Email Disclosure Prompts Call for Legislature to Come Clean About Mackinac Center’s Influence

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, March 21, 2012 Contact: David Holtz, (313) 300-4454 Emails showing political cover-up point to need for more transparency LANSING, MI—Progress Michigan called today on the state Legislature to release all emails and other communications between lawmakers and the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, including those of a lobbying nature, in light…

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Today, Americans for Prosperity (AFP), a right-wing, Koch Brothers-funded front group, kicked off what they called a “citizen education effort” to “turn up the grassroots heat on Senator [Debbie] Stabenow.” Unlike most “grassroots efforts,” they’re coming out the gates fully funded with half a million dollars.  Long ago, out-of-state special interest groups like AFP proved…