…grants for “Workplace Freedom Efforts” include: Americans for Fair Treatment: $50,000 (newchoiceny.com) Association of American Educators: $50,000 Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions: $100,000 (workerschoose.org) California Policy Center: $50,000 Center…
Kochs’ Dark-Money Network Bankrolls Campus “Free Speech” Group
…CRC, it is no wonder “CRC’s president, Greg Mueller, describes himself as a friend of Leo.” Other CRC clients include the Kochs’ Americans for Prosperity, Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax…
Franklin’s Right-Wing Watchdog.org Rebrands as The Center Square
…website was a “reliable partisan attack dog” and “booster of right-wing policies and politicians” under the guise of impartiality. INN, IPI, and John Tillman When INN announced that it was…
Koch Industries’ Federal Lobbying Rose 35 Percent in First Quarter of 2019
…and a recent investor in Chinese manufacturing, also supported a measure intended to weaken presidential authority over some types of trade policies. Charles Koch has been a vocal critic of…
ALEC’s Washington State Chair Discussed Violence, Surveillance Against Constituents
…and surveillance of left-wing activists, as revealed by The Guardian. Rep. Shea is the Washington state chair for the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and has served on its Civil…
SEC Rules Exxon Must Allow Shareholder Votes on Dark Money and Climate Policies
…that would require Exxon to compile a semiannual report on its “political contributions and expenditures (direct and indirect) with corporate funds,” as well as related company policies, and post it…
Trump Appoints Stephen Moore, ALEC’s Favorite Economist, to Fed
Stephen Moore, Trump’s recent appointment to the Federal Reserve Board, has served as the American Legislative Exchange Council’s (ALEC) leading voice for austerity and anti-labor policies for over a decade….
Koch Network and Christian Right Celebrate Apparent Hagedorn Victory in Wisconsin Supreme Court Race
The Koch brothers’ astroturf operation, Americans for Prosperity (AFP), and Wisconsin Family Action (WFA) are exuberant over Brian Hagedorn‘s apparent razor-thin victory over Lisa Neubauer on Tuesday for a seat…
Open Records Shed Light on Proposed Merger of Wisconsin Legislative Council and Legislative Reference Bureau
…for years under strict rules of confidentially with little controversy, Champaign offers to retrain them to conform to LRB’s new policies of attorney-client privilege. This is exactly what advocates of…
State Bills to Criminalize Peaceful Protest of Oil & Gas “Critical Infrastructure”
…groups like the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and the Council of State Governments (CSG) to put these policies into the hands of legislators. These model “critical infrastructure” anti-protest bills…