John K:
>What the hell is the Council for National Policy????
http://mojones.com/hellraiser_central/features/stan.html
http://www.berkshire.net/~ifas/cnp/index.html
below is from a debate at another list, politics, where a guy professing to be an expert maintains that he never heard of them. je maintained that he'd never heard of them and that they didn't even exist. i got fed up at his ignorance and laziness and insistence on claiming that the CNO didn't exist and was nothing . so, i got carried away with a web search.
the was an article at salon in march or february that featured a discussion of the CNP.
whether it's a conspiracy, well some folks certainly think so. frankly what's interesting about it is that the web search revealed just how divided the conservative party is by the internecine politics of the religious right.
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 13:35:38 -0500
From: kelley <kwalker2 at GTE.NET>
Subject: Re: The CNP
kevin, you can see if your uni will get trial subscription to this, below. Policy file has info on all think tanks, rationale, research, membership, etc:
http://ch-profile.chadwyck.com/policy/more.htm#subs
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AND SALLY, check this out: http://www.population-security.org/24-CH16.html#4
it traces the CNP to baptist splits over papal policy back in mid 70s. i find this whole internecine battling among chrsitans stuff pretty interesting... I wish i hadn't lent out my books on the relig right and social movements. i'm sure there'd be more on this. is this history in the book, the Hunting of the pres? anyway, the link refers to a bill moyer's interview....
the rest, below, are most of the links i found that made ref to the CNP in one way or another. orgs with vitae of members listing their affiliation with CNP, for ex. there are a number of home schooling groups listing them for various reasons. anti clinton sites with a list of groups the Clinton admin has harrassed. they audited the CNP b/c they are getting special org status.
it appears that the group is a think tank, that's it's official status. there's a good article, link below, addressing the issue of how relig cons. think tanks operate and the role they play in policy making. it also appears that it is though enough of to include as part of several resumes listed on line by both individuals, corps, and groups whose invited spekaers they advertise as members of the "prestigious" CNP. so, i guess it isn't quite as unimportant for some folks as some in this discussion would like us to believe. __________________________________ 1. this seems to be an early print reference in mainstream media
Newsweek Magazine reports that CNP's first executive director, Louisiana State Representative Woody Jenkins, told members, "I predict that one day before the end of this century the Council (meaning the CNP) will be so influential that no President, regardless of party or philosophy, will be able to ignore us or our concerns or shut us out of the highest levels of government."
Newsweek Magazine, July 6, 1981, pg. 49; (Baton Rouge) State Times, Jan. 8, 1987, pg. 1A; see also Bellant, The Coors Connection, pg. 37. -------------------------------------------------------- 2. http://cgi.usatoday.com/elect/ec/ecr/ecr032.htm 10/15/96 - 04:47 PM ET Secret meeting brings together party's big thinkers -------------------------------------------------------- 3. http://www.dvol.com/~users/icas/bios/feulner.html Edwin J. Feulner, Jr., Ph.D. Biographic Sketch
Edwin J. Feulner, Jr. is the President of The Heritage Foundation, Washington's leading public policy organization or think tank. On January 18, 1989 President Reagan conferred the Presidential Citizens Medal on him as a leader of the conservative movement. <...> Feulner also serves as ...a Trustee of Regis University, St. James School, the Acton Institute, the Council for National Policy, and the International Republican Institute. He is past president of various organizations including The Philadelphia Society. -------------------------------------------------------- 4. http://www.issues2000.org/School_Choice.htm speech at the CNP meeting in Tysons Corner VA. Howard Phillips on School Choice: May 1, 1998
"Children's education controlled by parents Instead of arguing about how much more money should be assigned to the Federal role in education - on which more than $75 billion per year are now misdirected, we can and should eliminate completely the Federal role - every penny of which is expended in violation of our First Amendment rights to "liberty of conscience". Most grass-roots Republicans favor parental control of education, but the Republican Party in Congress has voted even more spending on education than Clinton himself requested. Source: Speech to Council for National Policy , Tysons Corner VA
-------------------------------------------------------- 5. http://cft.missionnet.org/1502ne_98.htm Christian's For Truth Newsletter * DOBSON SHAKES UP POLITICAL ESTABLISHMENT - Dr James Dobson, President of Focus on the Family, has caused quite a stir with a "barnburner" speech on the future of conservatism and the pro-family movement. Gary Bauer of the Family Research Council reports that his "friend and colleague" Jim Dobson was speaking to a group of conservative leaders at the Council for National Policy (CNP) meeting in Phoenix, Arizona. In an emotional speech, delivered without notes, Dr Dobson gave "voice to the frustration felt by millions of pro-family and pro-life Americans because of the lack of progress on our agenda." Bauer says "we face a liberal est ablishment, led by President Clinton, that constantly blocks attempts we make to bring the country back to its moral foundations and the beliefs of our Founding Fathers." The speech was off the record but was leaked and reported on by the `New York Times' on 12 February. The New York Times highlighted Dobson's threat to leave the Republican Party and "take as many people with me as possible."
