Investigating Power
Bradley Foundation internal documents reviewed by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) reveal a concerted effort by the organization to delegitimize climate science, while promoting fossil fuel energy development in the United States.
The left-leaning Center for Media and Democracy said Exxon Mobil and its affiliates have given more than $1.7 million to ALEC, based on various disclosures by the company and the organization.
Indeed, as the present author first documented for the Center for Media and Democracy, Charles Koch became active in JBS after returning home to Wichita to help with the family business. Charles was a leader and fundraiser for JBS, including underwriting its publications and national radio network, while it attacked collective bargaining and leaders of the civil rights movement such as the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., and Rosa Parks.
In 2016, The Bradley Foundation gave IFS $125,000 to fight those calling for greater disclosure rules, something the Bradley Foundation claims will “chill speech,” according to documents acquired by the Center for Media and Democracy.
According to Sourcewatch.org, contrary to its “mom and pop” image, the NFIB has been shown to lobby on issues that favor large corporate interests, not small businesses. While it refuses to name its donors, the NFIB has received $3.7 million from Karl Rove’s far-right Crossroads GPS, and in 2010 NFIB’s legal arm received $1.15 million from Donors Trust, a major donor to the Koch brothers’ extremist Americans for Prosperity Foundation.
The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation—one of the right-wing institutions underwriting the Supreme Court lawsuit—for example, was identified last year by the Center for Media and Democracy as a major financial supporter of Richard Berman.
Lakeland attorney Kristen Carlson entered the Democratic primary for Florida’s 15th Congressional District only two days before the deadline, but a poll released by her staff shows her ahead of her two opponents, each of whom has been running for the spot for a year or more.
Employers know that. They have lawyers, lobbyists, politicians and political parties on their side. And they have one another. Epic enjoyed abundant “concerted activity” from a rogues’ gallery of big-time, big-business advocacy groups that filed amicus briefs in favor of denying workers’ rights. Here are highlights of just a few — with ties to the notorious Koch brothers — that Sourcewatch uncovered in its extensive research:
ALEC, Bradley Files, Koch, SPN
In Bradley Foundation records obtained by the nonprofit Center for Media and Democracy, the foundation’s staff recommended providing funds to the Freedom Foundation because West Coast union money “is used to subsidize the left’s national agenda and obstruct the mission and program interests of the Bradley Foundation and its allies.”
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In a major blow to organized labor and good paying government jobs, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled today that government workers who choose not to join a union cannot be charged fees to reimburse the union for the cost of representing them in collective bargaining.