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Related: About this forumThom Hartmann: Who elected ALEC?
A few times a year, ALEC gathers lawmakers, corporate CEOs, and lobbyists together in the same high-end resort-hotel ballrooms to present to the elected officials model legislation written by ALEC and voted on by the corporations. If the corporations approve, that legislation then gets carried back to state legislatures - or even the US Congress - by the lawmakers in attendance, who submit it as new laws. And its long been speculated - because identical laws keep popping up in state after state - that Republican lawmakers who attend ALEC conferences are taking their orders directly from ALEC - and therefore legislation dealing with everything from Voter ID laws, to harsher prison sentences for drug offenders, to dismantling EPA regulation have their roots in ALEC. Now theres proof..
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Thom Hartmann: Who elected ALEC? (Original Post)
thomhartmann
Feb 2012
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rurallib
(62,420 posts)1. Excellent!
limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)2. very good.
Overseas
(12,121 posts)3. K&R.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,414 posts)4. Who elected ALEC indeed?
saras
(6,670 posts)5. More important, who elected anyone stupid enough to cart their fascism into our government?
It's like letting professional pedophiles design schools. Why so many one-way mirrors? Why are all the security cameras in the bathrooms and showers? How come there's so many rooms with couches and doors that lock from the inside?
midnight
(26,624 posts)6. No one I know.... It would like to see a list of all the
attorneys who wrote this legislation...
prairierose
(2,145 posts)7. midnight....here is a link...
to a website that keeps track of the bills and legislators and corps involved in
http://alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_Exposed