USA Next

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Ad created by USA Next.

USA Next is a political organization; it is the same thing as the United Seniors Association which was created in 1991 by Richard Viguerie. They have been promoting the George W. Bush Administration plan to replace a large part of the Social Security program with individual stock market accounts. Its funding connections are described here. It has spend on the order of $10 million on anti-Social Security ads which try to link Bush plan opponent American Association of Retired Persons (the AARP), one of the largest and most credible non-profits in the country, to gay marriage and anti-war efforts so as to reduce their credibility.

A USA Next advertisement featured a picture of a gay couple getting married. They did so without the consent of the couple. One member of the couple is a Daily Kos poster. The couple brought suit against USA Next as a result of its use of the picture in their advertisement without their consent and has won a temporary restraining order halting the distribution of the advertisement and showing that the judge believes that is a strong likelihood of success on the merits in the case.

Personnel

Charlie Jarvis - President and CEO
Chris LaCivita
Richard Viguerie
Art Linkletter
David Keene - lobbyist for USA Next, chairman of American Conservative Union
Sandra Butler - Board Member
Anne R. Keast
Ron Robinson
A. Lee Barrett Jr.
James Wooton
Anne L. Edwards
William Brindley - Executive Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer
Kathy Diamond - Vice President for Member Services
Mary Mahoney - Vice President for Legislative Matters
Kathleen Pattern - Vice President for Marketing
Rick Reed - in charge of media production
Fox News Channel - Charlie Jarvis and Art Linkletter have appeared on FOX to say how much they hate the AARP .

Affiliations

Stevens Reed Curcio & Potholm - same media firm that devised Swift Boat Veterans for Truth ads
Creative Response Concepts - public relations firm, worked for Swift Boat Veterans for Truth
Regnery Publishing - publishing company that produced anti-John Kerry book for the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth group.

External Links and Sources

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This page was last modified 20:00, 9 October 2005 by dKosopedia user PatriotismOverProfits. Based on work by Andrew Oh-Willeke and dKosopedia user(s) Patrioticliberal. Content is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.