HURRICANE
KATRINA Kathryn Cramer New Orleans Levee's and FEMA
Blackwater
mercenaries + New Orleans
9/11 Pentagon "witness" with
PNAC
Gary Bauer, a former Presidential candidate, happened to be driving
into Washington, D.C. that morning, to a press conference on
Capitol Hill."I was in a massive traffic jam, hadn't moved more
than a hundred yards in twenty minutes. ... I had just passed the
closest place the Pentagon is to the exit on 395 . . . when all of
a sudden I heard the roar of a jet
engine.""I looked at the woman sitting in the car next to
me. She had this startled look on her face. We were all thinking
the same thing. We looked out the front of our windows to try to
see the plane, and it wasn't until a few seconds later that we
realized the jet was coming up behind us on that major highway. And
it veered to the right into the Pentagon.
The blast literally rocked all of our cars. It was an incredible
moment.massnews.com / Amy Contrada / December 2001
http://www.massnews.com/past_issues/2001/dec%202001/1201bauer.htm
came from behind us and banked to the right and went into the
Pentagon."Interview with Warren Smith
http://www.thecharlotteworld.com/30%20Mins%20With/gary%20bauer/garybauer.html
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Gary Bauer
In an effort to capture and control the castle and all its warriors
and weapons, the PNAC offered up members Steve Forbes, Dan Quayle
and Gary Bauer to run as Republican candidates in the upcoming
Presidential election.
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/election/profile.htm
By
Matt O. · August 2 ·
8 CommentsIn 1997, Erik Prince
founded Blackwater
USA, expanding the family's
Christian conservative empire into private security and war for
hire.
Erik is a former U.S. Navy SEAL and son
of the late billionaire automotive parts supplier, Edgar. (In a
Q&A published by the Virginian-Pilot on July 24, Erik
noted some of his father's
less successful ideas, including a sock drawer light and an
automated ham de-boning device.)
The elder
Prince
was widely known for his
close association with anti-choice crusader Gary Bauer.
Bauer was
a domestic policy advisor in the Reagan White House before
succeeding Jerry Regier (a former Reagan official, as well) for the
leadership role of the Family
Research
Council
(FRC) in 1988.
With Edgar's help, Bauer
put the
FRC on the map. (When Edgar died in 1995, the company was
sold for $1.4 billion.)
Erik's sister Elizabeth, commonly referred to as Betsy, was the
head of the Michigan Republican Party until early 2005. She is
also the former
finance chairwoman for the National Republican Senatorial
Committee (NRSC). She married Dick DeVos, the son of billionaire
Amway co-founder (now under the name Alticor), Richard DeVos.
Forbes ranked DeVos as the
121st richest person in the world in 2003 with an estimated net
worth of $1.7 billion.
http://iraqforsale.org/diaries/2006/08/blackwater_runs_red.php
Family Research Council
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Research_Council
Family Research Council (FRC) is a Christian conservative
non-profit lobbying organization, formed in the United
States
by James Dobson in 1981 and incorporated 1983.
The group was designed to be a conservative lobbying force on
Capitol Hill.
In the late 1980s the group officially became a division of
Dobson's main organization
Focus on the Family,
but in 1992 IRS concerns about the group's lobbying led to an
administrative separation. Its function is to promote what it
considers to be traditional family values.
The current president is Tony Perkins. |
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"Under the leadership of Jerry Regier, a former Reagan
Administration official
at the Department of Health and Human Services,
FRC began to link policy makers with researchers and professionals
from
a variety of disciplines. Gary Bauer,
a domestic policy advisor to President Ronald Reagan, succeeded
Regier
in 1988 and by the mid-1990s
the organization had grown into a $10 million operation
with a nationwide network of support...", it states.[2] |
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Christian activist Gary Bauer says the
scandal involving Foley
is just further evidence that the pro-family agenda is needed
desperately in America. |
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March-April 1999
In an effort to capture and control the castle and all its warriors
and weapons, the PNAC offered up members
Steve Forbes, Dan Quayle and Gary Bauer to run as
Republican candidates in the upcoming Presidential election.
