Montana Policy Inst

<div>GP 2013  Montana Policy Institute $1,001,933</div><div></div><div>
</div><div>http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Montana_Policy_Institute

he Montana Policy Institute (MPI) is a "free market think tank"<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Montana_Policy_Institute#cite_note-About_MPI-0">[1]</a>

located in Bozeman, Montana. The MPI's mission is to help "citizens and

decision makers to argue for policies that are based upon a respect for

individual freedom, an expectation of individual responsibility, and

the notion that government should be the avenue of last rather than

first resort."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Montana_Policy_Institute#cite_note-About_MPI-0">[1]</a> The MPI is a member of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/State_Policy_Network" title="State Policy Network">State Policy Network</a> (SPN).

<h2> Ties to the Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity</h2>

The Montana Policy Institute is listed as a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Franklin_Center_for_Government_and_Public_Integrity" title="Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity">Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity</a> "Statehouse News Bureau".<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Montana_Policy_Institute#cite_note-1">[2]</a> The Franklin Center funds reporters in over 40 states.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Montana_Policy_Institute#cite_note-2">[3]</a>

Despite their non-partisan description, many of the websites funded by

the Franklin Center have received criticism for their conservative bias.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Montana_Policy_Institute#cite_note-3">[4]</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Montana_Policy_Institute#cite_note-4">[5]</a> On its website, the Franklin Center claims it "provides 10 percent of all daily reporting from state capitals nationwide."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Montana_Policy_Institute#cite_note-5">[6]</a>

<h3> Franklin Center Funding</h3>

Franklin Center Director of Communications Michael Moroney told the

Center for Public Integrity (CPI) in 2013 that the source of the

Franklin Center's funding "is 100 percent anonymous." But 95 percent of

its 2011 funding came from <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/DonorsTrust" title="DonorsTrust">DonorsTrust</a>, a spin-off of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Philanthropy_Roundtable" title="Philanthropy Roundtable">Philanthropy Roundtable</a>

that functions as a large "donor-advised fund," cloaking the identity

of donors to right-wing causes across the country (CPI did a review of

Franklin's Internal Revenue Service records).<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Montana_Policy_Institute#cite_note-Abowd-6">[7]</a> Mother Jones called DonorsTrust "the dark-money ATM of the conservative movement" in a February 2013 article.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Montana_Policy_Institute#cite_note-7">[8]</a> Franklin received DonorTrust's second-largest donation in 2011.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Montana_Policy_Institute#cite_note-Abowd-6">[7]</a>

The Franklin Center also receives funding from the Wisconsin-based <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Lynde_and_Harry_Bradley_Foundation" title="Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation">Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation</a>,<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Montana_Policy_Institute#cite_note-8">[9]</a> a conservative grant-making organization.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Montana_Policy_Institute#cite_note-9">[10]</a>

The Franklin Center was launched by the Chicago-based <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Sam_Adams_Alliance" title="Sam Adams Alliance">Sam Adams Alliance</a> (SAM),<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Montana_Policy_Institute#cite_note-10">[11]</a> a 501(c)(3) devoted to pushing free-market ideals. SAM gets funding from the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/State_Policy_Network" title="State Policy Network">State Policy Network</a>,<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Montana_Policy_Institute#cite_note-11">[12]</a> which is partially funded by the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Claude_R._Lambe_Foundation" title="Claude R. Lambe Foundation" class="mw-redirect">Claude R. Lambe Foundation</a>.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Montana_Policy_Institute#cite_note-12">[13]</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Charles_Koch" title="Charles Koch" class="mw-redirect">Charles Koch</a>, one of the billionaire brothers who co-own Koch Industries, sits on the board of this foundation.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Montana_Policy_Institute#cite_note-13">[14]</a> SAM also receives funding from the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Rodney_Fund" title="Rodney Fund">Rodney Fund</a>.

<h2> Ties to the American Legislative Exchange Council</h2>

The MPI has ties to the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Legislative_Exchange_Council" title="American Legislative Exchange Council">American Legislative Exchange Council</a> (ALEC) through the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/SPN" title="SPN" class="mw-redirect">SPN</a>, which is an ALEC member. Additionally, MPI Senior Fellow, Rob Natelson,<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Montana_Policy_Institute#cite_note-14">[15]</a> has authored an ALEC handbook for state lawmakers entitled "Proposing Constitutional Amendments by a Convention of the States"<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Montana_Policy_Institute#cite_note-15">[16]</a>. Mr. Natelson was also invited to speak at an <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Legislative_Exchange_Council" title="American Legislative Exchange Council">American Legislative Exchange Council</a> (ALEC) meeting of the Federal Relations Working Group during its 2010 States and Nation Policy Summit<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Montana_Policy_Institute#cite_note-16">[17]</a>.

Please see <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/SPN_Ties_to_ALEC" title="SPN Ties to ALEC">SPN Ties to ALEC</a> for more.

