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Showdown in the "Show-Me State" Missouri’s General Assembly met under pressure from corporations and their lobbyists to override Governor Jay Nixon’s veto of bills that would curb local government control over wages, paid sick leave, and other employment policies and make Missouri a Right-to-Work state. Both bills vetoed by Nixon are high priorities of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). Read the rest of this item here. Scott Walker's Day One Plan to "Wreak Havoc" Lifted from ALEC Walker was an ALEC member as a state legislator. In a speech at Eureka College, Walker pledged to "wreak some havoc on Washington," and promised his first day in office would be "one of the busiest the White House has seen in years." Read the rest of this item here. Back to ALEC, Back to (Private) School On the heels of a newly passed state budget that again leaves our K-12 public schools behind without ample and consistent funding, I recently headed back to where the school privatization push all began--the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC. ALEC and its members, including the American Federation for Children (AFC), have become more powerful than our citizens’ voices at the State Capitol. Despite massive public urging for consistent and adequate K-12 public education funding, Republicans legislators chose to dump more money into an unaccountable private voucher school system. Read the rest of this item here. Shell Parts Ways with ALEC over Climate Change, Exodus at 106 In a statement, a Shell spokesperson said, "ALEC advocates for specific economic growth initiatives, but its stance on climate change is clearly inconsistent with our own." Read the rest of this item here. |