Politics

A CMD Special Report: Who Is the League of American Voters? The First in a Series on the Squawkers for Walker

By Lisa Graves

MADISON--A Special Report from the Center for Media Democracy, part one of a new series. A gaggle of secretly funded DC groups has launched an expensive PR blitz in Wisconsin in support of Scott Walker's controversial efforts to undermine union rights, part of a national assault on worker rights. A few employee unions have also begun running ads, but their sources (employee dues) are not kept hidden from public view. The total amount of anti-union spending in the works by groups funded by corporations or corporate CEOs or their foundations is unknown. What is known is that many such groups hide behind tax provisions that allow them to keep the identities of their major funders secret, insulating from public scrutiny the wealthy financial interests they are fronting and that are largely bankrolling their general operations.

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Full post as published by PR Watch on March 03, 2011 (boomark / email).