AHHHHHH!!!!! Nancy Photenfluffer is back!!!!

During the Clinton years, she joined Citizens for a Sound Economy as Executive Vice President for Policy. With her then-husband Daniel Mitchell, a Heritage Foundation economist, she co-hosted the call-in show Mitchells in the Morning on National Empowerment Television, run by Heritage Foundation founder Paul Weyrich. From 1996 to 2001, she was the primary lobbyist for Koch Industries, which was facing 97 indictments for a total of up to $352 million in fines for illegally releasing 91 metric tons of benzene, a known carcinogen, from its refinery in Corpus Christi, Texas. Koch donated $800,000 to George W. Bush's 2000 presidential campaign, and the new United States Department of Justice under Bush dropped 88 of the charges. Koch then pled guilty to falsifying documents and settled lawsuits for a fraction of that amount.<2>

While working for Koch, she divorced Mitchell and married Gordon Smith's (R-OR)'s chief of staff Kurt Pfotenhauer, now a mortgage-industry lobbyist. In 2001, she was named President of the Independent Women's Forum (IWF). In 2003, she also became President of Americans for Prosperity, until joining the McCain campaign in 2007.