golf resort in scotland in 2002. this junket was a tony rudy joint. he helped organize the all expenses paid part of this trip. when he got home from the trip, he said the whole thing had been paid for by a group for the national center for public policy. that group denied paying for the trip but they were hip deep in the scandal. he served as an aid to tom delay in the mid-1990s. tom delay took a six day trip to russia. jack abramoff went along for the ride. tom delay said it was paid for and organized by the obscure washington, d.c. profit called the national center for public policy research. this organization funded all sorts of abramoff s activities.
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
party group in order to achieve some policy goal. it s per spect set up. it was perfect until alec starts getting unwanted attention for pushing stuff like the stand your ground gun 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 affect on the rest of us. alec announced they are disbanded their task force that pushed for things like the relaxed gun law and laws that make it harder to vote. alec is getting out of that part of their game. guess who is taking their place. a group called the national center for public policy research. that jack abramoff middleman organization that helped funnel cash and perks to members of congress, they have announced that they are taking over the voter i.d. stuff. they are launching a new voter identification task force in
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
exchange council. a group the backed i.d. laws in the past. they accuse alec of trying to stop black people from voting and urged the 85,000 members to exert pressure on a number of corporations including coca-cola who donated to alec in the past. it worked. coca-cola was one of several entities that promised to stop future giving. alec since announced it s disbanding the election task force. the national center for public policy research announced today it will assume that work. brand new fox news poll shows 2 to 1 margin americans do not believe those who support voter i.d. laws are trying to block legal votes by minorities. 70% reported they believe the laws are necessary to stop illegal voting. minority female governor of the state of south carolina. there is nothing i want more than to make sure everybody that wants to vote can. many say it s disenfranchising