{"id":708,"date":"2012-07-08T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/i-want-you-to-dump-alec.html"},"modified":"2012-07-08T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T12:00:00","slug":"i-want-you-to-dump-alec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/i-want-you-to-dump-alec.html","title":{"rendered":"I want you! to dump ALEC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/salsa.democracyinaction.org\/o\/632\/p\/dia\/action\/public\/?action_KEY=10002\">\nThis petition<\/a> does not, unfortunately, list Southern Company.\n<a href=\"http:\/\/salsa.democracyinaction.org\/o\/632\/p\/dia\/action\/public\/?action_KEY=10002\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"https:\/\/salsa.democracyinaction.org\/o\/632\/images\/alecaction.jpg\"><\/a>\n<p>\nBut you can send SO a letter anyway!\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nFor the past year, the Center for Media and Democracy has worked to\nexpose the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), through its\nongoing www.ALECexposed.org investigation into ALEC&#8217;s operations,\nlobbying, and &#8220;model&#8221; bills voted on behind closed doors by\ncorporate lobbyists and legislators voting as equals. ALEC&#8217;s extreme\nagenda has included templates to change our laws to make it harder\nfor juries to hold vigilantes who kill people accountable, for\nAmerican citizens to vote, for Congress to limit the distorting and\ncorrupting influence of money in our elections, and numerous other\nbills that undermine the rights and opportunities of Americans.\nPlease join us in reaching out to corporate members of ALEC to\ndemand that they stop bankrolling ALEC and stop corrupting the\ndemocratic process. Tell them to dump ALEC!\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nHere&#8217;s\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.southerncompany.com\/contact\/home.aspx\">\nSouthern Company&#8217;s contact form.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This petition does not, unfortunately, list Southern Company. But you can send SO a letter anyway! For the past year, the Center for Media and Democracy has worked to expose the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), through its ongoing www.ALECexposed.org investigation into ALEC&#8217;s operations, lobbying, and &#8220;model&#8221; bills voted on behind closed doors by corporate [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[97,140,14,18,22],"tags":[8744,2223,1153,8704,8701,8708,8702,963,12,7,8712,108,6],"class_list":["post-708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-alec","category-economy","category-georgia-power","category-politics","tag-alec","tag-alec-exposed","tag-corruption","tag-economy","tag-georgia","tag-georgia-power","tag-lake","tag-lobbying","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-politics","tag-southern-company","tag-valdosta"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-bq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}