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<h3>[http://www.exposedbycmd.org/2016/12/23/election-losses-dont-stop-corporate-efforts-block-voter-approved-minimum-wage-hikes/ Election Losses Don’t Stop Corporate Efforts to Block Voter-Approved Minimum Wage Hikes ]</h3>
Voters spoke very clearly on November 8 when they elected to raise the minimum wage in Arizona and Maine, along with Colorado and Washington State.
But those wins, the democratic process, and the express will of the people are being defied and denied in Arizona and Maine, where corporate lobbyists and their legislative allies are working to block, delay, even rewrite the laws approved on Election Day.
These efforts to flout voter-approved laws are part of ongoing conservative and corporate-backed strategies to keep wages low. Read the rest of this item [http://www.exposedbycmd.org/2016/12/23/election-losses-dont-stop-corporate-efforts-block-voter-approved-minimum-wage-hikes/ here].
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<h3>[http://www.exposedbycmd.org/2016/12/22/alecs-little-brother-acce-big-plans-2017/ ALEC's Little Brother, ACCE, Has Big Plans for 2017]</h3>
<h3>[http://www.exposedbycmd.org/2016/12/22/alecs-little-brother-acce-big-plans-2017/ ALEC's Little Brother, ACCE, Has Big Plans for 2017]</h3>
''By Steve Arnold, Mayor of Fitchburg, Wisconsin''
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I had attended the 2014 ACCE conference and was eager to see how the group had evolved in its formative years. What plans were its leaders developing in response to the surprising ascension of Donald Trump to President-elect, and the consolidation of republican power in the Congress and in statehouses nationwide? Read the rest of this item [http://www.exposedbycmd.org/2016/12/22/alecs-little-brother-acce-big-plans-2017/ here].
I had attended the 2014 ACCE conference and was eager to see how the group had evolved in its formative years. What plans were its leaders developing in response to the surprising ascension of Donald Trump to President-elect, and the consolidation of republican power in the Congress and in statehouses nationwide? Read the rest of this item [http://www.exposedbycmd.org/2016/12/22/alecs-little-brother-acce-big-plans-2017/ here].
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<h3>[http://www.exposedbycmd.org/2016/12/11/rex-tillerson-exxon-spent-big-climate-change-denial-misleading-public-evidence-shows// Rex Tillerson and Exxon Spent Big on Climate Change Denial while Misleading Public, Evidence Shows]</h3>
Rex Tillerson, Donald Trump's likely choice to be America's top diplomat as Secretary of State, has spent years funding climate change denial and underwriting efforts to block measures to address climate change while misleading the public, according to evidence compiled by the Center for Media and Democracy.
As CMD detailed in a joint complaint filed with the IRS shortly before the election, Exxon has used the [http://www.alecexposed.org/ American Legislative Exchange Council] "as a key asset in its explicit campaign to sow uncertainty about climate science, undermine international climate treaties and block legislation to reduce emissions." Read the rest of this item [http://www.exposedbycmd.org/2016/12/11/rex-tillerson-exxon-spent-big-climate-change-denial-misleading-public-evidence-shows/ here].
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<h3>[http://www.prwatch.org/news/2016/12/13183/trump-nation-alec-land A Trump Nation in an ALEC Land]</h3>
The first post-presidential [http://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_Exposed American Legislative Exchange Council] (ALEC) meeting last week in Washington, D.C. made clear that starry-eyed conservative state legislators had visions of more power dancing in their heads. Corporations were giddy thinking about the tax giveaways and incentive packages (think the $7 million Trump/Pence tax giveaways to Carrier to keep less than one-half of its jobs in that state) surely coming their way. Even keynote speaker Carly Fiorina this morning seemed hopeful, seemingly forgetful of Trump's former abuse.
Certainly, Trump wasn't the first choice of most ALEC members. The ALEC audience was Trump wary. Read the rest of this item [http://www.prwatch.org/news/2016/12/13183/trump-nation-alec-land here].
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More ALEC News

Election Losses Don’t Stop Corporate Efforts to Block Voter-Approved Minimum Wage Hikes

Voters spoke very clearly on November 8 when they elected to raise the minimum wage in Arizona and Maine, along with Colorado and Washington State.

But those wins, the democratic process, and the express will of the people are being defied and denied in Arizona and Maine, where corporate lobbyists and their legislative allies are working to block, delay, even rewrite the laws approved on Election Day.

These efforts to flout voter-approved laws are part of ongoing conservative and corporate-backed strategies to keep wages low. Read the rest of this item here.

ALEC's Little Brother, ACCE, Has Big Plans for 2017

By Steve Arnold, Mayor of Fitchburg, Wisconsin

I recently returned from the American Legislative Exchange Council's 2016 States and Nation Policy Summit, in Washington, DC. As a Mayor, I was most interested in the corresponding meeting of the American City County Exchange (ACCE), an offshoot spawned by ALEC in 2014 to spread ALEC's ideas about "limited government, free markets, and federalism" down to the most local levels of government.

I had attended the 2014 ACCE conference and was eager to see how the group had evolved in its formative years. What plans were its leaders developing in response to the surprising ascension of Donald Trump to President-elect, and the consolidation of republican power in the Congress and in statehouses nationwide? Read the rest of this item here.

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