Roughrider Policy Center
Roughrider Policy Center is a North Dakota think tank founded in 2018 with the stated goal "to promote and defend liberty and free enterprise in North Dakota".[1] It is an associate member of the State Policy Network (SPN).[1]
Issue Areas
Roughrider Policy Center's website breaks down its "issues" into four categories: "Education", "Energy", "Healthcare", and "Environment".[2]
- Education
RPC's educational priorities include: "improve literacy rates", "educational choice", "repeal the Blaine Amendment", and "civic literacy". This page on the website includes an embedded YouTube video from EdChoice, another SPN member, explaining school choice in a favorable way.[3]
- Energy
RPC's energy priorities include: "embrace entrepreneurial spirit", "rejecting taxpayer subsidies", "free-market choices", and "limited and consistent regulation". This page on the website includes an embedded YouTube video from Lignite Energy Council, a pro-coal lobbying group, which explains how lignite coal drives electric power plants. The page also contains recent news pieces in favor of fossil fuels and/or opposed to renewable energy.[4]
- Healthcare
RPC's healthcare priorities include: "price transparency", "charity care", "occupational licensing reform", and "telemedicine innovations". It advocates for "free-market solutions that increase patient options..."[5]
- Environment
RPC's environmental priorities include: "let markets work", "limited regulations", "neutral government policies", and "private sector innovation". The page devoted to environmental goals also contains recent news pieces in favor of fossil fuels and/or opposed to renewable energy.[6] One featured piece, written by RPC's co-founder & CEO Bette Grande, discussed the Green New Deal, commenting: "Conservatives can, and should, observe how progressive politicians work. They are patient, play for the long term, and carefully lay a foundation consistent with their long-term goals. They take small victories along the way, and, every so often, they go for the home run. With the Green New Deal, we are seeing the outline of the next home run."[7]
Staff
As of March 2020:[1]
- Bette Grande, co-founder & CEO
- Jacob Strinder, co-founder & chairman
Contact Information
Roughrider Policy Center
Website: https://www.roughriderpolicy.org/
Email: info@roughriderpolicy.org
Phone: (701) 354-3934
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RoughriderPolicyCenter/
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Roughrider Policy Center, About, think tank website, accessed March 31, 2020.
- ↑ Roughrider Policy Center, Programs, think tank website, accessed March 31, 2020.
- ↑ Roughrider Policy Center, Education, think tank website, accessed March 31, 2020.
- ↑ Roughrider Policy Center, Energy, think tank website, accessed March 31, 2020.
- ↑ Roughrider Policy Center, Healthcare, think tank website, accessed March 31, 2020.
- ↑ Roughrider Policy Center, Environment, think tank website, accessed March 31, 2020.
- ↑ Bette Grande, "Grande: What is the Green New Deal?", Fargo Forum, January 21, 2019, accessed March 31, 2020.
