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Seven State Keystone XL Resolutions -- Where Are the Environmentalists?

by Nick Surgey — April 8, 2013 - 8:38am
  • Topics: ALEC Exposed, Energy, Environment

    • The cleanup is still underway from a massive pipeline spill in Mayflower, Arkansas, but you don't hear anything about it at public hearings across the nation dealing with the Keystone XL (KXL) pipeline. Resolutions supporting the controversial KXL pipeline have now been introduced in seven states, but while TransCanada, the American Petroleum Institute (API) and the Chamber of Commerce have been lobbying in force for the bills to pass, there have been few opposing voices by either Democrats or environmentalists at public hearings dealing on the measures. The massive pipeline project will transport tar sands crude oil from Alberta to Gulf Coast refineries for processing and export and once underway, the project will be a major contributor to global warming.

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    New Report Exposes Extreme ALEC Agenda in Arizona

    by Nick Surgey — April 4, 2013 - 11:08am
  • Topics: ALEC Exposed, Think Tanks

    • Seventeen bills introduced in the Arizona legislature in 2013 can be tied to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), and every member of the Republican leadership in the state are current or recent ALEC members, according to a new report from the Center for Media and Democracy and its allies "ALEC in Arizona: The Voice Of Corporate Special Interests In The Halls Of Arizona's Legislature."

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    A Reporters' Guide to the "State Policy Network" -- the Right-Wing Think Tanks Spinning Disinformation and Pushing the ALEC Agenda in the States

    by Rebekah Wilce — April 4, 2013 - 7:41am
  • Topics: State Policy Network, ALEC Exposed, Right Wing, Think Tanks

    • New Resource Details "Think Tanks" Tanking Americans' Rights

    In this new online resource, the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD, the publisher of the award-winning ALECexposed.org investigation) documents the more than $80 million that right-wing billionaires and corporations are spending each year to fuel Tracie Sharp's State Policy Network (SPN) and its 59 state "think tank" members, along with the controversial Heartland Institute, a SPN ally like the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), that tries to change both state and federal law.

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    Efforts to Deliver "Kill Shot" to Paid Sick Leave Tied to ALEC

    by Brendan Fischer — April 3, 2013 - 10:02am
  • Topics: ALEC Exposed, Corporations, Democracy, Health, Politics, Wisconsin Protests

    • By Brendan Fischer and Mary Bottari

    In a victory for working families, New York is poised to become the largest U.S. city to require businesses offer paid sick days to workers. Community activists and labor leaders struck a deal with City Council Speaker Christine Quinn to allow a vote on a paid sick leave ordinance that would cover almost 1 million people. But workers in more than 700 other large American cities must choose between spreading their illness and getting paid.

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    Join CMD at the National Conference for Media Reform in Denver!

    by PRW Staff — April 3, 2013 - 9:47am
  • Topics: ALEC Exposed, Corporations

    • If you are going to the National Conference for Media Reform (NCMR) in Denver, CO on April 5-7, 2013, please join the Center for Media and Democracy for a special session "Exposing ALEC: How Corporate Special Interests Control State Legislatures." The workshop will be on Saturday, April 6 from 2:00 - 3:30 pm in the Plaza Ballroom E.

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    As Supreme Court Hears Challenge to ALEC Voting Bill, Two More States Introduce It

    by Brendan Fischer — March 25, 2013 - 7:36am
  • Topics: ALEC Exposed, Democracy, Politics

    • Within days of the U.S. Supreme Court hearing a challenge to an Arizona voting registration law that had been adopted as a "model" by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), two more states advanced bills that appear to track the ALEC/Arizona template.

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    Machine Guns on the Vegas Strip? In Nevada, ALEC/NRA Bill Introduced to Stop Cities from Banning Machine Guns

    by Brendan Fischer — March 22, 2013 - 7:04am
  • Topics: ALEC Exposed, Corporations, Democracy, Politics

    • A Nevada politician has introduced a bill that would bar the city of Las Vegas from enacting tougher gun laws than the state as a whole, including language that would specifically protect "machine guns" from being barred on the Las Vegas strip if the legislature did not bar machine guns across Nevada -- and it is tied to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).

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    WellPoint and Bristol-Myers Squibb Cut Ties to ALEC, Making 44 Corporations Out

    by Rebekah Wilce — March 18, 2013 - 11:12am
  • Topics: ALEC Exposed, Corporations, Politics

    • Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS), a New York pharmaceutical company with $17.6 billion in annual revenue, and WellPoint, an Indiana health insurance company with $61.7 billion in annual revenue, are cutting ties with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).

    This brings the tally to at least 44 corporations that have cut ties to ALEC in the past year.

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    U.S. Supreme Court Considers ALEC Voting Bill; Could Have Broader Implications for Voting Rights

    by Brendan Fischer — March 17, 2013 - 10:21pm
  • Topics: ALEC Exposed, Election 2012, Democracy, Politics

    • The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments on March 18 to decide whether an Arizona statute that imposes restrictions on voter registration conflicts with federal law. The case could potentially decide the balance between the state and federal governments when it comes to elections and voting rights. After becoming law in Arizona, the bill at issue was adopted as a "model" by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).

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    ALEC Corporate Bill Mill Posts (Some) Model Bills Online for First Time; Watchdogs Say Move Falls Far Short on Transparency

    by PRW Staff — March 15, 2013 - 3:12pm
  • Topics: ALEC Exposed

    • FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 15, 2013

    CONTACT: Brendan Fischer, brendan@prwatch.org

    A two-year campaign by a coalition of public interest groups has pushed the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) to release hundreds of pieces of "model" state legislation secretly developed and pushed into law by corporate interests. The coalition includes the Center for Media and Democracy, ColorOfChange, Common Cause, Greenpeace, People For the American Way, Progress Now, Voters Legislative Transparency Project, and a variety of labor organizations.

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