…of Commerce, or Glenn Spencer, Senior Vice President of the Employment Policy division at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Both emailed lawmakers attending ALEC’s policy summit seeking to discuss their…
42 of Right-Wing “Charitable” Group’s Trainees Elected in Wisconsin
…credits for “deploying a massive online army through co-creating a Twitter hashtag — #Wiright” and organized the “I Stand with Walker” rally in 2011, when Walker was facing huge protests…
Devos-Funded Group Organizes Protest Against Michigan Governor’s Stay-at-Home Order
…GOP Gov. Mike DeWine to cancel coronavirus-related restrictions in May. Protesters were photographed standing very close together and not wearing masks. Conservative groups including Ohio Stands United organized the protest…
Koch Foundation Criticizes Turning Point USA Even as Koch Network Funds the Group
…Feinberg is a GOP megadonor and Trump ally but is not affiliated with the Koch network. The only other grantee of the Tracking Foundation from 2017-18 was the U.S. Chamber…
Right-Wing Super PAC Runs Pro-Sanders Ad After Running Anti-Sanders Ad
…the Charles Koch-backed trade association now called The Seminar Network Chamber of Commerce donated $175,000 to Club for Growth in 2017. A few years before, the group received over $1…
Radical Resolution Calling for a Constitutional Rewrite Passes Wisconsin Assembly
…repeal federal regulations, requiring approval to increase the national debt, imposing congressional term limits, repealing the 16th Amendment’s authorization for an income tax, limiting the Commerce Clause, and requiring a…
Dark Money “Women’s” Group Claims Pivotal Role in 2016 Presidential Election
…Clinton; the same exposure made women 17 points more likely to support Trump.” Shaw told CMD that, “By the standards of political science, the estimated issue knowledge and issue salience…
Private Prison Giant GEO Group Gives to Super PAC Backing Susan Collins
…of Commerce, a heavy political spender. Scott Reed, a senior political strategist for the Chamber, was the PAC’s first donor, contributing $1,000 on March 22, 2019. 1820 PAC has spent…
Centrist Third Way, Funded by Corporate Interests, Attacks Sanders in Iowa
…cites a report by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonprofit heavily funded by the foundation of the late Wall Street billionaire and Nixon Commerce Sec. Peter G….
Ex-Pharma Lobbyist Embedded in White House Tanked Drug Pricing Bill, While His Former Employer Helped From the Outside
…of the president on Pelosi’s bill. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which has pharmaceutical executives from Bayer, Celgene, and Pfizer on its board, has run online ads against H.R. 3,…