Socialist Progressives

Their witty ad on Google is BermanExposed, which will make you chuckle if you've ever encountered his web astroturf. I had no idea he'd gone after the Humane Society. He is truly pond scum.

http://www.humanesociety.org/issues/opposition/facts/faq_berman_hssp12162011.html

More on "Dr. Evil" (whom I have seen DUers rashly quote from in their hurry to support their anti-union bigotry...!)

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Berman_%26_Co.

"Rick Berman created EPI in 1991 to "argue the importance of minimum wage jobs for the poor and uneducated."[4] But in 2013-14, Berman and his Employment Policy Institute are leaders in a national campaign against the minimum wage, that includes TV ads, print ads, op-ed in state newspapers and more.[5]

The Employment Policies Institute (EPI) is headed by Richard Berman according to tax filings. It shares the same office as Berman's PR firm and it funnels money to the PR firm as the New York Times reported in a front page story in 2014: "the Employment Policies Institute has no employees of its own. Mr. Berman’s for-profit advertising firm, instead, “bills” the nonprofit institute for the services his employees provide to the institute. This arrangement effectively means that the nonprofit is a moneymaking venture for Mr. Berman, whose advertising firm was paid $1.1 million by the institute in 2012, according to its tax returns, or 44 percent of its total budget, with most of the rest of the money used to buy advertisements." [6]

In 2013-2014, EPI has become a primary industry attack dog, fighting minimum wage as dangerous to the economy, fighting living wages and advocating a low road economic development policy."

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