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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">by Andrew Graham</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>November 1, 2016</b></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During the Republican primary, some far-right candidates taking on incumbents, like these two in Campbell County, received donations from the Brophys, a wealthy Wilson couple with libertarian leanings. (Photo illustration by Andrew Graham/WyoFile)</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This is one of a series.  See the introductory story for links to the set — Ed.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Daniel Brophy is against Common Core curriculum in Wyoming schools. He thinks it cedes local control of education to a rigid, colossal national bureaucracy and that if implemented “Wyoming students will now march with the crowd into uniformity, rigidity, conformity, and in the end, mediocrity (at best).”</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Brophy believes that “gun free zones,” like those in place in Wyoming’s public schools and the halls of Congress, attract murderers. </span>He wonders if “any unarmed victims in San Bernardino or Paris, realizing their last breath was at hand as the gun barrel swung toward them and the bullets tore through their flesh, felt a flash of regret that they had no gun to fire at their assailant?”</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>He thinks medicaid expansion for Wyoming would be “a path to disaster” and hurt the impoverished.</b></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Brophy does not approve of homosexuality, but he “would never claim the right to deny a homosexual freedom of belief in his or her own life.”</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By themselves, Brophy’s beliefs are not particularly remarkable — he shares some of them with many of the Wyoming people who make up the state’s traditionally conservative voting majority.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">However Brophy is distinct from your average Wyoming person, in the traditional, ancestral or hardscrabble sense of the word. He first purchased a home in the town of Wilson, just outside Jackson, in 2011. And Brophy’s political beliefs, compiled above from his postings online and various letters written to Wyoming newspapers — he did not respond to interview requests — are backed by the weight of considerable wealth.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A former commodities trader in Chicago, Brophy was Wyoming’s biggest single donor in the primary elections in August. He was a one-man version of a political action committee in a state where even donations under the $1,500 cap for primary contributions can go a long way. Almost all donations by Daniel Brophy are matched by his wife Carleen. That means most beneficiaries of his wealth receive up to $3,000 for their primary elections, which in many cases becomes the bulk of their spending money. As one candidate put it, that’s a mailing to every registered voter in his district.</font></span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While the spending by the Brophys in the primary season was remarkably high, it was also a telling sign of the new Wyoming politics — where the dollars spent climb upwards, campaign strategy sophistication grows and the rhetoric gets tenser and ever farther from the “town with one long main street” politics of just a few years ago.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the 2010 election cycle the average candidate for the Wyoming House received $4,800 in contributions. By 2014 that number was up to $7,284. Thus far in 2016 the average is already hovering around the 2010 total figure — but just for the primary campaigns. Contributions for the general election have not yet been made public.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So campaign contributions for the primary season alone in 2016 matched those of six years ago for the entire election cycle. Political Action Committees, which are able to spend larger amounts of money on a candidate than private individuals like the Brophys, are usually more active in the general elections, and so that number is bound to go up.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Since the U.S. Supreme Court decided the Citizens United vs. Federal Elections Commission case in 2010, a variety of new apparatus for participating in political campaigns has sprung up.</b></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The court ruled that funds spent on politics but not a specific candidate “do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption,” and should be protected as a right of free speech.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Wyoming, home to energy and railroad interests basically since its conception, is no stranger to lobbyists and Political Action Committees seeking influence in Cheyenne. However, recent election cycles have seen a string of new campaign tactics reflective of trends at the national level.</b></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Campaign finance records and interviews with candidates and political organizations show that both parties are beneficiaries as well as targets of outside spending and sophisticated campaigning.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On the Republican side, primary spending by wealthy individuals like the Brophys supported a wave of ideologically motivated primary contenders challenging experienced party voices in the House and Senate. Campaigns turned negative as these candidates took on “the establishment” in an effort to push the Legislature ever further right.  </font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The Brophys’ choices</b></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Brophys’ donation choices include most lawmakers favored by the</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> libertarian think tank the Wyoming Liberty Group.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Brophys contributed to more than 30 candidates in the 2016 primary elections. Their choices closely align with the Wyoming Liberty Group’s “Liberty Index,” which ranks lawmakers based on how well their votes in previous legislative sessions either “supported or inhibited liberty.”</span></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Lawyers from the Wyoming Liberty Group represented the Brophys</b> in a 2014 court case, which pushed the Wyoming Secretary of State’s office to stop enforcing a $25,000 aggregate limit on how much individuals could spread among campaigns for state office. Thus while the Brophys are still limited in how much they can contribute to an individual candidate, they are free to contribute to as many candidates as they please.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the case, the Wyoming Liberty Group successfully pointed to a 2014 U.S. Supreme Court decision, <b>McCutcheon v. the Federal Election Commission,</b> that eliminated an aggregate limit on spending by individuals on candidates for federal government offices. In that case, the Supreme Court justices drew heavily on the Citizens United case for their ruling on McCutcheon v. the FEC.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Legal victory in hand, during the 2016 primaries the Brophys spent close to $75,000</b></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Of the top 20 ranked candidates on the Liberty Index, nearly every one who faced a primary challenger received a donation from the Brophys. There were two exceptions. One was Eric Barlow of House District 3 in Campbell and Converse Counties, who ranked number 20 on Liberty Index. The other was Tyler Lindholm, who handily won House District 1 in Crook and Weston counties with 70 percent of the votes.  </font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In Barlow’s case, the Brophys supported his opponent, Frank Eathorne, whose son was on the board of WyWatch, a now defunct ultra-conservative website that provided lawmaker rankings in the past, based on its own criteria.  </font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On such rankings the question of adherence to the party platform, several Republican legislators told WyoFile, was interpreted through an extremely conservative lens.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">However, for those seeking to shift the makeup of the Republican party, lists such as the Wyoming Liberty Index appeared to affect funding choices in the primaries. While there’s no way to know how wealthy donors like the Brophys made their choices, incumbent legislators who scored highly on the Liberty Index received their donations, while legislators who had scored poorly faced opponents suddenly flush with cash.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Selected Republican races</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 153);">Rep. Rosie Berger (R, HD 51, Big Horn) who had served 14 years in the Legislature and was considered likely to be the Speaker of the Wyoming House in 2017, found herself in one such race. Her opponent, Bo Biteman, received $2,900 in cash from the Brophys. Daniel Brophy also paid for Biteman to set up his website, according to pre-primary campaign filings.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 153);">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 153);">The primary was an expensive one, and Rep. Berger outspent her challenger, topping all other candidates’ primary expenditures across the state. She spent more than $32,000, while Biteman spent $10,300. <b>Berger lost by 300 votes.