More from the ACLU on who and what the EFF really is:
Evergreen Freedom Foundation
Evergreen Freedom Foundation (EFF) is an Olympia-based think tank established in 1991 by Bob Williams, a former Republican state legislator and gubernatorial candidate. While EFF is not a religiously based organization, EFF's leaders are well-connected to the state's network of religious right organizations. Williams, its president, is an endorser of IMPAC (a right-wing Christian Political Action Committee) and was listed as an instructor at a March, 1994 leadership training school held by the state Christian Coalition. EFF Executive Director Lynn Harsh is a former anti-abortion movement organizer who also managed Williams's 1990 campaign for Congress. Robin Bernhoft, senior health care analyst, is an advisory board member of the Washington Public Affairs Council, which birthed the anti-gay Initiative 608 campaign.
EFF deals with a broad range of issues, with an emphasis on the state budget and government waste. It has also worked closely with religious right organizations in opposing state education reform. In 1993, EFF cosponsored a speaking tour by Peg Luksik, a Pennsylvania-based religious right activist and opponent of Outcome Based Education. It produced materials critical of the reform program, then under consideration in the state legislature. It promoted a 1993 conference in Richland on "Reclaiming America's Culture," which focused on education reform and featured Jeff Kemp of the Washington Family Council.
Williams also heads Grassroots Washington, which describes itself as a political education committee and publishes a monthly newsletter, "Letters of Correspondence."
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