Mergers of Legislative Council and Legislative Reference Bureau discussed behind closed doors.
Speaker Vos Proposes Merger of Non-Partisan Agencies, Will Open Records Get Lost in the Shuffle?
By ExposedByCMD Editors | at
Democracy
Koch and Bradley Groups Battle Medicaid Expansion Proposed by Gov. Tony Evers
By David Armiak | at
Bradley network lined up to attack Evers, back GOP in budget battles.
DonorsTrust Bankrolled Right-Wing Judicial Appointments, Trump’s Acting AG, and Lobbying Front Groups in 2017
By David Armiak | at
The Koch network’s favorite piggy bank DonorsTrust and its sister organization Donors Capital Fund doled out $114.2 million in grants in 2017.
Pro-Democracy Groups Denounce Trump’s Emergency Power Grab
By ExposedByCMD Editors | at
The Center for Media and Democracy and 24 other groups release statement calling Trump’s state of emergency “an attack on our democracy.”
How Scott Walker Made Wisconsin the National Poster Child for Dark Money Corruption
By Mary Bottari | at
The tale of Wisconsin’s lead poisoned children becomes “Exhibit A” in congressional hearing Thursday.
Koch Kumbaya: The Billionaire Industrialists Appropriate Frederick Douglass, Pledge to “Do Right”
By Mary Bottari | at
What are we to make of all the good news and talk of bipartisanship coming from the Koch camp?
Meet Scott Beightol: Anti-Worker Corporate Lawyer and Scott Walker’s Lame Duck Pick for UW Board of Regents
By Maxwell Abbott | at
Scott Beightol defends corporations accused of racial, gender, and age discrimination, and employers who want to deny workers medical and family leave.
Howard Buffett’s Border War
By Beau Hodai | at
A billionaire’s son is spending millions in Cochise County.
GOP Strips Rep. King of Posts, but ALEC Keeps White Supremacist State Chair
By David Armiak | at
Washington State Rep. Matt Shea keeps his leadership post in ALEC despite circulating a white nationalist manifesto calling for a violent Christian holy war.
Time for a Clean Sweep at the Capitol
By Mary Bottari | at
As Scott Walker scurries out the door, CMD recommends five anticorruption measures needed at the Wisconsin State Capitol.