Citizens United
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Citizens United is a conservative U.S. non-profit organization headed by David Bossie. It was formed in 1988 and currently operates offices on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C.. It has run ads critical of President Clinton's record on terrorism, ads supporting President Bush's terrorism record, and filed a Federal Election Commission complaint against Fahrenheit 9/11. The associated Citizens United Foundation is a 501(c)(3) group. Citizens United produced the films Celsius 41.11, Broken Promises: The United Nations at 60, and Border War: The Battle Over Illegal Immigration.
Citizens United's stated goals are:
- "to reassert the traditional American values of limited government, freedom of enterprise, strong families, and national sovereignty and security."
- "to restore the founding fathers' vision of a free nation, guided by the honesty, common sense, and good will of its citizens."
[edit] Reaction to Mark Foley Scandal
On October 2, 2006, in reaction to revelations of a GOP coverup of inappropriate communications between Rep. Mark Foley and teenage pages, Citizens United President David Bossie called on Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert to resign over his role in sweeping the scandal under the rug.[1]
