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Exposing ALEC's Corporate Influence On State Government
Laws that put more people in prison might seem like a good thing if you're for law and order. But what if you found those laws had been passed so private prisons would have more people to incarcerate and therefor make more money? That's one of the allegations laid out by a coalition of groups in Arizona who are calling attention to what the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is doing to undermine democracy in America. The groups say ALEC takes millions of dollars from corporations and uses it to get state legislatures to do their bidding, passing laws that do everything from put more people in prison to disenfranchising voters. Former State Representative John A. Loredo introduces the speakers. Speakers at the event outside the Arizona state capitol in Phoenix include members of Common Cause, People For The American Way, Center for Media and Democracy, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the Arizona AFL-CIO, and the Office and Professional Employees International Union
Who elected ALEC?
A few times a year, ALEC gathers lawmakers, corporate CEOs, and lobbyists together in the same high-end resort-hotel ballrooms to present to the elected officials model legislation written by ALEC and voted on by the corporations. If the corporations approve, that legislation then gets carried back to state legislatures - or even the US Congress - by the lawmakers in attendance, who submit it as new laws. And it's long been speculated - because identical laws keep popping up in state after state - that Republican lawmakers who attend ALEC conferences are taking their orders directly from ALEC - and therefore legislation dealing with everything from Voter ID laws, to harsher prison sentences for drug offenders, to dismantling EPA regulation have their roots in ALEC. Now there's proof..
Busted! Rep. Leaves ALEC Wording In Corporate Tax Resolution
Florida state Rep. Rachel Burgin (R) proposed a resolution with the goal of cutting federal corporate taxes but she accidentally left in a portion written by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a group primarily funded by large corporations. The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down. thinkprogress.org What else is ALEC up to? www.youtube.com Subscribe to The Young Turks: bit.ly Find out how to watch The Young Turks on Current by clicking here: www.current.com The Largest Online New Show in the World. Google+: www.gplus.to Facebook: www.facebook.com Twitter: twitter.com
ALEC = Obvious and Organized Corruption
Via The New York Times: "...Most of the attention has focused on ALEC's role in creating model bills, drafted by lobbyists and lawmakers, that broadly advance a pro-business, socially conservative agenda. But a review of internal ALEC documents shows that this is only one facet of a sophisticated operation for shaping public policy at a state-by-state level. The records offer a glimpse of how special interests effectively turn ALEC's lawmaker members into stealth lobbyists, providing them with talking points, signaling how they should vote and collaborating on bills affecting hundreds of issues like school vouchers and tobacco taxes. The documents — hundreds of pages of minutes of private meetings, member e-mail alerts and correspondence — were obtained by the watchdog group Common Cause and shared with The New York Times...".* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down. * Read more from Mike Mcintire: www.nytimes.com Subscribe to The Young Turks: bit.ly Find out how to watch The Young Turks on Current by clicking here: www.current.com The Largest Online New Show in the World. Facebook: www.facebook.com Twitter: twitter.com Google+: www.gplus.to Pinterest: pinterest.com
Corporations Pulling Out of ALEC
via Reuters: "(Reuters) - Coca-Cola Co is dropping its membership in a conservative national advocacy group that supports "Stand Your Ground" laws such as the one being used as a defense in the Florida killing of an unarmed black teenager, Trayvon Martin." Cenk Uygur discusses some of the other well known corporations that have pulled out of ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council). www.reuters.com Subscribe to The Young Turks: bit.ly Find out how to watch The Young Turks on Current by clicking here: www.current.com The Largest Online New Show in the World. Google+: www.gplus.to Facebook: www.facebook.com Twitter: twitter.com
ALEC 101 with Lauren Regan
Lauren Regan, executive director of the Civil Liberties Defense Center discusses ALEC (the American Legislative Exchange Council) and its influence on social and environmental movements across America. shutdownthecorporations.org portlandactionlab.org alecexposed.org www.cldc.org
