Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton exposes and Veto's A.L.E.C. bills
awesome! This happened on Friday, but I just saw it on The Uptake today.
http://www.theuptake.org/2012/02/11/mn-governor-vetos-alec-template-bills/
Gov Mark Dayton calls out the ALEC bills and why he is Vetoing bills written from an ALEC Template
Please thank Gov Dayton.
http://mn.gov/governor/contact-us/form/
and share with others. He did a great job and I hope his calling out GOP Legislators of using ALEC templates is copied in other states.
Bills pulled from right-wing group ALEC’s “boot camp manual” says Governor Dayton, and holds up the manual from A.L.E.C. to the press.
The first-term DFL Governor held up a pamphlet and said “Three of the four bills come right from this manual “tort reform bootcamp” , published by the American Legislative Exchange Council or ALEC. This is the same group who reportedly provided legislators last week with all expense paid trips to posh Florida hotel for what they call an education policy conference.
“It is an extremely conservative group funded largely by large corporations, big business associations, insurance companies and very wealthy individuals.
“I’ve found that Minnesotans do not want their laws written by the lobbyists of big corporations.
“These bills are laughably referred to as ‘jobs bills’, Governor Dayton told a press conference. ” Well calling a crow a swan doesn’t make it one. These bills impact on job impact in job creation in Minnesota would be negligible. The real impact would be to reduce the right of law abiding citizens and businesses to seek justice from the wrong doing of others. ”
“Since these Republican bills so closely follow ALEC’s instructions on tort reform and since ALEC’s opinion on these subjects are evidently more important to Republican legislators than mine , their fellow DFL legislators or the Minnesota Supreme Court’s, perhaps they would share with us all of the other ALEC boot camp manuals so we can know in advance what to expect from them for the rest of the session.
“If Republicans want to continue to prove to Minnesotans that they are too extreme to lead they should continue to throw ALEC’s ideology at us.
“If they want to begin to govern responsibly and work collaboratively, pass real jobs legislation, and my three measures have not even been taken up, real jobs legislation that will put Minnesotans back to work, then I’m ready to work with them.
“And I’m waiting.”
If you want to see if your MN Rep or Senator is a member of A.L.E.C. please check
here: http://www.alecmatch.org/
and if outside of MN check if your Rep or Senator is
here: http://www.alecmatch.org/
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of the Minnesota Democratic/DFL party. My hat is off to him for this major dose of truth-telling. 
That didn't even strip the ALEC boilerplate from the bill. 
I wish I could remember the state.
He's made the best out of what Pawlenty left him and done a pretty good job of it considering we have a Republican legislator.
