Public Notice
{{#badges:stub|front groups}} Public Notice is a right wing policy think tank run by Republican political operative Gretchen Hamel, a former GOP Congressional staffer and Republican spokesperson. Hamel was a founder of the Alexandria, Virginia public relations firm Endeavour Global Strategies, which specializes in political messaging, use of new media and attempting to control news on behalf of clients. The other co-founders of Endeavour are former Bush Administrations staffers with expertise in social media. Public Notice operates the advertising project Bankrupting America, which promotes Republican-held ideological positions of cutting social programs without proposing budget enhancing measures like increasing taxes on the wealthy or cutting defense.[1]
Public Notice makes videos and runs TV ads that emphasize the problem of government debt and attack stimulus spending. The group focuses solely on cutting government spending as the only answer to the nation's debt problem, without mentioning the detrimental effects on America's economy of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, extension of the tax breaks for corporations and the wealthiest Americans (favored by Republicans), or Wall Street speculating.Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag
Funding
Public Notice refuses to disclose its donors, a characteristic of a front group. Its website also lists no staff, affiliates or sponsors.[2]
Sourcewatch resources
External resources
- Zachary Roth Former Bush Admin. Spox Launch Nonprofit to combat "Over Spending", TPMMuckraker, March 3, 2010.
Contact
Public Notice lists no fixed address on its website, and gives no phone number. (Two more characteristics of a front group). Contact is by web form.
References
- ↑ Zachary Roth Former Bush Admin. Spox Launch Nonprofit to combat "Over Spending", TPMMuckraker, March 3, 2010
- ↑ Gar Smith Bankrupting America: The Truth behind those Hole-in-the-ground Ads, the Berkeley Daily Planet, October 5, 2010
