Oct 19, 2012
Wow! A piece on Democracy Now took me someplace this morning that I had no intention of going – but I must. Amy Goodman was interviewing two influential people in the student uprisings in Chile – a movement that doesn’t get any press in the United States and without her report I would not have [...]
Oct 18, 2012
Despite posting this to NCAJ on their Facebook page, there has been no response from anyone at NCAJ. memo to self: research NCAJ and see if they are what they claim to be. updates: NCAJ endorsed candidates Marilyn Avila and Jamie Boles confirmed as members of ALEC “The North Carolina Advocates For Justice was [...]
Oct 18, 2012
Here at vltp.net we pay attention to the searches made by those who visit our site to see what interests our readers. Last night the top search was “does the usps have ties to alec?“ which, in different iterations, is a common question. The USPS is under attack by ALEC, which has been working for almost [...]
Oct 18, 2012
Hat’s Off to Leon Karvellis–Way to paint conservatives with ALEC’s legislation record. After all, they pay to sell their votes to corporations and promote radical right wing legislation to the benefit of Corporations and the 1% …The candidates were asked how special interests influence legislators, and particularly how they would deal with ALEC, the American [...]
Oct 14, 2012
There is some ALEC legislation that is encouraging parents to take matters into their own hands and kill their public schools. ALEC PARENT TRIGGER LAWS When the largest part of any state’s budget is public education, you end up with some very rich individuals looking for ways to attack public schools to get at the [...]
Oct 11, 2012
By Bob Sloan Thanks to 2Old2Care @ BecauseICan Blog for research… An article on October 10th from PRWatch updates and clarifies – to some extent – the discrepancy discovered related to Nationwide Insurance’s claim that they have not been involved with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) for over a decade now. However Nationwide’s statement [...]
Oct 9, 2012
From AlterNet By Steven Rosenfeld Ohio’s Republican Secretary of State John Husted is deteremined to stop upwards of 100,000 Ohioans—many of whom are African-American churchgoers who live in the state’s cities—from voting on the Sunday before Election Day in November… …“Secretary of State Jon Husted today announced that he will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to make [...]
Oct 9, 2012
From the Rome News Tribune, by Walter C. Jones Georgia citizens are discovering that many of the laws passed in Georgia relating to prison, criminal justice and privatizing prisons and public education are taken directly from ALEC’s play book. “ALEC is the well conservative leaders in Georgia dip their bucket into when they’re looking for [...]
