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Horrifying how #ALEC's lies are hurting so many people in many ways.

#NaturalGas is dirty, dangerous and damaging.

Dirty: toxic air around gas wells, toxic fumes from burning it

Dangerous: gas explosions, frequently associated with injuries and deaths, as well as destruction of property.

Damaging: adverse impacts on #pregnancy near gas wells, increased #asthma in homes using natural gas

And the #Climate impact is significant, because the #GWP is very high over 100 years, even worse over 20 years. And we are in a critical period right now, so the short term impact is significant.

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Grist · Louisiana is the latest state to greenwash gasBy Sophie Hurwitz

On December 5, right-wing culture warriors instructed lawmakers attending the
American Legislative Exchange Council’s ( #ALEC )
"States and Nation Policy Summit"
in Washington, D.C.,
on the steps their states can take to upend policies and practices
designed to help address the unfolding climate emergency and diversify workforces.

CRC Advisors Senior Vice President 💥#Mike #Thompson 💥led the workshop
“Battles Won, War Continues:
The Left, ESG and State Policy,”
according to materials obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD).

In 2020, #Greg #Mueller and #Leonard #Leo, who played an integral role in Trump’s effort to pack the federal judiciary with right-wing judges,
founded CRC Advisors
— the group Thompson represents
— to “funnel big money and expertise across the conservative movement.”

Although not as well known as Leo,
Thompson, a member of ALEC’s private sector advisory board,
is an important Christian Right operative
who plays multiple leadership roles in campaigns and communications.

Thompson’s public relations skills were on full display in his remarks
demonizing the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ),
“a global coalition of leading financial institutions committed to accelerating the decarbonization of the economy”
in order to preserve the planet from further destruction.

Thompson argued that large asset managers and banks that participate in GFANZ
— including BlackRock, State Street, Wells Fargo, City Bank, Morgan Stanley, Chase, and Bank of America
— are breaking antitrust law by utilizing sustainable investment strategies.

Thompson provided an example of a lawsuit against BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard
filed last month by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) and 10 other Republican attorneys general
— all active members of the fossil-fuel backed "Republican Attorneys General Association" ( #RAGA )
— alleging that the three companies violated antitrust law in colluding to raise electricity prices through their investments.

“The states have filed an antitrust lawsuit and they detail in it all of the evidence where those three companies were colluding to keep coal in the ground and from coming to market,
thus, driving up the price and violating antitrust law,”
Thompson told workshop participants.

The PR professional neglected to mention that CRC Advisors is a paid consultant of RAGA
or that his boss Leo’s "Concord Fund" has funneled $3.5 million to the pay-to-play group this year
and $20.3 million since the organization was founded in 2014, according to CMD’s analysis of its tax filings.

#Sal #Nuzzo, the first workshop presenter, is executive director of
"Consumers Defense",
the sister organization of Consumers’ Research,
which is a vice-chairman sponsor of ALEC’s summit and a driver of the right-wing’s manufactured crisis around “woke” capitalism.

Nuzzo argued that reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2050 through renewable energy production would force Americans to cede
“two-thirds of [the] U.S. electricity generation supply chain to the Communist Party of China.”

He didn’t cite a source for this claim, nor does the group’s website provide any research substantiating it.

Nuzzo also attempted to raise the alarm with lawmakers from states that depend on agriculture
by claiming that the Left has “shifted their attacks and tactics into the agriculture space”
in response to anti-ESG legislation passed over the last three legislative cycles
and has moved to prevent farmers from getting access to loans.

“The [Left’s] coordinated attacks on agriculture are occurring at all levels.
They’re at the producer level.
They’re at the distributor level.
They’re at the consumption and sales level,”
Nuzzo claimed.

“If farming interests cannot get financing, [farmers] cannot operate.”

#Paul #Watkins, founder of "Fusion Law" and both a senior legal fellow at "Consumers’ Research"
and a special counsel with "Heritage Action", made a number of claims in his presentation
based on his belief that diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives are discriminatory,
and therefore illegal.

As a member of ALEC’s "Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force", he is involved in drafting and voting on most of the group’s pro-fossil fuel policies alongside lawmakers and polluting industry lobbyists.
exposedbycmd.org/2024/12/07/to

EXPOSEDbyCMD · Top Leonard Leo Lieutenant Leads ALEC Bootcamp Against “Woke” Capitalism - EXPOSEDbyCMDOn December 5, right-wing culture warriors instructed lawmakers attending the American Legislative Exchange Council’s States and Nation Policy Summit in Washington, D.C., on the steps their states can take to upend policies and practices designed to help address the unfolding climate emergency and diversify workforces.

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The GOP Attack on Women Is Funded by Corporate America

The most aggressive and virulent right-wing attacks on women today involve 🔹eliminating women's reproductive rights.