-------------------------------------------------------- 6 http://prestonspeed.com/Page.html Otto Scott Mr. Otto Scott is a former journalist, editor, columnist, book reviewer, corporate executive, and author of ten books. In his eightieth year, he continues as an author, essayist, book and film reviewer, and speaker who writes a monthly cultural journal (Otto Scott's Compass). Moreover, Mr. Scott is an Associate Scholar for the American Council on Economics and Society, a member of the Council on National Policy, Philadelphia Society, Committee for Monetary Research and Education, the Author's Guild, and the Overseas Press Club. He is the recipient of the George Washington Medal from the Freedom Foundation (1976) and the John Newman Edwards Media Award (1994).
-------------------------------------------------------- 7. http://publicampaign.org/news/news6_23_97.html
(this one's really weird. clinton appoints a CNP member .... under pressure from Trent Lott. hmmmm)
News Summary for Week of June 23, 1997 TWO REPUBLICANS NOMINATED FOR FEC In a story on June 25, the ASSOCIATED PRESS reported that President Clinton announced his intention to nominate two Republican FEC commissioners to fill a pair of GOP vacancies on the Federal Election Commission. The six members of the FEC are evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans. Two other spots on the panel, both Democratic positions, are vacant. M.D.B. "Margot" Carlisle and Darryl R. Wold were nominated to replace two FEC commissioners, one whose term expired in April 1995 and the other who resigned in October 1995. Carlisle, the former chief of staff for Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss) has worked for the Heritage Foundation, served as assistant secretary for legislative affairs for the Department of Defense and is the former executive director for the Council for National Policy. Wold, a Californian, is a private attorney specializing in business and election law.
The AP story noted that "both candidates were suggested by Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss, who earlier this month warned Clinton he would block Senate action on all presidential nominations except for the military until all FEC vacancies were filled." <...>
-------------------------------------------------------- 8. http://www.graceu.edu/issues/archives/march/iip14-15mar.htm Grace University's Issues in Perspective 14-15 MARCH 1998 Dr. Jim Eckman PERSPECTIVE NUMBER ONE JAMES DOBSON VS. THE REPUBLICAN PARTY -------------------------------------------------------- 9. http://www.prayeralert.org/sttm.htm Sound the Trumpet Minestries STTM Staff Biographical Data:
Harry Valentine - Publisher - Born 1935, reared in Philadelphia; graduate: Yale (B.A. 1957; M.Div., 1985) & NYU (MA, 1965); converted to Christ in 1981; founder: The Churchill School (for children with learning disabilities in Manhattan, NYC); prayer advisor to Alan Keyes' 1996 presidential campaign; former owner: Oklahoma City 89'ers, Daytona Beach Astros; executive committee: The Alliance for Revival & Reformation; member: Council for National Policy; married, 3 children - the youngest homeschooled.
-------------------------------------------------------- 10. http://www.susandavis.com/katy.htm Catharine C. Dickey, Vice President, is a skilled communications strategist and a seasoned manager of complex projects. She specializes in strategic planning and tacticalimplementation of public awareness/ education, issues management, age enhancementand media relations campaigns. <...> Miss Dickey holds a M.A. in Public Administration from the University of Virginia, and a B.A. in Political Science from Mary Washington College. She is a member of the Council for National Policy, serves on the Board of Directors of the National Defense Council Foundation, ...