</b></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During the campaign, anonymous mailings circulated that attacked Berger’s voting record on select conservative issues. She has said the attacks were misconstrued, and took votes out of context to paint her as deviant from Republican principles.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This typed handout was distributed without attribution during the Bo Biteman v. Rep. Rosie Berger primary race in House District 51. It took a simplistic view of Berger’s voting record to paint her as straying from Conservative values.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One line said Berger voted for “Discrimination Against Women’s Privacy: Allowing Transgenders to Use Restrooms, Lockers, & Showers of Choice.” The bill in question dealt with anti-discrimination in the workplace and in public facilities.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“All persons of good deportment are entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of all accommodations, advantages, facilities and privileges of all places or agencies which are public in nature,” read one line of the bill. It was the only line which came close to mentioning anything regarding use of restrooms, lockers or showers.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Supporting a bill because the name sounds good or because it has a few nice concepts is easy,”  Berger wrote in a counter to the mailing. “Reading bills, doing your homework and spotting unintended consequences is hard.”</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rep. Berger responded to WyoFile’s questions for this story with the following statement:</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Over the past couple of years, I think Wyoming has definitely seen an uptick in the number of interest groups exerting influence in both policy discussions and elections. This includes both groups led by out-of-state interests, and those that have grown and gained legitimacy by active — and very vocal — Wyoming leaders.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rep. Rosie Berger, House District 51</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Making direct donations, as well as funneling money to particular candidates by asking supporters to donate to them, is one piece of the puzzle, but there are other factors that make them a force in the Wyoming political landscape. It’s how they target particular legislators to go after; how they seek out, groom and guide the candidates they choose to back; it’s how they communicate to voters and often provide misleading information on legislators and particular votes. It’s the inflammatory tone. It’s the litmus testing of candidates on single, complicated issues. All of this contributes to a perfect storm come election time.”</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Berger’s narrow defeat at the polls was probably indicative of more than just alleged dishonest mailings or targeted donations. In the era of Donald Trump, widely popular in Wyoming according to a recent University of Wyoming poll, Berger as a veteran lawmaker was part of the political establishment being derided in both statewide and national rhetoric.</b></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rep. Mark Kinner, (R, HD 29, Sheridan) faced a challenge from Steven Cain, a restaurant and gun-shop owner who registered as a candidate a week before the deadline and used attacks on Kinner’s voting record similar to Biteman’s mailings. On the Liberty Group Index Berger and Kinner were ranked 35th and 45th, respectively, out of the 60 representatives in the House.  </font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">WyoFile </font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Like Biteman, Steven Cain received the maximum donations from Dan Brophy and his wife. So too did incumbents Rep. Tom Reeder (R, HD-58, Casper) and Rep. Mark Jennings (R, HD-30, Sheridan) ranked third and tenth on the Liberty Index, respectively. Reeder lost by thirteen votes to businessman Patrick Sweeney, whose campaign was almost entirely self funded, while Jennings won his race.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cain, Biteman, Jennings and Reeder all received money from the Brophys. Other notable donors to their campaigns included Sheridan area ranchers William and Theresa Doenz. In addition to a $1,500 donation by her husband, Theresa Doenz paid $772.50 for campaign fliers and a staffer to support Biteman’s campaign.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In his first primary campaign, in 2014, Jennings was the beneficiary of fliers attacking his opponent, Kathy Coleman, that were paid for by a nonprofit called Republic Free Choice. That primary was pointed to by several legislators as the predecessor to this year’s races. Like the Wyoming Liberty Group, Republic Free Choice was founded by libertarian Susan Gore, the heiress to wealth derived from the inventing of Gore-Tex fabric, as has been laid out in previous WyoFile reporting.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Wyoming Liberty Group has a tax structure that does not allow it to participate in political campaigns. But Republic Free Choice was set up as a “social welfare” organization, using language that Citizens United allows it to participate in campaigns. Registered as a nonprofit 501(c)(4) organization, Republic Free Choice dealt in what has been called “dark money,” by funding campaign mailings without disclosing where the money came from.  </font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the 2016 primary, as in past elections, Gore herself donated relatively small amounts of money, including $400 to Bo Biteman. Republic Free Choice had been rolled back into the Wyoming Liberty Group before 2016, and does not appear to have been active during the primaries.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Charles Curley, a computer programmer who is active in the state Republican Party, formerly worked with the Wyoming Liberty Group. (Courtesy Wyoming Liberty Group)</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That many within the Republican party are not happy with the direction wealthy libertarian donors hope to push it became clear after the primaries were over. Two members of the Republican party — Charles Curley, then an employee of the Liberty Group and a former analyst for Republic Free Choice, and Doug Gerard, a Gillette-based software engineer — combined several previous Liberty-Index-like rankings into a master list. Curley then emailed the rankings to all Republican legislators, taking care to note the list was a project he and Gerard completed as volunteers, and was connected with neither his role with Wyoming Liberty Group or his position as 2016 secretary of the Republican party.  </font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The reaction within the party was swift, with chairman Matt Micheli sending an email to reassure legislators that Curley and Gerard’s rankings had no association with the Republican Party itself. The ranking had no effect on the party’s official funding distribution process, which is largely for the general election, Micheli wrote: “There was no purity test of rankings in that process.”</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Casper Star-Tribune reported that Curley has left the Liberty Group, and that for now the organization has discontinued the Liberty Index. In a wide-ranging interview with the paper, the new CEO of the Liberty Group, Jonathan Downing, said the organization also is trying to recast its public image. Downing has long worked in Wyoming GOP circles, including as a staffer for both U.S. Sen. Mike Enzi and Gov. Jim Geringer, and he also worked for Democratic Gov. Dave Freudenthal.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Funding the groundwork of libertarian thought</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gore and Brophy aren’t the only wealthy libertarians interested in Wyoming’s Legislature. There is also E. Davison Massey. A Chicago resident, Massey and his wife Rebeca also donated the maximum amount to Cain, Biteman, Jennings and Reeder.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One set of Massey donations, to Mark Jennings, comes from Jackson Hole. The rest come from Winnetka, Illinois, an affluent North-Shore suburb of Chicago, where the Masseys own a stately, white stone home with a tree-lined driveway. Like Brophy, Massey is a retired commodities trader and investor. Both men at one point worked at the Chicago Board of Trade, the United States’ largest venue in the commodities market.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Again like Brophy, Massey spreads money to libertarian candidates around the country. Federal filings show that between 2012 and 2014 he gave close to half a million dollars to libertarian or far-right conservative PACs. Newspaper reports from Tennessee in 2010 and New Hampshire in 2015 have linked Massey donations to PACs seeking to create more conservative state legislatures.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reached by phone, Massey declined to speak with WyoFile about why he is involved in Wyoming political races, and how he picks his candidates. “There’s no reason to discuss such things,” he said.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For his part, Daniel Brophy’s Wyoming home is in the Teton Pines subdivision, a gated enclave also home to former Vice President Dick Cheney. But the money he spends on politics reaches far beyond the state. His wealth is spread to a variety of political organizations, think tanks and educational institutions that further libertarian ideals across the country.