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Honorable Howard "Bo" Callaway - CNP 1984, 1988, 1996, 1998; director Paul Weyrich's Free Congress Foundation 1 ; Chairman of GOPAC, 1987 - 1993, and Crested Butte Mountain Resort; former President, Callaway Gardens 2; former state chairman, Colorado Republican Party; International President, World Business Council; former Secretary of the Army-President Richard Nixon appointed him in 1973; former member US Congress; former vice chairman, Republican National Committee; former International President, Young Presidents' Organization; manager President Ford's 1976 Campaign; board member, Freedoms Foundation, Chief Executives Organization, World Business Council, United Bank of Denver. Footnotes 1-2

Jameson Campaigne, Jr. - CNP 1984, 1988, 1996; President, Green Hill Publications; Secretary, American Conservative Union 3(ACU); former Trustee Philadelphia Society 4 ; former Editor in Chief, Calumet Newspapers; Director, National Tax Limitation Committee, member Mont Pelerin Society; director, Illinois Conservative Union; founder and former director Young Americans for Freedom 5 [the youth organization of the John Birch Society].

American Conservative Union 6. (ACU)"...November 7, 1964, just five days after the election, several of conservatism's leading luminaries gathered to pick up the pieces and assess the movement's future. They were determined not merely to paper over the damage, but to craft and forge a new vehicle through which the ideas and ideals articulated in the 1964 campaign could be advanced in the political arena without apology or retreat. Most felt that existing groups were limited in their appeal (such as Young Americans for Freedom) or too tarnished or discredited by controversy (such as the John Birch Society)...Led by such figures as Frank S. Meyer, John Chamberlain, Jameson Campaigne, Sr., John M. Ashbrook (CNP), Katherine St. George, William F. Buckley, Jr. (CFR), L. Brent Bozell (CNP L. Brent Bozell, III ), and Robert E. Bauman (organizer of the founding meeting), among others, this new vehicle - - the American Conservative Union - - was established...The first meeting of the original ACU Board of Directors was held December 18, 1964, at the Statler (now the Capital) Hilton Hotel in Washington. Members included Ashbrook, Bauman, Bozell, Buckley, Campaigne, Meyer, and St. George, along with Lammot Copeland, Peter O'Donnell, John A. Howard , and Congressman Donald C. Bruce of Indiana, who was elected the first chairman...Toward the end of 1965, Congressman Bruce, pleading exhaustion, sought the Board's acceptance of his resignation. ...on October 21... Ohio Congressman John M. Ashbrook (CNP) was elected his successor..."

ACU Board Member Becky Norton Dunlop is the Vice President for External Relations for the Heritage Foundation. Other members of the many, include those who currently are or have been CNP members: Jesse Helms (CNP); M. Stanton Evans (CNP); David Keene, Chairman ACU (CNP); Donald Devine, Vice Chair ACU, an adjunct scholar at The Heritage Foundation, (CNP); Grover Norquist , ACU Board Member, president of Americans for Tax Reform (ATR),(CNP); Morton Blackwell, (CNP) and many more. Footnotes 3-6

Ken Campbell - CNP 1996, 1998; dentist; member, Christian Coalition of Northern California, Sacramento Republican Assembly, and many other Republican organizations, including the California Republican Assembly; member, National Rifle Association, Gun Owners of California, American Dental Association, California Dental Association, Arcade Baptist Church, and the Comstock Club.7 Footnotes 7

Jim Carden - CNP 1984, 1988, 1996; president, The Carden Company; director, Home School Legal Defense Association; B.A. in psychology.

Charles S. Carriker - CNP 1996, 1998; member Church of Jesus Christ of the LatterDay Saints; president, Charles S. Carriker & Associates, Inc., an international fundraising and advertising agency specializing in social and moral issues; expertise in prolife and antipornography issues; active in raising money for prolife organizations in England, Ireland, Australia, and the United States; business partner with Mary Reilly Hunt (CNP); board member, Maud Powell Foundation, an educational and literary foundation organized to educate the public about the life of American violinist Maud Powell and to encourage young people to cultivate music; board member, Granite High School Educational Foundation, Salt Lake City, Utah; past international board member, Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition; 8 Footnotes 8

Margo Carlisle-CNP 1984, 1988, states former Executive Director of CNP; former staff director Senate Republican Conference; former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs and other positions.

