Grover Norquist

• US Dept. of the Treasury– Norquist has fought against taxation and building the Treasury for decades.
• Council on Foreign Relations (SourceWatch) 2001 Norquist member
• Republican Party
• Norquist was a campaign staffer on the 1988, 1992, and 1996 Republican Platform Committee
• District of Columbia Republican Assembly Norquist President
• National Federation of Republican Assemblies– Grover Norquist Board- with Jack Abramoff   former PayPal counsel Rod Martin, NFRA President and also founder of TheVanguard.Org; and noted anti-feminist Phyllis Schlafly.”
• CPAC   SourceWatch:American Conservative Union Norquist Board of Directors
• Libertarian
• “Leave Us Alone Coalition“- Grover Norquist‘s Wednesday strategy meetings to organize the GOP Congress, GOP Think Thanks, GOP Lobbyists, GOP Consultants, , and GOP Donors.  VP Dick Cheney sent representatives each week.
• American Enterprise Institute–Norquist magazine contributor

• Norquist’s target persona was an IRA investor, gun owner, self-employed and homeschools the kids, in need of nothing from the government.
• “No New Taxes” pledge for GOP candidates, Leader; 1981-83 National Taxpayers Union Exec. Dir.; 1983-1984 U.S. Chamber of Commerce economist and chief speechwriter, 1985 Americans for Tax Reform founded with Bill Barr supporting Reagan’s 1986 Tax Reform, Norquist President at all times; Association of Concerned Taxpayers Director; Americans Against a National Sales Tax President; 1996-1997 Commissioner of Congressional advisory: Restructuring the Internal Revenue Service
• Homeshooling– Norquist 1995 National Conference on School Choice Keynote Speaker
• Congress– Norquist Commissioner of advisory committee Restructuring the Internal Revenue Service, 1996-1997
• Islamophobia-Norquist’s wife is Muslim and he openly battles GOP Islamophobes such as Frank Gaffney, who retaliated on Breitbart and Glenn Beck’s show by calling Americans for Tax Reform a front group for the Muslim Brotherhood and Norquist gay.  Norquist expelled Gaffney from the influential Wednesday Meetings and banned him from CPAC.  Norquist tried to get Gaffney banned from the NRA board in May 2016.
• Immigration Reform–Norquist & Am. for Tax Reform supported the 2013 Gang of Eight Senate bill that failed in Congress
• Religious Right
  • Evangelical
    • Pat Robertson– Hired Ralph Reed as Exec. Dir. of the Christian Coalition 1989-1997 with Gordon Robertson, Dick Weinold (TX), VP of the CC Pastor Billy McCormack (Shreveport, LA)
    • Jerry Falwell, Jr.-Liberty University
    • Council For National Policy- Norquist Former Board of Dir. & member
• Koch
• DonorsTrust
• Heritage Foundation Norquist helped write Newt Gingrich‘s Contract With America in 1994 Heritage Foundation on SourceWatch
• ALEC
  • Coalition for Interstate Tax Fairness & Job Growth– pro-Business Activity Tax Simplification Act (BATSA)-(state-domiciled  only corporate income and similar taxes) BATSA co-sponsored by Jim Jordan (R-OH), Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), et al., Les Wexner’s Limited Brands, Inc. (Columbus, Ohio) & Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform
• Americans for Prosperity
  • • Tim Phillips President 2005-present, 1997 co-founded Century Strategies PR/Lobbying with Ralph Reed, Christian Coalition Fmr. President; Rep. Goodlatte’s Chief Of Staff-VA through 1997
• LOBBYISTS
• Janus-Merritt Strategies– Norquist consulted for
• NRA – Grover Norquist Board Member in May 2016
  • Ralph Reed Century Strategies President- GOP Lobbying & Consulting 1997-Present, Atlanta,  Fmr.Christian Coalition Exec. Dir., Co-Founded with Koch‘s  Americans for Prosperity President Tim Phillips; 1997 General Consultant for Fulton County Commission Chairman Mitch Skandalakis for Lieutenant Governor of Georgia campaign, used tribal Native American leaders wearing ceremonial costumes to attack opponent GA State Sen. Clint Day & ran ads that the Days had “desecrated Indian graves” “vandal” “grave robber” and Skandalakis lost in a tight race.
  • Tom DeLay founded First Principles, LLC
  • Jack Abramoff–2005 Indian casino lobbying fraud with Ralph Reed, Grover Norquist, Michael Scanlon, implicating Tom DeLay and Bob Ney (R-OH).  2001 George W. Bush White House Transition  Team: White House Contact was Abramoff’s former aide  Susan Ralston,  Executive  Asst. to Karl Rove
