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In reply to the discussion: Does anyone really give a shit about NC? [View all]G_j
(40,367 posts)82. You got that right
they are literally hurting people right out front, and that looks like hatred to me. Of who? The poor? It's about as mean as you can get.
Unfortunately for many other states they are following much of ALEC's cookie cutter plans.
http://www.ncpolicywatch.com/2013/05/17/shining-sunlight-on-a-secretive-lobby-group/
Shining sunlight on a secretive lobby group
Published on May 17th, 2013
Written by: Nancy MacLean
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As a U. S. historian, I am deeply alarmed at the growing power of this secretive body, founded by the longtime right-wing strategist Paul Weyrich in 1973 and bankrolled by some of the largest corporations in America.
<snip>
Breathtakingly unethical and cynical in the extreme, the effort worked. It helped build a mass base for the Republican right. As the religious right turned citizens against one another through a deliberately amped-up culture war, ALEC quietly built a powerhouse out of the limelight.
Today, as we have witnessed in North Carolina, the group can move the same legislation in dozens of states at once. In neighboring Virginia, Weyrichs and Falwells home state, ALECs minions in the General Assembly have been even more audacious: as the New York Times reported in February of this year, Virginia GOP legislators introduced more than 50 ALEC-proposed laws, many practically word for word.
<snip>
Our nation has never seen a bolder private bid to transform public lifeeven in the heyday of corporate influence, the Gilded Age. Every school child (at least in public schools) encounters the irrefutable evidence that this period between the overthrow of Reconstruction in 1877 and the progressive reforms of the early 1900s was the nadir of American democracy; a period in which corporations controlled both major parties, virtually ran the Congress, and produced corruption on a scale that left even brilliant humorists like Mark Twain at a loss for words. What most people today dont understand, though, is that this dismal era was the golden age of the ALEC version of liberty.
..more..
ALEC Exposed Website Resource
Through ALEC, Global Corporations Are Scheming to Rewrite YOUR Rights and Boost THEIR Revenue
Business money
Through the corporate-funded American Legislative Exchange Council, global corporations and state politicians vote behind closed doors to try to rewrite state laws that govern your rights. These so-called "model bills" reach into almost every area of American life and often directly benefit huge corporations.
In ALEC's own words, corporations have "a VOICE and a VOTE" on specific changes to the law that are then proposed in your state. DO YOU? Numerous resources to help us expose ALEC are provided below. We have also created links to detailed discussions of key issues, which are available on the left.
http://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_Exposed
Through ALEC, Global Corporations Are Scheming to Rewrite YOUR Rights and Boost THEIR Revenue
Business money
Through the corporate-funded American Legislative Exchange Council, global corporations and state politicians vote behind closed doors to try to rewrite state laws that govern your rights. These so-called "model bills" reach into almost every area of American life and often directly benefit huge corporations.
In ALEC's own words, corporations have "a VOICE and a VOTE" on specific changes to the law that are then proposed in your state. DO YOU? Numerous resources to help us expose ALEC are provided below. We have also created links to detailed discussions of key issues, which are available on the left.
http://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_Exposed
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Those of us who do not live in NC, but rather far away in California cannot do anything about NC
JDPriestly
Jul 2013
#66
I've wondered that myself. It just seems like they're on a frickin' RAMPAGE!!!
calimary
Jul 2013
#25
Sadly Liberals and Progressives are a minority in the South and have to live under GOP rule but that
YeahSureRight
Jul 2013
#62
I have always known my entire life the South was a miserable place to exist and yes I did live
YeahSureRight
Jul 2013
#79
NC has an interesting history. And, it's not South Carolina, Texas or Mississippi...
KoKo
Jul 2013
#34
I do. Even if good people live on the "wrong" side of a line on the map is no reason not to care
pampango
Jul 2013
#19
NC tried to ban the Tesla sales from the state...so far that bill hasn't passed...
Tikki
Jul 2013
#32
How is that fair...you can't tell me there isn't some rich guy in NC who ordered a Maserati or...
Tikki
Jul 2013
#114
So someone can go to California and buy a Tesla and then register it in NC and all.
Tikki
Jul 2013
#117
Plus one! Democrats do not have an entire TV network dedicated to right wing lies.
Enthusiast
Jul 2013
#135
Heh. How exactly does that happen while the airwaves and newspapers are saturated
Doctor_J
Jul 2013
#80