Activist "Cash"
is a website by conservative forces that lists people who work at places like the Center for Science in the Public Interest, groups that are considered to be "progressive."
From the website:
This site, created by the Center for Consumer Freedom, is committed to providing detailed and up-to-date information about the funding source of radical anti-consumer organizations and activists. We have analyzed over 410,000 pages of IRS documents to create this database, and new information will be added every month. The organizations we track on this site are tax-exempt nonprofits. That means you have the right to know what they're up to. The same rule applies to the tax-exempt foundations that pay their bills. As you read through the site, you may be surprised by some of the connections between these groups and individuals, forming a web of anti-consumer activism -- promoting false science, scare campaigns, inflated public health causes, and sometimes even violent anti-consumer "direct actions."
Now, I consider it to be anti-consumer to promote a pro-oil, pro-profligacy, pro-automobile agenda.
But the kinds of people pushing that agenda, including anti-transit consultants Randal O'Toole and Wendell Cox, aren't listed in this database.
According to Wikipedia, the Center for Consumer Freedom "was created in 1995 as the Guest Choice Network by Richard Berman, executive director of the public affairs firm Berman and Company, with $600,000 from the Philip Morris tobacco company."
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