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<p style="margin: 1em 0px; font-family: " 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">=</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; font-family: " 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">open ltr usual suspects</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; font-family: " 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">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">---</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">cli wire https://www.eenews.net/articles/conservatives-urge-mccarthy-to-disband-climate-committee/</font></p><p georgia="Georgia" regular="Regular" font="font" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">conservative groups are pushing to end the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis if Republicans take control of the House next year.</font></b></p><p georgia="Georgia" regular="Regular" font="font" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a <a href="https://twitter.com/Mike_Palicz/status/1588610503978668032" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">letter to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.)</u></a>, 18 conservative organizations said there is “no need for a select committee on climate change.”</font></b></p><p georgia="Georgia" regular="Regular" font="font" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“With no ability to advance legislation to the House floor, the Select Committee historically serves as a soap box for tax and spend politicians to intimidate American energy companies, energize climate activists and stump for big-government policies that raise energy prices for consumers and weaken American energy independence,” they wrote <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The group includes Americans For Tax Reform President Grover Norquist, Myron Ebell of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, American Energy Alliance President Tom Pyle and Heartland Institute President James Taylor..</span>..The letter reflects an ongoing split in the party that could echo into next year in the likely event that McCarthy becomes speaker after Tuesday’s midterms.</font></p><p georgia="Georgia" regular="Regular" font="font" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While Pyle, Ebell and others have spent years advocating against climate policy and disputing mainstream climate science, elected Republicans have taken on a softer tone on the issue in recent years.</font></p><p georgia="Georgia" regular="Regular" font="font" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If Republicans do choose to revive the panel, it could serve as a platform for the party to discuss Biden administration energy policies and for Select Committee ranking member Garret Graves (R-La.) to amplify the party’s messaging. Graves has declined to say publicly whether the committee would return.</font></p><p georgia="Georgia" regular="Regular" font="font" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) created a predecessor to the panel when Democrats took the House in 2008, then formed the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis in 2019 after they came back to power. It has no legislative authority but has at times caused friction with other committee chairs.</font></p><p georgia="Georgia" regular="Regular" font="font" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The conservative groups argued the issue would be better served being addressed by the standing committees.</font></p><p georgia="Georgia" regular="Regular" font="font" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“We urge you to disband the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis and let the committees with appropriate jurisdiction and legislative ability take up the topic of climate change,” they wrote.</font></p><p georgia="Georgia" regular="Regular" font="font" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">---</font></p><p georgia="Georgia" regular="Regular" font="font" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">bette grande</font></p><p georgia="Georgia" regular="Regular" font="font" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><a href="https://twitter.com/Mike_Palicz/status/1588610503978668032/photo/1" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">https://twitter.com/Mike_Palicz/status/1588610503978668032/photo/1</a></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">sw</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Roughrider Policy Center</b> is a North Dakota think tank founded in 2018 with the stated goal "to promote and defend liberty and free enterprise in North Dakota".<sup id="cite_ref-rpcabt_1-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Roughrider_Policy_Center#cite_note-rpcabt-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup> It is an associate member of the <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=State_Policy_Network" title="State Policy Network" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">State Policy Network</a> (SPN).<sup id="cite_ref-rpcabt_1-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Roughrider_Policy_Center#cite_note-rpcabt-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Issue_Areas"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Issue Areas</font></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Roughrider Policy Center's website breaks down its "issues" into four categories: "Education", "Energy", "Healthcare", and "Environment".<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Roughrider_Policy_Center#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup></font></p><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%225%22 height=%2213%22%3E %3Ccircle cx=%222.5%22 cy=%229%22 r=%222.5%22 fill=%22%23222%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Education</b>
</font></li></ul><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">RPC's educational priorities include: "improve literacy rates", "educational choice", "repeal the Blaine Amendment", and "civic literacy". This page on the website includes an embedded YouTube video from <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=EdChoice" title="EdChoice" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">EdChoice</a>, another SPN member, explaining <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=School_choice" title="School choice" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">school choice</a> in a favorable way.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Roughrider_Policy_Center#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup></font></p><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%225%22 height=%2213%22%3E %3Ccircle cx=%222.5%22 cy=%229%22 r=%222.5%22 fill=%22%23222%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Energy</b>
</font></li></ul><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">RPC's energy priorities include: "embrace entrepreneurial spirit", "rejecting taxpayer subsidies", "free-market choices", and "limited and consistent regulation". This page on the website includes an embedded YouTube video from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.gem.wiki/Lignite_Energy_Council" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%2212%22 height=%2212%22%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 stroke=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M1.5 4.518h5.982V10.5H1.5z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M5.765 1H11v5.39L9.427 7.937l-1.31-1.31L5.393 9.35l-2.69-2.688 2.81-2.808L4.2 2.544z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 d=%22M9.995 2.004l.022 4.885L8.2 5.07 5.32 7.95 4.09 6.723l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); padding-right: 13px;">Lignite Energy Council</a>, a pro-coal lobbying group, which explains how lignite coal drives electric power plants. The page also contains recent news pieces in favor of fossil fuels and/or opposed to renewable energy.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Roughrider_Policy_Center#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a></sup></font></p><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%225%22 height=%2213%22%3E %3Ccircle cx=%222.5%22 cy=%229%22 r=%222.5%22 fill=%22%23222%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Healthcare</b>
