Corporate Victory Will ‘Screw’ Local Farmers as Amendment Passes in Missouri
Published on Wednesday, August 06, 2014 by Common Dreams by Deirdre Fulton, staff writer...
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Tag: ALEC
ALEC, National Corporate Friendly 'Bill Mill', Going Local
Promoter of ‘stand your ground’ laws takes aim at towns across the country
Read MoreALEC’s "Institutional Corruption," From Backing Apartheid to Assault on Clean Energy, Public Sector
The secretive American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has just ended a week-long meeting in Washington where corporate lobbyists worked with state lawmakers on model bills that will later be introduced in states nationwide
Read MoreExposed: The Right Wing's National Plan To Crush Green Energy
From supporting Keystone XL to opposing home solar panels, Alec planning assault on the environment
Read MoreALEC Facing 'Funding Crisis' Following Public Scrutiny
Documents published by the Guardian show ‘donor exodus in wake of Trayvon Martin row
Read MoreALEC Charged with Tax Fraud For Secretive Financed Junkets for Legislators
ALEC is running a secretive, multi-million dollar slush fund for state lawmakers
Read MoreHow ALEC’s Ag-Gag Laws Silence Whistleblowers
an ALEC model bill known as “The Animal and Ecological Terrorism Act” would make it a crime to film at animal facilities — such as factory farms or slaughterhouses
Read MoreOnslaught of Kochtopus Groups Threaten Kansas Clean Energy
ALEC and a hoard of other Koch-funded interests operating under the umbrella of the State Policy Network have hit Kansas legislators hard with junk economic studies, junk science and a junk vision of more polluting energy in Kansas’ future.
Read MoreALEC corporate sponsors desert in wake of bad publicity
foreign owned companies like ORC and Jordan Cove Energy are trying to influence local elections
Read MoreAs major party lines blur Independent/3rd party candidates becoming more viable
The two party system is old and tired and either polarizes constituents into favoring an ideology over common sense or, in an effort to meet in the middle renders both parties benign and impotent. If ever there was a time to run third party candidates it is now.
Read MoreAmericans For Prosperity backers insinuate their profit agenda into politics
Libertarian billionaire Koch brothers throw their wealth at state level politics, climate change denial, union busting and deregulation, all of which makes them richer while they still lay off thousands of workers. Al Jazeera’s People and Power exposes the Koch backing of the Americans for Prosperity political organization and ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council.
Read MoreALEC Exposed – Corporate influence on Oregon legislation
ALEC’s model legislation reflects long-term goals: downsizing government, removing regulations on corporations and making it harder to hold the economically and politically powerful to account. Corporate donors retain veto power over the language, which is developed by the secretive task forces. The task forces cover issues from education to health policy. ALEC’s priorities for the 2011 session included bills to privatize education, break unions, deregulate major industries, pass voter ID laws and more.
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