Washington Policy Ctr wpc

oddly blank? 9 22<div>
</div><div>=</div><div><p style="background-color: rgb(253, 250, 243); margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">sw 9 22</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(253, 250, 243); margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">n</font><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">ews and Controversies</span></p><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;"><span class="mw-headline" id="CRC_Among_Several_Conservative_Nonprofits_Funding_Climate_Science_Disinformation_Ads_on_Facebook"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CRC Among Several Conservative Nonprofits Funding Climate Science Disinformation Ads on Facebook</font></span></h3><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In October 2020, a report found that 51&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Facebook" title="Facebook" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Facebook</a>&nbsp;ads questioning the credibility of climate science had been viewed over 8 million times in the first six months of 2020, despite the social media website's promise to prohibit ads debunked by third-party fact-checking organizations.<sup id="cite_ref-crcind_5-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Capital_Research_Center#cite_note-crcind-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[5]</a></sup>&nbsp;Nine right-wing nonprofits, including<b>&nbsp;Capital Research Center,</b>&nbsp;Clear Energy Alliance,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Competitive_Enterprise_Institute" title="Competitive Enterprise Institute" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Competitive Enterprise Institute</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=CO2_Coalition" title="CO2 Coalition" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">CO2 Coalition</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mackinac_Center_for_Public_Policy" title="Mackinac Center for Public Policy" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Mackinac Center for Public Policy</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Prager_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Prager University" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Prager University</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Texas_Public_Policy_Foundation" title="Texas Public Policy Foundation" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Texas Public Policy Foundation</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Turning_Point_USA" title="Turning Point USA" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Turning Point USA</a>, and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Policy_Center" title="Washington Policy Center" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Washington Policy Center</a>, collectively spent $42,000 funding these advertisements.</span><sup id="cite_ref-crcind_5-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Capital_Research_Center#cite_note-crcind-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup></font></p></div><div>=</div><div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Washington Policy Center</b>&nbsp;(WPC) is, in its own words, "a nonpartisan, free-market, state-based think tank in Seattle, Washington, that publishes studies, sponsors events and conferences, and educates citizens on public policy issues facing Washington state."<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Policy_Center#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup>&nbsp;In actuality the group advances a right wing agenda and is affiliated with organizations in the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Koch_Network" title="Koch Network" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Koch Network</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">WPC is organized as 501(c)3 non profit and was founded in 1997. The right wing "think tank" is listed as an affiliate member of the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=State_Policy_Network" title="State Policy Network" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">State Policy Network</a>&nbsp;(SPN).<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Policy_Center#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup></font></p><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1;"><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;">
</div><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Policy_Center#State_Policy_Network" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">State Policy Network</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Policy_Center#Ties_to_the_American_Legislative_Exchange_Council" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Ties to the American Legislative Exchange Council</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Policy_Center#Funding" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Funding</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Policy_Center#Core_Financials" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Core Financials</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Policy_Center#Personnel" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Personnel</span></font></a><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Policy_Center#Staff" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Staff</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Policy_Center#Former_Staff" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Former Staff</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Policy_Center#Board_of_Directors" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Board of Directors</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Policy_Center#Eastern_Washington_Advisory_Board" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5.4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Eastern Washington Advisory Board</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Policy_Center#Research_Advisory_Board" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5.5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Research Advisory Board</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Policy_Center#Contact_Information" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">6</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Contact Information</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Policy_Center#Articles_and_Resources" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">7</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Articles and Resources</span></font></a><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Policy_Center#Related_SourceWatch_Articles" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">7.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Related SourceWatch Articles</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Policy_Center#Related_PRWatch_Articles" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">7.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Related PRWatch Articles</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-15" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Policy_Center#External_Resources" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">7.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">External Resources</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-16" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Policy_Center#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">8</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">References</span></font></a></li></ul></div><table style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);"><tbody><tr><th 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 rgb(198, 19, 12); text-align: left; padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Koch Wiki</font></th></tr><tr><td><div style="padding: 2px 5px;"><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Charles_G.Koch" title="Charles G. Koch" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Charles Koch</a>&nbsp;is the right-wing billionaire owner of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Koch_Industries" title="Koch Industries" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Koch Industries</a>. As one of the richest people in the world, he is a key funder of the right-wing infrastructure, including the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Legislative_Exchange_Council" title="American Legislative Exchange Council" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">American Legislative Exchange Council</a>&nbsp;(ALEC) and the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=State_Policy_Network" title="State Policy Network" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">State Policy Network</a>&nbsp;(SPN). In SourceWatch, key articles on Charles Koch and his late brother David include:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Koch_Brothers" title="Koch Brothers" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Koch Brothers</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Americans_for_Prosperity" title="Americans for Prosperity" style="text-decoration-line: 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>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Stand_Together_Chamber_of_Commerce" title="Stand Together Chamber of Commerce" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Stand Together Chamber of Commerce</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Stand_Together" class="mw-redirect" title="Stand Together" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Stand Together</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Koch_Family_Foundations" title="Koch Family Foundations" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Koch Family Foundations</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Koch_Universities" title="Koch Universities" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Koch Universities</a>, and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=I360" title="I360" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">I360</a>.