Look who sponsored

Georgia Senate Resolution 1231 which put
the second referendum question on the ballot!
Two of ALEC’s “our state legislators”,
Senators Ronnie Chance of the 16th,
and
Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers of the 21st,
are among the sponsors (Chance is the first sponsor).

SourceWatch’s ALEC Exposed

found Ronnie Chance on ALEC’s International Relations Task Force.
Rogers himself told CBS News how much he values ALEC,

Who is ALEC?
By Mark Strassmann and Phil Hirschkorn 30 June 2012.
Rogers spelled out the same thing ALEC itself told me:
it considers people like Chance and Rogers
“our state legislators”.
“Our” as in belonging to ALEC, not representing you the voters and taxpayers.

Guess who sponsored the bill that put the charter school amendment on the ballot,
HB 1162 in its Senate form?

Chip Rogers.
And who sponsored the companion bill that would suck money out of public
schools and give more per pupil to charter schools, using our local tax dollars,
HB 797 in the Senate?

Chip Rogers.
And House sponsors Jan Jones (R 46th) and Edward Lindsey (R 54th) of both bills

are also ALEC’s “our state legislators”.

I don’t always agree with Adam Smith, but when I do, I quote The Wealth of Nations from 1776:

“The interest of the dealers, however, in any particular branch of
trade or manufactures, is always in some respects different from,
and even opposite to, that of the public.


To widen the market and to
narrow the competition, is always the interest of the dealers. To
widen the market may frequently be agreeable enough to the interest
of the public; but to narrow the competition must always be against
it, and can serve only to enable the dealers, by raising their
profits above what they naturally would be, to levy, for their own
benefit, an absurd tax upon the rest of their fellow-citizens. The
proposal of any new law or regulation of commerce which comes from
this order ought always to be listened to with great precaution, and
ought never to be adopted till after having been long and carefully
examined, not only with the most scrupulous, but with the most
suspicious attention. It comes from an order of men whose interest
is never exactly the same with that of the public, who have
generally an interest to deceive and even to oppress the public, and
who accordingly have, upon many occasions, both deceived and
oppressed it.”

I recommend your suspicious attention to this ALEC-sponsored second
referendum.

Normally, I would be for a constitutional amendment
that purports to promote energy efficiency and conservation,

as this one does:

Shall the Constitution be amended so as to provide for guaranteed
cost savings for the state by authorizing a state entity to enter
into multiyear contracts which obligate state funds for energy
efficiency or conservation improvement projects?

But when it’s sponsored by the very same ALEC’s “our state legislators”
who brought us the so-called charter school amendment, which has

ALEC’s fingerprints all over it,
right down to

the misleading preamble,
plus it’s backed by

megabucks from out-of-state ALEC cronies,
I’m going to vote No on both!

You also have an opportunity right now to vote for new state Senators
and House members who will not be ALEC’s state legislators and could
be our own state representatives.

-jsq