…complete destruction of all evidence and throwing up roadblocks to any appeal by, for instance, telling prosecutors they could not use expert, outside counsel to help with the filing. These actions…
Exposed by CMD: KIPP’s Efforts to Keep the Public in the Dark while Seeking Millions in Taxpayer Subsidies
…and college. Yet, it insisted that the U.S. Department of Education keep secret from the public the statistics about the percentage of its eighth graders who completed high school, entered…
Kochs’ Americans for Prosperity, Club for Growth, Shell out to Rescue Ron Johnson
…U.S. Congressman Mark Neumann in his unsuccessful Senate run against Feingold in 1998. Pike also previously served as Vice-President of The Neumann Companies. The Koch-backed Freedom Partners provided a $1…
ALEC Touted “Transparency” in Pushing for the Panama Free Trade Agreement
…of the key arguments used by free trade cheerleaders like ALEC to bypass concerns of critics that “free trade” is just another way for corporations and the very wealthy to…
Coloradoβs Not Quite Independent Oversight of Charter Schools
…Fuller, former Executive Assistant to the CDE Commissioner of Education and former Executive Assistant on choice Kim Burnham, Compliance Grants and Awards Office in the CDE Laura Noonan, who was…
Unmasking the Chamber of Commerce Networks
…a 2016 political discussion led by the Koch-founded Freedom Partners organization, and a session led by a PR firm “on how best to message a free market approach to climate…
Chambers of Commerce Exposed by CMD
…a backgrounder on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the state chambers of commerce. Here is CMD’s press release summarizing key information about the materials. Here is some analysis of…
Highlights of Luntz Poll of American CEOs Shows Broad Support for Progressive Policies
…of commerce get on message about the national political agenda of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, one of the largest and most influential lobbying forces in America. According to its…
Exposed: Most CEOs Support Paid Sick Leave, Increased Minimum Wage, and More But Chamber Lobbyists Told How to “Combat” These Measures
…of Commerce in recent years. In January, the Council of State Chambers held a session for state lobbyists on “Policy and Politics in 2016,” where Marc Short, then-President of Freedom…
WAR on Voters: Big Money Streams into WI Supreme Court Race with No Disclosure
…a P.O. Box and a website, FreedomToWorkWI.com. While the group claimed to be “a grassroots citizen engagement organization,” its website was registered by Kurt Luidhart, an Indiana resident whose media…