bank of America Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Steve Hanks VA President & CEO Washington Group International Construction Heavy Construction David Hanna CA Chair Hanna Capital Management, Inc. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Mr. Jon F. Hanson NJ Chair & Founder Hampshire Management Co. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Samuel A. Hardage CA Chair Woodfin Suite Hotels Miscellaneous Business Entertainment John K. Harkins TX Business Development Manager Bosch Telecom, Inc. Communications & Electronics Telecommunications James “Buck” Harless WV Owner International Industries, Inc. Energy & Natural Resources Mining David Hart FL Finance Director WellCare Health Plans, Inc. Health Hospitals/HMOs/Clinics Bill G. Hartley TX Chair & CEO Southside Bancshares, Inc. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Beth Halteman Harwell TN State Representative State of Tennessee Other Civil Servants/Public Officials Malik M. Hasan MD CO Ex-Chair, CEO Foundation Health Systems Health Hospitals/HMOs/Clinics Hamid Hashimi FL President & CEO Muvico Theaters Communications & Electronics Media & Media Entertainment James A. Haslam II TN Chair & Founder Pilot Corp. Energy & Natural Resources Oil & Gas Mr. & Mrs. James A. Haslam III TN CEO Pilot Corp. Energy & Natural Resources Oil & Gas J. Dennis Hastert IL Speaker of the House U.S. Government Other Civil Servants/Public Officials Dr. Brack G. Hattler PA Surgeon University of Pittsburgh Health Health Professionals Ellsworth G. Havens NJ Vice President Corporate Development Englewood Hospital Health Hospitals/HMOs/Clinics Joyce A. Haver AZ Managing Partner Joyce A. Haver & Associates Communications & Electronics Advertising Albon O. Head Jr. TX Attorney Jackson Walker Lawyers & Lobbyists Lawyers/Law Firms Mr. Richard Heath TX Ex-CEO & Ex-President BeautiControl Cosmetics Miscellaneous Business Misc. Manufacturing & Distributing David V. Hedley NJ Retired Managing Director Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Gary Heiman OH President & CEO Standard Textile Co. Miscellaneous Business Misc. Manufacturing & Distributing Sandra Heimann OH Vice President American Financial Group Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Insurance Jeffrey M. Heller TX President & COO EDS Communications & Electronics Computers Miriam Hellreich HI President Speech-Language Pathology Associates Health Health Professionals Raymond C. Hemmig TX CEO Retail & Restaurant Growth Capital Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment John M. Hennessy NY Retired Chair Credit Suisse First Boston Corp. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Hans H. Hertell PR Ambassador to Dominican Republic U.S. Government Other Civil Servants/Public Officials Mr. & Mrs. R. Steven Hicks TX Chair Capstar Partners, LLC Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Thomas O. Hicks TX Chair & CEO Hicks Muse Tate & Furst Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Michael R. Hightower FL Vice President Government Relations Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Florida Health Hospitals/HMOs/Clinics J. French Hill AR CEO Delta Trust & Banking Co. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Van Hilleary TN Lobbyist Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Elsie H. Hillman PA Owner Rock Hill Ventures Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Roderick & Carla Hills DC Chair Hills Enterprises, Ltd. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Donald P. Hinson FL CEO & President Hutson Land Co. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Ben & Vicki Hinson GA President Mid Georgia Ambulance Health Pharmaceuticals/Health Products Mr. & Mrs. J. Roger Hirl TX Retired President & CEO Occidental Chemical Co Energy & Natural Resources Chemical & Related Manufacturing Robert B. Hixon TX Executive Committee John L Wortham & Sons Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Insurance James M. Hoak TX Chair Hoak Capital Corp. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Jerry H. Hodge TX Chair & CEO Maxor National Pharmacy Health Pharmaceuticals/Health Products Alfred Hoffman Jr. FL Chair & CEO Watermark Communities, Inc. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Richard F. Hohlt VA President Hohlt & Co. Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Mickey Holden TX Owner Holden Production Group Communications & Electronics Media & Media Entertainment Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Holland III TX Alternate Executive Director World Bank Other Civil Servants/Public Officials Mark A. Holman PA Senior Partner Blank Rome Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Ned S. Holmes TX CEO & President Parkway Investments Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate James W. Holton FL Owner & President MHH Enterprises, Inc. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate David Horowitz CA President Center for Study of Popular Culture Communications & Electronics Media & Media Entertainment Nevils Dudley Horton Jr. GA CEO & President Horton Industries, Inc. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Mori Hosseini FL President & CEO Intervest Construction Construction Home Builders Larry Householder OH House Speaker State of Ohio Other Civil Servants/Public Officials Timothy J. Howard CA   Unknown Unknown Other Unknown Kathy Hubbard IN Spouse of President E&A Industries, Inc. Energy & Natural Resources Chemical & Related Manufacturing Randall D. Hubbard CA Majority Owner Zia Park Partners Miscellaneous Business Entertainment Mr. & Mrs. Allan B. Hubbard IN President E&A Industries, Inc. Energy & Natural Resources Chemical & Related Manufacturing Albert Huddleston TX Executive Hyperion Resources Energy & Natural Resources Oil & Gas David Hudnall TX President Omnicom Management Services Communications & Electronics Advertising Tramm Hudson FL Executive Vice President Provident Bank of Florida Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Kristen Hueter CA Owner Kristen Hueter & Assoc. Lawyers & Lobbyists Political Campaign Professionals Mr. & Mrs. James R. Huffines TX Regional Chair PlainsCapital Bank Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Richard E. Hug MD Chair emeritus Environmental Elements Energy & Natural Resources Environmental Services/Equiptment Mr. Gaylord T. Hughey Jr. TX Lobbyist Self-employed Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists John C. Huizenga MI Owner National Heritage Academies Heritage Academies Miscellaneous Business Misc. Services Ralph T. Hull TX Attorney Self-employed Lawyers & Lobbyists Lawyers/Law Firms Daniel Huneke KY President Dancor Inc Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Mr. Gary H. Hunt CA Ex-Executive Vice President; Sr. Advisor Irvine Company Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Mr. Ray Lee Hunt TX Chair & CEO Hunt Consolidated, Inc. Energy & Natural Resources Oil & Gas William O. Hunt TX Ex-Chair Internet America, Inc. Communications & Electronics Computers Woody L. Hunt TX Chair & CEO Hunt Building Co. Construction Other Contractors P. Nicholas Hurtgen IL Senior Manager Bear Stearns & Co. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Charles Hurwitz TX CEO & Chair MAXXAM, Inc. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Todd Huston IN Director of Business Operations Komputrol Communications & Electronics Computers Warren Bruce Idsal TX Ex-Vice President UICI Co’s Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Insurance Otis B. Ingram III GA President Ingram & LeGrand Lumber Co. Agriculture Forestry & Forest Products Hector F. Irastorza Jr. DC COO of 2004 Republican National Convention Republican National Committee Ideological Republican/Conservative Mr. Alphonso R. Jackson TX Housing Secretary U.S. Government Other Civil Servants/Public Officials Frank Jao CA CEO & President Bridgecreek Development Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Gail A. Jaquish NV Founder & President Jurix, Inc. Miscellaneous Business Misc. Services Jonathan Javitt MD Vice Chair Health Directions, LLC Health Pharmaceuticals/Health Products Elizabeth ‘Sissy’ Jeffett Smith TX Sports marketing; novelist Self-employed Communications & Electronics Advertising Chris Jenny MA Senior Partner Parthenon Group Miscellaneous Business Business Support Services Shelton Jim On HI Attorney Jim On & Beerman Lawyers & Lobbyists Lawyers/Law Firms Brenda LaGrange Johnson NY Partner BrenMer Industries Miscellaneous Business Misc. Manufacturing & Distributing Mary Kate Johnson MD Vice President Cassidy & Associates Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Thomas L. Johnson Sr. TX Executive Director Associated General Contractors of Texas Construction Other Contractors Mr. Robert Wood Johnson IV NY Chair & CEO Johnson Company, Inc. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Karen Alexandra Johnson TX President Infrastructure Solutions, Inc. Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Mr. Walter E. Johnson TX Chair & CEO Southwest Bank of Texas Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment David V. Johnson MI Chair Victor International Corp Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate John Willard Johnson TX Chair Permian Mud Services Energy & Natural Resources Oil & Gas George Dean Johnson Jr. SC CEO Extended Stay America, Inc. Miscellaneous Business Entertainment Robert W. Jordan TX Attorney Baker Botts Lawyers & Lobbyists Lawyers/Law Firms Don D. Jordan TX Retired Chair Reliant Energy Energy & Natural Resources Electric Utilities Paul C. Jost VA Owner Chandler Management Corp Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Charles “Chip” N. Kahn III DC President Federation of American Hospitals Health Hospitals/HMOs/Clinics Mr. & Mrs. Gurumurthy Kalyanaram TX President & CEO GK Associates Miscellaneous Business Misc. Manufacturing & Distributing Mr. Sheldon B. Kamins MD Vice President Blum Frank & Kamins Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Robert L. Kaminski TX Founding Partner Sagebrook Technology Partners Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Jerry Kane TX CEO Sam Kane Beef Processors, Inc. Agriculture Livestock & Poultry Michael Karloutsos PA Owner MAK Consulting, Inc. Miscellaneous Business Business Support Services Stephen Kass CA Ex-CEO Meris Laboratories, Inc.? Health Pharmaceuticals/Health Products Ronald C. Kaufman DC Senior Managing Partner Dutko Group Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Munr Kazmir NJ President & CEO Direct Meds, Inc. Health Pharmaceuticals/Health Products Ambassador Robert Brendon Keating DC International development consultant Self-employed Miscellaneous Business Business Support Services Mr. Craig Keeland TX Owner ViaViente, Ltd Health Pharmaceuticals/Health Products John Kelly WA Attorney Microsoft Communications & Electronics Computers E.G. “Ken” Kendrick AZ Founder Datatel, Inc. Communications & Electronics Computers John C. Kern OH Managing Director Reynolds DeWitt & Co. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Mr. John W. Kessler OH Owner John W. Kessler Co. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Dr. Aman Khan TX Physician Cancer Center Association Health Health Professionals Kenneth J. Kies DC Federal Policy Group Managing Director Clark Consulting Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Accountants Bobbie & William Greene Kilberg VA Attorney Gibson Dunn & Crutcher Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Jerry Kilgore VA Attorney General State of Virginia Other Civil Servants/Public Officials Richard R. Kilgust TX Partner PricewaterhouseCoopers Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Accountants I. K. Kim TX President TECO Unlimited Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Thomas R. Kincaid TX Executive Capital Group Home Mortgage Co. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Mr. Nancy Kinder TX Chair & CEO Kinder Morgan Energy Partners Energy & Natural Resources Oil & Gas Mark Kirk IL Representative U.S. Congress Other Civil Servants/Public Officials James Louis Kittle Jr. IN Chair & CEO Kittle’s Furniture Miscellaneous Business Retail Sales Robert “Bob” K. Kjellander Jr. IL President Springfield Consulting Group Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists James R. Klauser WI State Government Affairs Director Wisconsin Electric Corp. Energy & Natural Resources Electric Utilities David H. Knapp TX Executive Lykes Bros, Inc. Miscellaneous Business Food & Beverage Kelly Knight KY Orthodontist Knight & Wahle P.S.C. Health Health Professionals Jack Knox TX Chair, CEO & President Sixx Holding Co. Miscellaneous Business Food & Beverage Dorothy Bush Koch MD CEO’s spouse Wine Institute Miscellaneous Business Food & Beverage Mr. C. Michael Kojaian MI Executive Vice President Kojaian Companies Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Charles G. Kopp PA Attorney Wolf Block Schorr & Solis-Cohen Lawyers & Lobbyists Lawyers/Law Firms Douglas R. Korn NY Senior Managing Director Bear Stearns & Co. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Robert A. Kotick CA Chair & CEO Activision Communications & Electronics Other Electronics Hersh Kozlov NJ Senior Partner Wolf Block Schorr & Solis-Cohen Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Thomas F. 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Laney TX Attorney Jenkins & Gilchrist Lawyers & Lobbyists Lawyers/Law Firms Mr. Mark Langdale TX President Posadas USA, Inc. Miscellaneous Business Entertainment Mr. James (& Sandy) C. Langdon Jr. DC Attorney Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Charles ‘Chuck’ W. Larson Jr. IA State Senator State of Iowa Other Civil Servants/Public Officials Garland M. Lasater Jr. TX Ex-President & CEO Transport Life Insurance Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Insurance Steve Late TX Owner Bronco Chevrolet Buick BMW Transportation Automotive Franklin L. Lavin OH Ambassador to Singapore U.S. Government Other Civil Servants/Public Officials Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth & Linda Lay TX Ex-Chair & CEO Enron Corp. Energy & Natural Resources Oil & Gas Herman Ward Lay TX Executive Lay Capital Group, LLC Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Fred ‘Ted’ W. Lazenby TN Retired Chair & CEO Southlife Holding Co. