by MCDC | Dec 8, 2013 | 2016 General Election, Citizens United, Ethics, Issues, Virginia
By Dana Milbank “What you fundamentally need to know about this organization is it’s completely legislator driven,” said senior director of public affairs Bill Meierling. Uh-huh. And ALEC is proving that by keeping reporters from the rooms where the legislators are...
by MCDC | Dec 6, 2013 | 2016 General Election, Citizens United, Ethics
ALEC is the American Legislative Exchange Council, a business-casual matchmaker service between corporate interests and sympathetic lawmakers. They operate mostly in state legislatures, where they have used “model legislation” to enact such beneficial statutes...
by MCDC | Dec 6, 2013 | 2016 General Election, Citizens United, Ethics, Video
The strategy for the state-level organisations, which describe themselves as “free-market think tanks”, includes proposals from six different states for cuts in public sector pensions, campaigns to reduce the wages of government workers and eliminate...
by MCDC | Dec 6, 2013 | 2016 General Election, Citizens United, Ethics
Conservative Think Tank Network Plotting “Coordinated Assault” on Medicaid, Education, Workers’ Rights By Andy Kroll The State Policy Network, an umbrella group overseeing a constellation of right-leaning think tanks in all 50 states, is plotting a...
by MCDC | Dec 5, 2013 | 2016 General Election, Citizens United, Ethics, Issues
by Robert Maguire Political money flowed freely in the world of conservative billionaires David and Charles Koch in 2012. With most of the annual tax filings for non-disclosing nonprofits now in, it’s clear that no other conservative or liberal dark money...
by MCDC | Oct 26, 2013 | 2016 General Election, Citizens United, Ethics
by Timothy Karr | Free Press By now it seems pretty clear that Senator Ted Cruz has a plan to occupy the White House. But he doesn’t want people to know too much about it. And he definitely doesn’t want you to know about the special interests that have already begun...
