Peter Ferrara
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Peter J. Ferrara is a American policy analyst and columnist, known for the proposal to privatize Social Security championed by the George W. Bush administration, and for taking money from convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff to write op-ed pieces favorable to Abramoff clients such as the Northern Marianas Islands and Indian tribes such as the Choctaw.
Ferrara remains unrepentant and intends to pursue the practice in the future: "I do that all the time. I've done that in the past, and I'll do it in the future." [1] [2]
Ferrara is a senior policy adviser at the conservative Institute for Policy Innovation and has worked for the Cato Institute and Heritage Foundation.
Peter Farrara is a Senior Fellow of the Free Enterprise Fund ("FEF"): FEF has listed five "take action" campaigns on their website (https://www.myfef.org/bin/action.center.election). Four of these campaigns are common conservative financial reforms themes (Repeal Death Tax, Reform Social Security, Reform Sarbanes-Oxley and Budget Reform). The fifth campaign is to Stop MoveOn.org. FEF has produced a television commercial with its central theme asserting that MoveOn.org was started by and run by billionaire George Soros. MoveOn.org can hardly be considered anything but a grassroots organization started in 1998 by Joan Blades and Wes Boyd, two Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who neither had experience in politics. MoveOn.org has over 3.3 million members, of which George Soros is one, who joined in 2003 and donated $1.5 million. It is ironic that FEF has attepmted to label MoveOn.org as a mere political front for Mr. Soros, when in fact the three principles of MoveOn.org had no DC political experience, and FEF is actually a political front for FEF staff, all of which are long time DC insiders. FEF has few members compared to MoveOn.org.
