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ALEC Exposed
ALEC Exposed: State Legislative Bills Drafted by Secretive Corporate-Lawmaker Coalition
This week the Center for Media and Democracy released 800 model bills, legislation that is straight out of the corporate playbook and drafted by the American Legislative Exchange Council.
The groups membership includes both state lawmakers and corporate executives who gather behind closed doors to discuss and vote on draft legislation.
ALEC has come under increasing scrutiny in recent months for its role in crafting bills to attack worker rights, to roll back environmental regulations, privatize education, deregulate major industries, and pass voter ID laws.
Thanks to ALEC, at least a dozen states have recently adopted a nearly identical resolution asking Congress to compel the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to stop regulating carbon emissions. We are joined by Lisa Graves, executive director of the Center for Media Democracy.
ALEC Exposed: State Legislative Bills Drafted by Secretive Corporate-Lawmaker Coalition
Sen. Troy Fraser , R-Horseshoe Bay, author of the bill, noted that it will allow Texans to get a state ID card for free from the Department of Public Safety. The state ID is one of the photo IDs that would establish the voters identity for voting purposes.
Last I checked in my home state, it cost about 30 bucks to get a copy of my birth certificate for a photo ID.
ALEC Exposed
ALEC Exposed: State Legislative Bills Drafted by Secretive Corporate-Lawmaker Coalition
This week the Center for Media and Democracy released 800 model bills, legislation that is straight out of the corporate playbook and drafted by the American Legislative Exchange Council.
The group’s membership includes both state lawmakers and corporate executives who gather behind closed doors to discuss and vote on draft legislation.
ALEC has come under increasing scrutiny in recent months for its role in crafting bills to attack worker rights, to roll back environmental regulations, privatize education, deregulate major industries, and pass voter ID laws.
Thanks to ALEC, at least a dozen states have recently adopted a nearly identical resolution asking Congress to compel the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to stop regulating carbon emissions. We are joined by Lisa Graves, executive director of the Center for Media Democracy.
ALEC Exposed: State Legislative Bills Drafted by Secretive Corporate-Lawmaker Coalition
democracynow...
Progressive string puller financier George Soros organization..
ALEC Exposed
ALEC Exposed: State Legislative Bills Drafted by Secretive Corporate-Lawmaker Coalition
This week the Center for Media and Democracy released 800 model bills, legislation that is straight out of the corporate playbook and drafted by the American Legislative Exchange Council.
The groups membership includes both state lawmakers and corporate executives who gather behind closed doors to discuss and vote on draft legislation.
ALEC has come under increasing scrutiny in recent months for its role in crafting bills to attack worker rights, to roll back environmental regulations, privatize education, deregulate major industries, and pass voter ID laws.
Thanks to ALEC, at least a dozen states have recently adopted a nearly identical resolution asking Congress to compel the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to stop regulating carbon emissions. We are joined by Lisa Graves, executive director of the Center for Media Democracy.
ALEC Exposed: State Legislative Bills Drafted by Secretive Corporate-Lawmaker Coalition
democracynow...
Progressive string puller financier George Soros organization..
What makes you think that?
Democracy NOW beats up on all sides of the aisle. It is evident you do not tune in...
ALEC is a danger to democracy and may well be illegal for elected reps to engage in legislative debate outside local chambers. This is essentially what is happening.
The most reliable source of fraud and corruption is private industry...
The most reliable source of fraud and corruption is private industry...
The most reliable source of fraud and corruption is private industry...
How is the government not as reliable?
This story is a collaboration between In These Times and the Center for Media and Democracy of Madison, Wis.
With the 2012 legislative season and another episode of the Great American Campaign Circus dawning over the nation, Arizona may find itself the proving grounds for possible reform in the age of “pay-to-play” politics.
In January, Arizona Rep. Steve Farley (D-Tucson) will introduce the “ALEC Accountability Act of 2012,” which is aimed squarely at the less-than-transparent American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a national organization that advances corporate-authored model legislation at the state level through the use of a hidden distribution network of special interest cash.
This network, known as the ALEC “scholarship fund,” holds more than $1 million for state lawmakers to attend various functions (commonly referred to as “junkets”. At these functions, lawmakers are literally wined and dined by lobbyists seeking to advance the legislative agendas of their clients.
To Farley and proponents of the bill, the problem is absolutely clear. In a nutshell: ALEC is a lobbyist organization, but its corporate backers operate out of public view. “If voters knew that [their lawmaker] was receiving a huge donation from BP, for example, then they might be less likely to vote for them,” Farley says.
“They would understand that their best interests were not necessarily being looked after. We should be as transparent as possible. … We can’t pretend that [legislation] was our idea when it came from ALEC and from a multinational corporation that had its own interests in mind.”
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Will Arizona Hold ALEC Accountable? -- In These Times