…measures to please fossil fuel companies, marijuana companies, and more. CATERING TO FOSSIL FUEL FUNDERS While over 100 mainstream American companies have fled the controversial organization, a 2017 Annual Meeting…
Wisconsin GOP Was in Retreat and Disarray Before Paul Ryan Raised the White Flag
…history. To be sure, the Trump administration is a nightmare for Ryan. With the Mueller investigation closing in on Trump’s personal lawyer and with the leader of the free world…
ALEC Legislator of the Week: Homosexuals and Psychopathic Killers “It’s a Behavior Thing”
…Behavior Thing” Then there is Indiana Republican Rep. Woody Burton, the chair of the Commerce, Insurance, and Economic Development Taskforce, who was named the ALEC/FreedomWorks “legislator of the week” in…
Scott Pruitt, Trump’s embattled EPA chief, involved in shady 2011 real estate deal
…a lobbyist who represents major fossil fuel companies. That was not the first time Pruitt has exercised questionable judgment around a property transaction, according to documents obtained by the Center…
AG Academy: Republican Attorneys General Get Schooled by Corporate Lobbyists
…Lin. Bruning, Kilgore, Cook have all registered to lobby at the state level, while Lin works for a law and lobbying firm that represents energy companies. Their companies and clients…
ALEC Legislator Fast Tracks a Bill to Block Local Campaign Finance Ordinances in Arizona
…and sent its vice president for litigation to testify in support of the bill in front of a House committee. If the preemption bill passes by roll-call vote in the…
Bills to Ban Local Soda Taxes Are Moving In the States, Coke and Pepsi Borrow from the Tobacco Playbook
…and promoting questionable research saying that the soda tax harms the economy. An ALEC legislator successfully preempted local food and nutrition policies with an ALEC “model bill” in Kansas. And…
Donors Trust, the Right-Wing Secret Money Machine, Doled Out $66.7 Million in 2016
…obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy, show that the fund distributed $66.7 million in grants in 2016, the most recent year for which information is available. Donors Trust…
GOP wants to flood politics with dark money using hidden “policy riders”
…to eliminate longstanding limits on political spending and prevent any meaningful public disclosure are just the latest signs that Republican politicians have lost their moral compass. Today’s GOP has come…
Koch Compliance: Georgia-Pacific Plants Have Troubling Health and Safety Record Including Seven Deaths
…approach is “compliance.” “Strive for 10,000% compliance with all laws and regulations, which requires 100% of employees fully complying 100% of the time. Stop, think, and ask,” the Charles Koch…