The Scourge of ALEC written Legislation Being Rammed Through Our States
So many posters on DU complaining about Bills being rammed through their State Legislatures that it cannot be ignored that they all have "ALEC" involved. They were forced to reveal many of the Bills they'd written for Conservative Repugs to ram through State Legilatures and here's a link to see if your STATE has bills going through with ALEC LANGUAGE.
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ALEC makes public hundreds of “model” bills
The shady lobby group has published pre-written legislation under pressure from watchdog coalition
CHECK HERE TO SEE IF YOUR STATE LEGISLATURE IS RAMMING THROUGH ALEC BILLS:
CLIK HERE TO SEE IF ANY OF THESE BILLS ARE BEING TALKED ABOUT BY THE REPUGS/TEABAGGERS IN YOUR STATE:
http://www.alec.org/model-legislation/
By Natasha Lennard
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It’s been public knowledge for a number of years that the American Legislative Exchange Council is responsible for writing model legislation for major industries and then pushing them, through Republican lawmakers, into statehouses nationwide. Until these model bills pop up on legislative agendas, however, little is known about the group’s legislation penning.
On Friday, following a two-year campaign by watchdog groups, ALEC published hundreds of its model bills online. The coalition of organizations pushing for greater transparency included the Center for Media and Democracy, ColorOfChange, Common Cause, Greenpeace, People for the American Way, Progress Now and a variety of labor organizations.
The full list of model bills is available here. It includes template bills pertaining to charter schools, climate (mis)education, union-busting right to work bills, workplace drug testing laws and more.
Now the watchdog coalition will push for ALEC to reveal the identities of its corporate clients. “We’re pleased that after decades of secretly manipulating thousands of elected officials, the corporate bill mill known as ‘ALEC’ has decided to share some of its secrets,” the groups said in a joint statement. “But ALEC continues to hide from the public the identities of the corporations whose representatives wrote and voted on those bills at its meetings. It also has done nothing to reform the way it cozies up to lawmakers by providing them with ‘scholarships’ that cover the cost of their travel and lodging at the posh resorts where it conducts its meetings.
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and other BIG DONORS can put up to fund these massive campaigns.
But...it does make one wonder, after all these years, why the Democrats don't seem to have BIG DONORS who support the list that Democratic VOTERS care about. 
Wonder why that is?
Voting rights
Women's rights
Student rights
Labor rights
Fair taxation
etc, etc, etc.