Alec and For-Profit Colleges
Via Republic Report: "Republic Report has learned that the Washington Post Company's Kaplan for-profit college division, was, last year, a member of the controversial business advocacy group the American Legislative Exchange Council. Other major for-profit education companies also joined ALEC. Republic Report has obtained a July 2011 document showing Kaplan Higher Education and other for-profits as members of ALEC's Education Task Force...".* Ana Kasparian and Ben Mankiewicz discuss on The Young Turks. *Read more from David Halperin: www.republicreport.org Subscribe to The Young Turks: bit.ly Find out how to watch The Young Turks on Current by clicking here: www.current.com The Largest Online New Show in the World. Facebook: www.facebook.com Twitter: twitter.com Google+: www.gplus.to Pinterest: pinterest.com
Get smart about ALEC #F29
On February 29th, Occupy Portland calls for a national day of non-violent direct action to reclaim our voices and challenge our society?s obsession with profit and greed by shutting down the corporations. We are rejecting a society that does not allow us control of our future. We will reclaim our ability to shape our world in a democratic, cooperative, just and sustainable direction. We call on people to target corporations that are part of the American Legislative Exchange Council which is a prime example of the way corporations buy off legislators and craft legislation that serves the interests of corporations and not people. They used it to create the anti-labor legislation in Wisconsin and the racist bill SB 1070 in Arizona among so many others. They use ALEC to spread pro big business laws around the country. For more info: www.shutdownthecorporations.org www.portlandactionlab.org www.alecexposed.org
The Left-Wing Assault on ALEC
Editorial board member Steve Moore on how left-wing activists have cowed Coca-Cola and other businesses into dropping out of ALEC.
Shoot-em-up Charlie Discovers ALEC
Shoot-em-up Charlie takes a look at the killing of Trayvon Martin and what may be behind the "Stand Your Ground" laws that have spread around the United States. Please be warned, hoodies are featured in this cartoon. Learn all about the NRA and ALEC, that sneaky behind the scenes puppet-master. A Mark Fiore political animation.
McDonald's & Wendy's Drop Out Of ALEC
"We have yet another company that has dropped ALEC. ALEC is the American Legislative Exchange council, they're the group that gets business and large corporations together with state legislatures. Often times their lobbyists simply write the bills for them and then have the legislatures hand it in." Cenk Uygur discusses the flood of corporations leaving ALEC thanks to the activism of progressive groups like Color of Change and PCCC. Subscribe to The Young Turks: bit.ly Find out how to watch The Young Turks on Current by clicking here: www.current.com The Largest Online New Show in the World. Google+: www.gplus.to Facebook: www.facebook.com Twitter: twitter.com
Alec Baldwin's Crazy Stalker
Order your SourceFed Posters here: dft.ba A Canadian actress stalking Alec Baldwin gets shut down and we get her side of the story. Sources: bit.ly bit.ly Go to SourceFed.com for our 5 daily videos or anything else we've ever done. youtube.com Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com Like us on Facebook: on.fb.me Philly D OFFICIAL APP for instant updates: bit.ly Remember to "Write In" Vote for Lee Newton to be on Maxim's 2012 Hot 100 List: bit.ly Hosts: @elliottcmorgan @leenewtonsays Music: @hagemeister
ALEC Retreats On 'Stand Your Ground,' Voter ID Laws
Via Think Progress: "In the face of mounting pressure from progressive activists and its own corporate sponsors, the American Legislative Exchange Council, a right-wing group funded by corporations like ExxonMobil and Koch Industries, announced today that it will shut down a task force that deals with "non-economic issues," like voter suppression efforts and "stand your ground" gun laws. ALEC came under intense scrutiny over the past few weeks after progressive groups like Color of Change began pressuring corporations that fund ALEC to drop their support...".* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down. *Read more from Scott Keyes: thinkprogress.org Subscribe to The Young Turks: bit.ly Find out how to watch The Young Turks on Current by clicking here: www.current.com The Largest Online New Show in the World. Google+: www.gplus.to Facebook: www.facebook.com Twitter: twitter.com
Stupid GOPer Reveals ALEC Puppet Masters
From the Majority Report, live MF 11:30am EST and via daily podcast at Majority.FM Florida Republican State Representative Rachel Burgin introduced legislation that included ALEC's mission statement at the top of the bill. Did she even read it?