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2015 he and his wife committed a $1 million donation to the Arizona State University’s Center for Political Thought and Leadership, which seeks to ground students in the roots of intellectual thought behind the Constitution’s founding fathers, free markets and political liberty.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“There’s growing recognition with people who have had a good education that students today are missing exposure to basic elements of the American experience,” Brophy said in a press release at the time.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He is also listed on the board of directors for the Arizona-based Goldwater Institute, a conservative think tank founded in the late ’80s to further the ideas of 1964 republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While in some races Brophy’s giving was matched by other donors, for other candidates he made up the great majority, giving them spending abilities they would not have had otherwise.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rep. Michael Von Flatern (R, S-24, Gillette) faced a challenge from Don Mathis, co-owner of the My Made in America Store in Gillette. Of Mathis’s $3,418 in expenditures, $2,900 came from Brophy and his wife.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Much of Von Flatern’s primary contributions came from traditional PACs, including several connected to the energy business. He is a former coal miner who has lived in Gillette since the 1970s.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The 12-year legislator said it was the most money he’d seen spent in a primary election, by both him and his opponent. Von Flatern said the campaign was free of negativity, and Mathis ran it “like a gentleman.”</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Von Flatern believes the House is getting increasingly tough to do business in, with a growing block of ultra-conservative voters who are mostly interested in hardline votes on social issues. It’s the kind of stuff that looks good on campaign literature, but meanwhile issues important to the state will be overshadowed, he said. Politics is the art of compromise, and newcomers looking to influence elections often aren’t interested in compromising, Von Flatern said.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Of the Brophys and other wealthy libertarian donors he said: “I think every one of them came from a different place, and they’re making a concerted effort to shape this state in their likeness.”</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tagged:Brophy, campaign finance, Citizens United, gore, Libertarian, Politics, Susan Gore, wealthy donors, wyoming liberty group, Wyoming politics</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Andrew Graham</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ANDREW GRAHAM</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Andrew Graham is reporting for WyoFile from Laramie. He covers state government, energy and the economy. Reach him at 443-848-8756 or at andrew@wyofile.com, follow him @AndrewGraham88 More by Andrew Graham</font></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><p data-words="27" style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-family: " tiempos="Tiempos" text="Text" regular="Regular" system="system" serif="serif" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" lining-nums="lining-nums" webkit-font-smoothing="webkit-font-smoothing" antialiased="antialiased" webkit-text-stroke="webkit-text-stroke" px="px" rgba="rgba" font-size="font-size" line-height="line-height" color="color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">cASPER, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming's leading libertarian think tank is suing the state for the right to campaign within a restricted speech buffer zone around polling centers.</font></p><p data-words="22" style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-family: " tiempos="Tiempos" text="Text" regular="Regular" system="system" serif="serif" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" lining-nums="lining-nums" webkit-font-smoothing="webkit-font-smoothing" antialiased="antialiased" webkit-text-stroke="webkit-text-stroke" px="px" rgba="rgba" font-size="font-size" line-height="line-height" color="color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The Wyoming Liberty Group</b> will sue state Secretary of State Ed Buchanan and several Laramie County officials, the Casper Star-Tribune reported Tuesday.</font></p><p data-words="42" style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-family: " tiempos="Tiempos" text="Text" regular="Regular" system="system" serif="serif" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" lining-nums="lining-nums" webkit-font-smoothing="webkit-font-smoothing" antialiased="antialiased" webkit-text-stroke="webkit-text-stroke" px="px" rgba="rgba" font-size="font-size" line-height="line-height" color="color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The state currently prohibits campaigning of any kind within 100 yards of a polling place and within 100 feet of absentee polling locations. The law is intended to prevent voter intimidation. Similar restrictions are in place in every state in the country.</font></p><div id="module_B_first" class="bc-recirculation bc-recirculation-b" style="" tiempos="Tiempos" text="Text" regular="Regular" system="system" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" webkit-text-stroke="webkit-text-stroke" rgba="rgba"><p data-words="37" style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-family: " tiempos="Tiempos" text="Text" regular="Regular" system="system" serif="serif" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" lining-nums="lining-nums" webkit-font-smoothing="webkit-font-smoothing" antialiased="antialiased" webkit-text-stroke="webkit-text-stroke" px="px" rgba="rgba" font-size="font-size" line-height="line-height" color="color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The lawsuit stems from a complaint filed by conservative activist John C. Frank,</b> who is suing so he can stand on the sidewalk outside his local polling site on election day in order to boost conservative causes.</font></p><p data-words="18" style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-family: " tiempos="Tiempos" text="Text" regular="Regular" system="system" serif="serif" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" lining-nums="lining-nums" webkit-font-smoothing="webkit-font-smoothing" antialiased="antialiased" webkit-text-stroke="webkit-text-stroke" px="px" rgba="rgba" font-size="font-size" line-height="line-height" color="color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Attorneys for the libertarian advocacy group argue that the size of the buffer zones unfairly restricts free speech.</font></p><p data-words="9" style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-family: " tiempos="Tiempos" text="Text" regular="Regular" system="system" serif="serif" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" lining-nums="lining-nums" webkit-font-smoothing="webkit-font-smoothing" antialiased="antialiased" webkit-text-stroke="webkit-text-stroke" px="px" rgba="rgba" font-size="font-size" line-height="line-height" color="color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A secretary of state spokesman, Will Dinneen, declined comment.</font></p><p data-words="38" style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-family: " tiempos="Tiempos" text="Text" regular="Regular" system="system" serif="serif" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" lining-nums="lining-nums" webkit-font-smoothing="webkit-font-smoothing" antialiased="antialiased" webkit-text-stroke="webkit-text-stroke" px="px" rgba="rgba" font-size="font-size" line-height="line-height" color="color" rgb="rgb"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The law was enforced in Wyoming as recently as 2018. That year, Republican gubernatorial candidate Foster Friess was asked to leave a polling center the day of his primary election after he was spotted campaigning near the entrance.</font></span></p></div><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></b></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></b></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Wyoming Liberty Group</b> is a state-based <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Think_tank" title="Think tank" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">think tank</a> and member of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/State_Policy_Network" title="State Policy Network" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">State Policy Network</a> (SPN). According to its website, the Wyoming Liberty Group "provide[s] a venue for understanding public issues in light of constitutional principles and governmental accountability."<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wyoming_Liberty_Group#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[1]</a>  http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wyoming_Liberty_Group</sup></font></p>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wyoming_Liberty_Group#Ties_to_the_Franklin_Center_for_Government_and_Public_Integrity" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Ties to the Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity</span></a>

