Investigating Power
…the auspices of Judge Barbara Kluka focusing on the Walker campaign’s potentially illegal coordination with independent big money groups. Prosecutors were looking at both express advocacy groups and so-called issue…
…voter drives by nonpartisan, good government groups like the League of Women Voters. An Online Voter Registration Bill Makes it Harder to Vote? Twenty-five states have electronic voting and the…
…isn’t campaign finance at all. Wisconsin should inaugurate new chapters in the statutes including “Facilitating Secret Money in Wisconsin Elections” and “Protecting Politicians from Independent Oversight and Accountability.” The Supreme…
…coal plants. This week, SPN will hold two separate sessions attacking the Clean Power Plan rules, with presentations from groups like the Koch-backed Independent Women’s Forum and the coal industry…
…he would create one featuring the International Franchise Association, the American Hotel and Lodging Association, the National Federation of Independent Business, the National Restaurant Association, and the Job Creators Network….
…National Federation of Independent Business, David Koch’s Americans for Prosperity, the non-union contractors’ trade association Associated Builders and Contractors, and state-level right-wing “think tanks” affiliated with the State Policy Network….
…obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) and shared with the Guardian. The event, dubbed the “Coal & Investment Leadership Forum,” which started Sunday and goes through Tuesday,…
…factory farming. ACSH poses as an independent science-based organization devoted to outing “junk science,” but consumer advocates have called it “a consumer front organization for its business backers” that “glove[s]…
…Condemning $15 an Hour as an “Extreme Wage” Hilton’s Christopher Nassetta The American Hotel & Lodging Association is the trade group for companies in the hotel industry, including chains, independent…
…weakening democratic society by creating a forum where unelected corporate lobbyists actually vote in secret with legislators on bills that advance corporate interests but undermine their constituents opportunities for better…