Alan Carlson - CNP 1984, 1988; was President, The Rockford Institute; director, Family in America.

The Rockford Institute 9. , a conservative think tank funded by Scaifes, Bradley Foundation, Earhart Foundation and Olin Foundation. 10 CNP's Norman P. McClelland former chairman and current board member. CNP's Dr. John A. Howard is President.

"...the Scaife Foundation had financed a New York City outpost for the paleoconservative Rockford Institute, under the leadership of neoconservative of Lutheran minister Richard John Neuhaus. While Neuhaus' Center for Religion and Society attracted corporate foundation grants denied to the parent Rockford Institute, Neuhaus, himself made no secret of his anger over Rockford's publication...of articles denouncing the promotion by neoconservatives of "democratic globalism," plus what Neuhaus described as the Rockford editors' "anti-Semitic and nativist tendencies." In a watershed May 1989 incident, reported on the front page of the New York Times, Rockford executives finally flew from Illinois to New York where they locked down Neuhaus' Manhattan office, carted away furniture, and left Neuhaus with his personal belongings waiting for a taxi cab on Madison Avenue." 11

Charles Colson and Fr. Richard John Neuhaus (Lutheran who converted to Catholicism) authored the ecumenical documents Evangelicals and Catholics Together and Evangelicals and Catholics Together II. The approval for the wording was required to come from Cardinal Edward Idris Cassidy, president of the Vatican's Pontifical Council for promoting Christian Unity.

Besides the authors, Charles Colson and Fr. Richard John Neuhaus, the original document was signed in 1994 by:

There are most likely many others that applied their names in agreement even if they never made it public. As well, one must consider the influence and position each in agreement has with colleagues and congregations.

Evangelicals and Catholics Together II boasts scholars and Christian leaders who endorsed the original 25-page statement in addition to the original authors Colson and Neuhaus.

John W. Chalfant - CNP 1996, 1998; president and founder, America A Call to Greatness, Inc.; real estate developer/investor since 1971; major fundraising agent for Christian conservative movement; directed national SALT syndrome funding drive for American Security Council, 1980; writer; inventor. 12 Footnotes 12

Margaret "Peggy" Cies - CNP 1996, 1998 active in an interior design business and the importing of continental antiques; vice president, Republican Womens Club of San Marino; has been active in Republican politics and causes for many years; heavily involved in arranging speakers for many conservative organizations; active in many political campaigns, especially Proposition 187. 13 She was wife to William Cies (deceased), past Executive Council Member of the John Birch Society who was also a CNP member in 1984, 1988. Listed as deceased in 1996 directory. Footnotes 13

Michael S. Coffman, Ph.D- CNP 1996; president, Environmental Perspectives, Inc., which provides guidance and training for environmental problems and conflicts; played a key role in stopping the ratification of the Convention on Biological Diversity (Biodiversity Treaty) in the U.S. Senate; author, Saviors of the Earth? The Politics and Religion of Environmentalism and Environmentalism! The Dawn of Aquarius or the Twilight of a New Dark Age?; scientist and ecologist; taught courses and conducted research in forest ecology and forest community dynamics at Michigan Technological University; assisted U.S. Forest Service in developing an Ecological Land Classification System for national forests; former manager, Champion International, a forest and paper products company; spokesperson, Paper Industry for the Media; 14 Footnotes 14

John Commuta- CNP Board of Governors 1982. Operations Manager of the National Religious Broadcasters and one of ...more than 30 evangelical Christian leaders and Orthodox Jewish Rabbis representing the top leadership of the Rabbinical Council of America ... who met in Washington D.C. ...to forge an alliance of political support for Israel... The two groups said the meeting may become the first step in an alliance on domestic and other foreign issues as well... " 15

The Rabbinical Council of America 16. is an organization of Orthodox rabbis, with most having received their rabbinical training in the United States. The Council's purposes have been to promote the study and practice of Orthodox Judaism and to defend the basic rights of Jewish people in all parts of the world, as well as support the State of Israel. The Council is the rabbinical arm of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations 17. Footnotes 15-17

