Project for the Republican Future

The Project for the Republican Future is a United States Washington, D.C.-based independent G.O.P. strategy and advocacy [http://www.current.org/mo501.html] [http://www.ccldp.org/pdf/report_walters.pdf] group that was founded in 1993 by Thomas L. Dusty Rhodes. Rhodes served as a director of the Project from 1993 to 1995, which has had a significant impact in formulating some of the specific debates on major public policy issues since it began. The Project was disbanded and the staff incorporated into the operations of the magazine The Weekly Standard when it was begun by Rupert Murdoch and the News Corporation in 1995. [Richard L. Berke, "Murdoch Finances New Forum for Right," New York Times, Aapril 30,1995.]

Rhodes, a graduate of the Wharton School, was also a graduate school classmate to Midge Decter according to the Heritage Foundation [http://www.heritage.org/Research/PoliticalPhilosophy/HL530.cfm]

Leadership

Thomas L Rhodes

Thomas L. Dusty Rhodes works very closely with another organization called Change New York, and he is a chief adviser of George Pataki, governor of New York State Rhodes held several posts at Goldman, Sachs & Company in New York. He joined Goldman Sachs in 1974 and subsequently served as vice president (1977–1982); vice chairman, Goldman Sachs Limited, London, England (1982–1985); and partner (1986–1992). Rhodes is co-chairman of Asset Investors Corporation, Denver, Colorado (NYSE), and co-chairman of Commercial Assets, Inc., Denver (ASE), and also serves on the following boards: Apartment Investment and Management Company, Denver; the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Milwaukee, Wisc.; Delphi Financial Group, Inc. & Subsidiaries, New York; Delphi International Ltd., Hamilton, Bermuda; and Oracle Reinsurance Ltd., Hamilton, Bermuda, and has been on the board of Heritage Foundation since the end of 1993.

William Kristol

William Kristol first made his mark as leader of the Project for the Republican Future, and rose to fame as a conservative opinionmaker during the battle over the Clinton health care plan. In his first of what would become legendary strategy memos circulated among Republican policymakers, Kristol said the party should "kill," not amend or compromise on, the Clinton health care plan. Thus, Kristol presented the first public document uniting Republicans behind total opposition to the reform plan. A later memo advocated the phrase "There is no health care crisis," which Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole used in his response to Clinton's 1994 State of the Union address.

The New Citizenship Project founded by William Kristol is affiliated with the Project for the Republican Future

Juleanna Glover Weiss

Juleanna Glover Weiss is a lobbyist and media and campaign consultant who, in early 2005, left the Clark & Weinstock firm to become a principal in the new Ashcroft Group firm, founded by former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft. [http://www.odwyerpr.com/members/0504weiss.htm] [http://thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/042805/ashcroft.html] At Clark & Weinstock, Glover Weiss "helped the Iraqi Governing Council's U.S. rep on 'messaging' and planned overall strategies for meetings with Administration officials, members of Congress/staffers and reporters," reported "O'Dwyer's PR Daily". [http://www.odwyerpr.com/members/0504weiss.htm]

She also served as "legislative director for the Project for the Republican Future." [http://www.iop.harvard.edu/fellowships-S2002.php]

Glover Weiss is a graduate of Marymount University and received her MBA from George Mason University. [http://www.iop.harvard.edu/fellowships-S2002.php]

References

* [http://www.heritage.org/Research/PoliticalPhilosophy/HL530.cfm Heritage Lecture 530] April 21 1995

*Balkan Action Committee
*Citizens for a Free Kuwait
*Coalition for a Democratic Majority
*Committee for the Free World
*Committee for the Liberation of Iraq
*Committee for Peace and Security in the Gulf
*Committee on the Present Danger
*Institute on Religion and Democracy
*Prodemca (Friends of the Democratic Center in Central America)
*Project for the New American Century