</font></li></ul><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">RPC's healthcare priorities include: "price transparency", "charity care", "occupational licensing reform", and "telemedicine innovations". It advocates for "free-market solutions that increase patient options..."<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Roughrider_Policy_Center#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup></font></p><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%225%22 height=%2213%22%3E %3Ccircle cx=%222.5%22 cy=%229%22 r=%222.5%22 fill=%22%23222%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Environment</b>
</font></li></ul><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">RPC's environmental priorities include: "let markets work", "limited regulations", "neutral government policies", and "private sector innovation". The page devoted to environmental goals also contains recent news pieces in favor of fossil fuels and/or opposed to renewable energy.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Roughrider_Policy_Center#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup> One featured piece, written by RPC's co-founder & CEO Bette Grande, discussed the Green New Deal, commenting: "Conservatives can, and should, observe how progressive politicians work. They are patient, play for the long term, and carefully lay a foundation consistent with their long-term goals. They take small victories along the way, and, every so often, they go for the home run. With the Green New Deal, we are seeing the outline of the next home run."<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Roughrider_Policy_Center#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Staff"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Staff</font></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As of March 2020:<sup id="cite_ref-rpcabt_1-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Roughrider_Policy_Center#cite_note-rpcabt-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup></font></p><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%225%22 height=%2213%22%3E %3Ccircle cx=%222.5%22 cy=%229%22 r=%222.5%22 fill=%22%23222%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bette Grande, co-founder & CEO</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jacob Strinder, co-founder & chairman</font></li></ul><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Contact_Information"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Contact Information</font></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Roughrider Policy Center</b>
Website: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.roughriderpolicy.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%2212%22 height=%2212%22%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 stroke=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M1.5 4.518h5.982V10.5H1.5z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M5.765 1H11v5.39L9.427 7.937l-1.31-1.31L5.393 9.35l-2.69-2.688 2.81-2.808L4.2 2.544z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 d=%22M9.995 2.004l.022 4.885L8.2 5.07 5.32 7.95 4.09 6.723l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); padding-right: 13px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">https://www.roughriderpolicy.org/</a>
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Facebook: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.facebook.com/RoughriderPolicyCenter/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%2212%22 height=%2212%22%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 stroke=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M1.5 4.518h5.982V10.5H1.5z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M5.765 1H11v5.39L9.427 7.937l-1.31-1.31L5.393 9.35l-2.69-2.688 2.81-2.808L4.2 2.544z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 d=%22M9.995 2.004l.022 4.885L8.2 5.07 5.32 7.95 4.09 6.723l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); padding-right: 13px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">https://www.facebook.com/RoughriderPolicyCenter/</a></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; font-family: " 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">c3</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; font-family: " 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">evil but</font></p><div class="profile-main-content the-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 60px;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Roughrider Policy Center (RPC) is a public policy think tank that promotes free enterprise and individual liberty in North Dakota. RPC focuses its research and agenda on education, energy, healthcare, and environment. <span class="profile-referencesup" id="ref-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;"><a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/roughrider-policy-center/#note-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[1]</a></span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Roughrider Policy Center is an affiliate member of the <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/state-policy-network/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s;">State Policy Network</a>, a coalition of free-market state-level policy organizations. <span class="profile-referencesup" id="ref-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;"><a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/roughrider-policy-center/#note-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[2]</a></span> Though RPC is nonpartisan, some staff have affiliations with the Republican Party.</font></p><div class="profile-toc" id="profile-toc" style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; padding: 24px; border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); max-width: 400px; min-width: 225px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><h4 class="profile-tocheading" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 24px; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 1px; text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CONTENTS</font></h4><div class="profile-tocinner" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-type: none;"><li class="first" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.4em;"><a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/roughrider-policy-center/#activity" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700;">Activity</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.4em;"><a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/roughrider-policy-center/#financials" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700;">Financials</a></li><li class="last" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.4em;"><a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/roughrider-policy-center/#people" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700;">People</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/roughrider-policy-center/#references" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700;">References</a></li></ul></div></div><h2 id="activity" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 40px; margin-bottom: 24px; padding-bottom: 7.5px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(202, 202, 202);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Activity</font></h2><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Roughrider