</font></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table><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;"><span class="mw-headline" id="State_Policy_Network"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">State Policy Network</font></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=State_Policy_Network" title="State Policy Network" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">SPN</a>&nbsp;is a web of right-wing “think tanks” and tax-exempt organizations in 50 states, Washington, D.C., Canada, and the United Kingdom. As of January 2022, SPN's membership totals 166. Today's SPN is the tip of the spear of far-right, nationally funded policy agenda in the states that undergirds extremists in the Republican Party. SPN Executive Director&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tracie_Sharp" title="Tracie Sharp" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Tracie Sharp</a>&nbsp;told the&nbsp;<i>Wall Street Journal</i>&nbsp;in 2017 that the revenue of the combined groups was some $80 million, but a 2019 analysis of SPN's main members IRS filings by the Center for Media and Democracy shows that the combined revenue is over $120 million.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Policy_Center#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup>&nbsp;Although SPN's member organizations claim to be nonpartisan and independent, the Center for Media and Democracy's in-depth investigation, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.alecexposed.org/w/images/2/25/SPN_National_Report_FINAL.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url("https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif") right center no-repeat; padding-right: 16px;">EXPOSED: The State Policy Network -- The Powerful Right-Wing Network Helping to Hijack State Politics and Government</a>," reveals that SPN and its member think tanks are major drivers of the right-wing,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=SPN_Ties_to_ALEC" title="SPN Ties to ALEC" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">American Legislative Exchange Council</a>&nbsp;(ALEC)-backed corporate agenda in state houses nationwide, with deep ties to the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Koch_brothers" class="mw-redirect" title="Koch brothers" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Koch brothers</a>&nbsp;and the national right-wing network of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=SPN_Funding" title="SPN Funding" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">funders</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Policy_Center#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In response to CMD's report, SPN Executive Director&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tracie_Sharp" title="Tracie Sharp" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Tracie Sharp</a>&nbsp;told national and statehouse reporters that SPN affiliates are "fiercely independent." Later the same week, however,&nbsp;<i>The New Yorker'</i>s&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jane_Mayer" title="Jane Mayer" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jane Mayer</a>&nbsp;caught Sharp in a contradiction. In her article, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/11/is-ikea-the-new-model-for-the-conservative-movement.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%2212%22 height=%2212%22%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 stroke=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M1.5 4.518h5.982V10.5H1.5z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%2336c%22 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/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 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/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); padding-right: 13px;">Is IKEA the New Model for the Conservative Movement?</a>," the Pulitzer-nominated reporter revealed that, in a recent meeting behind closed doors with the heads of SPN affiliates around the country, Sharp "compared the organization’s model to that of the giant global chain IKEA." She reportedly said that SPN "would provide 'the raw materials,' along with the 'services' needed to assemble the products. Rather than acting like passive customers who buy finished products, she wanted each state group to show the enterprise and creativity needed to assemble the parts in their home states. 'Pick what you need,' she said, 'and customize it for what works best for you.'" Not only that, but Sharp "also acknowledged privately to the members that the organization's often anonymous donors frequently shape the agenda. 'The grants are driven by donor intent,' she told the gathered think-tank heads. She added that, often, 'the donors have a very specific idea of what they want to happen.'"<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Policy_Center#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A set of&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/842271-spn-budget-proposals-state-by-state.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%2212%22 height=%2212%22%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 stroke=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M1.5 4.518h5.982V10.5H1.5z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%2336c%22 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/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 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/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); padding-right: 13px;">coordinated fundraising proposals</a>&nbsp;obtained and released by&nbsp;<i><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=The_Guardian" title="The Guardian" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Guardian</a></i>&nbsp;in early December 2013 confirm many of these SPN members' intent to change state laws and policies, referring to "advancing model legislation" and "candidate briefings." These activities "arguably cross the line into lobbying,"&nbsp;<i>The Guardian</i>&nbsp;notes.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Policy_Center#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Ties_to_the_American_Legislative_Exchange_Council"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ties to the American Legislative Exchange Council</font></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Washington Policy Center (WPC) is a member of the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Legislative_Exchange_Council" title="American Legislative Exchange Council" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">American Legislative Exchange Council</a>&nbsp;(ALEC) as of 2011.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Daniel Mead Smith, President, represents WPC as the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=ALEC_State_Chairmen" class="mw-redirect" title="ALEC State Chairmen" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">ALEC state co-chair</a>&nbsp;of the state of Washington as of August 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Policy_Center#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Carl Gipson, director of WPC's Center for Small Business and Entrepreneurship, was a member of ALEC's&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Telecommunications_and_Information_Technology_Task_Force" class="mw-redirect" title="Telecommunications and Information Technology Task Force" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Telecommunications and Information Technology Task Force</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Policy_Center#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jason Mercier, the Director of WPC's Center for Government Reform, is a member of ALEC's&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tax_and_Fiscal_Policy_Task_Force" class="mw-redirect" title="Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force</a>&nbsp;and is the ALEC Private Sector Working group chair.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Policy_Center#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a></sup>&nbsp;He sponsored the "Legislative Transparency Act" at ALEC's 2011 Spring Task Force Summit.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Policy_Center#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup>&nbsp;Mercier has also participated in the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Public_Safety_and_Elections_Task_Force" class="mw-redirect" title="Public Safety and Elections Task Force" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Public Safety and Elections Task Force</a>, which was disbanded in April 2012. At the 2011 annual meeting, he gave a presentation titled “Principles of Legislative Transparency” with Representative Jerry Madden (TX).<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Policy_Center#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Todd Myers,&nbsp;</b>Environmental Director of WPC and a public relations specialist who represented the Seattle SuperSonics during the 1997 NBA lockouts, with his own&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://toddmyers.com/about1.htm" style="background-image: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%2212%22 height=%2212%22%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 stroke=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M1.5 4.518h5.982V10.5H1.5z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%2336c%22 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/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 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/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); background-position: right center; background-size: initial, initial; background-repeat: no-repeat, repeat; background-attachment: initial, initial; background-origin: initial, initial; background-clip: initial, initial; text-decoration-line: none; padding-right: 13px;">PR firm</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Policy_Center#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[12]</a></sup>&nbsp;represented WPC on ALEC's&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Energy,Environment_and_Agriculture_Task_Force" class="mw-redirect" title="Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force</a>. At the 2010 States and Nation Policy Summit, Myers gave a presentation entitled "A Fresh Start on the Environment: Good Science and Good Policy for New Majorities."