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forces where corporate lobbyists and special interest reps vote with

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<h2> Personnel</h2>

<h3> Board of Directors</h3>

<ul><li>Carl Graham
</li><li>Lisa Hazlett, founder
</li><li>Sam Staley, founding trustee and Chairman
</li><li>David Keene, President, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Rifle_Association" title="National Rifle Association">National Rifle Association</a>
</li><li>William Wilson
</li><li>Harry Hyatt
</li><li>Chris Helland, President, Two Rivers Growth
</li></ul>

<h2> Core Financials</h2>

<big>2010</big><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Montana_Policy_Institute#cite_note-17">[18]</a>:

<ul><li>Total Revenue: $593,452</li><li>Total Expenses: $428,425</li><li>Net Assets: $269,659</li></ul>

<big>2009</big><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Montana_Policy_Institute#cite_note-18">[19]</a>:

<ul><li>Total Revenue: $242,105</li><li>Total Expenses: $347,747</li><li>Net Assets: $104,632</li></ul>

<h2> Contact Information</h2>

67 W Kagy Blvd Ste. B

Bozeman, MT 59715

(406) 219-0508

info@montanapolicy.org

<h2> Articles and Resources</h2>

<h3> Related SourceWatch Articles</h3>

<ul><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/State_Policy_Network" title="State Policy Network">State Policy Network</a>:

<ul><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/SPN_Funding" title="SPN Funding">SPN Funding</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/SPN_Agenda" title="SPN Agenda">SPN Agenda</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/SPN_Founders,History,and_Staff" title="SPN Founders, History, and Staff">SPN Founders, History, and Staff</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/SPN_Members" title="SPN Members">SPN Members</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/SPN_Ties_to_ALEC" title="SPN Ties to ALEC">SPN Ties to ALEC</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Thomas_A.Roe" title="Thomas A. Roe">Thomas A. Roe</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Tracie_Sharp" title="Tracie Sharp">Tracie Sharp</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Byron_S.Lamm" title="Byron S. Lamm">Byron S. Lamm</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Roe_Foundation" title="Roe Foundation">Roe Foundation</a></li></ul>

</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Legislative_Exchange_Council" title="American Legislative Exchange Council">American Legislative Exchange Council</a> (ALEC)

<ul><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ALEC_Non-Profits" title="ALEC Non-Profits">ALEC Non-Profits</a></li></ul>

</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/DonorsTrust" title="DonorsTrust">DonorsTrust</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Donors_Capital_Fund" title="Donors Capital Fund">Donors Capital Fund</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Koch_Family_Foundations" title="Koch Family Foundations">Koch Family Foundations</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Koch_Industries" title="Koch Industries">Koch Industries</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Franklin_Center_for_Government_and_Public_Integrity" title="Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity">Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Heritage_Foundation" title="Heritage Foundation">Heritage Foundation</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Think_tanks" title="Think tanks">Think tanks</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Whitney_Ball" title="Whitney Ball">Whitney Ball</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Adam_Meyerson" title="Adam Meyerson">Adam Meyerson</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bridgett_Wagner" title="Bridgett Wagner">Bridgett Wagner</a></li></ul>

<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Montana_Watchdog" title="Montana Watchdog">Montana Watchdog</a>

<h3> Related PRWatch Articles</h3>

<ul><li>Rebekah Wilce, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.prwatch.org/node/11909/">A

Reporters’ Guide to the "State Policy Network": the Right-Wing Think

Tanks Spinning Disinformation and Pushing the ALEC Agenda in the States</a>, PRWatch.org, April 4, 2013.</li><li>Sara Jerving, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2012/11/11878/alec-and-heartland-aim-crush-renewable-energy-standards-states">ALEC and Heartland Aim to Crush Renewable Energy Standards in the States</a>, PRWatch.org, November 27, 2012.</li><li>Connor Gibson, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2012/10/11819/meet-network-hiding-koch-money-donors-trust-and-donors-capital-fund">Meet the Network Hiding the Koch Money: "Donors Trust" and "Donors Capital Fund"</a>, PRWatch.org, October 29, 2012.</li><li>Brendan Fischer, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2012/05/11490/koch-funded-mackinac-center-brings-wisconsin-act-10-provisions-alec">Koch-Funded Mackinac Center Brings Wisconsin Act 10 Provisions to ALEC</a>, PRWatch.org, May 2, 2012.</li><li>Sara Jerving, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2011/10/10971/franklin-center-right-wing-funds-state-news-source">Franklin Center: Right-Wing Funds State News Source</a>, PRWatch.org, October 31, 2011.</li></ul>

