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Sean Noble |
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"Sean Noble
is a
rightwing
political
strategist
who founded
and runs
consulting
firms,
including DC
London,
Noble
Associates,
and Compass
Strategies,
along with
the
non-profit
group dubbed
American
Encore.
American
Encore was
formerly
known as the
Center to
Protect
Patient
Rights (CPPR),
originally
set up to
funnel money
to oppose
the
Affordable
Care Act and
more.
American
Encore has
since served
as a key
conduit for
funds raised
by the
billionaire
Koch
brothers to
a network of
non-profits
promoting
climate
science
denial and
right-wing
causes.
Between 1995
and 2008,
Noble was
Chief of
Staff to
former
Republican
Congressman
John Shadegg,
representing
Arizona. In
2010,
Shadegg’s
re-election
campaign
disputed
climate
change,
citing Steve
McIntyre and
Michael
Fumento, who
have a
history of
casting
doubt on
climate
science.
Shadegg was
a member of
the House
Select
Energy
Independence
and Global
Warming
Committee
and the
House
Committee on
Energy and
Commerce. He
opposed the
Waxman-Markey
American
Clean Energy
and Security
Act, calling
it a “life
tax.”" |
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SourceWatch - Sean
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"The Center to
Protect Patient
Rights and its
affiliated
organizations played
important roles in
the Koch network's
2012 election
spending, and
according to
ProPublica "Noble
was a key player in
expanding the
network’s
complicated web of
nonprofits and
limited liability
companies."[6]
Writing about the
California "dark
money" campaign
finance scheme, The
Washington Post
noted Noble's
central role in
helping Republican
strategist Tony
Russo pay for issue
ads without
disclosing donor
names: "[Russo]
turned for help to
Sean Noble, a GOP
operative plugged
into a national
network of
conservative groups.
The two agreed to a
money swap: Russo
sent money to an
Arizona group that
Noble ran, in the
hopes that Noble
would get other
organizations to
send similar amounts
back into
California, masking
the original donors.
“I said, ‘Sean, you
know, I have a big
hiccup in
California,’ ” Russo
later recounted for
state investigators.
“ ‘Can we support
some of your
national efforts
and, in turn, do you
have groups that can
help us in
California?’ That
was pretty much as
simple as it was.”"" |
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Axiom Partners
Rename Lobbying Firm
As Bribery Case
Unfolds |
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"A month after a
federal bribery case
shook Arizona's
lobbying community,
the firm whose
prominent executive
was indicted has
renamed itself,
seeking a fresh
start. Compass Rose
Public Affairs
features the same
staff as Axiom
Public Affairs,
without lobbyist Jim
Norton, said Kelsey
Lundy, the firm's
managing partner.
"It is a rebranding.
It is not
necessarily a
brand-new company,
although Sean
Noble and myself
will be the sole
business partner,"
she said. "It's been
a rough three or
four weeks. ... I
believe this was a
decision Sean and I
and our existing
team felt was the
best thing to move
forward and kind of
get out from
underneath the cloud
that unfortunately
is around the name
Axiom."" |
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Jun. 21, 2017 |
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Ballotpedia - Sean
Noble |
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"Sean
Noble is a
political consultant
who runs American
Encore, formerly
known as the Center
to Protect Patient
Rights,
a 501(c)(4)
nonprofit
organization funded
by money from
Charles and David
Koch. Noble
is also a blogger
and formerly worked
as chief of staff to
former U.S. Rep.
John Shadegg (R-Ariz.).
He is the founding
partner of the
political consulting
service DC London." |
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'Dark Money' Pours
Into
Arizona
Republican Primary |
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Aug. 9, 2014 |
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The Dark Money Man:
How Sean Noble Moved
The Kochs’ Cash Into
Politics And Made
Millions |
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"For a brief, giddy
moment, Sean
Noble—a
little-known former
aide to an Arizona
congressman—became
one of the most
important people in
American politics.
Plucked from
obscurity by
libertarian
billionaire brothers
Charles and David
Koch, Noble
was tasked with
distributing a
torrent of political
money raised by the
Koch network, a
complex web of
nonprofits nicknamed
the Kochtopus, into
conservative causes
in the 2010 and 2012
elections. Noble
handed out almost
$137 million in 2012
alone -- all of it
so-called dark money
from unnamed donors
-- from his perch
atop the Center to
Protect Patient
Rights, a group run
out of an Arizona
post office box." |
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Feb. 14, 2014 |
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Arizona Dark Money
Group Gave Lavishly
To Other Groups |
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"The Center to Protect
Patient Rights (CPPR), the secretive Arizona
dark money group tied to the movement of
millions of dollars between political
nonprofits, gave almost $15 million in 2011
to a number of groups that spent heavily on
political ads in 2012, according to IRS
documents obtained by the Center for
Responsive Politics. The CPPR, run by former
congressional aide Sean Noble, spent
$23.2 million in 2011, with $14.8 million
given in grants to 19 other nonprofits.
Bloomberg has previously reported that the
CPPR contributed $55.4 million to other
nonprofit political groups in 2009 and 2010.
Among the recipients of the CPPR’s largesse
in 2011 were the American Future Fund,
Concerned Women for America, 60 Plus
Association, Free Enterprise America,
American Commitment, and the Coalition to
Protect Patient Rights (not to be confused
with the CPPR itself.) Each of these groups
received over $1 million from the CPPR." |
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