ALEC Politicians Caught Plagiarizing ALEC Bill, Drafting Error and All
Missouri Senate Bill 508, sponsored by ALEC member Sen. Mike Parsons, was modeled after the ALEC Navigator Background Check Act.
ALEC Exposed
The ALEC Angle in Scott Walker's "Toxic Strain of Racial Politics"
Walker has long backed policies that have a disproportionate impact on people of color, particularly the harsh sentencing laws he pushed as an ALEC member.
Oregon's GMO Sellout
In a special session called for late September and early October 2013, legislators jammed through a bill that preempts Oregon counties from regulating their own agriculture and seeds.
Showtime Exposes Climate Change Deniers, like James Taylor and Joseph Bast's Heartland Institute
Showtime premieres a new episode of its series, "Years of Living Dangerously," that focuses on the facile claims of climate change deniers like the Heartland Institute, tonight on Monday, May 19, at 8pm ET/PT.
The National Restaurant Association Spends Big to Keep Wages Low
A majority of the Senate recently voted to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour recently, yet the bill failed to clear the 60 vote hurdle necessary for passage -- thanks in no small part to the political power of the National Restaurant Association, the restaurant industry's trade association.
ALEC Struggles in Kansas City
The hits keep coming for America's best-known corporate bill mill. Hundreds of lobbyists and state legislators gathered in downtown Kansas City last week for ALEC's Spring 2014 task force summit.
ALEC Doesn’t Care About #FreeMarkets
Today in Kansas City, Missouri, the American Legislative Exchange Council is bringing your state legislators to a closed-door meeting with corporate lobbyists to ghostwrite "model" laws to bring to your state.
Corporate Interests Calling the Shots at ALEC Kansas City Meeting
By Brendan Fischer and Mary Bottari
"Legislators hold the cards" at ALEC, spokesman Bill Meierling told Kansas Public Radio on Wednesday.
Yet at ALEC's Spring Task Force Summit this week in Kansas City, it is clear that corporations are still the ones calling the shots.
Federal Court Strikes Down WI's "Discriminatory" Voter ID as Unconstitutional
In a landmark decision, a federal judge has struck down Wisconsin's strict voter ID restrictions as an unconstitutional burden on the right to vote and a violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act based on the law's discriminatory impact on people of color.
One of the Koch Family-Controlled Foundations Has Quietly Folded
The Koch family-controlled Claude R. Lambe Foundation (CRLF), one of the routine sources of funding for right wing groups for more than thirty years has dissolved, further limiting what little is publicly known of which groups seeking to change Americans' rights receive money controlled or directed by Charles and David Koch and their operatives.
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