…a sophisticated, lavishly-funded, nationwide campaign bankrolled by billionaires, including Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner and the Koch Brothers. The Bradley Foundation has spent over $135 million to defund labor; Donors Trust/Donors…
‘Influence Watch’ Website Launched: Berman, ALEC, Heartland Copy CMD’s Sourcewatch.org Site
…CRC, Berman and Bradley have collaborated. CMD exposed in its Bradley Files investigation earlier this year how, in 2015, Bradley asked Berman’s front group the Interstate Policy Alliance and CRC…
GOP Tax Bill Will Trigger Fiscal Crisis, Conservative Group Warns
…State Policy Network (SPN) and has received millions in funding from the pro-Republican Bradley Foundation. The Manhattan Institute’s position echoes that of another SPN affiliate, the Illinois Policy Institute, which…
Koch Latino Front Group Instructs Arizona Moms About School Vouchers
…and a group of Bradley-funded groups like the Goldwater Institute and the Cato Institute weighed in. (The $900 million Milwaukee-based Bradley Foundation has spent hundreds of millions advancing private and…
Interstate Policy Alliance Members
The member organizations of Richard Berman’s Interstate Policy Alliance are not publicized. However, according to an Employment Policies Institute Grant Proposal Record dated November 10, 2015 in the Bradley files…
Cleaning Up the Courts, Citizen Hearings at Three Locations in Wisconsin
…motion to hold a public hearing on the issue. The most clueless comment came from Justice Rebecca Bradley “Every judge and justice in Wisconsin should be highly offended by this…
SCOTUS Prepares to Hear Case that Could Put an End to Hyper-Partisan Gerrymandering and One Party Rule
…Wisconsin Republicans and their allies, including Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce and the Bradley funded legal team at the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty. In general, these briefs cherry pick…
Bradley Foundation Funnels Millions to State Policy Network Groups
…Bradley funded “weaponized philanthropy” modeled on the “Wisconsin Network” here. Bradley funded attacks on unions nationwide here. Bradley funded “opposition research” and attacks on working families here. Bradley’s attacks on…
State Policy Network Attacks Public Sector Workers as Waters Rise in Texas
…corporate legislation. Another panel “Labor Reform—What’s Next?” features Tom McCabe of SPN’s Freedom Foundation. CMD wrote about the Bradley Foundation’s $1.5 million grant to the Freedom Foundation’s to “defund Big…
Betsy DeVos and Issue of College Sexual Assault Take Center Stage at ALEC in Denver
…(FIRE). FIRE receives funding from the Bradley Foundation, the Charles G. Koch Foundation and other extreme ideological groups. ALEC is also discussing another measure, which establishes the right for victims…