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Heritage Foundation sources say Mike Needham didn’t want Jim DeMint’s throne

By Philip Wegmann
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Heritage Foundation sources say Mike Needham didn’t want Jim DeMint’s throne

The Right and the Left have watched with a mix of horror and glee as the conservative Heritage Foundation cannibalizes itself. The spectacle has been characterized as a coup, a veritable political assassination of Heritage Foundation President Jim DeMint at the hands of Heritage Action CEO Michael Needham.

And while that makes for bloody and compelling theater, according to a person close to Heritage Action, it’s an incomplete picture of the conflict.

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