Guy M. Condon - CNP 1996, 1998; President, Care Net, a network of care for women in crisis; former president, Americans United for Life 18. , a public interest law firm/think tank, serving as the legal and scholarly educational arm of the prolife movement. AUL launched an aggressive legal and educational strategy to bring about the reconsideration of Roe v. Wade and to reestablish legal protection of unborn children; former director of administration, director of development, director of public information, Americans United for Life; published articles for Christianity Today. 19 Footnotes 18-19

Robert L. Cone - CNP Board of Governors 1996, 1998. Former co-owner and present director, Graco Childrens Products, Inc.; owner and president, Itnac Corporation, a manufacturer of material handling equipment; charter member, High Point Baptist Church, Geigertown, Pennsylvania.

Peter C. Cook - CNP 1988, Board of Governors 1996, 1998; chairman of the board, Mazda Distributors Great Lakes; board member numerous colleges and EMS Foundation, Gospel Films, TV-17; Greater Consistory Member of the Grace Reformed Church; member and regional vice president Defense Orientation Conference Association.

Holland (Holly) Coors - CNP Board of Governors 1982, 1996, 1998, Executive Committee 1988, 1994; CNP Vice President 1996. President of the Holland Foundation, Vice chairman and member, board of trustees, A Christian Ministry in the National Parks (ACMNP); board of trustees, Adolph Coors Foundation and the Heritage Foundation, since 1998; board of trustees, Pan American Development Foundation, Caribbean Central American Action, Federalist Society; founder/president of Women of Our Hemisphere Achieving Together ; Ronald Reagan Chair in Public Policy; board of directors, National Family Legal Foundation; director, Defense Forum Foundation; United States Ambassador during the National Year of the Americas and was appointed by President Bush to the Commission on White House Fellowships; founder/member of the Friends of First Ladies. Board of Advisors of the Nevada Policy Research Institute. Executive Advisory Board of The Conservative Caucus; Board of directors of The STEP Foundation and is a major financial supporter of Pat Robertson and CBN.

"Strategies to Eliminate Poverty" (STEP) was ...formed to alleviate poverty through private sector funding and volunteerism...! According to the Christian Inquirer, Nelson Bunker Hunt "kicked off" the STEP Program in November of 1981, with a $1 million contribution. Those attending the April 1982 meeting in Dallas, besides the previously mentioned Dr William Bill Bright, Murchison, and Hunt, were: Dallas Cowboy Coach Tom Landry, Television evangelists Jim Baker, [and CNP's] James Robison and Pat Robertson, (Holly) Coors; Dallas businesswoman [Late] Mary C. Crowley, and the Rev. E.V. Hill - keynote speaker at the meeting and president of STEP. [Miller, p. 4]

Joseph Coors, Jeffrey Coors, Darden Coors and Carin Coors are all members of the CNP and Linda Tafoya, executive director of the Adolph Coors Foundation, is believed to be a member as well. While supporting right-wing and evangelical causes, it should be noted that the money that comes from the Coors family through the Adolph Coors Foundation and the Castle Rock Foundation, is from the family brewery business, of which each have stock holdings. The Coors Family works with, hold memberships in or make grants to organizations such as the Heritage Foundation, The Free Congress Foundation, the Leadership Institute, the Institute on Religion and Public Life, Young America's Foundation, the Media Research Center, the Center for Study of Popular Culture and many more. 20.

Note: Coors has many subsidiaries including the food industry which also account for income. 21.

