Know the Facts Don’t be fooled by the Freedom Foundation.

AGAINST UNDER- ANTI- ANTI-LGBT GOVERNMENT MINES THE WOMEN’S PROTECTIONS MIDDLE CLASS RIGHTS

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Does this sound like an organization holding up Northwest values? Learn more at: www.seiu503.org/WhoAreThey What’s the Washington-based Freedom Foundation all about? anti-public services donors... The Freedom Foundation receives hundreds of thousands of dollars each year from extremist donors that promote pro-corporate, anti-worker, anti-LGBT, anti-environment policies.

State Policy Network: the national network of extremist “think tanks” funded by the Koch Brothers.

Searle Foundation, which funds similar groups like and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).

Donors Trust and , which MotherJones calls “the Dark-Money ATM of the conservative movement.”

Many more far-right groups, including the Roe Foundation, Jacqueline Hurne Foundation, and the FM Kirby Foundation.

Attacking Workers.

The Freedom Foundation...was doing what it does best—making life miserable for government employee unions. -Managing Editor Jeff Rhodes

“We have crossed the Columbia and we won’t be satisfied with anything less than total victory against the government union thugs.” -CEO Tom McCabe

Oregonians reject these divisive tactics from out-of-state attack groups. Shortly after the Freedom Foundation moved into , the Statesman Journal wrote, “decisions about the proper role of public- employee unions in Oregon should be made by Oregonians, not by interlopers from across the Columbia River...There is still time for the Freedom Foundation to close up shop in Salem and go home.” Not about freedom. Not about Oregon. www.seiu503.org/WhoAreThey