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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lazere has been running a leftist “Think Tank” for decades.  Sorry friend but being funded by radicals to champion go no place legislation isn’t real world experience.  Look at the papers on the DCFPI website.  Most we be a generous B- in an introductory college public policy course.  Goodwin has a real job with real experience.  Goodwin doesn’t accept participation trophies.

Want Statehood vote for Goodwin.

Want to be ignored vote for Lazere.  [/quote]

You seem to be confusing progressive think tanks with conservative ones.  (As usual, rightwingers project.)

It is conservative think tanks that are funded by billionaires with an agenda — there’s way more money on the right so progressive groups have to scrape. 
It is conservative think tanks that are filled with mediocrities boosted by the money.  Progressive think tankers— and I don’t know how to put this nicely— are WAY smarter than the AEI/Heritage crowd.  It’s no surprise— barely anyone in the country believes what the billionaires want to push so their pool of candidates is small.

DCFPI has been a bit against the Walton/DeVos money sluicing into charters, maybe that’s why you don’t like them?

Ed is smart and has excellent command of key issues. I like his vision around funding schools.
And he’s got a big network in the city.

(If you’re a Republican, sorry, you don’t get a voice in DC.  Your party has gone off the rails and the smart people that live in DC know it.)[/quote]

It is 'hot takes' like this that make people dismiss us. There is actually far more money on the progressive side of think tanks, it is just not as in the open and public focus.

Just look at the donors to these think tanks.

Anyway, here are the top ten:

Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs: Independent
Earth Institute: Centrist
Heritage Foundation: Conservative
Human Rights Watch: Liberal
Kaiser Family Foundation: Independent
Council on Foreign Relations: Independent
Brookings Institution: Progressive
Cato Institute: Libertarian
Ludwig von Mises Institute: Libertarian/Classical Liberal
American Enterprise Institute: Conservative

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