Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance, the Koch-tied operation, held a press event in Boston with other New England Koch allied fronts and I always wonder what milquetoast description the media that cover MFA will hide behind. How about “fiscal watchdogs” (Boston Herald)? Or this one: “Business-minded, small government groups.” Here’s one I’ve seen often: “right-leaning.” MassFiscal is…
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Recently the Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance’s non-profit lawyer the Koch-funded ($1 million per year) New Civil Liberties Alliance announced it would appeal a Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision against MassFiscal’s allies. The decision upheld Governor Baker’s emergency public health powers during the Covid pandemic. NCLA not only lost the case 6-0 but got laughed out of…
How Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance and Paul Craney Screwed Ryan Fattman
Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance’s Paul Craney wrote what may seem to be a defense of Senator Ryan Fattman from an Office of Campaign and Political Finance investigation. It’s more a guilt letter because, you see, it is Mass Fiscal itself that has screwed Senator Fattman. Mr. Craney’s piece in Commonwealth Magazine is titled Fattman Case Deserves…
Mass Fiscal’s Fraudulent Voter Fraud Forum
On Tuesday dark money front Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance will get back into the voter suppression business by hosting a forum featuring Hans von Spakovsky. Could this be the same Hans von Spakovsky found by a federal district court to be not at all credible as an “expert” on voter fraud? Why yes, it is that…
Mass Fiscal Goes RINO Hunting for Charlie Baker
“Bring me the head of David Ismay!” cried out Paul Craney, and it was so. And thus an early skirmish in the Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance’s campaign to hunt down and kill off RINO Charlie Baker ended in a decisive rout for the dark money front Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance. Ismay was Governor Baker’s undersecretary for climate…
Desrosiers v. The Governor: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Body Slams Charles Koch
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….
Right Wing Reopeners Move on Schools. And, Is Charlie Baker More Like a Commie or a Fascist?
A new prong of the Reopen movement has launched in Massachusetts with a splashy website and professional media push debut but preesenting the same old question: who is funding it? And then there is the burning question the Foley Hoag partner David R. Geiger poses in CommonwealthMagazine: is Governor Charlie Baker more like a Chinese…
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…
The Growing Koch Presence in Massachusetts
There is an essential piece in today’s Washington Post about the ReOpen America campaign, Inside the conservative networks backing anti-quarantine protests and no quote is more important for Massachusetts than this one from Professor Robert Brulle, who exposed the Koch Brothers funding of the climate denial industry: “The involvement of the Koch institutional apparatus in…
Trump and Voter Suppression
An odd byproduct of Donald Trump being extremely stupid is that he sometimes says the quiet parts out loud. He did that the other day when he all but admitted that Republican electoral prospects depend on voter suppression. From the Washington Post’s Aaron Blake: In an interview on “Fox…