Yesterday, the billionaire-funded Club for Growth Action released an ad criticizing Sanders’s health care and climate change policies.
Right-Wing Business Billionaires Launch Attack on Bernie Sanders
By Alex Kotch | at
Economy
Ohio’s Right-Wing Buckeye Institute Goes National
By Don Wiener and Arn Pearson | at
The Ohio-based Buckeye Institute has nearly doubled its revenues in recent years and is increasingly taking its pro-corporate fights to other states.
Ex-Pharma Lobbyist Embedded in White House Tanked Drug Pricing Bill, While His Former Employer Helped From the Outside
By Alex Kotch | at
Former Gilead Sciences lobbyist Joe Grogan pushed Trump to ditch his support for a House bill to lower drug prices while Gilead-linked groups advertised and lobbied against it.
DonorsTrust Pumped $142 Million into Right-Wing Causes in 2018
By David Armiak | at
The preferred piggy bank for Koch network megadonors bankrolled key players in the Right’s growing state infrastructure, legal advocacy, and media operations, in addition to funding climate denial, union busting, and gerrymandering.
“This is Extortion”: Koch Industries Gets Another Tax Break
By Don Wiener | at
The Toledo, Oregon City Council voted on November 6 to give Georgia-Pacific a 15-year property tax exemption in return for investment in an existing plant there.
Koch Network Dominates SPN Annual Meeting Attendees
By David Armiak | at
Right-wing policy network gathers in Colorado Springs to advance anti-labor, climate denial, and anti-disclosure agenda.
Bill to Criminalize Environmental Protests in Wisconsin Heads to the Assembly Floor
By David Armiak | at
The Wisconsin State Assembly will convene for the first time this fall today to consider a bill backed by the oil industry and the American Legislative Exchange Council.
Backlash Against Koch Agenda Leads to Recall Drive Against Alaska Governor
By Don Wiener and Arn Pearson | at
Grassroots opposition to draconian budget cuts orchestrated by the Kochs’ influence machine gain steam, putting Governor Dunleavy’s political future in question.
Revealed: ALEC’s Health and Human Services Task Force Legislative Members
By David Armiak | at
Many of the task force legislative members will be attending ALEC’s Life Sciences Academy this week with undisclosed drug industry representatives.
Pay-to-Play Group Garnered Sackler’s Access to Attorneys General Deciding their Fate
By Scott Zimmerman | at
The makers of an opioid tied to 400,000 deaths had special access to the attorneys general that chose to take their “sweetheart deal” — saving the owners of the company from admitting wrongdoing — thanks to a pay-for-play group called the Republican Attorneys General Association.