Policy Center is a non-partisan public policy think tank that promotes free enterprise and individual liberty in education, energy, healthcare, and environmental policy. <span class="profile-referencesup" id="ref-3" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;"><a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/roughrider-policy-center/#note-3" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[3]</a></span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">RPC’s educational priorities include educational choice, improving literacy rates, and civic literacy. In addition, RPC supports the repeal of the Blaine Amendment,<span class="profile-referencesup" id="ref-4" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;"><a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/roughrider-policy-center/#note-4" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[4]</a></span> which prevents government funding to schools with religious affiliations. <span class="profile-referencesup" id="ref-5" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;"><a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/roughrider-policy-center/#note-5" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[5]</a></span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">RPC promotes energy policies that offer free-market choices with limited regulation. RPC’s website features a video by the Coalition for a Secure Energy Future which promotes the use of coal-based electricity. <span class="profile-referencesup" id="ref-6" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;"><a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/roughrider-policy-center/#note-6" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[6]</a></span> RPC also claims that renewable energy is unreliable, the push to replace fossil fuels is not environmentally sound, and that the concern over high levels of carbon dioxide “is ridiculous.” <span class="profile-referencesup" id="ref-7" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;"><a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/roughrider-policy-center/#note-7" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[7]</a></span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In 2019, RPC was part of a coalition of free-market think tanks that signed a statement supporting the <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/government-agency/trump-administration/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s;">Trump Administration</a>’s Affordable Clean Energy rule as a replacement to the <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/government-agency/obama-administration/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s;">Obama Administration</a>’s Clean Power Plan. Other signers include the <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/independence-institute/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s;">Independence Institute</a>, the <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/mackinac-center-for-public-policy/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s;">Mackinac Center for Public Policy</a>, and the <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/john-locke-foundation/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s;">John Locke Foundatio</a></span><a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/john-locke-foundation/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s;">n</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. </span><span class="profile-referencesup" id="ref-8" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;"><a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/roughrider-policy-center/#note-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[8]</a></span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">RPC supports free-market environmental policies that include limited regulations that allow markets to work. RPC supports neutral government policies that allow for innovation in the private sector. <span class="profile-referencesup" id="ref-9" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;"><a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/roughrider-policy-center/#note-9" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[9]</a></span> RPC is critical of the <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/movement/green-new-deal/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s;">Green New Deal</a> and claims that it would give more power to the federal government and increase electricity costs for individuals and businesses, thereby increasing the overall costs of goods and services. <span class="profile-referencesup" id="ref-10" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;"><a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/roughrider-policy-center/#note-10" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[10]</a></span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">RPC advocates for a free-market based healthcare policy, which includes improving price transparency, reforming occupational licensing, and innovating telemedicine options. RPC also supports charity care, which would provide free healthcare to people with limited incomes. <span class="profile-referencesup" id="ref-11" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;"><a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/roughrider-policy-center/#note-11" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[11]</a></span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2019, RPC was part of a coalition of free-market think tanks that signed a letter opposing government-imposed price controls for healthcare. The letter claims that these price controls, often called rate setting or price fixing, would force providers to sell below market price and create a scarcity. <span class="profile-referencesup" id="ref-12" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;"><a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/roughrider-policy-center/#note-12" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[12]</a></span> Other groups in the coalition included <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/americans-for-prosperity/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s;">Americans for Prosperity</a>, the <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/competitive-enterprise-institute/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s;">Competitive Enterprise Institute</a>, and the <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/heartland-institute/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s;">Heartland Institute</a>. <span class="profile-referencesup" id="ref-13" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;"><a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/roughrider-policy-center/#note-13" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[13]</a></span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2019, RPC was part of a 60 group coalition, led by Americans for Tax Reform, that sent a letter to Congress urging them to vote against the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, labor legislation that would functionally repeal the <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/legislation/labor-management-relations-act-of-1947-taft-hartley-act/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s;">Taft-Hartley Act</a> to increase union coercive power. The coalition claims that the PRO Act would harm American workers by codifying rules that lead to higher unemployment, violate worker privacy, and overturn right-to-work laws, while supporting union bosses and their campaign contributors. Other members of the coalition include <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/heritage-action-for-america/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s;">Heritage Action for America</a>, the <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/thomas-jefferson-institute-for-public-policy/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s;">Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy</a>, and the Public Service Research Council. <span class="profile-referencesup" id="ref-14" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;"><a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/roughrider-policy-center/#note-14" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[14]</a></span></font></p><h2 id="financials" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 40px; margin-bottom: 24px; padding-bottom: 7.5px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(202, 202, 202);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Financials</font></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Roughrider Policy Center received its 501(c)(3) </b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">non-profit status in 2019 and as of December 2020 has only filed a form 990-N tax return, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">reporting receipts less than $25,000</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. </span><span class="profile-referencesup" id="ref-15" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;"><a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/roughrider-policy-center/#note-15" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[15]</a></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> RPC collects donations through its website.</span></font></p><h2 id="people" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 40px; margin-bottom: 24px; padding-bottom: 7.5px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(202, 202, 202);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">People</font></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Bette_Grande" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s;">Bette Grande</a> is the CEO and co-founder of Roughrider Policy Center and a research fellow at the <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/heartland-institute/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s;">Heartland Institute</a>. Grande formerly served as the energy division chair of the <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/american-legislative-exchange-council/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s;">American Legislative Exchange Council</a>’s Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">as a member of the energy committee at the Council of State Governments, and as a member of the National Conference of State Legislatures. Grande is a former Republican member of the North Dakota state House of Representatives and served as chair of the Employee Benefits Programs Committee and as a member of the Education and Environment Division of the House Appropriations Committee. </span><span class="profile-referencesup" id="ref-16" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;"><a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/roughrider-policy-center/#note-16" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[16]</a></span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jacob Strinden is the chair and co-founder of RPC. Strinden is the former executive director of the Minnesota College Republicans, a former intern for the North Dakota Republican Party, and former chair of the College Republicans at the University of Minnesota. <span class="profile-referencesup" id="ref-17" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;"><a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/roughrider-policy-center/#note-17" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[17]</a></span> Strinden’s grandfather, Earl Strinden (R), formerly served as the North Dakota House Majority Leader and his mother, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Michelle_Strinden" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s;">Michelle Strinden</a> (R), currently serves as a representative in the North Dakota House. <span class="profile-referencesup" id="ref-18" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;"><a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/roughrider-policy-center/#note-18" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[18]</a></span></font></p></div><div class="profile-section" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h4 class="content-box-subheading" id="references" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 12px; margin-bottom: 30px; border-top: 4px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding-top: 10px; display: flex;"><div class="content-box-subheadingtext" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-grow: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">References...</font></div></h4></div><p style="margin: 1em 0px; font-family: " 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">=</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; font-family: " 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">Here’s the full list of signatories:</font></p><ul style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" margin="margin" em="em" px="px" padding="padding"><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/thomas-pyle" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Tom Pyle</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/american-energy-alliance-aea" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">American Energy Alliance</a></font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bethany Marcum, <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Alaska_Policy_Forum" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Alaska Policy Forum</a></font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lisa Nelson, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/american-legislative-exchange-council" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"><span class="caps">ALEC</span> Action</a></font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Phil Kerpen, <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Commitment" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">American Commitment</a></font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rick Manning, <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Talk:Americans_for_Limited_Government" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Americans for Limited Government</a></font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">David T. Stevenson, <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Caesar_Rodney_Institute" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Caesar Rodney Institute</a></font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Andrew F. Quinlan, <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_for_Freedom_and_Prosperity" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Center for Freedom and Prosperity</a></font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jeffrey Mazzella, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/05/03/climate-denial-firm-trump-dakota-access-keystone-xl" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Center for Individual Freedom</a></font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/isaac-orr" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Isaac Orr</a>, <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_of_the_American_Experiment" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Center of the American Experiment</a></font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/mark-mathis" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Mark Mathis</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/clear-energy-alliance" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Clear Energy Alliance</a></font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">David McIntosh, Club for Growth</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/caleb-rossiter" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Caleb