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<li class="toclevel-2" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wyoming_Liberty_Group#Franklin_Center_Funding" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">1.1</span> <span class="toctext">Franklin Center Funding</span></font></a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wyoming_Liberty_Group#Personnel" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Personnel</span></a>

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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wyoming_Liberty_Group#Staff" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span> <span class="toctext">Staff</span></font></a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wyoming_Liberty_Group#Core_Financials" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Core Financials</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wyoming_Liberty_Group#Contact_Information" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Contact Information</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wyoming_Liberty_Group#Articles_and_Resources" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Articles and Resources</span></a>

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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wyoming_Liberty_Group#Related_SourceWatch_Articles" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">5.1</span> <span class="toctext">Related SourceWatch Articles</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wyoming_Liberty_Group#Related_PRWatch_Articles" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">5.2</span> <span class="toctext">Related PRWatch Articles</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wyoming_Liberty_Group#External_Resources" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">5.3</span> <span class="toctext">External Resources</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wyoming_Liberty_Group#References" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">5.4</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></font></a></li>

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<p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Wyoming Liberty Group has hosted writers from the ALEC-connected <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; background-image: none;">Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity</a>, which screens potential reporters on their “free market” views as part of the job application process.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wyoming_Liberty_Group#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[2]</a></sup> The Franklin Center funds reporters in over 40 states.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wyoming_Liberty_Group#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[3]</a></sup> Despite their non-partisan description, many of the websites funded by the Franklin Center have received criticism for their conservative bias.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wyoming_Liberty_Group#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[4]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wyoming_Liberty_Group#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[5]</a></sup> On its website, the Franklin Center claims it "provides 10 percent of all daily reporting from state capitals nationwide."<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wyoming_Liberty_Group#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[6]</a></sup></font></p>

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<p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">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 fro<b>m <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/DonorsTrust" title="DonorsTrust" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">DonorsTrust</a>, a spin-off of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Philanthropy_Roundtable" title="Philanthropy Roundtable" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Philanthropy Roundtable</a></b> 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).<sup id="cite_ref-Abowd_7-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wyoming_Liberty_Group#cite_note-Abowd-7" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[7]</a></sup> <i>Mother Jones</i> called DonorsTrust "the dark-money ATM of the conservative movement" in a February 2013 article.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wyoming_Liberty_Group#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[8]</a></sup> Franklin received DonorTrust's second-largest donation in 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-Abowd_7-1" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wyoming_Liberty_Group#cite_note-Abowd-7" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[7]</a></sup></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">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; background-image: none;">Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wyoming_Liberty_Group#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[9]</a></sup> a conservative grant-making organization.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wyoming_Liberty_Group#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[10]</a></sup></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">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; background-image: none;">Sam Adams Alliance</a> (SAM),<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wyoming_Liberty_Group#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[11]</a></sup> 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; background-image: none;">State Policy Network</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wyoming_Liberty_Group#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[12]</a></sup> which is partially funded by The Claude R. Lambe Foundation.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wyoming_Liberty_Group#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[13]</a></sup> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Charles_Koch" title="Charles Koch" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Charles Koch</a>, one of the billionaire brothers who co-own Koch Industries, sits on the board of this foundation.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wyoming_Liberty_Group#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[14]</a></sup> SAM also receives funding from the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Rodney_Fund" title="Rodney Fund" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Rodney Fund</a>.</font></p>

