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USA Next's Jarvis resurfaced to smear AARP
On the September 12 broadcast of James Dobson's Focus on the Family radio show, Charles W. Jarvis, president and CEO of USA Next, alleged that AARP -- a 35 million-member organization that states it is "dedicated to enhancing quality of life for all as we age" and has actively opposed Social Security privatization -- is a "radical" organization that has promoted same-sex marriage and has supported a group that "wants to take the Southwest of the United States and redistribute it to Mexico." As Media Matters for America has documented, USA Next is a Republican-linked conservative lobbying group that recently conducted a campaign to weaken opposition to Social Security privatization. According to its website, USA Next is a "National Project of the United Seniors Association, Inc., "which is a "nonprofit nonpartisan organization under section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code."
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Posted by 1428a
re: USA Next's Jarvis resurfaced to smear AARP
"On July 23, 1995, The Washington Post reported that USA Next hired Republican pollster Frank Luntz to craft a controversial memo claiming seniors are "pack-oriented" and 'susceptible to following one very dominant person's lead.'"https://mediamatters.org/items/200509150004
Susceptable-sounds like the listeners of Dobson's program. That memo may come back to bite them. The AARP represents a big lobby (there's a lot of seniors out there, and the numbers aren't exactly going to fall when the Baby Boomers begin to retire). Why would Focus on the Family want to lose such a big voting bloc-oh wait I forgot, they don't look that far ahead, plus the apocolypse is coming so it doesn't matter, right?
Posted Thursday September 15, 2005 6:37:11 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by packer backer
re: USA Next's Jarvis resurfaced to smear AARP
I applaud the courage and intelligence of AARP for standing up and dismissing Bush's lousy, rip off, SS plan and anything else that will hurt Americans.
Posted Friday September 16, 2005 10:53:20 AM EDT / Flag this comment