Rossiter</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/co2-coalition" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"><span class="caps">CO2</span> Coalition</a></font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Stephen Moore, Committee to Unleash Prosperity</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/myron-ebell" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Myron Ebell</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/competitive-enterprise-institute" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Competitive Enterprise Institute</a></font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Matthew Kandrach, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/consumer-action-strong-economy" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Consumer Action for a Strong Economy</a></font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/craig-richardson" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Craig Richardson</a>, <span class="caps">E&E</span> Legal</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Mandy Gunasekara, Energy 45 Fund</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Annette Meeks, Freedom Foundation of Minnesota</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jason Pye, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/freedomworks" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">FreedomWorks</a></font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">George Landrith, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/frontiers-freedom" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Frontiers of Freedom</a></font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/tim-huelskamp" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Tim Heulskamp</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">The Heartland Institute</a></font></li><li><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/heritage-foundation" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Tim Chapman, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">Heritage Action for America</span></font></a></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/amy-oliver-cooke" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Amy Oliver Cooke</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/independence-institute" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Independence Institute</a></font></li><li><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/MacIver_Institute" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Brett Healy, The John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy</font></a></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kory Swanson, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/john-locke-foundation" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">John Locke Foundation</a></font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Seton Motley, Less Government</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jason Hayes, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/mackinac-center-public-policy" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Mackinac Center for Public Policy</a></font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/harry-c-alford" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Harry C. Alford</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/national-black-chamber-commerce" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">National Black Chamber of Commerce</a></font></li><li><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Tax_Limitation_Committee" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Kirk Uhler, National Tax Limitation Committee</font></a></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wayne Winegarden,<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/pacific-research-institute" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"> Pacific Research Institute</a></font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Bette Grande, Roughrider Policy Center</b></font></li><li><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Taxpayers_Protection_Alliance" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">David Williams, Taxpayers Protection Alliance</font></a></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">John Tintera, Texas Alliance of Energy Producers</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kevin Roberts, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/texas-public-policy-foundation" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Texas Public Policy Foundation</a></font></li></ul><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">GRANDE</span> Co-Founder & CEO <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Bette</span> is a lifelong North Dakotan and <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Roughrider</span> <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Policy</span> <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Center's</span> first CEO. She is also a research fellow for energy and pension issues at The Heartland Institute. Prior to coming to Heartland, she served as a North Dakota state representative from 1996-2014,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> representing south Fargo in the 41st district.</span></font></span></div></div><div class="FTrf7TqAcfxxEQ_3nfUg" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: calc(var(--px-in-rem)11); margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="nYs5EPJFwdhisN0E7MCB mKWLtu516DBW3eJToPiv undefined AbEGLIJuTmsLLjCjXvCN" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 0; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative;"><ul class="b269SZlC2oyR13Fcc4Iy" style="margin: calc(var(--px-in-rem)-11) 0 0 calc(var(--px-in-rem)15); padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap;"><li id="sl-0" class="gyDT4qronqJu4BgQBq2F" style="margin: calc(var(--px-in-rem)11) 0 0 0; padding: 0 calc(var(--px-in-rem)45) 0 0; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; width: 300px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://www.roughriderpolicy.org/about" rel="noopener" target="self" class="f3uDrYrWF3Exrfp1m3Og" data-handled-by-react="true" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: var(--line-height-result-large-site-link-title); vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;" /></font><h3 class="EKtkFWMYpwzMKOYr0GYm LQVY1Jpkk8nyJ6HBWKAk" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: var(--line-height-result-large-site-link-title); vertical-align: top; display: inline-block; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: inherit; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://www.roughriderpolicy.org/about" rel="noopener" target="self" class="f3uDrYrWF3Exrfp1m3Og" data-handled-by-react="true" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: var(--line-height-result-large-site-link-title); vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.roughriderpolicy.org/about" rel="noopener" target="self" class="f3uDrYrWF3Exrfp1m3Og" data-handled-by-react="true" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: var(--line-height-result-large-site-link-title); vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.roughriderpolicy.org/about" rel="noopener" target="self" class="f3uDrYrWF3Exrfp1m3Og" data-handled-by-react="true" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: var(--line-height-result-large-site-link-title); vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.roughriderpolicy.org/about" rel="noopener" target="self" class="f3uDrYrWF3Exrfp1m3Og" data-handled-by-react="true" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: var(--line-height-result-large-site-link-title); vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">About</a></font></h3><p class="KoEJ3YBbjXKVOE1bc2RA" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: var(--line-height-result-large-site-link-snippet); vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="kY2IgmnCmOGjharHErah" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; -webkit-box-orient: vertical !important; display: -webkit-box !important; overflow: hidden !important; text-overflow: clip !