<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Policy_Center#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[13]</a></sup>&nbsp;He also sponsored the "Resolution in Opposition to the EPA's 'Greenhouse Gas Tailoring Rule' and the Treatment of Biomass Energy."<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Policy_Center#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[14]</a></sup>&nbsp;<b>In 2011, Myers gave another presentation at ALEC's States and Nation Policy Summit: “Eco-Fads: How the Rise of Trendy Environmentalism is Harming the Environment</b>.”<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Policy_Center#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[15]</a></sup>&nbsp;Myers was a panelist on the "Renewable Energy Mandate Reform: State Case Studies" workshop at ALEC's 2015 Annual Meeting.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Policy_Center#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[16]</a></sup><b>&nbsp;Myers also wrote a blog post for the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Center_for_Policy_Analysis" title="National Center for Policy Analysis" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">National Center for Policy Analysis</a>&nbsp;(NCPA)</b>&nbsp;criticizing the Center for Media and Democracy's "ALEC Exposed" project in August 2011.</span><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Policy_Center#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Additionally, ALEC is an associate member of the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=State_Policy_Network" title="State Policy Network" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">State Policy Network</a>&nbsp;(SPN), along with the WPC.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Policy_Center#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a></sup></font></p><table style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);"><tbody><tr><th style="background: rgb(41, 102, 184); border: 1px solid rgb(46, 114, 205); text-align: left; padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">About ALEC</font></th></tr><tr><td><div style="padding: 2px 5px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=ALEC" class="mw-redirect" title="ALEC" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">ALEC</a>&nbsp;is a corporate bill mill. It is not just a lobby or a front group; it is much more powerful than that. Through ALEC, corporations hand state legislators their wishlists to benefit their bottom line. Corporations fund almost all of ALEC's operations. They pay for a seat on ALEC task forces where corporate lobbyists and special interest reps vote with elected officials to approve “model” bills. Learn more at the Center for Media and Democracy's&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://alecexposed.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%2212%22 height=%2212%22%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 stroke=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M1.5 4.518h5.982V10.5H1.5z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%2336c%22 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/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 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/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); padding-right: 13px;">ALECexposed.org</a>, and check out breaking news on our&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.exposedbycmd.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%2212%22 height=%2212%22%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 stroke=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M1.5 4.518h5.982V10.5H1.5z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%2336c%22 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/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 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/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); padding-right: 13px;">ExposedbyCMD.org site</a>.</font></div></td></tr></tbody></table><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;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Funding"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Funding</font></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Washington Policy Center has received funding from&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=DonorsTrust" title="DonorsTrust" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">DonorsTrust</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Donors_Capital_Fund" title="Donors Capital Fund" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Donors Capital Fund</a>,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> "two funds that have been closely tied to the Kochs but which obscure the percentage of their grants coming from Koch money. In 2011, contributions from the Donors groups made up 10 percent of JMI's grants," according to the report.</span><sup id="cite_ref-report_19-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Policy_Center#cite_note-report-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[19]</a></sup></font></p><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%225%22 height=%2213%22%3E %3Ccircle cx=%222.5%22 cy=%229%22 r=%222.5%22 fill=%22%23222%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$78,500 from&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Donors_Capital_Fund" title="Donors Capital Fund" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Donors Capital Fund</a>&nbsp;in 2014</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$37,000 from Donors Capital Fund in 2013</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$52,000 from Donors Capital Fund in 2012</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$50,000 from Donors Capital Fund and $500 from&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=DonorsTrust" title="DonorsTrust" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">DonorsTrust</a>&nbsp;in 2011</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$188,275 from Donors Capital Fund and $1,000 from DonorsTrust in 2010</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$180,000 from Donors Capital in 2009</font></li></ul><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>WPC has also received funding from the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=State_Policy_Network" title="State Policy Network" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">State Policy Network</a>:</b></font></p><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%225%22 height=%2213%22%3E %3Ccircle cx=%222.5%22 cy=%229%22 r=%222.5%22 fill=%22%23222%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$18,000 in 2014</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$24,628 in 2013</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$9,250 in 2012</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$9,675 in 2011</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$42,750 in 2010</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$5,000 in 2009</font></li></ul><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">WPC received a $5,000 grant from the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Charles_G.Koch_Foundation" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles G. Koch Foundation" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Charles G. Koch Foundation</a>&nbsp;in 2012.</font></p><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;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Core_Financials"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Core Financials</font></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><big>2015</big></b><sup id="cite_ref-2015_990_20-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Policy_Center#cite_note-2015_990-20" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[20]</a></sup></font></p><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%225%22 height=%2213%22%3E %3Ccircle cx=%222.5%22 cy=%229%22 r=%222.5%22 fill=%22%23222%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Total Revenue: $2,448,806</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Total Expenses: $2,249,164</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Net Assets: $2,211,324</font></li></ul><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><big>2014</big></b><sup id="cite_ref-2014_990_21-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Policy_Center#cite_note-2014_990-21" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[21]</a></sup></font></p><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%225%22 height=%2213%22%3E %3Ccircle cx=%222.5%22 cy=%229%22 r=%222.5%22 fill=%22%23222%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Total Revenue: $1,941,178</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Total Expenses: $1,934,552</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Net Assets: $2,090,044</font></li></ul><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><big>2013</big></b><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Policy_Center#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[22]</a></sup></font></p><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%225%22 height=%2213%22%3E %3Ccircle cx=%222.5%22 cy=%229%22 r=%222.5%22 fill=%22%23222%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Total Revenue: $1,976,580</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Total Expenses: $1,884,072</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Net Assets: $2,052,929</font></li></ul><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><big>2012</big></b><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Policy_Center#cite_note-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[23]</a></sup></font></p><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%225%22 height=%2213%22%3E %3Ccircle cx=%222.5%22 cy=%229%22 r=%222.5%22 fill=%22%23222%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Total Revenue: $1,896,078</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Total Expenses: $1,848,803</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Net Assets: $1,824,240</font></li></ul><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><big>2011</big></b><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Policy_Center#cite_note-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[24]</a></sup></font></p><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%225%22 