What would have happened had prosecutors brought charges in 2011?
Scott Walker’s Legacy of Double-Dealing for Friends and Donors Revealed in New John Doe Emails
By Mary Bottari | at
Democracy
GOP Creates Perverse Online Voter Registration, Making It Harder for People to Vote
By Mary Bottari | at
The Wisconsin GOP held a public hearing today on three bills to welcome secret money in political campaigns, cripple ethics and election law enforcement, and make it harder to vote.
Four Ways ALEC Tried to Ruin Your State This Year
By Jessica Mason | at
This year, ALEC has continued to wreak havoc in states across the country despite an exodus of high-profile corporate members, including BP, Google, and several high-tech firms.
Who Is Behind the National Right to Work Committee and its Anti-Union Crusade?
By Jay Riestenberg and Mary Bottari | at
The Supreme Court is poised to decide is Harris v. Quinn, “the most important labor law case the court has considered in decades.”
Documents from Open Records Lawsuit Further Undermine Claims that ALEC Is Legislator-Driven
By Brendan Fischer | at
Newly-released ALEC documents obtained as part of CMD”s open records litigation provide more evidence that lobbyists and special interests are calling the shots within ALEC, undermining that group’s latest PR spin that it is a “legislator-driven” organization.
“Elections Confidential” Report Reveals Role of Dark Money Nonprofits and Shell Corporations in 2012
By Brendan Fischer | at
Nearly one-fifth of all business gifts to Super Pacs were contributed by shell corporations.