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/election/profile.htm
Gary Bauer's Friends
Family Research Council
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He served as President of the
Family Research Council. "Prior to joining FRC, Bauer served in
President Ronald Reagan's Administration for eight years, during
the last two years as President Reagan'.. |
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Submitted by
kayobee |
2004-09-02 17:43:44 |
Reagan Administration: Director,
Office of Policy Development, 1987-1988;
Deputy Assistant Director for Legal Policy, Office of Policy
Development, 1982;
Policy Analyst, Office of Policy Development, 1981-1982;
President's Special Working Group on the Family: Chair, 1986;
Department of Education: Under Secretary of Education,
1985-1987;
Deputy Under Secretary for Planning and Budget, 1982-1985;
Office of President-elect Ronald Reagan: Assistant Director for
Policy/Community Services Administration, 1981
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Council. "Prior to joining FRC, Bauer served in President Ronald
Reagan's Administration for eight years, during the last two years
as President Reagan's Chief Domestic Policy Advisor.
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fedup |
2006-08-05 14:17:26 |
(www.frc.org/)
Gary L. Bauer founded the Campaign for Working Families (www.cwfpac.com/mission.htm) (CWF) in 1996 to
"represent the interests and values of America's traditional
families in the political arena. CWF is a "non-partisan political
action committee (PAC) dedicated to electing pro-family, pro-life
and pro-free enterprise candidates to federal and state
offices."[1] (www.cwfpac.com/mission.htm)[2] (www.who2.com/garybauer.html)
In 2000, Bauer was a presidential candidate. He served as President
of the Family Research Council (www.frc.org/) (FRC). "Prior to joining FRC, Bauer
served in President Ronald Reagan's Administration for eight years,
during the last two years as President Reagan's Chief Domestic
Policy Advisor."[3] (www.ouramericanvalues.org/bauer_main.htm)
"In the final days of the 2000 campaign, CWF spent tens of
thousands of dollars on a massive 12-state Get-Out-The-Vote drive
on behalf of George Walker Bush and Republican candidates down the
ballot."[4] (www.cwfpac.com/mission.htm)
"Previously, Bauer was under Secretary of Education beginning in
July 1985, when he was confirmed by unanimous vote in the U.S.
Senate. While serving at the Education Department, Bauer was named
Chairman of President Reagan's Special Working Group on the Family.
His report, "The Family: Preserving America's Future," was
presented to the President in December 1986."[5] (www.ouramericanvalues.org/bauer_main.htm)
Bauer is currently also president of another organization named
American Values (www.ouramericanvalues.org/). In 1973, Bauer received
his law degree from Georgetown University Law School in Washington
D.C
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(AgapePress) - The
ArlingtonGroup-- a coalition of more than 20 pro-family
groups -- is welcoming the president's commitment to support a
federal marriage amendment. But they plan to remain vigilant to
ensure he makes good on the promise.
A list of those organizations
that make up the Arlington
Group reads like a "Who's Who" of pro-family groups -- Focus on
the Family, Family Research Council, American Family Association,
Coral Ridge Ministries. Southern Baptist Convention Ethics &
Religious Liberty Commission, American Values, Traditional Values
Coalition, Faith2Action, Bott Radio Network, and many more. Leaders
from those organizations met with Bush Administration leaders
recently -- and American Values president Gary
Bauer says the result was positive.
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Gary Bauer |
"We received assurances
from the White House during that meeting that the president is
committed to passing a constitutional amendment, and will spend
political capital to accomplish that goal," Bauer
explains.According
to Bauer, the coalition of pro-family groups was not as docile as
usual in the meeting. "It think it became apparent to the White
House in the last week or so that the frustration level was really
increasing among their best friends around the country," he
says.
The Arlington
Group, comprising some of the President's most important
conservative backers, reacted by threatening to withhold
much-needed support for one of his top domestic initiatives -
overhauling America's pensions system - if he does not vigorously
push their own political cause.
The Arlington
Group has played a sharp political card in threatening to
withhold support for social security reform. It is a priority for
Mr Bush and Mr Rove, but several leading Republicans in Congress
have questioned whether the system is heading for bankruptcy and
needs a radical revamp, as the White House argues.
