Jul 31, 2012
From Knox News article found here… “Reps. Joe Armstrong, D-Knoxville, and David Shepard, D-Dickson, have a different view of ALEC. Both said they joined ALEC at the urging of Rep. Curry Todd, R-Collierville, the ALEC state chairman, and other Republican legislators in Tennessee who they respect — including McDaniel. But the more they learned about ALEC, they [...]
Jul 31, 2012
This is a difficult story to post. Noted writer David Halperin has penned a number of articles detailing how many for-profit colleges are nothing more than taxpayer defrauding scams. Here are some blurbs from these articles so that you may read up on this despicable subject. The article titles, which are in blue, are the [...]
Jul 30, 2012
From the ICJ project Article linked to from LA Times By Neela Banerjee A key initiative of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has been denying that global warming exists, that any atmospheric or climate change is “cyclic” and not man-made. As they have argued this position, they have assisted large oil, gas and manufacturing members [...]
Jul 30, 2012
While VLTP and many other organizations have continued to proclaim; the pursuit of ALEC’s “Voter ID” model legislation disseminated to nearly every state, has the actual purpose of disenfranchising minority voters, GOP responses have been to laugh and deny those allegations. Late last week the former Florida GOP Chairman, Jim Greer went public, claiming the [...]
Jul 30, 2012
Very significant results of the ongoing campaign to make ALEC a toxic relationship for its corporate members. Reported on by Lisa Graves of CMD and re-posted here. Apparent among all of the excellent information she has provided, is the emergence of the State Policy Network (SPN) as perhaps the “heir apparent” to ALEC? To find [...]
Jul 30, 2012
From 2old2care at the BecauseICan web-blog. Read the full post here… Fifty states Fifty different currencies People minting their own currency OR He who holds the gold – holds the gold. Another way to screw the common citizen….. Separate states, separate state currencies is the topic at the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) annual meeting. [...]
Jul 30, 2012
Specifically, Harrington explained that she had mailed letters to the “potential non-citizens” by certified mail, return-receipt requested. If someone at that address acknowledged receipt by signing for the certified letter, and then the named individual failed to respond within 30 days, they would be automatically stricken from the rolls even though, as Harrington confirmed, she [...]
Jul 30, 2012
“House Republicans criticized the Justice Department for challenging voter ID laws. The critical lawmakers believe that DOJ is acting in a partisan manner and that DOJ’s actions show that the Obama Administration is more concerned with winning in November than protecting against election fraud.” That’s correct folks, Voter Suppression is just fine with Republicans in [...]
Jul 26, 2012
Click on the article titles below for links to the articles or videos: ALEC conservatives reject charges of corporate cronyism “I know you’re being attacked by a lot of these leftist groups in your states. I know you are,” Ron Scheberle, ALEC’s executive director told lawmakers during lunch Wednesday before turning to the group’s corporate [...]
