Today the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled for Governor Charlie Baker in a lawsuit underwritten by Charles Koch and sponsored by Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance/Fiscal Alliance Foundation in which MFA sought to undo the governor’s emergency public health powers—just as Covid-19 is raging across the land. It wasn’t close. This was really a case about conflicting ideologies….
Category: Charles Koch
GOP: The Party of Property Sovereignty, Not the Party of Lincoln
In 1859 Abraham Lincoln was invited to Boston for a speaking engagement, but could not come. Instead, he wrote a Letter to H.L. Pierce and the Boston Republicans in which he mused upon how the political parties had switched positions over the years on the questions of liberty and property. The Democrats had been the…
UnKoch Tufts
Massachusetts has a new Center for State Policy Analysis at Tufts University to provide analysis of pending legislation and that’s good news. The center is being funded by Charles Koch and that’s bad news. The basics of the new center are laid out in CommonwealthMagazine in New Tufts Center to Offer Independent Analysis of Legislation,…
Charles Koch Buys into National Parents Union
There’s millions of dollars sloshing around Massachusetts Parents United and National Parents Union these days. Some of it is from Charles Koch. That’s the takeaway from a recent story in the Walton-funded online publication The74: The Koch connection was apparent when Charles Koch put a proxy on the board of National Parents Union….
Oyez! Oyez! Approach the Bar for The Case of Charles Koch v. Charles Baker!
Today the Fiscal Alliance Foundation, associated with the Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance, announced a lawsuit on behalf of business owners and clergy claiming that Governor Charlie Baker lacks the authority to keep businesses or religious services shut down during the coronavirus crisis. That’s not the interesting part. The interesting part is that the legal representation is…
Coronavirus Politics: Follow the Money
Politics doesn’t recede in times of crisis it accelerates, because crisis provides ideologues and interests the opportunity to advance their pet policy prescriptions. Just scrolling down Twitter this morning provides a sense of this. Read this retweet from that unmatched source of education information in Massachusetts, Tracy Novick: OMG, taxes on…
Two and a Half Ways (Maybe 3?) the Waltons (and Charles Koch?) Welcome Themselves into the Democratic Primaries
In the world of dark money, things are never what they seem. So as the Democrats try to pick a presidential nominee is it a surprise that the Waltons and Charles Koch (?) are funding front operations to influence the process, disrupting an Elizabeth Warren speech, forming an anti-union “union”, and trying to nudge the…