One hundred and fifty nine. That is the number of academics in law, history, and political science from across Canada – including experts from the University of Saskatchewan such as Michael Atkinson, director of the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate...
READ MOREKoch money has been showing up all around the country, but especially in neighboring Louisiana where the Kochs are trying to toss Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu (whose family has long been prominent in Louisiana politics) out of the Senate because...
READ MOREThe Center for Media and Democracy, a Madison-based liberal think tank, concludes in a study that the Wisconsin Legislature is marching in lockstep with the agenda of the controversial American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC. Some 46...
READ MOREAccording to the internal minutes from the ALEC meeting provided to CMD, Whatley called on legislators to help push the pipeline project to approval. Much as environmental groups view KXL as being a line in the sand, as symbolic of how serious...
READ MORESo maybe it’s not a coincidence that just last week we also learned that Koch-snorting legislative bullies theAmerican Legislative Exchange Council – speed-dating your elected state legislators with powerful corporate entities behind closed doors...
READ MORELast year, our state legislature considered a bill familiarly called the “ag-gag” bill, which sought to prevent whistleblowers from exposing animal abuse, unsafe working conditions and environmental violations on industrial farms. Once the...
READ MOREHere’s how the Koch ads do their hatchet job: Paid actors posing as Louisiana citizens make out that they have received notices canceling their health policies because of Obamacare. That’s baloney, but how does the viewer know?
READ MOREA review of 2011-2012 voting records by a University of Wisconsin academic demonstrates that many Wisconsin legislators are marching in lockstep with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). Sixty-one Wisconsin politicians — or 46...
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The rightwing group Alec is preparing to launch a new nationwide network that will seek to replicate its current influence within state legislatures in city councils and municipalities.
READ MOREThe American Legislative Exchange Council — ALEC — has had quite a bit of success writing “model” bills that advance the interests of its corporate backers and then wining and dining friendly state lawmakers to grease the wheels for their...
READ MOREThere are about 2,000 legislative members and over 300 corporate members in ALEC. ALEC generates extravagant amounts of money from corporate membership fees. Companies pay anywhere from $7,000 to $25,000 annually with additional fees from $2,500...
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