To view the full Harry Reid profile, click here. Excerpts from the Harry Reid profile: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was born in December 1939 in Searchlight, Nevada…. Over the course of his political career, Reid has been implicated in several serious ethics scandals…. Reid has been one of the Senate’s most vocal critics of the [...]
To view the full Michael Moore profile, click here. Excerpts from the Michael Moore profile: Michael Moore is a multi-millionaire filmmaker and author of several books…. In 2002 Moore’s anti-gun documentary Bowling for Columbine reached theaters. His depiction of America as a violent, gun-crazed culture was honored at the Cannes Film Festival in France and won the 2003 [...]
For the entire Jesse Jackson profile, click here. Some noteworthy facts about Jesse Jackson: In September the legendary activist Jesse Jackson criticized Congress for de-funding the notoriously corrupt ACORN, in the wake of revelations about that organization’s involvement in corruption of the highest magnitude. More recently he said,“You can’t vote against [government-run] healthcare and call yourself a [...]
For the entire Andrew Stern profile, click here. Selected highlights from the Andrew Stern profile: Former New Leftist Andrew Stern is the current President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the second largest labor union in North America. The economic model championed by Stern and SEIU includes universal health care, increased taxation, an expansion of social [...]
For the entire Industrial Areas Foundation profile, click here. Selected highlights from the Industrial Areas Foundation profile: Established in 1940 by Saul Alinsky, the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) is a Chicago-based community-organizing network consisting of 59 affiliate groups located in 21 U.S. states as well as Canada, the United Kingdom, and Germany. IAF’s mission is to “build organizations whose primary purpose is [...]
For the entire Harold Koh profile, click here. Selected highlights from the Harold Koh profile: Born in Boston, Massachusetts in December 1954, Harold Hongju Koh is an attorney of Korean-American heritage…. In 2009 President Barack Obama nominated him to be the Legal Advisor to the U.S. State Department. Koh is an advocate of transnationalism, a concept that argues in [...]
For the entire Cornel West profile, click here. Selected highlights from the Cornel West profile: Cornel West is a Professor of Religion and African American Studies at Princeton University…. He is a longtime member of the Democratic Socialists of America, for which he currently serves as Honorary Chair. He is also a co-chair of Michael Lerner‘s Tikkun Community. [...]
For the entire NEA profile, click here. Selected highlights from the NEA profile: Based in Washington, DC, the 3.1 million-member National Education Association (NEA) is the largest labor union in the United States. It represents public school teachers and support personnel; faculty and staffers in colleges and universities; retired educators; and college students preparing to become [...]
For the entire Michael Klonsky profile, click here. Selected highlights from the Michael Klonsky profile: In the 1960s Michael Klonsky, while attending San Fernando Valley State College, joined the radical Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). In 1968 he became SDS’s national chairman. That same year, he helped spark the riots that erupted in Chicago during the Democratic National Convention. Klonsky was also a member [...]
For the entire Anita Dunn profile, click here. Selected highlights from the Anita Dunn profile: Born in 1958, Anita Dunn began her political career in the late 1970s as an intern for Gerald Rafshoon, President Jimmy Carter‘s White House communications director. She then worked for Carter’s chief of staff Hamilton Jordan. In 1993 Dunn co-founded the Washington, DC-based political consulting firm, Squier [...]
