tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3426800777521979578.post2700534048106132251..comments2024-02-20T19:58:27.733-06:00Comments on Jake's Wisconsin Funhouse: GOP plan working- UW enrollment, programs fall while Koch/Bradley influence grows. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3426800777521979578.post-12377778244177625882017-10-08T20:19:48.805-05:002017-10-08T20:19:48.805-05:00Thanks for reporting this, and thanks to Bruce Mur...Thanks for reporting this, and thanks to Bruce Murphy. The observation that these right-wing groups want the kind of research that kept the tobacco industry alive is exactly what we face now in Wisconsin.<br /><br />In the 1990s, my job took me to George Mason U. near DC, a state school heavily funded by the Kochs. Richmond-based Philip Morris led the tobacco fight against the government, using many George Mason econ department people for their bought research. They were caught at it, which caused quite a scandal (https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Cash_for_Comments_Economists_Network). Noah Williams would have fit well into that whole scam, and seems the GOP have revived the arrangement now with CROWE and the Tommy Thompson PR flack operation.<br /><br />And Art Pope (long a Koch ally, and board member of Americans for Prosperity and the Atlas Economic Research Foundation) was brought over to Bradley from North Carolina to do precisely what he did there: buying control of politics by paying and creating all sorts of institutes and non-profits to promote Kochdom (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/10/10/state-for-sale).<br /><br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com