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A Referendum on "Legitimate Rape": Akin, Mourdock Defeated

by Sara Jerving — November 7, 2012 - 10:00am
  • Topics: Right Wing, Health, Women

    • The people of Missouri and Indiana were, in effect, given a referendum on "legitimate rape" on election day, and they soundly rejected the concept by defeating U.S. Senate candidates Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock. The two legislators had stirred controversy over their verbal attempts to characterize the validity of a rape victim's experience in order to push forward their anti-abortion agendas.

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    The Anatomy of a Lie: Right-Wing "Media Trackers" Strikes Again with Libelous Smear

    by Mary Bottari — October 31, 2012 - 8:13am
  • Topics: Right Wing, Propaganda

    • The Wisconsin-based, right-wing website Media Trackers reached a new low on Monday when it printed a libelous story against the partner of State Rep. Mark Pocan, accusing him of sending bizarre text threats to a volunteer for Chad Lee, Pocan's opponent in his race for Congress. Although Media Trackers took down the story late in the day, the damage had been done. It was picked up by right-wing sources in Wisconsin and across the nation. The organization's "mea culpa" fails to apologize or take responsibility for its role in the smear and the outlet still has a picture of Pocan and his partner Phil Frank on the front page of its website with a note that it would "continue to follow developments in this story" -- as if there were a story to follow.

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    Meet the Network Hiding the Koch Money: "Donors Trust" and "Donors Capital Fund"

    by PRW Staff — October 29, 2012 - 7:00am
  • Topics: State Policy Network, Right Wing, Corporations

    • - Connor Gibson, Greenpeace

    Earlier this year internal documents from the Heartland Institute, a major hub of climate change denial and right-wing extremism, were publicly leaked. The documents exposed the Heartland Institute's funders and strategies for attacking climate science, and led to a mass exodus of Heartland's corporate funders.

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

    by Harriet Rowan — October 23, 2012 - 9:15am
  • 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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    Walker Wins Paul Weyrich Award

    by Rebekah Wilce — October 22, 2012 - 9:59am
  • 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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    60 Plus, a Dark Money Group, Peddles Partisan Spin at Campaign Stop in Madison

    by Will Dooling — October 5, 2012 - 8:01am
  • Topics: Right Wing

    • At a recent rally in Madison, Wisconsin, 60 Plus Association President Jim Martin had a lot to say about Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, and the dire threat liberals supposedly pose to Medicare, but he failed to answer basic questions from the crowd about the funding for his own organization.

    Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rules against Voter ID, for now

    by Brendan Fischer — September 18, 2012 - 2:12pm
  • Topics: ALEC Exposed, Right Wing, Democracy, Propaganda, Race / Ethnic Issues

    • The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has vacated a lower court ruling that had upheld the state's voter ID law, setting the stage for the law to be blocked before the November elections.

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    Paul Weyrich's Troika Reunited: ALEC Partners with Republican Study Committee at Heritage Foundation

    by Brendan Fischer — September 12, 2012 - 7:44am
  • Topics: ALEC Exposed, Right Wing, Front Groups, U.S. Congress, Think Tanks

    • Three right-wing organizations founded nearly forty years ago by conservative activist Paul Weyrich are rediscovering their shared origins. The Republican Study Committee, a caucus of 169 right-wing Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives, is establishing a partnership with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the controversial "corporate bill mill" for state legislators, and their first meeting is scheduled at the Heritage Foundation headquarters. Each of those three organizations -- the RSC, ALEC, and the Heritage Foundation -- were founded in 1973 by Weyrich. (Weyrich passed away in 2008.)

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    Romney Spokesperson Demoted for Blocking Questions about Abortion; Helped Scott Walker in the Recall

    by Brendan Fischer — August 26, 2012 - 7:34am
  • Topics: Right Wing, Politics

    • A communications director for Mitt Romney's campaign, Ciara Matthews, has been demoted after prohibiting reporters from asking the GOP presidential candidate questions about Todd Akin or abortion. Matthews was recently communications director for Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's recall campaign and has long been an anti-abortion advocate -- and even wrote last year that Republicans should be speaking more about abortion.

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    Outside Groups Push WI GOP to the Right in U.S. Senate Primary

    by Brendan Fischer — August 13, 2012 - 9:41am
  • Topics: Right Wing, Election 2012, U.S. Congress, Democracy, Politics, Wisconsin Protests

    • Wisconsin's hotly-contested race to select its GOP candidate for the U.S. Senate is another battle between out-of-state Super PACs and Tea Party-associated nonprofits spending millions to convince election-weary voters to select their preferred candidate. The influx of outside spending is fueling a race to the right as candidates compete for the label of "true conservative." Here is a rundown of the groups spending big to influence Wisconsin's GOP primary.

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