Sunday, August 5, 2007
David and Gary: Citizens United
One of the many questions missing from The Akron Beacon Journal's coverage of Gary Taylor is: How can the a man reconcile his professed love of Christ to the actions of life by supporting evil doer groups like Citizens United and the American Center For Law and Justice? The answer would be the ACLJ is on track to making Gary Taylor's InfoCision Management Corporation $10 million this year alone.Another evil doer associate of Gary Taylor's not mentioned by the Akron Beacon Journal top notch journalist is David N. Bossie. David is the president of the extremist group Citizens United. His other organizations are The Presidential Coalition and National Committee For Faith and Family with Michael Reagan. One of David's first acts at Citizens United was to hire the radical Christian telemarketing firm InfoCision Management Corporation to help to destroy President Bill Clinton. InfoCision handles all the fundraising needs of David's various organizations to this day.
David was chief investigator for the Whitewater hearings held by U. S. Senator Lauch Faircloth, and was an investigator for Representative Dan Burton (R-IN), the chairman of the House investigation into alleged Clinton campaign finance abuses. The Clinton's were found to be telling the truth and no charges were filed.
In early May of 1998, David was fired for selectively editing and releasing to media the transcripts of prison conversations of former Clinton administration official Webster Hubbell that created the impression that Hillary Clinton was involved in billing irregularities at the Rose Law Firm where she and Hubbell both worked. Again, the Clinton's were found to be telling to truth and no charges filed. According to the May, 1998 Washington Post the removal of Bossie "..came as Gingrich sought to contain the damage, condemning 'the circus' that took place within Indiana Republican Dan Burton's Government Oversight and Reform Committee and scolding Burton at a closed Republican Conference meeting for refusing to say that he [Rep. Burton] was embarrassed by the episode. Speaker Newt Gingrich said "I'm embarrassed for you [Rep. Burton], I'm embarrassed for myself, and I'm embarrassed for the [House Republican] conference at the circus that went on at your committee."
David Bossie is currently having InfoCision call people to offer "co producer" credits for a small donation for is latest smear piece call "Hillary the Movie" According to the website: Citizens United Productions is producing a full-length feature documentary about Senator Hillary Clinton. In the spirit of "Celsius 41.11", the film will include interviews with renowned Clinton expert Dick Morris and others. This project aims to expose the truth about her conflicts in the past and her liberal plot for the future.
As for the group Presidential Coalition, David and Gary are dreaming new and innovative slogans for full page ads in USA Today, all paid for by other peoples money. The Good Christian Gary Taylor is not attacking poverty and hunger or lack of health care. He instead has attacked President Jimmy Carter, calling him the "Worst President." A question the Akron Beacon Journal could have asked is When was the last Habitat For Humanity house built by Gary Taylor?
As for David Bossie's other organization, the National Committee For Faith Family claims one of its goals is "to restore decency, morality, and the sanctity of family. It is our goal to raise public and political awareness of the filth and anti-Christian bigotry in America today."
Still no word from David or from Gary Taylor, of InfoCision, on how creating lies and deceit to destroy people they deemed not "Christian Enough", (As in the case of the Clinton, Gore and John Kerry) in order to gain power is in keeping with the teachings of Christ.
Fred Thompson Reveals His Finances
Republican Fred Thompson, (Pictured with his wife Jeri.) who has all but said he's running for president, filed the financial report for his "testing the waters" committee this week. It revealed he raised just under $3.5 million in June. Unfortunately the Center For Responsive Politics researchers, who like to throw such reports into databases and analyze them, Thompson's report to the IRS isn't in an electronic format that we can easily process. (His "Friends of Fred Thompson" exploratory committee is a 527 committee, which reports to the IRS, not yet a campaign committee that would report to the FEC.) If you'd like to see who Thompson's donors are and where they live and work, the raw filing is on the IRS's website. *IRS filing for Friends of Fred Thompson: http://forms.irs.gov/politicalThompson got a big home-state boost with almost half the money came from Tennessee donors - $1.67 million from 789 donors.
Although Thompson is expected to bill himself as a populist outsider when he enters the presidential race in September, the contribution report that his aides released is peppered with donations from the inside-the-Beltway crowd.
That included a $2,300 contribution from Douglas Feith, the former undersecretary of defense and one of the most vocal advocates of the war in Iraq, and a donation from David Bossie, the head of Citizens United, a Washington-based conservative grass-roots group.
Friday, August 3, 2007
The Truth
Thursday, August 2, 2007
A new HQ for InfoCision
For 2 1/2 years, employees at InfoCision have been bursting at the seams at their Bath Township headquarters and 2 nearby buildings across the street on Springside Drive.
InfoCision, which has been looking for a new location to create a campus-like headquarters, will spend $20.8 million on a new 160,000-square foot building near its existing location on 15 acres.
