…change and a better America,” he said with a straight face. Plus, it will harm the free speech rights of average Americans, “you would be a fool to speak about…
How Scott Walker Made Wisconsin the National Poster Child for Dark Money Corruption
ALEC Corporations Are Leaders in Workplace Discrimination and Harassment
…has policies that look out for corporations’ “rights,” but not policies that discourage workplace discrimination. Notes: Trump’s controversial, U.S. Secretary of Labor, Alexander Acosta shown here, spoke at ALEC’s 2017…
American Federation of Teachers Targets Mass Incarceration, Private Prison Profiteers
…bipartisan criminal justice reform is making headlines, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) has issued a report entitled “Private Prison Investment Risks” that provides a timely reminder of the perverse…
Koch Kumbaya: The Billionaire Industrialists Appropriate Frederick Douglass, Pledge to “Do Right”
…failed to mention Koch Industries’ decades of support for policies, such as the American Legislative Exchange Council’s “Truth in Sentencing” bill, which spread to more than half the states and…
Meet Scott Beightol: Anti-Worker Corporate Lawyer and Scott Walker’s Lame Duck Pick for UW Board of Regents
…passed a verbatim American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) “right to work” law in 2015 after a huge push by the Koch’s Americans for Prosperity group, Beightol cheered on the policy,…
GOP Strips Rep. King of Posts, but ALEC Keeps White Supremacist State Chair
…but it means a historical pride in the south in others, and we should be able to look at it as history.” Rep. King is an alumnus of the American…
Billionaire Eli Broad Takes Public Education Private
…the highest-challenge neighborhood schools in order to discredit educators in them who seek win-win school improvement policies.” In response to the resignation of Broad-trained Los Angeles superintendent John E. Deasy…
ALEC Union Busting Proposal Defeated in Michigan Lame Duck
…worth exploring the origins of this idea. ALEC Fingerprints Meekhof’s bill, Senate Bill 1260, is strikingly similar in its language to a “model bill” promoted by the Koch-funded American Legislative…
Wisconsin Schools the Nation on Hypocrisy and Partisan Power Grabs
…Sunday, along with a chart entitled “Americans know literally nothing about the Constitution.” Predictably, the insult was greeted with outrage. Jay Bullock had the rewrite. In the lame duck package…
Dispatches from COP 24 Climate Change Summit in Poland
…Trump Administration, he said: NC: “The underlying assumption [of the Trump policies] of course is that everyone in the world is as criminally insane as [the Trump Administration] is, and…