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Insurance Mr. & Mrs. Howard H. Leach CA Ambassador to France U.S. Government Other Civil Servants/Public Officials 4 Michael Lebovitz TN Senior Vice President for Mall Projects CBL & Associates Properties Inc. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Winnie LeClercq GA Executive Delhaize America Miscellaneous Business Food & Beverage James H. Lee TX Retired CEO Monument Securities Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Robert D Leeburn Jr. GA Lobbyist Troutman Sanders Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Frederick W. Leonhardt FL Attorney GrayRobinson Lawyers & Lobbyists Lawyers/Law Firms Stephen Lessing Jr. VA Student University of Virginia Other Education Workers Stephen M. Lessing NY Managing Director Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Ronald Steve Letbetter TX Ex-CEO & Ex-Chair Reliant Energy Energy & Natural Resources Electric Utilities Edward C. Levy Jr. MI President Edward C. Levy Co. Miscellaneous Business Misc. Manufacturing & Distributing Drew Lewis PA Ex-Chair Union Pacific Corp. Transportation Railroad John P. Lewis TX Managing Partner Lewis Hollingsworth Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Robert Liggett MI Chair Liggett Communications Communications & Electronics Media & Media Entertainment Bill M. Lindig TX President & CEO SYSCO Corp. Miscellaneous Business Food & Beverage Carl H. Lindner III OH Co-President American Financial Group Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Carl H. Lindner Jr. OH CEO American Financial Group Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Mary M. Ling CA Public Relations Hogg & Benson Communications & Electronics Advertising Jack E. Little TX President & CEO Shell Oil Co. Energy & Natural Resources Oil & Gas Mr. & Mrs. Tom & Nancy Loeffler TX Founder & Lobbyist Loeffler Jonas & Tuggey Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Robert L. Looney TX President Texas Oil & Gas Association Energy & Natural Resources Oil & Gas Mr. Jorge Luis Lopez FL Lobbyist Verner Liipfert Bernard Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Robert H. Lorsch CA CEO RHL Group, Inc. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Mr. & Mrs. Jeff B. Love TX Attorney Locke Liddell & Sapp Lawyers & Lobbyists Lawyers/Law Firms Tom Luce TX Attorney Luce & Williams Lawyers & Lobbyists Lawyers/Law Firms Mark Neil Ludwig DC Lobbyist Bryan Cave Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Debra M. Stillo Lyons GA Technical Consultant Self-Employed Miscellaneous Business Business Support Services L. Ben Lytle IN Retired CEO & Chair Anthem Inc. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Insurance James P. MacGilvray NY President Fidelity Investments Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment John Mack NY CEO Credit Suisse First Boston Corp. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Wales Madden III TX attorney Self-employed Lawyers & Lobbyists Lawyers/Law Firms Mr. & Mrs. John B. Mahaffey MO President Mahaffey Enterprises Communications & Electronics Media & Media Entertainment Matthew E. Malouf TX Owner Malouf Interests Inc Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Jeffrey A. Marcus TX Chair & CEO J&N Ventures, Inc. Communications & Electronics Media & Media Entertainment Ms. Adair Wakefield Margo TX Owner Adair Margo Art Gallery Miscellaneous Business Retail Sales Mr. & Mrs. Thomas P. Marinis Jr. TX Attorney Vinson & Elkins Lawyers & Lobbyists Lawyers/Law Firms Mr. & Mrs. Harold Marshall TX Retired President Transouth Financial Corp. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Vidal G. Martinez TX Attorney Curtis Mallet-Prevost et al. Lawyers & Lobbyists Lawyers/Law Firms Robert & Mary Jane Martinez FL Managing Director Government Relations Carlton Fields Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Dell & Marja Marting NV Maitre’D Eldorado Hotel & Casino Miscellaneous Business Entertainment William Martini NJ U.S. District Judge U.S. Government Other Civil Servants/Public Officials Mark Masinter TX Owner Harberg-Masinter Co Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Fernando Mateo NY President Mateo Express Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Charles Mathewson NV Chair & CEO International Game Technology Miscellaneous Business Entertainment Paul Maynard MN Partner Deloitte & Touche Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Accountants Linda Maynor AL Finance Chair Alabama Republican Party Ideological Republican/Conservative Susan McCaw WA President COM Investments Communications & Electronics Telecommunications David McClanahan TX President & CEO Centerpoint Energy Energy & Natural Resources Electric Utilities Frederick D. McClure TX Lobbyist Winstead Sechrest & Minick Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists William P. McCormick OR Chair & Founder McCormick & Schmick Management Group Miscellaneous Business Food & Beverage Sharon L. McCutchin TX Owner’s spouse Jerry McCutchin Drilling Co. Energy & Natural Resources Oil & Gas Michael R. McElwrath TX Vice President & Business Development Director TMP Worldwide, Inc. Miscellaneous Business Business Support Services William McGuire MN Chair & CEO UnitedHealth Group Health Hospitals/HMOs/Clinics Colleen McHugh TX Attorney Bracewell & Patterson Lawyers & Lobbyists Lawyers/Law Firms Gordon McKenna TX Chair TeleQuest Communications & Electronics Advertising Hank McKinnell NY Chair & CEO Pfizer Health Pharmaceuticals/Health Products Drayton McLane Jr. TX Chair McLane Group Miscellaneous Business Retail Sales Hon. W. Edwin McMahan NC House Representative State of North Carolina Other Civil Servants/Public Officials Kevin P. McMahon VA Vice President, Government Affairs TRW Automotive Transportation Automotive Colin Riley McMillan NM Ex-Chair & CEO Permian Exploration Corp. Energy & Natural Resources Oil & Gas Jeffrey L. McWaters VA Chair & CEO AMERIGROUP Corp. Health Hospitals/HMOs/Clinics Andrea & Dean McWilliams TX Lobbyists McWilliams & Associates Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Hon. Gualberto Medina NJ Vice President International Affairs NET 2 PHONE Communications & Electronics Computers Manuel D. Medina FL CEO & Chair Terremark Worldwide Communications & Electronics Computers Thomas M. Mercer Jr. TX Partner Ceres Capital Partners Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Jules Frank Mermoud DC Ex-Senior Vice President Aegis Communication Communications & Electronics Telecommunications Mr. Austin Prather Merritt Jr. TX Owner Merritt Tool Co. Miscellaneous Business Misc. Manufacturing & Distributing Jack L. Messman TX Chair & CEO Novell, Inc. Communications & Electronics Computers Mr. David A. Metzner VA Managing Director American Continental Group Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Mr. Fred