Gary
Bauer, the president of the conservative group American Values
and a Republican presidential candidate in 2000, told The Sunday
Telegraph last week: "Many of us did a great deal to help with
President Bush's re-election. One of the reasons we could motivate
so many people was because of his strong stance on same-sex
marriage."
He said: "If the White House wants us to rally our troops like they
need for social security reform, a subject on which our people are
very divided, that is going to be very difficult if the President
does not come out strongly in favour of the constitutional
amendment."
Mr Bauer said that many people, whom groups such as his persuaded
to vote for Mr Bush, were from lower middle-class and working class
families, and ethnic minorities. These, he said, were most worried
about the introduction of stock market investments to the pensions
system.
http://www.ouramericanvalues.org/glb_news_article.php?id=01300501
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gary_Bauer
http://www.politicalfriendster.com/showConnection.php?id1=222&id2=4552
Type Individual
Position Signatory, Statement of Principles,
PNAC
Political Party Other
http://www.politicalfriendster.com/showPerson.php?id=3689&name=Arlington-Group
The Gary Bauer
Scandal
By William Saletan
Posted Friday, Oct. 1, 1999, at 3:30 AM ET
Did
Gary
Bauer commit adultery with a campaign aide? Rumors to that
effect have circulated for weeks. Monday,
a New York Daily News gossip column asked, "What
presidential candidate is praying that a former secretary doesn't
go public
with her claim that he's been having an affair with a
twentysomething woman? Many on the married Republican's campaign
staff
are already jumping ship." National Journal's
Hotline broadcast that teaser, and radio host Don
Imus linked it to Bauer.
The San Francisco Chronicle asked Bauer about
the rumors and published his denial Tuesday. At a news conference
Wednesday,
Bauer denied that he had violated his marital vows or
inappropriately touched anyone, and he challenged
the dozens of reporters on hand to produce evidence or a
specific, on-the-record allegation that he had done so.
http://www.slate.com/id/35836/
ChristianityToday.com Exclusive: Gary Bauer
Can't Go Home Again
Christianity Today,
Week of February 7
Internal survey at Family Research Council says
'partisan' leader unwelcome.
By Tony Carnes | Despite a huge surge in
conservative Gary Bauer's public profile brought on by his bid for
the presidency, Bauer would not be welcomed back by some at the
Family Research Council (FRC), which he led for many years. Some
critics cite an organizational confusion Bauer left behind. Others,
more sympathetic to Bauer, demur on his return because they believe
his Republican identity would clash with the nonprofit
organization's nonpartisan stance.
Bauer started his campaign for the Republican presidential
nomination one year ago. Before that he led the Family Research
Council for more than ten years, taking it from a three-person, $1
million operation to a 120-person, $14 million operation. Before
joining FRC, he served as President Reagan's assistant for policy
development. Pushed into a last place finish in New Hampshire,
Bauer dropped out of the Republican Presidential race Friday.
The most common reason cited for wariness of any Bauer return is to
avoid the appearance of favoring the Republicans over the
Democrats.
On April 13, Gary Bauer spoke at Harvard
University's Institute of Politics. It was doubly ironic for Bauer,
a leader of the Christian right and son of a Kentucky maintenance
man, to have an audience at the bastion of liberal elitism. Bauer
delivered a spine-tingling sermon against President Clinton's
see-no-evil trade policy with China. After summarizing China's
record of exploiting slave labor and persecuting religious
minorities, Bauer concluded, "We are acting as if money is the
highest American value. And I think it's a scandal."
A student in the back of the room challenged Bauer to extend his
critique of capitalism to domestic issues. He noted that Bauer had
criticized advocates of Social Security privatization for
undermining the nation's commitment to dependent spouses and
children. Was there a "potential for realignment," the student
asked, "between social conservatives and a more progressive strand
of economic thinking?" Bauer smiled. "A lot of realignments are
possible," he replied.
Bauer is scaring the hell out of the Republican establishment.
For years, Bauer, the president of the Family Research Council, has
been warning that his followers would abandon the party if it
didn't pay them more heed. Lately, he's been threatening to run for
president. Conservatives worry that he will monopolize the
religious right, thereby handing the Republican nomination to a
more credible moderate. GOP leaders worry that he will force the
party to the fundamentalist fringe, thereby handing the election to
the Democrats.
