KOCH Brothers' ALEC TENTACLES Creep Into Your State

[Segami]

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" Thanks to the work from the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) and investigative journalists like Beau

Hodai,http://alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_Exposed

we now know that ALEC (the American Legislative Exchange Council), a front group for major corporations, the Koch brothers and right-wing lobbying groups, actively disseminated model bills promoting its agenda to state leaders.



ALEC creates plausible deniability for state legislators by claiming it's not lobbying, of course, but merely making friendly suggestions and, in turn, the legislators ultimately reap the rewards of being extra nice to ALEC's corporate clients. Though many of ALEC's activities are still only recently coming to light, we can already see the group has widespread influence in national politics. Using its hilariously titled bills (one called "Economy Civil Rights Act" openly wages war on regulation and public services), the right-wing group aims to distribute its propaganda in all 50 states.



ALSO SEE: Koch Brothers, ALEC and Their Corporate Allies Plan to Privatize Government

http://www.truth-out.org/publicopoly-exposed/1310660473


In one of their models, the group outlines its opposition to the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) regulation of greenhouse gases. ALEC claims the rise in carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases is not linked to a decline in welfare or public health. "Indeed," ALEC's bill remarks, "quite the opposite is true." The model bill continues in an attempt to refute other overwhelming evidence of global warming: rising sea levels, rising ocean temperatures, retreating mountain glaciers, warming temperatures etc.



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http://www.truth-out.org/koch-brothers-tentacles-your-state/1310997611



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[Pryderi]

1. k&r

[peacetalksforall]

2. We should just take before and after pictures and have ALEC hand them out with

the message - 'see ... God did it - it must be for our good'. They would get their faster with the public followers of the Koch Bros. The Koch Bros' citizens.

[SpiralHawk]

3. ALEC (R) has oodles of occult legislation to strangle family farms

and give unfettered reign to the huge, corporate industrial genetically and chemically mutant, serf-oppressing, water-stanking, soil-fracking "farms."

Republicons are strangling and stamping out clean, healthy food as fast as they can, while promoting corporate process garbage foodlike mutant chemicalized crapola.

This is already happening on your dinner plate. And your kids plates, too. By and large, via republicon design, it's happening occultly.

[iwishiwas]

4. They are already IN the state of WI.

[cyberpj]

5. Wait. This is ok but they were able to take out Acorn?!?

I know it's a difficult, tangled, obfuscated mess to try to explain to most citizens but PLEASE - let's get this done.