ALECs Fingers in Fed Business

Wake up America.
From the LinkedIn page of new lobbyist Michael Correia

Director of Federal Affairs

American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)

Nonprofit; 11-50 employees; Construction industry

March 2007 – February 2009 (2 years)

Lead ALEC external outreach on Capitol Hill and with the White House, including direct communication with 85 Members of Congress (ALEC Alumni). Worked with members, non-member organizations, non-profits, and corporations on issue advocacy. Developed and implemented Capitol Hill educational policy seminars used to build support on policy issues, including successful passage of the Internet Tax Freedom Act. Tracked and commented on federal legislation and provided updates to members via monthly newsletter. Wrote and submitted testimony at Congressional hearings, including providing expert witnesses. Planned, selected, and coordinated conference speakers at ALEC conferences including handling all event logistics with Presidential address in Philadelphia. 

Alaska - Looking for ALEC Members?

Always remember when looking for ALEC members that most of them hide their ALEC membership.

The best way to find out if they are an ALEC member
 - is to ask them
 - is to check their expense accounts and campaign funds.

Exposing ALEC members is done by activists - thru research.
Most ALEC members do not self identify with ALEC - they know what they are doing for ALEC is wrong and they are ashamed.  Only the most corrupt acknowledge their ALEC membership - they are proud of their role in destroying the US.

ALECExposed has a partial list.
HERE

And then there is also this list of past and present members.

Ramona	Barnes	AK
Ethan	Berkowitz	AK
John B	Coghill, Jr	AK
Mia	Costello	AK
Bettye	Davis	AK
Fred	Dyson	AK
Anna	Fairclough	AK
Richard	Foster	AK
Carl J	Gatto	AK
Cathy	Geissel	AK
Joe	Green	AK
Joe	Hayes	AK
Jeannette	James	AK
Lloyd	Jones	AK
Wes	Keller	AK
Mike	Kelly	AK
Pete	Kelly	AK
Tim	Kelly	AK
Jalmar M	Kertulla	AK
Loren D	Leman	AK
Bob	Lynn	AK
Terry	Martin	AK
Lesil	McGuire	AK
Charisse E	Millett	AK
Eldon	Mulder	AK
Cathy E	Munoz	AK
Sean	Parnell	AK
Gail	Phillips	AK
Lora	Reinho	AK
Pat	Rodey	AK
Jerry	Sanders	AK
Bert	Sharp	AK
Robin	Taylor	AK
Lesil	McGuire	AK
Peggy	Wilson	AK
Don	Young	AK

And this list compiled by another person from the 1995 ALEC Legislative Sourcebook.

Bettye	Davis	AK
Richard	Foster	AK
Joe	Green	AK
Jeanette A.	James	AK
Tim	Kelly	AK
Eldon P.	Mulder	AK
Gail	Phillips	AK
Pat	Rodey	AK
Jerry	Sanders	AK
Bert	Sharp	AK
Robin	Taylor	AK

Pot - New Target for ALEC Corporate Members?

Been watching this for about a month now and it's driving me crazy - 

Main reason is that for decades - decades - agri-business has sat on their a$$es and did nothing, nothing about the pot industry.
And now after decades - decades - of local activism - the pot industry - is becoming legal - the fight has been fought and won
   and NOW the corporations want in 
   and they have found the quickest way in
   ALEC

Saw this on a thread this morning

Hey guys - look who's supporting cannabis!
Michael Correia, a former GOP staffer who spent two years lobbying for the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council, is the newest advocate for the National Cannabis Industry Association

First of all a little background on Correia
Even tho one post a couple weeks ago - said he had been raised in a Democratic family and he finally had seen the light - my response is b#llshit! He's a right wing hack - his RW philosophy in interviews is straight off the ALEC webpage.
This is like everything else that happens in America right now - it's all about corporate money. 
As more legalization happens the corporations see dollar signs
Who better to have as a Cannabis lobbyist for the cannabis association then:

From 2007 - 2009 he was an ALEC staffer - Director of Federal Affairs

Now stop and think about it folks - this guy is a right-winger.  Has been, always will be.
He has worked for ALEC - his most recent job was working for ALECer Diane Black.

ALEC - where lobbyists meet with legislators behind closed doors.
ALEC - where lobbyists give lazy, ignorant state legislators new legislation to push for their corporations - for the cost of a room at a posh hotel and more food/booze than you can imagine
ALEC - where lobbyists use legislation they write - to forward the profits over people message.
ALEC - where your legislator takes corporate legislation, back to your state 
         - to forward the profits & agenda of ALEC corporate members, over people .

