After 50 Years, This Right-Wing Law Factory Is Crazier Than Ever

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After 50 Years, This Right-Wing Law Factory Is Crazier Than Ever​

With the political media’s attention firmly fixed on Rep. Matt Gaetz’s (R-FL) dethroning of Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, a secretive corporate pay-to-play group that quietly shapes state laws across the country is holding its 50th anniversary gala this week at the National Portrait Gallery, just a mile away.

Over the past five decades, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has brought corporate lobbyists and conservative state legislators together behind closed doors to draft and promote hundreds of model bills affecting the pocketbooks and rights of millions of Americans. ALEC’s agenda extends to almost every area of public policy, as lawmakers take these model bills written by powerful special-interest and far-right groups—including the tobacco, gun, oil, pharmaceutical, and telecom industries—back to their statehouses and introduce them as their own. From lower wages to increased mass shootings, more pollution, fewer consumer protections, and less bodily autonomy, the negative impacts on everyone living in the U.S. have been profound.

And since ALEC masquerades as a tax-exempt charity, your tax dollars subsidize it all.

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After 50 Years, This Right-Wing Law Factory Is Crazier Than Ever - EXPOSEDbyCMD

The American Legislative Exchange Council is where corporations and far-right groups go to buy government policy.

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[.41Dave]

Given that the radical leftists have managed to shift of the overton window so far left that Kennedy would probably be accused of being ultra Maga if he were alive today, I'd say ALEC is failing miserably.

 

[pmbug]

Nearly all bills sent to the floor in State legislatures are written by special interest groups / lobbyists. The 10th Amendment Center and Sound Money Defense League have both been somewhat successful in getting legislation enacted in various States. There are many groups like them pushing different agendas.

If ALEC violated the terms of their tax-exempt status, it should be addressed in the justice system. But hand-wringing over their success in getting legislation passed is dumb.

 

[Joe King]

From lower wages to increased mass shootings, more pollution, fewer consumer protections, and less bodily autonomy, the negative impacts on everyone living in the U.S. have been profound

So you're saying that they actually Enacted a laws that stated they were going to do those things?

They passed a law intending to lower wages? To increase pollution? To increase shootings?

Have any examples?
....and I already know that the "less bodily autonomy" is code for not killing babies prior to birth, but the rest?

 

[Someone_else]

They passed a law intending to lower wages? To increase pollution? To increase shootings?

I can't watch every bill everywhere, but I might have missed one with the preamble like,
"A bill to lower wages, increase pollution, increase shootings, and other measures". It must have evaded my rather loose observation.