The steady disenfranchisement of the american people.
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 [...]
Mar 29, 2013
Overhauling the state pension system is a priority for Florida House Speaker Will Weatherford, R-ALEC. (Photo courtesy of the Florida Legislature.) A new plan that would overhaul the state’s pension system can be traced back to the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, The Palm Beach Post reported this week. State lawmakers are changing the current [...]
Mar 14, 2013
It’s ba-aack. The Voter ID bill is on the GOP agenda again. Last night the Republican leadership held a public hearing on proposed Voter ID legislation. (It happened after press time; check our Triangulator blog for a roundup.) The bill, which almost 75 percent of North Carolinians support, according to a recent Elon University poll, [...]
Feb 26, 2013
A bill introduced by Montana State Rep. Steve Lavin (R-ALEC) would give corporations the right to vote in municipal elections: Provision for vote by corporate property owner. (1) Subject to subsection (2), if a firm, partnership, company, or corporation owns real property within the municipality, the president, vice president, secretary, or other designee of the [...]
Jan 20, 2013
While most of the attention about ALEC has centered on guns, prisons, and voter ID, the goal of ALEC is much larger than that and much more pernicious. Below is an introduction to another area where ALEC legislative members are implementing malicious ALEC “model legislation” – that is dangerous to the US and state governments [...]
Jan 19, 2013
It wasn’t mere coincidence that a day before N.C. Senate leader Republican Phil Berger (R-ALEC) unveiled a plan to overhaul the state’s tax system that Nebraska’s GOP Gov. Dave Heineman was giving his State of the State address focusing on the same thing. And it’s not just happenstance that the centerpiece of both plans is [...]
Jan 10, 2013
A month after President Obama won reelection, America’s most powerful liberal groups met to plan their next moves. Here’s what they talked about. It was the kind of meeting that conspiratorial conservative bloggers dream about. A month after President Barack Obama won reelection, top brass from three dozen of the most powerful groups in liberal [...]
Dec 26, 2012
From article written by Bob Sloan and published on Policy Mic… Fact: 282 bills were passed in Michigan during the lame duck session. 42% of all the bills passed in the last two years were in this last lame duck session, with 180 votes taken on the last day of the 2012 session alone. Fact: In the session [...]
Dec 17, 2012
Broadcast 12.12.12 on the Rachel Maddow Show. She showed this Meet The Press footage of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on 4/1/60 calling for national uniform voting standards to ensure election fairness. Please click here to view this remarkable piece of history–that you are seeing being attacked today, some 62 years later http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show#50182721