The Coors Brewing Company workplace policies dealing with sexual orientation are now considered among the best in corporate America. The company now offers domestic partnership benefits, has a nondiscrimination policy specifically including sexual orientation and a recognized queer employees' group, known as LAGER (Lesbian And Gay Employee Resource). Coors brags that it is the only U.S. brewery to pass the "Lavender Screen" test of gay-friendly policies developed by investment counselor Howard Tharsing of V Management in Oakland. Tharsing calls the company "one of the most progressive in terms of its employment policies." Last year Coors persuaded the California Association of Pride, Inc. (CAPI), the statewide association of lesbian and gay pride celebrations, to end its boycott, and company spokeswoman Cinde Dolphin notes that Coors has sponsored gay pride events in cities around the country, including Boston, Denver and Ft. Lauderdale. In California it has sponsored pride events in San Jose, Santa Barbara and Palm Springs and is actively promoting its products to gay bars and restaurants. 22 Footnotes 20-22

Jeffrey Coors - CNP Member 1984-85; 1988; 1996, CNP Board of Governors 1996, 1998; son of Joseph and Holly Coors and great grandson of Adolph Coors. Current President and CEO of Graphic Packaging Corporation, a NYSE public company based in Golden, Colorado. Graphic Packaging is the largest U.S. manufacturer of paperboard packaging with 20 plants across the United States. From 1992 to 1999, Jeff was president and chief executive officer of ACX Technologies, the parent company of Graphic Packaging and CoorsTek (formerly Coors Ceramics Company). On December 31,1999, CoorsTek was spun off from ACX, which now goes by the name of Graphic Packaging, thereby creating two totally separate manufacturing companies. Prior to that, Jeff Coors' 25-year career with Adolph Coors Company encompassed a broad range of management responsibilities, including president of Adolph Coors Company and chairman and chief executive officer of Coors Technology Companies. ACX Technologies, Inc., is a Fortune 500 industrial products manufacturing company with businesses in technical ceramics, paper packaging materials and aluminum sheet fabrication;

ACX's past board included Jeffrey Coors, who doubled as company president, William Coors (chairman of the board and president of Coors Brewing Co.), Joseph Coors, Joseph Coors, Jr. and John K. Coors. (Interestingly, one non-family board member, John D. Beckett [CNP], also sits on Paul Weyrich's Free Congress Foundation board which Jeffrey Coors chairs). 23

A report filed 30 July 1996 with the Security Exchange Commission by ACX Technologies, inc., reports that 857,744 shares of ACX stock are held by the Adolph Coors Foundation. Jeffrey Coors is the largest individual stockholder in ACX. "... ACX does a whopping business with Coors Brewing Co. According to the Coors annual report, ACX has been a key supplier of aluminum for Coors' beer cans, while "most of the secondary packaging for Coors Brewing Co.'s products, including bottle labels and paperboard products, is supplied by Graphic Packaging Corporation, an ACX subsidiary." The brewery also purchases 100 million pounds of refined cornstarch annually from another ACX subsidiary, in an agreement that runs through1997." 24.

Jeffrey serves on the boards of Hillsdale College, The Independent Institute, National Association of Manufacturers, Intercessors for America, Adolph Coors and Castle Rock Foundations. He is past chairman of the Colorado Association of Commerce and Industry; chaired CACI's "Blueprint for Colorado" steering committee; Board of Advisors of the Nevada Policy Research Institute. He is chairman of Free Congress Foundation.

The former President of Hillsdale College, George C. Roche III, was also a member of the Mont Pelerin Society, becoming a member in 1971. Roche in 1975 hosted a Mont Pelerin meeting at the Hillsdale College. 25 Dr. Larry P. Arnn replaced Roche as president of Hillsdale College. Hillsdale College board members include CNP's Frank Shakespeare and Jack Eckerd

The Free Congress Foundation (FCF) board of directors include director Paul Weyrich, an ardent supporter of the Society for the Protection of Tradition, Family and Property 26. and Charles Moser, an editorial adviser to a publication that praises the Nazi Waffen SS. Weyrich, who for years has represented the political interests of the Coors family in Washington, DC, sponsors the work of a convicted Nazi collaborator, Laszlo Pasztor, a Hungarian-American who is employed at FCF. The Coors-funded Heritage Foundation co-sponsored a 1989 forum with a pro-Nazi group, the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations. SEE: Dr. David Balsiger

Power Brokers: There are other powerful New Right funders, but it is the Coors family who time and again appear in leadership roles in New Right institutions, offering a guiding hand along with their signed checks. The family is seen, by critics and compatriots alike, as being in the front rank of conservative U.S. power brokers. Some observers contend that the Coors empire has moderated politically because the Coors Corporation now financially supports some women's, civil rights and gay and lesbian groups. 27 Footnotes 23-27

