So the Judeo-Christian Council For Constitutional Restoration is throwing a little brouhaha from activist legislators, where I'm sure they'll be plenty of wingnuttery to go round.
Where did this organization come from, and who is funding it? You may (or may not) be suprised...
(More below the fold)
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Via Paperweight's blog)
Note: I reposted paperweight's blog entry in it's entirety because I believe it's important that we find someone willing to investigate these connections.
"You'll notice if you click through both hyperlinks above that they both go to stopactivistjudges.org, which has all of the conference information. Well, that makes sense: both of those websites were both set up by Media Services Group, a Fundamentalist Republican PR firm in Lufkin, Texas. And here's the really funny thing: stopactivistjudges.org was set up on Feb-1-2005, three weeks before jcccr.org was set up, and six weeks before the first JCCCR news release. One might almost think that the JCCCR was a bogus shell organization, set up for purely political purposes. Of course, that would require that the people running it all be members of other organizations that do the same thing.
Oh, wait. The "Interim Director" is Rick Scarborough, of Vision America, one of MSG's clients, and also of Lufkin, Texas. And the Executive Committee of the JCCCR?"
* Rev. Jerry Falwell
* Michael Farris (Home School Legal Defense Association)
* former Vatican Ambassador Ray Flynn
* Alveda King (King for America)
* Rabbi Daniel Lapin (Toward Tradition)
* Ron Luce (Teen Mania)
* Dave Meyer (Joyce Meyer Ministries)
* Fr. Frank Pavone (Priests for Life)
* Dr. Rick Scarborough (Vision America - Interim Chairman, Judeo-Christian Council for Constitutional Restoration)
* Phyllis Schlafly (Eagle Forum)
* Thomas Smith (America 21)
* Mike Valerio
The PR contact for the JCCCR? Don Feder, also of Vision America.
I'm sure there are other contacts in the list of MSG's clients, and there must be clear lines between the various religious leaders and the politicians, but I'm out of time for this morning. Any takers on whether the corporate media notices that the JCCCR is a fake organization, running a fake conference purely for PR purposes, starring the same group of people who do this over and over again?
I'm impressed, actually: MSG will have gone from zero to conference in just over 2 months. I wonder who's paying them?"
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ABOUT THE CONFERENCE: http://www.stopactivistjudges.org/
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS INCLUDE
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, David C. Gibbs, Esq., attorney for Terri Schiavo's parents, Chief Justice Roy Moore and former Ambassador Alan Keyes.
(mrc: Keyes and DeLay foaming at the same microphone? This oughta' be good!!)
From their brochure-ware website:
"Activist Judges are undermining democracy, devastating families and assaulting Judeo-Christian morality"
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"THIS WILL BE AN ACTION-ORIENTED CONFERENCE SEEKING SOLUTIONS, AS WELL AS THE BEGINNING OF A BROAD-BASED EFFORT TO SAVE AMERICA FROM THE JUDGES"
mrC