<h3> External Resources</h3>

<ul><li>Center for Media and Democracy and Arizona Working Families, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.prwatch.org/files/Report_on_the_Goldwater_Institute_final.pdf">A Reporter’s Guide to the Goldwater Institute: What Citizens, Policymakers, and Reporters Should Know</a>, organizational report, March 14, 2013.</li><li>Paul Abowd, Center for Public Integrity, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/2013/02/14/12181/donors-use-charity-push-free-market-policies-states">Donors use charity to push free-market policies in states</a>, Consider the Source, February 14, 2013.</li><li>John R. Mashey, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/fake2.pdf">Fake science, fakexperts, funny finances, free of tax 2</a>, DeSmog Blog report, updated October 23, 2012, p. 74.</li><li>Andy Kroll, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/04/state-policy-network-union-bargaining">The Right-Wing Network Behind the War on Unions</a>, Mother Jones, April 25, 2011.</li><li>Guidestar, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.guidestar.org/ReportOrganization.aspx?ein=57-0952531">State Policy Network</a>, IRS filings and other organizational information about SPN.</li><li>Center for Policy Alternatives, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.alecwatch.org/cpabrochure.pdf">ALEC and the Extreme Right-Wing Agenda</a>, organizational brochure about ALEC and SPN.</li><li>John J. Miller, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.heymiller.com/2009/09/fifty-flowers-bloom/">Fifty Flowers Bloom: Conservative think tanks — mini–Heritage Foundations — at the state level</a>, National Review, November 19, 2007.</li><li>Bridge Project, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://bridgeproject.com/?organization&id=275641&tab=grants">State Policy Network</a>, online resource listing grants to SPN and SPN's connections to other groups.</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/People_for_the_American_Way" title="People for the American Way">People for the American Way</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/state-policy-network">State Policy Network</a>, RightWingWatch.org, organizational resource.</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Greenpeace" title="Greenpeace">Greenpeace</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/polluterwatch/koch-industries/state-policy-network-spn/">Koch Industries Climate Denial Front Group: State Policy Network (SPN)</a>, organizational resource.</li></ul>

<h2> References</h2>

<ol class="references"><li id="cite_note-About_MPI-0">↑ <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Montana_Policy_Institute#cite_ref-About_MPI_0-0">1.0</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Montana_Policy_Institute#cite_ref-About_MPI_0-1">1.1</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.montanapolicy.org/main/page.php?page_id=33">"About MPI"</a>,organizational website, accessed September 2012</li><li id="cite_note-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Montana_Policy_Institute#cite_ref-1">↑</a> Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://franklincenterhq.org/about/">Franklin Affiliates in Your State</a>, organizational website, accessed March 2013.</li><li id="cite_note-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Montana_Policy_Institute#cite_ref-2">↑</a> The Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.franklincenterhq.org/2376/think-tank-journalism-the-future-of-investigative-reporting/">Think tank Journalism: The Future of Investigative Journalism</a>, organizational website, accessed August 19, 2011.</li><li id="cite_note-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Montana_Policy_Institute#cite_ref-3">↑</a> Rebekah Metzler, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pressherald.com/news/watchdog-website-puts-a-new-spin-on-politics_2010-10-02.html">'Watchdog' website puts a new spin on politics</a>, The Portland Press Herald, October 2, 2010.</li><li id="cite_note-4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Montana_Policy_Institute#cite_ref-4">↑</a> Allison Kilkenny, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.truth-out.org/koch-spider-web/1312231636">The Koch Spider Web</a>, Truthout, accessed August 19, 2011.</li><li id="cite_note-5"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Montana_Policy_Institute#cite_ref-5">↑</a> Sara Jerving, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2011/10/10971/franklin-center-right-wing-funds-state-news-source">Franklin Center: Right-Wing Funds State News Source</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.prwatch.org">PRWatch.org</a>, October 27, 2011.</li><li id="cite_note-Abowd-6">↑ <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Montana_Policy_Institute#cite_ref-Abowd_6-0">7.0</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Montana_Policy_Institute#cite_ref-Abowd_6-1">7.1</a> Paul Abowd, Center for Public Integrity, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/2013/02/14/12181/donors-use-charity-push-free-market-policies-states">Donors use charity to push free-market policies in states</a>, organizational report, February 14, 2013.</li><li id="cite_note-7"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Montana_Policy_Institute#cite_ref-7">↑</a> Andy Kroll, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/02/donors-trust-donor-capital-fund-dark-money-koch-bradley-devos">Exposed: The Dark-Money ATM of the Conservative Movement</a>, Mother Jones, February 5, 2013.</li><li id="cite_note-8"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Montana_Policy_Institute#cite_ref-8">↑</a> Daniel Bice, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/127259723.html">Franklin Center boss wants apology from Democratic staffer</a>, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, August 8, 2011.</li><li id="cite_note-9"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Montana_Policy_Institute#cite_ref-9">↑</a> Bradley Foundation, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bradleyfdn.org/">The Bradley Foundation</a>, organizational website, accessed August 19, 2011.</li><li id="cite_note-10"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Montana_Policy_Institute#cite_ref-10">↑</a> Sam Adams Alliance, <a rel="nofollow" class="external 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href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Montana_Policy_Institute#cite_ref-13">↑</a> Media Matters Action Network, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://mediamattersaction.org/transparency/organization/Claude_R_Lambe_Charitable_Foundation">Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation</a>, Conservative Transparency website, accessed August 19, 2011.</li><li id="cite_note-14"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Montana_Policy_Institute#cite_ref-14">↑</a> Montana Policy Institute,<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.montanapolicy.org/main/page.php?page_id=49">"March 15th Health Care Freedom Panel"</a>, organizational website, accessed September 2012</li><li id="cite_note-15"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Montana_Policy_Institute#cite_ref-15">↑</a> American Legislative Exchange Council,<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.alec.org/docs/ArticleVHandbook.pdf">"Article V Handbook"</a></li><li id="cite_note-16"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Montana_Policy_Institute#cite_ref-16">↑</a> American Legislative Exchange Council,<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.commoncause.org/atf/cf/%7BFB3C17E2-CDD1-4DF6-92BE-BD4429893665%7D/ir_35daymailingdc.pdf">"Memorandum to Members of the International Task Force and Federal Relations Working Group"</a>, organizational mailing, October 28, 2010, obtained and released by Common Cause, April 2012</li><li id="cite_note-17"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Montana_Policy_Institute#cite_ref-17">↑</a> Montana Policy Institute, IRS form 990, 2010. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.guidestar.org/">GuideStar</a>.</li><li id="cite_note-18"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Montana_Policy_Institute#cite_ref-18">↑</a> Montana Policy Institute, IRS form 990, 2009. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.guidestar.org/">GuideStar</a>.</li></ol>

