Creative Response Concepts

Creative Response Concepts (CRC) Public Relations is an American public relations firm best known for helping to devise the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth campaign attacking John Kerry’s Vietnam War record in the 2004 presidential race.[1] CRC has also lobbied against climate change mitigation policies.[2]

Prominent clients include the Federalist Society, the Judicial Crisis Network, and Chevron Corporation.[1][2][3]

History

CRC was founded in 1989 Leif E. Noren, a former executive director of the National Conservative Political Action Committee. Its longtime President was Greg Mueller, who in 2020 founded CRC Advisors with Leonard Leo.[3][4] Mueller was the communications director for the unsuccessful presidential campaigns of Pat Buchanan in 1992 and 1996.[3]

In 1994, CRC was hired by Newt Gingrich's Contract with America effort.[3]

CRC was hired by the Discovery Institute during the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District trial over teaching intelligent design in public schools.

In 2006, they were retained to help promote the 2006 film World Trade Center directed by Oliver Stone.

The company was hired to promote The Case Against Barack Obama, a 2008 book by David Freddoso and put out by Regnery Publishing.[5]

CRC is also the agency of record for the National Organization for Marriage.

CRC advocated on behalf of Supreme Court justice nominee Neil Gorsuch.[6] In 2018, CRC was involved in pushing unsubstantiated allegations made by activist Edward Whelan that the sexual assault accuser of Supreme Court justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh had confused Kavanaugh with someone who allegedly looked like Kavanaugh.[1]

In 2018, CRC's clients included the Federalist Society and the Judicial Crisis Network.[1] In 2019, CRC helped promote conservative pundit Stephen Moore's nomination to serve on the Federal Reserve Board.[7] The firm said it had not been paid to advocate on Moore's behalf.[7] The firm is closely associated with the conservative activist Leonard Leo.[6]

CRC's past clients include Newt Gingrich, Michelle Malkin, and Matt Drudge.[8]

See also

References
  1. "PR firm helped Whelan stoke half-baked Kavanaugh alibi". POLITICO. Retrieved 2018-09-21.
  2. Hiar, Corbin. "OIL AND GAS: Slip-up reveals Chevron ties to architect of climate attack". www.eenews.net. Retrieved 2020-06-18.
  3. Merida, Kevin (1997-07-10). "THE GOP'S TOWN CRIERS". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2020-10-26.
  4. Treene, Jonathan Swan,Alayna. "Leonard Leo to shape new conservative network, step aside from the Federalist Society". Axios. Retrieved 2020-10-26.
  5. Martin, Jonathan, "First Obama attack book in the works", news article (Martin also has a blog), The Politico, June 23, 2008, retrieved August 15, 2008
  6. "A conservative activist's behind-the-scenes campaign to remake the nation's courts". The Washington Post. 2019.
  7. Warmbrodt, Zachary. "Stephen Moore gets PR firm's help to 'manage the media' in bid to join Fed". POLITICO. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
  8. "Case Studies". web.archive.org. 2019-06-10. Retrieved 2020-10-26.
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