http://www.alternet.org/story/151951/6_shady_right-wing_groups_pouring_money_into_today%27s_wisconsin_recall?page=entireAlternet | By Sarah Jaffe
6 Shady Right-Wing Groups Pouring Money Into Today's Wisconsin Recall
As Wisconsin progressives fight to recall Scott Walker's allies in the state senate, here are some of the conservative groups funding their right-wing agenda.August 8, 2011 |
Today will see the recall elections of six Wisconsin state senators who supported Republican Governor Scott Walker's budget cuts, and specifically his attacks on the right of workers to bargain collectively.
- snip -
But as McCabe noted, the difference is in the disclosure. While, as Greg Sargent at the Washington Post pointed out, this has rightly been labor's fight since the beginning, the sudden influx of conservative groups from all over the country means a lot of untraceable money. Here are six of the groups putting their money on the line in hopes of Republican victories.
1.) Club For Growth
2.) ALEC
3.) Wisconsin Family Action
6.) Americans For Prosperity
MORE