Project for the Republican Future

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The Project for the Republican Future is a Washington-based independent G.O.P. strategy and advocacy [1] [2] that was founded in 1993 by Thomas L. Dusty Rhodes. Rhodes served as a director of the Project from 1993 to 1995, which has had a significant impact in formulating some of the specific debates on major public policy issues since it began. Rhodes, a graduate of the Wharton School, was also a graduate school classmate to Midge Decter according to the Heritage Foundation [3]

The Project funded the "What to kill first? The Right nominates CPB — to save tax money and "privatize the Left"" discussion [4]

Thomas L Rhodes

Thomas L. Dusty Rhodes works very closely with another organization called Change New York, and he is a chief advisor of George Pataki, governour of New York State Rhodes held several posts at Goldman, Sachs & Company in New York. He joined Goldman Sachs in 1974 and subsequently served as vice president (1977–1982); vice chairman, Goldman Sachs Limited, London, England (1982–1985); and partner (1986–1992). Rhodes is co-chairman of Asset Investors Corporation, Denver, Colorado (NYSE), and co-chairman of Commercial Assets, Inc., Denver (ASE), and also serves on the following boards: Apartment Investment and Management Company, Denver; the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Milwaukee, Wisc.; Delphi Financial Group, Inc. & Subsidiaries, New York; Delphi International Ltd., Hamilton, Bermuda; and Oracle Reinsurance Ltd., Hamilton, Bermuda, and has been on the board of Heritage Foundation since the end of 1993.

William Kristol

William Kristol first made his mark as leader of the Project for the Republican Future, and rose to fame as a conservative opinionmaker during the battle over the Clinton health care plan. In his first of what would become legendary strategy memos circulated among Republican policymakers, Kristol said the party should "kill," not amend or compromise on, the Clinton health care plan. Thus, Kristol presented the first public document uniting Republicans behind total opposition to the reform plan. A later memo advocated the phrase There is no health care crisis, which Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole used in his response to Clinton's 1994 State of the Union address.

The New Citizenship Project founded by William Kristol is affiliated with the Project for the Republican Future

Juleanna Glover Weiss

Juleanna Glover Weissis a lobbyist and media and campaign consultant who, in early 2005, left the Clark & Weinstock firm to become a principle in the new Ashcroft Group firm, founded by former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft. [5] [6]

At Clark & Weinstock, Glover Weiss "helped the Iraqi Governing Council's U.S. rep on 'messaging' and planned overall strategies for meetings with Administration officials, members of Congress/staffers and reporters," reported O'Dwyer's PR Daily. [7]

She also served as "legislative director for the Project for the Republican Future."[8]

Glover Weiss is a graduate of Marymount University and received her MBA from George Mason University. [9]