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{{#badges:RealEconomyProject|Front groupsstub}}'''Stop Too Big To Fail''' is a [[front group]] for the financial industry, working to block financial reform. In April, 2010, the group spent $1.6 million to advertise targeting Majority Leader [[Harry Reid]], Sen. [[Claire McCaskill ]] (D-MO), and Sen. [[Mark Warner ]] (D-VA) in ways to make it appear that liberals should oppose financial reform. Stop Too Big To Fail is run by another front group, [[Consumers for Competitive Choice]].<ref>Justin Elliott [http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/04/rent-a-front_stop_too_big_to_fail_fights_reform.php?ref=fpa Rent-A-Front: New Group Wages Stealth Battle Against Wall Street Reform], TPMMuckraker/Talking Points Memo, April 21, 2010</ref>

Economist Simon Johnson was approached to participate on a conference call organized for Stop Too Big To Fail, by representatives of [[DCI Group]], the Washington , D.C. [[astroturf]]/[[lobbying ]] firm that has worked for everyone right-wing causes from the [[Swift Boat Veterans for Truth|Swift Boat Veterans]] to the Burmese junta to the [[tobacco industry]]. Johnson initially agreed to work with the group, but shortly after demanded the group stop using his name and image after seeing that the group was pushing an anti-financial reform message. Johnson, who is an MIT professor and former IMF economist, had previously participated in a Stop Too Big To Fail media conference call. The group had been touting his presumed support.<ref>Justin Elliott [http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/04/stop_too_big_to_fail_group_yanks_references_to_eco.php Stop Too Big to Fail Group Yanks References to Economist from Web Site], Talking Points Memo (TPM Muckraker), April 21, 2010</ref>

*Co-founder [[Robert K. Johnson]] ("Bob Johnson, ") is an Indianapolis lawyerwho represented telecom companies. Formerly head <ref>David Lazarus [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/11/02/BUGGMFHGIT1.DTL Cable 'coalitions' sketchy], San Francisco ''Chronicle'', November 2, 2005</ref> He was formerly the president of the telecom-industry front group [[Consumers for Cable Choice]]. *[[Sam Zamarripa]], a former Democratic state senator in Georgia who now owns a private equity firm and is co-founder of Atlanta's United Americas Bank. ==Contact details=="Stop Too Big to Fail" is a project of Consumers for Competitive Choice, a 501(c)(4) organization<br>P.O. Box 329<br>Greenwood, IN 46142<br>Email: media@stoptoobigtofail.com <br>Phone: 866.285.6216<br>

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