Again and again, we're seeing small, pious, tightly organized, male-dominated groups in our society insisting that they are the "chosen ones", the autocrats ordained to rule over all women on the deeply personal, intrinsically private matter of choosing (for many different and difficult reasons) whether or not to seek an abortion.

Ironically, these authoritarians are mostly self-proclaimed "small-government conservatives",
⚠️yet they demand that the government be given practically unlimited power to control the minds and intrude most intimately into the bodies of women.

American culture has progressed from "Father Knows Best" to the birth control pill, then to Roe v. Wade, on to the emergence of women as bosses and powerful congressional leaders and to the likelihood that females will soon rise all the way to the American presidency.

In the quick span of a half-century, women have organized and mobilized to achieve a more democratic social order that includes sexual freedom, rising economic independence, greater visibility in public life, and a heightened control of their own destiny.
⭐️The struggle is not, as the right-wing piously claims, about some precise time limit for abortions or "protecting" the health of pregnant women,
but about ➡️ reasserting power over uppity females.
If a woman can be barred from controlling her own uterus, then everything else she thinks she controls is in doubt.

Yet, in a recent Gallup poll, 👍80% of Americans said abortion should be legal in all or most cases, with less than a fifth supporting the anti faction.
So, what gives?
It's not what gives -- but who.
There's a surprising funding source that surreptitiously supports the no-abortion zealots:
💥corporate America.
🆘The involvement of these superrich entities has drawn practically zero media coverage, and you certainly won't see corporations up front at rallies or proudly listing their brand names as sponsors of anti-choice groups.

But who do you think financed and helped organize the hundreds of legislative, gubernatorial, congressional and judicial campaigns of current officeholders who're now pounding women with the harshest, most oppressive and goofiest laws against reproductive rights and equality?
🔥The #Koch network of corporate billionaires is one stealth backer.
Also, the long list of #corporate blue-chip funders,
the dark money conduit of the U.S. #Chamber #of #Commerce,
and other storehouses of corporate cash regularly disburse truckloads of Big Business dollars across the country to elect those extremist candidates.
Not that top corporate executives actually agree with the war on women.
But they also don't care if abortion is outlawed, 🔸because they're rich
♦️ and can quietly arrange any abortions their families choose.

Brand-name corporations willingly finance hordes of anti-choice candidates as part of an obscenely cynical political bargain in which "pro-life" morphs into "pro-corporate."
The greed-heads need boneheaded candidates who'll go to extremes
("Protect the holy sperm!")
to gin up their ideological base, get elected and then dutifully serve the corporate interests.
The same corporate giants also finance the 💥American Legislative Exchange Council ( #ALEC ), which has written and pushed many bills to take reproductive rights away from women.
But another well-funded group,
💥Americans United for Life ( #AUL ), has become a primary legislative front group for the anti-choicers, hawking the most extreme program.
It's not only intent on criminalizing abortion, but it was also the instigator in 2011 of the national witch hunt trying to destroy Planned Parenthood.
👉Claiming to be a "charity," AUL shyly and slyly refuses to tell us where it gets its money.
Anti-abortion absolutists like AUL, along with yahooing legislators and Supreme Court justices who serve them, are exultant:
🧨"We're winning everything!" they exclaim.
A two-legged ego like Florida Gov. Ron #DeSantis has even calculated that he can ride the women-bashing wave all the way to the White House in 2024.
But sometimes you lose when you "win," because you get to sipping your own bathwater and thinking it's Champagne.
As an old Texas saying puts it:
❇️"Don't piss off momma. If momma ain't happy, ain't nobody happy."
And momma sure ain't happy about losing her reproductive rights.
In particular, it's the younger generation
-- women as well as men
-- who're newly focused on this abusive power elite.
As my longtime friend Cecile Richards, former president of #Planned #Parenthood, correctly called it:
"They have energized a whole new generation of young activists, and for that I'm grateful."
✅It's that movement that matters. It's fueled by the democratic populist spirit of ordinary but strong women who will not be put down

commondreams.org/views/2022/05

Common Dreams · The GOP Attack on Women Is Funded by Corporate America | Common Dreams"If a woman can be barred from controlling her own uterus, then everything else she thinks she controls is in doubt."

Beginning in early 2022, and intensifying in 2023, a range of so-called “#election #integrity” groups, from 💥Leonard Leo’s Honest Elections Project 💥to 🔥Cleta Mitchell’s Election Integrity Network🔥, have made #stopping #ranked-#choice #voting a top legislative priority.

Five states have since banned any city or county government from adopting the system, and at least six other states are considering similar measures this year.

The 👉American Legislative Exchange Council ( #ALEC ) approved a model bill banning ranked-choice voting last year,

a 👉Turning Point Action official successfully pressed the Republican National Committee to adopt a resolution opposing the practice,

and the 👉Heritage Foundation has organized grassroots activists to oppose ranked choice voting in several states.