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<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; line-height: 19.2px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Staff"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Staff</font></span></h3>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Susan Gore, founder</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Regina Meena</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Benjamin Barr</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Stephen Klein, staff attorney and research counsel</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sven Larson</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Marueen Bader</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Keith Phucas, investigative reporter</font></li>

</ul>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Total Revenue: $1,043,750</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Total Expenses: $978,058</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Net Assets: $12,783</font></li>

</ul>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Total Revenue: $1,253,526.00</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Total Expenses: $1,265,513.00</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Net Assets: -$52,909.00</font></li>

</ul>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Total Revenue: $1,733,133.00</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Total Expenses: $789,044.00</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Net Assets: -$40,922.00</font></li>

</ul>

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<p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1902 Thomes Ave., Suite 201

Cheyenne, WY 82001

Phone: (307) 632-7020

Fax: (307) 632-7024</font></p>

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<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; line-height: 19.2px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Related_SourceWatch_Articles"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Related SourceWatch Articles</font></span></h3>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/State_Policy_Network" title="State Policy Network" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">State Policy Network</a>:

</font><ul style=" line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);">

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Portal:State_Policy_Network" title="Portal:State Policy Network" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">SPN Portal</font></a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/SPN_Political_Activity" title="SPN Political Activity" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">SPN Political Activity</font></a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/SPN_Funding" title="SPN Funding" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">SPN Funding</a>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/SPN_2011_Funding" title="SPN 2011 Funding" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">SPN 2011 Funding</font></a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/SPN_2010_Funding" title="SPN 2010 Funding" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">SPN 2010 Funding</font></a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/SPN_2009_Funding" title="SPN 2009 Funding" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: 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="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/SPN_Agenda" title="SPN Agenda" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">SPN Agenda</font></a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/SPN_Founders,History,and_Staff" title="SPN Founders, History, and Staff" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: 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="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/SPN_Members" title="SPN Members" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">SPN Members</font></a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Thomas_A._Roe" title="Thomas A. Roe" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Thomas A. Roe</font></a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Tracie_Sharp" title="Tracie Sharp" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Tracie Sharp</font></a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Byron_S._Lamm" title="Byron S. Lamm" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Byron S. Lamm</font></a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Roe_Foundation" title="Roe Foundation" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: 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="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Legislative_Exchange_Council" title="American Legislative Exchange Council" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">American Legislative Exchange Council</a> (ALEC)

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ALEC_Non-Profits" title="ALEC Non-Profits" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: 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="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/DonorsTrust" title="DonorsTrust" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">DonorsTrust</font></a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Donors_Capital_Fund" title="Donors Capital Fund" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Donors Capital Fund</font></a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Koch_Family_Foundations" title="Koch Family Foundations" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Koch Family Foundations</font></a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Koch_Industries" title="Koch Industries" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Koch Industries</font></a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><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; background-image: 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="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Heritage_Foundation" title="Heritage Foundation" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Heritage Foundation</font></a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Think_tanks" title="Think tanks" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Think tanks</font></a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Whitney_Ball" title="Whitney Ball" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Whitney Ball</font></a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Adam_Meyerson" title="Adam Meyerson" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Adam Meyerson</font></a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bridgett_Wagner" title="Bridgett Wagner" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Bridgett Wagner</font></a></li>

