The Bradley Foundation in Wisconsin

[malaise]

Last edited Sat Oct 27, 2012, 11:20 AM - Edit history (1)

WHFF???? $350million for the 2012 campaign including voter suppression-great discussion on Melissa Harris-Perry

[Kolesar]

1. The Bradleys funded AEI and the Iraq War propaganda

Harry Bradley was a supporter of the John Birch society decades ago.
They are all over Wisconsin politics.

[malaise]

5. So Bradleys and Kochs are kindred spirits

for RW racist effries?

[Kolesar]

9. PNAC neocons per the wikipedia entry

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynde_and_Harry_Bradley_Foundation
and
2008 grant of $25,000 to FreedomWorks
2008 grant of $25,000 to Americans For Prosperity

They also funded charter schools lobbying.

Harry Bradley lost his friggin mind after labor struck his plant in Milwaukee. His heirs finally killed that union a year ago.

[malaise]

10. Thanks

I really need to spend some time reading about these despicable human beings

[PeaceNikki]

2. they have a long history of supporting evil

[malaise]

6. Sure looks that way

[ananda]

3. WI looks like a test case for..

.. how to turn a blue state red and put it in
the hands of corporate privatization interests...
even if a majority of people remain blue.

[malaise]

7. Citizens' United has to go

[hfojvt]

4. fascinating

I never heard of him, and I once worked/applied at Allen-Bradley

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

His ancestry traces back to William Bradley who died 1691 in New Haven, Ct.

His great grandfather Amos Bradley was a paper manufacturer in Dansville, Livingston, NY in the 1830s.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

8. Page 22 of "Banana Republicans: How the Right Wing...

is Turning America into a One-Party State" published in 2004.

I'll summarize:

--Milwaukee based
--Brothers Lynde and Harry
--Assets over $532 million
--Produced electronic and radio components
--Financial supporters of John Birch Society, American Enterprise Institute and Heritage Foundation
--Contributed to National Review
--GOALS: DEREGULATION, PRIVATIZATION AND ROLLBACK OF SOCIAL WELFARE PROGRAMS



It's an infuriating, highly informative read -- know thine enemy.