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/1998/07/saletan.html
Judgment Call: Did Christian conservatives receive assurances that
Miers would oppose Roe v. Wade?
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/fund101705.asp
Even before the speeches came out, as Media Matters has also
noted, the group
Concerned Women for America
stated that it "cannot endorse [Miers's] nomination." Gary
Bauer, president of the religious activist organization
American
Values, stated his concern about the nomination and
vowed to withhold support until he "know[s] with some certainty
that she is a vote for our values.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200603220002
ome 400 Christian community leaders ... leaders include evangelist
George Morrison; fundamentalist Baptist minister Jerry Falwell; and
Gary Bauer, president of the American Values organization aimed at
protecting marriage, family and faith. All are well-known
supporters of Israel <<we know why!>>, and considered
hawkish .... to target senators and congressmen on Capitol
Hill."
As well as all the OTHER EVANGELICAL 'SPIDER' NETWORKS e.g. "The
Arlington
group ... a coalition of the nation's most powerful
conservative Christians, including James Dobson of focus on the
family, and Tony Perkins of the family research council. and
"Barton ... president of an organization called "Wallbuilders."
Wallbuilders is dedicated to exposing what it calls "the myth" of
constitutional separation of church and state.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/701583.html
Gary Bauer
From SourceWatch
Gary L. Bauer founded the Campaign for
Working Families (http://www.cwfpac.com/mission.htm)
(CWF) in 1996 to "represent the interests and values of America's
traditional families in the political arena. CWF is a "non-partisan
political action committee (PAC) dedicated to electing pro-family,
pro-life and pro-free enterprise candidates to
federal and state offices."[1] (http://www.cwfpac.com/mission.htm)[2] (http://www.who2.com/garybauer.html)
In 2000, Bauer was a presidential candidate. He served as
President of the Family Research
Council (http://www.frc.org/) (FRC).
"Prior to joining FRC, Bauer served in President Ronald Reagan's Administration for eight years,
during the last two years as President Reagan's Chief Domestic
Policy Advisor."[3] (http://www.ouramericanvalues.org/bauer_main.htm)
"In the final days of the 2000 campaign, CWF spent tens of
thousands of dollars on a massive 12-state Get-Out-The-Vote drive
on behalf of George Walker Bush and Republican
candidates down the ballot."[4] (http://www.cwfpac.com/mission.htm)
"Previously, Bauer was under Secretary of Education beginning in
July 1985, when he was confirmed by unanimous vote in the U.S.
Senate. While serving at the Education Department, Bauer was named
Chairman of President Reagan's Special Working Group on the Family.
His report, "The Family: Preserving America's Future," was
presented to the President in December 1986."[5] (http://www.ouramericanvalues.org/bauer_main.htm)
Bauer is currently also president of another organization named
American
Values (http://www.ouramericanvalues.org/).
In 1973, Bauer received his law degree from Georgetown University
Law School in Washington D.C.
Affiliations
[6] (http://rightweb.irc-online.org/ind/bauer/bauer_body.html)
- American Alliance of Jews and Christians : Co-founder,
2002
- Campaign for Working Families : Co-founder, Chairman
- Foundation for the Defense of Democracies : Board of
Advisers
- American Values : Founder, President
- Council for National Policy : Member
- Beliefnet : Columnist
- African American Republican Leadership Council : May be on
Advisory Council (see citations)
- Project for the New
American Century : Signatory to founding statement and
several others open letters
- American Renewal : Former chairman
- Family Research Council : President, 1988-1999
- Focus on the Family : Vice President, 1988-1992
- Republican National Committee : Assistant Director of
Opposition Research, 1969-1973
- Reagan-Bush Committee : Senior Policy Analyst (13)
Government Posts/Panels/Commissions
- Reagan Administration : Director, Office of Policy
Development, 1987-1988; Deputy Assistant Director for Legal Policy,
Office of Policy Development, 1982; Policy Analyst, Office of
Policy Development, 1981-1982
- President's Special Working Group on the Family : Chair,
1986
- Department of Education : Under Secretary of Education,
1985-1987; Deputy Under Secretary for Planning and Budget,
1982-1985
- Office of President-elect Ronald Reagan : Assistant
Director for Policy/Community Services Administration, 1981
Corporate Connections/Business Interests
- Direct Mail Marketing Association : Director of Government
Relations, 1976-1980; Deputy Director of Government Relations,
1973-1976
Gary Bauer's Skeleton
Closet
Gary Bauer campaigns as a hard-right
moralist, and has credentials to back it up from his years working
in Reagan's White House. He's also one of the few candidates in
either party from a humble background, having grown up as a
janitor's son in Kentucky, where he led a crusade to clean up
vice.
