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Small business owner featured in the NFIB's ad, John Parke of Little Rock, Ark., said he didn't know the message was being bankrolled by the insurance industry -- but says he should have been told.
"It is relevant to understanding who is sponsoring the message," he said.
National Federation of Independent Business is a front for American Legislative Exchange Council, or "ALEC."
Who is tricking small business owners, into being human shields for ALEC ?
"....the ad is sponsored by the National Federation of Independent Business, self-styled as an advocate of small business but long a front for Republican and national chamber of commerce interests. The New York Times has learned about the money behind the ad, particularly almost $1.6 million from American Health Insurance Plans."
"....the largest chunk of the money donated to the nonprofit group’s [NFIB] advocacy came not from small-business owners, but rather from health insurance companies trying to repeal a health care tax,"
""For the viewers of the television advertisement in Arkansas, there would be no way to know that the message was actually paid for in part by health insurance companies, who are vehemently opposed to a tax on health care premiums that will cost insurers roughly $100 billion over the next decade."
Who is John Parke of Little Rock, Ark ?
Parke is a Republican who's run unsuccessfully for Arkansas House and is treasurer of the state GOP.
(John Parke was a Republican candidate for District 31 of the Arkansas House of Representatives. )
"Shortly after Sanders announced his candidacy, his Republican opponent, John Parke, made it clear that he was changing his previous pro-choice stance and was now pro-life as well."
31 March 2010
"A mail piece that went out this week hits Republican candidate for State Representative John Parke hard on his record on abortion. The ad draws primarily from his responses to a 2004 Arkansas Right to Life Questionnaire. In it, he staked out a position opposing overturning Roe v. Wade."
http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlo...hills-for-insurance-industry-funded-attack-ad
"The Arkansas television advertisement, run in December, featured John Parke, the chief operating office of Democrat Printing and Lithographing Company in Little Rock, Arkansas, a 143-year-old, family-run company."
"'We are a small business that has been part of the central Arkansas community for four generations,' Mr. Parke says in the ad, paid for by Voice of Free Enterprise, which features scenes of worn-out printing presses and laborers hard at work. 'What Obamacare means for Arkansas small businesses is tough choices, the mandates, the increased costs, the increased taxes.'"
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/26/us/polit…
But tax records filed late last year by the group show $1.593 million of the organization’s $4.9 million in revenue came from an anonymous donor in 2012, the largest single contribution.
That is the exact amount that America’s Health Insurance Plans, a trade association run by top executives from companies including Aetna and United Health Care, lists as having spent on “advocacy organizations as part of its advocacy efforts on issues associated with reform of the nation’s health care system.” The tax return prepared separately by America’s Health Insurance Plans does not disclose that it donated the money to, or at least spent it in collaboration with, the Voice of Free Enterprise.
"It is relevant to understanding who is sponsoring the message," he said.
National Federation of Independent Business is a front for American Legislative Exchange Council, or "ALEC."
Who is tricking small business owners, into being human shields for ALEC ?
"....the ad is sponsored by the National Federation of Independent Business, self-styled as an advocate of small business but long a front for Republican and national chamber of commerce interests. The New York Times has learned about the money behind the ad, particularly almost $1.6 million from American Health Insurance Plans."
"....the largest chunk of the money donated to the nonprofit group’s [NFIB] advocacy came not from small-business owners, but rather from health insurance companies trying to repeal a health care tax,"
""For the viewers of the television advertisement in Arkansas, there would be no way to know that the message was actually paid for in part by health insurance companies, who are vehemently opposed to a tax on health care premiums that will cost insurers roughly $100 billion over the next decade."
Who is John Parke of Little Rock, Ark ?
Parke is a Republican who's run unsuccessfully for Arkansas House and is treasurer of the state GOP.
(John Parke was a Republican candidate for District 31 of the Arkansas House of Representatives. )
"Shortly after Sanders announced his candidacy, his Republican opponent, John Parke, made it clear that he was changing his previous pro-choice stance and was now pro-life as well."
31 March 2010
"A mail piece that went out this week hits Republican candidate for State Representative John Parke hard on his record on abortion. The ad draws primarily from his responses to a 2004 Arkansas Right to Life Questionnaire. In it, he staked out a position opposing overturning Roe v. Wade."
http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlo...hills-for-insurance-industry-funded-attack-ad
"The Arkansas television advertisement, run in December, featured John Parke, the chief operating office of Democrat Printing and Lithographing Company in Little Rock, Arkansas, a 143-year-old, family-run company."
"'We are a small business that has been part of the central Arkansas community for four generations,' Mr. Parke says in the ad, paid for by Voice of Free Enterprise, which features scenes of worn-out printing presses and laborers hard at work. 'What Obamacare means for Arkansas small businesses is tough choices, the mandates, the increased costs, the increased taxes.'"
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/26/us/polit…
But tax records filed late last year by the group show $1.593 million of the organization’s $4.9 million in revenue came from an anonymous donor in 2012, the largest single contribution.
That is the exact amount that America’s Health Insurance Plans, a trade association run by top executives from companies including Aetna and United Health Care, lists as having spent on “advocacy organizations as part of its advocacy efforts on issues associated with reform of the nation’s health care system.” The tax return prepared separately by America’s Health Insurance Plans does not disclose that it donated the money to, or at least spent it in collaboration with, the Voice of Free Enterprise.
