Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy

San Francisco, CA 94111

A conservative think tank that challenges environmental regulations, and was former Governor Pete Wilson's favored source of information regarding privatization and water rights.

ExxonSecrets.org
January 14, 2019

Profile of corporate giving to PRI by ExxonSecrets.org

http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=61

January 14, 2019

PRI at SourceWatch.org

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pacific_Research_Institute

Brad Friedman
Bradblog.com
January 12, 2006

Pacific Research Institute Carries Fresh Water for the Electronic Voting Machine Industry

http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002273.htm

Who is PRI? Are They the Latest Incarnation of the ACVR? And Just Who Do They Think They're Messing with by Attacking the Pro-Democracy Movement with Easily Discredited Info-ganda?

It looks like the Rightwing may have found a replacement for the American Center for Voting Rights (ACVR), the GOP front group set up to smokescreen against true election reform and transparent democracy...now, a West Coast "non-partisan" conservative think-tank called Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy (PRI) may be stepping in to fill at least part of the void in the person of TechNews World columnist and PRI Director of Technology Studies, Sonia Arrison. Arrison has been op/ed'ing and releasing "white papers" lately rallying against voter-verified paper ballots for electronic voting machines. Her reasons for being against transparent democracy are both bizarre and seem freshly pulled out of her hind quarters (or out of those of Diebold's).

Vicky Perry
Mid-Hudson Progressive Alliance
January 11, 2006

Think Tank writer pushes for the vendor's perspective

http://midhudsonalliance.com/node/427

A conservative ultra-free market think tank (PRI) is pushing its agenda that paperless voting is the way to go. Find out who these writers are and where their money comes from.

The Pacific Research Institute , a free-market think tank, has called the paper trail requirement one of California's top 10 policy blunders of 2005.

Tim Lambert
June 22, 2004

When Think Tanks Attack

http://timlambert.org/2004/06#tanks

Think tanks vs Open Source

The Alexis de Tocqueville Institute’s attack on Linux is just the latest in a series of attacks on Open Source by think tanks:

Sonia Arrison of PRI: Is the Penguin Contaminated?

After all, in scanning the online petition, one can’t help but be struck by the many comments such as “get your hands of my linux you damn, dirty, corpo-apes!!” and worse. These words suggest we can expect defiance, not cooperation, on serious issues like intellectual property from the open-source community, at least in the near future.

Also see:

Media Transparency
May 19, 1997

Conservative Philanthropy supported institutions involved in the attack on Open Source

* Competitive Enterprise Institute
* Washington Legal Foundation
* Defenders of Property Rights
* Pacific Research Institute
* Citizens for a Sound Economy
* Institute for Policy Innovation
* Alexis de Tocqueville Institute