May 7, 2013
From an article at PRWatch by Brendan Fischer Here we go again, with more information coming out about ALEC’s Spring Summit event in Oklahoma City. While advising the public that the ALEC organization is pursuing “transparency” they send out instructions to members to in effect, be non-transparent… “Shortly after the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) told the [...]
May 7, 2013
From PRWatch by Brendan Fischer and Nick Surgey At the recent Spring Summit of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) held in Oklahoma City, ALEC security staffers went to great lengths to assure that only journalists involved with conservative media outlets were allowed access to the Cox Convention Center where the organization’s members were meeting [...]
May 3, 2013
By Bob Sloan Below are today’s articles and materials related to ALEC and the Koch funded conservative cabal. Included ALEC published material – if available. Click on a link to view the complete article. Thousands Across the U.S. Rightly Protest Sallie Mae For Skyrocketing Student Debt To coincide with the action students are taking, Jobs [...]
May 2, 2013
By Bob Sloan Below are today’s articles and materials related to ALEC and the Koch funded conservative cabal. Included ALEC published material – if available. Click on a link to view the complete article. First “Ag-Gag” Prosecution: This Utah Woman Filmed a Slaughterhouse from the Public Street “This is the first prosecution in the country [...]
Apr 29, 2013
From Huff Post Politics, by Luke Johnson Twelve years after the Supreme Court accepted the case involving the 2000 election results in Bush V Gore, Former Justice O’Connor expressed doubt as to whether the Supreme Court should have accepted the case to begin with: Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor expressed doubt Friday about the decision [...]
Apr 24, 2013
From Mother Jones article “EXCLUSIVE: Read the Koch Brothers’ Plans for Their Upcoming GOP Donor Retreat“ By Andy Kroll… For more than a decade reports of attempts by the Brothers Koch – Charles and David – to assert their ideological branding upon American politics have been in the news. Founders or funders of nearly every ultra-conservative PAD [...]
Apr 21, 2013
An analysis of two recent articles from Michigan and why they are ALEC-related. Analysis by Bob Sloan ALEC’s attention to America’s education “reform” is focused and advancing state by state as they promote privatization of public school systems. Vouchers, “parent trigger”, long distance learning, “vitrual schools” and a “Public-Private Fair Competition Act” are [...]
Apr 18, 2013
A petition drive has been launched by Voters for Fair Use of Ballot Referendum, aka Voters for FUBR (pronounced foo’-bar). Bill Lucas, of Ferndale Michigan, founded the organization in late 2012. Its purpose is to prevent the legislative abuse of attaching appropriations to new laws to render them referendum-proof. Voters for FUBR are circulating a petition with a proposal [...]
Apr 10, 2013
North Carolina Representative Mike Hager, the bill’s chief sponsor, is a member of ALEC, which is attempting to overturn or weaken RPS policies in 19 states A bill to repeal the US state of North Carolina’s renewable portfolio standard (RPS) has passed a committee of the state’s House of Representatives 11-10. The bill must now [...]
Apr 9, 2013
The contrast couldn’t be more stark. Michigan Republicans and Democrats are not even in the same book, let alone on the same page, when it comes to what politicians like to refer to as “our most precious resource” — our children. Michigan House Republicans approved a budget which will slash funding for the Department of Human Services, the [...]
