Disclosure is not a comfortable topic at the Capitol, where just four years ago the Fiesta Bowl scandal erupted over 28 current and former lawmakers accepting lavish trips and college-football game tickets. Since then, despite proposals to...
READ MOREDespite the best efforts of the Koch brothers and their friends at the American Legislative Exchange Council(ALEC), so-called right-to-work measures have already gone down in flames in Kentucky, New Hampshire andOregon. And the path to victory...
READ MOREAt the same time, the Speaker of the Missouri House, ALEC member Tim Jones, has made it clear he also plans on pushing ALEC’s so-called “Right to Work” measure through the legislature and onto the August ballot, which would...
READ MOREALEC, a conservative group serving as a clearinghouse for state-level legislation, opposed the Affordable Care Act and launched its Health Care Freedom Initiative in 2008, the same year that PhRMA initiated its support. The project promised to...
READ MOREThere has been virtually no increase in wealth for everyone below the top 0.1% of Americans. After the Great Depression, progressive capital taxes and the New Deal prevented wealth inequality from growing inordinately until about 1986 when the...
READ MOREThe previously-undisclosed records from ALEC’s Spring 2013 meeting show a Florida-based State Policy Networklobbying group instructing Senator Vukmir and other legislators to introduce a “model” resolution for legislators to...
READ MOREThe bills mirror measures introduced in legislatures across the country and are nearly identical to model legislation written by the conservative, corporate-backed American Legislative Exchange Council.
READ MORELegislative actions, written by the corporate-funded American Legislative Exchange Council, are intended to hamper African-American and Latino voting. Legislators have all but said that they can still smell the Rio Grande on new voters. But they...
READ MOREThe more than 100 pages of records show Vukmir sponsored a model bill under the direction of a Florida lobbying group, after voting last spring on an ALEC policy allowing only lawmakers, and not lobbyists, to introduce model bills.
READ MOREFour of the rankings come from the American Legislative Exchange Council, a supposed non-profit that has been exposed by Bill Moyers and by the Center for Media and Democracy as one of the most influential conservative corporate-funded lobbying...
READ MOREState. Sen. Jim Patrick told us this week that ALEC had nothing to do with the controversial ag-gag legislation he pushed through this year. But Patrick is the ALEC’s state chairman, says internal documents acquired by Sourcewatch.org. The...
READ MOREResearch shows that vouchers do nothing for academic achievement. But more troubling, voters and parents will have no way to judge the impact because ESA voucher recipients are exempted from all state assessments — the ones mandated in...
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