Another conservative advocacy group is setting up shop in North Carolina.
Heritage Action for America, a Washington-based 501(c)(4) organization has opened its first state operations in the country in North Carolina and Pennsylvania to engage in grassroots lobbying.
It has hired Jessica Anderson, the outreach coordinator for the Civitas Institute, to be its first state director here.
The new group is a sister organization of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank that has been around for decades. Heritage Action is designed to be the advocacy arm of the Foundation.
Although setting up an operation in North Carolina, the new group is apparently aimed at influencing policy in Washington.
“Heritage Action will ensure that lawmakers in Washington represent North Carolinians, and all Americans, not special interests,” said Michael Needham, Heritage Action's CEO.
Heritage Action is now pushing for repeal of the health care overhaul passed by Congress last year.
Needham praised Anderson's “deep roots” in North Carolina politics. She has worked for the Civitas Institute since 2009 and prior to that was with the Koch Associates Program at the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation for a year.
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“Heritage Action will
January 10, 2011 - 3:25pm — KPeddi“Heritage Action will ensure that lawmakers in Washington represent North Carolinians, and all Americans, not special interests,” said Michael Needham, Heritage Action's CEO.
Mike, I think you have that backwards...