ALEC's disturbing level of influence
Anna Scholl, ProgressVA, joins Thom Hartmann. According to a new report by the advocacy group Progress Virginia - lawmakers in Virginia have outsourced their jobs to the shadowy, Koch brothers-funded, corporate think tank known as ALEC - the American Legislative Exchange Council. In case you dont know what ALEC is - it's an organization that brings together corporate CEOs and lobbyists with elected lawmakers to come up with custom-made legislation that benefits big polluters, job outsourcers, and banksters, and hurts unions, poor people, and voters. And apparently it's found a friend in the Virginia General Assembly - where since 2007 - over 50 different pieces of legislation have been introduced that are exact carbon copies of ALEC written legislation. So what does it mean when corporate think tanks are in charge of writing out laws?
ALEC Exposed-Full News Conference
Corporate dollars are funding changes in state laws that disenfranchise voters, and weaken regulations designed to protect the environment. Those dollars are flowing through the Arizona desert this week as the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) convenes to draw up more legislation it wants passed in state legislatures. To highlight what ALEC is doing, groups including Common Cause, People for the American Way, the Center for Media and Democracy, the Arizona AFL-CIO, AFSCME, the American Federation of Teachers, the Arizona Education Association, and Progress Now held a press conference Wednesday in front of the Arizona state capitol. ?ALEC?s leaders, firms like Wal-Mart, Pfizer and Koch Industries, have poured close to $400 million into state elections over the past decade, financing campaigns and spoon-feeding our elected officials bills that put profits over the public interest,? said Bob Edgar, president of Common Cause, citing a recent Common Cause report. ?The Arizona desert is a perfect place for the public to call them out.? ALEC?s agenda includes weakening clean air and clean water laws, undercutting public education, and disenfranchising hundreds of thousands of legally-qualified voters. At closed-to-the-public meetings like this week?s confab at the posh Westin Kierland Resort Spa, ALEC?s business executives, lobbyists, and elected lawmakers sit side by side and vote as equals on the group?s ?model? bills, then carry that legislation back to state ...
"ALEC And The Circumventing Of Our Democracy" - MOC #108
What if there were a secret organization of right-wing corporate titans who were deciding the laws of the land? Well, no such thing really exists. ...Or does it?
Alec Baldwin: Boycott Circuses That Use Animals
Actor and animal defender Alec Baldwin describes the sad plight of elephants who are torn from their families and forced to perform grueling tricks in the circus.
Mark Pocan - Explains how ALEC is working to eliminate public education (AB110)
Wisconsin Rep Mark Pocan clearly explains how this bill & how it's part of ALEC's plan to eliminate public education. This is a brilliant speech. This bill will gives special education funding over to voucher schools with NO accountability. This is from the Assembly floor session on March 13th 2012. Story about AB 110 & it's ALEC roots: www.republicreport.org Full session can be viewed here: www.wiseye.org
#F29 Occupy Portland Shuts Down ALEC Corporations
Occupy Portland does it's bit to raise awareness of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) An Occupy Portland Video Collective Collaboration in Peaceful Solidarity with Occupy Wall Street. Subscribe here for more daily updates. All content on this channel marked with a creative commons license is available for derivative, non-commercial works only. Email mediacoalition@occupyportland.org to join our group of volunteers or submit videos to this channel. occupyportland.org occupypdx.org occupytogether.org
Inside Story US 2012 - ALEC: Shaping US politics behind the scenes
Who is behind the American Legislative Exchange Council and how much influence does the group have on US state laws? Guests: Lisa Graves, Rashad Robinson, and Nicole Neily.
