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Violence, Abuse, and Death at For-Profit Prisons: A GEO Group Rap Sheet

by Brendan Fischer — September 26, 2013 - 8:38am
  • Topics: Democracy, Outsourcing America Exposed

    • This week CMD launched a new web resource, OutsourcingAmericaExposed, where we will detail the privatizers and profiteers selling out our democracy. The website will be populated with "rap sheets" or corporate profiles of America's top outsourcing companies.

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    CMD Responds to Senator Vukmir's Claim about Open Records

    by PRW Staff — September 18, 2013 - 5:31pm
  • Topics: ALEC Exposed, Democracy, Wisconsin Protests

    • CONTACT: Brendan Fischer, brendan@prwatch.org

    The following is the Center for Media and Democracy's response to Senator Leah Vukmir's statement regarding CMD's public records case and her claim that she has "fully complied" with CMD's public records request. The following can be attributed to CMD General Counsel Brendan Fischer:

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    Dollarocracy: How Big Money Undermines Our Democracy

    by PRW Staff — September 17, 2013 - 10:56pm
  • Topics: Democracy

    • This week's cover story in the Nation Magazine features two friends of CMD, John Nichols and Bob McChesney, writing about the Dollarocracy, the title of their new book by Persius Books. Also this week, the authors start their Dollarocracy vs. Democracy book tour which entails hundreds of appearances across the nation.

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    Revealed: Extensive Koch Links to New Right-Wing $250 Million Mega Fund

    by Nick Surgey — September 16, 2013 - 6:26am
  • Topics: Right Wing, Front Groups, Election 2012, Democracy

    • Freedom Partners (FP) -- a funding group previously unheard of before it shared exclusive and highly selective details about itself with Politico last week -- has extensive hidden connections to Koch Industries and to charities connected to Charles Koch, according to new research by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD).

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    Wisconsin Attorney General Seeks to Vitiate Open Records Law to Protect ALEC’s National Treasurer

    by PRW Staff — September 13, 2013 - 6:43am
  • Topics: ALEC Exposed, Democracy, Lobbying, Politics, Wisconsin Protests

    • CONTACT: Alex Oberley, 608-260-9713, Alex@PRwatch.org

    Madison -- Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen has taken the unprecedented step of asserting that a state legislator cannot be held accountable for refusing to disclose public records in response to a lawful open records request by the Center for Media and Democracy.

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    After Student Protests, Sallie Mae Becomes 50th Corporation to Dump ALEC

    by Brendan Fischer — September 9, 2013 - 7:34am
  • Topics: Activism, ALEC Exposed, Corporations, Democracy, Education, Politics

    • Sallie Mae has dropped its membership in the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) after a student-led campaign demanding that the nation's largest student loan lender cut ties with the controversial organization. Sallie Mae is the 50th corporation to publicly drop its ALEC membership in the past year-and-a-half as the organization has come under increasing public scrutiny.

    Editorial

    Scott Walker Backs Down, Rescinds $500,000 Grant

    by PRW Staff — September 7, 2013 - 7:47am
  • Topics: Democracy

    • Last week, CMD reported that a small GOP lobby shop tied to the Tea Party and David Koch's Americans for Prosperity group was awarded a $500,000 grant in a backdoor, sweetheart deal cooked up by ALEC leadership in the State Legislature and sanctioned by the Walker administration.

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    Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas Files Brief in Opposition to ALEC's Effort to Evade Open Records Law

    by Brendan Fischer — September 4, 2013 - 7:13am
  • Topics: ALEC Exposed, Democracy, Politics

    • The Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas has filed a brief with state Attorney General Greg Abbott in support of the Center for Media and Democracy's request for records pertaining to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), and further refuting ALEC's effort to declare its communications immune from the state public records law.

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    $500,000 Sweetheart Deal for Koch-Tied GOP Lobby Group Moves Forward

    by Brendan Fischer — August 29, 2013 - 3:51pm
  • Topics: ALEC Exposed, Democracy, Politics, Wisconsin Protests

    • A Republican-dominated committee voted Thursday to recommend a half-million-dollar grant for promoting hunting and fishing to a group with no record in outdoors training, but with plenty of lobbying experience and close ties to outgoing Assembly Majority Leader Scott Suder. The group, United Sportsmen of Wisconsin, will spend most of the $500,000 in taxpayer dollars on salaries for Tea Party leaders who have long railed against government spending.

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    Wisconsin Prepares to Hand Half-Million in Taxpayer Funds to Koch-Tied GOP Lobby Shop

    by Brendan Fischer — August 27, 2013 - 9:13am
  • Topics: ALEC Exposed, Corporations, Democracy, Politics, Wisconsin Protests

    • A small GOP lobby shop tied to the Tea Party and David Koch's Americans for Prosperity, and which was active in the state's recent recall elections, was awarded $500,000 in taxpayer dollars in what some are calling a backdoor, sweetheart deal cooked up by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) State Chair, outgoing Assembly Majority Leader Scott Suder.

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