    
        
    
    
            
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Since then he has resided with his wife Cyndi near Bozeman, MT, where he has been an adjunct professor of aviation science, a flight instructor, a member the Montana State Advisory Committee for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, and is currently CEO of the Montana Policy Institute.</font></p><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 18.5px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Sam Staley</font></h2><p style="margin: 5px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Sam Staley is a<b> founding trustee and Chairman of the Montana Policy Institute </b>and has more than 20 years of experience working in public policy think tanks. His experience includes research, outreach and public affairs, and executive management. He is a co-founder of The Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions in Columbus, Ohio, serving as trustee, secretary, vice president for research and then president before becoming a <b>senior research fellow in 2004. He is currently director of urban and land use policy at Reason Foundation in Los Angeles and consults regularly with state-based think tanks.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 5px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Sam’s articles have appeared in a wide range of academic and professional publications, including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Investor’s Business Daily, the Los Angeles Times, and the Chicago Tribune. He is the author of several books, most recently (with Ted Balaker), The Road More Traveled: Why the <b>Congestion Crisis Matters</b> More Than You Think, and What We Can Do About It (Rowmand & Littlefield, 2006), http://www.reason.org/road/. His book Drug Policy and the Decline of American Cities (Transaction 1992) won first place in the Sir Antony Fisher Memorial Prize of the USA and UK for its contribution to an understanding of a free economy.</font></p><p style="margin: 5px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Sam earned his Ph.D. in public administration, with concentrations in public finance and urban planning, from The Ohio State University, his MS in applied economics from Wright State University, and BA in economics-public policy from Colby College.</font></p><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 18.5px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">David Keene</font></h2><p style="margin: 5px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">David Keene is President of the National Rifle Association</font><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> after recently passing the torch as Chairman of the American Conservative Union, the nation’s oldest and largest grassroots conservative lobbying organization. He is also a Managing Associate at the </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Carmen Group</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, a lobbying firm in Washington, DC. David has a home north of Helena, where he enjoys the outdoor splendors of our great state.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 5px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Keene was the National Chairman o<b>f Young Americans for Freedom</b> as a student and graduated from the University of Wisconsin Law School. He has been a John F. Kennedy Fellow at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics, a First Amendment Fellow at Vanderbilt University’s Freedom Forum, and a member of the Board of Visitors at Duke University’s Public Policy School.</font></p><p style="margin: 5px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Keene served as a Special Assistant to Vice President Spiro Agnew</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> in the Nixon Administration. He then became Executive Assistant to New York Senator Jim Buckley on Capitol Hill. In addition to advising local, state and national figures in all manner of campaigns, he has been Southern Regional Political Director for Ronald Reagan’s 1976 presidential campaign; National Political Director for George Bush’s 1980 presidential race; Senior Advisor to former Senator Bob Dole in 1988 and advisor to Dole’s presidential campaign in 1996. Most recently he </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">advised Governor Mitt Romney</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> in his 2008 Presidential race.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.5em;">Keene is recognized as one of the chief spokesmen for conservative principles and politics on television and radio, and is widely quoted. He has written for publications such as National Review, the </span><span style="line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Washington Times</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.5em;"> and The Boston Globe. He is a weekly columnist for The Hill, a newspaper covering Congress.</span></font></p><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 18.5px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">William Wilson</font></h2><p style="margin: 5px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Bill Wilson was born in Akron, OH and is a 1975 graduate of the University of Akron. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration with a major in Finance.</font></p><p style="margin: 5px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Upon graduation from college Bill began a career in the investment management industry with a Canton, OH based bank and trust investment company. In 1977 he relocated to Upstate New York to take a position in the investment business of a major regional bank and trust company, the Lincoln Rochester Bank & Trust Company. Here he spent more than twelve years and at the time of his departure was a managing director responsible for a substantial institutional directed trust and custody line of business. In 1989 he left to join Clover Capital Management, a start up independent investment advisory firm located in the Rochester, NY area. Bill was responsible for institutional sales and client management at the firm. In 2000, Bill relocated to western Montana and opened a regional sales office for Clover. At the time of his retirement in 2004, Clover had evolved to be a $2.0 billion in assets under management business.</font></p><p style="margin: 5px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In his free time Bill is an avid hunter and also enjoys hiking, camping, fishing and reading. Bill has a keen interest in business, the capital markets and our free enterprise system.