height=%2213%22%3E %3Ccircle cx=%222.5%22 cy=%229%22 r=%222.5%22 fill=%22%23222%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Total Revenue: $1,513,481</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Total Expenses: $1,860,653</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Net Assets: $1,810,517</font></li></ul><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><big>2010</big></b><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Policy_Center#cite_note-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[25]</a></sup>:</font></p><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%225%22 height=%2213%22%3E %3Ccircle cx=%222.5%22 cy=%229%22 r=%222.5%22 fill=%22%23222%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Total Revenue: $1,500,932.00</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Total Expenses: $1,889,632.00</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Net Assets: $2,203,342.00</font></li></ul><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><big>2009</big></b><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Policy_Center#cite_note-26" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[26]</a></sup>:</font></p><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%225%22 height=%2213%22%3E %3Ccircle cx=%222.5%22 cy=%229%22 r=%222.5%22 fill=%22%23222%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Total Revenue: $1,149,317.00</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Total Expenses: $1,661,953.00</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Net Assets: $2,516,590.00</font></li></ul><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;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Personnel"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Personnel</font></span></h2><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;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Staff"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Staff</font></span></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As of April 2013:<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Policy_Center#cite_note-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[27]</a></sup></font></p><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%225%22 height=%2213%22%3E %3Ccircle cx=%222.5%22 cy=%229%22 r=%222.5%22 fill=%22%23222%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Daniel_Mead_Smith&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Daniel Mead Smith (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Daniel Mead Smith</a>, President</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_Guppy&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Paul Guppy (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Paul Guppy</a>, Vice President for Research</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Braden_Goodwin&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Braden Goodwin (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Braden Goodwin</a>, Operations Manager</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Stephanie True, Development Director</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dan Sytman, Communications & Marketing Director</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Chris Cargill, Eastern Washington Office Director</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Liv Finne, Director, Center for Education</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jason_Mercier&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jason Mercier (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jason Mercier</a>, Director, Center for Government Reform</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Todd_Myers" title="Todd Myers" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Todd Myers</a>, Director -- Center for Environmental Policy</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Erin Shannon, Director, Center for Small Business</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Roger Stark, Health Care Policy Analyst</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tyler Nebeker, Communications Coordinator & Publications Manager</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sydney Jansen, Development Coordinator</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Katie Bulger, Event Coordinator</font></li></ul><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;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Former_Staff"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Former Staff</font></span></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As of 2009:<sup id="cite_ref-board_28-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Policy_Center#cite_note-board-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[28]</a></sup></font></p><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%225%22 height=%2213%22%3E %3Ccircle cx=%222.5%22 cy=%229%22 r=%222.5%22 fill=%22%23222%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Carl_Gipson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Carl Gipson (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Carl Gipson</a>, Director -- Center for Small Business and Entrepreneurship</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mike_Ennis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mike Ennis (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mike Ennis</a>, Director, Center for Transportation Policy & WashingtonVotes.org</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lyndsey_Hartje&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lyndsey Hartje (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Lyndsey Hartje</a>, Communication Coordinator</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Anna_Carroll&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Anna Carroll (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Anna Carroll</a>, Development Assistant</font></li></ul><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;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Board_of_Directors"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Board of Directors</font></span></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As of October 18, 2016:<sup id="cite_ref-board_28-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Policy_Center#cite_note-board-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[28]</a></sup></font></p><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%225%22 height=%2213%22%3E %3Ccircle cx=%222.5%22 cy=%229%22 r=%222.5%22 fill=%22%23222%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Craig Williamson, Chairman</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">John Otter, Vice Chairman, CBC Partners, LLC – Bellevue</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dave Barber, Treasurer, Bartell-Barber Investments LLC – Seattle</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Matt McIlwain, Secretary, Madrona Venture Group – Seattle</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Richard Alvord – Seattle</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bill Baldwin, The Partners Group – Bellevue</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Roger Bowlin, R.W. Bowlin Investment Solutions – Chelan</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Artie Buerk, Montlake Capital - Seattle</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jim Coles, Western Peterbilt (retired) – Seattle</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">William Conner – Bellevue</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">John Connors, Ignition Partners – Bellevue</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kathy Connors – Bellevue</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Anne Cowles - Spokane</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hon. Kemper Freeman, Jr., Kemper Development – Bellevue</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">John J. Hennessy – Snoqualmie</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Daniel Mead Smith, President, Washington Policy Center</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dr. Rhonda Medows, Executive Vice President of Population Health at Providence Health & Services</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hon. George R. Nethercutt Jr. – Spokane</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hon. Mary Odermat, Brown Bear Car Wash – Medina</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mark Pinkowski</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Greg Porter, Pillar Society President – Berntson Porter & Company – Bellevue</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sarah Rindlaub, Past Chairman – Mercer Island</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Phil Scott Schlaepfer, Merrill Lynch - The Phil Scott Group – Bellevue</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Irene Song, PACCAR Inc. – Seattle</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hon. Brian Sonntag, Executive Director, Rescue Mission – Tacoma</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Heidi Stanley, Empire Bolt & Screw, Inc - Spokane</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Randy Talbot, Talbot Financial – Bellevue</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Robert Tippett, Tippett Company – Pasco</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Janet True – Seattle</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Roberta Weymouth, Silver Cloud Inns & Hotels – Bellevue</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wayne Williams, Telect, Inc. – Liberty Lake</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Len Zarelli, Merit Company – Lakewood</font></li></ul><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Board Emeritus</font></p><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%225%22 height=%2213%22%3E %3Ccircle cx=%222.5%22 cy=%229%22 r=%222.5%22 fill=%22%23222%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hon. Emilio Cantu, Former Washington State Senator – Bellevue</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jim Day – Gig Harbor</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Richard Derham – Seattle</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Barbara Kenney – Bellevue</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">David Maryatt – Seattle</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">John "Scotty" McEachern – Seattle</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ed McMillan – Silverdale</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Amb. Della Newman, former Amb. to New Zealand – Bow</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hon. William Polk, William Polk Associates – Seattle</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Al Symington – Seattle</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Robert L. Wiley III – Bellevue</font></li></ul><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Former Board of Directors</b>
