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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMeet the ALEC Staffers Who Help Corporations Write Our Laws
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is the most powerful corporate front group youve never heard of. The group, sponsored by some of Americas largest corporations, writes legislation that tends to benefit its donors and ships these template bills to state legislatures for compliant lawmakers to pass. ALEC has pushed for legislation doing everything from attacking workers collective bargaining rights, to making it harder for low-income Americans to vote, to the Stand Your Ground law that could prevent justice in the Trayvon Martin case.
One of the reasons ALEC is able to do this is because its extremely secretive. ALEC does not openly brand the legislation it passes off to legislators, and its staff is mostly hidden from the public eye. Until now. We dug into ALECs personnel to make a short profile of just some of the key Washington, D.C.-based ALEC staffers who help write the laws that pollute our communities, deny Americans access to health care, suppress our right to vote, and generally harm Americans. Their corporate-written bills may be secretly passed on to legislators, but these staffers cant hide behind ALECs veil and avoid taking responsibility for the laws they produce and advance.
http://truth-out.org/news/item/8390-meet-the-alec-staffers-who-help-corporations-write-our-laws
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Meet the ALEC Staffers Who Help Corporations Write Our Laws (Original Post)
MindMover
Apr 2012
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MichiganVote
(21,086 posts)1. K&R
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)2. K & R
pscot
(21,024 posts)3. I wonder if "Rob" Shrum
is any relation to Bob Shrum, HRC's erstwhile campaign director.
Icicle
(121 posts)4. Bob Shrum's evil counterpart, from Bizarro world n/t
I googled around. Bob Shrum has one stepson.
DocMac
(1,628 posts)6. ALEC just wants to know how long Cantors's Tongue is!
OK, maybe his nose is in question. But there is Santorum on his smirky smile!!!
I feel better now.
Always glad to support ALEC exposes. Let's hope that the rush to drop support of ALEC (by Coca Cola, Pepsico, and Kraft) continues and snowballs.
Baitball Blogger
(46,735 posts)9. None of the pictures showed up for me.
Was that a glitch? Or did they have to be removed?