50 YEARS OF ATTACKS ON THE UNITED STATES JUSTICE SYSTEM AND GOVERNMENT BY JEFFREY EPSTEIN'S ORGANIZED CRIME SYNDICATE , EXPLAINS WHY EPSTEIN'S VICTIMS CAN'T GET JUSTICE
As reported by Common Dreams, "The American Legislative Exchange Council, which funnels right-wing model legislation to state houses, has "a really regressive agenda for our nation," one campaigner said.
ALEC is a pay-to-play network of legislators and private sector operators who have spent the last half a century drafting pro-corporate legislation that members then push to state houses across the country. The advocacy organizations opposed to ALEC—including Common Cause, Greenpeace, the Union of Concerned Scientists, and True North Research—gathered to say that 50 years is "more than enough."
"ALEC's anniversary is nothing to celebrate because it has played such a fundamental role in undermining the American dream," Lisa Graves, executive director of True North Research and an expert on the group's activities, told Common Dreams.
"Fifty years of harm is absolutely enough."
ALEC has been the driving force behind a plethora of state laws that demonstrate "a really regressive agenda for our nation," Graves said. These include right-to-work laws, voter ID laws, laws criminalizing climate protests, and, in recent years, laws barring the use of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria in investing.
The groups are hoping to use ALEC's 50th anniversary to draw attention to its past activities as well as solidify as well as solidify opposition to its anti-democratic operations going forward.
"We want to make sure that every American knows that, if Americans are behind bars in your state, in a private prison, you can thank ALEC for that," Svante Myrick, president and CEO of People for the American Way, said in a press briefing ahead of Wednesday's rally. "If there are laws in your state that make it harder for Black people and brown people to vote, you can thank ALEC for that. If there are laws that make it a crime to protest against polluters and climate change in your state, you can thank ALEC for that."
Looking ahead, the coalition aims to pressure the corporations and even nonprofits that associate with ALEC to disengage, with a new petition launching Thursday.
Outside the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday evening, the groups held a rally to coincide with the ALEC gala event and confronted the attendees.
"It was a good action with a lot of the core groups represented there to make sure that these ALEC legislators and their sponsors arriving in their tuxedos and their formal gowns were greeted by representatives of a lot of people across the country who object to the type of corruption that ALEC represents," Graves said.
Since then, however, "they've gotten a little sneakier about it," Viki Harrison, the director of Common Cause's Constitutional Convention and Protecting Dissent programs, said during the press briefing.
Instead of joining ALEC as a member outright, corporations will sponsor a cigar bar or whiskey night at an ALEC gathering, for example. The new petition, therefore, will be sent to the presidents, CEOs, and members of the board of any corporation who is still attending conferences or hosted events.
"Anybody who is still involved, we say dump ALEC," Harrison said. "Fifty years of harm is absolutely enough."
The new round of targets will include the hosts and host committee members of Wednesday's gala, who include usual suspects like Newt Gingrich, Mike Pence, and Philip Morris; major companies like Guarantee Trust Life Insurance and the United Parcel Service; but also, surprisingly, the Humane Society of the United States, according to a list obtained by CMD.
Another notable name on Wednesday's list, Graves said, was Leonard Leo right-hand man William Hild, who leads Consumers' Research, Consumers' Research, a right-wing front group that promotes itself as a consumer advocacy group while promoting corporate interests. This reflects the strengthening relationship between ALEC and Leo, the Federalist Society co-chair and architect of the current far-right Supreme Court. When Leo received a $1.6 billion donation from billionaire Barre Seid in 2021, he funneled $200,000 of it to ALEC, and in exchange ALEC pushed voter suppression legislation nationwide.
"Because ALEC is a pay-to-play operation, it goes where the money is, and the money is with Leo," Graves said.
ALEC has also taken up Leo's so-called "anti-woke agenda" and opposition to ESG investment guidelines in particular, Graves said. Both Texas and Arkansas have passed ALEC-drafted legislation barring their state governments from doing business with companies that have guidelines against investing in fossil fuels or firearms, Alan Leveritt, founder and publisher of the Arkansas Times, explained during Wednesday's press briefing. Leveritt said this had cost Arkansas an additional $30 million and Texas $300 to $500 million as the states had to move pension funds from larger firms like BlackRock to smaller companies with higher management fees.
"They have essentially raised taxes on the consumers and the retirees in the state of Arkansas and all these other states," Leveritt said.
Harrison said the anti-ESG push was especially alarming because it went against the conservative principle of allowing financial actors to make their own decisions without government interference.
"It's the antithesis of what the republican party has always said they are," she told Common Dreams.
In addition, Graves noted, ALEC bills tend to single out restrictions on fossil fuel investments and even limit investments in renewable energy "at a time when our climate is demonstrably growing worse due to the burning of fossil fuels."
In response, groups like Common Cause, CMD, People for the American Way, and Greenpeace are increasing their collaboration to shine the light on ALEC's activities. Because ALEC pushes legislation covering almost every major issue, "they feel we can't keep an eye on everything," Harrison said.
She and her coalition partners want to make sure that "activists in each state don't feel like they're seeing that bill by themselves."
Concerned citizens can help by researching the issues they care about, seeing if there is ALEC-backed legislation in place that targets them, and speaking to their state legislators about where the bills came from and how to challenge them.
