About ALEC Exposed


About ALEC Exposed


















Lisa Graves




I would guess this is all due to the NorthAmerican Security & Prosperity Partnership... which spawned the NorthAmerican Competitiveness Council. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Competitiveness_Council Jan. 10 - 11 2006 ..... account of meeting from Council of Americas, atendees discussed " marrying policy issues with business priorities", and that " one critical factor in the success of NASPP will be the active engagement of the NA business community. If you look up the NACompetitiveness Council, you will find the same business and individuals involved. The SPP was the worst behind doors piece of legislation ever developed for Canada , U.S. , Mexican citizens.I have been trying to warn people about the SPP for 6yrs.

Lisa - I have been attempting to access your ALEC Exposed page with the ALEC Legislation...and the page keeps coming up as unavailable. Wanted to ask if it is down for uploading more, or is it a more serious problem, perhaps? Bob Sloan - Exposting ALEC at Daily Kos

If people sign a pledge to some individual like Norquist, or some group of individuals or corporations, to never raise taxes then swear to uphold the Constitution when taking an elected office with responsibilities like keeping our nation's infrastructure intact, our nation's debts paid, enacting & adjusting taxes etc., doesn't the latter sworn promise supersede a pledge to a private citizen? If they continue to treat both pledges as equal, or the former as a priority, how is that not a violation of the public trust? [Also, is it just me, or when an elected politician goes to TV saying that these people in Washington must be restrained from spending as if they're talking about a 3rd party, doesn't that politician sound like an idiot?] Are the people of America so unaware of the United States' history that the fact that the Constitution replaced the Articles of Confederation for the pressing reason that the Articles didn't include the power to tax, which, uncorrected, would have left this country unable to pay back the debts incurred during the Revolution? Without the power to enact & collect taxes, America would have been the moral & political equivalent of Port Royal - a haven for pirates & renegade privateers. Without the power to collect taxes, we wouldn't have survived as a real nation. Also, have the corporations & their lapdogs not noticed that the periods of the 20th century when taxes were highest were also the times of greatest prosperity - including nice, fat revenues for corporations? Right now the corporations, the Republicans & the teavangelists are like the dragon sitting on a pile of gold in a medieval romance - the dragon can't eat the gold & without being used as a medium of trade, what value does gold even have?

The same thought occurred to me. Elected officials take an oath to uphold the constitution of the U.S.A. That oath -- I assume -- takes precedence over any other pledge, oath, or obligation. Thanks for writing.

You've done an amazing job of exposing this outrageous organization, one of the mechanisms that has been used to undermine our democratic process (Lisa Graves, the Center for Media & Democracy and the heroic Alec insider who shared the documents). Thanks so much! I have to wonder, though. Your "Action!" recommendations don't include bombarding legislators with loud vehement protest about their unethical participation in such a secret backdoor legislative process (corporations and legislators alone, voting on policies!). I don't understand why that wouldn't be the first action, unless you feel as cynical as I often do - that there's no point. Say it ain't so!

In addition to suggesting that we loudly complain to our legislators, why not publish a list of ALEC participating corporations? I would think twice before giving them my business, and I bet some pension and mutual fund managers may be inclined to not buy their stock.

Here's a partial list: https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=ALEC_Corporations More information on the bills is available here, at Who Is Behind ALEC: https://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_Exposed

Illinois has an Open Meetings Act; Illinois legislators attending these meetings would be subject to its provisions. Under Illinois law, for example, if a majority of a quorum of any elected government body meets to discuss public business, there must be public notice of the meeting and it must be open to the public and news media, regardless of where the meeting takes place. Presumably other states have similar legislation. Is there any indication that any state's Open Meetings Act may have been violated?

I just put my money where my mouth is: 1. I have not set foot in a Walmart store in over 3 years now. 2. I don't drink coca cola products 3. I just canceled my AT&T wireless account after 10 years ... a welcome byproduct of this is that no one knows my new number. 4. I shop at small local stores whenever possible even if it costs a few pennies more. 5. I purchase the store brand cheese (and other products) instead of Kraft 6. etc...