Arsonists Target American Experiment Offices
The fires occurred around 2:00 am Sunday morning and were started outside the first-floor offices of American Experiment and TakeCharge.
The Golden Valley, Minnesota offices of Center of the American Experiment were targeted by arsonists last weekend, resulting in significant fire damage to the building.
American Experiment is often referred to as a "rightwing think tank," for its defense of the fossil-fuel industry, its criticism of misguided reliance on intermittent wind and solar, and other conservative causes.
Isaac Orr, Policy Fellow with the American Experiment, has been an expert guest on The Crude Life and KLXX SuperTalk 1270AM’s Talk of the Town several times, describing how the EPA's onslaught of anti-coal regulations threatens the reliability of the electric grid.
The fire is being investigated as a deliberate act of arson by the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office and the Hennepin County Fire Investigation team.
The offices of two other conservative organizations, the Upper Midwest Law Center (UMLC) and TakeCharge, were also targeted in the fire.
“The fires obviously were set by someone,” said John Hinderaker, president of Center of the American Experiment. “They targeted conservative organizations, they didn’t firebomb the chiropractors or psychologists or the Manufacturers Alliance. We are cooperating with the FBI to try to identify the perpetrators.”
The fires occurred around 2:00 am Sunday morning and were started outside the first-floor offices of American Experiment and TakeCharge, and in the third-floor offices of UMLC. The second floor has no visible fire damage. The three-story building houses a variety of small businesses in addition to the three conservative policy organizations.
American Experiment staff is currently working remotely while arrangements are made for alternate office space. Judging by the damage from the fire, it will take months to repair the building once the arson investigation is complete.
“This firebombing will not slow us down. American Experiment’s work for freedom is not dependent on a bricks-and-mortar location,” Hinderaker said. “In fact, we launched a new campaign today opposing (Minnesota) Gov. Walz’s new fuel standards that are more extreme, and more expensive, than even those of California, Oregon and Washington.”
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That’s a terrible shame. They do excellent work and we’re very sorry to hear that.