Secret lives of right-wing judicial influencers

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2019/05/an-influential-dark-money-group-turns-off-the-lights-for-the-last-time/?utm_source=OpenSecrets+Mail+List&utm_campaign=f802a99f6f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_03_07_10_01_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8ce7c3ba3d-f802a99f6f-212208581

Are electric vehicle subsidies a payoff to campaign donors?

https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2019/05/23/tax_credits_for_electric_cars_must_end_110448.html

This critique of EV subsidies mirrors charges about fossil fuel subsidies. 

Charlie Cooper 

Secretive conservative legal group funded by $17 million mystery donor before Kavanaugh fight

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2019/05/dark-money-group-funded-by-17million-mystery-donor-before-kavanaugh/

report on protecting voter databses

https://www.pogo.org/report/2018/11/election-day-under-attack-how-states-can-mitigate-the-potential-damage-of-hacked-voter-registration-rolls/?utm_source=2019-sub-d&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=eng-constitution-20190508&utm_content=link1#heading-0

 

The Project on Government Oversight is a non-partisan watchdog group. In this report, the main recommendation is that full and independent computerized backup of states’ election databases be maintained to mitigate the risk of the election database being destroyed or compromised by hackers.

 

Charlie Cooper

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Get Money Out – Maryland (GMOM)

 “We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.” – Louis Brandeis

 

 

Company that controlled Maryland's voter database is sold

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/news/lincoln-rackhouse-acquires-bytegrid-gets-three-data-centers/

 

But the unit that now has the contract with Maryland Board of Elections (Sidus Group) is no longer part of Bytegrid.

 

Charlie Cooper

Get Money Out – Maryland (GMOM)