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If you do not act against ALEC by showing your local representative that this kind of behavior will lose your vote, then you, and you alone, are responsible for everything

“The problem isn’t big govt, the problem is BOUGHT govt” and other Tweets on ALEC

Whenever elected officials take steps to narrow the ways people can be involved in democracy, it really gets my blood boiling. You might remember back a couple of decades when the Colorado General Assembly refused to pass any bill requiring people and groups spending big money on our elections to disclose that information to the [...]

“When I feel the heat, I see the light.” – Sen. Everett McKinley Dirksen, R-Il., 1896-1969. The light is starting to break through at the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). Under pressure from Common Cause and other watchdog organizations, ALEC announced today that it’s shutting down its Public Safety and Elections Task Force. The committee [...]

We need to prevent bad legislation from preventing people to vote in the 2012 U.S. election.