  • Greenberg Traurig
• Congress
  • • Tom DeLay (R-TX-22) 1985-2006. 1995 Tom DeLay House Majority Whip, started the K Street Project with Grover Norquist that infiltrated DC lobbying firms with GOP politicians and led to insider-legislation such as Dick Cheney’s energy task force and blacklisting special interests groups and lobbying firms that hired Democrats. 2002 Dossier of political donations was leaked to the Washington Post. The Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007, Sec 102, bans members of Congress and staffers from using their political power to influence the employment decision of any private entity“on the basis of partisan political affiliation”.
  • Newt Gingrich- 1994 Republican Revolution-Tom DeLay orchestrated midterm election for GOP control of Congress & Senate
• Fmr. Gov. Scott Walker, WI– Grover Norquist and Koch network supports
• 1995- Banned in 2007 The K Street Project- Political Pressure to blacklist any Democrat employers/cooperators in lobbying firms led by DeLay & Norquist
  • American Conservative Union
  • Paul Erickson
  • Newt Gingrich
  • Roger Stone
  • Paul Manafort
  • Sam Patten
  • Richard Burt–Gazprom Lobbyist
  • Louis Freeh, Former FBI Director
  • Joe Lieberman-Ran as an Independent to become Sen. of CT
  • National Rifle Association
  • Scott Walker Former WI Governor–lobbying against Congressional Redistricting, Koch
  • Jack Abramoff–2005 Indian casino lobbying fraud with Ralph E. Reed Jr., Grover Norquist, Michael Scanlon, implicating Tom DeLay and Bob Ney (R-OH).  2001 George W. Bush White House Transition  Team: White House Contact was Abramoff’s former aide  Susan Ralston,  Executive  Asst. to Karl Rove
  • Greenberg Traurig
  • Fmr. FBI Director William Sessions-Semyon Mogilevich–Ukraine–born- Negotiated a deal with the US DOJ for Mogilveich on a 45-count racketeering and money laundering indictment in Philadelphia, masterminding European shell companies, and separate probe: 2005 Ukraine Minister of Energy Yuri Boyko used Annex Holdings(Caribbean) to pay for DC lobbying, Yuri Boyko arranged energy/gas deals between Russian OAO Gazprom & Ukraine possibly tying(at the time) to Semyon Mogilevich. Sessions offered information on Islamist terrorism in exchange for negotiating charges, rejected by DOJ. Talks went through Neil C. Livingstone (Former CEO of GlobalOptions DC corporate intelligence operating in Russia & Caribbean with William Sessions on advisory board), from the 1980s Iran-Contra scandal and work with White House aide Oliver North.  2004 GlobalOptions/Livingstone was introduced to Ukrainian oligarch Dimytro Firtash‘s Cyprus-based Highrock Holdings with shares owned by Semyon Mogilevich‘s wife by Barbour Griffith: GlobalOptions/Livingstone’s lawsuit claimed Dimytro Firtash/Highrock Holdings owed for a “special operation” for a Ukrainian official in US District Ct, DC, however Livingstone said it was for passenger jet safety certification in the Central Asian market.
  • Barbour Griffith & Rogers (Fmr. Gove. Haley Barbour-MI founded)-Alfa-for Russian Telecom-ALFA BANK–run by Russian minister Leonid Reiman, Putin close ally (DC Adviser was Mark D’Anastasio, WSJ reporter in 2007)- Reiman under US Money Laundering investigation; 2002-3 Friends of Ukraine (Headquartered at BG’s DC office, Chair Lanny Griffith) paid Barbour Griffith $320,000;2004 UK Shell Foruper Ltd. paid Barbour Griffith $820,000, via an attorney who structured deals under US DOJ investigation for Semyon Mogilevich ties
  • Paul Manafort, Adviser to 1996 Dole Campaign, 2016 Trump Campaign Manager, Fmr. Ukraine PM Viktor Yanukovich, Rinat Akhmetov–with Bruce Jackson, Akhmetov met VP Dick Cheney
  • Bruce Jackson-1996 Dole Fundraiser – Ukraine oligarch Rinat Akhmetov, Yanukovych’s benefactor/ally gave $300,000 to Mrs. Jackson’s charity in 2005
  • Alston & Bird–Fmr. Sen. Maj. Ldr. Bob Dole 1996 Presidential nominee- Helped Russian aluminum oligarch Oleg Deripaska with visa to visit the US in 2005 despite US Security concerns ($300,000-2003, $260,000-2005)
• Russiagate
• Timeline
• Social Media 2016 Campaign

