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	Richard Berman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Richard Berman is the executive director of the Center for Consumer Freedom, a group which represents the interests of the food, alcohol and tobacco industries.
		In this role, Berman claimed that he "argued against unnecessary regulation of [the] hospitality industry." However, he is known to have submitted an amici curiae brief opposing a decision to grant health care coverage to pregnant women.
		Berman moved into the food and beverage industry in 1975 under the mentorship of Norman Brinker, founder and owner of the Steak and Ale chain of restaurants.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_Berman (641 words)

	Berman's Battle
		However, while Berman presents himself as a defender of consumers against overbearing bureaucrats and health zealots, he's really defending the interests of another group: restaurant chains, food and beverage companies, meat producers, and others who stand to see profits hampered by government regulations, or even by increased health awareness on the part of customers.
		Berman's strategy turns on a simple rhetorical gimmick: By employing the language of consumer freedom, he protects his client industries by demonizing (and, hopefully, discrediting) their critics -- all apparently in service of the hapless consumer.
		Berman’s efforts might not seem all that remarkable in a city where industry-funded "astroturf" groups are so emboldened that many no longer bother concealing funding sources.
	www.commercialexploitation.com /news/articles/berman.htm (1368 words)

	Richard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Richard is a given name used in English, French, German, and Czech.
		Richard of Chichester, Saint Richard (one of several)
		For example, Maurice Richard and Henri Richard famous ice hockey playing brothers, and Monique Richard, politician.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard (240 words)

	VegSource Article
		In Berman's letter he asserts that he actually paid at least a part of the non-profit money he has steered toward his corporation to other people he chooses to employ, as opposed to putting it in his own personal bank account.
		Berman's website ActivistCash.com claims it "root[s] out the funding sources of the most notorious anti-consumer groups." But this is Orwellian-speak at best as Berman's non-profits seek to quash actual pro-consumer groups, such as the Center for Science in the Public Interest, which educates the public about food safety and nutrition issues.
		Berman's definition of "pro-consumer" appears to be encouraging people to smoke cigarettes, drink booze, eat lots of junk food - and ignore the health consequences of consumption of these items.
	www.vegsource.com /articles/berman_release.htm (595 words)

	Political Affairs Magazine - Right-wing Lobbyist Initiates Misleading Anti-union Campaign
		Berman’s CCF organization was founded in 1995 with $600,000 in donations from major cigarette maker Phillip Morris and Co. and the tobacco lobby, according to the Washington Post.
		Berman has gotten rich by attacking public health organizations who call for adequate standards in our food and water, along with consumer safety and environmental groups, all at the behest of the corporations who turn to him with deep pockets.
		Berman’s CCF group was launched as a nonprofit organization, which under federal tax law requires it to remain non-partisan.
	www.politicalaffairs.net /article/articleview/2807/1/151 (952 words)

	Richard Berman
		Berman also will be honored later this fall by a business group for his contributions to the Rogue Valley high-tech industry.
		Berman’s efforts to encourage his neighbors to speak out on the Hillcrest issue warranted the council honor, Bennett said.
		Berman organized a group of neighbors to attend an August 1999 public hearing where a city plan to build the Hillcrest sidewalk was hotly contested by some neighbors.
	www.dsrct.com /richardberman.htm (919 words)

	The Escalating Obesity Wars
		Berman is also president of Berman and Co., a public affairs firm that in 2003 received more than $1.1 million in compensation from the nonprofit group -- more than a third of its revenue that year, according to its most recent tax returns.
		Berman, 62, also is the founder of two other restaurant-supported groups: the American Beverage Institute, which fights restrictions on alcohol use, and the Employment Policies Institute Foundation, which has argued against raising the minimum wage -- a move that would hurt restaurants because of their large staffs of low-wage workers.
		Berman called PRWatch's list inaccurate and said the only reason the group is criticizing him is because he had criticized some of its leaders for a book they wrote about mad cow disease and its chances of occurring in the United States.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/26/AR2005042601259_pf.html (1515 words)

	Rick Berman - SourceWatch
		Richard B. (Rick) Berman is a former labor lawyer and restaurant industry executive who currently works as a lobbyist for the food, alcoholic beverage and tobacco industries.
		In the early 1990s, Berman was tied to former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich through possible ethics violations involving Gingrich's PAC (GOPAC).
		Richard Berman, "Animal Groups Callous, Not Cute (http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2003-04-15-berman_x.htm)," USA Today, April 15, 2003.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Rick_Berman (652 words)

	Does Richard Berman Know Something That We Don’t? \| TPMCafe
		Berman’s method for defending the status quo however is not the fire hose or the ax handle.
		For sure, Berman is a stone cold hustler and con man. When it comes to unions, a lot of employers do think like three year olds.
		I agree that Berman could be selling a “final solution, now’s the time to drive a stake through their hearts once and for all" plan.
	www.tpmcafe.com /node/27521 (1591 words)

