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For Immediate ReleaseJuly 30, 2015

 AR2 Contact:Natalie Gillam, 85!""!#00

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 Arlington, Va. – Today, the Small Business Majority (SBM) released a biased poll allegedlytouting support from the small business community for a massive minimum wage hike SBM is funded by the !emocracy "lliance, which includes two S#$% officials on its board SBM does notrepresent small businesses& it is funded by progressive special interest groups SBM has a history ofcommissioning 'uestionable polls from etremely partisan pollsters

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nion (S$I#, t%e astestgro+ing nion in 5ort% America +it% 2.2 million +or6ers in %ealt%care,p'lic, and property services.” (Democracy Alliance, Accessed !"70"1#

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%ealt% care or more 'roadly deined.” (Ro'' andel'am, “C%o Is >%e Small *siness a%e Agenda, !"G"0#

-mall %usiness .a/ority Gets Its Fundin =From Foundations *edicated o -ocialJustice And ealt Care Re4orm;> “Still, its nding is rom ondations dedicated to social %ey inclde t%e *le S%ield o aliornia =ondation, t%e aliornia$ndo+ment, t%e 5at%an mmings =ondation, t%e 5e+ or6 State Eealt% =ondation, and t%e/'lic Celare =ondation.” (*ara ?aida, “Steering Small *i& @et,” ational *ournal , 1""10#

-mall %usiness .a/ority as Released +olls at Claimed -mall %usinesses -u77ortRaisin a@es, Increased &+A Reulations, And ier .inimum aes

-mall %usiness .a/ority +ollin Claims =A .a/ority (4 -mall %usiness (ners %elieeConress -ould $et a@ Cuts &@7ire (n a@a9le ouseold Income &@ceedin250,000 A Bear;> “A ma “Small 'siness o+ners spport $/A eorts to 6eep t%e air clean and redce climate c%ange- A vast NJ orespondents spport t%e $/A)s rles to redce mercry and ot%er toHic emissions t%at get into t%e airrom po+er plants 2J spport t%e $/A reglating car'on emissions rom eHisting po+er plants t%at

case climate c%ange.”(/'lic /olicy /olling, GG Small *siness 8+ners, o$ K" 7.4, 4"1214"17#

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=*emocratic!$eanin +ollin Firm +u9lic +olicy +ollin Is a?in eat A4ter Releasine Results (4 A +oll ednesday at It (riinally iteld %ecause It *idnDt %elieeIts (n Results ere Credi9le;> (*rett @ogirato, “Democratic@eaning /olling =irm Is Letting Slammed =or 5ot Releasing A/oll >%at S%o+ed *ad 5e+s =or Democrats,” Business $nsider, "11"17#

• +++ itoldin e Results =as -7ar?ed Accusations at It Intentionally -7i?ede +oll6s Release %ecause It *id Not $i?e e Results;> “*t 'ecase t%e original resltss%o+ed 'ad ne+s or Angela Liron B one o t%e Democratic senators +%o +as recalled in >esday

nig%t:s election in olorado B it %as spar6ed accsations t%at it intentionally spi6ed t%e poll:srelease 'ecase it did not li6e t%e reslts.” (*rett @ogirato, “Democratic@eaning /olling =irm Is Letting Slammed =or 5otReleasing A /oll >%at S%o+ed *ad 5e+s =or Democrats,”  Business $nsider, "11"17#

-mall %usiness .a/ority as 'sed (ter +ollsters, $a?e Researc +artners AndGreen9er Euinlan Rosner, it *ee7 ies o e +roressie $e4t And (rani “/er%aps, t%en, +e s%old not 'e srprised to learn t%at +%en t%e Small*siness a

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incidentally, +ere condcted 'y @a6e Researc% /artners, a polling irm +it% an impressive roster oDemocrats and progressive cases or clients.#” (Ro'' andel'am, “C%o Is >%e Small *siness a%e Agenda, !"G"0#

• $a?e Researc +artners6 Clients Include +resident %ill Clinton, ouse .inority$eader Nancy +elosi, And Increasin .inimum ae &44orts; (“lients,” @a6e Researc% /artners,  Accessed 1"1N"14#

Green9er Euinlan Rosner6s GER Client $ist Contains *emocrat And +roressie

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