Hometown: Mesa
Birth: On December 31, 1962
in Snowflake, AZ
Professional Experience
(including Military):

Executive Director of the Goldwater Institute

Executive Director of the Foundation for Democracy (Namibia);Public affairs firm of Shipley, Smoak & Henry

Education: MA, Brigham Young University
BA,Brigham Young University

“According to Flake and federal records, the future congressman came to Washington as a public affairs executive with the firm of Shipley, Smoak & Henry, where he first represented Namibia.”

“He soon moved to Namibia as executive director of the Foundation for Democracy, a group established to draft Namibia’s constitution. Flake’s campaign says he worked for the foundation from April 1989 to 1990.”

“In 1992, Flake returned to Arizona, where he headed the Goldwater Institute, a think tank, until he was elected in 2000.”

“But after leaving Shipley, Smoak & Henry, Flake also owned and operated Interface Public Affairs from 1990 to 1991. Flake acknowledges that he was registered foreign agent and was paid $7,000 a month for representing Rossing Uranium Limited, which was majority-owned by Rio Tinto Zinc.”

“He said in his 1990 foreign agent registration with the Justice Department that his job was to “introduce the corporation and its citizenship activities within Namibia to the U.S.” … and to “attempt to promote the image … and good relations between the United States and Namibia.”

“Flake said his focus was on helping lift apartheid-era penalties against the country and the mine. He said he did not know until last October that Iran owned a 15 percent stake in the Rossing Uranium, an interest that he said pre-dates the Iranian revolution that deposed the shah, an ally of the West.”

“I don’t know how a congressman who claims to be transparent doesn’t disclose this beforehand,” said real estate investor Wil Cardon, Flake’s opponent in the GOP primary Aug. 28. “It makes me question every vote he has taken when it comes to Iran.”

Cardon added: “It’s also confusing to me that Flake has taken tens of thousands of dollars from the mining industry. From a guy who was a lobbyist before going to Washington, and claiming to fight special interests, it’s interesting how beholden to special interests he has become.”

“Since joining Congress, Flake has received at least $97,000 from mining interests, including Rio Tinto, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracked donations through the 2010 election cycle.”

“He has backed legislation favorable to mining interests in Arizona. Last year Flake proposed ending a ban on uranium mining claims around the Grand Canyon. In 2009 he introduced a land swap bill that would enable Resolution Copper, an arm of Rio Tinto, to develop a mine in eastern Arizona.”

“Democrats also are making Flake’s lobbying past an issue.”

“Jeff Flake is the definition of a Washington D.C. insider,” said Matt Canter, a spokesman for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

“He spent years as a Washington lobbyist and a registered foreign agent, doing the bidding of special interest foreign clients, before becoming a career politician who voted to benefit his former clients and refused to tell his constituents about his conflict of interest,” Cantor said.”

It is a short leap of faith to presume he was contacted by either agency, or established some type of relationship with them re: “an African uranium mine with financial ties to Iran.”

Also being a “Washington Insider”, it is now apparent from recent news the White House is directing the Gang of Eight’s efforts, ergo the Anti-American citizen amnesty…it’s TRUE AGENDA TO CREATE A MASSIVE, PERMANENT DEMOCRATIC BASE while satisfying mega-donor’s avarice for a renewable, cheap labor base.