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Orlandodem

(1,115 posts)
Wed Aug 8, 2012, 02:48 PM Aug 2012

FL House Dem Leader and candidate for FL Senate is under influence of ALEC

The FL Dems are such effing morons. Get these DINOs out of the party! Do not vote for this guy ever again!

SNIP

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has long used Florida’s right wing dominated legislature as a laboratory for harmful conservative ideas. The organization has come under national fire recently and has lost much of its financial backing. However, the influence of ALEC in Florida, which has been strong for over a decade remains uninterrupted by these events.

Florida’s Republican Party has fallen directly under the spell of ALEC. But now an independent report from the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting indicates that House Democratic Leader Ron Saunders who is a currently candidate for State Senate. Saunders contribution list for Senate reads like a who’s who of right wing pressure groups: big business, polluters, insurance companies and school “choice” proponents.

http://thepoliticalhurricane.com/2012/08/08/independent-report-finds-ron-saunders-under-alec-influence/

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