</ul>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sara Jerving, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2012/11/11878/alec-and-heartland-aim-crush-renewable-energy-standards-states" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">ALEC and Heartland Aim to Crush Renewable Energy Standards in the States</a>, <i>PRWatch.org</i>, November 27, 2012.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Connor Gibson, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2012/10/11819/meet-network-hiding-koch-money-donors-trust-and-donors-capital-fund" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Meet the Network Hiding the Koch Money: "Donors Trust" and "Donors Capital Fund"</a>, <i>PRWatch.org</i>, October 29, 2012.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Brendan Fischer, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2012/05/11490/koch-funded-mackinac-center-brings-wisconsin-act-10-provisions-alec" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Koch-Funded Mackinac Center Brings Wisconsin Act 10 Provisions to ALEC</a>, <i>PRWatch.org</i>, May 2, 2012.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sara Jerving, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2011/10/10971/franklin-center-right-wing-funds-state-news-source" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Franklin Center: Right-Wing Funds State News Source</a>, <i>PRWatch.org</i>, October 31, 2011.</font></li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i>DeSmog Blog</i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.desmogblog.com/2013/12/09/stink-tanks-historical-records-reveal-state-policy-network-created-alec" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Stink Tanks: Historical Records Reveal State Policy Network Was Created by ALEC</a>, December 9, 2013.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i>The Guardian</i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/05/state-conservative-groups-assault-education-health-tax" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">State conservative groups plan US-wide assault on education, health and tax</a>, December 5, 2013.</font></b></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i>Portland Press Herald</i>, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pressherald.com/news/Mainers-in-Washington-County-have-mixed-reactions-to-FreeME-plan-to-eliminate-taxes.html" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Washington County residents have mixed reactions to plan to eliminate taxes</a>," December 5, 2013.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i>The Texas Observer</i>, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.texasobserver.org/money-behind-fight-undermine-medicaid/" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">The Money Behind the Fight to Undermine Medicaid</a>," December 5, 2013.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Media Matters, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.mediamatters.org/research/2013/12/03/north-carolina-newspapers-largely-ignore-conser/197113" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">North Carolina Newspapers Largely Ignore Conservative Funding Of Sham Think Tanks</a>, December 3, 2013.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i>Shepherd Express</i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-22239-masters-of-manipulation.html" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Masters of Manipulation: Right-wing Billionaires, Corporations and the Bradley Foundation Pay for Junk Studies that Prop up Their Agenda</a>, November 27, 2013.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Moyers & Company," <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://billmoyers.com/2013/11/19/how-a-shadowy-network-of-corporate-front-groups-distorts-the-marketplace-of-ideas/" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">How a Shadowy Network of Corporate Front Groups Distorts the Marketplace of Ideas</a>, November 19, 2013.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i>MSNBC</i> "Rachel Maddow Show," <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://video.msnbc.msn.com/rachel-maddow/53595649#53595649" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">November 18, 2013</a>.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i>Free Speech TV</i> "Ring of Fire," <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ringoffireradio.com/2013/11/facebook-microsoft-att-others-supporting-right-wing-propaganda-machine/" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Facebook, Microsoft, AT&T and Others Supporting Right Wing Propaganda Machine</a>, November 18, 2013.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i>Topeka Capital-Journal</i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://cjonline.com/news/2013-11-16/trabert-dismisses-report-tying-kpi-koch-agenda" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Trabert dismisses report tying KPI to Koch agenda</a>, November 16, 2013.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i>The New Yorker</i> (Jane Mayer), <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: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Is IKEA the New Model for the Conservative Movement?</a>, November 15, 2013.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i>Salon</i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.salon.com/2013/11/15/ted_cruz_and_koch_brothers_embroiled_in_shadowy_tea_party_scheme/" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Ted Cruz and Koch brothers embroiled in shadowy Tea Party scheme</a>, November 15, 2013.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i>St. Louis Business Journal</i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/morning_call/2013/11/beyond-sinquefield-who-else-is.html" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Beyond Sinquefield: Who else is funding the Show-Me Institute?</a>, November 15, 2013.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i>The Guardian</i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/14/facebook-microsoft-rightwing-lobby-network-spn" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Facebook and Microsoft help fund rightwing lobby network, report finds</a>, November 14, 2013.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i>Huffington Post</i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/14/state-policy-network-kochs_n_4275899.html" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Meet The Little-Known Network Pushing Ideas For Kochs, ALEC</a>, November 14, 2013.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i>CBS St. Louis</i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2013/11/14/show-me-institutes-ties-questioned-in-new-report/" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Show-Me Institute’s Ties Questioned in New Report</a>, November 14, 2013.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i>Talking Points Memo</i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/florida-conservative-group-helping-muck-up-obamacare-in-alaska" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Florida Conservative Group Helping Muck Up Obamacare In Alaska</a>, November 14, 2013.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i>Mint Press News</i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.mintpressnews.com/reports-reveal-spns-secret-corporate-agenda-through-use-expert-testimony/172663/" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Reports Reveal SPN’s Secret Corporate Agenda Through Use ‘Expert’ Testimony</a>, November 14, 2013.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Media Matters, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/11/14/shadowy-right-wing-group-generates-media-covera/196906" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Shadowy Right-Wing Group Generates Media Coverage For Conservative Policy From Coast To Coast</a>, November 14, 2013.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Institute for Southern Studies, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.southernstudies.org/2013/11/are-conservative-think-tanks-breaking-lobbying-law.html" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Are conservative think tanks breaking lobbying laws?</a>, November 14, 2013.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i>Nonprofit Quarterly</i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nonprofitquarterly.org/policysocial-context/23239-corporate-money-in-network-of-right-wing-state-policy-think-tanks.html" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Corporate Money in Network of Right-Wing State Policy Think Tanks</a>, November 14, 2013.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i>The Progressive</i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.progressive.org/rightwing-think-tanks-push-privatization-in-the-states" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Right-Wing Think Tanks Push Privatization in the States</a>, November 13, 2013.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i>Politico</i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.politico.com/story/2013/11/koch-brothers-think-tank-report-99791.html?hp=l3" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Report: Think tanks tied to Kochs</a>, November 13, 2013.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i>Lawrence Journal-World</i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2013/nov/13/reports-released-progressive-groups-critical-kansa/" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Reports released by progressive groups are critical of Kansas Policy Institute</a>, November 13, 2013.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i>Maine Insights</i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://maineinsights.com/perma/report-maine-heritage-policy-centers-funding-connection-to-koch-brothers" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Report: Maine Heritage Policy Center’s funding connection to Koch Brothers</a>, November 13, 2013.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i>The Florida Current</i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thefloridacurrent.com/article.cfm?id=35282005" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Liberal groups bemoan lobbying by conservative think tanks</a>, November 13, 2013.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i>The Oregonian</i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.oregonlive.com/mapes/index.ssf/2013/11/cascade_policy_institute_benef.html" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Cascade Policy Institute benefits from secretive donor group but says it operates independently</a>, November 13, 2013.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Center for Media and Democracy, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.alecexposed.org/w/images/2/25/SPN_National_Report_FINAL.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">EXPOSED: The State Policy Network, The Powerful Right-Wing Network Helping to Hijack State Politics and Government</a>, organizational report, November 13, 2013.