Investigating Power
…contributed $427,000 to their campaigns since 2006, including over $77,500 in 2020. https://twitter.com/ATT/status/1197276556529262592 Charter Communications has an LGBTQ “business resource group” and is a member of the National LGBT Chamber…
…are lead sponsors or co-sponsors of those bills. Nearly a decade after losing scores of major corporate sponsors due to its support for controversial voter ID and “stand your ground”…
…for Rural Electrification ($135,000), the Arkansas State Farm Association ($130,000), and the Arkansas Trial Lawyers Association ($118,000) are all big donors. The Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce is also a…
…campaign finance transparency, wrote a letter to Congress and an op-ed in The Hill. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce wrote a letter to the House. The Honest Elections Project, which…
…Common Funders In addition to industry groups like the California Farm Bureau Federation, Western Growers Association, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, numerous conservative legal centers and think tanks have…
…Haaland and used a procedural move to delay her confirmation vote—are among the chamber’s top recipients of campaign donations from oil and gas company PACs and employees, and some are…
…Education Sec. Betsy DeVos, promoted Michigan’s “Operation Gridlock” protests and teamed up with the Michigan Chamber of Commerce to sue Gov. Gretchen Whitmer over her lockdown orders. ALEC filed an…
…Association to write a model bill that became Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” legislation, which led to the acquittal of George Zimmerman, the man who killed an unarmed Black teenager, Trayvon…
…model bills that boost business profits. Over the years, ALEC has carried the oil industry’s water on climate denial and anti-environmental legislation, and promoted highly controversial “stand your ground,” anti-labor,…
…increase in the union membership rate,” BLS said. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce speculates that, “as the economy eventually grows, the percentage of union members in the workforce likely will…
