Talk:Heartland Institute

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Ayn Rand

"Ayn Rand (who underwent surgery for lung cancer)" Hah! Can't believe I forgot that. Nebuchadnezzar (talk) 03:44, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

So I don't forget

I removed this, and will be re-adding it later, once I do some more copy editing:

These Heartland ethical lapses should come as no surprise to savvy observers, as the think tank has been steeped in corruption for decades. A school chum from the 1970s with founder Bast, Morris's troubles with the law began back in the Reagan era. A report in The Washington Post indicated that Morris, his then-wife, and the wife of the Attorney General of the U.S.,were involved in an travel ethics scandal in China that rocked official Washington.(Aides faulted for trip by Meese's Wife The Washington Post 25 August 1988)

Other papers covered the controversy, including the Los Angeles Times and New York Times, and the government was forced to change travel rules at DOJ to prevent further scandals. Morris was chased out of two think tanks in subsequent years in Chicago over ethics concerns.(Concern on Meese promits trip ban The New York Times 2 September 1988)(The Nation Los Angeles Times 25 August 1988)

To promote his alt-right agenda, Morris appears on WTTW/PBS Chicago, as a non-paid interviewee, though in the past he has falsely claimed in interviews and his own bio that he was paid staff for Chicago public media.(High Court Sides With Ex-Athletes in NCAA Compensation Case WTTW News 21 June 2021) Morris was investigated after his return to Chicago by the Attorney General of Illinois, when he relocated there to run for Cook County Board President -- he lost by a humiliating margin of 62-37 to John Stroger, who didn't even bother to campaign against Morris, a morbidly obese, pretentious dandy infamous for his 19th century bow ties and lingo laced with obscure Latin and Old French phrases. Financial improprieties (e.g. embezzlement) were alleged by Illinois AG Roland Burris over Morris's corrupt management of the Lincoln Legal Foundation, housed at Heartland, which was a right wing litigation and harassment op against Democratic policymakers that Morris and Bast promoted.(Mr. Right Chicago Reader 3 March 1994)

Slán. - Rairyu75 (Talk) 15:08, 24 December 2023 (UTC)