As of April 2013:<sup id="cite_ref-Board_29-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Policy_Center#cite_note-Board-29" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[29]</a></sup></font></p><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%225%22 height=%2213%22%3E %3Ccircle cx=%222.5%22 cy=%229%22 r=%222.5%22 fill=%22%23222%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Greg Porter, Chairman, Berntson Porter & Company, Bellevue</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Craig Williamson, Vice Chairman, MM Comfort Systems, Redmond</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Richard Alvord, Treasurer, Seattle</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Roger Bowlin, Secretary, R.W. Bowlin Investment Solutions, Chelan</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dave Barber, Bartell-Barber Family Investments LLC</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jim Coles, Western Peterbilt, Inc., Seattle</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">William Conner, Conner Development, Bellevue</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">John Connors, Ignition Partners, Bellevue</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kathy Connors, Bellevue</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jim Day, Gig Harbor</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hon. Kemper Freeman, Jr., Kemper Development, Bellevue</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">John J. Hennessy, NCM, Snoqualmie</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Anne Kelley, Associate General Counsel, Microsoft Corporation</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Matt McIlwain, Madrona Venture Group</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Daniel_Mead_Smith&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Daniel Mead Smith (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Daniel Mead Smith</a>, President</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hon. George R. Nethercutt Jr., Lundquist, Nethercutt & Griles, Spokane</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hon. Mary Odermat, Brown Bear Car Wash, Medina</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">John Otter, CBC Partners, Bellevue</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ken D. Peterson, Jr., Columbia Ventures Corp., Vancouver</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sarah Rindlaub, Past Chairman, Mercer Island</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Al_Symington&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Al Symington (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Al Symington</a>, Seattle</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Randy Talbot, Talbot Financial, Bellevue</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Robert Tippett, Tippett Company, Pasco</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Janet True, Seattle</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Roberta Weymouth, Silver Cloud Inns & Hotels, Bellevue</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Robert L. Wiley III, Bellevue</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Len Zarelli, Merit Company, Lakewood</font></li></ul><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Former Board Emeritus:</font></p><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%225%22 height=%2213%22%3E %3Ccircle cx=%222.5%22 cy=%229%22 r=%222.5%22 fill=%22%23222%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bill Baldwin, Baldwin Resource Group, Inc., Redmond</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hon. Emilio Cantu, Former Washington State Senator, Bellevue</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Richard Derham, Seattle</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Barbara_Kenney" title="Barbara Kenney" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Barbara Kenney</a>, Bellevue</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">David Maryatt, Seattle</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">John "Scotty" McEachern, Seattle</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ed McMillan, Silverdale</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Amb. Della Newman, former Amb. to New Zealand, Bow</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hon. William Polk, William Polk Associates, Seattle</font></li></ul><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;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Eastern_Washington_Advisory_Board"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Eastern Washington Advisory Board</font></span></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As of October 18, 2016:<sup id="cite_ref-board_28-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Policy_Center#cite_note-board-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[28]</a></sup></font></p><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%225%22 height=%2213%22%3E %3Ccircle cx=%222.5%22 cy=%229%22 r=%222.5%22 fill=%22%23222%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Brenda Alford, Alford Farms, Inc. – Pasco</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tom Beil, Spokane</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Francis Benjamin, Pullman</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Roger Bowlin, R.W. Bowlin Investment Solutions – Lake Chelan</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Joanna Cable, Spokane</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Michael Cannon, Spokane</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kent Clausen, Spokane</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Anne Cowles, Spokane</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jon Devaney, Washington State Tree Fruit Association – Yakima</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Craig Dias, Spokane</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pat Dix, Dix Corporation – Spokane</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bill Farris, Richland</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Randy Gold, Gold Construction – Wenatchee</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Paul Gray, Gray’s Electric – Wenatchee</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Colin Hastings, Executive Director, Pasco Chamber of Commerce – Pasco</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tom Hix, NAI Black - Spokane</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Robert Jankelson, Tsillan Cellars – Chelan</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Larry Lambeth, President, Employment Screening Services, Inc. – Spokane</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kate Lampson, Pasco</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">William Lampson, Lampson International – Kennewick</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Steve Landon, Reese Concrete Products - Kennewick</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jordana LaPorte, LaPorte Financial Alliance - Chelan</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jeff Losey, Executive Director, Homebuilders of the Tri-Cities – Kennewick</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lori Mattson, President, Tri-City Regional Chamber of Commerce – Kennewick</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jack McCrae, Chelan</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Stuart McDougall, McDougall and Sons Fruit – Wenatchee</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dr. Blake McKinley – Spokane Valley</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Heidi Myers, Washington Trust Bank – Wenatchee</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hon. George Nethercutt – Spokane</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Joed Ngaruiya, Sterling Bank – Kennewick</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Chris Patterson, Breakthrough Incorporated – Spokane</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Joseph “Vic” Parrish, Former CEO, Energy Northwest - West Richland</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mike Poulson, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Director, 5th Congressional District – Connell</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tom Power, Spokane</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Steve Schwan, Pasco</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Janet Schmidlkofer, K&N Electric – Spokane</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Chris Senske, Senske Lawn & Tree Care – Kennewick</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jeff Severs, Northwestern Mutual – Spokane</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Julie Shiflett - Spokane</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bruce Smith, Publisher, Yakima Valley Business Times – Yakima</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mark Sonderen, Sonderen Packaging – Spokane</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Don Stafford, Wells Fargo Bank - Spokane</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Heidi Stanley, Empire Bolt – Spokane</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Peter Stanton, Washington Trust Bank – Spokane</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tyrus Tenold – Spokane Valley</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Robert Tippett, Tippett Company – Pasco</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cindy Wendle, Spokane</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Judi Williams, Telect, Inc. – Liberty Lake</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wayne Williams, Telect, Inc. – Liberty Lake</font></li></ul><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Former Eastern Washington Advisory Board</b>
