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{{#badges: Climate change|Tobaccowiki|AEX|SPN}} The '''John Locke Foundation''' (JLF) is a right-wing pressure group based in North Carolina. It describes itself as "an independent, nonprofit [[think tank]] that would work for truth, for freedom, and for the future of North Carolina."<ref>John Locke Foundation, [http://www.johnlocke.org/about/ "About the John Locke Foundation"], accessed November 2007</ref> It is a member of the [[State Policy Network]] (SPN). An August 2013 board document of the related group the [[American Legislative Exchange Council]] (ALEC) alleges that JLF is a "former SPN member,"<ref name="ALECboard">American Legislative Exchange Council, [https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/841593/alec-docs.pdf ALEC 40th Anniversary Annual Meeting Board Meeting packet], organizational documents, August 6, 2013, released by ''The Guardian'' December 3, 2013.</ref> but the SPN website still lists it as a full member as of December 2013,<ref>State Policy Network, [http://www.spn.org/directory/stid.42/organizations.asp Directory: North Carolina], organizational website, accessed December 2013.</ref> and a July 2013 JLF fundraising proposal to [[Searle Freedom Trust]] was included in a packet of SPN proposals in August 2013.<ref>State Policy Network, [https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/842271-spn-budget-proposals-state-by-state.html Searle Tax and Budget Grant Proposals], organizational fundraising proposal packet, July 29, 2013, obtained and released by ''The Guardian'' December 5, 2013.</ref>

==Connections to Art Pope==