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*[[Jack Abramoff]]'s clients, the Chiefs of the Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas and the Coushattas tribe of Louisiana both gave $25,000 in 2001 and AATF received a cut of funds for laundering the money.<ref>Philip Shenon, [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/10/politics/10abramoff.html?ei=5070&en=1870d0e1b1c33db4&ex=1149998400&pagewanted=print $25,000 to Lobby Group Is Tied to Access to Bush], The New York Times, March 10, 2006.</ref>
Big tobacco companies used Norquist's tax pledge as a cover to lobby lawmakers against cigarette taxes. That was in the 1990s. Now, however, it's questioning that the ATR group still remains somewhat in control of the Republican party. An inside look at the funding for Norquist's group reveals that 66 percent is coming from only two non-profit organizations. The [[Center to Protect Patient Rights]] donated $4,189,000 to ATR in 2010, 34 percent of the total amount of funding. [[Crossroads GPS]] donated $4,000,000 to ATR in the same year, 32.46 percent of the budget. The staggering amount of money these billionaire-backed organizations donated accounts for well over half the total budget.<ref>Lee Fang, [http://www.thenation.com/blog/171475/analysis-grover-norquists-budget-largely-financed-just-two-billionaire-backed-nonprofits# Grover Norquist's Budget is Largely Financed by Two Billionaire-backed Nonprofits], The Nation, November 27, 2012.</ref>
==Tax and spend ... for war==
Shortly after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York City, the ''New Republic'' reported that Norquist had been working to broker a "strange alliance" between the Republican Party and radical Islam.<ref>Franklin Foer, [http://www.tnrnewrepublic.com/111201article/politics/83799/foer111201norquist-radical-islam-cair Fevered Pitch], New Republic, November 12, 2001.html] </ref> In February 2003, however, ATR weighed in to support the Bush administration's war drive against Iraq. According to the ''New York Times'', "Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, said his organization had sent every state legislature a proposed measure for adoption the day fighting starts that supports Mr. Bush's actions."<ref>Michael Janofsky, [http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/01/politics/01PEAC.html?ex=1045136269&ei=1&en=f7706b72d4e51e34Antiwar Sentiment in County Seats and City Halls], The New York Times, February 1, 2003.</ref>
==KStreetProject.com==
K Street Project is "non-partisan research of political affiliation, employment background, and political donations of members in Washington DC's premier lobbying firms, trade associations, and industries." Ironically, it shares its name with the [[K Street Project|project]] by the Republican Party to pressure Washington lobbying firms to hire Republicans in top positions, and to reward loyal GOP lobbyists with access to influential officials. That projects was launched in 1995, by Republican strategist and ATF founder Grover Norquist working with former House majority leader Tom DeLay.
While many of the resources on this site appear non-partisan, there is also a prominent link to [[Daniel J. Flynn]]'s report on liberal bias in higher education. <ref>kstreetproject, [http://www.kstreetproject.com/index.php?content=KSTProjectIs a Dedicated Server Worth What You Pay?], organizational report, (no date listed).</ref>
Author of ''Intellectual Morons: How Ideology Makes Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas'' (Crown Forum, 2004) and ''Why the Left Hates America: Exposing the Lies That Have Obscured Our Nation's Greatness'' ([[Prima Forum]], 2002). The latter is a Crown imprint which publishes conservative, current event titles. [http://www.randomhouse.com/crown/crownforum/] such as Flynn, [[Ann Coulter]] and [[Brent Bozell|L. Brent Bozell III]], founder and president of the [[Media Research Center]]. <ref>The Crown Publishing Group, [http://www.randomhouse.com/crown/crownforum/ Crown Forum], organizational website, accessed May 23, 2013.</ref> Flynn served from 1994-1997 as program officer for [[Young America's Foundation]], from 1997-2003 as executive director of [[Accuracy in Academia]], and from 2004-2005 as director of the Campus Leadership Program at the [[Leadership Institute]].<ref>Flynn Files, [http://www.flynnfiles.com/bio.phpBiography], organizational website, accessed May 23, 2013.</ref>
==Ronald Reagan Legacy Project==
==Property Rights Alliance==
This group works to influence legislation in opposition to the estate tax,[http://www.propertyrightsalliance.org/index.php?content=cwa_alert] environmental protection, licensing restrictions, Federal purchase of land for national parks and wildlife areas, broadcast requirements for multicssting and drug importation, as well as seizure by eminent domain. <ref>Property Rights Alliance, [http://www.propertyrightsalliance.org/indexabout About], organizational website, accessed May 22, 2013.php?content=issues]</ref>
==Alliance for Worker Freedom==
The "Alliance for Worker Freedom" is a "special project" of Americans for Tax Reform. The name is really a misnomer, as the Alliance opposes unions. At the Web site of the AWF, it says "AWF works to raise awareness of labor union abuses within the political system by educating movement conservatives on the threats to liberty posed by labor unions." AWF opposes collective bargaining.<ref>Alliance for Worker Freedom [http://www.workerfreedom.org/Collective-Bargaining-a2785 Collective Bargaining], organizational Web site, accessed August 27, 2010</ref> AWF opposes the Employee Free Choice Act.<ref>Alliance for Worker Freedom [http://www.workerfreedom.org/Card-Check--The-Employee-Free-Choice-Act-a2784 The Employee Free Choice Act], organizational Web site, accessed August 27, 2010</ref> [http://www.workerfreedom.org/index.php?content=mission]
==The Media Freedom Project==
==The American Shareholders Project==
This now defunct project had the mission of providing a "voice to people...in the public policy debates that impact" savings and investments. This included opposition to the estate tax and a "fairer, simpler", e.g. less progressive tax rate. Other former endeavors included, fighting net neutrality, opposing limitations on "grassroots" internet lobbying, extending lower taxes on capital gains and dividends, supporting Samuel Alito for Supreme Court, and supporting the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA).In their words, "Approving CAFTA will reward the democracies in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic for rejecting the Communists, and will send the message to the region and the world that those who adopt free market policies will prosper, and those who adopt Leftist anti-American protectionist policies will fail."{{Citation needed}}
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