The far-right fixation on ranked-choice voting “is a bit bizarre,” said Rick Hasen, a professor and director of the Safeguarding Democracy Project at UCLA’s Law School.

“It’s not really an issue of ‘honest elections’ or ‘election integrity,’” he said. “It’s a debate about the best way to translate voters’ preferences into election winners.”

“I would guess,” Hasen said, “that the reason for the fear of ranked choice voting is that🔹 it could help elect more Republican moderates rather than more extreme Republicans.”🔹

Ranked choice voting is one of the few — if not the only — democracy reforms that still has #bipartisan #support.

For example, 21 cities in deep-red Utah use ranked choice voting, where it is broadly popular,
and bills to implement it have attracted Republican co-sponsors in states like Wisconsin, Virginia, and Georgia.

QThe organized attacks on ranked choice voting appear aimed at eroding support for the reform among Republican lawmakers and conservative activists.

Groups backed by right-wing activist #Leonard #Leo are playing an outsized role in the campaign against ranked choice voting.
Leo, who served as former President Donald Trump’s judicial adviser, helped construct the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority.

In 2021, he was put in control of a 🔥$1.6 billion #darkmoney fund 🔥to help push U.S. politics to the right.
While Leo’s relationship with Trump has frayed 
--he reportedly considered boosting another MAGA-aligned candidate, Ron DeSantis, in the GOP presidential primary
— the success of his political project relies on electing far-right candidates under the same system that produced Trump
documented.net/reporting/ranke

DocumentedRanked-Choice Voting is MAGA’s Latest TargetDocumented is an investigative watchdog and journalism project committed to holding the powerful interests that undermine our democracy accountable.
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@lolgop

Republican megadonors are part of #KochNetwork, #ALEC, #CNP, and Atlas Network.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_n

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americ

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counci

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federa

The rich are all part of groups to promote their self-interest.

The donor class is organized into PAC's, DAF's, hedge funds, and various other mutual aid entities - but workers aren't supposed to do the same?

en.m.wikipedia.orgKoch network - Wikipedia
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@lolgop

Nikki Haley was funded by #KochNetwork primarily for her anti-unionism.

A democracy that permits tax-evading nonprofits like the Claremont Institute & the Heritage Foundation, and anti-democracy organizations like #ALEC, Council for National Policy, & Atlas, but wants a national ban on unions...
thenation.com/article/politics

The rich are allowed to organize and plot strategy, but regular people aren't?

motherjones.com/politics/2023/

thenation.com/article/archive/

What should the Democrats run on?
Alerting every voter to what is in store for them if the radical right succeeds in its endgame to enchain American democracy.

Lurking behind the full-frontal assault by Donald Trump and his enablers lies a more far-reaching threat.
If the Republicans gain control of both Houses of Congress, expect a state-authorized #Constitutional #Convention to eviscerate core rights and protections most Americans hold dear.

Imagine living in a country without 🔹Social Security, 🔹Medicare, the 🔹Affordable Care Act, 🔹the right to organize a union, 🔹civil rights enforcement, and 🔹clean air and 🔹water protections, let alone action to stop 🔹climate collapse.
The Constitutional Convention, in the plain language of the leading organizer for it, aims 🔸“to reverse 115 years of progressivism.”🔸

That’s big talk, 115 years.
Think it can’t be done?
Although the convention push has been all but ignored by the commentariat and national Democratic leaders, it has powerhouse backing.

The #Koch network and other dark-money donors are generously funding it.
The corporation-underwritten American Legislative Exchange Council ( #ALEC ) has supplied “model legislation” and training to Republican state legislators. Endorsers include Mark #Meadows, Ron #DeSantis, Greg #Abbott, Sean #Hannity, and many more.

♦️Convention of States Action ♦️( #COS ), the 501c(4) organization leading the campaign, whose head was a co-founder of Tea Party Patriots, has recruited and deployed volunteers to lobby their legislatures.
(It also offers training in “biblical citizenship.”)
COS has held three practice conventions with legislators from nearly every state.
The ♦️Heritage Foundation♦️
—the 800-pound gorilla on the right
—recently signed on in “a game-changing report” that such a convention would be “a potent check on federal power” and is “a worthy cause.”

That endorsement is likely to drive even more cash to add to the over 🔸$70 million in IRS-traceable contributions 🔸that groups solely focused on convening such a gathering have garnered from 2012 to 2022, in findings of the Center for Media and Democracy.
That figure does not include contributions to #ALEC, which has promoted the convention since 2013;
its revenue hovers around $10 million annually.