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Roughrider Policy Center is North Dakota's Free-Market Think Tank - Founded to promote and defend liberty and free enterprise in North Dakota. ... Bette Grande is a lifelong North Dakotan and also serves as a research fellow for energy and pension issues at The Heartland Institute. She served as a North Dakota state representative from 1996 ...</font></span></p></li><li id="sl-1" class="gyDT4qronqJu4BgQBq2F" style="margin: calc(var(--px-in-rem)11) 0 0 0; padding: 0 calc(var(--px-in-rem)45) 0 0; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; width: 300px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://www.roughriderpolicy.org/contact" rel="noopener" target="self" class="f3uDrYrWF3Exrfp1m3Og" data-handled-by-react="true" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: var(--line-height-result-large-site-link-title); vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;" /></font><h3 class="EKtkFWMYpwzMKOYr0GYm LQVY1Jpkk8nyJ6HBWKAk" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: normal; 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padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="OgdwYG6KE2qthn9XQWFC" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: var(--line-height-result-snippet-main); vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Roughrider</span> <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Policy</span> <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Center</span> received its 501 (c) (3) non-profit status in 2019 and as of December 2020 has only filed a form 990-N tax return, reporting receipts less than $25,000. RPC collects donations through its website. People <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Bette</span> <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Grande</span> is the CEO and co-founder of <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Roughrider</span> <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Policy</span> <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Center</span> and a research fellow at the Heartland Institute.</font></span></div></div></article></div><div id="m3-0" class="module-slot" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 16px 0px 10px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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vertical-align: baseline; letter-spacing: var(--letter-spacing-result-title-main); position: relative;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Roughrider_Policy_Center" rel="noopener" target="self" class="eVNpHGjtxRBq_gLOfGDr LQNqh2U1kzYxREs65IJu" data-testid="result-title-a" data-handled-by-react="true" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; display: block;"><span class="EKtkFWMYpwzMKOYr0GYm LQVY1Jpkk8nyJ6HBWKAk" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: top; display: inline-block; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: inherit; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Roughrider Policy Center - SourceWatch</font></span></a></h2></div><div class="E2eLOJr8HctVnDOTM8fs" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="OgdwYG6KE2qthn9XQWFC" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: var(--line-height-result-snippet-main); vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Bette</span> <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; 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She is CEO of the <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Roughrider</span> <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Policy</span> <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Center</span>, an "innovation over regulation" think...</span></font></div></div></article></div><div class="nrn-react-div" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><article id="r1-5" data-handled-by-react="true" data-testid="result" data-nrn="result" class="yQDlj3B5DI5YO8c8Ulio CpkrTDP54mqzpuCSn1Fa SKlplDuh9FjtDprgoMxk" style="margin: 0px; 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Legislature from 1996 to 2014. She is CEO of the <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Roughrider</span> <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Policy</span> <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Center</span>, an "innovation over regulation" think tank. She is a wife, mom,...</span></font></div></div></article></div><div class="nrn-react-div" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><article id="r1-6" data-handled-by-react="true" data-testid="result" data-nrn="result" class="yQDlj3B5DI5YO8c8Ulio CpkrTDP54mqzpuCSn1Fa SKlplDuh9FjtDprgoMxk" style="margin: 0px; padding: calc(var(--px-in-rem)7.2) 10px; border: 1px solid transparent; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border-radius: var(--rounded-md); box-shadow: var(--theme-shadow-ui); cursor: pointer;"><div class="OQ_6vPwNhCeusNiEDcGp" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; 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padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="OgdwYG6KE2qthn9XQWFC" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: var(--line-height-result-snippet-main); vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There are 4 professionals named "<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Bette</span> <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Grande</span>", who use LinkedIn to exchange information, ideas, and opportunities. ... <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Roughrider</span> <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Policy</span> <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Center</span> University of North Dakota</font></span></div></div></article></div><div class="nrn-react-div" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; 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font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Mar 9, 2021</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Bette</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> B. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Grande</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> President & CEO </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">POLICY</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">CENTER</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> C</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">hairman Owens and members of the House Education committee</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, I am </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Bette</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Grande</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> the CEO of the </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Roughrider</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Policy</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Center</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. On behalf ofthe </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Roughrider</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Policy</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Center</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, I stand in support of </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">SB 2304. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We are facing a critical time in our Nation where</span></span></font></div></div></article></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">===</font></div>