From an email to me, from Common Cause. ALEC lobbies for business friendly laws then writes them so the GOP doesn't have to lift a finger, they just download one corporate protection law after another and vote'em in. That's all the GOP does, well, that and collect pay for protecting the rich. Google Common Cause to learn more.
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What do AT&T, Koch Industries, WalMart, Altria, Pfizer and Exxon Mobil have in common?
They're all members of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a shadowy organization made up of big business leaders and state legislators who work to put corporate profits ahead of the public interest. With ALEC at work in your state capitol,business wins, and the middle class loses.
Common Cause is helping lead the fight to expose ALEC's secret corporate agenda, challenge its nonprofit status and shine a spotlight on political money spent by its members. Please help us keep the pressure on and rescue our democracy from corporate control.
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ReplyDeleteRescue our democracy from corporate control. It will never be done until we get corporate money out of politics. Let's have public financing of political campaigns.
Thanks Whit, perhaps this coming election is going to be the biggest buyout of government ever.
ReplyDeleteWouldn't want to have those poor legislators have to write their laws all by themselves, now, would you?....
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