‘We have to ask ourselves," Myrick said during the briefing, "will the next 50 years belong to ALEC, or will it belong to us?""[2]
AN UPRIGHTS NEWS INVESTIGATION REVEALS THAT ALEC HAS BEEN HEAVILY FINANCED BY JEFFREY EPSTEIN'S CRIME SYNDICATE AND THEIR ORBIT, WHICH EXPLAINS WHY CORPORATE CULTURE AND AMERICAN CULTURE HAVE BECOME JEFFREY EPSTEIN'S RAPE AND THEN FUCK YOUR FEELINGS CULTURE
"As of 2011, corporation, think tank, and trade group members accounted for almost 99% of ALEC's $7 million budget.[15] Legislators pay $100 in biennial membership dues, or $50 per year, while non-legislators pay $7,000 to $25,000 to join, and more to participate in the task forces.[6][13][69] In 2010, NPR reported that tax records showed that corporations had collectively paid as much as $6 million a year to ALEC.[135] ALEC's total revenue in 2011 was $9 million.[69]
In 2010, ALEC received $100,000 each from AT&T, Allergan, and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company to be named as "president level" sponsors at its annual meeting.[15] Eleven other members, including Pfizer (PFE) and the Institute for Legal Reform, paid $50,000 each to be named as "chairman level" sponsors.[15] As of 2011, Altria, the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, and BP America were also $50,000 chairman level sponsors.[15]"[3]
Here it is important to note that AT&T, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and BP have all organized financing for the Republican Party engaged in treason with the Nazis, treason with Iran Contra, treason on 9/11, treason with Russia, and treason with stolen elections after stolen elections, only to install radicals in government who have zero use for the Constitution unless they can evade civil lawsuits, prosecution, seizure of their assets, and/or the death sentence with the same.
Similarly, here it is important to note that AT&T and BP are each linked to Jeffrey Epstein, directly and indirectly, AT&T named in Jeffrey Epstein's black book, and BP linked to David Rockefeller named in Jeffrey Epstein's black book.
"Exxon Mobil's foundation donated $30,000 to ALEC in both 2005 and 2006. Alan Jeffers, an Exxon Mobil spokesman, said the company paid $39,000 in dues in 2010 and sponsored a reception at the annual meeting in San Diego for $25,000. In August 2011, Exxon spent $45,000 to sponsor a workshop on natural gas.[136] According to the Center For Public Integrity, ALEC received $150,000 from Charles and David Koch in 2011.[137] Greenpeace claims that ALEC has received $525,858 from Koch foundations between 2005 and 2011.[138]"[3]
Similarly here, Jeffrey Epstein's David Rockefeller is also linked to ExxonMobile, which like BP, were linked to the Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company, and of course David Koch was named in Jeffrey Epstein's black book, and he also financed the Federalist Society along with Jeffrey Epstein's UK royals' SCL Group's Cambridge Analytica's Mercer family, who conspired with ICC's child sex trafficker Putin and Russia, to engineer Jeffrey Epstein's Donald Trump into power over the U.S. justice system.
Former financers of ALEC have included the following clients, financiers, and/or associates of Jeffrey Epstein.
"Several corporations have announced that their affiliations with ALEC will be allowed to lapse over disagreement with the group's opposition to action on climate change. These include Ford Motor Company,[93] British Petroleum,[94] Microsoft, Google, and Royal Dutch Shell. A statement by Shell said "its stance on climate change is clearly inconsistent with our own...We have long recognized both the importance of the climate challenge and the critical role energy has in determining quality of life for people across the world." An ALEC spokesperson responded "Climate change activists have conflated our opposition to the government picking winners and losers as climate change denial."[95]
In December 2016, Tesla Motors (not an ALEC member) hosted an ALEC event in Washington, D.C., where ALEC promoted its "Energy Innovation Project", that was partly funded by the ClearPath Foundation. The project guides states toward innovation and entrepreneurship surrounding U.S. energy resources.[96][97]"[3]
Here, with respect to Microsoft, Google, and Tesla, above - the Attorney General for the U.S. Virgin Islands via their attorneys have specified that all activities between Epstein and JPMorgan involved human (sex) trafficking, and where as part of that investigation, subpoenaed Elon Musk of Tesla and Sergey Brin and/or Larry Page of Google, who had separately been found to have met with Jeffrey Epstein AFTER he was convicted of prostituting a minor, which no respectable person would do, unless they had a lot of money and wanted to engage in rape of sex trafficked children, is a reasonable inference.
Bill Gates of Microsoft was yet another notorious friend, associate, and/or financier of Epstein, and found him "intriguing" after he was convicted of sex trafficking a child, which again no respectable person would do, unless they were very interested in also raping sex trafficked children, is a reasonable inference.
Again, British Petroleum (BP) above and also Shell, are affiliated with Jeffrey Epstein's David Rockefeller and 9/11's Norman Rockefeller, who warned filmmaker Aaron Russo in advance of 9/11 that there was going to be an "event" that would allow the U.S. to go into the Middle East again, which is exactly what happened after the Republican Administration, ill-got by stealing the 2000 elections by stopping the democratic vote to "engineer" a win for G.W. Bush, pre-planned Air Guard, Air Force, and/or NORAD exercises on 9/11, to send the air guard away from New York, towards and to engage with Russia and others, whereafter the allies of both the Bush family and Russia, the Saudis attacked the World Trade Center, involving a freefall demolition conspiracy, per the significant evidence of the same.
The full list of mainly Republicans and Republican financiers linked to the orbit of Jeffrey Epstein can be found here, and reads like a list of some of the ugliest corporate offenders in U.S. history, because of course it does.[4]
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[2] https://www.commondreams.org/news/50-years-of-alec
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Legislative_Exchange_Council
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_American_Legislative_Exchange_Council