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Did Romney Shift Climate Change Stance to Appeal to Kochs?

by Brendan Fischer — October 31, 2012 - 9:09am
  • Topics: Election 2012, Democracy, Environment, Politics

    • With millions of Americans feeling the wrath of Hurricane Sandy, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney is comparing the massive recovery effort to cleaning up "rubbish and paper products" from a high school football field. But don't expect him to discuss how Sandy's severity is directly linked to climate change. Romney shifted his position on climate change in October 2011, around the same time he was seeking support from billionaire industrialist David Koch, a major funder of climate change denial groups and whose profits could be impacted by limits on carbon emissions.

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    Maine Upside Down: GOP Money Backs Democrat Dill, While Godzilla Supports Independent, Angus King

    by Will Dooling — October 30, 2012 - 8:54am

    Maine's U.S. Senate race is a battle between not two, but three candidates vying to replace retiring Senator Olympia Snowe: Republican Charlie Summers, Democrat Cynthia Dill, and former Governor Angus King, a left-leaning independent. Despite outside groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce spending millions attacking King, he retains a sizable lead -- but the complex, multi-million dollar web of outside spending has made Maine's U.S. Senate race one of the most interesting in the country.

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    Einhorn Family Foundation Behind Voter Suppression Billboards

    by Harriet Rowan — October 29, 2012 - 5:05pm

    One Wisconsin Now and theGrio have uncovered that the Milwaukee-based Einhorn Family Foundation is the "private family foundation" that funded controversial billboards in Milwaukee which warned: "VOTER FRAUD IS A FELONY! 3 1/2 years and a $10,000 fine." The billboards were denounced as voter suppression by Mike Wilder, director of the African-American Round Table, and other community groups. The billboards were put up in largely African-American and Latino communities in Milwaukee, Cleveland and Columbus by media behemoth Clear Channel, but the client remained anonymous.

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    Koch Linked Group Launches Ad That Targets Tammy Baldwin on Paper Jobs

    by Sara Jerving — October 26, 2012 - 5:13pm
  • Topics: Labor

    • This week, the dark money group American Future Fund (AFF) launched a misleading ad attacking Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Tammy Baldwin for supporting legislation that would allegedly shut down eleven paper mills and lay off 7,500 paper workers in the state, ignoring Baldwin's negotiations to protect Wisconsin jobs that might be affected by the rule and her strong record on trade policy and manufacturing.

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    Will Voter Suppression Tactics Threaten Free and Fair Elections?

    by Brendan Fischer — October 26, 2012 - 8:22am

    The wave of new voter restrictions and scare tactics being implemented for the 2012 elections -- such as voter ID laws, early voting restrictions, threatening billboards, misleading mailers and vigilante poll watchers -- could intimidate countless numbers of Americans from exercising their right to vote.

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    California GMO Labeling Supporters Confront $41 Million Opposition and 13-Point Poll Slide

    by Rebekah Wilce — October 25, 2012 - 12:34pm
  • Topics: Genetic Engineering, Campaign Finance, Food Rights Network, Public Relations

    • California Proposition 37 to label foods containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs) is up for a vote on Tuesday, November 6. It enjoyed broad popular support as of September, with a USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll showing support by 61 percent of registered voters.

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    Bain Capital and the Race to the Bottom in Manufacturing and Wages

    by Mary Bottari — October 24, 2012 - 10:44am
  • Topics: Labor

    • On the campaign trail, Mitt Romney wants to have his cake and eat it too. "Governments do not create jobs," a stern Romney told CNN's Candy Crowley twice during the second debate. Here in Wisconsin, however, he is running ads promising to "crack down on China" and create 12 million new jobs.

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    NFIB's "I Built My Business" Astroturf Bus Tour Gets Rolling in Wisconsin

    by Harriet Rowan — October 23, 2012 - 10:15am
  • Topics: Astroturf, Right Wing, Front Groups

    • The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) "I Built My Business" astroturf bus tour started rolling through Wisconsin this week in support of Republican candidates for office. NFIB advertises itself as the nonpartisan "Voice of Small Business," but CMD's new web resource NFIBexposed.org presents a wealth of facts that challenge that assertion.

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    Vote to Have a Session on ALEC at the 2013 National Conference for Media Reform

    by PRW Staff — October 23, 2012 - 8:19am
  • Topics: Activism, ALEC Exposed

    • Help CMD as we prepare for the National Conference for Media Reform (NCMR)! NCMR will be in Denver, CO on April 5-7, 2013. The conference is organized by the nonprofit media reform group Free Press, founded by John Nichols and Bob McChesney, and is dedicated to the fight for a more independent, robust and diverse media system in the United States, which is essential to our efforts to build a better democracy.

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    Walker Wins Paul Weyrich Award

    by Rebekah Wilce — October 22, 2012 - 10:59am
  • Topics: ALEC Exposed, Right Wing

    • Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, an alumnus of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) from his time as a state legislator, received an award named after one of ALEC's founders, Paul Weyrich, in February 2012. The award went unnoticed at the time as Walker battled a recall election, but was discovered by the "2old2care" blog.

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