[net-gold] UNITED STATES: POLITICS: POLITICAL PARTIES: REPUBLICAN PARTY, TEA PARTY : INDUSTRIES: PETROLEUM INDUSTRY : POLITICS : POLITICS: PRESSURE GROUPS : LAW: LEGISLATION: ALEC: As Donors Flee, Corporate Front Group ALEC Whines That Critics Are Trying to "Eliminate Discourse"
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- Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 17:07:35 -0400 (EDT)
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UNITED STATES: POLITICS: POLITICAL PARTIES: REPUBLICAN PARTY, TEA PARTY :
INDUSTRIES: PETROLEUM INDUSTRY :
POLITICS : POLITICS: PRESSURE GROUPS :
LAW: LEGISLATION:
ALEC: As Donors Flee, Corporate Front Group
ALEC Whines That Critics Are Trying to "Eliminate Discourse"
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ALEC: As Donors Flee, Corporate Front Group
ALEC Whines That Critics Are Trying to "Eliminate Discourse"
Zaid Jilani.
Communications and Outreach Coordinator, United Republic
April 15, 2012
Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/zaid-jilani/alec-criticism_b_1418507.html
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At least six major corporations and foundations -- Coca-Cola, Pepsi,
McDonald's, Kraft, Intuit, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation --
have now left or have pledged to leave the American Legislative Exchange
Council (ALEC), a secretive corporate front group that works to pass
legislation in all 50 states.
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The corporations are leaving largely thanks to protests by activists and
consumers outraged that ALEC has been pushing voter suppression and "Stand
Your Ground" laws that harm American communities.
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Yesterday morning, ALEC sent out a panicked press statement complaining of
an "intimidation" campaign that is trying to "eliminate discourse":
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A much more accurate re-write of one of those statements would read like
this:
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Our members join ALEC because we connect state legislators with other
state legislators and with the biggest campaign donors in their states.
They join because we support pro-Big Business policies that promote the
bottom lines of special interests and spur local and national donations by
Big Business to our organization. They're ALEC members because they're
more interested in profit than principles.
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ALEC loves to claim that it is simply advocating for small-government,
conservative ideas. But its agenda isn't that of the free market but
rather one of its Big Business donors. It has in the past gotten state
legislatures to pass laws stopping local governments from enacting their
own municipal broadband systems and banning them from deciding to use
their tax dollars to pay living wages to contractors. These laws are not
designed to promote the free market or small government. They have only
one goal -- padding the profits of ALEC's corporate members, even if small
government principles are discarded in the process.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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More on ALEC on Net-Gold
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=
1T4GGHP_enUS441US441&q=ALEC+AND+%22NET-GOLD%22+AND+
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760b3eff8cbb04a5&biw=1920&bih=845
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/82zh9r9
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More on the Koch Brothers from Google News Archive
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11%2F3%2F11&as_drrb=a&as_nsrc=&as_nloc=&as_author=
&as_occt=any&tbs=ar%3A1
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/6ah64z2
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More on the Koch Brothers from Net-Gold
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839ace9d4ffe5eba&biw=1920&bih=869
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/3u726ep
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GOP (Gas Oil Petroleum)
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Sincerely,
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