corporate power
Mitt Romney's Revealing Comments About FEMA
Tue, 10/30/2012 - 2:19pm — Paul
Even when it comes to disaster relief, Romney is not one to allow the public welfare to get in the way of corporate profits.
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Far Right Poised to Reverse a Century of Progress with Romney's Court
Fri, 10/26/2012 - 12:27pm — Paul
Far right scholars are eager for a Romney victory, because his Supreme Court would turn their cramped vision of the Constitution into reality.
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Remembering Paul: Believe in the Beauty of Your Dreams
Thu, 10/25/2012 - 8:30am — Marge
Ten years after his tragic death, Paul Wellstone inspires us as we fight for the causes he believed in.
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Corporate Allies at the DC Circuit
Mon, 10/15/2012 - 11:25am — Paul
When Big Business wants to dismantle laws protecting the American people, they turn to the DC Circuit.
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8th Circuit Rules Against Disclosure Law
Thu, 09/06/2012 - 4:35pm — Paul
A sharply divided court blocks Minnesota's campaign finance disclosure rules for organizations making independent expenditures in state elections.
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Trade Associations Funnel Secret Corporate Campaign Cash
Wed, 09/05/2012 - 4:26pm — Sarah L.
“[T]he big winners” of Citizens United are trade associations and their corporate members that can now spend undisclosed, unlimited amounts of money to affect elections.
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Bush Judges Again Show Why the DC Circuit Matters
Wed, 08/29/2012 - 4:38pm — Paul
Extremist Bush judges on the DC Circuit sided with Big Tobacco and corporate polluters in two criticized opinions last week.
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Five more companies break ALEC ties
Mon, 08/27/2012 - 3:01pm — Amelia
General Electric, Western Union, Sprint Nextel, Symantec and Reckitt Benckiser have become the latest corporations to cut ties to ALEC.
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Progress Texas Announces 13 More State Legislators Have Left ALEC
Thu, 08/16/2012 - 4:43pm — Jake
The mass exodus from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) continued today, as an additional 13 members of the state legislature cut ties with the corporate bill factory. Progress Texas reports:
As we have written many times before, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is a corporate bill factory for model laws. The organization arranges for corporate lobbyists and conservative legislators to hold joint secret meetings to craft cookie-cutter bills that increase the profits of private companies at the public’s expense. Following public pressure from Progress Texas and its membership, 25 legislators have dropped - including every Democrat. A majority of the Texas Legislature – 96 of 181 members – is now no longer a part of ALEC.
32 corporations from across the country have also left ALEC. A complete list can be found here.
The PFAW Foundation has been key in exposing ALEC’s efforts at influencing governmental agendas at the local, state, and federal level.
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Another Company Dumps ALEC, the 26th in Recent Months to Cut Ties
Fri, 07/13/2012 - 3:12pm — Jake
The St. Louis based pharmacy benefits manager Express-Scripts told the Center for Media and Democracy today that it had terminated its relationship with ALEC. The move was confirmed by Express Scripts head of Communications David Whitrap.
The disclosure comes at the end of a busy week for corporate defections from ALEC. On Tuesday, Express-Scripts competitor CVS announced it was cutting ties, along with four other corporations, including Hewlett-Packard Co., Best Buy, and MillerCoors LLC. In a statement, PFAW Foundation President Michael Keegan applauded the news:
The decision by these five companies to leave ALEC is an important step to do right by their customers. Their competitors who have yet to quit should know that the American people won’t forget who continues to underwrite ALEC’s agenda at our expense. Fortunately, more and more corporations, nonprofits and organizations are withdrawing their memberships. As a result, ALEC’s ability to push its dangerous agenda through our statehouses diminishes every day.
As more companies follow their competitors out of ALEC, the campaign to get corporations to ditch ALEC gains even more momentum. Those who stay with the organization will have to justify their support of an extreme anti-consumer agenda to their customers.
PFAW Foundation has taken an active role in exposing ALEC’s stealth role in promoting conservative legislation at the local, state, and federal level.
A comprehensive list of the corporations who have cut ties with ALEC can he found here.
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Fighting For Fair and Just Courts
Fri, 03/02/2012 - 1:12pm — Paul
We may see increased pressure this month to end the obstruction that is keeping so many Americans from having their day in court.
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The Supreme Court vs. Individual Americans in the Citizens United Era: What’s on Tap for the Coming Supreme Court Term
A new PFAW Foundation memo examines cases on the Supreme Court docket that will affect the balance of power between individual citizens and giant corporations in the courtroom in the Citizens United era.
PFAW Foundation Report Uncovers the Roberts Court's Pro-Corporate Agenda
A new People For the American Way Foundation report, The Citizens United Era: How the Supreme Court Continues to Put Business First, examines how the Supreme Court’s ultra conservative majority is working to reshape our Constitution and elevate corporate interests above the rights of individual Americans. Beginning with the 2010 decision in Citizens United, the Roberts Court has handed down a steady stream of decisions that allow enormous corporations to benefit at the expense of ordinary Americans.
PFAW Stands With Wisconsin's Public Workers
Thousands of public employees in Wisconsin are protesting this week in response to Gov. Scott Walker's attempt to strip public employee unions in the state of their collective bargaining rights and to reduce benefits to public workers.
Events to Mark One Year Anniversary of Citizens United Decision
A number of national and local groups will produce a series of events this week to mark the one year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. FEC, which overturned limits on corporate influence in elections. In addition to a wide range of local events planned across the nation, a series of events will take place in Washington, DC to show the broad based support for action—including amending the Constitution—to restore democratic power to citizens, not corporations.
Events include:
Tell Congress: Amend the U.S. Constitution to ensure the government has the authority to limit corporate influence in elections
The Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United v. FEC threatens to tear apart the fabric of our democracy and grant powerful corporations unfettered influence in our political process. Sign PFAW's petition to tell Congressional leaders to amend the Constitution today.
New Poll Shows Broad Support for "Fixing" Citizens United
Our new poll shows that the American public supports limiting corporate spending in elections through a range of proposals, including legislation and a constitutional amendment.
Justice Alito Has Some Things He'd Like to Say...
Reps. Conyers and Edwards Introduce Constitutional Amendment
Representatives John Conyers and Donna Edwards today introduced a proposal to amend the Constitution to reverse the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. FEC. People For the American Way President Michael B. Keegan said, "John Conyers and Donna Edwards should be applauded for their response to this decision."
PFAW Backs Ban on Foreign Electioneering in Wake of Citizens United
In response to the introduction of legislation by Senator Al Franken that would protect federal, state, and local elections from foreign influence, People For the American Way Executive Vice President Marge Baker said, "President Obama was exactly right when he raised the threat of undue foreign influence in US elections following the Supreme Court's irresponsible decision in Citizens United v. FEC."
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