…his gubernatorial race from David Boerke and other members of the Boerke Company. Boerke also served on Walker’s “campaign finance committee.” Prosecutors alleged that the repeated contacts between Hiller and…
WI GOP Begins Retroactive Decriminalization of Scott Walker Fundraising
The far-right Wisconsin Supreme Court already handed Governor Scott Walker a “get out of jail free card” when it called a halt to the John Doe criminal probe into campaign…
How SPN “Think Tanks” Will Spin ALEC’s 2016 Agenda
…improve higher education- by limiting spending, fostering competition and protecting students’ civil liberties. Successful reforms in North Carolina can be a model for your state.” By most measures, North Carolina…
Koch Brothers Backing Misleading Anti-Solar Campaign in Florida
…are some examples of the big money at play: Electric Utility Companies Funding to Consumers for Smart Solar: Duke Energy – $60,000 Florida Power and Light Company – $80,000 Gulf…
Exclusive: Bankruptcy Is a “Huge Opportunity” to Privatize Schools Says EdBuild
…“free market” schools instead of free and universal public education. One big reason for this obsession? There’s at least half a trillion dollars a year up for grabs for corporations…
Secrecy Surrounds Half Billion Handout to Charters
…that this goes higher up in the chain of command, and have called on State Superintendent Richard Ross to resign. Did the scrubbed statistics touting the success of Ohio’s charters…
Richard Berman Misleads on Restaurant Opposition to Higher Wages
…firm, Berman & Company, serves clients in the fast-food, alcohol, and tobacco industries, all with a stake in keeping the minimum wage as low as possible. He has long been…
ALEC Conference Funding Dominated by Big Polluters
At the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) 2015 annual meeting in San Diego, California, dirty energy companies and their supporters–including ExxonMobil, Chevron, and Duke Energy–continue to dominate the funding of…
ALEC Admits School Vouchers Are for Kids in Suburbia
…in the nation—admitted that vouchers were really all about “pursuing Milton Friedman’s free-market vision” even though the ideological agenda was nowadays sugarcoated with “a much more compelling message … of…
Four Ways ALEC Tried to Ruin Your State This Year
…Cara Sullivan, the staff head of ALEC’s Commerce, Insurance, and Economic Development Task Force–which is funded by some of the largest global corporations–explained, “Perhaps the biggest threat comes from the…