…fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a senior economic contributor at FreedomWorks, a board member of the Donors Capital Fund, a research director for President Ronald Reagan’s Commission on Privatization, and…
Wisconsin GOP’s Lame-Duck Power Grab Ruled Unconstitutional
…a coalition of plaintiffs, including three citizen’s groups, the League of Women Voters, Disability Rights Wisconsin, Black Leaders Organizing for Communities. It argues that three bills passed last December in…
Open Records Shed Light on Proposed Merger of Wisconsin Legislative Council and Legislative Reference BureauΒ
…records, but CMD prevailed in obtaining those records. Later a bill was introduced by Speaker Vos to make changes to the open records law to introduce Walker’s deliberative materials exemption…
Like a Breath of Fresh Air, Youth Climate Strikes Lift Off in 125 Countries
…within the state should be 100 percent carbon-free by 2050, creates a new office to administer clean energy research grants, and allocate $75 million in bonding to fund energy conservation…
Who Bankrolls Tucker Carlson’s Hateful Propaganda? Why the Kochs of Course.
Fox News’ Tucker Carlson is under fire this week for racist, sexist, and homophobic comments he made while chatting on “Bubba the Love Sponge” a shock jock radio show between…
Speaker Vos Proposes Merger of Non-Partisan Agencies, Will Open Records Get Lost in the Shuffle?
…under widespread protest. “The Legislature’s leaders have made it clear in the past that they would like to operate with greater secrecy, particularly when it comes to bill-drafting files and…
Koch and Bradley Groups Battle Medicaid Expansion Proposed by Gov. Tony Evers
…the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Research on the Wisconsin Economy (CROWE) claiming that expanding Medicaid in the state (BadgerCare) would…
DonorsTrust Bankrolled Right-Wing Judicial Appointments, Trump’s Acting AG, and Lobbying Front Groups in 2017
…institutional support.” DonorsTrust ensures that the money is not redirected by surviving family members in such a case. Scott Zimmerman helped with research for this report. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5744018-DonorsTrust-2017-990.html https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5744017-Donors-Capital-Fund-2017-990.html …
How Scott Walker Made Wisconsin the National Poster Child for Dark Money Corruption
…$750,000 to a dark money group in exchange for legislation that would retroactively block 173 severely lead-poisoned children from holding his company accountable,” testified Peter Earle, a Milwaukee attorney who…
Koch Kumbaya: The Billionaire Industrialists Appropriate Frederick Douglass, Pledge to “Do Right”
…have rankled the free marketers. The Kochs unveiled a new coalition of businesses, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Retail Federation, the National Restaurant Association, that agreed to…