Free-Market Group to Quiz Executives at Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson Shareholder Meetings Thursday

Washington, D.C. – The National Center for Public Policy Research will participate in two pharmaceutical company shareholder meetings in New Jersey on Thursday, April 26.

David A. Ridenour, president of the National Center for Public Policy Research, will attend the Pfizer annual meeting at the Westin Governor Morris in Morristown, NJ at 8:30 AM. He plans to ask Pfizer management about free-market health care reforms. His planned question, as prepared for delivery, is available here.

Justin Danhof, general counsel of the National Center, will attend the Johnson & Johnson shareholder meeting at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick, NJ at 10 AM. Danhof will commend the company for its prudence in refusing to allow left-wing interest groups to dictate its associations and ask about free-market health care reforms. His planned question, as prepared for delivery, is available here.

Danhof attended the Eli Lilly shareholder meeting on behalf of the National Center for Public Policy Research on April 16.

The National Center for Public Policy Research is a Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson shareholder.

The National Center for Public Policy Research is a conservative, free-market, non-profit think-tank established in 1982. It is supported by the voluntary gifts of over 100,000 individual recent supporters. In 2011 it received over 350,000 individual donations. Two percent of its revenue comes from corporate sources. Contributions to it are tax-deductible.

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The National Center for Public Policy Research is a communications and research foundation supportive of a strong national defense and dedicated to providing free market solutions to today’s public policy problems. We believe that the principles of a free market, individual liberty and personal responsibility provide the greatest hope for meeting the challenges facing America in the 21st century.