111:(FEC) reached a settlement with Progress for America related to its activities in 2004. In the 2004 election cycle, the Fund had raised US$ 45 million. Under the terms of the settlement, PFA-VF did not admit to any wrongdoing, and agreed to pay US$ 750,000 and to register as a political committee if it undertakes any activities similar to those in 2004. The FEC stated: "Over US$ 41 million of those funds consisted of excessive contributions from individuals, while over US$ 2 million came from sources prohibited from making contributions . . . ."
229:, with a US$ 1 million ad campaign in Minnesota. Progress for America spokesman Stuart Roy said the group purchased "a saturation buy" in Minnesota and said that bolstering support for the war now "will be a major focus, if not the major focus of Progress for America". These ads often feature war veterans speaking in support for the war and for then President Bush.
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as well as at the affiliated telemarketing and fundraising firm of
Feather Larson Synhorst-DCI (FLS-DCI). Feather set up PFA as a "grassroots organization that mobilizes the public to contact their members of Congress about pending legislation and to write local newspapers to publicize the White
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reported that PFA intended to "spend at least US$ 18 million on the expected fight to replace
William Rehnquist, chief justice of the US Supreme Court". PFA's campaign would include "national cable-news and broadcast-television ads in targeted states. The group will also coordinate grassroots
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of the system. PFA "has estimated it will spend US$ 20 million promoting private accounts. It has run a series of ads on cable television, including a spot that invokes the legacy of
Democratic President Franklin Roosevelt, who signed the legislation creating the retirement system", the
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On June 22, 2005, PFA issued a press release announcing a US$ 700,000 campaign in anticipation of a
Supreme Court Justice vacancy during the Court's summer break. The campaign included buys on big newspapers' internet websites, and a roll-out of a new website: upordownvote.com.
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PFA-VF spent US$ 14.2 million on ad time for "Ashley's Story", which ran on cable stations and in nine key states. According to USA Today, the ad was supported by ashleysstory.com, as well as "e-mails, automated phone calls and 2.3 million brochures" mailed to voters.
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donations which political parties were barred from accepting starting in 2002. Feather left PFA in 2003 after receiving a legal opinion that his involvement with it and the Bush-Cheney campaign could violate regulations barring coordination between the entities.
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wrote. The groups will also use phone-bank and direct-mail in its campaign. "Before Senate confirmation of Owen and Brown, PFA claims to have helped generate nearly 80,000 telephone calls supporting their nominations",
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Christian stations" and US$ 1.5 million on television ads to be run in Alaska, Arkansas, Maine, North Dakota, Nebraska and Rhode Island as well as nationally.
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156:, raising questions about potential conflicts of interest between his advocacy work at PFA and his role as a Social Security "trustee". Saving is also a fellow at the
104:. The Complaints charged that Progress for America Voter Fund (PFA-VF) was illegally raising and spending soft money to influence the 2004 presidential elections.
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wrote in 2002. During the first part of the Bush administration, it led campaigns to support tax cuts, conservative judicial appointments and energy legislation.
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organizers and public-relations specialists in eighteen states, including states represented by centrist
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