{"id":167963,"date":"2015-07-25T05:53:58","date_gmt":"2015-07-25T05:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/brendan-fischer-on-wisconsin-campaign-corruption-lee-fang-on-eric-holders-revolving-door\/"},"modified":"2015-07-25T05:53:58","modified_gmt":"2015-07-25T05:53:58","slug":"brendan-fischer-on-wisconsin-campaign-corruption-lee-fang-on-eric-holders-revolving-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/brendan-fischer-on-wisconsin-campaign-corruption-lee-fang-on-eric-holders-revolving-door\/","title":{"rendered":"Brendan Fischer on Wisconsin Campaign Corruption, Lee Fang on Eric Holder\u2019s Revolving Door"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\">\n<div id=\"wrapperMI_0\" class=\"wrap-mjp  \" style=\"padding:5px 0px 40px 0px;margin:0px;width:100%\">\n<div class=\"Eabove-mjp\" id=\"Eabove-mjp_0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"subwrap-MI\">\n<div class=\"jp-innerwrap\">\n<div class=\"innerx\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"innerleft\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"innerright\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"innertab\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"interface-mjp verdana-mjp\" style=\"height:71px\" id=\"interfaceMI_0\">\n<div class=\"MI-image Himg right-mjp\" id=\"MI_image_0\" style=\"width:auto;height:71px;overflow:hidden\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"T_mp3j_0\" class=\"player-track-title left-mjp norm-mjp plain-mjp childNorm-mjp childPlain-mjp\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"bars_holder\">\n<div class=\"loadMI_mp3j\" id=\"load_mp3j_0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"poscolMI_mp3j\" id=\"poscol_mp3j_0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"posbarMI_mp3j\" id=\"posbar_mp3j_0\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"P-Time-MI_0\" class=\"jp-play-time\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"T-Time-MI_0\" class=\"jp-total-time\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"statusMI_0\" class=\"statusMI\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"transport-MI\">\n<div class=\"play-mjp\" id=\"playpause_mp3j_0\">Play<\/div>\n<div class=\"stop-mjp\" id=\"stop_mp3j_0\">Stop<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"buttons-wrap-mjp\" id=\"buttons-wrap-mjp_0\">\n<div class=\"mp3j-popout-MI\" id=\"lpp_mp3j_0\">pop out<\/div>\n<div id=\"download_mp3j_0\" class=\"dloadmp3-MI\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mjp-volwrap\">\n<div class=\"MIsliderVolume\" id=\"vol_mp3j_0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"innerExt1\" id=\"innerExt1_0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"innerExt2\" id=\"innerExt2_0\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"Ebetween-mjp\" id=\"Ebetween-mjp_0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"listwrap_mp3j\" id=\"L_mp3j_0\">\n<div class=\"wrapper-mjp\">\n<div class=\"playlist-colour\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"wrapper-mjp\">\n<ul class=\"ul-mjp darken1-mjp verdana-mjp med-mjp childNorm-mjp childPlain-mjp left-mjp\" id=\"UL_mp3j_0\">\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div id=\"mp3j_finfo_0\" class=\"mp3j-finfo\">\n<div class=\"mp3j-finfo-sleeve\">\n<div id=\"mp3j_finfo_gif_0\" class=\"mp3j-finfo-gif\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"mp3j_finfo_txt_0\" class=\"mp3j-finfo-txt\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"mp3j-finfo-close\" id=\"mp3j_finfo_close_0\">X<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"mp3j_dlf_0\" class=\"mp3j-dlframe\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"mp3j-nosolution\" id=\"mp3j_nosolution_0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"Ebelow-mjp\" id=\"Ebelow-mjp_0\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>MP3jPLAYLISTS.MI_0 = [<br \/>\n\t name: &#8220;1. 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First up: A Wisconsin court has just handed Gov. Scott Walker a &#8220;big victory,&#8221; headlines in the <strong>Washington Post<\/strong> and elsewhere declared. One might&#8217;ve hoped they&#8217;d lead with what the ruling&#8211;about Walker&#8217;s abuse of campaign finance rules&#8211;did for democracy and the public&#8217;s right to know who&#8217;s paying what to whom in<i> public<\/i> office. We&#8217;ll talk with Brendan Fischer, general counsel at the Center for Media and Democracy, about what just happened in Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fair.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/EricHolder.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-5574216\" src=\"http:\/\/fair.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/EricHolder.jpg\" alt=\"Eric Holder (cc photo: North Charleston)\" width=\"225\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Also on the show: The sense is that the joke is on anyone who&#8217;s at all surprised to see former US Attorney General Eric Holder miss nary a beat going from investigating big financial interests to representing them at law firm Covington &amp; Burling. Elite media&#8217;s utter lack of interest in the move suggests that outrage is outre, but how might journalists talk about this sort of democracy-mocking shenanigan without normalizing it? Reporter Lee Fang writes for <strong>The Intercept<\/strong> and <strong>The Nation<\/strong>, among other outlets. He&#8217;s followed the revolving door for years; we&#8217;ll talk with him about that.<\/p>\n<p>And first, as usual, we take a look back at recent press.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LINKS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Five Things to Know About the Scott Walker John Doe Ruling,&#8221; by Brendan Fischer (<strong>PR Watch<\/strong>, <a title=\"PR Watch:  Five Things to Know About the Scott Walker John Doe Ruling\" href=\"http:\/\/www.prwatch.org\/news\/2015\/07\/12887\/five-things-know-about-scott-walker-john-doe-ruling\" target=\"_blank\">7\/16\/15<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Eric Holder Returns as Hero to Law Firm That Lobbies for Big Banks,&#8221; by Lee Fang (<strong>The Intercept<\/strong>, <a title=\"Intercept: Eric Holder Returns as Hero to Law Firm That Lobbies for Big Banks\" href=\"https:\/\/firstlook.org\/theintercept\/2015\/07\/06\/eric-holder-returns-law-firm-lobbies-big-banks\/\" target=\"_blank\">7\/6\/15<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission from <a href=\"http:\/\/fair.org\/zmail\/brendan-fischer-on-wisconsin-campaign-corruption-lee-fang-on-eric-holders-revolving-door\/\">FAIR<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Play Stop pop out X MP3jPLAYLISTS.MI_0 = [ name: &#8220;1. 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