Meyer TX Chair Aladdin Industries, LLC Miscellaneous Business Misc. Manufacturing & Distributing Dr. Adib R. Mikhail TX Physician Self-employed Health Health Professionals Charles Miller TX Chair Meridian Advisors Ltd Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Tyree B. Miller TX Executive Vice President Bank One Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment James C. Miller FL attorney Greenberg Traurig Lawyers & Lobbyists Lawyers/Law Firms Mr. & Mrs. Vance C. Miller TX COO Henry S. Miller Companies Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Jeff Miller FL U.S. Represenative U.S. Government Other Civil Servants/Public Officials David Miner NC State Representative State of North Carolina Other Civil Servants/Public Officials Stephan M. Minikes DC Security & Cooperation in Europe Ambassador U.S. Government Other Civil Servants/Public Officials Suzan Mitchell MI President & CFO Mitchell Research & Communications Lawyers & Lobbyists Political Campaign Professionals Mayer Mitchell AL Owner Mitchell Brothers, Inc. Construction Home Builders Barton Mitchell MD Chair E. Stewart Mitchell, Inc. Construction Heavy Construction Robert Mitchell GA President Reynolds Plantation Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Arlene Mitchell AL Owner’s spouse Mitchell Brothers, Inc. Construction Home Builders Malachi Mixon OH Chair & CEO Invacare Corp. Health Pharmaceuticals/Health Products Bob Monahan PA President Monahan Group Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Mr. & Mrs. Tom & Therese Moncrief TX Owner Moncrief Oil Energy & Natural Resources Oil & Gas Charles Beggs Moncrief TX Owner Moncrief Oil Energy & Natural Resources Oil & Gas Mr. Philip O’Bryan Montgomery III TX President P.O.’B Montgomery & Co. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Ike J. Monty TX Owner Investment Builders Construction Other Contractors Jeffrey S. Moorad CA Partner Moorad Sports Management, Inc. Miscellaneous Business Entertainment W. Henson Moore DC President & CEO American Forest & Paper Association Agriculture Forestry & Forest Products Allen Morgan Jr. TN CEO Morgan Keegan & Co. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment S. Reed Morian TX President DX Service Companies Energy & Natural Resources Chemical & Related Manufacturing Clifton H. Morris Jr. TX Chair Americredit Corp Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Gene Vaughn Morrison TX Lobbyist Meyers & Associates Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists H. Gary Morse FL President Villages of Lake-Sumter Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Robert Mosbacher Jr. TX Owner Mosbacher Energy Energy & Natural Resources Oil & Gas Michael Moskowitz NY Founder & President Equity Now Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Dianne Ingels Moss TX Chair’s spouse William Moss Corp. Energy & Natural Resources Oil & Gas Dennis Muchmore MI Partner Muchmore Harrington Smalley & Associates Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Robert F. Murchison TX Owner Murchison Capital Partners Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment David H. Murdock CA Chair & CEO Dole Food Co. Miscellaneous Business Food & Beverage Peter J. Murphy NY Bear Wagner Specialists CEO Bear Stearns & Co. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Robert Madison Murphy AR Founder Murphy Oil Corp. Energy & Natural Resources Oil & Gas Palmer N. Murray CA   Morgan Stanley Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment John R. Muse TX Partner Hicks Muse Tate & Furst Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment A. Maurice Myers TX Chair, President & CEO Waste Management, Inc. Energy & Natural Resources Waste Management Charles Nailen AL Owner BBG Specialty Food Miscellaneous Business Food & Beverage Mr. Charles D. Nash Jr. TX Owner Chuck Nash Chevrolet. Transportation Automotive Thomas Nassif CA President & CEO Western Growers Association Agriculture Crop Production & Basic Processing John L. Nau III TX President & CEO Silver Eagles Distributors Miscellaneous Business Food & Beverage Jim Neale TX President Quorom Energy Energy & Natural Resources Oil & Gas Terry Neese OK President Women Impacting Public Policy Other Non-Profit Institutions James Neis IL Managing Partner Winston & Strawn Lawyers & Lobbyists Lawyers/Law Firms Patrick M. Nesbitt CA Chair Windsor Capital Group Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Walter E. Neuls TX Executive Colonia Casualty Insurance Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Insurance Andres R. Nevares PR Attorney Nevares Sanchez-Alvarez & Mendez Lawyers & Lobbyists Lawyers/Law Firms Andrea Fisher Newman MI Senior Vice President Government Affairs Northwest Airlines Transportation Air Fred R. Nichols TX Vice President TCA Cable TV Communications & Electronics Media & Media Entertainment James B. Nicholson MI CEO & President PVS Chemicals, Inc. Energy & Natural Resources Chemical & Related Manufacturing Louis Nicozisis PA Retired owner Carpet Mart Miscellaneous Business Retail Sales Mr. & Mrs. Dennis E. Nixon TX Chair International Bancshares Corp. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Thomas Noe OH President Vintage Coins & Collectibles Miscellaneous Business Retail Sales Alan P. Novak PA Lobbyist Conrad O’Brian Gellman & Rohn Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Mr. & Mrs. Erle A. Nye TX Chair TXU Energy & Natural Resources Electric Utilities Christine Davis O’Brien TX Lobbyist AstraZeneca Health Pharmaceuticals/Health Products Robert J. O’Connell MA Chair, President & CEO MassMutual Financial Group Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Insurance Ralph O’Connor TX Oil and Gas Investor Highland Resources Energy & Natural Resources Oil & Gas John O’Connor NY Executive Partner JPMorgan Partners JPMorgan Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Walden W. O’Dell OH CEO Diebold Systems Communications & Electronics Computers Mr. Joseph J. O’Donnell MA CEO Boston Concessions Group Miscellaneous Business Food & Beverage Michael R. Oestreicher OH Attorney Thompson Hine, LLP Lawyers & Lobbyists Lawyers/Law Firms Michael O’Halleran IL President & COO Aon Corp. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Insurance Ziad Ojakli VA Vice President Corporate Affairs Ford Motor Co. Transportation Automotive C. Patrick Oles Jr. TX President & CEO Barshop & Oles Co. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate E. Stanley O’Neal NY Chair, CEO & President Merrill Lynch & Co. