…look to Scott as their outside general counsel to ensure legal compliance of their operations and initiatives.” In practice, handling “people issues” means that Beightol has helped companies and chambers…
Corporate Front Group, American Council on Science and Health, Smears List of Its Enemies as “Deniers for Hire”
…it as a compliment to those of us who expose industry hacks posing as independent experts that industry shills are attempting to mimic good opposition research in an attempt to…
ALEC’s New Union-Busting Toolkit Illustrates the Goal Is to Bankrupt Unions Not Protect Workers
…Union Legislative Toolkit” marked “draft” and dated August 2018, is authored by ALEC’s Commerce, Insurance and Economic Development Task Force along with anti-union zealot “Vinnie” Vernuccio of Michigan’s Mackinac Center….
Time for a Clean Sweep at the Capitol
…called the Wisconsin Economic Development Authority (WEDC). Days after Walker took office in 2011, he introduced a bill creating the “public-private” development agency. From the get-go the privatized agency was…
ALEC Union Busting Proposal Defeated in Michigan Lame Duck
…a secret union-busting “toolkit” created by SPN, uncovered by CMD researchers and published in the Guardian in 2017. In secret fundraising materials, SPN made its intentions clear; it pledged to…
Truckers Run Over Railroads at ALEC
…a resolution backed by corporate members UPS and FedEx encouraging Congress to allow twin (double) 33-foot trailers on the road. UPS’s Frank Morris is the “Private Chair” of the Commerce,…
Dispatches from COP 24 Climate Change Summit in Poland
…programs to destroy the crops and livestock. Began programs to drive ultimately millions of people into what amounted to concentration camps and urban slums. No protest, no comment. Barely reported….
ALEC Embraces Trumpism, Climate Catastrophe, and School Privatization at Policy Summit
…of State Carbon Dioxide Pipeline Corridors to promote the development of infrastructure to move CO2. CO2 is used by fossil fuel companies to extract crude oil in what is called…
The Koch Brothers’ Freedom Partners Group Spends $115.2 Million in 2017
…Kochs’ human resources and recruitment agency, which received $18.9 million. C-corporations KNSLT, Inc and THOCO reported $12.1 million and $10.5 million in income on the Freedom Partners IRS 990. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5280683-Freedom-Partners-2017-990.html…
Koch Machine Suffers Major Losses on Its Health Care Agenda
…titled, “Reject Medicaid Expansion,” which claimed that expansion is too costly for Maine and would not result in lives saved. The Idaho Freedom Foundation published a piece on its website…