A liberal activist group appears to have plagiarized portions of a new report attacking a prominent free market group.
The report was one of a series focusing on the State Policy Network, an affiliation of state-level conservative think tanks. Progress Michigan focused on the Mackinac Center, an SPN-affiliated group in the state.
Passages from the report are nearly identical to portions of a 2011 Mother Jones piece on Mackinac.
Progress Michigan wrote:
Since 2005, the Mackinac Center has promoted changes to Michigan law giving more power and protection to emergency financial managers, state-appointed officials who take over cities or struggling school districts and have broad powers to fix budgets on the brink of collapse.
That passage is nearly identical to Mother Jones reporter Andy Kroll’s:
Since 2005, the Mackinac Center for Public Policy has urged reforms to Michigan law giving more power and protection to emergency financial managers, state-appointed officials who parachute into ailing cities or school districts and employ drastic measures to fix budgets on the brink of collapse.
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