The new headquarters for the 25-year-old firm will include company offices, information technology and call center operations, employee break areas and an auditorium. It will also allow the company to enlarge its employee fitness center and on-site physician program and add a child-care facility for employees.
The company, which specializes in fundraising for nonprofit and Christian organizations and volunteer recruitment, customer care and commercial sales, plans to add another 300 jobs to the headquarters in the next 18 months. About 240 employees will remain at a call center in Green. Companywide, InfoCision employs 3,700 in Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
''It took over 2 1/2 years and we went through an exhaustive search to have a corporate headquarters where we can all be together,'' InfoCision founder and Chairman Gary Taylor said. ''Our goal has been to consolidate into one location.''
Company officials, who had other Ohio cities trying to woo the firm away from Summit County, had said they wanted to remain in the Akron area with a parcel of land that would give them high visibility.
Area officials, in turn, wanted to make sure to keep the second largest privately held teleservices firm in the country here. Its current location is in a joint economic development district. Bath Township receives property taxes from the business while Akron and Fairlawn split the income taxes of employees.
''Companies can locate virtually anywhere in the world. Keeping a company like this and having people at the top like Gary (Taylor) is vitally important,'' said Plusquellic.
The new InfoCision headquarters will remain in that JEDD and front Interstate 77. It will be accessible off Cleveland-Massillon Road.
As part of the deal, the city of Akron has a letter of intent to purchase 7.92 acres of land owned by the Summit County Mental Retardation and Development Disabilities Board for $3.5 million to then sell it to InfoCision. The JEDD board will provide a $1.44 million zero-interest loan to finance the relocation of MRDD operations to several new satellite locations. The MRDD, which Plusquellic said had already wanted to decentralize its operations, has 12 to 18 months to vacate its building.
The city of Akron also will purchase 2.73 acres at 286 N. Cleveland-Massillon Road, which currently has an 18,000 square foot building, to sell it to InfoCision.
InfoCision officials hope to complete the new building by mid-2009, at which time it will vacate the current headquarters building it owns. Also as part of the agreement, the JEDD board will buy InfoCision's current headquarters building and remarket it.
Once completed, the employees from the headquarters and the leased space on Springside will move to the new headquarters. The company will have green space and sidewalks for employees to move among buildings.
Plusquellic said while he was pleased to announce InfoCision's expansion, he was sorry that it took so long to come to fruition. The city also purchased land along White Pond Drive, which was another possibility for the InfoCision project. That land will still be used for a planned office park, Plusquellic said.
It was a busy day for Taylor, who was also part of a press conference at the University of Akron earlier in the day announcing that he and his wife Karen had made a significant but undisclosed donation to have the proposed new football stadium named InfoCision Stadium.
With construction to begin in October, the university is continuing to buy up residential and business property on the stadium's 12-acre footprint east of Lee Jackson Field and north of East Exchange Street. UA officials have said they will go to court to invoke eminent domain if they need to.
And the new stadium project does not include retail shops or restaurants, as was once envisioned. UA President Luis Proenza said it was deemed more cost effective to use the space for classrooms.
Over the next two years, the university also will continue to spend at least $375,000 a year to maintain the 66-year-old Rubber Bowl, which the university bought from the city of Akron for $1 in 1971.
Proenza said no decision has been made yet on the Rubber Bowl, but it will almost certainly be sold.
UA officials also refused to disclose the size of the gifts from Summa and from Gary and Karen Taylor, citing their requests for privacy.
The Taylors also asked that the stadium be named for their company and not for them.
Later Wednesday, Gary Taylor said the gift included ''multiple millions'' spread over 20 years. UA named the Taylor Institute for Direct Marketing for him when he initially gave $1.5 million. He later gave another $2.1 million.
Bill O'Reilly criticized Free Republic comments about Clinton despite objectionable comments on his own site
On the July 31 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, host Bill O'Reilly again attacked liberal blog Daily Kos as a "hate website" and said "[i]t is the Ku Klux Klan." He also criticized right-wing website Free Republic for posting "vile, hateful stuff," saying to Free Republic spokesman Kristinn Taylor: "[W]e pulled a bunch of stuff off your website today and it's pretty vile; it's pretty awful. You've got some pretty sick people posting -- a couple of examples: 'Homosexuals are dogs.' 'I hate blacks.' '[Sen.] Hillary Clinton [D-NY] should be assassinated.' 'A stray bullet should kill her' -- and on and on and on. ... [T]his is all on your website today." Guest and former Rep. Harold Ford Jr. (D-TN) later said of these examples: "[Y]ou don't find people posting that on a Fox News website." O'Reilly responded: "No, you don't, because we have standards." But on O'Reilly's own website, BillOReilly.com, as of 1 p.m. ET on August 1, comments attacking Clinton previously documented by AMERICAblog.com remain. Read more
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