JOE OLIVO- REMEMBER this name:
(Quotes from Joe Olivo whining about the ACA from MSNBC and NPR)
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Wow—two news organizations covering the same story scoured the nation for a random small business owner to comment on that story—and they both found the same one! How’d that happen? What are the odds?
Well, as it turns out, Joe Olivo of Perfect Printing turns up quite a bit in public discussions of this and other issues. Here he is testifying against the health care law before House and Senate committees in January 2011. Here he is on the Fox Business Network around the same time, discussing the same subject. Here he is a few days ago, also on Fox Business, talking to John Stossel about the law. Here he is discussing the same subject on a New Jersey Fox affiliate.
And here he is in July 2010 discussing small business hiring with Neil Cavuto on Fox News. Here he is opposing an increase in the minimum wage in an MSNBC debate a couple of weeks ago.
Go to many of these links and you find out something about Joe Olivo that NPR and NBC didn’t tell you: he’s a member of the National Federation of Independent Business. NFIB's site and YouTube page promote many of Olivo’s public appearances. He was the subject of an NFIB “My Voice in Washington” online video in 2011.
NFIB, you will not be surprised to learn, is linked to the ALEC and Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS, and to the usual rogues’ gallery of right-wing zillionaires.So Joe Olivo isn’t just some random business owner—he’s dispatched by NFIB whenever there’s a need for someone to play a random small business owner on TV.
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http://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/06/29/just-a-humble-tradesman-trapped-in-a-world-he-never-made/
Whoa! What a coincidence!
I think there is a group of selected people who rotate through government hearings on all levels, write copious LTTEs, make endless media appearances in many markets large and small, and such. They are trained and paid by ALEC.
They aren't the high profile mooks that always turn up on national teevee. Nobody really notices because who pays close attention to a lot of these areas all the time much less remembering who appears in them.
It would be interesting to set up a database and just enter names plus where and when they appear. Might be interesting.
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with a picture of every single one and the word "FAKE" or similar at the bottom. Something like this with a grid of photos of all the phony "Joe the Plumber" and "Joe the Small Businessman" fakers:
playing off of "FACT CHECK" with "FAKE CHECK". 
