ALEC, National Corporate Friendly 'Bill Mill', Going Local

[MrMickeysMom]

Promoter of 'stand your ground' laws takes aim at towns across the country

- Jacob Chamberlain, Common Dreams staff writer

The conservative group American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is bringing a whole new meaning to the phrase "going local."

According to a report in the Guardian, the Koch brothers-backed group—which has been responsible for many conservative pieces of legislation shaped in the form of ALEC "model bills"—is spring-boarding a new initiative that will focus the group's energy on issues and political campaigns in "villages, towns, cities and counties" across the country.

A local member of municipal government is quoted here whom I admire much. She and new members Pittsburgh's City Council are the only voice against the expansion of corporatism in local government, due to the likes of ALEC.

Read more and please support Common Dreams, too…

Link: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/03/07-7

[KT2000]

1. Just great -

my county is so easy to buy it's not funny. Make them feel like one of the "big guys" and they will give them everything they want. Bet that is not uncommon either.

[MrMickeysMom]

3. It's also lazy...

I can see how lazy the general assembly of Pennsylvania has been with not reading much of the bill that became Act 13 (tracking). This results in the people "taking it to the courts", which is what is going on with the gas and oil industry.

If the people (who have so far been winning in the challenge of what that Act does to the local zoning issues) win, then it will have been a LONG circuitous way to "governing", won't it?

I also see how lazy the local municipal councils can be. It took hard work to keep the local cartel out the last 5 years, but with lazy asses replacing me, I'm getting ready to be hit with some awful shit here, based on people letting those vested interests do their job for them … I hope I'm wrong.

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