Post by AnimalAvenger on Apr 4, 2009 21:58:58 GMT -5
This is what someone posted on the PETA2 forum:
The author of petakillsanimals.com Exposed!!
He is an anti democracy RepubliKKKan!!
Facts on Richard Berman
Richard Berman is the longtime president of the Washington, D.C.-based lobbying and consulting firm, Berman & Company, Inc. ("BCI") which specializes in strategic research and communications. Throughout the years Berman has been a stalwart supporter of business and industry over consumer, safety and environmental groups. Berman has fought unions, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, PETA and other watchdog groups in their efforts to raise awareness about obesity, the dangers of smoking, mad cow disease, drunk driving, the minimum wage and other causes. He has been described in the press as a "notorious D.C. lobbyist.
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Berman founded and runs four tax-exempt front groups and a number of linked projects, focusing on food, tobacco, alcoholic beverages and labor. He is well-paid by the represented industries to serve as the executive director of all four organizations. Berman then uses his own lobbying and public relations firm to do work for the organizations, thereby channeling between 49% and 79% of all donations made to the groups into his own pocket.
bermanexposed.org/
These organizations include:
* The Center for Consumer Freedom ("CCF", formerly Guest Choice Network, "GCN"), which attacks anyone who criticizes smoking, fast food or alcohol;
* The Employment Policies Institute ("EPI") which opposes increasing the minimum wage and promotes the specious concept that an increased minimum wage would drive the poor and uneducated out of the job market;
* The American Beverage Institute ("ABI") which fights laws designed to curb drunk driving;
* The Center for Union Facts ("CUF") which promotes disparaging information about unions;
* Bowling Proprietors Association of America, which lists the same word-for-word issues as the ABI on their lobbying disclosure forms; and
* First Jobs Institute, which promotes personal finance advice to young people from a pro-business perspective.
Berman was also executive vice president of public affairs for the Pillsbury Restaurant Group and was once director of labor law for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
He is an anti democracy RepubliKKKan!!
Facts on Richard Berman
Richard Berman is the longtime president of the Washington, D.C.-based lobbying and consulting firm, Berman & Company, Inc. ("BCI") which specializes in strategic research and communications. Throughout the years Berman has been a stalwart supporter of business and industry over consumer, safety and environmental groups. Berman has fought unions, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, PETA and other watchdog groups in their efforts to raise awareness about obesity, the dangers of smoking, mad cow disease, drunk driving, the minimum wage and other causes. He has been described in the press as a "notorious D.C. lobbyist.
"
Berman founded and runs four tax-exempt front groups and a number of linked projects, focusing on food, tobacco, alcoholic beverages and labor. He is well-paid by the represented industries to serve as the executive director of all four organizations. Berman then uses his own lobbying and public relations firm to do work for the organizations, thereby channeling between 49% and 79% of all donations made to the groups into his own pocket.
bermanexposed.org/
These organizations include:
* The Center for Consumer Freedom ("CCF", formerly Guest Choice Network, "GCN"), which attacks anyone who criticizes smoking, fast food or alcohol;
* The Employment Policies Institute ("EPI") which opposes increasing the minimum wage and promotes the specious concept that an increased minimum wage would drive the poor and uneducated out of the job market;
* The American Beverage Institute ("ABI") which fights laws designed to curb drunk driving;
* The Center for Union Facts ("CUF") which promotes disparaging information about unions;
* Bowling Proprietors Association of America, which lists the same word-for-word issues as the ABI on their lobbying disclosure forms; and
* First Jobs Institute, which promotes personal finance advice to young people from a pro-business perspective.
Berman was also executive vice president of public affairs for the Pillsbury Restaurant Group and was once director of labor law for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
