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Exploring the role of ALEC in Lansing’s lame duck attack on Michiganders

By Mark | December 26, 2012

A week or so ago, I put together a rudimentary post on how the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) contributed toward the recent flurry of regressive legislative activity that took place in Michigan. Well, our friend Bob Sloan, writing for PolicyMic.com, just dug quite a bit deeper. Here’s how his piece begins. Fact: 282 bills [...]

Posted in Michigan, Politics | Also tagged ALEC, Amanda Price, Aric Nesbitt, Bob Sloan, HB 4003, HB 4305, HB 5221, Immigration Law Enforcement Act, Judson Gilbert, Kenneth Horn, Kenneth Kurtz, lame duck, Lansing, Michigan House of Representatives, Michigan Senate, Mike Green, Peter Lund, right-to-work, Tom McMillan, Voter ID Act | 8 Comments

For those of you who were wondering what the Republican endgame would look like, just turn your attention toward Michigan, where women’s rights, gay rights, public education, and unions are all being systematically dismantled before our eyes, in one fell swoop

By Mark | December 7, 2012

Not only did both houses of Michigan’s Republican-controled legislature, with the aid of billionaire conservative activists like Dick DeVos and the Koch brothers, jam through controversial right-to-work legislation this afternoon, in violation of long-honored rules, as members of the public were forced from the Capitol by armed police and pro-labor protestors were assaulted with pepper [...]