Maine Heritage Policy Ctr

The Maine Heritage Policy Center (MHPC) is a right-wing pressure group based in Portland, Maine. MHPC states as its mission to "formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise; limited, constitutional government; individual freedom; and traditional American values--all for the purpose of providing public policy solutions that benefit the people of Maine."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Maine_Heritage_Policy_Center#cite_note-0" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[1]</a> MHPC is a member of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/State_Policy_Network" title="State Policy Network" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">State Policy Network</a> (SPN), a web of state pressure groups that denote themselves as "think tanks" and drive a right-wing agenda in statehouses nationwide.<h2 style="background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto; font-size: 19px; line-height: 19.1875px;">Funding</h2>A report published by Maine's Majority Education Fund and the Center for Media and Democracy listed the following known donors for the Maine Heritage Policy Center:<ul style="line-height: 19.1875px; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANCAMAAABW4lS6AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAAZQTFRFAFKM////QIUK9QAAAAJ0Uk5T/wDltzBKAAAAGklEQVR42mJgBAEGokgGBjBGBxBxsBqAAAMACHwALd5r8ygAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Castle Rock Foundation (CO): $25,000 in 2009.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Cato Institute (D.C.): $50,000 in 2006.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Donors Capital Fund (VA): $1,908,981 between 2005-2011.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">DonorsTrust (VA): $7,500 in 2010.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Jaquelin Hume Foundation (CA): $135,000 between 2007-2011.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">JM Foundation (NY): $45,000 between 2004-2007.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Neal and Jane Freeman Foundation (FL): $67,000 between 2003-2011.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">State Policy Network (FL): $151,000 between 2007-2010.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Roe Foundation (SC): $140,000 between 2005-2011.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Known Total - $2,529,481 from 2003 until 2011.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Maine_Heritage_Policy_Center#cite_note-report-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[2]</a></li></ul><h2 style="background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto; font-size: 19px; line-height: 19.1875px;">Right-Wing Advocacy</h2>The Maine Heritage Policy Center aims to promote conservative public policy. According to Maine's Majority Education Fund and the Center for Media and Democracy, the center has specifically focused on:(1) Cutting Government Services -The Maine Heritage Policy Center advocates lowering taxes for the wealthy and reducing the government budget. The center strongly supported the Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR) proposal, which would have required voter approval of all tax and spending increases. TABOR failed in 2006. The bill was reintroduced in 2009, entirely rewritten by the Maine Heritage Policy Center. The act failed again, despite the center's direct contribution of $50,000 in support of TABOR. That same year, the Maine Heritage Policy Center and Citizens Against Government Waste ("a tobacco industry funded group that laundered money for Jack Abramoff") published three "piglet books" reporting on "wasteful government spending."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Maine_Heritage_Policy_Center#cite_note-report-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[2]</a>(2) Opposing Healthcare Reform- In 2003, the Maine Heritage Policy Center firmly opposed then Governor John Baldacci's attempt to institute a universal healthcare system. More recently, the group has focused on opposing federal healthcare reform. In 2011, the Director of MHPC's Center for Constitutional Government wrote an article titled, "The Case Against Obamacare."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Maine_Heritage_Policy_Center#cite_note-report-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[2]</a>(3) Privatizing Public Education- A "signature goal of ALEC and the LePage administration has been the diversion of public education resources to out-of-state for-profit online charter school companies, a process it refers to as 'school choice.'" Since 2010, the MHCP has written four reports in favor of for-profit online education. It has "also worked with a bevy of conservative lawmakers and administration officials in an attempt to pass the LePage online education plan."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Maine_Heritage_Policy_Center#cite_note-report-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[2]</a> Steve Bowen, the MHCP's former head of education initiatives, was appointed education commissioner under LePage, and is reportedly in charge of "the conversion to for profit online schools."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Maine_Heritage_Policy_Center#cite_note-report-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[2]</a>(4) Attacking Workers' Rights- The MHCP is adamantly opposed to labor unions, "and actively seeks to curtail union rights in Maine." MHCP "supported two pieces of legislation aimed at undermining union power: LD 786, "An Act to Ensure the Voluntary Membership of Public Employees in Unions," and LD 831, "An Act to Prohibit Mandatory Membership in a Union or Payment of Agency Fees and as a Condition of Employment."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Maine_Heritage_Policy_Center#cite_note-report-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[2]</a> The MHCP advocates for "right to work" legislation, and in 2011 issued a report entitled "the Case for Right-to-Work in Maine: Examing the Evidence in Oklahoma." The report was allegedly "based on questionable data from Oklahoma."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Maine_Heritage_Policy_Center#cite_note-report-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[2]</a><h2 style="background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto; font-size: 19px; line-height: 19.1875px;">Ties to the Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity</h2>Through its media project <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.themainewire.com/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">The Maine Wire</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Maine_Heritage_Policy_Center#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[3]</a>, The Maine Heritage Policy Center is listed as a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Franklin_Center_for_Government_and_Public_Integrity" title="Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity</a> "Watchdog Bureau".