Dumped at the Dance: GM, Walgreens Exit ALEC
As many of you may know, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) annual meeting is currently being held in Salt Lake City. It's not been going well. In a state that voted for John McCain by an...
View ArticleOctober Surprise: 2012 Sino-Japanese War Edition
A chain of islands with a land area just a little more than 10% that of Manhattan is causing big trouble in East Asia. The Senkaku Islands are a persistent thorn in Sino-Japanese relations, and it...
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Vote ALEC Out! A List of ALEC Legislators Up for Election Tuesday
Whether it's laws facilitating vigilante "justice", suppressing the vote, or turning incarceration into a for-profit industry ALEC is there. Like many other organizations, ALEC produces model bills,...
View ArticleAction Diary: Get ALEC Alumni to say no to Nullification.
Nullification: The doctrine that state governments have the power the to refuse to recognize and/or enforce laws passed by the US Congress. The Civil War nearly came thirty years early. In the fall of...
View ArticleImagine if GA Could Repeal Sections of Civil Rights Act Dealing with Private...
This is a real possibility if the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and its members have their way. Lost in the recent discussion about thousands of Americans signing petitions to support...
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Michigan Right to Work Law is an ALEC Clone.
When you try to talk to people about the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) it's common to have the charge of conspiracy theory thrown against you. The problem for the corporate lobbying...
View ArticleBloomberg: ALEC Planning for Loss of Non-Profit Status
Following several complaints to the IRS, ALEC is apparently anticipating the loss of its IRS 501C3 status with plans for a new 501C4 wing.The new non-profit, ALEC NOW, would be incorporated under...
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ALEC Publishes "Enemy" List For OKC Meeting
Enemy lists have a relatively short pedigree in American politics. Absent President Nixon few have had the gall to actually produce a list of people that they want targeted. ALEC, the American...
View ArticleObamacare Will End Job Lock Helping The Economy
Millions of Americans are unhappy in their current jobs, but are forced to stay because of job lock. Job Lock refers to the peculiarly American problem where workers want to leave their jobs, but can't...
View ArticleRules for ALEC Activists
Yesterday, a diary made its way on to the recommended list calling to ALEC to be charged with racketeering. I winced when I started reading through it. We've got a real problem, folks. The American...
View ArticleALEC's Latest Attempt at Obamacare Nullification
ALEC (the American Legislative Exchange Council) is at it again. With their last lobbying effort to nullify the individual mandate in tatters, the group has moved on to a frontal assault on the ACA.A...
View ArticleALEC's Anti-LGBTQ Screed: Gays are Pedophiles
When it rains, it pours. This has been a bad week for ALEC, and it's about to get worse. Yesterday, the Guardian leaked an internal memo showing that the group has been, at best, misrepresenting...
View ArticleALEC Less Transparent Now Than It Was In 1995
According to Bill Meierling, the new PR chief at the American Legislative Exchange Council, the spirit of glasnost is in the air over at ALEC HQ.“We all acknowledge there were challenges in our past,...
View ArticleTN GOP: If Workers Win Union Vote, State Will Blacklist VW
There's a massively important election taking place this week. In Tennessee autoworkers at the VW factory in Chattanooga will decide whether or not to join the UAW. Much to the surprise of the...
View ArticleThis is How Citizens United Dies
In the wake of the Citizens United case, critics of the ruling, which lifted prohibitions on direct campaign spending by corporations, raised the prospect of this allowing foreign nationals to...
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VW/UAW: Time For US Works Councils?
The NLRB election at VW in Chattanooga came down to a narrow vote, made in the context of serious interference by third parties intent on seeing the UAW lose. With 89% turnout, the result turned on...
View ArticleIs There a Ukraine Refugee Crisis Brewing?
I take everything from RT on the Ukraine with a large grain of salt. In fact, I take all reporting on the topic as potentially just bullshit at the moment. Nonetheless, in the past 24 hours, they...
View ArticleUS Can't Frack Europe Free of Russian Gas
There is a low, but rising, rumble from the right. Last week, GOP House Speaker John Boehner let loose the argument that all the US needs to do to free Europe from dependence on Russian gas imports is...
View ArticleWho Gives a Damn About the Missing Millions?
Sometimes how you hear a song depends on who you are, and where you've been. For me Jackie Brown has always been a song like this. In particular, this line has always stuck with me:Is this your...
View ArticleUkrainian Nationalist Leader Killed In Police Operation
In Western Ukraine, notorious Right Sector leader Oleksandr Muzychko, aka Sasha White,was killed in a police operation intended to capture him for trial.KIEV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s Interior Ministry says...
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