</font></p><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 18.5px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Harry Hyatt</font></h2><p style="margin: 5px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Harry, a native of Montana, graduated from Montana State University in 1959 with a Bachelor of Science chemical engineering degree. He received a fellowship from Hughes Aircraft Company and obtained a Master of Science chemical engineering degree from the University of Arizona two years later. In 1975 he was awarded an honorary professional engineering degree from the University of Arizona.</font></p><p style="margin: 5px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Harry´s career has spanned a range of prominent chemical companies. His career began in 1961 with EI </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">du Pont </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">de Nemours Company as a technical and production supervisor in the low and high density polyethylene manufacturing division.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 5px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Between 1968 and 1987 Harry held various managerial positions with Northern Petrochemical Company, Norchem Inc,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Enron</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Chemical Company, USI Chemical Company Inc, (all one company), starting off as polymer manufacturing manager and rising to group vice president for business management and development.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 5px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Harry was appointed president and CEO of AMPLAS Corporation, Dallas, in 1987 and held the position until 1991 when he joined Sasol as managing director of Sasol Alpha Olefins Division in <b>South Africa.</b> He also served as the Chairman of the Sasol corporate strategy team from its inception to when he left South Africa in 1999 to head up Sasol North America. In 2000, Sasol had an opportunity to purchase a portion of a German company that expanded the Global business that Harry developed for Sasol in South Africa. Upon successful negotiations for the purchase, Harry was elected to be the President and Managing Director of the expanded global business headquartered in Germany. From 2000 to 2002 he was responsible for managing all of the facets of Sasol Olefins and Surfactants GmbH. Harry retired from Sasol in September 2002 and established Hyatt and Associates, a consulting company for the chemical industry.</font></p><p style="margin: 5px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In 2004, Harry was elected to the Board of Montana State University Foundation and served until 2010. He also was elected to the Board of ATP, a wholly own subsidiary of MSU Foundation serving as Vice Chairman and Chairman and will term out of this board in 2012.</font></p><p style="margin: 5px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">He married Jane Shope on 13 September 1958. They have a daughter, Karen and a son, Chris. Harry enjoys the outdoors, playing tennis, snow-skiing and boating. When in South Africa, he and Jane loved wildlife viewing.</font></p><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 18.5px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Chris Helland</font></h2><p style="margin: 5px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Chris is a native of and resides in Glasgow with his wife Mary. He is a University of Montana graduate and currently operates the Helland Agency, a real estate, insurance, and log home sales company based in Glasgow and serving all of Northeast Montana.</font></p><p style="margin: 5px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Chris is active in local economic development and community organizations, including Two Rivers Growth and the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce.</font></p><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 18.5px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Neil C. Livingstone</font></h2><p style="margin: 5px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Neil C. Livingstone is a well-known face on television, having appeared on more than 1700 television programs (and 1250 radio programs).&nbsp; NBC’s Tom Brokaw described him as “one of this nation’s preeminent authorities on<b> terrorism.</b>”&nbsp; He is the author of ten books and more than 250 articles in publications such as&nbsp;<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal,&nbsp;</span>and&nbsp;<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">The Los Angeles Times.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 5px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">He was the Chairman and Founder of GlobalOptions Inc., which he took public in 2005 and which went on the NASDAQ in 2007.&nbsp; He also was the Chairman and CEO of<b> ExecutiveAction LLC, a security and business solutions company that operated in more than 60 countries.&nbsp;</b> Livingstone served as a Director of Erickson Air-Crane ($186.5 million in annual sales), and became Lead Director in 2007.&nbsp;&nbsp; For nearly ten years he was a Advisor to the Chairman of Zeromax, the largest private company in Central Asia, with 27,000 employees and $4 billion in sales.&nbsp; Zeromax was involved in oil and gas production, gold and base metals, cotton and textiles, construction, and logistics.&nbsp; He was a shareholder and officer of a number of companies including an international airline and a television production company.&nbsp; He has also served on more than three dozen Advisory Boards, and currently heads the Senior Advisory Board of Zinc Air Inc., based on Columbia Falls.</font></p><p style="margin: 5px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Livingstone has given more than 550 major speeches around the world, including&nbsp; before the United Nations, Harvard, the House of Commons, the Chrysler Management Group, and at conferences in more than a dozen countries.&nbsp; He holds an A.B. (with Honors) from the College of William & Mary, three Masters degrees, and a Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy (Tufts/Harvard).</font></p><p style="margin: 5px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">He was recently a candidate for the Montana Republican gubernatorial nomination.