http://www.home-ed-magazine.com/HEM/HEM153.98/153.98_clmn_nws.html Home Education Magazine - May-June 1998 - Columns
-------------------------------------------------------- 11 http://kjb-av-1611.lima.net.pe/ind.html Greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and welcome to Pilgrim Trail's King James Bible Page. http://kjb-av-1611.lima.net.pe/mason.html New Masonic Order
-------------------------------------------------------- 12 http://www.spearmktg.com/y2k/comments.htm spear marketing financial
-------------------------------------------------------- 13 http://www.southern-style.com/aeahitlist.htm An anti public education site in alabama complaining about the AEA's hit/emeny list. --------------------------------------------------------
14 Joel Bleifuss, "Right Wing Confidential," In These Times Vol. 18, Nr. 19 (Aug. 8, 1994) p. 13.
-------------------------------------------------------- 15 http://www.trapandfield.com/offpub.html Curriculum Vitae Beurt SerVaas, Med.Sc.D., Chairman of the Board, SerVaas INCORPORATED
A current member of the Board of Directors of: Banc One Indiana; Indiana Public Health Foundation; Indianapolis Entrepreneurship Academy; Robert Schuller Ministries (The Hour of Power); Chairman, The National Institute for Fitness & Sport; The Hudson Institute; The Council for National Policy <...>
-------------------------------------------------------- 16 Mr. Foster Friess http://templeton.org/thelist.asp Humility Theology Information Center Mr. Foster Friess: Chairman of Friess Associates, managers of over $12 billion of equities. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Friess currently serves on the Advisory Council of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences of Stockholm, which awards the Nobel Prize for chemistry and physics, and the Executive Committee of the Council for National Policy, <...>
-------------------------------------------------------- 17 http://www.rnclife.org/reports/1996/july96/july.html VIRGINIA RNC/Life board member Morton Blackwell was re-elected to his third four-year term as Republican National Committeeman at the Virginia Republican Convention in a hot contest. A strong pro-life advocate, Morton walked away with 2/3rds of the state GOP convention vote. Morton is president of the Leadership Institute and executive director of the Council for National Policy.
-------------------------------------------------------- 18 Armed Forces -- Appropriations and expenditiures. http://www.ndu.edu/ndu/library/cjas/cja9803.html Singlaub, John. "America's Defense Decline." Policy Counsel (Fall 1997): 15-27. This lecture by John Singlaub was delivered to the Council for National Policy in Williamburg, Virginia in November 1996.
-------------------------------------------------------- 19 http://www.security-policy.org/papers/1989/89-T11.html Remarks by Roger W. Robinson, Jr., President, RWR Inc., former Senior Director for International Economic Affairs at the National Security Council (1982-1985) "EAST-WEST RELATIONS AT A CROSSROADS: THE ROLE OF WESTERN ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE" Before the Board of Governors of the International Policy Forum and the Council for National Policy -------------------------------------------------------- 20 http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a36946baf4229.htm List of Clinton oppenants targeted by IRS From Free Republic
-------------------------------------------------------- 21 http://www.ob.org/staffprofiles/staffprofiles.htm Operation Blessing International Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson...is past president of the prestigious Council on National Policy --------------------------------------------------------
22 http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a1002922.htm White Water The Man Who Wrote the Reagan Doctrine Calls For Impeachment Council for National Policy 6/17/97 Dr. Jack Wheeler
_______________________________ 23 http://www.ob.org/staffprofiles/staffprofiles.htm Operation Blessing International Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson Robertson is past president of the prestigious Council on National Policy
-------------------------------------------------------- 24 LEAH Home School Report - Vol. Seven, No. Two LEGISLATIVE ACTIVITY REPORT by Paul Matte - President, LEAH
-------------------------------------------------------- 25. http://geocities.com/Athens/Atlantis/8616/reconstruction.html Who's country is this? Well, are you a Christian (Reconstruction Theology) -------------------------------------------------------- 26 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/daily/feb99/weyrich28.htm -------------------------------------------------------- 27 http://206.251.19.72/elect/ec/ecr/ecr032.htm -------------------------------------------------------- 28 Constitution Revision Commission Members http://aif.com/CRC/Articles/97crc.htm -------------------------------------------------------- 29 http://www.churchlife.org/TEAM/HwdBrbBl.htm -------------------------------------------------------- 30 http://www.kochind.com/charleskoch.asp Free Enterprise Award from Council for National Policy awarded to Charles Koch -------------------------------------------------------- 31 http://www.yaf.org/staff/taylor.html Young America's Foundation is committed to ensuring that increasing numbers of young Americans understand and are inspired by the ideas of individual freedom, a strong national defense, free enterprise, and traditional values -------------------------------------------------------- 32 http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~mcloughl/network/history.html The New Republic October 27, 1997 HEADLINE: Robespierre of the Right: what I ate at the revolution; Paul Weyrich; Cover Story; Interview BYLINE: Grann, David
-------------------------------------------------------- 33 http://www.prospect.org/archives/40/40pagenf.html I S S U E 4 0 S e p t e m b e r - O c t o b e r 1 9 9 8 Lessons of Right-Wing Philanthropy Karen M. Paget