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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRep. Grijalva Demands Federal Investigation into ALEC's Role in Neo-Sagebrush Rebellion
http://www.prwatch.org/node/12451Amidst a new "Sagebrush Rebellion" ignited by a Nevada rancher and his armed supporters that threatened to turn violent, Congressman Raúl Grijalva has asked the U.S. Department of the Interior to "investigate the role of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in efforts to pass bills at the state level" that undermine federal authority over state lands and thwart the agency's duties.
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"ALEC's pattern of activity raises serious questions about how changes to land management laws and regulations, especially in the Western United States, are being pushed by ALEC without public disclosure of its role or that of the corporations that fund its legislative agenda," Grijalva wrote in an April 16 letter to the Acting Inspector General of the Department of Interior.
For decades, ALEC has pushed legislation to transfer public lands and national forests to state control -- likely for the purposes of oil, gas, and coal extraction, which would benefit ALEC members like Peabody Energy, Duke Energy, American Electric Power, and others.
For decades, it has pushed "model" legislation like the "Sagebrush Rebellion Act" for states to introduce and adopt to seize control of federal lands. As far back as 1978, ALEC was boasting of its role in helping spur the Sagebrush Rebellion (as well as its "victory" in pushing mandatory minimum sentencing), and included Sagebrush Rebellion legislation in its 1980 "Energy for the Eighties" briefing book, which was developed thanks to "ALEC's fine working relationship with the American Petroleum Institute."
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"ALEC's pattern of activity raises serious questions about how changes to land management laws and regulations, especially in the Western United States, are being pushed by ALEC without public disclosure of its role or that of the corporations that fund its legislative agenda," Grijalva wrote in an April 16 letter to the Acting Inspector General of the Department of Interior.
For decades, ALEC has pushed legislation to transfer public lands and national forests to state control -- likely for the purposes of oil, gas, and coal extraction, which would benefit ALEC members like Peabody Energy, Duke Energy, American Electric Power, and others.
For decades, it has pushed "model" legislation like the "Sagebrush Rebellion Act" for states to introduce and adopt to seize control of federal lands. As far back as 1978, ALEC was boasting of its role in helping spur the Sagebrush Rebellion (as well as its "victory" in pushing mandatory minimum sentencing), and included Sagebrush Rebellion legislation in its 1980 "Energy for the Eighties" briefing book, which was developed thanks to "ALEC's fine working relationship with the American Petroleum Institute."
Thank you Arizona, for Raul Grijalva!!!
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Rep. Grijalva Demands Federal Investigation into ALEC's Role in Neo-Sagebrush Rebellion (Original Post)
Scuba
May 2014
OP
ALEC wants to use Bundy as useful idiot & give our BLM land to fracking companies. nt
Bernardo de La Paz
May 2014
#3
okaawhatever
(9,461 posts)1. K & R nt
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)2. Good on Congressman Grijalva!
I'll echo your thanks to Arizona!
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,988 posts)3. ALEC wants to use Bundy as useful idiot & give our BLM land to fracking companies. nt
Scuba
(53,475 posts)4. Bingo!
blm
(113,041 posts)5. Not JUST public lands. GOP run states are rewriting land laws to FORCE FRACKING on landowners
PRIVATE LANDOWNERS.
This is NWO, alright. The fascist agenda of NWO and with the corporate elite ruling in place of the citizen government.