Bradley Foundation continues to fund Wisconsin's conservative websites

[mitty14u2]

Source: The Cap Times

It will be almost another year before we start to figure out what nonprofit groups were up to in 2013, but the publicly-accessible tax documents from 2012 are finally beginning to trickle in. And once again they show that conservative groups in Wisconsin are largely underwritten by one powerful Milwaukee-based group, the Lynde & Harry Bradley Foundation.

Bradley, which reported assets exceeding $600 million in 2012, doles out money across the country to conservative political groups, such as Americans for Tax Reform, the Heritage Foundation and Americans for Prosperity.

But their money is particularly influential in Wisconsin. Bradley's CEO is Michael Grebe, a former UW regent, former chairman and CEO of the Foley & Lardner law firm and co-chair of Walker's 2010 gubernatorial campaign.

The biggest Wisconsin beneficiary of Bradley's largesse in 2012 was American Majority, a group that trains conservative activists to run for office and also runs an online investigative website, Media Trackers, that aggressively seeks to dig up dirt on Democrats and liberals.



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Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.

[okaawhatever]

1. This is why we need to overturn citizens united and reinstate the media laws and deregulation.

This is just another example of creating/shaping public opinion through money and media.

[KoKo]

2. Indeed...and I think they "in part fund" some features on PBS?

I've seen their name here and there...but, whatever...these Foundations on the Right seem to be more able to get their message across than those who fund Bill Moyers..these days.

[calimary]

5. We need to do more than that.

We need to go after their money. We need to go after their cloak of secrecy and privacy. We need to redefine what a "foundation" is - if its reason for being is funding political causes. They get tax exempt status for "foundations." We need to figure out how to head this off, undercut it, and permanently disable it.

[mitty14u2]

3. Bradley Foundation Wikipedia

In the early 1990s the foundation helped support The American Spectator, which at the time was researching damaging material on President Bill Clinton. The Bradley Foundation has provided funding for the Project for a New American Century (PNAC). PNAC brought together prominent members of the George H. W. Bush administration, including Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Perle, and Paul Wolfowitz, in the late 1990s to articulate their neoconservative foreign policy, including sending a letter to President Bill Clinton urging him to invade Iraq.

Latest Bradley Prize Winners

2013 Roger Ailes

Latest grantees

These are among the latest grants awarded to conservative organizations:

2008 grant of $25,000 to FreedomWorks[6]
2008 grant of $25,000 to Americans For Prosperity[6]
2007 grant of $100,000 to Heritage Foundation[7]
2006 grant of $100,000 to Heritage Foundation[8]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Foundation

These people are dangerous and sick, absorbed and dwelling in a alternate world, full of Neoconservatives and total right wing nuts for and by the few, very f&$king scary group. (1990s to articulate their neoconservative foreign policy, including sending a letter to President Bill Clinton urging him to invade Iraq.)

[Myrina]

4. They also funded that whacko that wrote "The Bell Curve" 20+ years ago ....

... about 'cranium size' and the inferiority of African Americans ...

[strikeforce]

6. roger ailes

won the 2013 bradley prize ?

OH MY FREAKIN GOD !!!!!!!!!!