False information published by National Center for Public Policy Research
501(c)(3) organization high-level executive falsely identifies deceased U.S. senator as former majority leader
| By Greg Fisher
David Almasi wrote in error, "There's a quote attributed to former Senate Majority Leader Everett Dirksen: 'A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.'"
Dirksen, of Illinois, was never Majority Leader.
Almasi (a native Illinoisan) is the vice president of the National Center for Public Policy Research and the staff director of its "black leadership network," Project 21.
The false information appears in Almasi's article titled, "'Woke Effort… Rebuked' by Voters" dated November 5, 2021 and is in the project21 directory of the internet domain nationalcenter.org. The article refers to a television appearance on Fox News made by Horace Cooper, a senior fellow with the National Center and co-chairman of the Project 21 National Advisory Board.
The falsity was repeated in the internet domain leavetheplantation.org. An email address is on the Leave the Plantation Facebook page.
The National Center lists email addresses on its contact page and actual mailto: links (and even telephone numbers) for Judy Kent and David Almasi on the article page, itself. The organization's president is David A. Ridenour. #2111m