New PAC hitting Obama...let's research these sleazeballs.

[Turn CO Blue]

The site is <http://www.rightchange.com/>

I just saw their vague political attack ad on CNN. They don't name Obama specifically in the ad, and seem try to sound like they're going to point out the problems with both parties or both candidates. They're vague and try to drive people to their website.

BUT THEN once you get there, the site is full of crap and addresses Obama and his economic platform with a PACK OF LIES!

You can also see the TV ad on the site.

Need some researchers to tear these people a new one...

Here's a start

RightChange.com, Inc.
Registered Non-Profit Organization
PO Box 2259
Wilmington, NC 28402-2259

Right Change Board of Directors:

Fred Eshelman, President
Fletcher Hartsell, Corporate Secretary
Jeffrey Barnhart, Member
Tim Pittman, Executive Director


Who is dumping in the money? Who are these people?

[ingac70]

1. ...

http://center.spoke.com/info/pteYsm/FredEshelman

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fletcher_L._Hartsell,_Jr.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_L._Barnhart

http://www.naymz.com/search/tim/pittman/2126204

[DJ13]

2. Heres something

In 1985, Fred Eshelman took a gigantic risk. He left Glaxo, now part of GlaxoSmithKline, where he'd served as senior vice president of development and vice president of clinical operations, to go home - literally. Working in a home office, he started a one-person consulting firm called PPD. This contract research organization (CRO) grew rapidly. Over the years, Eshelman guided the company to become one of North Carolina's top five CROs. Today, PPD employs 9,100 employees in offices in 28 countries.

[ehrnst]

3. Some information from a quick google

Item mentioning a Tim Pittman in NC:

http://projects.newsobserver.com/tags/tim_pittman

Fletcher Hartsell Jr. - Ethics problems in NC? An ethics complaint has been filed against Fletcher Hartsell with the North Carolina Senate Ethics Committee alleging conflict-of-interest based on his past legal representation of a developer and the Water and Sewer Authority of Cabarrus County. Would that developer be KB Homes?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fletcher_L._Hartsell,_Jr.

Fred Eshelman - Biotech CEO

n 1985, Fred Eshelman took a gigantic risk. He left Glaxo, now part of GlaxoSmithKline, where he'd served as senior vice president of development and vice president of clinical operations, to go home - literally. Working in a home office, he started a one-person consulting firm called PPD. This contract research organization (CRO) grew rapidly. Over the years, Eshelman guided the company to become one of North Carolina's top five CROs. Today, PPD employs 9,100 employees in offices in 28 countries.
http://www.the-scientist.com/2007/03/01/s52/1/

Jeffrey Barnhart, Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's Seventy-Fifth House District, including constituents in Cabarrus County.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_L._Barnhart

[stillcool]

4. Fred is loaded..

The Slate 60: Analysis of the Year's Biggest Philanthropists.
Fred Eshelman
Year Rank Amount Donated/Pledged Recipients
2003 38 20.0 million University of North Carolina

The School of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill today was named in honor of Fred Eshelman, a 1972 graduate of the school and founder and chief executive officer of Wilmington-based PPD Inc.


The school now is the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy.

Eshelman has been a member of the School of Pharmacy's Board of Visitors for more than a decade and has lectured at the school as an adjunct faculty member. In 2003, he pledged $20 million to the school. At the time, it was the third largest single commitment in the University's history and the largest ever made to a pharmacy school in the United States. He committed another $10 million to the school in 2007 to close out the University's Carolina First Campaign, which raised $2.38 billion overall. Eshelman's total support of the pharmacy school amounts to about $33 million.


Eshelman's company, PPD, is a leading global contract research organization providing discovery, development and post-approval services as well as compound partnering programs to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, government and academic organizations.
http://giving.unc.edu/news/2008/eshelman.htm



http://www.ppdi.com/

PPD is a leading global contract research organization (CRO) providing discovery, development and post-approval services as well as compound partnering programs. Our clients and partners include pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, academic and government organizations. With offices in 31 countries and more than 10,400 professionals worldwide, PPD applies innovative technologies, therapeutic expertise and a commitment to quality to help its clients and partners maximize returns on their R&D investments and accelerate the delivery of safe and effective therapeutics to patients.

[annabanana]

5. Fred Eshelman CEO PPD Incorporated

http://www.ppdi.com/corporate/mission.htm

big pharma

[stillcool]

6. and it looks like Hartsell...

was involved indirectly in the same industry..

http://independenttribune.net/index.php/pillowtex/article/part_4/
A phoenix rising from the ashes

When the mill was still standing, there was a lingering hope that someone would buy it and reopen it, said Cindy Huie.

