"Author:Scott Jensen." Jensen also authored a PowerPoint presentation on the MacIver Institute's web site.
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Jensen's authorship of the releases, Liebman points out, can be discovered by accessing a PDF copy of some of the organization's press releases online, right-clicking on them and observing the document's properties, e.g. The Institute has worked to distance itself from Jensen, to the point of denying he had any "formal role" with the group, and for good reason.Ĭory Liebman, who writes for the Eye on Wisconsin Web site, discovered that Jensen writes press releases for the MacIver Institute, even though his name doesn't appear on them. The MacIver Institute's staff contains a number of notorious former Wisconsin state public officials who got into legal trouble for political campaign violations and violations of the public trust.Ĭhief among those is the Republican former Wisconsin Assembly Speaker, Scott Jensen. In the last three years, the MacIver Institute has gotten at least $300,000 in funding from the Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, which advocates eliminating labor unions under the guise of "restoring worker rights" and "modernizing labor laws." Harry Bradley, after whom the Foundation is named, was one of the original charter members of the 1960s right-wing extremist group, the John Birch Society, along with another Birch Society board member, Fred Koch, the father of Koch Industries' billionaire brother-owners, Charles and David Koch. MacIver Institute for Public Policy, is a Wisconsin-based, free-market think tank formed in 2009 which also acts as a "news service," supplying videos and reports to media outlets, like newspapers and television broadcasters. The MacIver Institute, also known as the John K.
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