by Karoli on November 27, 2009
If you follow me on Twitter, you know I was vying for my dream job. This was my writing sample. I didn’t get the job, so figured I’d share this special recipe with you all instead.
Joe Lieberman is dead wrong when he says it’s better not to have health care reform than it would be [...]
Health insurers are running their opposition to health care reform just like the tobacco lobby did 15 years ago. Working with established right-wing think tanks with varying interests, they are trying to mobilize businesses, religious leaders, tax reformers, and the media to carry their message that health care reform is bad for our country. Here’s how it was done, then and now. Only now, we can tell them “Not this time.”
by Karoli on September 18, 2009
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I’ve been busy working on a project involving FEC and IRS filings for political action committees and astroturf organizations, and while researching, I fell into the FEC filing for Minority Leader John Boehner’s PAC, The Freedom Project. The Freedom Project is described this way on their website:
The Freedom Project 1) provides direct financial [...]
by Karoli on September 14, 2009
Dear David Sirota,
The heady rush of your own celebrity, combined with a clear agenda to sell more books appears to have distorted your reaction to a fairly ordinary, commonplace question posed by me on Friday directly to you.
You wrote this post, entitled UnitedHealth Lobbyist Announces Pelosi Fundraiser As She Begins Backing Off Pub Option. Within [...]