InfluenceWatch Friday
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Obama Administration
‘Bonkers’ About Batteries: The Unauthorized Biography of Jennifer Granholm
Earlier this month the Doomberg page on Substack chewed up the news that Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm thinks every U.S. military vehicle will be electric powered by 2030. What followed…
Corruption in the Labor Movement: Labor Rackets
Corruption by labor union officials, whether in service to themselves, political allies, or organized crime syndicates, has been a fixture of American labor history since the labor movement first began…
Corruption in the Labor Movement: A New Cast of Thieves
What is likely the largest federal union corruption investigation since the 1990s centered on a kickback scheme run through a joint union-management training center. Fiat Chrysler executives and agents would…
Corruption in the Labor Movement: Philly’s Labor Fixer
Before 2019, John “Johnny Doc” Dougherty Jr., the longtime business manager of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 98, was one of the most powerful men in Pennsylvania. From…
Corruption in the Labor Movement: Indictments
It has been over 30 years since then-U.S. Attorney Rudy Giuliani announced a civil Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations lawsuit against the International Brotherhood of Teamsters that would lead to…
The Three Rivers of Money in Politics
Private money in politics flows through three main rivers: money given directly to candidates ($5 billion); soft money, sometimes called "dark money" ($133 million); and charitable giving to public policy…
Federal Charters and the Left’s Long-Term ESG Goals
Recent indications suggest that support for environmental, social, and governance (ESG) activism—sometimes called “woke capitalism”—may be wavering within corporate America. Even BlackRock appears to be backing off its support for…
Juneteenth 2022
One year and one day ago, President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act, making June 19 a federal holiday marking the day the last slaves in the…
Today’s Left Opposes Everything Jimmy Carter Proposed on Elections
In 2005, Carter co-authored a study on America’s election systems with James Baker III. The resulting Baker-Carter Commission report still stands as a monument to how to run free, fair,…