ALEC
THE ALEC that wrote tough sentencing laws targeting drug users, to fill ALEC corporate private prison members.

Do you think  
Michael Correia - lobbyist for the National Cannabis Industry Association
isn't going to be wining/dining - boozing/schmoozing state legislators at ALEC meetings?
ALEC meetings that he himself went to, just a couple of years ago?

Michael Correia - lobbyist for the National Cannabis Industry Association
will be sitting at the upcoming ALEC meetings 
because he knows
only at an ALEC meeting will he find
- ALEC legislators who will promote corporate legislation 
and the National Cannabis Industry Association is a corporation.

Think about it folks:
  Monsanto pot
  Cargill pot
  Bayer pot
  Syngenta pot
  GMO pot

Michael Correia - lobbyist for the National Cannabis Industry Association
at an ALEC meeting - taking the next huge industry to ALEC corporate members.
Michael Correia - lobbyist for the National Cannabis Industry Association
past ALEC Director of Federal Affairs - the bastion of a bastardized concept of the "free market" and the pushers of privatization.
 
My guess, with Correia in charge of pot lobbying
Not only will agri-biz control the pot market within the next five years
ALEC state legislators will decimate local control over pot production and pot consumption
   you do know that ALEC already has legislation that places restrictions 
   on local efforts to restrict bio-engineered and GMO crops and another piece of 
   legislation that prohibits local, city or county governments from limiting pesticide use?
ALEC legislators will then deregulate pot so that ALEC corporations can bastardize this crop in any way they see fit - for profits.

Then the lawsuits against local growers
- - you will have the GMO pot spreading it's GMO pollen pollution across fields
and the local grower being sued by agri-biz
  being denied the ability to plant the seed the local grower harvested
Why - 
cause it's been contaminated with GMO pollen pollution
and it now considered the "intellectual property" of large agri-biz.
History repeating itself - as documented here  and  here

And keep this in mind - when reading praises of a RWer entering the pot business

It would be impossible to mistake Correia for a “true believer.” Even today he won’t say whether he supports the legalization of marijuana.
“Luckily, I don’t have to get into that argument or discussion,” he says.
Correia is a hired gun

lobbyist for the National Cannabis Industry Association
and he 
won’t say whether he supports the legalization of marijuana

And keep this in mind - also folks

Correia's association, for example, recently formed an alliance with Grover Norquist, the anti-tax activist who runs Americans for Tax Reform.

Americans for Tax Reform - another ALECer
Grover Norquist - another ALECer

Having an ALECer lobbying for pot is not a good thing folks
People better wake up and realize that now - while they can take proactive action - they need to act.
Or they could do nothing - and then weep - Woe is Me - five years from now.
  

ALEC - We Hate Local Control

I hate red-light cameras.
Don't get me wrong I've been nabbed by them and I hate them.

But - - -
for the life of me I could never figure out why ALEC had a piece of legislation to eliminate redlight cameras.
I don't agree with anything ALEC does - so why would they have an innocuous piece of legislation - that didn't seem to help out the profit of ALEC corporations
an innocuous piece of legislation- that I agreed with - until now.

Well - - -
Today, five years into my research on ALEC I found out why they wrote it
- in a clip about the bill being passed in MO.
And all the sudden the redlight bulb went off over my head - thinking about how ALEC is trying to destroy everything at the local level.  Destruction of  local school board authority, destruction of  local water systems, destroy municipal broadband, stopping local control over fracking operations,  destruction local phone service, and everything else ALEC state legislators are doing that is pure evil against local governments.

ALECer Stanley Cox makes the reason perfectly clear at minute1:17.

It’s the money to the cities
It’s the ordinances
It the fines that they collect that they get to keep and
It’s all about that

Listen closely
He almost said f#cking fines

 

We have to start looking closer at ALEC legislation.
We need to know ALEC history on legislation - ALEC has been pushing this legislation to gut local control - SINCE 2001.

In addition to providing new profit centers for ALEC corporate members, the American Legislative Exchange Council is focused on destroying local control and killing local revenue - to limit government at the local level.  ALEC state legislators pushing through legislation at the state level, that destroys control at the local level.

So, when you look at an ALEC bill - - ask
Does it create a new profit center for an ALEC corporate member?
Does it create additional revenues for an ALEC corporate member?

If the answer is no - then ask -
How does it limit local government control, decimate local revenue?

#VoteNo2ALEC

ALEC is one nasty, evil organzation.

ALEC hates the control of the Federal government.

ALEC hates control at the local level.

They only want evil, fascist ALEC member in control.