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<div>sw</div><div><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Accuracy of Research Questioned</h3>The accuracy of research dealing with labor relations and working conditions produced by the National Right to Work organizations has been questioned by academics, labor leaders, and elected officials alike.<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Right_to_Work_Committee#cite_note-30" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[30]</a><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Ties to the Koch Brothers</h2>Organizations with links to the <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Koch_brothers" class="mw-redirect" title="Koch brothers" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">Koch brothers</a> have reported giving funding to the National Right to Work Committee, including <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/DonorsTrust" title="DonorsTrust" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">DonorsTrust</a> and the <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Donors_Capital_Fund" title="Donors Capital Fund" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">Donors Capital Fund</a>. In 2012 alone, NRWC received $1 million from the Koch-linked organization <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Freedom_Partners" title="Freedom Partners" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">Freedom Partners</a> Longtime NRWC director Reed Larson shares a hometown--Wichita, KS--with Charles and David Koch. According to reporting by PR Watch, Larson "became an early leader of the radical right-wing <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_Birch_Society" title="John Birch Society" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">John Birch Society</a> in Kansas," which was co-founded by <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Fred_Koch" class="mw-redirect" title="Fred Koch" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">Fred Koch</a>, and many "other founders and early leaders of the NRTWC were members and leaders of the John Birch Society, specifically the Wichita chapter of which Fred Koch was an active member."<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Right_to_Work_Committee#cite_note-who_is_behind-31" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[31]</a><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mark_Mix" title="Mark Mix" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Mark Mix</a>, the Foundation's president, attended the <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Koch_Event_2010-06_Attendees" title="Koch Event 2010-06 Attendees" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">June 2010 Koch Strategy Group Meeting</a>. He spoke on a panel entitled "Mobilizing Citizens for November" along with Koch operative <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Sean_Noble" title="Sean Noble" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Sean Noble</a>, <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Karl_Crow&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Karl Crow (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Karl Crow</a> of <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Themis" title="Themis" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Themis</a>, and <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Tim_Phillips" title="Tim Phillips" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Tim Phillips</a> of <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Americans_for_Prosperity" title="Americans for Prosperity" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Americans for Prosperity</a>.<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Right_to_Work_Committee#cite_note-32" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[32]</a>According to Jane Mayer in her book Dark Money,<dl style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Fred_Koch" class="mw-redirect" title="Fred Koch" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Fred Koch</a> "was an early and active member of the Wichita-based DeMille Foundation for Political Freedom, an anti-labor group that was a forerunner of the National Right to Work Defense Foundation. In a revealing private letter, one of its staff members explained the group's "Astroturf" strategy. In reality, he said, big-business industrialists would run the group, serving as its "anonymous quarterbacks," and "call the turns." But he said they needed to sell the "yarn" that the group was "composed of housewives, farmers, small businessmen, professional people, wage earners-not big business industrialists." Otherwise, he admitted, the movement was "almost certainly doomed to failure.""<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Right_to_Work_Committee#cite_note-jm-33" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[33]</a></dd><dd style="margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">...</dd></dl></div><div>
