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they put it: "USA United Genera tions and USA NEXT are grassroots projects of United Seniors Association (USA) which is celebrating its 13th anniversary as the non-partisan, 1 5 million-plus nationwide grassroots network Uniting the Generations for Americas Future."
article from last year in The Washington Monthtly makes clear that United Seniors As sociation is basically a slush fund through which pharmaceutical compani es make huge donations to the Republican party.
Then there's the benignly-named United Seniors Association (USA), which serves as a soft-money slush fund for a single GOP-friendly industry: p harmaceuticals. USA claims a nationwide network of more than one millio n activists, but, just like Progress for America, listed zero income fr om membership dues in its most recent available tax return. During the 2002 elections, w ith an "unrestricted educational grant" from the drug industry burning a hole in its pocket, the group spent roughly $14 million--the lion's s hare of its budget--on ads defending Republican members of Congress for their votes on a Medicare prescription-drug bill.
ANWR after an Anchora ge-based company called Arctic Power cut a check for $181,000. And if al l that weren't enough, it seems that as of the summer of 2003 the Social Security Administration itself had secured a 'cease and desist' order a gainst Jarvis's group for sending out mailings that "mislead the public into believing the mail is officially sent or approved by the Social Sec urity Administration."
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