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Lumpy "I'm now just a ghost, thanks Kate" Louise
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Let's take a look at Neera's group Center for American Progress (CAP) for a minute.

I'll call this thread #CAPisCRAP
Neera and her supporters love to bring up the sexual harassment that took place in his campaign and yet CAP struggled to address the claims against them. thedailybeast.com/report-center-…
Neera even "mistakenly" named a victim.

buzzfeednews.com/article/sarahm…
Now to look at some of their donors.

First up, there was a leak pertaining to CAP's change in response to the Khashoggi murder as to not to come down hard on Saudi Arabia because the UAE is not only their close ally but a donor to CAP. theintercept.com/2019/01/16/cen…
CAP donors (from 2013 list released):

Walmart
Goldman Sachs
Google
Northrop Grumman
T-Mobile
Toyota
Visa
GE
Microsoft
PepsiCo
Samsung
CVS Caremark
Comcast NBCUniversal
AHIP (Americans Health Insurance Plans)
Akin Gump
Glover Park Group
Livingston Group
Downey McGrath Group
Here is the article I got those from: politico.com/story/2013/12/…
This link has some more info about donors but I found this quote interesting:
influencewatch.org/non-profit/cen…
They also donate questionably:

"CAP donated $200,000 last year to the American Enterprise Institute. The AEI is a right-wing free-market think tank perhaps best known as the longtime home of racist social scientist Charles Murray." currentaffairs.org/2018/12/why-is…
Oh, they believe in progress but only if it is bringing results to their donors.

Here's another instance of CAP partnering with AEI to push for merit based raises for teachers & charter schools...

progressive.org/public-school-…
For those of you who weren't around for the Wikileaks dumps, this article sums up Neera fairly well from what came out of them:

newrepublic.com/article/138212…
You may not think CAP has much influence but they are constantly writing policy and mucking up much more progressive policy with their neoliberal BS. Here's my favorite, Medicare EXTRA for All (Hint: Extra means $ still coming out of your pocket): americanprogress.org/issues/healthc…
Feel free to drop anymore items you want. I'm sure our friends at the Neera rapid response team will be reporting my account for whatever reason they can drum up so I'll be saving this up to my blog as well.

And remember kids #CAPisCRAP
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