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Money trail from Media Transparency

Money trail from Media Transparency

Posted Oct 1, 2003 8:07 UTC (Wed) by kmself (subscriber, #11565)
In reply to: Proprietary software--banned in Boston? (News.com) by rknop
Parent article: Proprietary software--banned in Boston? (News.com)

Media Transparancy shows that Citizens Against Government Waste receives funding from the John M. Olin Foundation ("grew out of a family manufacturing business (chemical and munitions), funds right-wing think tanks") and The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc. ("the country's largest and most influential right-wing foundation"), which curiously are the very same organizations funding the Alex de Tocqueville Institution, known for publishing Opening the Open Source Debate May 31, 2002.


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