ALEC

Ohio Bleeding

Paula Garfield is a 30-year veteran teacher of special education for Columbus city schools.  She was recently elected as an Ohio Education Association Delegate, and received the Columbus Education Association’s Outstanding Member of the Year award.  She was highly involved with We Are Ohio, and is a guest speaker for Ohio Women’s Democratic Caucus, War on [...]

ALEC Privatization = Educational Apartheid

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 [...]

North Carolina Advocates for Justice endorses ALEC Members – UPDATED, and it’s worse

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 [...]

Does the USPS have Ties to ALEC?

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 [...]

ALEC an Issue in Weston, CT Election

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 [...]

What the #&%! Is CMD Thinking?

Dear Center for Media and Democracy, Are you out of your #&%! minds, or do you just want to throw some red meat to the radical right?  I refer directly to your article: We’ve got a few bones to pick with you re this… First, just what “industrialized nations would expect a presidential candidate to indicate [...]

ALEC Parent Trigger Laws – Kill the Public Schools

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 [...]

Nationwide’s “On Your Side…?” Hey ALEC – How about some Clarity?

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 [...]

Ohio Republicans Appeal To U.S. Supreme Court To Curtail Early Voting

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 [...]

ANALYSIS: Georgia leaders depend on the same well for ideas

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 [...]