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Arizona Working Families and CMD, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.stinktanks.org/arizona" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">A Reporter’s Guide to the Goldwater Institute: What Citizens, Policymakers, and Reporters Should Know</a>, organizational report, updated November 13, 2013.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Progress Florida and CMD, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.stinktanks.org/florida" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Lawmaking Under the Influence of Very Special Interests: Understand the role of Florida ‘think tanks’ in driving a Koch-fueled, ALEC-allied corporate agenda</a>, organizational report, November 13, 2013.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Maine's Majority Education Fund, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.stinktanks.org/maine" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Fooling Maine: How national conservative groups infiltrated Maine politics by founding and funding the Maine Heritage Policy Center</a>, organizational report, November 13, 2013.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Progress Michigan, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.stinktanks.org/michigan" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Who's Running Michigan? The Far-Right Influence of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy</a>, organizational report, November 13, 2013.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Alliance for a Better Minnesota, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.stinktanks.org/minnesota" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Who's in Charge: How Nationalized Corporate-Run Think Tanks Influence Minnesota Politics</a>, organizational report, November 13, 2013.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Progress Missouri, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.stinktanks.org/missouri" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">What Missourians Need to Know About the Show-Me Institute</a>, organizational report, updated November 13, 2013.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Granite State Progress, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.stinktanks.org/new-hampshire" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Bad Bartlett: The Josiah Bartlett Center and NH Watchdog Answer the Call of the Koch Brothers</a>, organizational report, November 13, 2013.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ProgressOhio, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.stinktanks.org/ohio" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Smoke Screen: The Buckeye Institute</a>, organizational report, November 13, 2013.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Keystone Progress, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.stinktanks.org/pennsylvania" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Think tanks or corporate lobbyist propaganda mills?</a>, organizational report, November 13, 2013.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Progress Texas, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.stinktanks.org/texas" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">TPPF + ALEC</a>, organizational report, November 13, 2013.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One Wisconsin Now, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.stinktanks.org/wisconsin" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">S is for Shill: Inside the Bradley Foundation's Attack on Public Education</a>, organizational report, November 13, 2013.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i>Muncie Voice</i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://muncievoice.com/9357/glenda-ritz-pence-right-wing-are-taking-over-public-education/" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Pence and Right-Wing Are Taking Over Public Education</a>, November 13, 2013.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i>The Spokesman-Review</i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2013/nov/02/shawn-vestal-idaho-freedom-foundation-pushes/" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Shawn Vestal: Idaho Freedom Foundation pushes limits of word ‘charity’</a>, November 2, 2013.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i>AZ Central</i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.azcentral.com/insiders/ejmontini/2013/10/12/when-this-watchdog-pitches-taxpayers-lose/" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">When this ‘watchdog’ pitches, taxpayers strike out</a>, October 12, 2013.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i>IndyStar</i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.indystar.com/article/BY/20131010/NEWS0501/310100044/Daniels-says-speech-to-partisan-group-was-a-mistake?nclick_check=1" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Daniels says speech to partisan group was a mistake</a>, October 10, 2013.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i>Muncie Voice</i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://muncievoice.com/8962/indiana-policy-review-not-an-independent-news-source/" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Indiana Policy Review: Not an Independent News Source</a>, October 2, 2013.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i>The Spokesman-Review</i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2013/sep/15/idaho-freedom-foundations-charitable-status/" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Idaho Freedom Foundation's charitable status scrutinized</a>, September 15, 2013.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i>CounterSpin</i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://fair.org/counterspin-radio/tim-shorrock-on-north-korea-lee-fang-on-the-right-leans-in/" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Lee Fang on 'The Right Leans In'</a>, April 5, 2013.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i>FireDogLake</i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://my.firedoglake.com/cgibson/2013/04/04/state-policy-network/" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">State Policy Network, an umbrella coordinating ALEC, Heritage, Heartland and others</a>, April 4, 2013.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Thom Hartmann with Lee Fang on <i>MSNBC</i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thomhartmann.com/bigpicture/conservative-state-policy-network-sneaking-your-state-will-change-america" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">The conservative State Policy Network is sneaking into your state & will change America</a>, March 29, 2013.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i>Current TV</i> "War Room", <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXBQcrPx0aY" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Lee Fang discussing the State Policy Network</a>, March 28, 2013.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i>The Nation</i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thenation.com/article/173528/right-leans?page=full" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">The Right Leans In</a>, March 26, 2013.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i>Democracy Now</i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.democracynow.org/2013/2/19/donors_trust_little_known_group_helps" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Donors Trust: Little-Known Group Helps Wealthy Backers Fund Right-Wing Agenda in Secret</a>, February 19, 2013.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Paul Abowd, Center for Public Integrity, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/2013/02/14/12181/donors-use-charity-push-free-market-policies-states" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Donors use charity to push free-market policies in states</a>, <i>Consider the Source</i>, February 14, 2013.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">John R. Mashey, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/fake2.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Fake science, fakexperts, funny finances, free of tax 2</a>, <i>DeSmog Blog</i> report, updated October 23, 2012, p. 74.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i>Urban Milwaukee</i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://urbanmilwaukee.com/2012/10/11/murphy%E2%80%99s-law-stealth-conservatives/" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Stealth Conservatives</a>, October 11, 2012.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i>Rome News-Tribune</i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://romenews-tribune.com/view/full_story/20390910/article-ANALYSIS--Georgia-leaders-depend-on-the-same-well-for-ideas?instance=home_news_lead_story" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">ANALYSIS: Georgia leaders depend on the same well for ideas</a>, October 2012.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Andy Kroll, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/04/state-policy-network-union-bargaining" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">The Right-Wing Network Behind the War on Unions</a>, <i>Mother Jones</i>, April 25, 2011.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Guidestar, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.guidestar.org/ReportOrganization.aspx?ein=57-0952531" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">State Policy Network</a>, IRS filings and other organizational information about SPN.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Center for Policy Alternatives, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.alecwatch.org/cpabrochure.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">ALEC and the Extreme Right-Wing Agenda</a>, organizational brochure about ALEC and SPN.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">John J. Miller, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.heymiller.com/2009/09/fifty-flowers-bloom/" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Fifty Flowers Bloom: Conservative think tanks — mini–Heritage Foundations — at the state level</a>, <i>National Review</i>, November 19, 2007.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bridge Project, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://bridgeproject.com/?organization&id=275641&tab=grants" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">State Policy Network</a>, online resource listing grants to SPN and SPN's connections to other groups.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/People_for_the_American_Way" title="People for the American Way" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">People for the American Way</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/state-policy-network" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">State Policy Network</a>, <i>RightWingWatch.org</i>, organizational resource.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Greenpeace" title="Greenpeace" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Greenpeace</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/polluterwatch/koch-industries/state-policy-network-spn/" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Koch Industries Climate Denial Front Group: State Policy Network (SPN)</a>, organizational resource.</font></li>

