Thanks for letting us know about AFP groups running "issue ads" near a campaign...so they don't have to disclose their donors by claiming none of the donations had been made specifically for the purpose of funding the ads.
So dark the con of the Bros. K.
This kind of shape-shifting is exactly what the arch-decepticons and dark money masters known as the Koch Brothers love to do.
Winks and nods, smokescreens, and fork-tongued-speak is what they specialize in.
The Bros. K are very evil mind-frackers, and if we don't pay constant attention, they will worm their way into every state legislature that they can get their fangs into.
The Bros. K are the Fourth Reich. They are absolute Nazis. What happened in Germany may very well be happening here now due to their money and "think tanks." Although I despise them, I do not underestimate them. They have taken lessons from Hitler and Goebbels, and they are even more cunning and malignant. They will stop at nothing, and use their intelligence to further their agenda of global domination.
Thank you Lisa Graves and The CMD for your vigilance, and your perseverance in exposing ALEC and the Kochs. We cannot close our eyes for even a minute as long as they are alive.
Stop Fracking....Start Voting for Real Change ie the Green Party and it New Green Deal. Jill Stein and Cheryl Honkala for President and Vice President Otherwise you will not see Cuomo in New York but maneauvering his way to the 2016 Presidency.
The implicit message of this post, and of this campaign more broadly - viz., that we should support companies that have left ALEC – is deeply problematic. The reasoning seems to be, briefly, that membership in ALEC is the principal criterion of corporate malfeasance, and that corporations that abandon membership in and association with ALEC and its by-now uncontroversially malignant politics have done something positively “good”. Never mind that leaving a destructive organization that should never have been joined in the first instance, by other organizations that are themselves destructive, is hardly cause for celebrating let alone supporting the latter. “Better isn’t good if worse was terrible”. Yes, all else being equal, it's better that these companies left ALEC, but the majority are still objectionable for other reasons.
It was Clinton who signed off on NAFTA, after placating old-school Democrats with cosmetic, ineffectual supplemental agreements on labor and the environment. It was Clinton who signed off on the Uruguay Round and the transformation of GATT into the WTO. It was Clinton who granted China most favored nation status.
Obama has concluded free trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia, and Panama -- and American labor remains skeptical of whether those agreements' labor provisions will prove any more effective than the NAFTA supplements' have been. It's under Obama that the Trans-Pacific Partnership is being negotiated, behind closed doors, by trade representatives on loan from the corporate world.
Clinton and the DLC made a calculated decision to compete with the Republicans for support from big business, and the Democratic Party has never looked back. As a result, Democrats now get more money -- and, of course, revolving door jobs! -- from big business than from organized labor. Predictably, working Americans now get more lip service than action from the party that used to represent them. (And sometimes, as we saw with Obama's conspicuous silence on the Wisconsin recall elections, they don't even get lip service.)
Just because Democrats are less overtly sociopathic than Republicans and make it a point to at least throw some crumbs to the little guy does not mean they have American workers' best interests at heart. They are just as complicit as Republicans in the race to the bottom in wages and working conditions and the race to the top in profit-skimming. Democrats may still care incrementally more than Republicans about the working man, but make no mistake about it: it's no longer us they're working for.
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