ALEC’s nastiness continues to surface – even on Christmas eve
You see, the widespread nastiness of both ALEC legislators
and ALEC corporate profit sector members – will continue to proliferate until the US public starts to take action to say - NO MORE ALEC!!!
I seem to have opened a Pandora's
box when I wrote last week about the ruling by a federal judge in Kentucky that
Merck can proceed with a constitutional challenge to the state attorney
general's use of private lawyers to bring consumer protection claims against
the pharmaceutical company.
Oh – Merck – ALEC MEMBER
Why am I not surprised reading this
The article goes on to note:
Mississippi's attorney general, Democrat Jim
Hood, blamed the pro-business American
Legislative Exchange Council for pushing through his state's restrictions,
which, among other things, limit the fees outside lawyers can recover. "In
the past eight years the office has recovered more than $600 million for our
taxpayers from wrongdoers without costing the taxpayers one dime," he said
in May, when the law was passed. "However, the huge corporate interests
that paid for and supported this bill through the American Legislative Exchange
Council have decided that they did not like having to pay what they owed the
taxpayers of Mississippi."
SNIP
In particular, Widman noted that
when Congress passed the 2008 Consumer Protection and Safety Improvement Act
and the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, there was discussion of barring AGs from entering
contingency fee contracts to enforce the laws, but no such provisions ended up
in the legislation. That's appropriate, she said. "Representing the
citizens of their state against large-scale consumer abuses -- whether consumer
protection, environmental protection, curbing financial fraud, or other types
of systemic injuries -- is both expensive and requires a large staff, resources
that many state AG offices are lacking," Widman testified. "State
attorneys general must be able to rely sometimes on outside counsel in order to
marshal the manpower needed to rectify these types of abuses."
This coming legislative session we will see a lot of work
being done by members of the American Legislative Exchange Council to usurp the power of State Attorney
Generals. The state Attorney General’s
Office works for the people to protect consumers from the flagrant abuses of
corporate America – god forbid anyone, especially the state Attorney General, would
get in the way of the ALEC corporate profit sector members and their revenue –
revenues generated - at any expense.
The people of the US have to start to realize that
ALEC is a very dangerous organization that deals with the rights of
corporations – over those of the public. ALEC legislators in your state are presenting legislation
that benefits corporations at the expense of the public. ALEC
legislators are a threat to the US
consumer.
At the Charlotte NC meeting in May 2012 – ALEC set their
sights on destroying the power of the state Attorney General – so it is UP TO
YOU to make sure that their multiple pieces of legislation don’t’ pass in your
state – cause you never know when YOU will need the help of you state Attorney General.
And in the process,
the people themselves will be muzzled:
Yeah, one proposal is called the
ALEC Attorney General Authority Act … it
says the attorneys general's client is the state, not necessarily the people of
the state.
This bill comes from a law firm in
Mississippi.
One of the firm's clients is a big utility company, Entergy. And in Mississippi the
Democratic attorney general has a three-year lawsuit going against Entergy. His
question is whether Entergy manipulated prices and overcharged consumers. So
this seems like the kind of case that could be reined in by the ALEC Attorney
General Authority Act.
This bill comes from a law firm in
Mississippi.
NOTE - this was NOT from a state legislator -it was from a law firm.
A law firm that represents and ALEC corporate profit sector member.
It is time to wake up and to realize that legislators DON'T write legislation when they are at ALEC meetings - they go to ALEC meetings to pick up legislation - WRITTEN BY CORPORATIONS!!!
ALEC does not care
about YOU!!!!
ALEC legislators do
not care about YOU!!!!
ALEC - ALEC legislators - ALEC profit sector member - ALL want to take your consumer rights away from you.
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