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Regulator, Captured: The Stephanie Timmermeyer Story

Timmermeyer’s career blurs the line between public service and corporate subservience; she has moved through the revolving door into government and back out again, working as a corporate attorney, then as secretary of West Virginia’s Department of Environmental Protection, and now as a Chesapeake lobbyist, but never forgetting who she really worked for (hint: not the public). As a regulator, she went soft on industry; as a corporate lobbyist, she leverages her regulatory experience to ease the way for Chesapeake. She is hardly the company’s sole investment in regulatory capture, but her career is a case study in the revolving door and all the skewed incentives that come with it.

ALEC’s Corporate Networks

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a “free-market association of state lawmakers” that also resembles a conservative lobbying group, is facing intense scrutiny for its role in helping corporations influence

Tax Day 2012

Last year on Tax Day we shared some figures from the recently published Big Bank Tax Drain report on the LittleSis blog, showing that six of the largest financial institutions

Rush Limbaugh and his advertisers

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