As of April 2013:<sup id="cite_ref-Board_29-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Policy_Center#cite_note-Board-29" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[29]</a></sup></font></p><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%225%22 height=%2213%22%3E %3Ccircle cx=%222.5%22 cy=%229%22 r=%222.5%22 fill=%22%23222%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Brenda Alford, </b>Alford Farms, Inc. – Pasco</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Steve Appel, Washington State Farm Bureau – Endicott</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">John Bennett, President, NAI Black – Spokane</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Roger Bowlin, R.W. Bowlin Investment Solutions – Lake Chelan</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bob Brody, King Orchards – Wenatchee</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Michael Cannon, Owner, Elements Therapeutic Massage – Spokane</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Diane Cornwell, People’s Bank – Wenatchee</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Anne Cowles – Spokane</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Shaun Cross, CEO Lee & Hayes – Spokane</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jon Devaney, Executive Director, Yakima Valley Growers-Shippers Association - Yakima</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Craig Dias, Haskins Steel – Spokane</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pat Dix, Dix Corporation – Spokane</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bill Farris, Richland</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Randy Gold, Gold Construction – Wenatchee</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Paul Gray, Gray’s Electric – Wenatchee</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rich Hadley, President and CEO, Greater Spokane Incorporated – Spokane</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ralph Hamm III, Wells Fargo Bank – Spokane</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Colin Hastings, Executive Director, Pasco Chamber of Commerce – Pasco</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Robert Jankelson, Tsillan Cellars – Chelan</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Patrick Kirby, Kirby Law Offices – Spokane</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kees C. Koster, Preferred Realty Inc. – Pasco</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Larry L. Lambeth, President, Employment Screening Services, Inc. – Spokane</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">William Lampson, Lampson International – Kennewick</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jordana LaPorte, LaPorte Financial Alliance - Chelan</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jeff Losey, Executive Director, Homebuilders of the Tri-Cities – Kennewick</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mike Maehl, Opus 111 Group – Spokane</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lori Mattson, President, Tri-City Regional Chamber of Commerce – Kennewick</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Stuart McDougall, McDougall and Sons Fruit – Wenatchee</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dr. Blake McKinley – Spokane Valley</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Heidi Myers, Vice President, Banner Bank - Wenatchee</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hon. George Nethercutt – Spokane</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Craig Phillips, CEO, American Behavioral Health Systems – Spokane</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mike & Barbara Poulson, WA Agricultural Legal Foundation – Connell</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Janet Schmidlkofer, K&N Electric – Spokane</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Melanie Schmitt, Tri-Cities Journal of Business – Kennewick</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Chris Senske, Senske Lawn & Tree Care – Kennewick</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jeff Severs, Northwestern Mutual – Spokane</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Eldonna Shaw, Spokane Valley Chamber of Commerce – Spokane Valley</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Damien Sinnott, Walla Walla Chamber of Commerce – Walla Walla</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bruce Smith, Publisher, Yakima Valley Business Times – Yakima</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mark Sonderen, Sonderen Packaging – Spokane</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">David Stambaugh – Cle Elum</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Heidi Stanley, Empire Bolt – Spokane</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Peter Stanton, Washington Trust Bank – Spokane</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Robert Tippett, Tippett Company – Pasco</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Judi Williams, TELECT – Liberty Lake</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wayne Williams, TELECT – Liberty Lake</font></li></ul><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;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Research_Advisory_Board"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Research Advisory Board</font></span></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As of 2009:<sup id="cite_ref-board_28-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Policy_Center#cite_note-board-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[28]</a></sup></font></p><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%225%22 height=%2213%22%3E %3Ccircle cx=%222.5%22 cy=%229%22 r=%222.5%22 fill=%22%23222%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_Castiglia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Castiglia (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">John Castiglia</a>, Premera Blue Cross</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_Maffeo&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Paul Maffeo (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Paul Maffeo</a>, Retired, Merrill Lynch, City of Seattle Investment Board</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mathew_Manweller&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mathew Manweller (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mathew Manweller</a>, Central Washington University</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=William_Maurer&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William Maurer (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">William Maurer</a>, J.D., Institute for Justice</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_Sands&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Sands (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">John Sands</a>, Ph.D., Western Washington University</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Roger_Stark&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Roger Stark (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Roger Stark</a>, M.D., Overlake Hospital</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Andrew_Tadie&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Andrew Tadie (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Andrew Tadie</a>, Ph.D., Seattle University</font></li></ul><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;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Contact_Information"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Contact Information</font></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Employer Identification Number (EIN): 91-1752769</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Main Mailing Address</b>&nbsp;P.O. Box 3643
Seattle, Washington 98124-3643
Website:&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.washingtonpolicy.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%2212%22 height=%2212%22%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 stroke=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M1.5 4.518h5.982V10.5H1.5z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%2336c%22 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/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 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/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); padding-right: 13px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">http://www.washingtonpolicy.org</a>
Email: wpc@washingtonpolicy.org
Email: dmeadsmith@washingtonpolicy.org
Twitter:&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://twitter.com/WAPolicyCenter" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%2212%22 height=%2212%22%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 stroke=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M1.5 4.518h5.982V10.5H1.5z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%2336c%22 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/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 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/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); padding-right: 13px;">@WAPolicyCenter</a>
Facebook:&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.facebook.com/washington.policy.center" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%2212%22 height=%2212%22%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 stroke=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M1.5 4.518h5.982V10.5H1.5z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%2336c%22 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/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 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/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); padding-right: 13px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">https://www.facebook.com/washington.policy.center</a></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Seattle Office</b>
3404 4th Ave S.