	Richard Berman - Folk Musician
		Humor, too, is part of Richard's performance, as in "Monopoly", his first-person account of the power of that game on behavior, and "The Kids Are Back", his take on the latest stage in family development, both songs from Richard's second CD, Love Work and Play.
		Richard received an MSW and worked as a therapist for years with children and families.
		Richard first received national recognition in folk circles for his work by winning the 1992 Napa Valley Folk Festival's Emerging Songwriters Contest.
	www.richardberman.net (813 words)

	Berman & Co.: "Nonprofit" Hustlers for the Food & Booze Biz - Center for Media and Democracy
		Berman and Co. also participated actively in the campaign to kill President Clinton's health reform plan in the early days of the Clinton administration, claiming once again that the plan would destroy jobs.
		Berman says that lowering the legal blood-alcohol concentration for drivers would target social drinkers, people who are "doing something that isn't particularly dangerous behavior." He claims that a person can reach a blood-alcohol level of.08 percent simply by drinking two glasses of wine in two hours.
		Richard Berman of the American Beverage Institute, peddling a phony poll, fire-bombing the most credible research and researchers in the field, and using scare tactics in an attempt to kill life-saving.08 laws.
	www.prwatch.org /prwissues/2001Q1/berman1.html (2568 words)

	Center for Consumer Freedom or Deception? You Decide.
		Berman arranges for large sums of corporate money to find its way into nonprofit societies of which he is the executive director.
		In 1995, Berman and Norm Brinker, his former boss at Steak and Ale Restaurants, were identified as the special-interest lobbyists who donated the $25,000 that disgraced then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who was hauled before the House Ethics Committee for influence-peddling over the money.
		Berman is “a one-man wrecking crew on important issues.” His approach has been described as “misleading” and “despicable.” Berman has been called “a tobacco company whore,” but he’s branched out since then.
	www.consumerdeception.com (580 words)

	218c&i.wpd
		Data management - (Richard Berman) - The last of the Tier II reports for 1997 are in the final stages of being scanned into a database.
		Richard Berman added that each county would be given grants from Emergency Management enabling them to purchase the EM2000 software.
		Eric Tolbert indicated to Richard Berman that at this time, his preference is to begin scanning in the 1998 Tier II data.
	www.dem.dcc.state.nc.us /serc/Subcommittees/Compliance/021899.htm (1501 words)

	Berman and Company: Research · Communications · Advertising
		Berman and Company is a dynamic research, communications, advertising, and government affairs firm.
		Berman and Company's mission is to "change the debate." PR firms offer access to the media.
		Rick Berman is the President of Berman and Company, a Washington, D.C.-based public affairs firm specializing in research, communications, and creative advertising.
	www.bermanco.com (120 words)

	Richard Berman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		And Richard has used that gift to write many songs that tell moving, true stories and humorous ones as well.
		Richard received national recognition in folk circles for his work by winning the 1992 Napa Valley Folk Festival's Emerging Songwriters Contest.
		"Richard Berman is one of the most gifted songwriters I have ever met.
	www.wfma.net /berman.htm (218 words)

	Richard Berman
		Richard: "The writer [Mark Steven Johnson] was a client.
		Richard: "My company gravitates towards projects that are not just entertaining but will affect people.
		Richard: "You should've seen the responses we got from the major networks about the subject matter.
	www.lukeford.net /profiles/profiles/richard_berman.htm (1350 words)

	Story: Federal Court Denies Motion to Dismiss in Internet Wine Sales Case, 9/8/00.
		Judge Berman wrote that the 21st Amendment will not sustain a statute that is mere economic protectionism.
		Judge Berman's decision quotes at length from recent federal court decisions which have struck down state liquor control statutes under the Commerce Clause on the grounds that they constitute economic protectionism rather than regulation of evils associated with liquor trafficing.
		Judge Berman also pointed that several cases cited in Defendants' brief which upheld state laws banning direct liquor sales are less recent, and have "been diminished by subsequent rulings".
	www.techlawjournal.com /internet/20000908.asp (556 words)

	FAME Review: Richard Berman - Dreamer
		Considering the fact that this CD included long-time favorites as Richard Dobson, Hugh Moffatt and many others, I was surprised that someone whom I never heard of before had the best song in it.
		Berman is every bit as good at writing story songs as Richard Shindell, and Shindell is one of the best.
		Berman, of course, is an American and lacks Bragg's English.
	www.acousticmusic.com /fame/p01151.htm (589 words)

	GoozNews: Richard Berman and the Corporate War on Science
		This ad is the latest blast from Richard Berman's Center for Consumer Freedom, a non-profit "group" supported mainly by the restaurant and food industry.
		He also uses his heavy-handed public relations machine to attack the mainstream scientists who have conducted research in the field, even though there are plenty of scientists, most industry-funded but some not, who have engaged in the debate on the other side.
		Using traditional yardsticks, it would appear that most of that was paid as direct salary to Berman himself since he also reported that the Center for Consumer Freedom put $115,000 into Berman's personal retirement fund.
	www.gooznews.com /archives/000241.html (614 words)

