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WI Ethics Board Should Bar ALEC Corporate Gifts

by Lisa Graves — August 23, 2012 - 11:57am
  • Topics: ALEC Exposed, Corporations

    • Imagine a retreat at a swank Wisconsin resort, where elected officials are wined and dined by corporate lobbyists, have their travel and accommodations paid, have activities for their families and their child-care subsidized, and are given tickets to major league ball games and elite parties by corporate lobbyists with business before the legislature.

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    CEOs Earn More than their Firms Pay in Taxes

    by Alex Oberley — August 21, 2012 - 6:49am
  • Topics: Corporations, Economy

    • Twenty-six U.S. companies paid their CEOs more than they paid the federal government in taxes in 2011, according to a new study from The Institute for Policy Studies.

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    Paul Ryan: Bankrolled by the Banksters, the Privatizers, and the Kochs

    by Mary Bottari — August 13, 2012 - 7:46am
  • Topics: BanksterUSA, Corporations, Democracy, Economy

    • In the 14 years that Paul Ryan has been a Congressman from Southeastern Wisconsin, he has never had a challenger of any stature or a race of any significance. Janesville, his hometown and the heart of the district, has no TV stations and only a handful of small, scrappy newspapers. What an opportunity for a man of the people to take the highroad!

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    Amgen Drops ALEC (Number 32) as eBay Comes under Fire

    by Rebekah Wilce — August 8, 2012 - 7:21am
  • Topics: ALEC Exposed, Corporations, Politics

    • More companies have announced they are cutting ties to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) even as some corporations, like eBay, continue to stand firm.

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    Corporate "Sin-Washing" -- Embracing the Olympic Brand Pays Off for Sponsors

    by Will Dooling — August 8, 2012 - 6:57am
  • Topics: Activism, Corporations

    • Global corporations like Dow Chemical, Adidas, and McDonald's are paying upwards of $100 million USD to sponsor the 2012 London games and associate themselves with the Olympic brand -- but with their brands already well-established, what do corporations get in exchange for these expensive sponsorship deals?

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    Super Rich Holding $21 Trillion Overseas To Avoid Taxation

    by Alex Oberley — August 2, 2012 - 2:47pm
  • Topics: Banking, Corporations, Economy, International, Secrecy

    • At a time when the gap between the ultra-rich and the rest of us is reaching historic heights across the globe, at least $21 trillion (with a "t") in unreported private financial wealth was recently discovered sitting in secret tax havens.

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    Fighting GMO Labeling in California is Food Lobby’s “Highest Priority”

    by PRW Staff — August 1, 2012 - 10:06am
  • Topics: Genetic Engineering, Corporations, Food Rights Network, Lobbying

    • - by PRWatch guest contributor Michele Simon

    In case you had any doubt that California's Prop 37 -- which would require labeling of food containing genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) -- is a significant threat to industry, a top food lobby has now made it perfectly clear.

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    "Now Tell Him He Reminds You of George Washington"

    by PRW Staff — August 1, 2012 - 9:42am
  • Topics: ALEC Exposed, Corporations, Democracy

    • The week the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) was in Salt Lake City for its 39th annual meeting, award winning cartoonist Pat Bagley produced this gem in Utah's largest newspaper, The Salt Lake Tribune. The cartoon "A Legislator Walks Into a Bar" aptly characterizes the relationship between legislators, mega-corporations, and ALEC. State Representative Mark Pocan (D-WI) has put it bit more gently describing ALEC as a "dating service" for politicians and corporations.

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    Monsanto’s Quiet Coup: Will Congress Limit Scope and Time for GMO Reviews?

    by Jill Richardson — August 1, 2012 - 6:32am
  • Topics: Genetic Engineering, Corporations, Food Rights Network, Politics

    • After a series of court defeats over the past few years, Monsanto and friends are trying to use Congress to make an end-run around the courts and current law. Lawsuits brought by opponents of genetically engineered (GE) crops resulted in the temporary removal of two products -- Roundup Ready Alfalfa and Roundup Ready Sugarbeets -- from the market. If the biotechnology industry and the legislators they support have their way, future GE crops will not suffer the same fate.

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    A Lot of White Space: Firms Drop Off ALEC's Meeting Brochure

    by Lisa Graves — July 30, 2012 - 6:00am
  • Topics: ALEC Exposed, Corporations

    • Salt Lake City -- A close look at the annual meeting brochure of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) shows that anti-corporate campaigners are having an impact on the secretive "bill mill" that brings politicians and corporate lobbyists together behind closed doors to craft, amend, and vote on "model" legislation.

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