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Category Archives: ALEC
ALEC: A Corporate Think Tank In Every State
A Democratic freshman legislator from Wisconsin attended the most recent ALEC gathering in Chicago two weeks ago. Her story gives a great insight into what happens behind those closed doors where the actual legislation is cooked up and served to … Continue reading
Posted in ALEC
Tagged ALEC in Chicago, Chris Taylor, Wisconsin rep at ALEC
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“The Madness Of The GOP Is The Central Issue Of Our Time”
In case you missed that line it came from economist Dr. Paul Krugman from his daily blog. What Krugman says in this particular edition is something that most in popular media have been afraid to say – that one of our … Continue reading
Posted in ALEC, Economy
Tagged Detroit, GOP, krugman, madness, madness of the GOP, Paul Krugman, privatized water, skyrmion, slow recovery
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Thank You For Watching ALEC!
America has a problem with some rich kids called ALEC. ALEC is a corporate headed group that prepares and pushes legislation through America’s state legislatures. ALEC is terribly unethical. It amounts to the super-rich having a very special and very inside the … Continue reading
Posted in ALEC
Tagged ALECexposed, Bankster USA, Center for Media and Democracy, CMD, Food Rights Network, fracking, PR Watch, privatized schools, right to work, sick pay, SourceWatch, stand your ground, union busting, Voter ID
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Should Iowans Hear Gov. Branstad's Speech to ALEC?
From Matt Sinovic of Progress Iowa, Aug. 5, 2013. The Speech Gov. Terry Branstad Doesn’t Want You to Know About Branstad to deliver private address this week at the annual meeting of ALEC, the “stealth corporate lobbyist” front group DES … Continue reading
Posted in ALEC, Branstad
Tagged ALEC, Governor Branstad, terry branstad, Terry Branstad and ALEC
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ALEC Holds Meeting In Chicago
I believe ALEC should be the single biggest issue in the next election at the state level. ALEC has made the Republican legislators their lackeys at the state level. Republican legislators have pretty much surrendered their capabilities to act as a … Continue reading
Posted in ALEC, Bruce Braley
Tagged Caleb Howe, fast food workers, Hannity, Limbaugh, Moral Mondays, Netherlands, prisons, recycling, Sweden
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Protest ALEC In Chicago
On August 7-9th, the American Legislative Exchange Council will be holding its annual policy meeting at the Palmer House Hilton in downtown Chicago, Illinois. Over the course of three days, following standard ALEC protocol, state lawmakers from across the country … Continue reading
Posted in ALEC
Tagged ALEC protest, People For The American Way, PFAW
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ALEC Legislatures: Creating The Crises
Republicans have lots of solutions. What they were short on for the longest time – until the Reagan presidency – was problems that those solutions could answer. One of their favorite solutions was privatized schools. But until Republicans were able to … Continue reading
Posted in ALEC, Blog for Iowa, Education, Walmart
Tagged Bees, colony collapse disotder, Detroit, drug companies, Scotus
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ALEC Behind Iowa’s Ag-Gag Law
ALEC is behind ag-gag and virtually every other horrifying law currently being passed in states around the country including Iowa – from union-busting and teacher lay-offs to voter ID and anti-abortion laws. Remember that Governor-for-life Terry Branstad is a … Continue reading
Posted in ALEC
Tagged animal rights in Iowa, factory farms, Iowa CAFOs, Iowa whistleblowers, Iowa's ag-gag law
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Taking Inventory; Setting Priorities
The week of July 4th seems like a good opportunity to take a little time to see where we are at and where do we want to go. It never hurts to assess what our goals are and therefore where we … Continue reading
Posted in ALEC, Economy, Education, Internet Issues, Jobs, Media Reform, Vote Fraud, wind power, womens rights
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ALEC: The Republican 50 State Strategy
Remember a few years back when Howard Dean was chair of the Democratic Party? Remember how he had this great idea called the 50 state strategy where Democrats organized and competed in all 50 states? Remember that it worked pretty … Continue reading
Posted in ALEC, Blog for Iowa, Education, firearms, gun control, Labor
Tagged 50 state strategy, Bill Moyers, education loan rate rise, Julia Gillard, last telegram, pension cuts
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