Remember that Tom Lehrer song, from the days before the Clean Air and Clean Water acts? Get ready to welcome those days back, among other things:
We've already seen this bunch at work in various states -- Wisconsin, Michigan, North Carolina, Florida are the first that come to mind -- and the longer they're able to stay under the radar, the more difficult it will be to counter them. (Why am I starting to feel like The Guardian is the only real news source left? Because we're not hearing about this from NYT or WaPo, that's for damned sure.)
John Aravosis has a similar post at AmericaBlog, although it concentrates on ALEC's historic homophobia and how major corporations are funding it.
That's it -- I'm done with reality for the day.
Back in 2011, I put my tin foil hat on and suggested that perhaps ALEC was promoting coordinated attacks on unions, schools, and health care across the nation. At the time, there was certainly a sense that they were, but no hard evidence.
Hard evidence has now arrived in the form of a revealing and rage-inducing set of documents published in The Guardian on Thursday.
Conservative groups across the US are planning a coordinated assault against public sector rights and services in the key areas of education, healthcare, income tax, workers' compensation and the environment, documents obtained by the Guardian reveal.
We've already seen this bunch at work in various states -- Wisconsin, Michigan, North Carolina, Florida are the first that come to mind -- and the longer they're able to stay under the radar, the more difficult it will be to counter them. (Why am I starting to feel like The Guardian is the only real news source left? Because we're not hearing about this from NYT or WaPo, that's for damned sure.)
John Aravosis has a similar post at AmericaBlog, although it concentrates on ALEC's historic homophobia and how major corporations are funding it.
That's it -- I'm done with reality for the day.
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