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Feb. 22-23 (24), 2018 - The
exhibit hall is always interesting. Groups from A to Y—Alliance
for American
Manufacturing to Young America's Foundation—including interest
groups, publishers and think tanks promoted their ideas and
products. A directory at the front of the exhibit hall listed 67
different groups, and there were several others represented that were
not on the list. Photos of some of the booths
follow
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America First Policies is an
organization formed in early 2017 to promote the Trump agenda (+).
Its website states: "America First Policies is non-profit, 501(c)(4)
organization supporting key policy initiatives that will work for all
citizens in our country and put America first. We are committed
to empowering, educating, and mobilizing the voices of tens of millions
of Americans who support a more prosperous, safer, and stronger country
that allows everyone the opportunity to achieve their own American
dream." www.americafirstpolicies.org
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America Rising PAC "was founded
in Spring 2013 for the sole purpose of
exposing the truth about Democrats through video tracking, research,
and strategic communications." According to its webiste, it has
"uncovered countless instances of Democratic hypocrisy and taken action
to hold them accountable." America Rising is already keeping an
eye on
potential 2020 candidates. The buttons featured six potential
2020
presidential candidates: Former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Cory
Booker, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Sen. Kamala Harris, Sen. Bernie Sanders and
Sen. Elizabeth Warren. www.americarisingpac.org
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American Conservation Coalition
("We're giving conservatives a voice on the environment.") is a
relatively new organization. www.acc.eco
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The American Enterprise
Institute
is "a nonpartisan public policy research institute with a community of
scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing
individual opportunity and strengthening free enterprise." www.aei.org
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President John Hinderaker helped
man the Center of the American Experiment booth. According to its
website, the Center is "Minnesota’s leading public policy organization.
The Center is more than a think tank. It not only researches and
produces papers on Minnesota’s economy, education, health care, the
family, employee freedom and state and local governance. It also crafts
and proposes creative solutions that emphasize free enterprise, limited
government, personal responsibility and government
accountability." www.americanexperiment.org
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Citizens' Climate Lobby is "a
non-profit, nonpartisan, grassroots advocacy organization focused on
national policies to address climate change." Specifically the
group favors a Carbon Fee and Dividend proposal which "would place a
predictable, steadily rising price on carbon, with all fees collected
minus administrative costs returned to households as a monthly energy
dividend." citizensclimatelobby.org
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Committee For A Constructive
Tomorrow (CFACT) was "founded [in 1985] to promote a
much-needed, positive alternative voice on issues of environment and
development." www.cfact.org |
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Conservatives Concerned About
the Death Penalty is "is a network of political and social
conservatives who question the alignment of capital punishment with
conservative principles and values." conservativesconcerned.org
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