Joseph Coors - CNP Board of Governors 1982; Executive Committee 1984-85, Chairman of the CNP Governmental Affairs Committee; former president of the Adolph Coors Company, chairman of the Board, Coors Porcelain Company; former Regent of the University of Colorado, former member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM); former Board member, Colorado School of Mines; a member of the Citizen's Legal Defense Fund for the FBI, Ad Hoc, which is closely allied with the National Lay Committee of the National Council of Churches (NCC), and a prime donor at the founding of the Heritage Foundation; former member Board of Directors, The Heritage Foundation, now Honorary Trustee. He is a major financial supporter of Pat Robertson and CBN. Joseph divorced his wife after 50 years and wed his mistress.

"In the 50's Coors family funded the John Birch Society. From 1967 to 1972 Joseph Coors was a regent at the University of Colorado where he opposed the existence of campus groups such as UMAS (United Mexican American Students), BSU (Black Student Union), and SDS (Students for a Democratic Society). He was always known for distributing John Birch Society literature to fellow regents. He was quoted as saying the University should strive for quality students and not quantity." 30.

In 1971 Joe Coors along with Jack Wilson and Paul Weyrich founded Analysis and Research Inc., to establish a political research entity. Joe Coors donated the first-year Heritage budget of $250,000 for 1973 from the coffers of the Coors Corporation and for the next two years gave $200,000. He then pledged $15,000 per month. Coors and Weyrich set up the Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress to carry out political activities and the Heritage Foundation as a tax exempt educational research entity. The Coors company provided Heritage Foundation with $20,000 per month during the foundation's first year. Weyrich was Heritage president until February 28, 1974. Weyrich had ties to Josef Strauss of Bavaria Germany who was active in a political party that coalesced with repentant Nazi's after World War II.

Strauss came to the United States in the early 1970's. Weyrich and Strauss' aide by the name of Armin K. Haas planned Strauss' schedule. Joe Coors helped Haas make political contacts in Congress. 31

He provided financial backing for, Accuracy in Media 32 chairman is CNP's Reed Irvine , a right-wing media watchdog group.(19) He also supported various groups organized by New Right tactician Paul Weyrich including the Catholic Center, a religious group that sent conservative "truth squads" to counteract the activities of liberal bishops,... Coors money has supported right-wing religious groups including the Church League of America, the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, the Moral Majority, and the Campus Crusade for Christ.(5) Coors supported Lt. Gen. John Singlaub's U.S. Council for World Freedom (USCWF), the U.S. chapter of the World Anti- Communist League (WACL). USCWF and the Nicaraguan Refugee Fund (another Coor's cause) played major roles in funding the Nicaraguan contras.(5) Coors is on the board of trustees of the Heritage Foundation.(22) He was on the advisory council of the National Strategy Information Center, a right-wing think tank for military strategy.(23). 33

The kitchen cabinet is a group of millionaires who have financed Ronald Reagan's political career from the governorship of California to the White House. This group has profited greatly from Reagan's pro-business policies. Its members include Holmes Tuttle of Ford and Rexall; A.C. Rubel, chairman of Union Oil; Henry Salvatori, oil developer; Justin Dart, of Dart-Kraft; Leonard Firestone, of Firestone Tire and Rubber; Taft Schreber of MCA Inc.; and William French Smith, Reagan's former Attorney General.

Other wealthy conservatives who contributed to the contras through NEPL include Barbara Newington ($2,866,025), Ellen Garwood ($2,518,135) and Nelson Bunker Hunt ($484,500). 35.

Heritage uses many endorsements including a letter of endorsement from 1981 White House Chief of Staff Edwin Meese [CNP] in a fundraising effort. In his letter of endorsement, Meese promised 1997 Heritage president Ed Feulner (CNP) and 1973 original board trustee, that "this Administration will cooperate fully with your efforts." After leaving the Reagan Administration, Meese joined the staff of the Heritage Foundation and continues as a Fellow.

