Koch Kumbaya: The Billionaire Industrialists Appropriate Frederick Douglass, Pledge to "Do Right"
What are we to make of all the good news and talk of bipartisanship coming from the Koch camp?
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Louisiana Senator Sharon Hewitt, ALEC's Legislator of the Year, Voted "No" on Equal Pay for Equal Work
The fact that Louisiana has the worst gender pay gap in the nation doesn't seem to bother her.
Meet Scott Beightol: Anti-Worker Corporate Lawyer and Scott Walker's Lame Duck Pick for UW Board of Regents
Scott Beightol defends corporations accused of racial, gender, and age discrimination, and employers who want to deny workers medical and family leave.
Corporate Front Group, American Council on Science and Health, Smears List of Its Enemies as "Deniers for Hire"
Website calls prominent scientists, reporters, and environmental groups "threats to humanity."
ALEC's New Union-Busting Toolkit Illustrates the Goal Is to Bankrupt Unions Not Protect Workers
ALEC’s post-Janus toolkit inadvertently sheds light on the real aims of the group’s union-busting activities.
Howard Buffett's Border War
A billionaire's son is spending millions in Cochise County.
GOP Strips Rep. King of Posts, but ALEC Keeps White Supremacist State Chair
Washington State Rep. Matt Shea keeps his leadership post in ALEC despite circulating a white nationalist manifesto calling for a violent Christian holy war.
Time for a Clean Sweep at the Capitol
When I arrived in Madison in the early 1990s from the mean streets of Philadelphia, I thought Wisconsin's commitment to clean and open government was quaint, charming -- at times a little irritating. Badger Rules, the state ethics code, meant that legislative staffers like myself couldn't even take a cup of coffee from a lobbyist, and I remember one lowly public official was nabbed for using a state phone for a few private calls.
Billionaire Eli Broad Takes Public Education Private
Eli Broad is one of several mega-billionaires who have spent hundreds of millions on education think tank research and charter schools, shaping current trends in what they call education reform.
ALEC Union Busting Proposal Defeated in Michigan Lame Duck
Bill's author never met the threshold for election that he is demanding for union recertification.
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