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The '''Sam Adams Alliance''' is a Chicago group which states on its website that it "strives to educate and inform citizens about the important political issues necessary to maintaining a free society, including government accountability, government transparency, property rights protection, fiscal responsibility, free speech, and citizen initiative and referendum rights."<ref>Sam Adams Alliance, [http://www.samadamsalliance.org/about/id.1/default.asp About Us"], accessed February 2008.</ref> | The '''Sam Adams Alliance''' is a Chicago group which states on its website that it "strives to educate and inform citizens about the important political issues necessary to maintaining a free society, including government accountability, government transparency, property rights protection, fiscal responsibility, free speech, and citizen initiative and referendum rights."<ref>Sam Adams Alliance, [http://www.samadamsalliance.org/about/id.1/default.asp About Us"], accessed February 2008.</ref> | ||
| − | According to a 2010 article in AlterNet, the Alliance provides | + | According to a 2010 article in AlterNet, the Alliance provides over 75 percent of the funding for the libertarian conservative group [[American Majority]].<ref name=gm>George Monbiot, [http://www.alternet.org/media/149197/are_right-wing_libertarian_internet_trolls_getting_paid_to_dumb_down_online_conversations/?page=1 "Are Right-Wing Libertarian Internet Trolls Getting Paid to Dumb Down Online Conversations?"] AlterNet, Dec. 15, 2010.</ref> |
==Personnel== | ==Personnel== | ||
Revision as of 17:33, 18 November 2013
The Sam Adams Alliance is a Chicago group which states on its website that it "strives to educate and inform citizens about the important political issues necessary to maintaining a free society, including government accountability, government transparency, property rights protection, fiscal responsibility, free speech, and citizen initiative and referendum rights."[1]
According to a 2010 article in AlterNet, the Alliance provides over 75 percent of the funding for the libertarian conservative group American Majority.[2]
Contents
Personnel
Board includes
- Eric O'Keefe, CEO & Chairman of the Board
- Joe Lehman (president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy)
- Eric Tubbs
- Leo Linbeck III (CEO of Aquinas Companies)
Staff includes
- Yvonne Ralsky, Executive Director (former Senior Vice President at Fleishman-Hillard, Director of Media Outreach at U.S. Department of State, Public Affairs at U.S. Department of Labor)
- Anne Sorock, Director of Marketing (who wrote an interesting op ed for the Daily Caller in March 2011[3])
Contact Details
The Sam Adams Alliance & Foundation
20 N. Wacker Drive, Suite 3330 (this is also the address for Americans for Limited Government)
Chicago, IL 60606
Tel: 312-920-0080
Fax: 312-920-0090
Email: info AT samadamsalliance.org
Website: http://www.samadamsalliance.org
Articles and Resources
Sources
- ↑ Sam Adams Alliance, About Us", accessed February 2008.
- ↑ George Monbiot, "Are Right-Wing Libertarian Internet Trolls Getting Paid to Dumb Down Online Conversations?" AlterNet, Dec. 15, 2010.
- ↑ Anne Sorock What union protesters and Tea Partiers have in common, The Daily Caller, March 23, 2011
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