{"id":9253,"date":"2012-04-11T19:22:51","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T02:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=9253"},"modified":"2013-11-27T21:45:14","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T05:45:14","slug":"the-bradcast-on-kpfk-whats-the-problem-with-alec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9253","title":{"rendered":"‘The BradCast’ on KPFK\/Pacifica: ‘What’s the Problem With ALEC?’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, The BRAD BLOG’s<\/a> legal analyst Ernie Canning joined me on KPFK<\/a>\/Pacifica Radio’s The BradCast<\/i> to respond to my question: “What’s the problem with ALEC?”<\/p>\n

As I note in the opening, American Legislative Exchange Council<\/a> (ALEC), was co-founded in 1973 by Paul Weyrich<\/a> (seen in the photo at right, and heard advocating in favor of vote suppression during the show). The group is a self-described “nonpartisan public-private partnership of America’s state legislators, members of the private sector, the federal government, and general public” and has been vilified by progressives<\/a> for the abhorrent policies<\/a> they advocate (eg. polling place Photo ID restrictions, “Stand Your Ground” laws, etc.)<\/p>\n

But other than partisan and\/or political differences, isn’t what ALEC does perfectly legal? Wouldn’t the same type of an organization that advocated for progressive<\/i> legislation in the same aggressive manor be welcomed by folks on the non-right? And if there is<\/i> a problem with ALEC, isn’t it one that underscores the systemic problems of our corporate lobbying and campaign finance laws, rather than a problem with ALEC themselves? In other words, aren’t they only doing what our horrible system allows<\/i> them to do?<\/p>\n

Canning, as you may imagine, has some thoughts on all of that, as do several of our callers — all of which you can hear in today’s episode below. Oh, and though ALEC has yet to respond to our invitation to appear today, we’d still be delighted for them to do so if they’d like to have equal time on a future show.<\/p>\n

We also touched briefly on the breaking news of 2nd degree murder charge filed against Trayvon Martin’s killer George Zimmerman<\/a> in Florida as the show got underway late today (after he had initially been allowed off the hook, thanks to his claim of being protected under ALEC’s horrible “Stand Your Ground” law), and Desi Doyen joins us as usual for the latest Green News Report<\/a> and a bit more…<\/p>\n

Download MP3<\/a> or listen online below [appx 58 mins]…<\/em>
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P.S. <\/i> Reminder: We don’t post all of The BradCasts<\/i> here, but you can subscribe to the RSS feed<\/a> to get all of our weekly shows as soon as they’re archived, or you can visit the KPFK archives page for the show<\/a> anytime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today, The BRAD BLOG’s legal analyst Ernie Canning joined me on KPFK\/Pacifica Radio’s The BradCast to respond to my question: “What’s the problem with ALEC?” As I note in the opening, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), was co-founded in 1973 by Paul Weyrich (seen in the photo at right, and heard advocating in favor of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[532,89,675,477,172],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-9253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alec","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-kpfk","category-photo-id-laws"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9253"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=9253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}