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Revealed: Major Corporate Donors to Leftist Think Tank Center for American Progress
The Clinton-allied Center laughs all the way to the bank.
12.13.2013 Paul Bois 1
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On Friday, Ryan Grim of The Huffington Post reported on left-leaning think-tank Center for American Progress (CAP) and their elusive corporate donor list that has come under scrutiny in recent years.
Think-tanks like the liberal-minded CAP have come under fire recently for lack of transparency in regards to funding, since they've garnered a reputation for lobbying politicians without labeling themselves lobbyists. CAP has especially been singled-out due its relationship with the Obama administration on the Affordable Care Act and Obama's Green Jobs initiative. Hillary Clinton has also been noted to have had a long history with CAP.
In response to the criticism, President of CAP, Neera Tanden, stated the following:
The fact is that the Center for American Progress has always been fiercely independent -- our views are shaped by what we think the best solutions are to improve the lives of all Americans. Donations, be they from individuals or corporations, do not guide or determine our work. Period. Indeed, we have advocated numerous policies that would impinge on corporate interests -- from tax policy to government subsidies; our interests are simply to provide ideas to solve the country's problems.
After news broke that CAP founder John Podesta will be joining Obama's inner-circle to help salvage his disastrous second-term, Politico announced Thursday that CAP would reveal their corporate donor list to relieve pressure. On Friday, they did just that. Among the donors: Wal-Mart, Google, AT&T, GE, PepsiCo, Facebook, and dozens more.
Here's the full donor list from Huffington Post:
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
The Albright Stonebridge Group
American Beverage Association
American Iron and Steel Institute
America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP)
Apple Inc.
AT&T
Bank of America
Blackstone
Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
Blue Engine Message & Media
Blue Shield of California
BMW of North America
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield
Citigroup
The Coca-Cola Company
Comcast NBCUniversal
Covanta Energy
CVS Caremark Inc.
Daimler
Monitor Deloitte
DeVry Education Group
Dewey Square Group
Discovery
DISH Network
Downey, McGrath Group, Inc.
DRS Technologies
Eli Lilly and Company
Facebook
Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas
GE
Genworth Financial
The Glover Park Group LLC
Goldman Sachs
Google
Health Care Service Corporation
The Ickes and Enright Group
Japan Bank for International Cooperation
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
Livingston Group
McLarty Associates
Microsoft Corporation
Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)
MyWireless.org
Northrop Grumman
Pearson
PepsiCo
PG&E Corporation
Quest Diagnostics
Samsung
Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States (TECRO)
Tata Sons Limited
Time Warner Inc.
T-Mobile
Toyota Motor North America
Visa Inc.
Walmart
Wells Fargo
This is the extent to which corporate America, supposedly conservative and capitalism-oriented, has capitulated to the top-down governmental power of the American left. Corporate America, apparently, is highly complicit in forwarding the very legislation that shrinks American freedom.