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Mr. & Mrs. Joseph I. O’Neill III TX President O’Neill Properties Energy & Natural Resources Oil & Gas Kevin & Patty O’Neill VA Lobbyist Patton Boggs Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists John Ong OH Ambassador to Norway U.S. Government Other Civil Servants/Public Officials Robert R. Onstead TX Executive Onstead Interests Ltd. Miscellaneous Business Food & Beverage Mr. H. Monty Osteen Jr. GA Chair & CEO Southtrust Bank Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Duane Ottenstroer FL President Eventide Investments Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Karen Overbeck TX Communications Director Texans for Lawsuit Reform Ideological Tort Reform Bill Owens CO Governor State of Colorado Other Civil Servants/Public Officials Mr. & Mrs. Patrick C. Oxford TX Managing Partner Bracewell & Patterson Lawyers & Lobbyists Lawyers/Law Firms William J. Palatucci NJ Lobbyist Dughi Hewit & Palatucci Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists John N. Palmer Sr. MS Ambassador to Portugal U.S. Government Other Civil Servants/Public Officials Tony Parker DC Attorney Self Lawyers & Lobbyists Lawyers/Law Firms Mr. Gerald L. Parsky CA Chair Aurora Capital Group Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment George E. Pataki NY Governor State of New York Other Civil Servants/Public Officials Carter R. Pate TX Partner PricewaterhouseCoopers Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Accountants Mr. James E. Paul Jr. TX President Tejano Sports Miscellaneous Business Entertainment Bill Pauli CA Owner Braren Pauli Winery; Redwood Valley Cellars Miscellaneous Business Food & Beverage Henry M. Paulson Jr. NY Chair & CEO Goldman Sachs & Co. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Tim Pawlenty MN Governor State of Minnesota Other Civil Servants/Public Officials Bill Paxon VA Lobbyist Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Stephen P. Payne TX Lobbyist Strategic Political Partners Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Mr. Marshall B. Payne TX Vice President Cardinal Investment Co. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment William Porter Payne GA Partner Gleacher Partners Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Richard B. Payne Jr. OH Executive Vice President National City Corp. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment John Pease TX   Unknown Unknown Other Unknown Don Peay UT Lobbyist Sportsmen for Fish & Wildlife Ideological Guns Mr. Robert R. Penn TX Owner Penn Resources Inc Energy & Natural Resources Oil & Gas Jerry Perenchio CA Chair & CEO Univision Communications Communications & Electronics Media & Media Entertainment Wayne M. Perry WA CEO Edge Wireless Communications & Electronics Telecommunications Joseph Carlton Petrone NH Retired United Nations Europe Ofc. Ambassador U.S. Government Other Civil Servants/Public Officials Tom Petway III FL Chair Zurich Insurance Services, Inc. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Insurance Fred Pezeshkan FL President Krate Construction Co. Construction Other Contractors Stanley Davis Phillips NC President Phillips Industries, Inc. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Mr. Robert H. Pickens TX CEO Pickens Companies Energy & Natural Resources Oil & Gas Mr. J. Bryan Pickens TX President Pickens Capital, LLC Energy & Natural Resources Oil & Gas Mr. John T. Pickens TX Executive Pickens Financial Group Energy & Natural Resources Oil & Gas Mr. Michael K. Pickens TX Executive Pickens Energy Corp. Energy & Natural Resources Oil & Gas Mr. William Charles Pickens Jr. TX Owner Pickens Companies Energy & Natural Resources Oil & Gas Jerry Pierce-Santos VA President InterAmerica, Inc. Miscellaneous Business Miscellaneous Business James Pikl TX attorney True & Sewell Lawyers & Lobbyists Lawyers/Law Firms Lonnie Pilgrim TX Chair Pilgrim’s Pride Corp. Agriculture Livestock & Poultry Mr. Sergio Pino FL President & CEO Century Partners Group Construction Home Builders Alec Poitevint GA President Southeastern Minerals, Inc. Agriculture Farm Equiptment/Supplies Gary Polland TX Lobbyist Polland & Cook Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Lisa Pollard UKN Political Consulting Self-employed Lawyers & Lobbyists Political Campaign Professionals Judy Pollock TX Owner Pollock & Associates Unknown Other Unknown Van B. Poole FL Lobbyist Poole McKinley & Blosser Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists David M. Porter TX President PNL Companies Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Robert Portman OH Representative U.S. Government Other Civil Servants/Public Officials William E. Powell TX CEO Bitterblue, Inc. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Frank Powell TX Senior Vice President Government Affairs Coastal Corporation Energy & Natural Resources Oil & Gas Mr. & Mrs. Donald E. Powell TX Chair Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Other Civil Servants/Public Officials Timothy Powers DC Lobbyist Artemis Strategies Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Richard F. Powers III NY Client Group President Morgan Stanley Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Clinton Pownall FL CEO Computer Bus Consultants, Inc. Communications & Electronics Computers Malcolm S. Pray Jr. CT Owner Pray Automobile Corp Transportation Automotive Mr. Heinz C. Prechter MI Ex-Chair Prechter Holdings Transportation Automotive Annie Presley MO Owner McKellar Group, Inc. Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Steven Price NY CEO LiveWire Corp. Communications & Electronics Computers Mr. John Price UT Ambassador to Mauritius U.S. Government Other Civil Servants/Public Officials David Pringle DC Vice President Federal Relations American Family Life Assurance Co. AFLAC Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Insurance Mr. Chesley Pruet AR Retired President Pruet Drilling Co. Energy & Natural Resources Oil & Gas Philip J. Purcell NY CEO Morgan Stanley Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment J. Ward Purrington NC Lobbyist Self-Employed Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Paulette L. Pyle OR Grassroots Director Oregoneans for Food & Shelter Energy & Natural Resources Chemical & Related Manufacturing James Quigley NY CEO Deloitte & Touche Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Accountants Mr. & Mrs. John S. Rainey SC Chair Easlan Capital, Inc. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate John Rakolta Jr. MI Chair & CEO Walbridge Aldinger Construction Other Contractors Frank Rapoport PA Attorney McKenna Long & Aldridge Lawyers & Lobbyists Lawyers/Law Firms John Robert “Bobby” Ray TX President Goodman Family of Builders Construction Home Builders Narender Reddy GA Real Estate Broker Metro Brokers Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Ralph E. Reed Jr. GA Founder & President Century Strategies Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists David Rehr VA Lobbyist National Beer Wholesalers Assoc. Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Michael Reilly TX Owner Reilly Brothers Property Co. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Thomas A. Renyi NJ Chair & CEO Bank of New York Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Barclay T. Resler GA Vice President Government Relations Coca-Cola Miscellaneous Business Food & Beverage Michael L. Retzer MS Chair Retzer Resources, Inc. Miscellaneous Business Food & Beverage J. Christopher Reyes IL Chair Reyes Holdings, LLC Miscellaneous Business Food & Beverage Thomas M. Reynolds NY Representative U.S. Congress Other Civil Servants/Public Officials Harold Reid Reynolds GA President Coldwell Banker Lake Oconee Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Mr. Mercer Reynolds III OH Chair Reynolds DeWitt & Co. