Chris Cillizza profiles the new American Action Network and the people behind it here today. [Fred] Malek, who serves as the group’s chairman, said that things began to come together in August as his preferred person to run the day-to-day operations — former senator Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) — made it clear that he was willing […]
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Group formed to promote ideas
The Times discusses the American Action Network in this story today, saying the group will be a conservative counterpart of the Center for American Progress. Like the Center for American Progress, the tax-exempt American Action Network will be divided into separate units. The Action Forum, which will be the policy arm, is a 501(c)3 group, […]
Updates to the John Edwards story
The Hill reports on Andrew Young’s 20/20 apperance here. Also mentioned in the ABC broadcast were the hundreds of thousands of dollars in checks allegedly written by longtime Edwards backer Bunny Mellon, the Upperville, Va.-based widow of philanthropist Paul Mellon. Young said the checks were sometimes delivered inside boxes of chocolates. Young attests that it […]