What's going on at Center of the American Experiment?

Posted at 9:17 AM on March 8, 2006 by Bob Collins (2 Comments)

Among those reportedly leaving are:

Jonathan Blake, Research Fellow
Ryan Griffin, Director of Development
Annette Meeks, President and CEO
Corey Miltimore, Director, Media Research Study
Chris Tiedeman, Director of Government Affairs and MinnesotaVotes.org
Randy Wanke, Communications Director

No updated news release appears on the Center's Web site, although one was issued.

According to MPR's Tim Pugmire. "A statement from Meeks said she was proud of many accomplishments during her tenure and looked forward to continuing to build the conservative movement in Minnesota.
The center's founder and president emeritus, Mitch Pearlstein, said the restructuring involves a change in subject matter. He declined to offer further explanation."

Six people get blown out becaue of a change in subject matter? To what?
By the way, MinnesotaVotes.org was a useful tool that Chris Tiedeman invented. A little kludgy, but useful nonetheless. The MPR version, which does not intend to track every bill, is also running.

Comments (2)

Given the endemic corruption in the Republican
BushCo Party, perhaps the smarter folks like Mr. Pearlstein are trying to avoid RICO indictments.

Imagine being the CEO of Center for the American
Experiment and discovering that Karl Rove has
subverted your organization for partisan political
maneuvering that included the subversion of religious organizations. And imagine that people were advised to make donations to religious organizations that were really political in nature, while being told they could take tax deductions for those donations.

Such a course of conduct would be beyond the realm of possibility, of course. But imagine if you were the responsible officer of such an entity, and you just happened to have pockets deep enough to attract the attention of someone who knew how to use the "private attorney general" statutes.

Hmmmm?

Posted by Dave Porter | March 9, 2006 1:15 AM

We think it may be because they're broke.

http://minvolved.com/?p=192

Posted by Mr. Sponge | March 9, 2006 6:40 PM

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