Bill Moyers takes on ALEC.

Posted yesterday On Bill Moyers’ website,

‘United States of ALEC’ Video Previews

This week, Moyers & Company (check local listings) presents


“United States of ALEC,” a report on the most
influential corporate-funded political force most of America has
never heard of — ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange
Council. A national consortium of state politicians and powerful
corporations, ALEC presents itself as a “nonpartisan
public-private partnership”. But behind that mantra lies a
vast network of corporate lobbying and political action aimed to
increase corporate profits at public expense without public
knowledge.

He said more

on Huffington Post Wednesday,

In state houses around the country, hundreds of pieces of
boilerplate ALEC legislation are proposed or enacted that would,
among other things, dilute collective bargaining rights, make it
harder for some Americans to vote, and limit corporate liability for
harm caused to consumers — each accomplished without the
public ever knowing who’s behind it.

We explore ALEC’s self-serving machine at work, acting in a way one
Wisconsin politician describes as “a corporate dating service for
lonely legislators and corporate special interests.”

Locally, we’ve already found ALEC squirming around under the rocks of

private prisons, stand-your-ground laws, opposition to renewable energy, and

the charter school referendum on the November ballot
that would let an unelected board in Atlanta force charter
schools on local communities that would have no control over them
yet would have to pay extra for them from local sales and property taxes.

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