Contributors

Lance Dutson

Chief Executive Officer, The Maine Heritage Policy Center

In August 2011, Lance Dutson was named Chief Executive Officer of The Maine Heritage Policy Center.  Lance is a nationally recognized authority on the intersection between new media and politics.

Lance has been active in the public policy arena, both at the state and federal level.  He has served as online communications consultant for U.S. Senators Susan Collins of Maine and Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire.  He has also served as Communications Director for the Maine Republican Party, and most recently, Communications Director for Maine Speaker of the House Robert Nutting.  Lance has also been a key player in the growth of online media within the public policy sphere.  As founder of one of Maine’s earliest political blogs, Maine Web Report, Lance’s extensive work investigating improprieties within the Maine Office of Tourism resulted in the dismissal of that department’s director after 11 years in that position.

Lance has been featured on Fox News and New England Cable News, and has lectured on new media issues and politics at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, the University of Maine at Orono, and at Harvard Law School in Cambridge.

Lance and his wife, Janet, reside in Portland, Maine.  Together, Lance and Janet have three children: Sara, Ezra and Alexandra.

email: lance@mainepolicy.org

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J. Scott Moody

Chief Economis, The Maine Heritage Policy Center

J. Scott Moody serves as Chief Economist for MHPC. Scott has over 13 years as a public policy economist. He is the author, co-author and editor of over 140 studies and books. He has testified twice before the House Ways and Means Committee of the U.S. Congress as well as various state legislatures.

He has been invited to speak before various organizations such as the National Conference of State Legislatures and the American Legislative and Exchange Council. His work has appeared in Bloomberg, Forbes, CNN Money, State Tax Notes, The New York Post, Portland Press Herald, Bangor Daily News and others.

His professional experience includes positions as Senior Economist at The Tax Foundation and Senior Economist at The Heritage Foundation.

Scott received his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Wingate University (Wingate, N.C.). He received his Master of Arts in Economics from George Mason University (Fairfax, VA).

email: jsmoody@mainepolicy.org

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David Crocker

Director, Center for Constitutional Government, MHPC

David P. Crocker is Director of the Center for Constitutional Government. He’s practiced law for twenty-one years both as a US Attorney and British Solicitor and in his education and practice he’s seen a good deal of the world, conducting business in all manner of places, including Russia, the UK, Europe, Japan and South Korea.

His commitment to free markets and limited government has its genesis in late 1970s Britain, where as a graduate student David lived through that country’s economic stagnation and labor upheavals. Formally educated in theology and law, David’s intellectual and scholarly interests are wide-ranging, but chiefly center around history – classical, US, military, political – and especially the history of ideas. His personal blog Behind Blue Lines provides an outlet for his intellectual restlessness and has been quoted and linked to by the likes of the American Thinker, Jonah Goldberg and the Navy Times.

David is a graduate of Gordon College, Durham University (UK) and the University of Maine School of Law, where he earned his JD magna cum laude and was production editor of the Maine Law Review. He is admitted to practice before the state and federal courts in Maine and New Hampshire, the First US Circuit Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of England and Wales.

email: dcrocker@mainepolicy.org

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Sam Adolphsen

Director, Center for Open Government

Sam Adolphsen directs the Center for Open Government, a project of The Maine Heritage Policy Center. Sam graduated from Husson University in 2008, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and Management. He worked as a senior technology coordinator for Husson, and has served as a campaign manager to several candidates for the Maine State Senate. In his position at MHPC, Sam oversees Government Transparency and Accountability as well as manages MHPC’s website and technology related projects, including the MaineOpenGov.org website and MaineFreedomForum.com blog.

Sam lives in Augusta with his wife Kara.

email: sam@mainepolicy.org

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