Conflicted Supreme Court Takes Up Walker Criminal Probe
The Wisconsin Supreme Court is taking up the Walker criminal probe, but faces questions of judicial ethics.
Campaign Finance
ALEC Fumes: Transparency Threatens Corporate Free Speech!
After spending hundreds of millions of undisclosed funds on state and federal elections, ALEC's corporate members are demanding that state legislators preserve their "right" to anonymously spend money on politics.
Billionaires Push ALEC Agenda in Minneapolis School Board Election
Calling for a “reboot” of public education in Minnesota, hundreds of thousands of dollars flowed into the Minneapolis school board elections this November to try ousting an incumbent and to usher in the ALEC education agenda.
"You Will Be Amazed at How Much Influence You Can Have," Billionaire Pours $9.5M Into MO Elections
Rex Sinquefield, who has been described as a "new American oligarch," has reported spending almost $9.5 million on Missouri state politics in 2014 alone, bringing Sinquefield's total spending in the state to nearly $41 million since 2006.
Megadonations Follow Randa Ruling in Wisconsin
A hole in Wisconsin's campaign finance laws opened by federal judge Rudolph Randa in September is being exploited by out-of-state billionaires like Sheldon Adelson.
Koch-Tied Group Urges Stoners Not to Vote for Mary Burke
The Koch-backed American Future Fund is running a series of web-only ads urging Wisconsin stoners not to vote for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke, but instead to support the Libertarian Party candidate, Robert Burke.
CMD Asks for Federal Criminal Investigation of Wisconsin Club for Growth
"We believe the evidence shows that WiCFG lied on its tax returns when it claimed to have spent $0 on political campaign activity in 2011 and 2012, when its own internal emails and financial documents" show otherwise.
WSJ Stumbles in Latest Attack on Campaign Finance Law
The Wall Street Journal editorial board's crusade against the enforcement of Wisconsin's campaign finance laws has gone off the rails.
Big Money Bankrolls Opposition to Movement to Overturn Citizens United
A historic vote in the U.S. Senate earlier this year to amend the constitution to reverse Citizens United, has the Koch brothers spooked.
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