Joe Manchin's Deep Corporate Ties

Oct 27, 2021 View Original Article
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  • Policy Leaning

    -4% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    8% Positive

Bias Score Analysis

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"Other widely adopted ALEC bills involved reducing benefits for welfare recipients and allowing companies to self-audit their compliance with environmental laws and then seal those records from the public."
Positive
10% Conservative
"Since its founding in 1973, the organization's work has laid the foundation for thousands of laws passed by state legislatures that have weakened labor unions, redirected public-school funding to private schools, hobbled the welfare state, restricted voting rights, and blocked or reshaped environmental regulations in favor of business interests."
Positive
4% Conservative
"Welfare is Methuselized poverty, and it replaces family with dependence on government."
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-16% Liberal
"McCoy added that their conversations were aimed at ridding legislation of negative stuff -- emissions reductions, taxes on fossil-fuel companies."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"Manchin also sued the E.P.A. and the Army Corps of Engineers over new rules that limited mountaintop-removal mining, accusing the Obama Administration of attempting to destroy our coal industry."
Negative
-34% Liberal
"Afterward, there was a lunchtime presentation of ALEC's aual Adam Smith Free Enterprise Award, which was given to two of the organization's funders: David and Charles Koch."
Positive
20% Conservative
"Prominent guests included Newt Gingrich, who became Speaker of the House the following year, and Grover Norquist, the anti-tax advocate."
Positive
6% Conservative
"Since Biden took office, Manchin has continued to take positions that align with ALEC's ideology."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"ALEC is unique in the sense that it puts legislators and companies together and they create policy collectively, Scott Pruitt, a former ALEC leader and President Trump's head of the E.P.A., explained to Governing magazine, in 2003."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"ALEC is unique in the sense that it puts legislators and companies together and they create policy collectively, Scott Pruitt, a former ALEC leader and President Trump's head of the E.P.A., explained to Governing magazine, in 2003."
Negative
-16% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Other widely adopted ALEC bills involved reducing benefits for welfare recipients and allowing companies to self-audit their compliance with environmental laws and then seal those records from the public. "
52% : Since its founding in 1973, the organization's work has laid the foundation for thousands of laws passed by state legislatures that have weakened labor unions, redirected public-school funding to private schools, hobbled the welfare state, restricted voting rights, and blocked or reshaped environmental regulations in favor of business interests. "
42% : Welfare is Methuselized poverty, and it replaces family with dependence on government.
36% : McCoy added that their conversations were aimed at ridding legislation of "negative stuff" -- emissions reductions, taxes on fossil-fuel companies.
33% : Manchin also sued the E.P.A. and the Army Corps of Engineers over new rules that limited mountaintop-removal mining, accusing the Obama Administration of attempting "to destroy our coal industry."

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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