| [[Image:Wisconsin.png|left|90px]](PLACEHOLDER)'''Taking a page from the ALEC corporation playbook, in May, 2011 Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, an ALEC alum, signed into law one of the most restrictive "Voter ID" restrictions in the country.''' Many in the state do not have driver's licenses -- around half of the state's African-American and Latino populations and 178,000 seniors -- and Department of Motor Vehicles offices are open erratically. Also under the bill, a current address is required on the license to vote, disenfranchising many students who move regularly. '''Wisconsin's Voter ID bill goes even further than the ALEC version.''' To learn more about this story, click here (PLACEHOLDER) (Have any of these bills been introduced or enacted in YOUR state? If so, please add that information to the ALEC Exposed page on your state by searching for your state's name in the search engine at the top of this page.) | | [[Image:Wisconsin.png|left|90px]]'''Taking a page from the ALEC corporation playbook, in May, 2011 Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, an ALEC alum, signed into law one of the most restrictive "Voter ID" restrictions in the country.''' Many in the state do not have driver's licenses -- around half of the state's African-American and Latino populations and 178,000 seniors -- and Department of Motor Vehicles offices are open erratically. Also under the bill, a current address is required on the license to vote, disenfranchising many students who move regularly. '''Wisconsin's Voter ID bill goes even further than the ALEC version.''' To learn more about this story, click here. |
| <h3>Limiting Damages for the Loss of Your Child, Spouse, or Parent</h3>
| | (Have any of these bills been introduced or enacted in YOUR state? If so, please add that information to the ALEC Exposed page on your state by searching for your state's name in the search engine at the top of this page.) |
| [[Image:Family.png|left|90px]](PLACEHOLDER)One of the corporate-politician proposals of ALEC would limit the ability of a family to recover for emotional damages due to the death or injury of a loved one. (LINK) This type of legislation basically makes working class or poor people's lives--as well as the elderly--worth less to their families because any damages for pain and suffering due to the death of a child, spouse, or parent would be limited to an amount equal to their loved one's lost earnings and medical expenses. These kind of corporate provisions try to prevent a jury of YOUR peers from awarding you damages for all you have lost or suffered AFTER a jury finds that your loved one's death was the result of corporate negligence, misconduct, or greed. '''Is a local legislator who was elected to represent YOU actually protecting the profits of global corporate wrongdoers through such legislation instead of YOU and YOUR FAMILY?'''
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| [[Image:Pet.png|left|90px]](PLACEHOLDER)In addition to limiting the rights of people injured by corporations, under the guise of limiting "frivolous" litigation in 2006, one of the proposals would make it harder for you to obtain any compensation from a company whose negligence killed your family pet.(LINK) In 2009, Americans learned that many U.S. pet food companies had shipped the production of food for their four-legged companions overseas and that Chinese contractors had contaminated the pet food with melamine in order to increase profit margins, resulting in the death and serious injuries of numerous dogs and cats in the U.S. '''If passed in your state, ALEC's corporation-backed proposal would make it very difficult for YOU to recover any damages for the loss of your beloved animal companion due to corporate negligence or misconduct in manufacturing food for America's beloved pets.'''</div>
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