Lobbying

IRS Dark Money Reforms Would Curb Voter Registration, Leave Lobbying Groups Untouched

IRS Dark Money Reforms Would Curb Voter Registration, Leave Lobbying Groups Untouched IRS Dark Money Reforms Would Curb Voter Registration, Leave Lobbying Groups Untouched

The new rules proposed for 501(c)(4) issue groups may miss the mark. 

Jan 10, 2014 / Lee Fang

Third Way: ‘Majority of Our Financial Support’ From Wall Street, Business Executives

Third Way: ‘Majority of Our Financial Support’ From Wall Street, Business Executives Third Way: ‘Majority of Our Financial Support’ From Wall Street, Business Executives

Third Way concedes that most of its money comes from Wall Street executives.

Dec 11, 2013 / Lee Fang

ALEC Opposed Divestment From South Africa’s Apartheid Regime

ALEC Opposed Divestment From South Africa’s Apartheid Regime ALEC Opposed Divestment From South Africa’s Apartheid Regime

The conservative group ALEC, now in the news, also played a role in Nelson Mandela's struggles.

Dec 6, 2013 / Lee Fang

Third Way Shares Consultant With Group Spending Big to Defeat Third Way Co-Chairs

Third Way Shares Consultant With Group Spending Big to Defeat Third Way Co-Chairs Third Way Shares Consultant With Group Spending Big to Defeat Third Way Co-Chairs

Third Way's fundraising consultant's biggest client is a group devoted to defeating Third Way Democrats.

Dec 6, 2013 / Lee Fang

GOP Donors and K Street Fuel Third Way’s Advice for the Democratic Party

GOP Donors and K Street Fuel Third Way’s Advice for the Democratic Party GOP Donors and K Street Fuel Third Way’s Advice for the Democratic Party

The Democratic think tank Third Way relies on money from corporate interests, lobbyists and Republican donors.

Dec 3, 2013 / Lee Fang

CEOs With Massive Retirement Fortunes Push Social Security Cuts

CEOs With Massive Retirement Fortunes Push Social Security Cuts CEOs With Massive Retirement Fortunes Push Social Security Cuts

Members of Business Roundtable, a corporate lobby advocating for cuts to retirees’ benefts, have retirement acounts more than 1,200 times the size of the median American work...

Nov 19, 2013 / Zoë Carpenter

Getting Down to Big Business: A Conservative American Romance (Part 2)

Getting Down to Big Business: A Conservative American Romance (Part 2) Getting Down to Big Business: A Conservative American Romance (Part 2)

Big business used to buy into the center-left consensus. Then, suddenly, it didn’t. 

Nov 13, 2013 / Rick Perlstein

Campaigning (and Winning) on Climate Change

Campaigning (and Winning) on Climate Change Campaigning (and Winning) on Climate Change

Environmental groups leveraged millions to make climate change a key issue in the race for governor of Virginia and seats on a Washington State county council.  

Nov 6, 2013 / Zoë Carpenter

How States Taken Over by the GOP in 2010 Have Been Quietly Screwing Over the American Worker

How States Taken Over by the GOP in 2010 Have Been Quietly Screwing Over the American Worker How States Taken Over by the GOP in 2010 Have Been Quietly Screwing Over the American Worker

A broad campaign to strip employees of their rights is being fueled by corporate cash and conservative state lawmakers. 

Oct 31, 2013 / Zoë Carpenter

Sorry, There’s No Evidence Big Business Has Abandoned the Tea Party or GOP

Sorry, There’s No Evidence Big Business Has Abandoned the Tea Party or GOP Sorry, There’s No Evidence Big Business Has Abandoned the Tea Party or GOP

Despite press chatter of a civil war, there’s no evidence big business has divorced the GOP or Tea Party. 

Oct 31, 2013 / Lee Fang

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