Alexandra Liddy Bourne
Alexandra Liddy Bourne and the Heartland Institute
Bourne is listed as Senior Fellow with the Heartland Institute, a Chicago-based free market think tank that attacks the scientific evidence for human-caused climate change. The Heartland Institute has received over $791,000 from oil-giant ExxonMobil since 1998.
The tobacco industry has also been a regular funder of the Heartland Institute, which has received at least $190,000 coming from Philip Morris since 1993. The Heartland Institute maintains a smoker's rights section on its website called "The Smoker's Lounge."
Liddy Bourne also serves as the Washington, DC media spokesperson for Heartland.
Alexandra Liddy Bourne and the American Legislative Exchange Council
Prior to working at Heartland, Liddy Bourne worked for the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) as the Director of Legislation and Policy.
ALEC is a DC-based freemarket think tank that describes its mission as "[advancing] the Jeffersonian principles of free markets, limited government, federalism and individual liberty among America's state legislators."
ALEC has received over $1.2 million from oil giant ExxonMobil.
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