“You didn’t want to lose that hope,” she said.

Lynne Scott Safrit would drive past the closed mill every day, going to and from work. She called her boss, David Murdock, by now the owner of Dole Food Company, the day the mill closed.

“He was surprised to find that the company was closing for good,” Safrit said. “Mr. Murdock loved the time he spent here. He enjoyed textiles.”

Fletcher Hartsell knew something had to be done.

He also knew that Murdock still owned a lot of the property in downtown Kannapolis through his real estate firm, Atlantic American Properties. Murdock had kept many of the mill homes and had built his East-coast home on Kannapolis Lake, called Pity’s Sake Lodge.

Hartsell decided that it was time for Murdock to come back.

He talked with Safrit, Murdock’s right-hand woman in Kannapolis, in the days and weeks after the mill closed, about the idea of get him back. She suggested calling Murdock.
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Murdock consulted with his friend and science advisor, Andrew Conrad, a geneticist whose work in HIV research gave him worldwide connections in the scientific community, about the possibilities.
When Murdock came to North Carolina in January 2005, he scheduled a series of meetings with state political and educational leaders, Hartsell said.

During that time, Murdock and Safrit sat down and came up with a list of things that could be done with the property.

“I still have that list,” Safrit said. “We started thinking about what we could do with that piece of property and create the kind of jobs that wouldn’t go away.”

In the early days of the project, Murdock was thinking about biotechnology. At first, the idea was to create a business incubator, where small start-ups could get the money, the lab space and the support to grow their research and ideas into a marketable businesses.

But, as time went by, Murdock met more researchers, education leaders and life science business leaders in the state, and the idea grew from a business incubator into something bigger: A campus that brought the best scientific minds in the state to Kannapolis to study human nutrition, Safrit said.

[stillcool]

7. Looks like Jeffrey..

is doing the marketing..



Jeffrey Barnhart
President & CEO
Creative Marketing Alliance (CMA)

WHO: Jeffrey Barnhart is founder, president and CEO of Creative Marketing Alliance (CMA). CMA is a synergy of marketing and management businesses providing proven strategic, creative and management resources that achieve client goals through its allied businesses: CMA Marketing and Communications, CMA Association Management, and CMA Healthcare Marketing.

Jeff Barnhart has more than 20 years of experience in strategic marketing and communications programs. Prior to founding CMA, he spent eight years as a marketing executive at Philips Lighting, where he spearheaded the successful marketing and sales integration of three Philips Lighting Company mergers. He has been a featured speaker and columnist on various marketing and communication topics.

Some of Jeff Barnhart's accolades include:

• First to be named Small Business Person of the Year by the Chamber of Commerce of the Princeton, N.J. area. He also was appointed to the Small Business Council of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
• Appointed to the American Red Cross of Central New Jersey Board of Directors.
• Named a regional finalist for Inc. magazine's Entrepreneur of the Year Awar




History

CMA—A diversified and caring business partner
Creative Marketing Alliance, Inc. was founded in 1987 by Jeffrey E. Barnhart, a former marketing executive for Philips Lighting Company, part of N.V. Philips, the 13th largest corporation in the world.

The CMA Marketing and Communications business builds upon two decades of successful marketing and communications programs for a wide variety of regional, national and global clients.

In 1987 CMA retained its first trade association client, a development which led to the formation of the present-day CMA Association Management business. CMA’s association management business is one of only three dozen association management companies worldwide accredited by the Association Management Company Institute (formerly IAAMC).
CMA has recently consolidated two decades of healthcare marketing expertise into CMA Healthcare Marketing, which is led by former Fortune 50 healthcare marketing talent with board level experience.

[Turn CO Blue]

8. Would somebody do the WHOIS for the site...

I tried to teach myself off Wiki, and well, it'd be better for an expert to do it for us

[krawhitham]

9. whois

Domain Name: RIGHTCHANGE.COM
Record Created: 2007-01-13
Expiration Date: 2009-01-14
Last Update: 2008-09-16

Registrar: Annulet, Inc. (Annulet.com)
Whois Server: whois.annulet.com
Referral URL: http://www.annulet.com

Administrative Contact:
Tim Pittman ([e-mail])
607 14th Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20007
Phone: [phone]

Owner Contact:
Tim Pittman ([e-mail])
607 14th Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20007
Phone: [phone]

Technical Contact:
Tim Pittman ([e-mail])
607 14th Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20007
Phone: [phone]

Name Servers:
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