Unfortunately for him, his record isn't
quite as squeaky clean as his speeches. And if you wanted to be
mean, you could say he is barely 5 foot tall and looks like a cross
between a gay Grinch and Mr. Bean, but that wouldn't be
fair.
Consider these allegations:
Quotes
"Adultery is a big deal. Harry Truman knew this, "How can I trust a
man if his wife cannot?" the plainspoken man from Independence
said." -- Bauer
"I often went to school fearful of a black
eye or a bloody nose. There were plenty of thugs at my school that
would love to pound me." -- Bauer
"I don't see why Christians should censor
themselves out of any forum in which our perspectives can be
heard.
I disagree with the theology of many groups that I address; Jews,
for example, who do not accept Jesus, or atheists." --
Bauer
Click here for
sources
Affair with a 26 year old
Staffer
Nine members of Bauer's staff have quit in the last month,
including Charles Jarvis, Bauer's campaign manager, and Tim
McDonald, former chief of advance operations. Jarvis and McDonald
have said publicly that they resigned in protest of Gary Bauer's
"inappropriate" behavior in travelling alone and spending time
behind closed doors with a 26-year-old deputy campaign
manager.
Jarvis says that he and others in the
campaign warned Bauer several times "in the clearest possible
terms" that he was creating "the appearance of impropriety" by
spending "hours and hours and hours behind closed doors with a
young single woman." Neither Jarvis nor McDonald has directly
claimed that sex occurred, though.
An unnamed source in the Bauer campaign said
that Bauer has been traveling alone with this hot 26-year old blond
(deputy campaign manager Melissa McClard) on a daily basis and the
two have been so inseparable that it was like a "husband-wife
relationship." This source said that rumors of an affair have
circulated inside the campaign for months, and that several people
told the candidate of their concern. "Bauer told them basically to
buzz off -- that it was his personal business," the source said.
Other staff members who quit include media consultant Tom Edwards
and Betty Barrett, who was Bauer's secretary for 15 years. They
declined comment.
Bauer called a press conference to deny
having an affair and called the rumors "devastating." Concerning
his time spent with the young woman, he responded that he meets
privately with every member of his campaign staff behind closed
doors, and that the questions are unfair. Bauer even denied that
any campaign staffers had raised questions about the relationship
with him. When pressed, though, he conceded that some of his
staffers may "have left because they just didn't want to deal
anymore with the rumor."
Bauer argued that he should not be held to
the higher standard adopted by most evangelical and Christian right
leaders, such as Billy Graham and congressman Steve Largent, who
avoid meeting women (other than their wives) alone. But the boards
of two religious groups long connected with Bauer, the Family
Research Council and Focus on the Family, have warned him to not
travel alone with her or meet behind closed doors for extended
periods.
Click here for
sources
Taking Big Money From the Moonies
In 1996, Bauer took between $80,000 and
$150,000 -- plus expenses -- from the Moonies to speak before one of their
front groups,
the "Family Federation For World Peace". Cult leader Sun Myung Moon
and his fourth wife also spoke at the conference. Bauer defended
his speech by saying "I don't see why Christians should censor
themselves out of any forum in which our perspectives can be
heard.
I disagree with the theology of many groups that I address;
Jews, for example, who do not accept Jesus, or atheists."
Bauer had no trouble sitting through Moon's
amazing speech, which including gems such as:
"God wants a love partner. Thus,
centering on the place where husband and wife become one through
their sexual organs,
God wants to appear and meet us."
"When you were young, did you ever taste
the dried mucus from your nose? Does it taste sweet or salty? It's
salty, right?"
You can read the entire text of Moon's
speech on the Moonie's web site by clicking
here.
