Nov 7, 2012
Last summer, a cousin who is a stockbroker, sent me a link from a group called Social Funds. (http://www.socialfunds.com/news/article.cgi/3592.html As I’ve followed the corporate defections from ALEC and Heartland, Walden Management kept coming up in the conversation. I’ve not found a great deal about them that is not in the Social Funds article linked to [...]
Sep 12, 2012
a super article from Brendan Fischer at PR Watch. Absolutely a must read! Three right-wing organizations founded nearly forty years ago by conservative activist Paul Weyrich are rediscovering their shared origins. The Republican Study Committee, a caucus of 169 right-wing Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives, is establishing a partnership with the American Legislative [...]
Aug 20, 2012
A VLTP Special Report – ALEC’s Federal Interference, Part II August 20, 2012 | by Bob Sloan Last month I began a two part series that began with “ALEC, the Koch Led CABAL & “The Amicus Project” – Fed Court Interference.” The first segment dealt with identifying and exposing ALEC’s Koch-funded cabal interfering with our [...]
Aug 11, 2012
An old post (2/8/11), but with Paul Ryan getting the republican veep nod today, it takes on greater relevancy ThinkProgress reports that a powerful congressman, Wisconsin Republican Paul Ryan, attended the billionares’ caucus two weekends ago. Ryan is chairman of the House Budget Committee and wants to make radical cuts to Social Security and Medicare. He also [...]
Jul 8, 2012
The health insurance industry secretly sponsored over $100 million in anti-health reform ads through the U.S. Chamber of Commerce [This analysis, by Lee Fang, takes a long NY Times article, ferrets out the key points and presents them in a very understandable format.] “…quantifying the money is critical in understanding at least part of the [...]
Jun 28, 2012
The NFIB is currently the lead plaintiff in the U.S. Supreme Court case NFIB v. Sebelius challenging President Barack Obama’s signature health care reform legislation in its entirety. The suit is being brought forward by the NFIB’s legal arm, the Small Business Legal Center. The NFIB legal arm’s advisory board includes Wendy Lee Gramm, who [...]
Jun 6, 2012
…But as Republic Report exclusively reported last month, the Center to Protect Patients’ Rights is part of a universe of front groups financed by David and Charles Koch, the petrochemical billionaires, as well as several other billionaires, as part of an election-influencing effort. New reports this week about the brothers’ strategy indicate that they will [...]
Apr 26, 2012
By Kate Ackley and Eliza Newlin Carney Roll Call Staff April 24, 2012 After several years of relative calm, Walmart is once again in Capitol Hill’s cross hairs. Despite Cummings and Waxman’s interest in an investigation, House Republicans have signaled that they have no interest in probing the matter. Roll Call reports that Wal-Mart enlisted [...]
Apr 26, 2012
By Lee Fang | Apr 25th 2012 This morning, Oversight Committee members Congressman Elijah Cummings and Henry Waxman announced that they will begin a probe of Wal-Mart’s lobbying. In a press release, Cummings announced that he has sent letters to Tom Donohue and Greg Steinhafel, leaders of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Retail [...]