Seattle, WA 98134
Phone: (206).937.9691
Fax: (206).624.8038
</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Olympia Office</b>
711 Capitol Way South, Suite 505
Olympia, WA 98501
Phone: (360).705.9068
Fax: (360).705.6543
</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Spokane Office</b>
801 W. Riverside, Suite 100
Spokane, WA 99201
Phone: (509).570.2384
</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Tri-Cities Office</b>
2815 St. Andrews Loop, Suite F
Pasco, WA 99302
Phone: (509).547.2234
</font></p><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;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Articles_and_Resources"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Articles and Resources</font></span></h2><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;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Related_SourceWatch_Articles"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Related SourceWatch Articles</font></span></h3><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%225%22 height=%2213%22%3E %3Ccircle cx=%222.5%22 cy=%229%22 r=%222.5%22 fill=%22%23222%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=State_Policy_Network" title="State Policy Network" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">State Policy Network</a>:</font><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%225%22 height=%2213%22%3E %3Ccircle cx=%222.5%22 cy=%229%22 r=%222.5%22 fill=%22%23222%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E");"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Portal:State_Policy_Network" title="Portal:State Policy Network" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">SPN Portal</font></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=SPN_Political_Activity" title="SPN Political Activity" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">SPN Political Activity</font></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=SPN_Funding" title="SPN Funding" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">SPN Funding</font></a><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%225%22 height=%2213%22%3E %3Ccircle cx=%222.5%22 cy=%229%22 r=%222.5%22 fill=%22%23222%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E");"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=SPN_2011_Funding" title="SPN 2011 Funding" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">SPN 2011 Funding</font></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=SPN_2010_Funding" title="SPN 2010 Funding" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">SPN 2010 Funding</font></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=SPN_2009_Funding" title="SPN 2009 Funding" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">SPN 2009 Funding</font></a></li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=SPN_Agenda" title="SPN Agenda" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">SPN Agenda</font></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=SPN_Founders,History,and_Staff" title="SPN Founders, History, and Staff" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">SPN Founders, History, and Staff</font></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=SPN_Members" title="SPN Members" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">SPN Members</font></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=SPN_Ties_to_ALEC" title="SPN Ties to ALEC" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">SPN Ties to ALEC</font></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Thomas_A.Roe" title="Thomas A. Roe" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Thomas A. Roe</font></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tracie_Sharp" title="Tracie Sharp" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Tracie Sharp</font></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Byron_S._Lamm" title="Byron S. Lamm" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Byron S. Lamm</font></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Roe_Foundation" title="Roe Foundation" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Roe Foundation</font></a></li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Legislative_Exchange_Council" title="American Legislative Exchange Council" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">American Legislative Exchange Council</a>&nbsp;(ALEC)</font><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%225%22 height=%2213%22%3E %3Ccircle cx=%222.5%22 cy=%229%22 r=%222.5%22 fill=%22%23222%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E");"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=ALEC_Non-Profits" title="ALEC Non-Profits" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">ALEC Non-Profits</font></a></li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=DonorsTrust" title="DonorsTrust" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">DonorsTrust</font></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Donors_Capital_Fund" title="Donors Capital Fund" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Donors Capital Fund</font></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Koch_Family_Foundations" title="Koch Family Foundations" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Koch Family Foundations</font></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Koch_Industries" title="Koch Industries" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Koch Industries</font></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Franklin_Center_for_Government_and_Public_Integrity" class="mw-redirect" title="Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity</font></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Heritage_Foundation" title="Heritage Foundation" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Heritage Foundation</font></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Think_tanks" title="Think tanks" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Think tanks</font></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Whitney_Ball" title="Whitney Ball" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Whitney Ball</font></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Adam_Meyerson" title="Adam Meyerson" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Adam Meyerson</font></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bridgett_Wagner" title="Bridgett Wagner" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Bridgett Wagner</font></a></li></ul><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;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Related_PRWatch_Articles"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Related PRWatch Articles</font></span></h3><div>
</div><div><span class="mw-headline"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Brendan Fischer, Why Are the Franklin Center's "Wisconsin Reporter" and "Watchdog.org" Attacking the John Doe?, PRWatch.org, December 19, 2013.</font></div><div>Rebekah Wilce, The State Policy Network's Cozy Relationship with Big Tobacco, PRWatch.org, December 16, 2013.</div><div>Rebekah Wilce, Did ALEC Found SPN? 1991 Report Suggests So, Exposes SPN Agenda, PRWatch.org, December 12, 2013.</div><div>Rebekah Wilce, Guardian Documents Expose State Policy Network Groups' Intent to Lobby, PRWatch.org, December 5, 2013.</div><div>Rebekah Wilce, State Policy Network: The Stealth Network Dramatically Influencing State Law, PRWatch.org, December 5, 2013.</div><div>Rebekah Wilce, Tracie Sharp: Bursar of Mystery Money and "IKEA Model" Materials to Stink Tanks, PRWatch.org, November 19, 2013.</div><div>Center for Media and Democracy, Reports Expose Extreme Pressure Groups Masquerading as Think Tanks, press release, November 13, 2013.</div><div>Rebekah Wilce, A Reporters’ Guide to the "State Policy Network": the Right-Wing Think Tanks Spinning Disinformation and Pushing the ALEC Agenda in the States, PRWatch.org, April 4, 2013.</div><div>Sara Jerving, ALEC and Heartland Aim to Crush Renewable Energy Standards in the States, PRWatch.org, November 27, 2012.</div><div>Connor Gibson, Meet the Network Hiding the Koch Money: "Donors Trust" and "Donors Capital Fund", PRWatch.org, October 29, 2012.</div><div>Brendan Fischer, Koch-Funded Mackinac Center Brings Wisconsin Act 10 Provisions to ALEC, PRWatch.org, May 2, 2012.</div><div>Sara Jerving, Franklin Center: Right-Wing Funds State News Source, PRWatch.org, October 31, 2011.</div><div>
