brought to you by sheldon adelson and foster friess and these individuals rather than corporations becoming overwhelmingly large players in terms of the money and elections. why is that? i don t want to minimize the role of corporations that you were just discussing because they are big players. but there is a slight checks and balances on them. if they re a company like procter & gamble that dropped out of alec, they do have shareholders. they do have board members that might object to it. they also tend to give to both parties to protect themselves, so when a party that s out of power comes back in again, they can still fix everything. these sugar daddies, most of then republicans, don t have any of those obligations that someone running a fortune 500 company would. they can do whatever they want and because of citizens united
research was essentially the middle man between the corporate money and whatever they were doing to arrange for them in congress. a national center for public policy research. put a pin in that name for just a second. today one of the most significant developments in the how this count makes our laws department was that the ginormous company procter & gamble became the third company to drop out of alec. alec is a corporate funded group that promotes conservative legislation at the state level. basically, corporations join alec, alec then writes model legislation to serve the bottom line of those corporations. alec then spoon-feeds that organization to mostly republican state legislators across the country and those legislators turn it into law. corporate legislators get to pay for the results. they get to shield the snults in order to achieve some policy goals. aits perfect setup. it was a perfect setup until
alec started to get all sorts of unwanted attention for pushing stuff like the stand your ground laws, laws that make it harder for people to vote as well. sure, those things might be good for some corporations bottom line somewhere, but how about the effect on the rest of us? alec last week announced that they are disbanding their task force that pushed for things like the relaxed gun laws and laws to make it harder to vote. alec is now officially getting out of that particular part of their game when it comes to making it harder for people to vote across this country. guess who is taking their place? a group called the national center for public policy research. that jack abramoff-linked, middle man organization that helped get cash and perks to members of congress. they have now announced they are taking over the voter i.d. stuff. they are launching a new voter identification task force in order to pick up where alec left off, to keep pushing bills that make it harder for people to