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Related: About this forumConservative group Alec devises offshoot ACCE to lobby at local levels (ALEC update)
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/30/alec-acce-lobby-local-tax-cuts-republicansAs Republicans debate party future, aggressive corporate dating service launches new group to push for conservative policies
The corporate lobbying network American Legislative Exchange Council, commonly known as Alec, is seeking to extend its brand of aggressive privatization and tax cuts to the local level, with the launch on Wednesday of a new offshoot focused on Americas cities and counties.
The new network, the American City County Exchange (ACCE), will hold its first public meeting in Dallas, Texas, on Wednesday. It is timed to sit alongside Alecs annual meeting at which the parent body will debate its usual menu of conservative priorities pushing back government regulation, fighting moves to curb climate change, reducing trade union powers and cutting taxes.
A similar emphasis is evident in the first agenda set for the new offshoot, with the distinction that ACCE hopes to influence elected officials in city and county councils while Alec has its sights largely set on state legislatures. An early draft of the agenda for todays meeting revealingly listed ACCEs very first workshop under the simple title: Privatization though in the final version the wording had been sanitized into: Effective Tools for Promoting Limited Government.
A later workshop scheduled for Thursday is called: Releasing Local Governments from the Grip of Collective Bargaining.
Alec has been described variously as a corporate bill mill and as a corporate dating service. It brings together lobbyists for big businesses and elected politicians into the same room, and encourages them to frame business-friendly legislation that is then made concrete in the form of model pieces of legislation that are disseminated in state assemblies throughout the country.
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Conservative group Alec devises offshoot ACCE to lobby at local levels (ALEC update) (Original Post)
hue
Aug 2014
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Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)1. One more group to write the laws of our land.
This has got to be stopped.
hue
(4,949 posts)3. One more (corporate) group to write the laws of our land.
Drew Richards
(1,558 posts)4. Finish the inscription...
One more group to find them...
One more group to, in the darkness bind them...
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)2. Evilness
littlemissmartypants
(22,692 posts)5. We cannot let them win.
Enough is enough.
Remember In November!
Love, Peace and The Righteous Fight.