<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Maine_Heritage_Policy_Center#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[4]</a> The Franklin Center funds reporters in over 40 states.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Maine_Heritage_Policy_Center#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[5]</a> Despite their non-partisan description, many of the websites funded by the Franklin Center have received criticism for their conservative bias.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Maine_Heritage_Policy_Center#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[6]</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Maine_Heritage_Policy_Center#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[7]</a> On its website, the Franklin Center claims it "provides 10 percent of all daily reporting from state capitals nationwide."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Maine_Heritage_Policy_Center#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[8]</a><h3 style="background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; font-size: 17px; line-height: 19.1875px;">Franklin Center Funding</h3>Franklin Center Director of Communications Michael Moroney told the Center for Public Integrity (CPI) in 2013 that the source of the Franklin Center's funding "is 100 percent anonymous." But 95 percent of its 2011 funding came from <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/DonorsTrust" title="DonorsTrust" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">DonorsTrust</a>, a spin-off of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Philanthropy_Roundtable" title="Philanthropy Roundtable" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Philanthropy Roundtable</a> that functions as a large "donor-advised fund," cloaking the identity of donors to right-wing causes across the country (CPI did a review of Franklin's Internal Revenue Service records).<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Maine_Heritage_Policy_Center#cite_note-Abowd-8" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[9]</a> Mother Jones called DonorsTrust "the dark-money ATM of the conservative movement" in a February 2013 article.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Maine_Heritage_Policy_Center#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[10]</a> Franklin received DonorTrust's second-largest donation in 2011.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Maine_Heritage_Policy_Center#cite_note-Abowd-8" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[9]</a>The Franklin Center also receives funding from the Wisconsin-based <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Lynde_and_Harry_Bradley_Foundation" title="Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation</a>,<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Maine_Heritage_Policy_Center#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[11]</a> a conservative grant-making organization.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Maine_Heritage_Policy_Center#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[12]</a>The Franklin Center was launched by the Chicago-based <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Sam_Adams_Alliance" title="Sam Adams Alliance" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Sam Adams Alliance</a> (SAM),<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Maine_Heritage_Policy_Center#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[13]</a> a 501(c)(3) devoted to pushing free-market ideals. SAM gets funding from the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/State_Policy_Network" title="State Policy Network" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">State Policy Network</a>,<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Maine_Heritage_Policy_Center#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[14]</a> which is partially funded by the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Claude_R._Lambe_Foundation" title="Claude R. Lambe Foundation" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Claude R. Lambe Foundation</a>.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Maine_Heritage_Policy_Center#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[15]</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Charles_Koch" title="Charles Koch" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Charles Koch</a>, one of the billionaire brothers who co-own Koch Industries, sits on the board of this foundation.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Maine_Heritage_Policy_Center#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[16]</a> SAM also receives funding from the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Rodney_Fund" title="Rodney Fund" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Rodney Fund</a>.<h2 style="background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto; font-size: 19px; line-height: 19.1875px;">Ties to ALEC</h2>The Maine Heritage Policy Center is a state think tank member of SPN, which is a private sector member of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Legislative_Exchange_Council" title="American Legislative Exchange Council" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">American Legislative Exchange Council</a> (ALEC). MHPC also has ties to ALEC through its efforts to undermine the Affordable Care Act. MPHC hosted the director of ALEC's <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Health_and_Human_Services_Task_Force" title="Health and Human Services Task Force" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Health and Human Services Task Force</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Christie_Herrera" title="Christie Herrera" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Christie Herrera</a>, at a 2010 event it held in Portland: “ObamaCare: How Maine Can Fight Back.”<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Maine_Heritage_Policy_Center#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[17]</a>MHPC has also participated in the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ALEC" title="ALEC" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">ALEC</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Education_Task_Force" title="Education Task Force" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Education Task Force</a>. Stephen Bowen represented the Maine Heritage Policy Center at the task force meeting during ALEC's 2010 annual meeting.