Tony Feather is a Missouri-based American political consultant for the

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and Republican candidates and campaign who specializes in direct voter contact. Feather is a co-founder, with fellow Republican Jeff Larson of FLSConnect, the leading Republican direct voter contact company in America. Feather has run campaigns for former U.S. Attorney General

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, and former Missouri attorney general,

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. Feather is a specialist in "microtargeting" voters by phone and other means of "direct voter contact" for Republican campaigns and issue-oriented clients. Feather is a co-founder of the Republican 527 group

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, a group that spent millions supporting Bush in 2004, and (with

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) of the

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(AIP), which has been airing ads in the 2008 presidential election raising questions about ties between

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and William Ayers.Washington Post (September 14, 2008) "Group With Swift Boat Alumni Readies Ads Attacking Obama"
/ref> The American Issues Project is organized as a 501(c)(4) nonprofit, so that it can engage in limited amounts of civic campaigning, but cannot legally advocate for or against candidates. Feather, from Sarcoxie, Mo., attended Missouri Southern State University in Joplin and was sports editor of the student newspaper ''The Chart'' in the early 1970s.

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