Promoters have been methodically lining up authorizations from the states since the 2012 election showed them that 👉 most Americans reject the kind of society they seek, even Mitt Romney’s mild version.
So strategists concluded that the only way to permanently entrench minority rule by plutocrats and theocrats is to encase it in a 🔥dramatically altered Constitution.🔥

They count on most of us remaining in the dark until it is too late to stop their scheme.
So far, that’s proved a good gamble. How many of us know that there are two routes to amending the Constitution—the usual one, and the nuclear option never yet tried?
Under 🔸Article V 🔸of the Constitution, Congress “shall call a convention for proposing amendments” when it receives applications from two-thirds of the states.
In reality, this is hard, because one party would need to control both houses of 34 state legislatures (or 33 plus unicameral Nebraska).
But ALEC has fabricated a claim built around the idea that enough states have made
🔹 past calls for a convention, 🔹some going back decades, 🔹for the idea to proceed.
It plans to use these outdated state resolutions to argue to the courts that they should force Congress to convene one.

But it gets worse.
If Republicans control Congress, they won’t have to bother with litigation, because it would be up to the majority in control to determine the validity of the applications
—and Article V lacks the guardrails to prevent this manipulation.

Seriously?
Yes, alas.
House Speaker #Mike #Johnson, who would be in a position to call it, is a longtime ally of COS.
newrepublic.com/article/178442

The New Republic · Warn Voters About the Radicalism Beyond TrumpThe Republicans are plotting to literally rewrite the Constitution to eliminate core rights and protections.
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@paul

So let me get this straight.
Billionaires are allowed to join organizations that subvert democracy for the wealthy.

1. Council for National Policy #CNP
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counci

2. American Legislative Exchange Council #ALEC
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americ

3. Koch Network
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_n

4. International "Democracy" Union #IDU
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intern

6. Atlas Council
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_

However, regular people aren't allowed to organize?
Seems unfair, don't you think?

en.m.wikipedia.orgCouncil for National Policy - Wikipedia
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@w7voa

Nikki Haley is still vehemently anti-union.

"Haley rattled off her accomplishments as governor of South Carolina, which included helping drive down statewide unionization rates to the lowest in the country after she courted nonunion auto-factory installations from BMW and Nissan. “I didn’t allow unions in our state. I was a union buster, and that’s something I was very adamant about,” she said."

Her donors organize #ALEC, #CNP, #KochNetwork but not workers?!?
slate.com/news-and-politics/20

Secretive US rightwing group Alec designs law to give big business ‘complete immunity for bad acts’

The influential rightwing pressure group the 🔹American Legislative Exchange Council🔹 ( #Alec ), which is funded by large US companies, is behind model legislation to 👉greatly restrict lawsuits under state public nuisance laws which are widely used to hold big business to account.👈

Public nuisance legislation was central to state lawsuits against the tobacco industry over the damage caused to public health by smoking in the 1990s.
The laws are also at the heart of some litigation against fossil fuel companies over the climate crisis and emerging lawsuits against companies that failed to adequately protect workers from Covid.

They have also resulted in drug manufacturers and distributors paying out hundreds of millions of dollars to cities and other authorities for their part in the opioid crisis that has claimed about 800,000 lives.
On Friday, the advertising company Publicis Health agreed a $350m settlement with US states that sued the company under public nuisance laws for promoting the high-strength painkiller that kicked off the opioid epidemic, OxyContin, to doctors with false claims about its safety.

But in an attempt to limit public authorities and others harmed by the actions of big business from seeking redress, corporations are using groups such as 🔹Alec 🔹and the 🔸US chamber of commerce 🔸to push state legislatures to pass laws to curb similar legal actions in the future.

Mary Graffam, the director of state affairs and research for the legal group the American Association of Justice, warned that 👉the legislation would strip away rights for local governments and other entities, such as hospital districts and Native American tribes, to hold corporations to account.

“Because municipalities have successfully held corporations accountable for causing catastrophic harms such as the opioid crisis and environmental pollution, these companies are now turning to front groups like Alec and the US Chamber of Commerce to push laws that would give them complete immunity for their future bad acts,” she said.

The model legislation was unveiled by Alec’s civil justice taskforce at the organisation’s national meeting in December 2020 where big pharma and other corporate interests were well represented.
The attendees included two senior executives of the drug industry lobby group PhRMA and Neil Pratt, head of international legal affairs for Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America.

🔥The model legislation significantly limits the basis of public nuisance claims, specifically banning them for cases “based on the manufacturing, distributing, selling, labelling, or marketing of a product, regardless of whether the product is defective”.
🔥The law would also bar claims over any product that “endangers the health, safety, or welfare of the public at large or has caused injury to one or more members of the public”.

theguardian.com/us-news/2024/f

The Guardian · Secretive US rightwing group Alec designs law to give big business ‘complete immunity for bad acts’By Chris McGreal