Mary Bottari
Mary Bottari is the Director of the Center for Media and Democracy's Real Economy Project and editor of their www.BanksterUSA.org site.
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Views Wednesday, August 15, 2018 Wisconsin GOP Just Nominated ALEC’s “Iron Lady” to Take on Tammy Baldwin The Kochs have exercised a lot of influence in Wisconsin, working with Governor Scott Walker to crush wages, bust unions, gut school spending, and promote vouchers. But the Kochs may have had their biggest victory of all handed to them last night by another billionaire couple. Koch loyalist and... Read more |
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Views Monday, August 13, 2018 ALEC Is Pushing a New Slate of Viciously Anti-Worker, Pro-Corporate Laws When the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) convened its 45th annual meeting of legislators and corporate lobbyists at the swank Hilton New Orleans Riverside hotel on August 8, it served up a veritable banquet of union-busting, gerrymandering, pro-fossil fuel, and school privatization... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, June 27, 2018 Trump’s Supreme Court Strikes Blow to Government Workers, Good Paying Jobs In a major blow to organized labor and good paying government jobs, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled today that government workers who choose not to join a union cannot be charged fees to reimburse the union for the cost of representing them in collective bargaining. The decision was 5-4 in the Janus... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, June 19, 2018 ALEC’s Deadly Asbestos Agenda Benefits Koch Industries, Nationwide The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) named Missouri Republican state Rep. Bruce DeGroot as a “Legislator of the Week” in June. Why is ALEC so fond of DeGroot? Because he has cheerfully championed ALEC legislation to restrict the right of terminally ill, asbestos victims to sue over... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, November 28, 2017 Koch Latino Front Group Instructs Arizona Moms About School Vouchers A full year in advance of a historic showdown on school vouchers in Arizona, the Kochs are already ladling on the cash. Through their Latino front group, Libre Institute , they have launched a six figure ad campaign targeting Arizona moms on one of the Kochs’ favorite topics, school vouchers. The... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, July 18, 2017 Trump Team, ALEC, Koch Industries Debate Gerrymandering the U.S. Senate in Denver Now that GOP state legislators have control over 32 state legislatures (both chambers), thanks in large part to partisan gerrymandering, some extremists are preparing to use their clout to gerrymander the U.S. Senate. This week in Denver, July 19-21, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC... Read more |
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Views Monday, May 08, 2017 Weaponized Philanthropy: Document Trove Details Bradley Foundation’s Efforts to Build Right-Wing "Infrastructure" Nationwide Documents examined by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) expose a national effort funded by the Milwaukee-based Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation to assess and expand right-wing “infrastructure” to influence policies and politicians in statehouses nationwide. The documents were made public... Read more |
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Views Saturday, January 07, 2017 Koch Astroturf Army Cheers Union Busting in Kentucky On the first day that the Kentucky legislature got underway with a newly elected Republican House, a Republican Senate and a Republican governor, the Koch brothers' Americans for Prosperity group blew the whistle and legislators jumped to do their bidding. This week, the Speaker of the House Jeff... Read more |
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Views Thursday, September 15, 2016 Scott Walker and John Doe: How Corporate Checks Fueled Coordinated Campaign Documents released by the Guardian indicate that Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker may have solicited and received corporate checks for the 2011 Senate recall fight and his own 2012 recall election. The checks--cut from corporate treasuries, not granted by individuals--were deposited into the account... Read more |
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Views Saturday, April 09, 2016 ALEC “Right to Work” Law Tossed Out in Wisconsin MADISON — Dane County Circuit Court Judge William Faust struck down the state’s private-sector “right-to-work” law late today. In February 2015, Governor Walker and the Wisconsin legislature pushed through a private-sector right-to-work bill over the objections of thousands of workers and 450... Read more |