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==Election Activities==
===Election Cycle 2012Dark Money Shell Game to Influence California Anti-Union Ballot Measure; Other Anti-Union Activities ===Americans for Job Security has contributed [http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000024044 $15.8 million] towards conservative candidates backing a "pro-growth, pro-jobs" agenda. The majority of these contributions went towards attacking Democrats.
On November 5th, 2012, the day before the election, it became public an enforcement action by California's elections board revealed that Americans for Job Security had provided $11 million to a California political committee that supports spent that same amount supporting California Proposition 32, a piece of anti-union legislation that seeks to eliminate the deduction of dues from a workers worker's payroll. <ref> Lagos, Marissa [http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/True-source-of-11M-contribution-revealed-4009565.php The Source of $11 Million Contribution Revealed] Accessed November 5th, 2012</ref> It was further made clear that AJS had initially received the $11 million it gave to the political committee from another dark money non-profit group, the [[Center to Protect Patient Rights]], implying implicating it as a part of a campaign money laundering shell game.<ref name= "PRWatch">Brendan Fischer, [http://www.prwatch.org/news/2012/11/11845/california-elections-board-peels-back-layer-dark-money-onion-finds-more-onion/ "California Elections Board Peels Back Layer of Dark Money Onion, Finds More Onion"], "PR Watch", November 6, 2012. </ref>
In 2011, the group launched a coordinated effort against Big Labor "Infesting the Workplace". AJS activities included placing a large inflatable rat outside of the National Labor Relations Board headquarters, and buying ads before, during, and after the October 11th Republican primary debate in New Hampshire <ref> Alex Burns: [Americans for Job Security to Slam "Greedy Union Bosses" in Debate http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/65610.html], Politico, 10/11/11. Accessed August 6th, 2012. </ref> The campaign also included a site, http://www.richietherat.com, but site activity stopped by the end of the year.
===Election Cycle 2012===
Americans for Job Security has spent [http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000024044 $15.8 million] towards conservative candidates backing a "pro-growth, pro-jobs" agenda. The majority of these contributions went towards attacking Democrats.
The group's first buy in 2012 was an attack ad aimed at influencing the Wisconsin Senate Primary. On August 2nd, Americans for Job Security made a $462,000 dollar ad buy <ref> Kevin Brennan: [http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/archives/2012/08/americans-for-j-1.php Americans for Job Security hits Hovde in Wisconsin] August 2nd, 2012. Accessed August 6th, 2012 </ref> attacking Eric Hovde, a candidate opposing Tommy Thompson and Mark Neumann. The Ad, entitled [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amgsiOCX6Sc Hovde Stimulus], accuses Hovde of supporting the 2009 Stimulus, and taking stimulus money through ePlus, one of the companies he invested in. Hovde claims that the ad was untrue, and that his company never accepted stimulus money, and that AJS was illegally coordinating with the Thompson campaign. Americans for Job Security once did work for Persuasion Partners, a PR firm which acted as a consultant for the Thompson campaign <ref> Patrick Marley: [http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/hovde-threatens-lawsuit-over-ad-accusing-him-taking-stimulus-money-6g6bvv5-164913346.html Hovde Threatens Lawsuit over Ad accusing him of taking stimulus money] Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8/3/2012. Accessed August 6th, 2012. </ref>
