The ‘Prince’ spoke to SPIA students and professor Udi Ofer, who leads the Princeton Policy Advocacy Clinic, a new program that started last fall.
obviously not doing. the next thing he did on his agenda was to create seven different republican policy task forces, one on american security that includes andrew clyde who said that january 6th was a normal tourist visit and ralph norman who said the attack wasn t committed by trump supporters. another one with jim jordan and marge rhein greene and lauren boebert. i don t understand how republicans can be this unserious and think they re going to be taken seriously by anybody but the hardcore rep base. that s who they care about, the hardcore republican base right now. and this will be deemed no matter what happens as a political exercise. again, i believe the democrats are acting in good faith. i believe there were 35 republicans that wanted to act in good faith, but this is nothing more than a political show. and i ve got to tell you something, what concerns me about this, joy, is that while i believe pelosi and the people she appoints to that committee
the traditional sense. other groups do put out model bills. the national conference of state legislatures does the exact same thing, but what it does do is it has this membership group that s not just legislators. 300 corporations. that makes up most of their money and so they basically convene policy task forces to come up with the best kind of legislation for those groups both for the corporations and for conservative lawmakers because honestly, their interests overlap. conservatives want less government. they want less taxes. they want less regulation. and in many cases, corporations want the same thing but not in all. what is interesting to me is that the stand your ground law and the fact that alec was behind that law and its furtherance in other states led to greater public scrutiny of alec. have you companies that have cut ties including coca-cola, intuit, mars, mcdonald s, pepsico and wendy s.