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Progressives have long tried to expose the influence the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) wields in state house across the country, but one Florida lawmaker is making it too easy.
Funded almost entirely by large corporations, ALEC produces model legislation favorable to industry that state lawmakers can introduce as their own bills. Usually, the legislators tweak the language of the bills to make them state-specific or to obfuscate their origins. Usually, but apparently not always.
In November, Florida state Rep. Rachel Burgin (R) introduced a resolution (PDF here) that would officially call on the federal government to reduce corporate taxes, but she apparently forgot to remove ALECs mission statement from the top of the bill, which she seems to have copied word-for-word from ALECs model bill.
As the government transparency group Common Cause reports, Burgin quickly withdrew the bill hoping that no one had noticed and then re-introduced it 24-hours later, with a new bill number (HM 717), but now without the problematic paragraph. Apparently no one noticed until this week.
continue reading at: http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/02/02/417488/florida-gop-alec-forget/
JohnnyRingo
(18,623 posts)Rep Burgin has reset the bar for right wing buffoonery.
Mojorabbit
(16,020 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)even if I liked the legislation. Why people put up with this stuff is beyond me.
WillyT
(72,631 posts):kick:
Selatius
(20,441 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)without realizing their paymasters will kill them off too, in a heartbeat, if it improved the 'bottom line'.