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[[Image:Art pope2.jpg|right|frame|Art Pope]]
'''Art Pope''' is chairman of Variety Wholesalers Inc., chairman of the board at the right-wing [[Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation]], chairman of the [[John William Pope Foundation]], president and treasurer at [[Fair Lines America]] Foundation, and board member of the [[Institute for Humane Studies]].<ref name="popebio">John William Pope Foundation, [https://jwpf.org/about/board-and-staff/art-pope/ Art Pope],''John William Pope Foundation,'' accessed February 2020.</ref> Previously, Pope served as a director of the right-wing Koch astroturf group [[Americans for Prosperity]], which organized the [[Tax Day Tea Party|Tax Day Tea Parties]] across the country, and which organized "town hall" opposition to health care reform in 2009. He was also a member of the board of directors of the [[John Locke Foundation]], the [[Atlas Economic Research Foundation]], and the [[North Carolina Retail Merchants Association]].<ref name="Bio">[http://www.americansforprosperity.org/about/directors "Art Pope"], Americans for Prosperity website, accessed September 2009.</ref>
An investigation by [http://southernstudies.org/ Facing South / Institute for Southern Studies] also found that Pope has close ties to the [[Koch Brothers]], as one of four national directors of the Koch-founded political advocacy group Americans for Prosperity. In addition, Pope is a director and board chair of a family foundation, the [[Pope Foundation]], which has steered millions to conservative thinks tanks in North Carolina and nationally that have worked closely with the Koch network to manufacture doubt about global warming, including his own [[John Locke Foundation]].<ref name=ss>Sue Sturgis, [http://www.southernstudies.org/2010/10/a-pope-of-climate-denial.html "A Pope of climate denial"] Facing South, October 26, 2010.</ref>