by MCDC | Dec 12, 2013 | 2016 General Election, Citizens United, Ethics, Video
by Hunter The obsessive centrists of the punditverse are abuzz with praise for supposed centrist Democratic organization Third Way and their grumbling op-ed condemnation of Democratic liberal populism in abstract and “economic populists” like Sen....
by MCDC | Dec 10, 2013 | Citizens United, Ethics, Issues
via NPR ALEC is sort of almost a dating service between politicians at the state level, local elected politicians, and many of America’s biggest companies. It brings them together much as a dating service would do. It sits them in rooms behind closed doors where...
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...
