The Israel trip was part of more than $200,000 that various industry and special interest groups have expended to pay for shuttling, lodging, food and activities — including golf — for Missouri lawmakers on trips to New Orleans, California, Utah...
READ MOREOn April 15, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) published the 2014 edition of its annual “Rich States, Poor States” economic competitiveness ranking, which claims to be “a forward-looking measure of how each state...
READ MOREKoch’s article skips these ideas and dwells on freedom and political power. He and his supported groups such as Americans for Prosperity and the American Legislative Exchange Council enjoy considerable control over property and the production of...
READ MOREIn a letter to Interior Inspector General Mary Kendall, Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva (D) on Wednesday called for an investigation into the American Legislative Exchange Council’s “aggressive effort” to change state laws regarding public land use. The...
READ MOREThe Right to Work bill is a prime example. We have that right to work now, and we can choose to work in a union or non-union facility as we wish, if we can find a job.
READ MOREThe bill creates for the first time tax credits for corporations to give out “scholarships” for public school students to enroll in private schools. This change in education policy comes at the inopportune time when state financing...
READ MOREUnder fire for its role in promoting extreme policies including anti-union bills, voter suppression bills, “Stand Your Ground” laws and more, ALEC has lost 70 corporate sponsors in the last few years, including some of the nation’s...
READ MOREArm yourselves with ammunition, with knowledge, and then strike with our best and only weapons: a pen and voter’s pamphlet, and a telephone to contact corporations you deal with. Express concern about their involvement with the American...
READ MOREThe Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity, like its big-business, social-conservative ally, the American Legislative Exchange Council, is spreading a web of backward-looking legislation that has little to do with liberty and much to do with...
READ MOREUnions are in the bull’s-eye of ultraconservatives and especially those beholden to ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council, and Americans for Prosperity, whose goals are to privatize education. That’s right. Private companies would run...
READ MOREBut despite the fact that Republicans control a super-majority in both chambers of the Missouri legislature, the proposal did not win enough support in a test vote earlier this week to advance to the Senate. More members voted for the bill than...
READ MOREWhy would the speaker of the House, who knows a bill or resolution needs a constitutional majority — at least 82 out of 163 — votes to pass, celebrate getting only 78 of them as not only a victory, but an enormous victory? Particularly when he...
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