</div><div><h4 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Political Contributions by Key People in NRTWC</h4>Mark Mix has contributed at least $15,298 to political candidates and committees on the state and federal level between 1992 and 2012, including contributions to Governor Mike Pence (R-IN), former Senator George Allen (R-VA), Governor Bob McDonnell (R-VA), Dick DeVos’s 2006 Michigan gubernatorial campaign, and the National Right to Work Committee PAC.<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Right_to_Work_Committee#cite_note-85" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[85]</a><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Right_to_Work_Committee#cite_note-86" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[86]</a></div><div>=</div><div><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="mw-parser-output">Mark Mix is the President of the <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Right_to_Work_Committee" title="National Right to Work Committee" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">National Right to Work Committee</a> and the <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Right_to_Work_Legal_Defense_Foundation" title="National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation</a>.<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mark_Mix#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[1]</a> According to his official bio, he "holds a BA in Finance from James Madison University and an Associate Degree in Marketing from the State University of New York. Prior to joining the National Right to Work Committee in 1990, Mr. Mix worked for several state-level Right to Work groups. He joined the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation in 1999."<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mark_Mix#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[2]</a>He attended the <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Koch_Event_2010-06_Attendees" title="Koch Event 2010-06 Attendees" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">June 2010 Koch Strategy Group Meeting</a> and spoke on a panel entitled "Mobilizing Citizens for November" along with Koch operative <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Sean_Noble" title="Sean Noble" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Sean Noble</a>, <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Karl_Crow&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Karl Crow (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Karl Crow</a> of <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Themis" title="Themis" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Themis</a>, and <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Tim_Phillips" title="Tim Phillips" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Tim Phillips</a> of <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Americans_for_Prosperity" title="Americans for Prosperity" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Americans for Prosperity</a>.<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mark_Mix#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[3]</a><table style="font-size: 14px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);"><tbody><tr><th style="background: rgb(222, 21, 13); font-size: 19.6px; border: 1px solid rgb(198, 19, 12); text-align: left; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">Koch Wiki</th></tr><tr><td><div style="padding: 2px 5px;">The <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Koch_brothers" class="mw-redirect" title="Koch brothers" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Koch brothers</a> -- <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_H.Koch" title="David H. Koch" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">David</a> and <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Charles_G.Koch" title="Charles G. Koch" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Charles</a> -- are the right-wing billionaire co-owners of <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Koch_Industries" title="Koch Industries" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Koch Industries</a>. As two of the richest people in the world, they are key funders of the right-wing infrastructure, including the <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Legislative_Exchange_Council" title="American Legislative Exchange Council" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">American Legislative Exchange Council</a> (ALEC) and the <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/State_Policy_Network" title="State Policy Network" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">State Policy Network</a> (SPN). In SourceWatch, key articles on the Kochs include: <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Koch_Brothers" title="Koch Brothers" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Koch Brothers</a>, <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Koch_Industries" title="Koch Industries" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Koch Industries</a>, <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Americans_for_Prosperity" title="Americans for Prosperity" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Americans for Prosperity</a>, <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Encore" title="American Encore" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">American Encore</a>, and <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Freedom_Partners" title="Freedom Partners" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Freedom Partners</a>.</div></td></tr></tbody></table><h2 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-family: "Linux Libertine", Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.3;">Articles & Resources</h2><h3 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.6;">References</h3><div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references" style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li id="cite_note-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mark_Mix#cite_ref-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> National Right to Work Committee, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://nrtwc.org/about-2/officers/mark-a-mix/" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml version=%221.0%22 encoding=%22UTF-8%22 standalone=%22no%22%3F%3E%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%2212%22 height=%2212%22%3E%3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 stroke=%22%2306c%22 d=%22M1.5 4.518h5.982V10.5H1.5z%22/%3E%3Cpath d=%22M5.765 1H11v5.39L9.427 7.937l-1.31-1.31L5.393 9.35l-2.69-2.688 2.81-2.808L4.2 2.544z%22 fill=%22%2306f%22/%3E%3Cpath d=%22M9.995 2.004l.022 4.885L8.2 5.07 5.32 7.95 4.09 6.723l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z%22 fill=%22%23fff%22/%3E%3C/svg%3E"); padding-right: 13px;">Mark Mix</a>," organization website, accessed May 8, 2014.