</div><div>External Resources</div><div>
</div><div>Wall Street Journal, The Spoils of the Republican State Conquest, December 9, 2016, archived by CMD here.</div><div>DeSmog Blog, Stink Tanks: Historical Records Reveal State Policy Network Was Created by ALEC, December 9, 2013.</div><div>The Guardian, State conservative groups plan US-wide assault on education, health and tax, December 5, 2013.</div><div>Portland Press Herald, "Washington County residents have mixed reactions to plan to eliminate taxes," December 5, 2013.</div><div>The Texas Observer, "The Money Behind the Fight to Undermine Medicaid," December 5, 2013.</div><div>Media Matters, North Carolina Newspapers Largely Ignore Conservative Funding Of Sham Think Tanks, December 3, 2013.</div><div>Shepherd Express, Masters of Manipulation: Right-wing Billionaires, Corporations and the Bradley Foundation Pay for Junk Studies that Prop up Their Agenda, November 27, 2013.</div><div>"Moyers & Company," How a Shadowy Network of Corporate Front Groups Distorts the Marketplace of Ideas, November 19, 2013.</div><div>MSNBC "Rachel Maddow Show," November 18, 2013.</div><div>Free Speech TV "Ring of Fire," Facebook, Microsoft, AT&T and Others Supporting Right Wing Propaganda Machine, November 18, 2013.</div><div>Topeka Capital-Journal, Trabert dismisses report tying KPI to Koch agenda, November 16, 2013.</div><div>The New Yorker (Jane Mayer), Is IKEA the New Model for the Conservative Movement?, November 15, 2013.</div><div>Salon, Ted Cruz and Koch brothers embroiled in shadowy Tea Party scheme, November 15, 2013.</div><div>St. Louis Business Journal, Beyond Sinquefield: Who else is funding the Show-Me Institute?, November 15, 2013.</div><div>The Guardian, Facebook and Microsoft help fund rightwing lobby network, report finds, November 14, 2013.</div><div>Huffington Post, Meet The Little-Known Network Pushing Ideas For Kochs, ALEC, November 14, 2013.</div><div>CBS St. Louis, Show-Me Institute’s Ties Questioned in New Report, November 14, 2013.</div><div>Talking Points Memo, Florida Conservative Group Helping Muck Up Obamacare In Alaska, November 14, 2013.</div><div>Mint Press News, Reports Reveal SPN’s Secret Corporate Agenda Through Use ‘Expert’ Testimony, November 14, 2013.</div><div>Media Matters, Shadowy Right-Wing Group Generates Media Coverage For Conservative Policy From Coast To Coast, November 14, 2013.</div><div>The Institute for Southern Studies, Are conservative think tanks breaking lobbying laws?, November 14, 2013.</div><div>Nonprofit Quarterly, Corporate Money in Network of Right-Wing State Policy Think Tanks, November 14, 2013.</div><div>The Progressive, Right-Wing Think Tanks Push Privatization in the States, November 13, 2013.</div><div>Politico, Report: Think tanks tied to Kochs, November 13, 2013.</div><div>Lawrence Journal-World, Reports released by progressive groups are critical of Kansas Policy Institute, November 13, 2013.</div><div>Maine Insights, Report: Maine Heritage Policy Center’s funding connection to Koch Brothers, November 13, 2013.</div><div>The Florida Current, Liberal groups bemoan lobbying by conservative think tanks, November 13, 2013.</div><div>The Oregonian, Cascade Policy Institute benefits from secretive donor group but says it operates independently, November 13, 2013.</div><div>Center for Media and Democracy, EXPOSED: The State Policy Network, The Powerful Right-Wing Network Helping to Hijack State Politics and Government, organizational report, November 13, 2013.</div><div>Arizona Working Families and CMD, A Reporter’s Guide to the Goldwater Institute: What Citizens, Policymakers, and Reporters Should Know, organizational report, updated November 13, 2013.</div><div>Progress Florida and CMD, Lawmaking Under the Influence of Very Special Interests: Understand the role of Florida ‘think tanks’ in driving a Koch-fueled, ALEC-allied corporate agenda, organizational report, November 13, 2013.</div><div>Maine's Majority Education Fund, Fooling Maine: How national conservative groups infiltrated Maine politics by founding and funding the Maine Heritage Policy Center, organizational report, November 13, 2013.</div><div>Progress Michigan, Who's Running Michigan? The Far-Right Influence of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, organizational report, November 13, 2013.</div><div>Alliance for a Better Minnesota, Who's in Charge: How Nationalized Corporate-Run Think Tanks Influence Minnesota Politics, organizational report, November 13, 2013.</div><div>Progress Missouri, What Missourians Need to Know About the Show-Me Institute, organizational report, updated November 13, 2013.</div><div>Granite State Progress, Bad Bartlett: The Josiah Bartlett Center and NH Watchdog Answer the Call of the Koch Brothers, organizational report, November 13, 2013.</div><div>ProgressOhio, Smoke Screen: The Buckeye Institute, organizational report, November 13, 2013.</div><div>Keystone Progress, Think tanks or corporate lobbyist propaganda mills?, organizational report, November 13, 2013.</div><div>Progress Texas, TPPF + ALEC, organizational report, November 13, 2013.</div><div>One Wisconsin Now, S is for Shill: Inside the Bradley Foundation's Attack on Public Education, organizational report, November 13, 2013.</div><div>Muncie Voice, Pence and Right-Wing Are Taking Over Public Education, November 13, 2013.</div><div>The Spokesman-Review, Shawn Vestal: Idaho Freedom Foundation pushes limits of word ‘charity’, November 2, 2013.</div><div>AZ Central, When this ‘watchdog’ pitches, taxpayers strike out, October 12, 2013.</div><div>IndyStar, Daniels says speech to partisan group was a mistake, October 10, 2013.</div><div>Muncie Voice, Indiana Policy Review: Not an Independent News Source, October 2, 2013.</div><div>The Spokesman-Review, Idaho Freedom Foundation's charitable status scrutinized, September 15, 2013.</div><div><b>CounterSpin, Lee Fang on 'The Right Leans In', April 5, 2013.</b></div><div>FireDogLake, State Policy Network, an umbrella coordinating ALEC, Heritage, Heartland and others, April 4, 2013.</div><div>Thom Hartmann with Lee Fang on MSNBC, The conservative State Policy Network is sneaking into your state & will change America, March 29, 2013.</div><div>Current TV "War Room", Lee Fang discussing the State Policy Network, March 28, 2013.</div><div>The Nation, The Right Leans In, March 26, 2013.</div><div>Democracy Now, Donors Trust: Little-Known Group Helps Wealthy Backers Fund Right-Wing Agenda in Secret, February 19, 2013.</div><div>Paul Abowd, Center for Public Integrity, Donors use charity to push free-market policies in states, Consider the Source, February 14, 2013.</div><div>John R. Mashey, Fake science, fakexperts, funny finances, free of tax 2, DeSmog Blog report, updated October 23, 2012, p. 74.</div><div>Urban Milwaukee, Stealth Conservatives, October 11, 2012.</div><div>Rome News-Tribune, ANALYSIS: Georgia leaders depend on the same well for ideas, October 2012.</div><div><b>Andy Kroll, The Right-Wing Network Behind the War on Unions, Mother Jones, April 25, 2011.</b></div><div>Guidestar, State Policy Network, IRS filings and other organizational information about SPN.</div><div>Center for Policy Alternatives, ALEC and the Extreme Right-Wing Agenda, organizational brochure about ALEC and SPN.</div><div>John J. Miller, Fifty Flowers Bloom: Conservative think tanks — mini–Heritage Foundations — at the state level, National Review, November 19, 2007.</div><div>Bridge Project, State Policy Network, online resource listing grants to SPN and SPN's connections to other groups.</div><div>People for the American Way, State Policy Network, RightWingWatch.org, organizational resource.</div><div>Greenpeace, Koch Industries Climate Denial Front Group: State Policy Network (SPN), organizational resource.</div><div>Christopher Huber, "Group goes to Rachel Carson to challenge environmentalism," The Sammamish Review (Sammamish, Washington), April 28, 2009.</div></span></div></div><div>===</div>