Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Frogue's son was Trump's senior health policy advisor during the 2016 campaign!

Jim Frogue with his hero, Donald Trump
Lobbyist Frogue
     (See UPDATE.)
     My two little brothers attended El Toro High School in Lake Forest. I happened to notice recently that a “James Frogue” attended that school, class of ’89. That would make James about 45 years old today. Might he be the son of longtime Lake Forest resident and notorious one-time SOCCCD trustee Steve Frogue? You'll recall that the latter was to college trusteeship what Trump has been to the Presidency: a destroyer, a ridiculoid. An apocalyptic clown. An amazing asshole from Hell.

     See The Evil of Froguenstein (OC Weekly)

     So I Googled "James Frogue." As it turns out, there’s a highly successful Washington lobbyist named “Jim” R. Frogue. Until about 2010, he worked for the odious Newt Gingrich. Nowadays, he lobbies for Eli Lilly among other horrifying organizations. Starting in 2010, he's been running his successful lobbying firm but he took a few months off in late 2016 to serve as candidate Donald Trump's chief health policy advisor. That's right! He hung out for three months at Trump Tower, planning our medical futures! He's a medium fish in the Trumpian pond of bottom-feeding money-grubbers.
     And get this: he’s 45 years old and there are indications that he might hail from Lake Forest!
     Could it be that Jim R. Frogue, bigtime Trump advisor, is son of Steven J. Frogue, small-time Holocaust denier?
     I've learned that Jim Frogue attended USC. I recall that one of the first articles about Steve Frogue, back in the 90s, noted, not only that Steve and his wife raised two sons (in Lake Forest), but that the couple “paid both boys' expenses at affluent, private USC.” (See Studying the Lessons of Steven J. Frogue [Times, 1996])
     Hmmm.
     If you check those sites that dig up people's records (I just get their “free” info), you’ll find indications that, among Lake Forest resident Steven J. Frogue’s relatives is a "James" R. Frogue.
     The son? The lobbyist? The Trumpian lieutenant?!
     Jim R. Frogue’s Facebook page indicates that the fellow does indeed hail from Lake Forest. He flat out says so.
     I figure that settles it. "Trump Team" Froguester is indeed one and the same as scion of district-ruining Froguester. 
     Wow.
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     Here’s Jim R. Frogue’s bio:
     Jim Frogue is a partner and co-founder of FrogueClark. He is a nationally recognized health policy expert with over 20 years of experience in the government, non-profit, and for-profit sectors. His areas of expertise include Medicaid, fraud prevention, health insurance, and information transparency. He has played a lead role in securing over $1 billion in contracts for clients since 2010. 

During the 2016 election cycle, Jim was the senior health policy advisor to the Trump for President campaign, spending three months at the campaign headquarters in Trump Tower in New York City. He has served as an expert witness before Congress on three occasions, appearing before the House Committee on the Judiciary, the Senate Special Committee on Aging, and the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. He has also testified to state legislatures in Florida, Georgia, Missouri, Ohio, Texas, Colorado, Kansas, and Alaska. He has given hundreds of speeches in 40 states across the country, including to the Republican Governors Association, the Harvard School of Public Health, the John F. Kennedy School of Government, the Western Governors Association, the National Conference of State Legislatures, the Conference of Western Attorneys General, the Alliance for Health Reform, and the Congressional Health Care Caucus.
Dad
     Jim's television credits include On the Record with Greta Van Susteren, ABC's Good Morning America, CNBC's Bullseye and Power Lunch, and multiple appearances on the Fox Business Channel. He also has appeared on countless radio shows, including NPR's The Diane Rehm Show, All Things Considered, and On Point. He was a guest on the Kaiser Family Foundation's Ask the Experts. He edited the book Stop Paying the Crooks, and with Newt Gingrich, he co-authored Chapter 16, Solutions for Stopping Health Care Fraud, in the 2010 New York Times best seller To Save America. Jim's work has also appeared in RealClearPolitics, Roll Call, The Hill, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and the Florida SunSentinel. He has also been cited in Donald Trump’s book The America We Deserve, The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, USA Today, and on The Rush Limbaugh Show. His work on fighting health care fraud was even discussed on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
     Prior to co-founding FrogueClark, Jim was for six years the vice president and director of state policy for Newt Gingrich's Center for Health Transformation. Prior to that, he spent three years as the director of the Health and Human Services Task Force at the American Legislative Exchange Council. He has served three members of Congress, most recently as legislative director for Congresswoman Kay Granger of Texas. He also spent two years as the health care policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation. Jim holds a M.Phil. from Cambridge and a B.A. with honors from the University of Southern California.


     Meanwhile, Steve's still alive, I think. He'll be 75 years old in a few days. His name still pops up in publications of a local chapter of the Masons, where he served as "master" in 1996. He's keeping a low profile.

Miscellaneous factoids about Jim Frogue:
  • On his Facebook page, Jim Frogue indicates that he “likes” Milo Yiannopoulos and Tomi Lahren
  • His favorite movie (yes, movie) seems to be Atlas Shrugged. He's clearly an Ayn Rand fan
  • He seems to know Megyn Kelly
  • His favorite author, Mark Steyn, is a climate change skeptic, among other things

P.S.:
     I found a photo, accompanying a 1989 Tustin News article, of Steve Frogue with his son, James:

Steve and James at left (Tustin News, 8-24-89)
     In the article, James is identified as James Relfson Frogue (Relfson is his mother's maiden name). The article explains that James is among three students receiving the Tustin Educators' Association Scholarship, and that he'll be going to USC to study political science and economics:

Tustin News, 8-24-89
     Below, I've put an image of Jim R. Frogue, Trump Guy, in 2011, next to a pic of James R. Frogue, son of Steve, in 1989:


     It's the same guy, age 39 and age 17. No?
     I suppose it's none of my business, but why is it so hard to connect Trump Guy with son-of-Steve? Aside from hometown and age and USC (enough for an identification, eh?), I can find nothing to indicate that the bigtime lobbyist is the son of our local Holocaust-denying nut. 
     Trump Guy doesn't seem to want to be associated, at least publicly, with his OC family.
     Sad, that.

P.P.S. (June 22, 2017):
     A reporter friend sent me a photo of lobbyist Jim Frogue drinking beer with his dad. I believe he found the photo on Jim's Twitter Instagram page:


     Next to that photo, I've placed a shot of Steve Forgue, c. late 80s 1992. They're clearly the same guy.

SEE ALSO The FROGUE Files: Son of Lake Forest Holocaust Denier now helping Trump Ruin Your Healthcare! (Orange Juice Blog)

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

what should we expect?

Anonymous said...

Nice sleuthing!

Anonymous said...

OMG! We are the hellmouth!

Anonymous said...

Jim Frogue is a beloved family friend and a dear personal friend who has been invited to and gladly attended many important family events, including Bar and Bat Mitzvahs, Passover Seders, weddings, birthdays, and funerals. Making baseless, and quite frankly insane, accusations that someone is a antisemite because it fits your irrational agenda just dilutes the meaning of the term. You should be ashamed of yourself.

Anonymous said...

Jim Frogue is a beloved family friend and a dear personal friend who has been invited to and gladly attended many important family events, including Bar and Bat Mitzvahs, Passover Seders, weddings, birthdays, and funerals. Making baseless, and quite frankly insane, accusations that someone is a antisemite because it fits your irrational agenda just dilutes the meaning of the term. You should be ashamed of yourself.

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