ALEC Exposed

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ALEC Covering Tracks in Advance of Oklahoma Meeting

by Brendan Fischer — May 1, 2013 - 8:18am
  • Topics: Corporations, Democracy, Politics
  • Projects: ALEC Exposed, Wisconsin Protests

    • What's on the agenda for this week's meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in Oklahoma City?

    Hard to say.

    Despite ALEC trying to spin itself as a "transparent" organization, ALEC records have miraculously been disappearing from legislative offices and the organization is engaged in a box drop dodge to avoid disclosure. But while ALEC legislators are meeting behind closed doors with corporate lobbyists, citizens will be rallying in the streets raising awareness about how ALEC's agenda favors large corporations at the expense of average Americans.

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    Did Backlash Against GOP Voter Suppression Increase Black Voter Turnout?

    by Brendan Fischer — April 30, 2013 - 8:00am
  • Topics: Election 2012, Democracy, Politics
  • Projects: ALEC Exposed

    • Black voter turnout in the 2012 elections surpassed white turnout for the first time in history, despite -- or perhaps because of -- a concerted effort to enact new voter restrictions that would have disproportionately affected communities of color.

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    Art Pope Groups Push Extreme ALEC Tax Agenda in North Carolina

    by Nick Surgey — April 29, 2013 - 8:31am
  • Topics: Economy
  • Projects: ALEC Exposed

    • An array of right-wing organizations in North Carolina are arguing loudly for Governor Pat McCrory to radically alter how corporations and people pay taxes in the state -- and the not-so-hidden hand behind the effort is North Carolina millionaire Art Pope, a close ally of the Koch brothers, who funds the groups and has been appointed as North Carolina's Budget Director.

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    Report by Progress Missouri Highlights ALEC Infiltration in MO

    by PRW Staff — April 26, 2013 - 7:20am
  • Topics: Corporations, Democracy, Politics
  • Projects: ALEC Exposed

    • -- By Drew Curtis

    More than forty bills introduced in the Missouri state legislature echo American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) model legislation, and at least 60 legislators are ALEC members, according to a new report from Progress Missouri.

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    Big Defeat for ALEC's Effort to Repeal Renewable Energy Standards in North Carolina

    by Brendan Fischer — April 24, 2013 - 3:49pm
  • Topics: Corporations, Energy, Politics
  • Projects: ALEC Exposed

    • The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) suffered a big defeat in North Carolina today when a bipartisan group of legislators killed a bill to repeal the state's Renewable Portfolio Standards, which require utilities provide a certain percentage of energy from renewable sources. ALEC typically operates in the dark but has expressed rare public support for the North Carolina effort.

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    Creatures of the Dark: Wisconsin GOP Caught Deleting Records, Again

    by Brendan Fischer — April 23, 2013 - 7:13am
  • Topics: Democracy, Politics
  • Projects: ALEC Exposed, Wisconsin Protests

    • New federal court filings allege that hundreds of thousands of Republican redistricting files in Wisconsin were deleted last year, in defiance of court orders to turn over all documents. The deletions fit into a pattern of the Wisconsin GOP covering their tracks and could result in sanctions for the attorneys or individuals involved in deleting the files.

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    On Earth Day, ALEC Bemoans “Somber” Environmentalists

    by Nick Surgey — April 22, 2013 - 6:43pm
  • Topics: Global Warming, Energy, Environment
  • Projects: ALEC Exposed

    • The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which is centrally involved with pushing environmentally destructive legislation on behalf of the fossil fuel industry, today complained that "Earth Day has been a largely somber event" when it should be "a celebration of the wonderful achievements humankind has made in cleaning and greening the planet," wrote Todd Wynn, ALEC Energy, Environment, and Agriculture Task Force Director.

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    MacIver Institute Ideologues Manage to Turn Lemonade Into Lemons

    by Mary Bottari — April 18, 2013 - 8:30am
  • Topics: Right Wing, Economy, Propaganda
  • Projects: ALEC Exposed

    • In 2010, Governor Scott Walker ran for office on a simple message, that he would turn Wisconsin's economy around and create 250,000 jobs. There was good news for Walker in the Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs numbers released April 2013. Although Wisconsin still ranked 44th in the country in terms of job creation, the staggering economy had created 64,500 more jobs since Walker took office than previously known. There was a large upward correction in the BLS jobs data stretching back more than a year that not only impacted Wisconsin, but many states.

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    Wisconsin Ethics Board Fails to Curb ALEC Shell Game

    by Brendan Fischer — April 17, 2013 - 12:57pm
  • Topics: Ethics
  • Projects: ALEC Exposed

    • In theory, Wisconsin has some of the strongest ethics and lobbying laws in the country -- legislators cannot accept even a cup of coffee from lobbyists or others who have an interest in the outcome of legislation -- but these laws are meaningless if the state ethics board does not take action to enforce them.

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    Paid Sick Days Defeat in Philadelphia Followed Familiar Script

    by Brendan Fischer — April 17, 2013 - 7:34am
  • Topics: Corporations, Democracy, Politics, Women
  • Projects: ALEC Exposed

    • When the Philadelphia City Council passed a paid sick days bill on March 14, it was the second of three wins in a two week period for the movement to let workers take a sick day without losing pay or their jobs. But the Council then fell one vote short of overriding a mayoral veto, providing a case study in how special interests aligned with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) work to oppose these common-sense bills.

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