Big Ad Today for Slimy Congressman David Rivera. By Geniusofdespair

There is 1/2 page ad in the Miami Herald for that snake - Congressman David Rivera. Yes, David Rivera is the hero of ALL seniors. How do I know, it says so in the New York Times. The ad for Rivera gives a New York Times link. I went to the link. The link lists Ryan's budget bill and gives the voting results. It only mentions Rivera's name with every other Congressman. The way the Rivera ad is laid out in the Miami Herald, it makes you think that the New York Times said: "Thank Congressman David Rivera for standing up for seniors and fighting to protect and preserve Medicare." Who is behind this deceptive ad (in more ways than I can mention)? Here is the scoop from their website:

 October 5th: "The American Action Network today announced the launch of a $1.6 million advertising campaign focusing on President Obama’s devastating plan to impose Medicaid-style price controls on the Medicare Prescription Drug Program. A series of print, mail and phone ads will target 43 different House Congressional Districts and 13 different Senators."

Who is financing/leading The American Action Network:  

Fred Malek - "Malek, who founded private equity firm Thayer Capital Partners, has spent his life moving in the very highest circles of business and Republican politics. An aide to Presidents Nixon and George H.W. Bush, Malek is perhaps most famous for his central role in responding to Nixon's request for a count of Jews employed in the Bureau of Labor Statistics. He also once parachuted out of a plane with George H.W. Bush for the former president's 80th birthday."  

Robert Steel - "Steel came to the Treasury Department of the George W. Bush Administration after a nearly 30-year illustrious career at Goldman Sachs. He joined Goldman in the mid-1970s, ultimately rising to the position of vice chairman. From 2006 to July 2008, he was under secretary for domestic finance under his old friend Henry Paulson, with whom Steel had a "Batman-and-Robin-like relationship," according to the Washington Post."  

Kenneth Langone  - "The investor who provided the seed money for Home Depot, Langone's net worth was put at $1.1 billion by Forbes in 2007. He butted heads with then-Attorney General Eliot Spitzer in the 2000s in the scandal over the super-sized pay package for Dick Grasso, chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, where Langone was a director. Langone has been a longtime friend and business associate of Ross Perot, whose presidential bid Langone backed in 1992. In 2008, he was an early backer of Rudy Giuliani, later switching his support to McCain."

Another one of those gosh-darned Republican Think Tanks...not thinking as usual -- helping our ethically challenged Congressman David Rivera to stay in office. Get smart people in District 25, throw the bum out. And, here is an accurate link to the New York Times about this group.

According to Wikipedia The American Action's Network's board of directors includes:


Fred Malek, Chairman, Thayer Capital Partners;
former Senator Norm Coleman, CEO, American Action Network and Forum;
former Senator George Allen,
President, George Allen Strategies, LLC;
Isaac Applbaum, founding General Partner, Opus Capital;
Maria Cino, Vice President of Government Affairs, Pfizer Inc.;
Dylan Glenn, Senior Vice President, Guggenheim Advisors;
Ambassador Boyden Gray, former U.S. Ambassador to the European Union;
B. Wayne Hughes, Jr., Founder and Senior Vice President of American Commercial Equities Inc.;
Ken Langone, Founder and Chairman, Invemed Associates LLC;
former Senator Mel Martinez, Chairman of Florida, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, JPMorgan Chase;
Congressman Jim Nussle, President and CEO, The Nussle Group;
former Congressman Tom Reynolds, Senior Strategic Policy Advisor, Nixon Peabody; former Ambassador Gregory Slayton, President and CEO, NRX Global; and
former Congressman Vin Weber, Managing Partner, Clark and Weinstock

From Wikipedia: American Action Network is a 501(c)(4) issue advocacy organization that focuses on promoting what it styles as “center-right policies.” It was established in February 2010 by Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a former adviser to the presidential campaign of Senator John McCain, and former Republican Senator from Minnesota Norm Coleman,