</ul>

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<li id="cite_note-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wyoming_Liberty_Group#cite_ref-1" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Wyoming Liberty Group, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://wyliberty.org/about/who-we-are/" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Who We Are</a>, organizational website, accessed December 2012.</span></font></li>

<li id="cite_note-2" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wyoming_Liberty_Group#cite_ref-2" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Franklin Center, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://franklincenterhq.org/2376/think-tank-journalism-the-future-of-investigative-reporting/" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Franklin Affiliates in Your State</a>, organizational website, accessed October 2012.</span></font></li>

<li id="cite_note-3" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wyoming_Liberty_Group#cite_ref-3" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">The Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.franklincenterhq.org/2376/think-tank-journalism-the-future-of-investigative-reporting/" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Think tank Journalism: The Future of Investigative Journalism</a>, organizational website, accessed August 19, 2011.</span></font></li>

<li id="cite_note-4" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wyoming_Liberty_Group#cite_ref-4" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Rebekah Metzler, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pressherald.com/news/watchdog-website-puts-a-new-spin-on-politics_2010-10-02.html" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">"Watchdog" website puts a new spin on politics</a>, <i>The Portland Press Herald</i>, October 2, 2010.</span></font></li>

<li id="cite_note-5" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wyoming_Liberty_Group#cite_ref-5" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Allison Kilkenny, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.truth-out.org/koch-spider-web/1312231636" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">The Koch Spider Web</a>, <i>Truthout</i>, accessed August 19, 2011.</span></font></li>

<li id="cite_note-6" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wyoming_Liberty_Group#cite_ref-6" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Sara Jerving, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2011/10/10971/franklin-center-right-wing-funds-state-news-source" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Franklin Center: Right-Wing Funds State News Source</a>, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.prwatch.org/" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">PRWatch.org</a></i>, October 27, 2011.</span></font></li>

<li id="cite_note-Abowd-7" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup style=" line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wyoming_Liberty_Group#cite_ref-Abowd_7-0" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:</span>7.0</a></sup> <sup style=" line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wyoming_Liberty_Group#cite_ref-Abowd_7-1" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">7.1</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text">Paul Abowd, Center for Public Integrity, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/2013/02/14/12181/donors-use-charity-push-free-market-policies-states" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Donors use charity to push free-market policies in states</a>, organizational report, February 14, 2013.</span></font></li>

<li id="cite_note-8" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wyoming_Liberty_Group#cite_ref-8" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Andy Kroll, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/02/donors-trust-donor-capital-fund-dark-money-koch-bradley-devos" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Exposed: The Dark-Money ATM of the Conservative Movement</a>, <i>Mother Jones</i>, February 5, 2013.</span></font></li>

<li id="cite_note-9" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wyoming_Liberty_Group#cite_ref-9" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Daniel Bice, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/127259723.html" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Franklin Center boss wants apology from Democratic staffer</a>, <i>Milwaukee Journal Sentinel</i>, August 8, 2011.</span></font></li>

<li id="cite_note-10" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wyoming_Liberty_Group#cite_ref-10" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">The Bradley Foundation. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bradleyfdn.org/" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">The Bradley Foundation</a>. Organizational website. Accessed August 19, 2011.</span></font></li>

<li id="cite_note-11" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wyoming_Liberty_Group#cite_ref-11" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Sam Adams Alliance. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.samadamsalliance.org/media/5148/sam_adams_alliance_media_kit.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Sam Adams Alliance Media Kit</a>. Organizational PDF. Accessed August 19, 2011.</span></font></li>

<li id="cite_note-12" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wyoming_Liberty_Group#cite_ref-12" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Media Matters Action Network. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://mediamattersaction.org/transparency/organization/Sam_Adams_Alliance/funders" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Sam Adams Alliance</a>. Conservative Transparency. Accessed August 19, 2011.</span></font></li>

<li id="cite_note-13" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wyoming_Liberty_Group#cite_ref-13" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Media Matters Action Network. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://mediamattersaction.org/transparency/organization/State_Policy_Network/funders" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">State Policy Network</a>. Conservative Transparency. Accessed August 19, 2011.</span></font></li>

<li id="cite_note-14" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wyoming_Liberty_Group#cite_ref-14" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Media Matters Action Network. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://mediamattersaction.org/transparency/organization/Claude_R_Lambe_Charitable_Foundation" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation</a>. Conservative Transparency. Accessed August 19, 2011.</span></font></li>

<li id="cite_note-15" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wyoming_Liberty_Group#cite_ref-15" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Wyoming Liberty Group, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2011/262/828/2011-262828115-08a2385c-9.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">2011 IRS Form 990</a>, organizational tax filing, May 10, 2012.</span></font></li>

<li id="cite_note-16" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wyoming_Liberty_Group#cite_ref-16" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Wyoming Liberty Group, IRS form 990, 2010. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.guidestar.org/" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">GuideStar</a>.</span></font></li>

<li id="cite_note-17" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wyoming_Liberty_Group#cite_ref-17" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Wyoming Liberty Group, IRS form 990, 2009. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.guidestar.org/" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">GuideStar</a>.</span></font></li>

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