Here's a place where we can take action against ALEC!

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http://www.alternet.org/story/151700/save_democracy%3A_tell_corporations_to_dump_alec/

It links to a form that blasts to the corporations that have signed on with ALEC to write legislation.

Why are popular name-brand corporations like Johnson and Johnson, Coca Cola, Kraft and State Farm cozying up behind closed doors with Big Tobacco and the Koch Brothers to undermine American democracy?

The Center for Media and Democracy has uncovered the secretive nerve center for the corporate hijacking of American politics, where right-wing politicians and Fortune 500 conspire to achieve the privatization of public schools, the demise of labor unions, and the suppression of voting rights -- and it is called ALEC.

ALEC is not a lobby; it is not a front group. It is much more powerful than that. Through ALEC, behind closed doors, corporations hand state politicians the changes to the law they desire which directly benefit their bottom line. Corporate lobbyists serve as “equals” with elected representatives on nine task forces where specific tax breaks are crafted along with measures to deregulate and privatize entire industries, such as the telecommunications industry. Corporations vote to approve these bills before they are even introduced in state houses across the land. According to internal ALEC documents, corporations have a “voice and a vote” – do you?

Democracy for Sale

At ALECexposed.org, the Center for Media and Democracy displays over 800 ALEC “model” bills so that the public can track the origins of bills moving in their state. Here we list some of the ALEC corporate give-aways popping in states across the land.

Please go send letter, then come back and

[Hell Hath No Fury]

1. I hate that fucking group.

Done.

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2. HEY KICK!. . . n/t