Corporate Takeover 4
Wisconsin State Representative Chris Taylor recently attended an ALEC conference.
Here’s a snippet from his report. It speaks for itself (emphasis added).
This is where democracy can win over special interest influence. In ALEC nation, people are irrelevant and democracy a burden. When the people’s interests are truly represented by policy-makers, and the origin of bills exposed, ALEC fails.
ALEC’s corporate funders, who are also campaign donors to many ALEC members, have shrouded themselves in secrecy for this reason.
Read the rest.
September 22, 2013 at 11:59 am
Legislators were entreated to organize to “save the Republic” by amending the U.S. Constitution to abolish the Supreme Court and otherwise drastically limit the power of the federal government. JHC on a pointed stick, this is political dynamite. That’s as boldly state corporate fascist subversion of government and democracy as can be. If this were universally publicized and became actual common knowledge, the majority would declare war on the corporate wealth and right-wingers whose names are attached to it.
September 22, 2013 at 12:03 pm
I posted it because I’m hoping that someone else will notice and spread it about.
It is betrayal from within by any measure.
There is a series of science fiction audiobooks (that are not the usual blast-em-ups–they’re actually quite well-done) that posits a universe ruled by corporations. We seem to be on our way.
September 22, 2013 at 5:48 pm
One thing I noticed that may slow others in picking it up: He didn’t include the names of the people or business interests recommending the abolition of the Supreme Court and the person who told him the bit you put in your excerpt. Now I understand why he did this but mainstream journalism will hold it to a double standard: It’s OK to leave people anonymous when they’re leaking a story that serves your scoop interests at a big place, but something that tars corporate wealth in this way is a no-no. Wouldn’t matter, anyway, because if he’d printed the names others would have called the individuals up and they would have denied all of it absent it being in a video or audio file ala Romney dinner.
September 23, 2013 at 11:25 am
It’s already out on a regular newspaper and it doesn’t seem to be getting any traction.
What puzzles me is how Left Blogistan has missed it, unless a lot of the bigger blogs, like a lot of big media outlets, think of smaller papers and the Midwest as flyover country.
Me, I like visiting local newspapers around the country, not just for the occasional germ of a blog post, but also because so many of them have some excellent writers who are just fun to read.
And you are right about the hypocrisy on “unnamed sources.”