Mary Bottari is the deputy director of the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD).
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The Key to Tammy Baldwin’s Landslide Re-Election? Exposing Her Opponent’s Shady Ties to ALEC
Targeted with $14 million in outside spending, the Wisconsin senator fought back by tagging her opponent as a servant of special interests.
Mary Bottari
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Labor
ALEC Is Pushing a New Slate of Viciously Anti-Worker, Pro-Corporate Laws
Mary Bottari
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InvestigationGoodman Institute
Behind Janus: Documents Reveal Decade-Long Plot to Kill Public-Sector Unions
The Supreme Court case Janus v. AFSCME is poised to decimate public-sector unions—and it’s been made possible by a network of right-wing billionaires, think tanks and corporations.
Mary Bottari
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Labor
Anti-union Effort in Kentucky Is Ripped Straight from the Koch Playbook
Mary Bottari