Grover Norquist, the Happiest Man in Washington The Atlantic The veteran conservative activist ought to be disturbed by the Trump administration. Why is he so optimistic—and what’s vaping got to do with it? Molly Ball April 18, 2017 “Norquist has a Muslim wife, has spent years battling his party’s anti-Muslim fringe, and is a strong proponent of comprehensive immigration reform. (His neatly trimmed beard has even been cited as proof that he is a secret Muslim.)”

Grover Norquist Positions Held on SourceWatch

• Former executive director, College Republicans, 1981-83
• Former executive director of National Taxpayers Union, 1981-83
• Former economist and chief speechwriter, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 1983-1984
• Former economic advisor to Jonas Savimbi, UNITA (Angola). “During the eighties, l was very active with the Afghan resistance, and in Mozambique and Angola,” Norquist told an interviewer. “Did a lot of political training for the Krieble Institute in Europe. I’ve been to all the Eastern European countries. I’ve just been to Japan for the founding of Japanese for Tax Reform.”[8]
• Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation Director
• Founder and president, Americans for Tax Reform (1985-present), which was originally organized by Bill Barr with prompting from the Reagan White House to rally grassroots support for the 1986 Tax Reform Act.[9]
• Helped the Heritage Foundation draft then-Rep. Newt Gingrich‘s Contract With America in 1994
• Campaign staff member on the 1988, 1992, and 1996 Republican Platform Committee
• Keynote speaker, 1995 National Conference on School Choice
• Author of a book about the GOP movement called Rock the House (VYTIS Publishing Company; 2nd edition (November 1995)
• Commissioner on the National Commission Restructuring the Internal Revenue Service, a congressional advisory commission, from 1996-1997
• Director, Association of Concerned Taxpayers (AOCT)
• President, Americans Against a National Sales Tax
• National leader of the “No New Taxes” pledge for political candidates
• Chairman Emeritus of the Islamic Institute
• Lobbyist for Microsoft [10]
• Member, board of directors, National Rifle Association [11]
• Member, board of directors, American Conservative Union [12]
• Member, Council on Foreign Relations (2001). [13]
• Former member, board of directors, Council for National Policy
• Member, board of directors, National Federation of Republican Assemblies (NFRA)
• Member, board of directors, Frontiers of Freedom (e.g. 2006)
• President, District of Columbia Republican Assembly, D.C.’s NFRA affiliate
• Member, board of advisors, TheVanguard.Org
• President of the Advisory Board, Ronald Reagan Legacy Project (RRLP)
• Member, Board of Directors, Yorktown University
• Consultant for Janus-Merritt Strategies, a lobbying firm
• Serves on the executive council of the Tax Relief Coalition
• Norquist also writes a monthly politics column for the American Enterprise Institute Magazine
• Advisory Board, U.S.-Ukraine Foundation ^[4]