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removed Adelman's connection with Bush-Cheney to talk page
In 2001, Democrats in Montana criticized PFA for running an [[astroturf]] campaign in support of energy deregulation. An Associated Press story reported how the campaign worked: “A pollster calls you and asks questions about energy issues. Then he asks if he can write a letter summarizing the conversation and mail it to you. A few days later, an envelope arrives containing a letter addressed to Sen. Conrad Burns, R-Mont., on personalized stationery and prepared for your signature. The letter tells Burns you want no price controls and even fewer restrictions placed on electric power companies. You might agree with that, or you might not. . . . No two letters are identical, so there is no immediate indication of a letter campaign orchestrated by distant political operatives. It looks like a grassroots response, but it isn’t.” When asked in an interview, Tony Feather refused to say who was paying for the letter-writing campaign.
Several high-level Bush supporters and advisors have been associated with Progress for America. [[Ken Adelman]], who would go on to become the [[Bush-Cheney ’04]] campaign director, spoke to the ''Washington Post'' in 2002 and identified himself as the group’s chairman. However, Adelman claimed he “knows neither the organization’s budget nor its sources of financial support.” The address that Adelman provided to the Post for PFA’s offices turned out to be in the “high-rent Lafayette Center complex in downtown Washington” - the same building where the offices of FLS-DCI are located.
===PFA spins off 527 group===