</font></b></p><p style="margin: 5px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">===</font></b></p><p style="margin: 5px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Once upon a time there was a wonderful land with untold riches. This land had fertile soil to grow more food than the locals could eat, gems and minerals that were sought after worldwide, trees for their houses and abundant fuel for their stoves. This wonderful land was filled with opportunity, and happy families prospered with each generation better off than the previous.<br />There were also helpful folks in the land’s Capitol City who worked for the happy families and did the kinds of things that everyone could benefit from. They built roads and schools and made sure everybody played by the same rules. And they kept the king in far-away DC Land from trying to run their lives. But then something happened, something awful and selfish.</font></p><p style="margin: 5px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The people in DC Land and Capitol City stopped working for the happy families and started ruling over them. They grew larger and larger and decided to regulate and tax and dictate more and more parts of the happy families’ lives. The land of opportunity became a land of limitations. Laws were passed to protect people from themselves instead of just from each other. Rules were made keeping the happy families from using all the riches that the land offered and pitting them against each other. The land with untold riches became one of the poorest in the kingdom. The happy families could no longer pass on opportunities they had enjoyed. And so the once-happy land got older and poorer, until finally the only people who could enjoy its beauty came from other places. The land of opportunity became a land of futility. And the once happy families were scattered to the winds.</font></p><p style="margin: 5px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Montana is still that happy land of opportunity, but we won’t pass that heritage along to our kids if we continue the current path of bigger government, more regulation, and control by Washington bureaucrats. We still have the riches that made Montana the Treasure State, but we’re losing the legacy of opportunity that those riches could provide. We increasingly have a government that has become its own special interest instead of our employee. And we’re being tied down with one size fits all solutions that may be great for New York or Mississippi, but not for Montana.</font></p><p style="margin: 5px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Welcome to “Pig Tales: Wasted Treasure in the Treasure State” — a one-stop shopping guide to Montana government. This is the second in a biennial look at Montana state government, our people, and our opportunities.</font></p><p style="margin: 5px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Our simple goal is help provide as much useful information as possible so that as the people who represent us make decisions that affect our lives and our families, we will have a confident and informed voice. Enjoy the tale!</font></p><p style="margin: 5px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p style="margin: 5px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">===</font></p><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">WASHINGTON — A network of state-level think tanks is pushing a right-wing agenda with support from the American Legislative Exchange Council and funding from the billionaire Koch brothers, <a href="http://stinktanks.org/national/" target="_hplink" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">according to a new report</a>.</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Center for Media and Democracy <a href="http://stinktanks.org/" target="_hplink" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">released its exposé on the State Policy Network</a> and affiliated groups on Wednesday. The report details the think tank network’s ties to ALEC, funding from wealthy conservative benefactors, and political and lobbying activities backing right wing positions on health care, education, privatization, labor rights, tax cuts and environmental policy.</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The State Policy Network itself has had tremendous influence, and they have had very little public scrutiny about who they are and what interests they really represent,” Lisa Graves, executive director of the Center for Media and Democracy, said. “They describe themselves in a given state as a nonpartisan independent group or as a think tank academic study group, and, in fact, these groups are very active politically. Many of them are very active before the state legislatures, and a lot of the work they’re doing is very biased and unreliable.”</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The report contends that the network cloaks itself as merely a supporter of “market-oriented” research when it is actually part and parcel of the right wing infrastructure to push a nationally designed agenda in statehouses across the country.</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tracie Sharp, president of the State Policy Network, rejected the claims in the report, calling them “baseless allegations” and noting that “their source is not surprising.”</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Organizations like the Center for Media and Democracy are strangely troubled by the fact that we believe in a more transparent, accountable government, policies that place a priority on free enterprise and consumer choice, and tax policies that are fair, simple and that spur the kind of competitiveness that puts Americans back to work,” Sharp said in a statement.</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The State Policy Network and many of its most active affiliates are members of ALEC, the secretive organization that brings corporations, conservative activists and state legislators together to write model state legislation. The network has also routinely sponsored ALEC’s annual meetings. The Center for Media and Democracy had previously launched a campaign targeting ALEC called <a href="http://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_Exposed" target="_hplink" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">ALEC Exposed</a>, which revealed numerous documents detailing that group’s internal operations.