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Wisconsin Reporter, which had previously defended O'Keefe and Wisconsin Club for Growth against allegations of improper coordination with Walker and his campaign, made no mention of the pay-to-play allegations in the days following Isikoff's story despite the national news coverage, according to ''Media Matters''. "Their silence on the story highlights the conflicts of interest that surround the outlet's reporting on Walker and the 'John Doe' investigations," ''Media Matters'' wrote.<ref name="media matters menards"/>
===[httphttps://www.sourcewatch.org/images/2/20/Assault_on_Clean_Election_Laws_final.pdf The Assault on Clean Election Laws: The Well-Funded Campaign to Legalize Coordination in Wisconsin and Nationwide]===
According to the press release relating to a report published by the Center for Media and Democracy in January 2015:<ref>Brendan Fischer, Center for Media and Democracy, [httphttps://www.sourcewatch.org/images/2/20/Assault_on_Clean_Election_Laws_final.pdf The Assault on Clean Election Laws: The Well-Funded Campaign to Legalize Coordination in Wisconsin and Nationwide], organizational report, January 13, 2015.</ref><ref>Center for Media and Democracy, [http://www.prwatch.org/news/2015/01/12711/cmd-issues-new-report-latest-assault-clean-election-laws CMD Issues New Report on Latest Assault on Clean Election Laws], organizational press release, January 13, 2015.</ref>
A bipartisan effort to enforce Wisconsin's longstanding laws governing coordination between campaigns and independent groups has been mislabeled a "partisan witch hunt" by a well-funded legal and media campaign, with the ultimate goal of undermining what remains of limits on big money in politics, according to a new report from the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD):
CMD's report seeks to correct the record, describe how such a warped portrayal came into existence, and warn that if this attack on the enforcement of campaign finance laws is successful, it could have significant consequences for transparency and anti-corruption laws in elections in Wisconsin and around the nation.
''Read the report [httphttps://www.sourcewatch.org/images/2/20/Assault_on_Clean_Election_Laws_final.pdf here].''
==Ties to the the Coalition for American Values==
