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{{#badges:SPN}}The '''Indiana Policy Review Foundation''' (IPR) is a right-wing pressure group that is an affiliate of the [[State Policy Network]] web of such groups in 48 states. IPR states as its mission "to marshall [''sic''] the best thought on governmental, economic and educational issues at the state and municipal levels" through exalting "the truths of the Declaration of Independence, especially as they apply to the interrelated freedoms of religion, property and speech," emphasizing "primacy of the individual in addressing public concerns," and recognizing "that equality of opportunity is sacrificed in pursuit of equality of results."<ref>[http://inpolicy.org/about-us/ "About Us"], organizational website, accessed November 2012</ref> IPR was co-founded by its board president, [[Byron S. Lamm]], in 1989.<ref>Guidestar.org, [http://www.guidestar.org/ReportOrganization.aspx?ein=35-1758480 Indiana Policy Review Foundation, Inc.], online charity profile, accessed September 2012.</ref> Vice President, Indiana Governor, former U.S. Representative, and former right-wing radio talk show host [[Mike Pence]] was its president from 1991 to 1994,<ref>[http://www.politico.com/arena/bio/mike_pence.html Mike Pence], ''Politico'' "Arena" biography, accessed November 2013.</ref> and claimed at a campaign event in 2012 that he had helped found it.<ref>[http://www.penceplan.com/background Background], ''The Pence Plan for Indiana'' website in opposition to Governor Pence, based on book ''Indiana Mandate: an Agenda for the 1990's'', accessed November 2013.</ref>
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In a speech to the [[Heritage Foundation]] in 2008, then-Representative Pence said, "I was part of, what we called the seed corn Heritage Foundation was spreading around the country in the state think tank movement. We actually called our little foundation in Indiana the Indiana Policy Review Foundation, very much as a homage to Policy Review Magazine of Heritage, and we modeled on the state level what Heritage had done before."<ref>Heritage Foundation, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRW3CeAuZ5Y Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) Discusses Conservative Principles], speech, November 17, 2008.</ref>
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