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ALEC is the American Legislative Exchange Council, a business-casual matchmaker service between corporate interests and sympathetic lawmakers. They operate mostly in state legislatures, where they have used “model legislation” to enact such beneficial statutes...
The World According to ALEC
http://youtu.be/NfXb7cDGEVo The strategy for the state-level organisations, which describe themselves as "free-market think tanks", includes proposals from six different states for cuts in public sector pensions, campaigns to reduce the wages of government workers and...
Coordinated Assault
Conservative Think Tank Network Plotting "Coordinated Assault" on Medicaid, Education, Workers' Rights By Andy Kroll The State Policy Network, an umbrella group overseeing a constellation of right-leaning think tanks in all 50 states, is plotting a nationwide...
The Right-Wing’s Koch-Funded ATM
by Robert Maguire Political money flowed freely in the world of conservative billionaires David and Charles Koch in 2012. With most of the annual tax filings for non-disclosing nonprofits now in, it's clear that no other conservative or liberal dark money network...
Corporate ‘Dems’: cutting Social Security is path to electoral victory
Remember Third Way? They're the jokers who filled the void when the DLC collapsed. But unlike the DLC, Third Way operates in the shadows, lobbying Democrats behind the scenes and via travel junkets. So it's always a pleasure when they emerge from the shadows, like...
GOP: healthcare.gov too fast now
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Republican critics of Obamacare rose up in anger today, claiming that, after two months of fixes, the healthcare.gov Web site is now “unacceptably fast.” Leading the howls of protest was the House Committee on Oversight and Government...
Pope blasts unfettered capitalism
In case there was any doubt left, Pope Francis made it clear that he shares little in common with U.S. conservatives. The pontiff released his Evangelii Gadium, or Joy of the Gospel, attacking capitalism as a form of tyranny and calling on church and political leaders...
Talking down the result in Va.’s attorney general race
via The Washington Post CHARLES E. Judd, the Republican operative who chairs Virginia’s Board of Elections, did a disservice Monday to the state he serves by simultaneously certifying the razor-thin results in the race for attorney general and suggesting,...
Virginia Speaker William Howell Named “Turkey of the Year”
ProgressVA today announced Speaker William Howell as the recipient of the organization's 2013 "Turkey of the Year" award, in recognition of his staunch opposition to expanding Medicaid to up to 400,000 low-income Virginians. A program expansion would primarily benefit...
“I Am Alive For A Reason”
via NPR Saying he is "alive for a reason and I will work for change," Virginia state Sen. Creigh Deeds has told a Virginia news outlet that his life's work now "is to make sure other families don't have to go through what we are living." Deeds, 55, was stabbed and...
