Another Attempt to Suppress the Vote in Carolina

South Carolina takes another shot at imposing the ALEC agenda that will suppress citizen voting through "voter ID" bills affecting many African Americans and students.

How Uninsured Kids Fund Medical Care

13-year old Caroline Richmond can't afford health insurance in America, so her family holds a fish fry for her cancer treatments. . . .

Cutting Corporate Taxes the ALEC Way

When Florida Rep. Rachel Burgin introduced a resolution to cut corporate taxes with ALEC accidently left in the bill, Common Cause caught it and others took notice.

Putting on the Ritz, Plotting School Privatization

ALEC's "Education Academy" is timed to give ALEC politicians a mid-winter trip to the Ritz Carlton Amelia Island on the South Florida coast. On the agenda? Privatizing public schools. (And more margaritas.)

Headlines

Feb 6 2012 - 2:32pm | Brendan Fischer
While the popular understanding of the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United decision is that it opened the door to unlimited corporate spending, last week's FEC filings showed that many of the...
Feb 6 2012 - 8:50am | Mary Bottari
Wisconsin made a brief, unexpected appearance at the Super Bowl yesterday. A new ad by Chrysler, [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/06/super-bowl-commercials-2012-clint-eastwood-...
Feb 2 2012 - 10:08am | PR Watcher
A guest post by Nick Surgey from Common Cause, originally posted on Common Blog. When Florida Rep. Rachel Burgin (R- 56) introduced a bill in November calling on the federal government to reduce...
Feb 2 2012 - 8:18am | Dustin Beilke
Today, hundreds of state legislators from across the nation will head out to an "island" resort on the coast of Florida to a unique "education academy" sponsored by the American Legislative Exchange...
Jan 31 2012 - 8:25pm | Wendell Potter
"It shouldn't be this way," read the subject line of an email I received Friday morning from a conservative friend and fellow Southerner. "People shouldn't have to beg for money to pay for medical...
Jan 30 2012 - 8:00am | Brendan Fischer
South Carolina is again considering a bill from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) to limit access to the ballot box. A nearly identical version of an ALEC voting bill is moving through...
Jan 27 2012 - 8:00am | Mary Bottari
The morning after his "State of the State" address where Governor Scott Walker reassured Wisconsin "We are turning things around. We are heading in the right direction," the Milwaukee County District...
Jan 26 2012 - 3:24pm | Wendell Potter
In his State of the Union address, President Obama said very little about health care reform, but what he did say was a reminder of how tight a grip the insurance industry has on the U.S. health care...
Jan 26 2012 - 11:58am | Mary Bottari
Thanks to Occupy Wall Street, in the State of the Union this week President Obama struck some of his most populist themes yet. He wants to tax millionaires, bring back manufacturing and prosecute the...
Jan 26 2012 - 11:09am | Steve Horn
On January 16, the Los Angeles Times revealed that anti-science bills have been popping up over the past several years in statehouses across the U.S., mandating the teaching of climate change denial...

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