</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The think tanks in the State Policy Network also write model legislation and introduce it at private ALEC meetings to be vetted and approved for broader dissemination to statehouses, according to the report. These groups have supported legislation that would restrict collective bargaining rights, privatize public schools and public pension funds, eliminate environmental protections and tighten voter identification laws.</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“This is part of a policy-moving apparatus,” Graves said. “This is part of the right wing infrastructure. ALEC gets the bills in the hands of legislators directly, and SPN groups come in to backstop that. They work directly with the legislators in some instances.”</font></p></div><div id="inline-newsletter_placeholder" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The report details a number of ways in which the State Policy Network and its affiliates help make nationally developed policies more palatable to the local audience. An ALEC report on right-to-work laws, for instance, was redistributed in a slightly altered, state-specific form in four states considering such laws.</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">State Policy Network affiliates have directly lobbied in statehouses and engaged in other forms of political activity. Graves pointed out the clearest example: when the Wisconsin-based MacIver Institute spent millions <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2011/11/11141/pro-walker-ads-courtesy-koch-industries" target="_hplink" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">touting the accomplishments of Republican Gov. Scott Walker</a> ahead of a failed recall election.</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sharp, the network president, rejected the notion that her organization operates in a top-down manner. “Because we are legally and practically organized as a service organization (not as a franchise), each of the 64 state-based think tanks is fiercely independent, choosing to manage their staff, pick their own research topics and educate the public on those issues they deem most appropriate for their state,” she said in her statement.</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2011, the State Policy Network and its affiliates reported raising a combined $83.2 million, according to the Center for Media and Democracy. While donors to the groups are not required to be disclosed, a 2010 document opened a window on some of them. They included the Donors Trust and the Donors Capital Fund, both secretive right-wing funding instruments, as well as Altria, AT&T, Comcast, GlaxoSmithKline, Kraft Foods, Microsoft, Reynolds American and Time Warner Cable.</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Multiple documents reviewed in the report also show that the Koch brothers, known for their extensive funding of conservative activist causes, are major funders of the State Policy Network and its affiliates through their linked foundations and Koch Industries. Many other wealthy conservatives have likewise pumped money into the network, including the DeVos family of Amway, the Coors brewing family, the Waltons of Walmart, and wealthy businessman (and North Carolina budget director) Art Pope.</font></p></div><p style="margin: 5px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">===</font></p><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="CAQQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwig47fGzczjAhVBQ80KHfJmAnoQFSgAMAB6BAgEEAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.54;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Montana_Policy_Institute" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Montana_Policy_Institute&ved=2ahUKEwig47fGzczjAhVBQ80KHfJmAnoQFjAAegQIBBAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /></font><h3 class="LC20lb" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.33;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Montana_Policy_Institute" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Montana_Policy_Institute&ved=2ahUKEwig47fGzczjAhVBQ80KHfJmAnoQFjAAegQIBBAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Montana Policy Institute - SourceWatch</a></font></h3><br /><div class="TbwUpd" style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.54; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-top: 1px;"><cite class="iUh30" style="font-style: normal; padding-top: 1px; line-height: 1.43;">https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Montana_Policy_Institute</cite></div><div class="action-menu ab_ctl" style="display: inline; position: relative; margin: 1px 3px 0px; user-select: none; vertical-align: middle;"><a class="GHDvEf ab_button" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=montana+alec+spn+thinktank&oq=montana+alec+spn+thinktank&aqs=chrome..69i57.8359j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#" id="am-b0" aria-label="Result Options" aria-expanded="false" aria-haspopup="true" role="button" jsaction="m.tdd;keydown:m.hbke;keypress:m.mskpe" data-ved="2ahUKEwig47fGzczjAhVBQ80KHfJmAnoQ7B0wAHoECAQQAg" style="border-radius: 0px; cursor: default; font-weight: bold; height: 12px; line-height: 27px; margin: 1px 0px 2px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; transition: none 0s ease 0s; user-select: none; background-image: none; border: 0px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 0px 0px; filter: none; width: 13px; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline-block;"><span class="mn-dwn-arw" style="border-color: rgb(0, 102, 33) transparent; border-style: solid; border-width: 5px 4px 0px; width: 0px; height: 0px; margin-left: 3px; top: 7.5px; margin-top: -4px; position: absolute; left: 0px;" /></a><div class="action-menu-panel ab_dropdown" role="menu" tabindex="-1" jsaction="keydown:m.hdke;mouseover:m.hdhne;mouseout:m.hdhue" data-ved="2ahUKEwig47fGzczjAhVBQ80KHfJmAnoQqR8wAHoECAQQAw" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: auto; top: 12px; white-space: nowrap; z-index: 3; transition: opacity 0.218s ease 0s; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 2px 4px; left: 0px; visibility: hidden;"><ol style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><li class="action-menu-item ab_dropdownitem" role="menuitem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; list-style: none; user-select: none; cursor: pointer;"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:0Dav2UC8nUAJ:https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Montana_Policy_Institute+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:0Dav2UC8nUAJ:https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Montana_Policy_Institute%2B%26cd%3D1%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwig47fGzczjAhVBQ80KHfJmAnoQIDAAegQIBBAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;" /></li></ol></div></div></div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 1.54;"><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.54; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Montana</span>&nbsp;Policy Institute (MPI) is a "free market&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">think tank</span>" located in Bozeman,&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Montana</span>. 