ALEC Exposed
Center for Media & Democracy, July 14, 2011
By Lisa Graves
In April 2011, some of the biggest U.S. corporations met with state legislators behind closed doors in Cincinnati about their wish lists for changing state laws, including telecom and IT laws. The exchange was part of a series of corporate meetings nurtured and fueled by the Koch Industries family fortune and other corporate funding. It's a worrisome marriage of corporations and politicians which seems to normalize a kind of corruption of the legislative process -- of the democratic process -- in a nation of free people where the government is supposed to be of, by, and for the people, not the corporations.
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