Pages

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

ALEC - It Really Sucks to be Finally Exposed

It sucks even more to be their PR firm.

While I was doing my research tonight (very productive, BTW – three new articles coming up) I kept finding things that made me so, so sad for ALEC (not so much).


And this information was only in the last 24 hours.
And this information was on only the first ten pages of search results.

Just the snips from the Google results.

ALEC Exposed in Iowa: How Corporate Influence Subverts Our Democratic Process

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) - known by its critics as a "corporate bill mill"

As Alberta Premier Alison Redford tries her best to hoodwink American ... energy jobs using model legislation from the American Legislative Exchange Council

North Carolina are poised to cut back on government support for clean energy jobs using model legislation from the American Legislative Exchange Council

Then why is GM still a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council?
Good question!!!

Illinois is the next state on the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)'s target list for putting the oil industry's interests ahead of the public interest.

the American Legislative Exchange Council, a corporate-funded lobby

Eight bills introduced in the current legislative session have their origins in the “corporate bill mill” of the American Legislative Exchange Council

News Corp and its for-profit education subsidiaries are also members of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC),
Rupert Murdoch, anyone?????

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) pays for the airfare and travel luxuries for legislators to travel across the country.
Not true – ALEC Corporate profit members pay for all that – to get the legislators to the secretive ALEC meetings behind closed doors.

ALEC & Koch front groups swarm Kansas legislators to kill wind incentives.
Nasty pests!!!

Think about the American Legislative Exchange Council's secret lobbying in favor of “Stand Your Ground” legislation to at least 15 states.

Those bills are based on a template marketed by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a group dominated by conservative special interests,

As the Associated Press reported, “Lawmakers in Utah and Arizona have said the legislation is endorsed by the American Legislative Exchange Council,

American Legislative Exchange Council Behind Push to Lower Minimum Wages: Report

The most alarming aspect of the current Republican agenda is the presence of ALEC, American Legislative Exchange Council.

Hager is a member of ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council, a fossil-fuel-industry-backed organization of conservative state legislators

Each bears the fingerprint of notorious super-lobbying organization the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which acts as a forum for “private sector

The efforts follow a call to action last fall by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) for its members to pass legislation

the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a corporate-funded alliance that crafts model legislation

I was horrified with the implications of “ALEC state legislators” interfering

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 … 

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which also has financial links to the Kochs, has drafted bills to overturn state laws promoting wind energy."

Members of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in the Georgia Legislature are pushing a bill to thwart locally-owned internet

Throughout the country, fossil fuel polluters and their right-wing allies like the American Legislative Exchange Council are working to roll back clean energy

They're doing the bidding of their corporate overlords in the American Legislative Exchange Council, which promotes cookie-cutter legislation

The attack on your right to vote has been guided by Charles and David Koch through their funding of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)

.
Grant Smith of the Civil Society Institute has an op-ed, seen here at the Augusta Free Press, charging the American Legislative Exchange Council or ALEC, a business lobbyist, with lying about solar and wind costs to maintain construction work in progress and support for new nuclear and coal plants
Couldn't use the Google search snip on this one.
Had to put the whole thing in - I had to go look at where this came from.


It Really Sucks to be ALEC Exposed.

No comments:

Post a Comment