Bauer's group, the Family Research Council,
takes out full page ads in the Washington Times, a conservative
newspaper owned by Moon.
Those are paid for with his non-profit's money from donations, but
the speaking fees go directly into Bauer's pockets. Besides the
Washington Times,
Moon has courted various conservative political leaders by donating
money to Ralph Reed, Jerry Fallwell
and his financially troubled Liberty University among
others.
Moon, who served a prison term for tax
evasion, is controversial because of his fruitcake beliefs, his
cult's widely publicized
mass marriages of up to 10,000 people, and alleged brainwashing of
members. He claims that Jesus failed as Messiah
because he did not wed and have children, and that Moon and his
fourth wife Hak Ja Han Moon are the "true parents of all
humanity."
Click here for sources
Avoided the Vietnam War
Like most of his opponents (except John McCain and, arguably, Gore
and Bob Smith), Gary Bauer avoided serving in Vietnam,
despite his current hawkish rhetoric. Here is his description
of his service:
"I was in college and law school during the
Vietnam War and had a student deferment. Later, I was drafted, but
disqualified because of a physical problem that gave me a rating of
1Y -- meaning I could not be inducted unless there was more of a
military emergency.
I feel very strongly about the decline of our military over the
past 10 years."
Click here for sources
Sources
Quote sources:
Adultery -- " When Is
Adultery No Longer A Fun Campaign Theme? When the Shoe Is On The
Other Foot...That's When", by Gary Bauer, NH Family Watch,
December 1996
Getting beat up -- "Religious Conservative
Bauer Keeps Faith and Runs", by John Harwood, The Wall Street
Journal, December 7, 1999 pA28
Disagree with Jews -- see Moonie
Sources.
Affair
sources:
Transcript of Gary Bauer's Press Conference on Adultery Rumors,
on ABC News web site, September 29, 1999
Bauer Denies Affair Rumors, By Douglas Kiker (AP), Washington
Post, Sept. 29, 1999
"Bauer Again Denies Affair With Staffer", by Carolyn Lochhead, San
Francisco Chronicle, September 30, 1999 pA5
"Bauer Says He Did Not Have Affair: 2 Ex-Aides Make Public
Allegation" By Thomas B. Edsall and Hanna Rosin, Washington
Post, September 30, 1999; Page A14
"Bauer: I am not a slut!", by Jake Tapper with Susan Crabtree,
Salon Magazine, September 29, 1999
"Daily Dish: Itemizing" (towards the end of the column), by
Rush and Molloy, New York Daily News, Sept. 27, 1999
"GOP Race Getting Nasty", by Carla Marinucci, San Francisco
Chronicle, Sept. 28, 1999 pA3
"GOP Big Defects to Forbes Camp", by Helen Kennedy, NY Daily News,
Sept. 16, 1999
" When Is
Adultery No Longer A Fun Campaign Theme? When the Shoe Is On The
Other Foot...That's When", by Gary Bauer, NH Family Watch,
December 1996
Moonie
sources:
"What
In The World!", (a news summary from Bob Jones University), v.
20, Number 7, citing Christian Century Magazine 9/11/96.
"Moon-Related
Funds Filter to Evangelicals", by John W. Kennedy, Christianity
Today, February 9, 1998 vol. 42, no. 2, p.82
Moon's Speech
of August 1, 1996
Draft
sources:
"Gary Bauer: A
Chat With a Presidential Candidate", CNN.com Allpolitics, May
13, 1999 p7
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http://www.realchange.org/bauer.htm
Bauer
is reborn -- as a feminist!
Gary Bauer
http://archive.salon.com/politics2000/directory/candidates/gary_bauer/index.html
Gary Bauer
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http://www.nndb.com/people/932/000031839/
Wife: Carol Hoke
Daughter: Elyse (age 21 in 2000)
Daughter: Sarah (age 18 in 2000)
Son: Zachary (age 12 in 2000)
Mistress: Melissa McClard (according to unsubstantiated 1999
rumors)
African American
Republican Leadership Council Advisory Panel
Arlington Group
Council for National
Policy
Family Research
Council
Foundation for the Defense
of Democracies Distinguished Advisor
Project for the New
American Century
Risk Factors: Homophobia
Gary Bauer's Moral Dilemma
1998 article from the opposition about Bauer's troubles within his
own party
Bauer took a leave of absence from the FRC in 1999 and announced
his intention to run for president.
