Investigating Power
According to Mary Bottari, the deputy director at the Center for Media and Democracy, the “echo effects” of voter ID laws from state to state were no accident — they were based on a “model bill” from the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC.
Some more background information about the IPI [Illinois Policy Institute] is provided by the Center for Media and Democracy. The center reports the IPI has received over half a million dollars in donations from Bruce Rauner.
When Rauner fired his chief of staff in 2017, he replaced him with the IPI President and COO Kristina Rasmussen. The center also reports IPI has ties to the right wing Koch Brothers and also to the conservative Bradley Foundation.
Sudden closure of charter schools is not unusual. The Center for Media and Democracy found that about 2,500 charter schools closed between 2000 and 2013. Some of them closed at the end of the school year, some never opened in the first place, and some closed abruptly in the middle of the year. Charters can close for a variety reasons; this week’s closings appear to be due to financial problems because of low enrollment.
The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) filed suit today against Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel and the Department of Justice (DOJ) for refusing to disclose public records related to his high-profile legal war against the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
A liberal group is suing the Wisconsin Department of Justice after it refused to turn over emails related to Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel’s lawsuit seeking to overturn the national health care law.
The Center for Media and Democracy filed the lawsuit Monday in Madison.
A group is suing the Wisconsin Department of Justice after it refused to turn over emails related to Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel’s lawsuit seeking to overturn the national health care law.
The Center for Media and Democracy filed the lawsuit Monday in Madison.
The organization says in its lawsuit that it filed an open records request with DOJ in August seeking all internal communications in 2018 related to the health care law, known as the Affordable Care Act or “Obamacare.”
The Center for Media and Democracy filed suit today against Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel and the Department of Justice for refusing to disclose public records related to his high-profile legal war against the Affordable Care Act.
A liberal group sued the state Department of Justice under Wisconsin’s open records law this week for its refusal to release nearly 2,000 emails related to Attorney General Brad Schimel’s attempt to find Obamacare unconstitutional.
The Madison-based Center for Media and Democracy in August sought emails and other records produced in 2018 belonging to Schimel and his aides regarding Obamacare, which is formally known as the Affordable Care Act.
Both the Buckeye Institute and the Mackinac Center are affiliates of the State Policy Network (SPN), a conservative nonprofit that has circulated model legislation and talking points on proposals including ending exclusive representation. These are aimed at helping lawmakers “free themselves and union members in their state from the undue influence of government unions,” according to documents obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy.
It’s one thing to hear rumors that major chemical companies knew their products were harming people for decades. It’s another to see physical proof, in the form of internal meeting minutes, questionable studies, and other documents from the 1930s to 1970s that all show companies strategically continued to sell chemicals despite clear evidence they could hurt animals, people and the environment.