Citizens United (organization)
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| Formation | November 1988 |
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| Type | Non-profit, pro-corporation, neo-feudalist advocacy. |
| Headquarters | Washington, D.C., U.S. |
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President, Chairman
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David Bossie |
| Website | http://www.citizensunited.org |
Citizens United is a conservative 501(c)(4)non-profit organization in the United States. Its president and chairman is David Bossie. It brought a U.S. Supreme Court case known as Citizens United v. FEC, which greatly loosened rules governing campaign finance.
Citizens United's stated mission is to restore the United States government to "citizens' control," seeking to "reassert the traditional American values of limited government, freedom of enterprise, strong families, and national sovereignty and security." It is a right wing political advocacy group organized under Section 501(c)4 of the federal tax code - donations are not tax deductible. To fulfill this mission, Citizens United produces television commercials, web advertisements, and documentary films.
David Bossie has been its president since 2000 but has taken a leave of absence to be deputy campaign manager of Donald Trump's campaign for President of the United States. Its offices are on Pennsylvania Avenue in the Capitol Hill area of Washington, D.C.
The Political Action Committee (PAC) Citizens United was founded in 1988 by Floyd Brown, a longtime Washington political consultant, with major funding from the Koch family (industrialists who own “the second largest privately owned company in the United States”). The group promotes corporate interests, socially conservative causes and candidates who advance their mission.
Citizens United is known for its support of conservatives in politics. The group produced a television advertisement that reveals several legislative actions taken by John McCain, which aired on Fox News Channel. On October 2, 2006, in reaction to revelations of a cover-up of inappropriate communications between Republican Congressman Mark Foley and United States House of Representatives Page, Citizens United president David Bossie called on Dennis Hastert to resign over his role in covering up the scandal.
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