Alec Brennan D1 Basketball WORKOUT - 6'10 Sophomore Iowa State and Miami
We recently caught up with Alec Brennan a 6'10 2014 sophomore who attends Milton Academy in milton Massachusetts. Alec has been working very hard in the gym 5 + times a week since last summer and is one of the best all around big men prospects in New England. Alec's combination of height, size, footwork, athleticism and shooting ability makes him a very intriguing high major step out four prospect. Playing with Expressions Elite Aau program during the 2012 April live period Alec Brennan gained his first two high major scholarship offers from the University of Miami and Iowa State (URI, Brown Columbia, Umass, California and UNH have also offered). Intrest from Wake Forrest, Stanford, Harvard, Providence, S Florida, Rutgers, Indiania, Penn State, and Cincinnati
Alec Baldwin to Eva Longoria: 'You Are the World's Hottest Girl Scout'
"Extra" host Ben Lyons met up with former "Desperate Housewives" star Eva Longoria and actor Alec Baldwin at Eva's giant yacht party for her charity, the Eva Longoria Foundation.
Alec & Jai (JaLec) - Bat Bigla Kang Nagising Jai?
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Alec & Jai (JaLec) - Conversation; Apologize (Part 1)
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David Letterman - Tina Fey and the Alec Baldwin Incident
Did Tina Fey introduce Alec Baldwin to the game "Words With Friends"?
Alec Baldwin's Pathetic Radio Audition, and MSNBC Gets it Right
Steve Green brings you the highlights from the web, including drug use at the White House, Alec Baldwin's pathetic radio try out, the ever increasing price of gas, and the smartest thing MSNBC has ever done--all on the Week in Blogs.
Thom Hartmann: The Secrets of ALEC Exposed
Lisa Graves, Center for Media and Democracy joins Thom Hartmann. Meet the American Legislative Exchange Council - a corporate-funded right wing organization in charge of writing custom-made legislation to spread to Republican lawmakers across the country to push in their respective state legislatures - or in Congress itself. One of ALEC's hottest items - amendments that require super-majorities to pass any new tax increases. Already 16 states around the country have fallen victim to this supermajority rule including Arizona, California, and Colorado - and are now handcuffed by it when they are trying to close their respective budget gaps. So is that what ALEC is trying to do in Congress - deliver the death blow to our federal government's finances?
Alec & Jai (JaLec) - Alec Selos Moment! (Selos Kay Vince)
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Alec, Vincent, Nikka, Mariz & Jai - Random Conversation (Part 1)
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Alec & Jai (JaLec) - Kiss & Hug Moment [May 02, 2012]
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What the Castle Doctrine & ALEC have to do with Trayvon Martin
While George Zimmerman may have pulled the trigger that killed Trayvon Martin - there are others who have just as much blood on their hands. I'll tell you who they are...
Alec & Jai (JaLec) - Nose To Nose
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Soul Khan - Alec Baldwin (Official Video)
From the Acknowledgement EP, go to soulkhan.com for more. Twitter ~ twitter.com Facebook ~ facebook.com Website ~ soulkhan.com Fanclub ~ http Produced by Hyer Ground Director: Brian Robinson Cinematographer: William Kaufman Assistant director: James Partridge hyerground.com http Email soulkhanbiz@gmail.com for media & booking
Alec & Jai (JaLec) - Kilig LQ Moment Ng JaLec
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30 Rock to End, Alec Baldwin To Stay
Follow us on Facebook: www.facebook.com Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com Alec Baldwin confirmed he is not leaving 30 Rock, but the NBC comedy will be off the air next year. While speaking in Washington, Baldwin confirmed he will be leaving 30 Rock after the next season, its seventh, and what we now know will be its last. Tiny Fey hinted the series end was visible on the horizon.
Alec & Jai (JaLec) - Yves, Pinagseselos Si Alec (Nakikipag Holding Hands, Akbay Akbay)
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Alec says sorry for kissing Jai
Waaaaa. Kilig much! Just a phone video. Sorry kung ang likot kac kinikilig din ako! Haha :)
Alec Baldwin - Glengarry Glenross A Mission of Mercy...
Great scene and performance by Alec Baldwin.Scene is from classic movie,essential viewing here...all star cast of guys in this one from Jack Lemmon,Al Pacino, Ed Harris,Alan Arkin,Kevin Spacey all who deliver monster performances..this scene here is the scene in the movie that sets the rest of this one down Rocnbilly's gem
Alec Baldwin introduces Al Pacino, recipient of the Lee Strasberg Artistic Achievement Award
Alec Baldwin, 2008 Actors Fund Nedda Harrigan Logan Award recipient, shares his experience in the industry. Al Pacino gives a heartfelt speech.
