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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/06/conservative-group-alec-city-local-government?CMP=twt_guConservative group Alec trains sights on city and local government
American Legislative Exchange Council forms new initiative
Offshoot will target villages, towns, cities and counties
The rightwing group Alec is preparing to launch a new nationwide network that will seek to replicate its current influence within state legislatures in city councils and municipalities.
The American Legislative Exchange Council, founded in 1973, has become one of the most pervasive advocacy operations in the nation. It brings elected officials together with representatives of major corporations, giving those companies a direct channel into legislation in the form of Alec model bills.
Critics have decried the network as a corporate bill mill that has spread uniformly-drafted rightwing legislation from state to state. Alec has been seminal, for instance, in the replication of Floridas controversial stand-your-ground gun law in more than 20 states.
Now the council is looking to take its blueprint for influence over statewide lawmaking and drill it down to the local level. It has already quietly set up, and is making plans for the public launch of, an offshoot called the American City County Exchange (ACCE) that will target policymakers from villages, towns, cities and counties.
The new organisation will offer corporate America a direct conduit into the policy making process of city councils and municipalities. Lobbyists acting on behalf of major businesses will be able to propose resolutions and argue for new profit-enhancing legislation in front of elected city officials, who will then return to their council chambers and seek to implement the proposals.
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G_j
Mar 2014
OP
A response to city and county zoning that interferes with big oil hegemony
HereSince1628
Mar 2014
#4
riversedge
(69,708 posts)1. I read that yesterday and
I cringed. Rural folks around where I am now listen to nothing but RW hate radio--there is NO progressive radio nor has there been. I can see the damage already.
G_j
(40,366 posts)3. a very dangerous situation
and that's not an exaggeration..
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)2. This sounds like the same group that attacked Coralville, IA.
Coralville was advanced enough, they told them where to go.
They must be stopped.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)4. A response to city and county zoning that interferes with big oil hegemony
I know a township here in WI objected to mining fracking sand (hundreds of these mines have been opened here...we have no nat. gas, but we have the perfect sort of sand for fracking)...the roads aren't constructed to support the weight, it created a debate...with Republicans reversing their traditional support of "home rule".
So, I am not surprised. People had the temerity to refuse a request of the overlords.