Amy Moritz Ridenour
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Amy Moritz Ridenour is President and Chairman of The National Center for Public Policy Research.
In 1993-1994 she was co-host of Scoop, a public affairs show seen weekly on the public affairs television network National Empowerment Television.
According to her biographical note she "served as Vice-Chairman of the International Youth Year Commission of the U.S. (1985); as Deputy Director of the College Republican National Committee; as Regional Coordinator for the Reagan/Bush 1980 campaign; as Chairman of the Maryland Federation of College Republicans and on Maryland Republican State Central Committee."
"Amy Ridenour also is a member of the board of directors of Black Americans Political Action Committee, a political action committee that works to help elect more African-Americans to Congress and other elected offices, and she served as the chairman of several of the conservative movement's strategy meetings, including the Stanton meeting (foreign affairs and defense issues) and the Family Forum meeting (social policy issues)", her biographical note states. [1]
Ridenour is described in a 1995 memo by the Philip Morris tobacco company as "a willing ally." The memo, by PM employee Francis Gomez states that she had just called his office "offering to use any information we can provide [regarding] the current anti-tobacco onslaught... Tom Borelli and I have both been in touch with Amy on various issues and are awaiting proposals for use of an internet website as an accessible repository of PM-related information."
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- BAMPAC - Official website
- Amy Moritz Ridenour, undated, accessed June 2004.
- Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber,The Usual Suspects:Industry Hacks Turn Fear on its Head, PR Watch, Volume 7, No. 3, 3rd quarter 2000.
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