ALEC Announcement - "Nothing more than a PR Stunt"

ColorOfChange Responds to ALEC Announcement that it will End its Task Force that Dealt with Non-Economic Issues

April 17, 2012

The following is a statement from ColorOfChange Executive Director Rashad Robinson:

"ALEC has spent years promoting voter suppression laws, Kill at Will bills, and other policies that hurt Black and other marginalized communities. They have have done this with the support of some of America's biggest corporations, including AT&T, Johnson & Johnson and State Farm.

ALEC's latest statement is nothing more than a PR stunt aimed at diverting attention from its agenda, which has done serious damage to our communities. To simply say they are stopping non-economic work doesn't guarantee that ALEC will not continue to push laws that endanger African Americans and trample our voting rights. Shutting down one task force does not provide justice to the millions of Americans whose lives are impacted by these dangerous and discriminatory laws courtesy of ALEC and its corporate backers. It's clear that major corporations were in bed with an institution that has worked against basic American values such as the right to vote. Now that these companies are aware of what they've supported, what will they do about it? If ALEC's corporate supporters will not hold the institution accountable for the damage it has caused nationwide, then the ColorOfChange community will hold them accountable."

 I agree - ALEC is just checking to see if US citizens are as dumb as ALEC thinks we are.

This announcement by ALEC is really a US citizen IQ test on ALEC.
We belive it or we don't.
Either we pass the IQ test or we don't. 


Are we gifted as citizens or ALEC challenged mentally?

Are we????

DESTROY ALEC!!

UPDATE
From People for the American Way

“ALEC’s latest move is a transparent effort to stem the recent hemorrhaging they’re facing after the outpouring of grassroots anger over their role pushing extreme legislation that endangers the safety and lives of Americans.” said People For the American Way president Michael Keegan.  “They’re right to be worried about public outrage of their support of laws that promote vigilantism, suppress citizens’ right to vote and criminalize immigrants, but this is an empty gesture unless ALEC and its members work to overturn the draconian measures that have caused so much harm to the American people. Their claim that in the future they will only focus on legislation that will ‘put the economy back to work,’ begs the question of how they can use a ‘jobs agenda’ to justify laws that undermine workers’ rights, privatize public education, and make it harder to hold corporations accountable for poisoning our air and water or selling us dangerous and defective products.  We will continue to work with our friends to shine a light on ALEC’s agenda and hold members accountable for supporting that agenda.”

ALEC is just checking to see if US citizens are as dumb as ALEC thinks we are.

This announcement by ALEC is really a US citizen IQ test on ALEC.
We believe it or we don't.
Either we pass the IQ test or we don't. 


Do we believe that ALEC has seen the light and change their ways?
Don't make me puke!

They are the same pro-corporate, anti democracy organization that they have ever been!

Are we stupid enough or ignorant enough to believe
  ALEC has changed the 30 year old tenets for their existence in one week?
  That ALEC legislators have changed their philosophy in less than a week?????

DESTROY ALEC!!

UPDATE

CMD's Executive Director Lisa Graves said:

"ALEC's announcement is a partial victory for the power of grassroots citizen action, but for Americans concerned about brand-name corporations underwriting ALEC's extreme agenda to make it more difficult for American citizens to vote and to protect armed vigilantes, ALEC's PR maneuver to try to distance itself from its record of extremism is an empty gesture unless it and the corporations that have bankrolled its operations work to repeal ALEC-backed laws that have advanced the NRA's agenda and that will impede citizens from voting in the coming elections."

ALEC is just checking to see if US citizens are as dumb as ALEC thinks we are.

This announcement by ALEC is really a US citizen IQ test on ALEC.
We believe it or we don't.
Either we pass the IQ test or we don't. 


Do we believe that ALEC has seen the light and change their ways?
HELL NO!
Do you actually believe that ALEC has changed from it's "extreme agenda'?
HELL NO!
The majority of ALEC corporate profit sector members HAVE NOT distanced themselves from this radical extremist ALEC agenda.

Has anyone talked about reversing the anti-voter ALEC Voter ID bills?
HELL NO!
This is a trick on the American public.
A lie to the American public!

ALEC is  the same pro-corporate, anti democracy organization that they have ever been!

Are we stupid enough or ignorant enough to believe
  ALEC has changed the 30 year old tenets for their existence in one week?
  That ALEC legislators have changed their philosophy in less than a week?????

DESTROY ALEC!!