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The Center's 2009 IRS 990 form lists Rudie Martinson as director and secretary, who formerly worked as the assistant state director for North Dakota's chapter of Koch's [[Americans for Prosperity]].<ref>Americans for Prosperity, [http://americansforprosperity.org/americans-prosperity-foundation-announces-free-market-essay-contest-north-dakota-high-school-student AFP Announces Free Market Essay Contest], organizational blog, accessed October 5, 2011.</ref>
===Ties to Coalition for American Values===
The [[Coalition for American Values]] (CAV) is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit whose only major activities have been spending $400,080 on ads supporting Wisconsin Governor [[Scott Walker]] in the final weeks of the 2012 recall elections. While the CAV did not disclose its funders at the time, tax filings later revealed that almost all of its funding in 2012 came from the Koch-tied [[Center to Protect Patient Rights]], run by Koch operative [[Sean Noble]].<ref name="koch network funded">Brendan Fischer, "[http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/01/12354/exclusive-koch-network-funded-ads-telling-voters-recall-not-wisconsin-way Exclusive: Ads Telling Voters 'Recall Is Not the Wisconsin Way' Funded by Out-of-State Koch Network]," Center for Media and Democracy's ''PRWatch.org'', January 8, 2014.</ref>
CAV's lawyer, James D. Skyles, was previously General Counsel and Director of Operations at the [[Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity]].<ref>Andy Kroll, "[http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/06/wisconsin-recall-coalition-american-values-scott-walker Could this Pro-Walker Dark-Money Group Torpedo Recall Turnout?]," ''Mother Jones'', June 5, 2012.</ref>
The CAV's federal PAC has also paid money to a consulting firm run by John Connors, a leader of operations at the Franklin Center, and president of the group "[[Citizens for a Strong America]]," which was also active in the Wisconsin recall elections and kept its donors hidden, while operating out of a UPS drop box.<ref name="koch network funded"/> <ref name="graves csa"/>
Additionally, as the Center for Media and Democracy reported,<ref>Brendan Fischer, [http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/12/12344/why-franklin-center-wisconsin-reporter-attacking-john-doe Why Are the Franklin Center's "Wisconsin Reporter" and "Watchdog.org" Attacking the John Doe?], ''PRWatch.org'', December 19, 2013.</ref> "[t]he 'treasurer' listed on Coalition for American Values' FEC filings and the contact on its filings with Wisconsin's election board is Brent Downs. In 2008, when Connors chaired the Marquette College Republicans, Downs was his treasurer. Both were both students at Marquette University at the same time, and Downs, like Connors, also chaired the Students for Prosperity chapter of [[David Koch]]'s [[Americans for Prosperity]] at Marquette University."
Connors' Citizens for a Strong America was entirely funded by Wisconsin Club for Growth and has been under investigation in the [[Scott Walker#Second John Doe Investigation, February 2012-Present|"John Doe" campaign finance investigation]]. The Franklin Center was founded in part by Koch operative [[Eric O'Keefe]], head of the [[Wisconsin Club for Growth]].
==Support for the American Legislative Exchange Council==
