ALEC Exposed: How Corporations Are Taking Over Our Democracy

[dtotire]

Published on Thursday, July 14, 2011 by The Progressive

ALEC Exposed: How Corporations Are Taking Over Our Democracy

by Ruth Conniff

Today the Center for Media and Democracy rolled out a new web site, ALEC Exposed, based on a massive leak of information from the American Legislative Exchange Council, the powerful coalition of corporations, rightwing foundations, and state legislators who have been literally writing the laws at the state level to push their pro-business, anti- democracy agenda.

For many years, big corporations, including Kraft, Pfizer, WalMart, and AT&T, to name a few, have been paying hefty dues to belong to a group that gives them access to state legislators. The legislators, for a much smaller fee, get to attend annual conferences, receive briefings from ALEC, and get the honor of putting their names on boilerplate legislation the groups drafts.

More:
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/07/14-11

[midnight]

1. K&R.....

[rbnyc]

2. I still hear folks say there's no difference between Democrats and Republicans...

...http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=ALEC_Politicians

99% Repukes, of course.

[Uncle Joe]

3. A morphing, corporate shadow government.

Thanks for the thread, dtotire.

[Blue Owl]

4. The United States of AmeriCo®

:scared:

[CartoonDiablo]

5. There needs to be more news about this...

If I recall this was also responsible for the Arizona SB 1070 law.