Lee Fang is an investigative researcher and blogger.[1] He writes for The Progress Report and ThinkProgress.org.
Background
Lee's hometown is in Prince George’s County, Maryland, Lee attended college at the University of Maryland, College Park and graduated with a B.A. in Government and Politics.[2]
Media and Political Experience
Lee was an intern with ThinkProgress and also a researcher for Progressive Accountability. As an undergraduate, Lee also interned for Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-OH), Media Matters, and Westin Rinehart.[2]
Political Coverage
Lee Fang revealed that presidential candidate Rick Santorum's campaign slogan, "Fighting to Make America America Again." The slogan, according to Fang, comes from a poem by Langston Hughes. Fang found it ironic that Hughes, who was a gay poet, was used by a politician critical of gay rights like Santorum.[3]
In August 2011, Fang broke a story claiming that Peter Haller (formerly Simonyi), a Goldman Sachs VP, had changed his name and worked as an aide to Congressman Darrell Issa to create rules that would stop regulating Goldman Sachs.[4]
On October 5, 2010, Fang wrote a story on ThinkProgress.Org stating that the United States Chamber of Commerce funded attack campaigns from its general fund which solicits foreign funding. The article, after consulting with unnamed legal experts, cited that the chamber is "likely skirting longstanding campaign finance law that bans the involvement of foreign corporations in American elections."[5]
On October 7, 2010, President Obama said in a speech that "Just this week, we learned that one of the largest groups paying for these ads regularly takes in money from foreign corporations... so groups that receive foreign money are spending huge sums to influence American elections.”[6]
References
- ^ http://thinkprogress.org/author/lee-fang
- ^ a b "Lee Fang". Center for American Progress.
- ^ Tony Norman (April 19, 2011). Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
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(help) - ^ Lee Fang (08/18/2011). "Exclusive: Goldman Sachs VP Changed His Name, Now Advances Goldman Lobbying Interests As Top Staffer To Darrell Issa". Retrieved 20 August 2011.
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(help) - ^ Fang, Lee. "Exclusive: Foreign-Funded 'U.S.' Chamber of Commerce Running Partisan Attack Ads". ThinkProgress.Org.
- ^ Lichtblau, Eric (8 October 2010). "Topic of Foreign Money in U.S. Races Hits Hustings". New York Times.