ALEC And Jeb Bush Are Conspiring To Kill Off Public Schools For Good

[hue]

http://www.politicususa.com/2014/08/26/alec-jeb-bush-conspiring-kill-public-schools-good.html



Even the most successful of power-mad schemers need reliable co-conspirators to accomplish their nefarious ends. The most power-mad of the power-mad, the American Legislative Exchange Council, relies on easily compromised spear-carriers to dominate state legislatures and push through model-legislation designed to benefit ALEC’s multi-national, special interest corporate donor base.

It was by pure happenstance I chanced upon such a co-conspirator the other day. It actually turned out to be three co-conspirators. I was digging through the South Carolina Ethics Commission’s statements of economic interests required of state and legislative office holders and their challengers. These interests include name, address, filing date, business and property interest, creditors, government contracts, lobbyist contacts and, most importantly, who is buying legislator’s votes through the section marked “gifts.”

I concentrated on my local delegation of seated representatives. On my first search, an initialism (thus termed when an acronym is unpronounceable) popped up that I’d never seen or heard of before. It appeared as SLLF. Whatever it was had gifted one of my local state delegations with a total of nearly $3,100 for the gift of a single trip. Not bad. There are some economy overseas jaunts you can take for three grand. The stipend covered ‘tuition,’ lodging and meals. As I looked at the economic interests of my other local representatives, SLLF appeared over and over. Four of my six house members accepted SLLF’s largess. This definitely called for further study.

It took but seconds to find the expanded version of SLLF. It stood for State Legislative Leaders Foundation. Here’s their charge “The State Legislative Leaders Foundation was established in 1972 as a nonprofit corporation dedicated to working with state legislative leaders in their efforts to reform the institution of the state legislature.” Reform is an interesting choice of words considering their Board Chairman is Eric Turner, Indiana House Speaker Pro Tem, who most recently attracted the attention of the legislative Ethics Commission for secretly attempting to kill a bill that would hurt his family business. Might we continue?

[misterhighwasted]

1. Of course. There's a fortune to be made.

From the American taxpayers's pockets to Bush & their Communist friend's foreign tax free bank accounts.
ALEC is America's own ISIS.

[blkmusclmachine]

2. Race To The Top,

Part II
(The Final Indignity)

[raging moderate]

3. Of course they are! Public schools counteract feudalism! Especially when they tell the truth!

If these so-called Education Reformers had really intended to improve the US public school system, they would have started with the most backward deep-South schools, which have low graduation rates, low test scores, etc, but escape the criticism of the Koch brothers and their cohorts because they spread the lies of the neofeudalist slave-owners of the Old South, that Black slaves mostly lived happy lives in intact families protected and supported by their benevolent plantation-owners, that the Massachusetts Pilgrims helped the Indians (rather than the truth, the Indians helped the Pilgrims), that all Indians lived in teepees and died out because of inferiority, that Black people had pellagra because they were dirty, that unions are just Communist efforts to destroy America, etc.
If you look where these "reform" efforts are mainly concentrated, you see the most intense efforts focused on New York City, places in Massuchetts, all the places from which these jerks think they have a reason to exact cultural revenge.

[PeoViejo]

5. Brainwashing the Children to become good Serfs and GOP voters

Their voter base is dying off and the Millenials are wise to their BS, so, their only hope is the open minds of our youngest and most vulnerable citizens.

[littlemissmartypants]

4. And to think that a little piece of legislation like Roe v. Wade giving

Women the right to choose, could cause so much anger and backlash for so long. We let our guard down. Now we have to fight back.

This attack on our society didn't start yesterday. Debase, insidious and evil do not begin to describe these evil connivers.

Love, Peace and the Righteous Fight.
~ Lmsp

[santamargarita]

6. That entire family is a cancerous wart on America's Ass.

[Dont call me Shirley]

7. When is DOJ going to prosecute ALEC for racketeering!?