Mackinac Center for Public Policy - SourceWatch

Mackinac Center for Public Policy - SourceWatch
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The Mackinac Center for Policy Research, founded in 1987, is the largest conservative state-level policy think tank in the nation. It was established by the state's leading conservative activists to promote conservative free market, pro-business policies. Reflected by its board of directors and …

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“The Mackinac Center for Public Policy has been in the news lately for filing very broad Freedom of Information Act requests for all emails and communications from professors who teach in labor relations programs at Michigan's major public... universities. The Mackinac Center is seeking copies of all emails that include such words and phrases as “Scott Walker,” “Wisconsin,” “Madison,” “Maddow,” (as in Rachel Maddow) and “any other emails dealing with the collective bargaining situation in Wisconsin” from January 1 to March 25, 2011. Who is the Mackinac Center, and what are they trying to accomplish with these current efforts against labor relations professors? What have you seen, and what have you read? Contribute the information to SourceWatch's article on the Mackinac Center for Public Policy If you would like to help in other ways, please take a look at some of our earlier citizen journalism projects here.”

Maddow Gets Radio Silence On Michigan FOIA Questions (VIDEO) | TPMDC

Maddow Gets Radio Silence On Michigan FOIA Questions (VIDEO) | TPMDC

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Rachel Maddow follows up TPM's Michigan FOIA story. Finds conservative think tank, donors unwilling to talk http://tpm.ly/eUw4VX ^@evanmc_s

"On last night's episode of her show, Maddow described the response she got from Mackinac and the donors that fund it when she asked about the FOIAs: nervous silence.

The Prince Foundation, which is owned by the parents of the founder of Blackwater, were particularly uninterested in discussing the story.

"The Prince Foundation did not so much say 'no' to us as they did say 'we have no idea what you are talking about,' and then they seemed very alarmed that we had called them," Maddow told viewers. "And then they hung up on us.""