Public Notice

Former Bush Admin. Spox Launches Non-Profit To Combat 'Over-Spending'

Zachary Roth | March 3, 2010, 10:00AM

Gretchen Hamel, former Bush administration spokesperson

A former Bush administration PR specialist has launched a new non-profit designed to raise the alarm about what it sees as "over-spending" in Washington -- but is staying mum on how the group is being funded.

Public Notice launched late last month with a column on the website of US News and World Report, in which executive director Gretchen Hamel argued that "[b]ackroom deals, trillion-dollar deficits, pork-laden spending bills, and multibillion-dollar bailouts have left many Americans wondering if Washington can be trusted with their money." The group's sophisticated-looking website, Bankrupting America, adds that "unprecedented government spending and debt, corporate welfare, higher taxes, and poorly designed bureaucratic red tape are undermining economic progress," and contends that the stimulus bill has been a failure.

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