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment James M. Reynolds III GA Chair & CEO Reynolds Plantation Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Tom Ridge PA Secretary of Homeland Security U.S. Government Other Civil Servants/Public Officials Thomas Riley NH Owner Riley Enterprises Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Brett Ringle TX Vice President Hunt Petroleum Energy & Natural Resources Oil & Gas Mr. & Mrs. A. W. Riter Jr. TX Ex-Managing Partner Pinstripe Investments Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Forrest Roan TX Lobbyist Cantey Hanger Roan & Autrey Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Thomas A. Roberts NY Attorney Weil Gotshal & Manges Lawyers & Lobbyists Lawyers/Law Firms Duane R. Roberts CA CEO Entrepreneurial Capital Corp. Miscellaneous Business Entertainment Corbin J. Robertson Jr. TX President Quintana Minerals Corp Energy & Natural Resources Oil & Gas Marcos Rodriguez TX Owner Metroplex Broadcasting, Ltd. Communications & Electronics Media & Media Entertainment Mario Rodriguez CA Founder & CEO Jonathan Grey & Associates Communications & Electronics Advertising Hal Rogers KY Representative U.S. Congress Other Civil Servants/Public Officials James E. Rogers OH Chair, President & CEO Cinergy Corp. Energy & Natural Resources Electric Utilities Hon. Sig Rogich NV President Rogich Communications Group Lawyers & Lobbyists Political Campaign Professionals Raul Romero TX CEO S&B Infrastructure Construction Construction Services John D. Rood FL Chair Vestcor Companies Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Tim Rooney TX President & CEO Manhattan Construction Co. Construction Other Contractors Frances Rooney OK Chair Manhattan Construction Co. Construction Other Contractors Matthew K. Rose TX CEO Burlington Northern Santa Fe Transportation Railroad Mr. Edward W. Rose III TX President Cardinal Investment Co. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Evans Rose Jr. PA Attorney Cohen & Grigsby Lawyers & Lobbyists Lawyers/Law Firms Billy Rosenthal TX Partner Penrose Group LLC Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Laura Rowe TX Attorney Hicks Thomas & Lilienstern Lawyers & Lobbyists Lawyers/Law Firms Robert B. Rowling TX Chair TRT Holdings Inc Miscellaneous Business Entertainment James R. Royer TX President & CEO Turner Collie & Braden Construction Construction Services Peter S. Rummell FL Chair & CEO St. Joe Co. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Larry Ruvo NV Senior Managing Director Southern Wines & Spirits Miscellaneous Business Food & Beverage Terrence J. Ryan TX Senior Consultant KMK Consulting Co. Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Patrick G. Ryan IL Chair & CEO Aon Corp. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Insurance John “Chip” Saltsman Jr. TN Ex-Chair Tennessee Republican Party Ideological Republican/Conservative Alann Bedford Sampson TX Chair Van Cliburn Foundation Other Non-Profit Institutions Mr. & Mrs. A. R. “Tony” Sanchez Jr. TX CEO Sanchez-O’Brien Oil & Gas Energy & Natural Resources Oil & Gas Stephen Sandherr VA CEO Associated General Contractors of America Construction Other Contractors Mr. David I. Saperstein CA Founder Metro Networks Communications & Electronics Media & Media Entertainment Kenneth R. Satterlee CA Senior Vice President Burnham Real Estate Services Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Andrew Saul NY CEO Saul Partners Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Thomas A. Saunders III NY Partner Saunders Karp & Megrue Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Mary Beth Savary-Taylor VA Vice President Government Relations American Hospital Association Health Hospitals/HMOs/Clinics Justin J. Sayfie FL Lobbyist Poole McKinley & Blosser Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists W. Richard Scarlett III WY Chair & CEO United Bancorp of Wyoming Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Mr. Dwight C. Schar VA Chair & CEO NVR Homes Construction Home Builders William R. Scherer Jr. FL Attorney Conrad & Scherer Lawyers & Lobbyists Lawyers/Law Firms Susan Schlapp KS Store owner Mail Boxes, Etc. Miscellaneous Business Misc. Services Joel A. Schleicher NJ Ex-Chair & CEO Interpath Communications & Electronics Computers John Patrick Schmitz VA Lobbyist Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Ambassador Rockwell A. Schnabel CA European Union Ambassador U.S. Government Other Civil Servants/Public Officials Larry Schoenbrun TX Attorney Gardere & Wynne Lawyers & Lobbyists Lawyers/Law Firms William G. Schubert MD Maritime Administrator U.S. Department of Transportation Other Civil Servants/Public Officials Stephen A. Schwarzman NY President, CEO & Co-founder Blackstone Group Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Peter Secchia MI Chair Universal Forest Products Agriculture Forestry & Forest Products Ivan Seidenberg NY President & CEO Verizon Communications, Inc. Communications & Electronics Telecommunications Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas T. Serafy Jr. TX President & CEO Proficiency Testing Service Health Pharmaceuticals/Health Products Richard Shelby AL Senator U.S. Congress Other Civil Servants/Public Officials Daniel O. Shelley TX Lobbyist Self-employed Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists John Sherman Jr. VA Vice Chair Scott & Stringfellow Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Mr. Allan “Bud” Shivers Jr. TX President Shivers Group Miscellaneous Business Business Support Services Mr. & Mrs. Ned L. Siegel FL President Siegel Group Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Mr. & Mrs. Stephanie Siegel FL President’s spouse Siegel Group Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Martin & Audrey J. Silverstein PA Ambassador to Uruguay U.S. Government Other Civil Servants/Public Officials James P. Simmons AZ Retired President James P. Simmons & Associates Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment L.E. Simmons TX President SCF Partners Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Robert E.W. & Mary Louise Sinclair TX Retired Partner Castleton Management, Inc. Energy & Natural Resources Oil & Gas Paul Singer NY General Partner Elliott Capital Advisors, L.P. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Daniel J. Sitomer CA Ex-Partner Direct Line Partners Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Ms. Windy Sitton TX Owner Sitton’s Selections Construction Home Builders Samuel K. Skinner IL Retired Chair & CEO U.S. Freightways Corp. Transportation Trucking Gregory Slayton CA CEO Slayton Capital Communications & Electronics Computers Shawn H. Smeallie DC Lobbyist American Continental Group Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Mary A. Smith CO Attorney’s spouse Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott Lawyers & Lobbyists Lawyers/Law Firms Stephen B. Smith TN Vice President Haury & Smith Construction Home Builders Frederick W. Smith TN Chair, President & CEO FedEx Transportation Trucking Thomas W. Smith CT President Prescott Investors, Inc. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Gordon Smith OR Senator U.S. Congress Other Civil Servants/Public Officials Barbara Sobel NJ Ambassador to Netherlands (spouse) U.S. Government Other Civil Servants/Public Officials David L. Sokol NE Chair & CEO MidAmerican Energy Holdings Energy & Natural Resources Electric Utilities William T. Solomon TX Chair & CEO Austin Industries, Inc. Construction Heavy Construction Lionel & Kathy Sosa TX Owner Sosa & Associates Communications & Electronics Advertising Timothy Spangler UK Partner Berwin Leighton Paisner Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Mr. Alex G. Spanos CA Chair A. G. Spanos Companies Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Rick Sperry PA President R.S. Sperry & Associates Communications & Electronics Media & Media Entertainment Mr. Ronald P. Spogli CA Owner Freeman Spogli & Co. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment John R. Stafford NJ Ex-Chair Wyeth Health Pharmaceuticals/Health Products Warren R. Staley MN CEO Cargill, Inc. Agriculture Crop Production & Basic Processing Manuel N. Stamatakis PA CEO Capital Management Enterprises Miscellaneous Business Business Support Services Mr. Dorothy Stapleton CT Ambassador to Czech Republic (spouse) U.S. Government Other Civil Servants/Public Officials Craig N. Stapleton CT Ambassador to Czech Republic U.S. Government Other Civil Servants/Public Officials Peter Starrett CA President Peter Starrett Associates Miscellaneous Business Business Support Services Mr. Roger T. Staubach TX Chair Staubach Co. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Russell D. Steagall TX Musician Self-employed Miscellaneous Business Entertainment Shawn & Michelle Steel CA Attorney Shawn Steel & Associates Lawyers & Lobbyists Lawyers/Law Firms John T. Steen Jr. TX Attorney Law Office of John Steen Lawyers & Lobbyists Lawyers/Law Firms Mark Stefanek CA CFO Westfield Corp. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Glenn Dale Steil MI CEO Compatico, Inc. Miscellaneous Business Misc. Manufacturing & Distributing Ms. Sandra Stein CA Attorney Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Leach Lawyers & Lobbyists Lawyers/Law Firms Mr. Thomas G. Stemberg MA CEO, Chair & Founder Staples, Inc. Miscellaneous Business Misc. Manufacturing & Distributing Warren Stephens AR President & CEO Stephens, Inc. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Thomas Stephenson CA General Partner Sequoia Capital Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Marc I. Stern CA TCW Group President Trust Co. of the West Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Steven Hall Stodghill TX Attorney Fish & Richardson Lawyers & Lobbyists Lawyers/Law Firms Gerald Harris Stool TX President Greenway Investment Co. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Theodore H. Strauss TX Senior Managing Director Bear Stearns & Co. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment William H. Strong IL Vice Chair & Managing Director Morgan Stanley Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Lee Styslinger III AL President & CEO Altec Industries Miscellaneous Business Misc. Manufacturing & Distributing Charles J. Swindells OR Ambassador to New Zealand U.S. Government Other Civil Servants/Public Officials Jeff L. Swope TX Owner Champion Partners, Ltd. Health Pharmaceuticals/Health Products Eric Tanenblatt GA Governor’s Chief of Staff State of Georgia Other Civil Servants/Public Officials Nicholas F. Taubman VA Ex-Chair Advance Auto Parts Transportation Automotive John Tavaglione CA County Supervisor Riverside County Other Civil Servants/Public Officials Jack Taylor MO CEO Enterprise Rent-A-Car Transportation Automotive Thomas R. Tellefsen CA Principal Tellefsen Investments, Inc. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment William A. Terlato IL President & CEO Terlato Wine Group Miscellaneous Business Food & Beverage Mr. & Mrs. Peter Terpeluk Jr. MD Ambassador to Luxembourg U.S. Government Other Civil Servants/Public Officials Robert W. Theisen Jr. FL Chair Tilt-Con Corp. Construction Other Contractors Barron Thomas AZ Owner Barron Thomas Aviation Transportation Air William L. Thomas VA Attorney Pilsbury Winthrop Lawyers & Lobbyists Lawyers/Law Firms G. Kennedy Thompson NC Chair, CEO & President Wachovia Corp. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Travis O. Thompson HI Retired Senior Program Manager Boeing Transportation Air Michael D. Thompson AL Chair & CEO Thompson Tractor Co. Construction Building Materials & Equiptment Jayne Carr Thompson IL Owner Jayne Thompson & Associates Communications & Electronics Advertising Hon. Mac Thornberry TX Representative U.S. Congress Other Civil Servants/Public Officials John Thrasher FL Lobbyist Southern Strategy Group Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Lee Thurburn TX Chair & CEO Flashnet Communications & Electronics Computers Bart Tiernan NY Attorney Self-employed Lawyers & Lobbyists Lawyers/Law Firms Rice M. Tilley Jr. TX attorney Law Snakard & Gambill Lawyers & Lobbyists Lawyers/Law Firms William Robert “W.R.” “Tim” Timken Jr. OH Chair & CEO Timken Co. Construction Building Materials & Equiptment Mr. Joe Ting TX Vice Chair Metro Bank Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment John Mark Tipps TN Lobbyist Walker Bryant Tipps & Malone Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists James Tobin ME Political Consultant Tobin & Co. Lawyers & Lobbyists Political Campaign Professionals Enrique Tomeu FL President Palm Beach Aggregates Construction Building Materials & Equiptment J. Warren Tompkins III SC Lobbyist Tompkins & Kinard Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Arnel Trovada TX Founder & President Trovada Public Relations Communications & Electronics Advertising Sol Trujillo CO CEO Graviton Communications & Electronics Computers Dr. John B. Tsu CA Professor JFK University Other Education Workers Charles Turlinski OH CEO Limited Stores Miscellaneous Business Retail Sales Bob Tuttle CA Owner Tuttle-Click Auto Group Transportation Automotive Rodolphe ‘Skip’ M. Vallee VT Chair & CEO R.L. Vallee, Inc. Energy & Natural Resources Oil & Gas Mr. Dirk W. Van Dongen DC President National Assoc. of Wholesale Distributors Miscellaneous Business Retail Sales Robert C. Vaughn TX CEO Vaughn Petroleum, Inc. Energy & Natural Resources Oil & Gas Mr. Jack C. Vaughn Jr. TX Vice President Vaughn Petroleum, Inc. Energy & Natural Resources Oil & Gas Rene Vazquez Botet PR Physician Self-employed Health Health Professionals John Vernon TX   Unknown Unknown Other Unknown Elliott Vernon NJ Chair Healthcare Financial Group Health Pharmaceuticals/Health Products Ed and Ann Vetter TX Retired owner Edward O Vetter & Assoc. Miscellaneous Business Business Support Services Raghavendra Vijayanagar MD FL Physician Self-employed Health Health Professionals Kris Anne Vogelpohl TX Physician Self-employed Health Health Professionals Jeffrey W. Vogt CT Executive Environmental Systems Energy & Natural Resources Environmental Services/Equiptment John R. Vogt DC Executive Vice President Bond Market Association Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Michael J. Vollman TX Executive Vice President Worldwide Operations Vignette Corp. Communications & Electronics Computers Paul Wageman TX attorney Winstead Sechrest & Minick Lawyers & Lobbyists Lawyers/Law Firms Raymond & Ann Wagner Jr. MO Vice President Legislative Affairs Enterprise Rent-A-Car Transportation Automotive Thomas E. Wagner OH Lobbyist Calfee Halter & Griswold Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Martha C. Walda CA Lobbyist ARB, Inc. Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Sue Walden TX Owner Walden & Associates Communications & Electronics Advertising Kent Waldrep TX Director Kent Waldrep National Paralysis Foundation Other Non-Profit Institutions William H. Walker LA President Howard Weil LaBouisse Friedrichs, Inc. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Ms. Elsie Walker MD Vice Chair Mountain Institute Ideological Environment George H. Walker IV NY Managing Director Goldman Sachs & Co. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Milton J. Wallace FL Attorney Wallace Bauman Legon Fodiman & Shannon Lawyers & Lobbyists Lawyers/Law Firms Robert & Carol M. Wallace CA Chair & President Gateway Advisors, Inc. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Mr. & Mrs. Roger Windham Wallace TX Lobbyist Self-Employed Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Tony Walters PA   Unknown Unknown Other Unknown Lew O. Ward OK Founder, Chair & CEO Ward Petroleum Corp. Energy & Natural Resources Oil & Gas Jonathan Ward IL President & CEO Servicemaster Miscellaneous Business Misc. Services Marilyn Ware PA Chair American Water Works Co. Energy & Natural Resources Water Mrs. Heather Hill Washburne TX President’s spouse Charter Holdings Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Ray Washburne TX President Charter Holdings Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Robert & Nancy Watkins FL Owner Robert Watkins & Co. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Accountants Chuck Watson TX Chair Eagle Energy Partners Energy & Natural Resources Oil & Gas Lance Loring Weaver DE Chief Administrative Officer MBNA Corp. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Bill Webb TX President & CEO Texas Motor Transportation Association Transportation Trucking Frederick L. Webber VA Retired CEO & President American Chemistry Council Energy & Natural Resources Chemical & Related Manufacturing M. Keith Weikel PhD OH COO & Executive Vice President HCR ManorCare Health Nursing Homes/Home Care David C. Weinstein MA Chief of Administration Fidelity Investments Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Jerry Weintraub CA Producer Warner Brothers Communications & Electronics Media & Media Entertainment Ronald Weiser MI Ambassador to Slovak Republic U.S. Government Other Civil Servants/Public Officials Ted Welch TN Owner Ted Welch Investments Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Hon. William F. Weld NY General Partner Leeds Weld Equity Partners Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Paul F. Welday MI President Strategic Public Affairs Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Joe M. Weller CA Chair & CEO Nestle USA Miscellaneous Business Food & Beverage Ms. Jimmy Westcott TX Homemaker Jayhawk Acceptance Corp. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Thomas B. Whatman OH President Strategic Public Partners Lawyers & Lobbyists Lobbyists Mr. & Mrs. Robert H. Whilden Jr. TX General Counsel & Executive Vice President BMC Software, Inc. Communications & Electronics Computers Edward E. Whitacre Jr. TX Chair & CEO SBC Communications Communications & Electronics Telecommunications Stanley P. Whitcomb FL Owner Whitcomb Associates, Inc. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Christine Todd Whitman NJ Ex-Administrator U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Other Civil Servants/Public Officials Ben Whitney MN Partner Gideon Hixon Ventures Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Brent R. Wilkes CA President Wilkes Corp. Miscellaneous Business Business Support Services David H. Wilkins SC Speaker of the House State of South Carolina Other Civil Servants/Public Officials Phillip E. Williams Jr. TX Neurosurgeon Self-employed Health Health Professionals Jack Roger Williams TX CEO Roger Williams Chrysler-Plymouth-Dodge Transportation Automotive Mr. George M. Williams TX CEO & Managing Partner Williams Partners, Inc. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Virgil Williams GA CEO Williams Group International, Inc. Construction Heavy Construction Garland ‘Buddy’ S. Williamson TN Retired Vice President Worldwide Operations Eastman Chemical Energy & Natural Resources Chemical & Related Manufacturing Ronald D. Wine OH President Miami Valley Economic Development Coalition Miscellaneous Business Business Boosters Bradley D. Wine MD Attorney Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky Lawyers & Lobbyists Lawyers/Law Firms William Wise TX Ex-Chair & Ex-CEO El Paso Energy Corp. Energy & Natural Resources Oil & Gas Mr. & Mrs. Blair & Laura P. Woodall TX Owner Woodall Holdings Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment David F. Work TX Chair Energy Virtual Partners Energy & Natural Resources Oil & Gas Aldona Z. Wos MD NC Retired Physician Self-employed Health Health Professionals Robert Wright VA Chair Emeritus Dimensions International Communications & Electronics Computers Mr. Robert Jones Wright TX Managing General Partner Medical Cities Dallas, Ltd. Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Real Estate Mr. & Mrs. Charles J. Wyly Jr. TX Partner Ranger Capital Group Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Kay Wyma TX Homemaker None Other Other Barry D. Wynn SC CEO Colonial Group Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment Bracebridge H. Young Jr. MA Partner Mariner Investment Group Finance, Insurance & Real Estate Finance & Investment John H. Young TX President John H. Young, Inc. Energy & Natural Resources Oil & Gas Rodger Young MI Attorney Young & Susser Lawyers & Lobbyists Lawyers/Law Firms Fausto Yturria Jr. TX Owner Yturria ranch Agriculture Livestock & Poultry Dr. Zachariah P. Zachariah FL Director of Cardiology Holy Cross Hospital Health Health Professionals Mammen P. Zachariah MD FL Physician Holy Cross Hospital Health Health Professionals Kenneth B. Zangara NM Owner Ken Zangara Dodge Transportation Automotive Frederick S. Zeidman TX Chair Seitel, Inc. Energy & Natural Resources Oil & Gas Robert E. Zincke TX Executive Vice President Kroger Co. Miscellaneous Business Food & Beverage George C. Zoley FL Chair & CEO Wackenhut Corrections Corp. Miscellaneous Business Misc. Services