</li><li id="cite_note-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mark_Mix#cite_ref-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nrtw.org/media/mam.php" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml version=%221.0%22 encoding=%22UTF-8%22 standalone=%22no%22%3F%3E%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%2212%22 height=%2212%22%3E%3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 stroke=%22%2306c%22 d=%22M1.5 4.518h5.982V10.5H1.5z%22/%3E%3Cpath d=%22M5.765 1H11v5.39L9.427 7.937l-1.31-1.31L5.393 9.35l-2.69-2.688 2.81-2.808L4.2 2.544z%22 fill=%22%2306f%22/%3E%3Cpath d=%22M9.995 2.004l.022 4.885L8.2 5.07 5.32 7.95 4.09 6.723l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z%22 fill=%22%23fff%22/%3E%3C/svg%3E"); padding-right: 13px;">Mark Mix</a>," organization website, accessed May 8, 2014.</li><li id="cite_note-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mark_Mix#cite_ref-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Think Progress, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://images2.americanprogressaction.org/ThinkProgress/secretkochmeeting.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background: url("https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif") right center no-repeat; padding-right: 16px;">Secret Koch Meeting Documents</a>," organization website, accessed May 8, 2014.</li></ol></div></div></div><div id="catlinks" class="catlinks" data-mw="interface" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); padding: 5px; margin-top: 1em; clear: both; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px;"><div id="mw-normal-catlinks" class="mw-normal-catlinks"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Special:Categories" title="Special:Categories" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Category</a>: <ul style="list-style: none none; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; display: inline;"><li style="margin: 0.125em 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.25em; border-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0.5em 0px 0.25em; zoom: 1;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Category:Koch_Connection" title="Category:Koch Connection" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Koch Connection</a></li></ul></div></div></div><div></div><div>bs<div>Mark Mix is President of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation. He also serves as President of the National Right to Work Committee, a 2.6 million member public policy organization.He became President of the Foundation in 2003. Under the leadership of Mr. Mix, the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation has continued to provide unparalleled free legal assistance to workers and has utilized cutting-edge legal strategies to protect workers from the abuses of compulsory unionism.Mr. Mix frequently appears on national television shows including Fox News Channel's Your World: With Neil Cavuto, Glenn Beck and Fox & Friends, and has also appeared on multiple times on CNBC and CNN. Mr. Mix also often serves as a guest on nationally-syndicated radio shows such as the The Lars Larson Show, Jason Lewis Show, Michael Reagan Show and the Jim Bohannon Show.Similarly, Mr. Mix's writings have appeared in national outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, Washington Times, Investors Business Daily, Washington Examiner and National Review. His pieces have also been featured in widely-read regional publications across the country including the Detroit Free Press, theOrange County Register and the Detroit News.Mr. Mix is also a sought after speaker on political technology and grass-roots lobbying tactics. He often travels across the country, speaking and training participants in the political process.Mark Mix holds a BA in Finance from James Madison University and an Associate Degree in Marketing from the State University of New York. Prior to joining the National Right to Work Committee in 1990, Mr. Mix worked for several state-level Right to Work groups. He joined the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation in 1999.
=http://leestranahan.com/email-indicates-scandal-knowledge-by-national-right-to-work-pres-marx-mix/Email Indicates Scandal Knowledge By National Right To Work Pres. Mark Mixby Lee Stranahan | Jan 22, 2014 | Staffergate | 1 commentEmail Indicates Scandal Knowledge By National Right To Work Pres. Mark MixA 2010 email by National Right To Work Committee staffer Jared Gamble about moving the group’s illegal campaign letter writing, printing and emailing program to Indiana appears to refer to NRTW President Mark Mix asking for an inventory of ‘everything in the field.’The email reads in full:Hey Guys,I’m trying to get things locked up here in IA as we move our operation to Indy. There are several things I’m having trouble finding and am asking for your help in locating them. Mark has also asked for an inventory of everything we’ve got on the field. So, I’m trying to get some of this info ASAP.File box: Box with a whole bunch of files in it. It was in the inner-office.Printers: Tim’s laser printer, and the laser printers, I think 4, that were bought to replace the 9500 during election cycle.5 Trip-Light Power Strips2 laptopsAny help you can offer would be great!Thanks!Jared2014-01-22_15-32-23YEmail Shows National Right To Work Committee’s “Gameplan” States For…</div></div>