The very high profile, far-right, and expensive campaign efforts of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in 2010 has created a major headache for local chambers, which are breaking ties with the national group.
“We were getting pounded. We felt here, in Central Pennsylvania, that the ads they were running were not professional...
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce may have access to a shit ton of money, but they don't have the kind of membership support they like to claim.
For years, the US Chamber of Commerce overstated its membership numbers by a staggering 900 percent. After Mother Jones debunked its fuzzy math...
The Seattle Chamber of Commerce, being a local organization in a liberal city, with many liberal members represented, wants to make it crystal clear that they are not in any way associated with the the U.S. Chamber, which spent millions in the state to pick up the open 3rd district seat, and to oust Patty...
ThinkProgress is at it again, document how the foreign-funded Chamber of Commerce is trying to make bribing foreign governments easier.
Yesterday, the Chamber kicked off its U.S. Chamber Institute For Legal Reform Legal Reform Summit 2010, where it is advocating for its pro-corporate “legal reform” agenda. As a part of...
How much does corporate American and the GOP hate health reform?
So $100 million in ads tarring health reform have run since Obama signed the bill into law in March. And many ads on health care contain multiple falsehoods and distortions. Is this entirely to blame for making health reform a...
This is the pettiest FEC complaint ever, and particularly ironic considering who filed it.
Sen. Russ Feingold says he “supports” the messages he places on television.
But the conservative American Future Fund contends that doesn’t mean he necessarily “approves” of them.... [A] Federal Election Commission complaint filed against the endangered three-term...
This is a moment of levity in the ugly that is Karl Rove and his secret billionaire friends.
This season, Crossroads created a one-size-fits-all ad slamming targeted Democrats for supporting the Recovery Act. Running in different races across the country, the ad claims that while whichever state’s “economy is reeling,”...
ThinkProgress deserves a boatload of credit for turning the nation's attention to the huge amounts of money very shadowy groups on the Right--and the handful of people who are pulling the strings. Case in point, a story done today by NPR: "'Independent' Groups Behind Ads Not So Independent."
With these advertisers and...
Rep. Henry Waxman went into what is increasingly enemy territory Tuesday, speaking at a Chamber summit on U.S.-Israel business relations.
House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) knocked the business coalition for not disclosing its donors and said that it has not done enough to prove it is not spending...
The Times has a good story on the "secretive network of Republican donors" who are plotting the next election, writing about an invitation from Koch Industries to a network of the "ultrawealthy and the politically well-connected." They'll all be meeting in Palm Springs in January to plot how to take the White House.
...The real business of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is what's good for the "commerce" part and not so much the "U.S" part. Here's more from Think Progress on the Chamber's efforts in China.
Among the many lies told by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce recently, chief Chamber lobbyist Bruce Josten said...
While many of the Chamber's political attack ads are aimed at hitting Dems for their "anti-job record," a lot of their funding is coming from companies who have chosen to take those jobs overseas. ThinkProgress details how "the U.S. Chamber of Commerce actually works to send jobs overseas on behalf of its corporate members,...