He dropped out of the race in February 2000, after a poor showing
in the primary elections.
Coalition of African American Pastors and Bill Owens
http://tinyurl.com/ctyk9
The Traditional Marriage Crusade established a committee in
Oklahoma, and a group headed by
another Arlington Group member — conservative activist Gary Bauer —
ran ads against Carson
T H E M O NE Y B E H I ND
T H E M ARRI AG E A M E NDM E NT S
http://tinyurl.com/ptdsw
=================
argely as a result, Blackwell today is the Republican nominee for
Ohio governor. He also is a national political figure and, courtesy
of the organizers of the Virginia conference, a member of the
Arlington
Group, a powerhouse, by-invitation-only organization whose
roughly 60 members have direct access to the White House.
Arlington
Group members and their spouses have donated $18,400 to
Blackwell, and their organizations have provided vast quantities of
money and assistance to him in other ways.
Citizens for Community Values, whose president, Phil Burress, sits
on the Arlington
Group's executive committee, poured nearly $1.2 million into
the campaign to ban gay marriage in Ohio. He was assisted by
Arlington
Group member Colin Hanna of Let Freedom Ring in West Chester,
Pa., which spent nearly $1 million organizing "pastor policy
briefings" in Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Blackwell was invited to join the Arlington
Group in the summer of 2004 after he was identified as a leader
of the anti-gay marriage movement by Arlington
Group co-founder Donald Wildmon, chairman of the American
Family Association in Tupelo, Miss.
Only two other Ohioans - Burress and televangelist Rod Parsley,
senior pastor at World Harvest Church and head of the Center for
Moral Clarity in suburban Columbus - are members.
"One of the reasons I'm so high on Ken Blackwell, and he shares
this perspective, is that this is not just another skirmish in the
culture war," said Stephen Crampton, an Arlington
Group member who serves as chief counsel at Wildmon's Center
for Law and Policy.
"This is the ultimate battle. He who wins the same-sex marriage
battle in effect wins the culture war."
Burress and Mathew Staver, president of the Florida-based Liberty
Counsel and a fellow group member, also credit the gay marriage
debate with uniting black, white and Hispanic voters behind a
visceral issue that is fraught with peril for politicians who
support same-sex unions.
"I know of no candidate, from the local level to the national
level, that has run against marriage between one man and one woman
and survived an election," Burress said. "I know of no one who's
even tried it."
States cases gave birth to group
Now that the primary is over, Blackwell is reluctant to discuss the
Arlington
Group and social issues such as gay marriage, saying he wants
to focus on job creation and Ohio's economy.
"My views from a historical standpoint are well-documented and, I
think, well-articulated," he said, disputing the claim that the
Arlington
Group is primarily focused on gay marriage. "This is a . . .
broad network of, I think, conservatives and moderates concerned
about issues of family, life and the economy."
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.
John Green, director of the University of Akron's Ray C. Bliss
Institute of Applied Politics and an expert on religion and
politics, said the group was spawned by two legal rulings in 2003 -
the U.S. Supreme Court's overturning of Texas' sodomy law and the
Massachusetts Supreme Court's sanctioning of gay marriage.
"Many of the deep thinkers among Christian conservatives had long
worried about traditional marriage being changed by gay-rights
advocates and others, but it wasn't until 2003 that it became a
pressing issue," Green said.
Having used his opposition to gay marriage to burnish his image as
a darling of the Christian right in 2004, Blackwell used it again
this year in the gubernatorial primary to demolish Petro.
One of Blackwell's TV ads - showing two men embracing next to a
photo of Petro - claimed that Petro sided with those "who favor
same-sex marriage," although Petro and most other Ohio politicians
opposed Ohio's gay marriage ban on grounds that it was poorly
drafted.
The amendment's author, Cincinnati lawyer David Langdon, is among a
handful of devoted conservatives who, working in concert with
members of the Arlington
Group, have brought Blackwell within view of the
mountaintop.
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