ALEC Resistance Protest 11.30.11
Arrests, police force, and pepper spraying of peaceful protesters at the demonstration against ALEC on Wed. 11/30/11 around 9:30am. I apologize for the shitty camera work and the screaming. Couldn't help it in both cases. alecexposed.org What is 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 legislators the changes to the law they desire that directly benefit their bottom line. Along with legislators, corporations have membership in ALEC. Corporations sit on all nine ALEC task forces and vote with legislators to approve "model" bills. They have their own corporate governing board which meets jointly with the legislative board. Corporations fund almost all of ALEC's operations. Participating legislators, overwhelmingly conservative Republicans, then bring those proposals home and introduce them in statehouses across the land as their own brilliant ideas and important public policy innovations—without disclosing that corporations crafted and voted on the bills. ALEC boasts that it has over 1000 of these bills introduced by legislative members every year, with one in every five of them enacted into law. ALEC describes itself as a "unique," "unparalleled" and "unmatched" organization. We agree. It is as if a state legislature had been reconstituted, yet corporations had pushed the people out the door.
Alec - Timmy! Will You Be My Date?
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Dew Tour - Alec Majerus Solo Run - Las Vegas Skateboard Street Finals
Check out Alec Majerus's solo run from the Skateboard Street Finals at the Dew Tour Championships presented by Godaddy.com. This was the 3rd-highest solo run score of the contest. NOTE: Solo runs account for only 20% of the final score, with jam sessions making up the other 80%. Get more videos and articles from the Dew Tour Championships here: www.allisports.com Skate Street Final Results 1.Ryan Decenzo - 90.28 2. Alec Majerus - 85.13 3. Greg Lutzka - 84.25 4. Scott Decenzo - 84.08 5. Brendon Villanueva - 80.93 6. Danilo Do Rosario - 80.13 7. Mario Saenz - 78.50 8. Paul Rodriguez - 77.75 9. Manny Santiago - 75.70 10. Adam Dyet - 75.25 11. Milton Martinez - 73.50 12. Jereme Rogers - 54.70 SUBSCRIBE to this channel for the latest highlights and top runs from every stop of the Dew Tour and Winter Dew Tour!
ALEC "Live aus Prohlis" 1.SNIPPET VIDEO
New Definition präsentiert: Das Snippetvideo 1 zum Mixtape "Live aus Prohlis" von ALEC THUNDER. www.myspace.com/prohlis www.newdef.de
"King Arthur" - Alec | "Mercy" (Kanye West) Remix
DL Link: soundcloud.com The Spectacular Sixteens, Week 2 This is a remix of a song by GOOD Music (Big Sean, Pusha T, Kanye West and 2 Chainz). Beat produced by Hit-Boy, Lifted, and Exec. Kanye West. Remake by EyeDoWork. Facebook: on.fb.me Twitter: twitter.com Tumblr: vigillante.tumblr.com SoundCloud: soundcloud.com Lyrics: In the sky, it's a bird its a plane, it's that motherfucker spitin' with words insane that motherfucker spittin' 16s like a pedophile blowin' teens, eatin' fuckin' girls in the train This world's insane, c'mon lets face it. Food for your thought, bitch c'mon just taste it. All these fuckin' people rappin' and I fuckin' hate it, i'll send a nigga to the er like a racist. Racist? Face it, these words I don't create it. Everyone says nigga, why can't I, that racist. I'm the fuckin' greatest and i'm rapping on the latest, from that mercy, to that faded, hope my egos not inflated. Know you hate it, you're the reason why i make it. eventually you'll be the reason why i'm gonna make it. married to the game? you motherfuckers never played it, if you did you'd stop the game and find the place to trade it. Didn't fuck this game, I fisted. Low key (Loki), Alec is the fuckin' god of mischef. I'm the reason why these fuckin' rap lames wanna quit this, bitches so conflicted, they addicted to this dick bitch. ....let me breath for a sec. i'm so dope that it hurts like weed in my chest. these fuckers try to leave on me, believe they cannot sleep on me like you on ...
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