Adolph Coors IV, listed on the Speakers Bureau 36. is the great-grandson of Adolph Herman Joseph Coors. His father had been Chairman of the Board of Coor's until, when Adolph IV was 14, his father was kidnapped and brutally murdered. Spent six years working at the Adolph Coors Company in various departments such as Marketing, Administration, Sales, Brewing, Quality Control, R&D, and Financial Planning. He has served on the Board of Directors of Prison Fellowship Ministries, an international prison ministry founded by Chuck Colson and based in Washington, D.C. He is presently on the Advisory Board of the Family Ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ, and the Board of Advisors of Kanakuk Kamp, a Christian camp for boys and girls located in Branson, Missouri. He helps fund the Christian Coalition. Footnotes 28-36

Mrs. Judy M. Cresanta - CNP 1996, 1998; President, Nevada Policy Research Institute of which Holly and Jeffrey Coors have been on the Board of Advisors.

T. Kenneth Cribb Jr.- CNP 1996, Board of Governors, 1998; President, Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Inc. 37. which is an offshoot of TownHall,38 a subsidiary of the Heritage Foundation; president 1993-94 and trustee 1981-83, 1986-88, 1991-92, the Philadelphia Society.; former deputy to the chief counsel of the 1980 Reagan campaign; former deputy director of the Legal and Administrative Agencies Group, Office of the Executive Branch Management. He went on to serve the Reagan Administration for almost the entire eight years of its existence, beginning in 1981 as assistant director for the Office of Cabinet Affairs. He served next as assistant counselor to the President, in which capacity he assisted Counselor Edwin Meese (CNP). When Mr. Meese became Attorney General, Mr. Cribb accompanied him to the Justice Department where he became counselor to the Attorney General of the United States. In 1987, Mr. Cribb returned to the White House as assistant to the President for domestic affairs and served in this position until the fall of 1988. Member of Young America's Foundation Board of Directors 39.; Advisory Board 40 for Center for the American Founding 41 ; Federalist Society; national advisory board Capital Research Center 42, trustees or National advisory board, include CNP's Terence Scanlon, chairman and president, Hon. Edwin Meese III, Richard V. Allen, Dr. Larry Arnn, President, The Claremont Institute, and others who hold organizational leadership. Footnotes 37-42

Mary C. Crowley [Late]- CNP Board of Governors 1982, member 1984. Member of Member of Ed McAteer ' Religious Roundtable Council of 56 43 [See: Religious Roundtable]; past Board member The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.

"...participant at the founding of the STEP Program and Foundation. "Strategies to Eliminate Poverty" (STEP) [Washington, D.C.] was ...formed to alleviate poverty through private sector funding and volunteerism...! 77. According to the Christian Inquirer, Nelson Bunker Hunt "kicked off" the STEP Program in November of 1981, with a $1 million contribution. Those attending the April 1982 meeting in Dallas, besides the previously mentioned Dr. William "Bill" R. Bright, Murchison, and Hunt, were: Dallas Cowboy Coach Tom Landry, Television evangelists Jim Baker, [and CNP's] James Robison and Pat Robertson, (Holly) Coors; Dallas businesswoman [Late] Mary C. Crowley, and the Rev. E.V. Hill - keynote speaker at the meeting and president of STEP. 44 Footnotes 43-44

Les Csorba - CNP 1996, 1998; vice president, A.T. Kearney Executive Search; former director, Meridian Consulting Group; former White House special assistant for presidential personnel, overseeing personnel recommendations for ambassadors, official delegations, and presidential appointments at the Department of Defense, the State Department, NASA, and other national security agencies; served on the President's Transition Team (1989); former deputy special liaison, 1988 BushQuayle campaign; founded and served as executive editor, Campus Report, a monthly journal of Accuracy in Academia, Inc.; former trustee, Public Affairs Committee, Southern Baptist Convention; editor and coauthor, Academic License: The War on Academic Freedom; coauthor, The Third Generation: Young Conservatives Look to the Future.

James C. Czirr - CNP 1996, Board of Governors 1998; founder and president, Extol Energy Corp.; former financier/national marketing director, Ridgeline Corporation; former sales representative, Procter and Gamble; member, Michigan Oil & Gas Association.

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