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Sound Off: June 22, 2018

Environment

Source: The Daily Star | Published: 6/21/2018

“To refute the argument that was made about microgrids recently, the following dubious statement was made on Sound Off: ‘”Energy in Depth” is a national publication with both sides represented fairly with both opinion and documented studies…’ I did some research… SOURCEWATCH.org: ‘Energy in Depth (EID) is a pro-oil-and-gas drilling industry front group formed by the American Petroleum Institute, the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) and dozens of additional industry organizations. … Of the 137 unique studies on EID’s list that could be located, only 19 were peer-reviewed.’

The Man Behind KeyWiki

Bradley Files, Koch

Source: Jacobin magazine | Published: 6/19/2018

But perhaps the scariest prospect of all sits just over the horizon for Loudon: competition. According to a 2017 exposé by the Center for Media and Democracy, the conservative Bradley Foundation donated $115,000 to the Koch-funded Capital Research Center (which, incidentally, financed and produced one of Loudon’s films) in 2016 for the purpose of creating a “wiki-style encyclopedia of the Left.” (Apparently Loudon’s dossier of leftist Facebook activity isn’t cutting it for them.) If it ever gets off the ground, Loudon may well end up getting to experience one of the quintessential joys of capitalism: seeing his mom-and-pop operation muscled out by a bigger, better-funded competitor.

ALEC Joins Religious Right Activists at the Road to Majority Conference

ALEC

Source: Right Wing Watch | Published: 6/15/2018

When asked by the CSM [Christian Science Monitor] if ALEC had been influential in the passage of the 2015 Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) in Indiana—a law signed by then-Gov. Mike Pence that would allow businesses to discriminate against LGBTQ people before public pressure forced its amendment—Meierling responded, “We do not work on firearms, marriage equality, immigration, any of those things people frequently say are ours.” According to a Source Watch report, however, three of RFRA’s co-authors were ALEC Task Force committee chairs. Additionally, the Center for Media and Democracy’s acquisition of 800 ALEC-written bills has revealed extensive ALEC state legislation having to do with gun laws and immigration—namely due to their involvement with Stand Your Ground Laws and anti-immigration laws such as the “No Sanctuary Cities for Illegal Immigrants” Act.

Chamber of Commerce Ranked #2 on Top-30 Tort Reform Hypocrites List

ALEC, Chambers of Commerce

Source: Litigation Finance Journal | Published: 6/13/2018

The report cites the Chamber for its hypocrisy, and notes that the Chamber is a longtime member of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)’s Civil Justice Task Force, an entity “devoted solely to weakening or eliminating corporate liability for wrongdoing.” An investigative report by the Center for Media and Democracy found that bills proposed by ALEC “make it harder for average Americans to access the civil justice system” and “provide relief and protections for the industries who wrote them.”

The Extremists’ Plot to Bust Unions

ALEC, Democracy, Economy, Koch, SPN

Source: Amsterdam News | Published: 6/7/2018

The In These Times article, written by Mary Bottari of the Center for Media Democracy, is entitled “Behind Janus: Documents Reveal Decade-Long Plot to Kill Public-Sector Unions.” Janus refers to the case currently before the Supreme Court, Janus v. AFSCME. The plaintiff challenges union security—the right of unions to collect “fair share” fees for collective bargaining from bargaining-unit workers who have chosen not to join the union. This opting out, known also as freeloading, means fewer union resources are available to unions to represent workers, file grievances and bargain with employers. Meanwhile, these workers benefit from wage gains, benefits and working conditions won by the union.

Margaret Krome: Hero Journalists Essential to Keep American Democracy Going

ALEC, Koch

Source: Madison.com | Published: 5/29/2018

In 2011, Madison’s own Center for Media and Democracy investigated the uncanny commonalities in radical state legislative proposals emerging across the nation and uncloaked the pernicious role that multibillionaire brothers Charles and David Koch had played in funding the American Legislative Exchange Council to formulate such proposals and strategies.

The Bipartisan War on Public Education: Barrington

Education

Source: Reno Gazette Journal | Published: 5/29/2018

Providing gifts to the charter school industry is expected from the secretary of education, regardless of who holds the position. Bryant mentions a report from the Center for Media and Democracy which “found that over the past 20 years the federal government has sent over $3.3 billion to the charter school industry with virtually no accountability.” The report states that “the federal government maintains no comprehensive list of the charter schools that have received and spent these funds or even a full list of the private or quasi-public entities that have been approved by states to ‘authorize’ charters that receive federal funds.”