May 20, 2013
By Bob Sloan This has been a busy week for us here at VLTP. To catch our readership and visitors up with news involving ALEC and their cabal, we’re publishing a larger segment today. Click on the headline link(s) to read the full article or document from the original source. First a development involving the [...]
Apr 18, 2013
In response to an article by RICK MUIR PUBLISHED 18 APRIL 2013 11:58 in the “New Statesman” As conservative parties in nations across the pond attempt to emulate America’s Right Wing policies and initiatives, Rick Muir questions if replicating the “NEW” U.S. stance on imprisonment and criminal justice is warranted. Mr. Muir accurately depicts many of the [...]
Mar 29, 2013
For the public, the entire Keystone XL (KXL) streamliner is washing down easier with a confidential Big Gulp of Koch. “The too-billionaire Koch brothers, Charles and David, usually get what they want, but never what they deserve.” — Gaea People who breathe the atmosphere, drink water, eat food, are hostages of an increasingly haywire, engineered [...]
Mar 8, 2013
In an October 2010 Press Release ALEC stated: ALEC is a private organization similar to membership organizations such as the YMCA. Federal law allows non-profits to protect the privacy of non-profit donors, but requires all non-profits to publicly disclose annual financial reports. No – ALEC is not like the YMCA. I question why it was [...]
Feb 24, 2013
saw this making its way around people’s inboxes yesterday: A most worthy cause. But, Color of Change, just as you were with ALEC–where have you been? Must you wait and test the waters before capitalizing by joining in? With ALEC you jumped in to the campaign to expose them long after so many other researchers [...]
Jan 25, 2013
Today Nevada Workers Lose Jobs to Inmates – Next it Could be your Turn Third and final segment of the series on Nevada’s situation involving unfair competition by use of prisoner labor by Bob Sloan, Executive Director, VLTP.net “Insourcing”..: there is no current definition for this word in our Urban Dictionary or Websters. I plan to [...]
Dec 21, 2012
Here is something of critical importance to North Carolina immediately. First, excerpts from the article/broadcast at WFAE, the NPR station in Charlotte, NC. Then, my personal commentary. ‘At a press conference ,,,Governor-elect Pat McCrory appointed …conservative activist Art Pope to be his deputy budget director–the governor’s top aide on budget issues. Pope … is a director [...]
Dec 19, 2012
VLTP Op Ed by Bob Sloan The Corrosive Effect of the Koch/ALEC Cabal on U.S. and World Governments In a perfect world, we as citizens in a representative democracy would elect those who best represent our views on issues critically important in our lives. In the context of that perfect world, our elected representatives would [...]