	NexMed Appoints Richard J. Berman as C.E.O. : ArriveNet Press Releases : Health (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Berman's business career spans over 35 years of venture capital, management, and merger and acquisition experience.
		Berman worked at Goldman Sachs and was Senior Vice President of Bankers Trust Company, where he started the MandA and Leveraged Buyout Departments and advised on over $4 billion of MandA transactions.
		Berman stated, "As CEO of NexMed, my first mandate is to significantly cut unnecessary expenses and raise equity capital to strengthen the Company's cash reserves.
	press.arrivenet.com /health/article.php/739730.html (492 words)

	ANIMAL PEOPLE INFO SERVICES
		Richard Berman, the founder and president of the for-profit lobbying and public relations firm Berman and Co., started the nonprofit Guest Choice Network in 1999.
		Berman dissolved GCN in 2001, changing the name to the Center for Consumer Freedom.
		Berman and BCI have received nearly $2 million from GCN and CCF since 1999.
	www.animalpeoplenews.org /04/12/notesonOpposition12.04.htm (594 words)

	Richard Berman / The Center for Consumer Freedom - Forces of Ronald.com
		The Center for Consumer Freedom is run by Republican lobbyist Richard Berman, a darling of the tobacco, booze, and agribusiness interests.
		Berman was bankrolled in the mid-1990s with $900,000 from Philip Morris, the tobacco and food giant, and he has been funded since by them and by dozens of other food, beverage and restaurant companies.
		Berman is basically a food industry hatchet man with a considerable budget provided by industry, most of which goes into his own organizations and pockets.
	www.fortenbras.com /forcesofronald/berman (622 words)

	CNN.com - Transcripts
		BERMAN: Well, I think, again, from the college's vantage, this is really in support of any student, all students' right to express themselves as long as they do it in a very legally, obviously legally and a non-disruptive way.
		It seems like it might be a little bit of a contradiction, though, because she respects the flag and what America stands for but yet is turning her back on it.
		BERMAN: Well, I think there's always a contradiction and but I think the real issue here is, again, her right -- and we ought to defend her right to be able to say it and to express her view.
	edition.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0303/01/smn.16.html (1133 words)

	CNN.com - Transcripts
		RICHARD BERMAN, CENTER FOR CONSUMER FREEDOM: There clearly is a mixed message.
		BERMAN: The same argument, Fredricka, the same argument has to then fly on the face of addiction.
		BERMAN: Once you find out how much John is making off of all this...
	edition.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0208/04/sm.23.html (1296 words)

	Manhattanville College (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		RICHARD BERMAN, MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE PRESIDENT: Well, our mission is to educate this next generation's leaders for our global community.
		BERMAN: And part of this was really not just letters.
		I think you're absolutely right, and the hope here is that when you adopt a soldier, and the soldier writes back, that then the student or the people now -- we have volunteers from all 50 states joining in this campaign -- that you'll hear, from the soldier, what you can do for the families.
	www.mville.edu /News/media_nov04_mysoldierFOX.HTML (924 words)

	ArtWanted.com \| Richard Berman \| Artwork Portfolio
		Richard Berman was born in South Africa, lived in Texas for 10 years, and moved to Los Angeles in 1993.
		Richard received a full scholarship to travel the circumference of the planet on Semester at Sea where he studied under Brooks Institute of Photography professor, Robert Werling.
		Richard currently resides in Santa Monica, California and enjoys riding through the mountains of Malibu on his horse, Casey, every chance he gets.
	www.artwanted.com /artist.cfm?ArtID=19623 (285 words)

	zahn
		Also from Richmond, Virginia, Richard Berman, the executive director of the Center for Consumer Freedom, a coalition of about 30,000 restaurants.
		BERMAN: Well, first of all, John said this is the opening gun, and I think the opening gun is shooting blanks.
		BERMAN: The fact is, you go into any of these franchises, and the information is available.
	www.banzhaf.net /docs/zahn.html (1083 words)

	Richard Berman @ eFolkMusic
		Last Spring, Richard released his fourth CD, Storied Lives, which is getting critical acclaim as it gets heard around the country.
		Over the past nine years Richard has performed in coffeehouses, clubs, festivals and house concerts throughout the Northeast, the Southwest, and California, and has toured England and Wales.
		Among the clubs he has played at is the Bluebird Cafe in Nashville, TN, where he was selected to showcase in 1994 and came back to play again in 1996 and 1998.
	www.efolkmusic.org /ArtMusic/viewartist.asp?artist=Richard+Berman&AID=315 (461 words)

	Food Fight - Forbes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In addition to needling PETA and other activist groups at every opportunity, Berman has now positioned himself as one of the most vocal critics of the war on obesity, a battle he characterizes as "big fat lies" and fuel for trial lawyers.
		Berman claims credit, for example, for getting the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to back off its 2004 report that obesity was the second-leading cause of death in the U.S., behind tobacco.
		In addition to blasting the respected CDC for using its original statistics "to hype the problem of obesity," Berman also accused CDC Director Dr. Julie Gerberding of engaging in a "coverup" of an internal investigation of the revised obesity statistics (the CDC eventually released the documents Berman was demanding).
	www.forbes.com /business/2005/09/23/obesity-lobbying-ccf-cz_sl_0923ccf.html?partner=rss (1155 words)

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