Attention ER &researchers. What do we know about the Arlington Group?

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The Arlington Group's co-founders are Wildmon and Paul Weyrich, chairman of the Free Congress Foundation, a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C. A coordinating committee, it has no formal business structure; its meetings are private and members are prohibited from releasing a membership list, although many have talked openly about their membership.

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Money pours in from out of state

Between January 2005 and last month, Blackwell collected more than $3.8 million, surpassing Petro by more than $1 million and raising only slightly less than his Democratic opponent, U.S. Rep. Ted Strickland.

A report by Ohio Citizen Action found that more than $900,000 of Blackwell's money came from out of state - just short of what Petro, Strickland and Democrat Bryan Flannery combined raised from out-of-state donors.

Blackwell also had far more out-of-state contributors who gave the maximum $10,000, with 29 such donations.

and supporter of extreme reich-wing groups in other countries, also a member of the CNP. Oh, yes CNP and Blackwell together again. Same old whores in a different dress.

I'd be many members of this group favored that view, and may still do so in private, but are willing to forgo that denial if they
can persecute a group that will generate more $$.

Because in persecutorial religion it is always about the power and $$$ first and foremost. The bias of the day is the one that brings
in the most cash.

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Looks like a bunch of major scumbags.

Here's some links:

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlington_Group>

<http://www.theocracywatch.org/rallying_cry_times.htm>

<http://www.coralridge.org/PR_ArlingtonGroup.htm>

<http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=1407>

Here's a link to a RW website who seem to love this group:

<http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/weyrich/041203>

When I finish the daily thread I'll come back here and read.

http://www.coralridge.org/PR_ArlingtonGroup.htm

So we know that they're a coalition of so-called "pro-family" groups and we know that they're connected with the FRC (which I assume is a member of the coalition).


This next link talks about the history of the group http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/weyrich/041203



This page connects them to the "Traditional Values Coalition" http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=1407



I think you get the picture. It's part of the usual warren of interconnected "councils", "groups", "coalitions", etc. that are probably not near as big as they appear to be and that are probably all run by the same small group of people. The problem, of course, is that they've managed to get a disproportionate voice in the media and now, a disproportionate amount of political power.

I suspect that a number of these types of groups (not necessarily these specific ones) will be caught up in the growing Republican scandals.

multimillion dollar financial holdings. Pretty good for an Attorney General of a Rustbelt state. Any chance any one could do a Cunningham exploration about him--just where did all that money come from?

The first link is from a discussion thread on Randi Rhodes site.
Thread on Randi Rhodes site.
http://forums.therandirhodesshow.com/index.php?s=46d1ecbd95396430021b0a5691adac72&showtopic=86202&pid=838547&st=0&#entry838547

Below are two far more interesting pieces. The question is about the money and the tax-exempt status of the donations to Blackwell. What is the tax status of the Arlington Group? How many of the members of the group are tax-exempt, yet have given money to Blackwell and similar interest candidates?
The first are some snips from an article on a site called the "Secular Left". The last link is from a piece on The Free Press site. I think I'd start with that link, then to the Secular Left site.

Rev. Rod Parsley comes outside his lush estate to give his side in IRS electioneering complaint

According to Franklin County, the World Harvest Church property, purchased for $207,000 in 1986 is appraised at $1,000,600 and the land and buildings combined are worth $27,570,000 The church pays no property taxes.

Rev. Parsley claims he nor his church will be partisan but his comments in other venues have been different and his actions seem to put the lie to his non-partisan public expressions.

The spring of 2005 has been a banner for Columbus' tele-revivialist cum spiritual adviser to the Republican Party, Rod Parsley, Pastor of World Harvest Church in Canal Winchester; interviews in James Dobson's daily online news commentary Citizen Link and Chuck Colson's Breakpoint; features in Charisma Magazine, the Scaife owned Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, the Columbus Dispatch, the Other Paper and the Newark Advocate; and citations in the New York Times and Dallas Morning News.
Also, there was the op-ed in the Charlotte Observer and the photo-ops with Sen. Sam Brownback. He was hobnobbing with old friends Ken Blackwell, Cincinnati moral crusader Phil Burress, former Ohio Congressman, Bob McEwen, former Alabama Supreme Justice Roy Moore, Texas Governor Rick Perry, and Family Research Council President Tony Perkins. Let's not forget his Center for Moral Clarity, the Ohio Restoration Project, and his Patriot Pastors. And, of course, the launch of his 12-city Silent No More book tour at World Harvest on April 16 which brought to town rightwing writer and TV starlet Ann Coulter, Christian insult comedian Brad Stine, and another old friend, former UN Ambassador, presidential candidate, and recreational mosher Allen Keyes.


Parsley is also a member of the Arlington Group, a coalition organized in the mid-1990s by Free Congress Foundation CEO Paul Weyrich. This gang of heavy hitters includes James Dobson, Don Wildmon (American Family Assoc), Tony Perkins (Family Research Council), Janet Folger (Faith2Action, former director of The Center for Reclaiming American, and former legislative director of Ohio Right to Life), Randy Thomas (Exodus International), Phil Burress, Matt Staver (Liberty Counsel), Richard Land (Southern Baptist Convention), and, not surprisingly, Ken Blackwell.

http://www.secularleft.us/archives/2006/01/rev_rod_parsley.html

Article from The Free Press where the above info came from. "An Evening With Rod Parsley"
http://www.freepress.org/journal.php?strFunc=display&strID=301&strJournal=34

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