Citizens United
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Citizens United is a conservative U.S. non-profit organization co-founded by Floyd Brown[1] in 1988 and currently headed by David Bossie. Its offices are on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., near the White House.
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."
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[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 the Speaker of the House (at that time Dennis Hastert) to resign over his role in sweeping the scandal under the rug.[1]
[edit] Hillary: The Movie
Citizens United lost a court battle over advertisements for Hillary: The Movie, a film about presidential aspirant Senator Hillary Clinton (NY). A Federal District Court ruled that the group could not air advertisements without attaching a disclaimer and disclosing their donor list. Claims that the film should be treated as a documentary prompted "outright laughter from the judges".[2]
[edit] Surprisingly
The group issued Surprisingly, a television advertisement that reveals several liberal legislative actions taken by presidential aspirant Senator John McCain (AZ).[3] The Group aired the ad on FoxNews.[4]