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Today,&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">SPN</span>&nbsp;has 64 member&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">think-tank</span>&nbsp;groups, and a presence in every .... Such events have been held by the&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Montana</span>&nbsp;Policy Institute, the Idaho&nbsp;...</font></span></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="CAAQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwig47fGzczjAhVBQ80KHfJmAnoQFSgAMAN6BAgAEAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.54;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Policy_Network" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Policy_Network&ved=2ahUKEwig47fGzczjAhVBQ80KHfJmAnoQFjADegQIABAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /></font><h3 class="LC20lb" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.33;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Policy_Network" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Policy_Network&ved=2ahUKEwig47fGzczjAhVBQ80KHfJmAnoQFjADegQIABAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">State Policy Network - Wikipedia</a></font></h3><br /><div class="TbwUpd" style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.54; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-top: 1px;"><cite class="iUh30" style="font-style: normal; padding-top: 1px; line-height: 1.43;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Policy_Network</cite></div><div class="action-menu ab_ctl" style="display: inline; position: relative; margin: 1px 3px 0px; user-select: none; vertical-align: middle;"><a class="GHDvEf ab_button" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=montana+alec+spn+thinktank&oq=montana+alec+spn+thinktank&aqs=chrome..69i57.8359j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#" id="am-b3" aria-label="Result Options" aria-expanded="false" aria-haspopup="true" role="button" jsaction="m.tdd;keydown:m.hbke;keypress:m.mskpe" data-ved="2ahUKEwig47fGzczjAhVBQ80KHfJmAnoQ7B0wA3oECAAQAg" style="border-radius: 0px; cursor: default; font-weight: bold; height: 12px; line-height: 27px; margin: 1px 0px 2px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; transition: none 0s ease 0s; user-select: none; background-image: none; border: 0px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 0px 0px; filter: none; width: 13px; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline-block;"><span class="mn-dwn-arw" style="border-color: rgb(0, 102, 33) transparent; border-style: solid; border-width: 5px 4px 0px; width: 0px; height: 0px; margin-left: 3px; top: 7.5px; margin-top: -4px; position: absolute; left: 0px;" /></a><div class="action-menu-panel ab_dropdown" role="menu" tabindex="-1" jsaction="keydown:m.hdke;mouseover:m.hdhne;mouseout:m.hdhue" data-ved="2ahUKEwig47fGzczjAhVBQ80KHfJmAnoQqR8wA3oECAAQAw" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: auto; top: 12px; white-space: nowrap; z-index: 3; transition: opacity 0.218s ease 0s; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 2px 4px; left: 0px; visibility: hidden;"><ol style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><li class="action-menu-item ab_dropdownitem" role="menuitem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; list-style: none; user-select: none; cursor: pointer;"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:xHXzAhRAtgwJ:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Policy_Network+&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:xHXzAhRAtgwJ:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Policy_Network%2B%26cd%3D4%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwig47fGzczjAhVBQ80KHfJmAnoQIDADegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;" /></li><li class="action-menu-item ab_dropdownitem" role="menuitem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; list-style: none; user-select: none; cursor: pointer;"><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=related:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Policy_Network+montana+alec+spn+thinktank&tbo=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwig47fGzczjAhVBQ80KHfJmAnoQHzADegQIABAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;" /></li></ol></div></div></div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 1.54;"><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.54; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The State Policy Network (<span style="font-weight: bold;">SPN</span>) is an American nonprofit organization that functions primarily ... Gary Palmer, co-founder and president of the conservative&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">think tank</span>&nbsp;the Alabama Policy Institute from 1989 until ....&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">SPN</span>&nbsp;is a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council (<span style="font-weight: bold;">ALEC</span>), an organization that drafts and shares&nbsp;...</font></span><div class="osl" style="margin-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">‎<a class="fl" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Policy_Network#History" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Policy_Network%23History&ved=2ahUKEwig47fGzczjAhVBQ80KHfJmAnoQ0gIoADADegQIABAH" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.54;">History</a>&nbsp;·&nbsp;‎<a class="fl" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Policy_Network#Policy_positions" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Policy_Network%23Policy_positions&ved=2ahUKEwig47fGzczjAhVBQ80KHfJmAnoQ0gIoATADegQIABAI" style="text-decoration-line: none; 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