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Maine_Heritage_Policy_Center#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[18]</a>.Bowen went on to become Commissioner of the Maine Department of Education in 2011.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Maine_Heritage_Policy_Center#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[19]</a>Please see <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/SPN_Ties_to_ALEC" title="SPN Ties to ALEC" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">SPN Ties to ALEC</a> for more.<table style="font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 19.1875px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(201, 215, 240);"><tbody><tr><th style="background-color: rgb(41, 102, 184); font-size: 18px; border: 1px solid rgb(64, 127, 212); color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">About ALEC</th></tr><tr><td><div style="padding: 2px 5px;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ALEC" title="ALEC" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">ALEC</a> 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 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://alecexposed.org/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">ALECexposed.org</a>, and check out breaking news on our <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.prwatch.org/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">PRWatch.org site</a>.</div></td></tr></tbody></table>
<h2 style="background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto; font-size: 19px; line-height: 19.1875px;">Personnel</h2><h3 style="background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; font-size: 17px; line-height: 19.1875px;">Staff</h3><ul style="line-height: 19.1875px; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANCAMAAABW4lS6AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAAZQTFRFAFKM////QIUK9QAAAAJ0Uk5T/wDltzBKAAAAGklEQVR42mJgBAEGokgGBjBGBxBxsBqAAAMACHwALd5r8ygAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">J. Scott Moody, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Economist</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">David Crocker, Director, Center for Constitutional Government</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Joel Allumbaugh, Director, Center for Health Reform Initiatives</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Jonathan Haines, Director of Communications</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Heather Noyes, Director of Development</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Sam Adolphsen, Director of Government and External Affairs</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Kate Clark, Development and Research Associate</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Amanda Clark, Education Policy Analyst</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Steven Robinson, Government Transparency Policy Analyst</li></ul><h3 style="background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; font-size: 17px; line-height: 19.1875px;">Board of Directors</h3><ul style="line-height: 19.1875px; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANCAMAAABW4lS6AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAAZQTFRFAFKM////QIUK9QAAAAJ0Uk5T/wDltzBKAAAAGklEQVR42mJgBAEGokgGBjBGBxBxsBqAAAMACHwALd5r8ygAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Peter Anania, President, Anania & Associates</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">John Chandler, Managing Partner, BerryDunn</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Jinger Duryea, President, C. N. Brown Company</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Hon. Neal B. Freeman, Chairman, The Blackwell Corporation</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">W. R. Jackson, Jr., Retired President, Pitt-Des Moines</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Jeff Kane, President, National Distributors</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">James Ward, JD, President and Principal, Patient Advocates</li></ul><h3 style="background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; font-size: 17px; line-height: 19.1875px;">Board of Advisors</h3><ul style="line-height: 19.1875px; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANCAMAAABW4lS6AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAAZQTFRFAFKM////QIUK9QAAAAJ0Uk5T/wDltzBKAAAAGklEQVR42mJgBAEGokgGBjBGBxBxsBqAAAMACHwALd5r8ygAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Joel Allumbaugh, National Worksite Benefit Group</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Deborah Dunlap Avasthi, HRH Northern New England</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Hon. Joe Bruno, Community Pharmacies</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">David Crocker, Esq., Solicitor</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Ronald Drouin, Retired</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Scott Fish, As Maine Goes</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Susan Hamill, The Dette Company</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Hon. Philip E. Harriman, Lebel & Harriman</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Chet Jordan, Digital Architecture</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Lisa G. Martin, Manufacturers Association of Maine</li></ul><h3 style="background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; font-size: 17px; line-height: 19.1875px;">Board of Adjunct Fellows</h3><ul style="line-height: 19.1875px; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANCAMAAABW4lS6AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAAZQTFRFAFKM////QIUK9QAAAAJ0Uk5T/wDltzBKAAAAGklEQVR42mJgBAEGokgGBjBGBxBxsBqAAAMACHwALd5r8ygAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Joe Crosby, Council on State Taxation</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">James Frogue, Center for Health Transformation/Gingrich Group</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">James Hamilton, For Our Grandchildren</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Roy W. Lenardson, Strategic Advocacy</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Kyle Pomerleau, Georgetown University</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">John Reisman, University of Maine, Machias</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Dr. Margo Thorning, American Council for Capital Formation</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Dr. Wendy P. Warcholik, Public Choice Analytics for the U.S. States</li></ul>