You elected them to write new laws. They’re letting corporations do it instead

Re:You elected them to write new laws. They’re letting corpo... by jancsika on Thursday April 04, 2019 @08:56PM (#19578645)

> Rather than getting all swoony about ALEC, wouldn't it make more sense just to fund more countervailing model legislation?

You write as if the legislators are parsers just waiting to gobble up arbitrary input.

According to the article they pass model legislation in large part because it gets them a nice track record for later walks through revolving doors in the private sector.

In your fantasy who is the organization you help to draft models? And what is the high-paying private sector lobbying/consulting job that awaits the legislator who built a track-record by pushing through that org's legislation?

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Re:You elected them to write new laws. They’re letting corpo... by tptacek on Thursday April 04, 2019 @08:59PM (#19578659)

SIX would be the obvious answer, flawed only in that it exists in the real world and not a “fantasy”.

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Re:You elected them to write new laws. They’re letting corpo... by jancsika on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @02:48PM (#19617796)

ALEC works because interstate/international corporations with telco-level budgets fund the model legislation, fund the lobbying effort, and fund the post-political careers of the politicians who push through the model legislation.

Who plays the part of the telcos in your non-fantasy?

Also-- I've directly experienced the success of ALEC's part in banning muni wireless/fiber here in NC. What a similar level SIX success? Or, switching back to fantasy-land, what type of SIX success do I have to look forward to in the near future?

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