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</font></b></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">BC trans team w/ paxton</font></p><p><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">----</font></b></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">https://www.thenation.com/article/michigan-adopts-alec-model-diminishing-democracy/</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">john nichols 2016?</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; word-wrap: break-word; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Michigan legislators did not write the so-called “right to work” legislation that they have <a href="http://www.freep.com/article/20121211/NEWS06/121211052/Snyder-makes-Michigan-24th-right-work-state-he-says-he-s-signed-bills?odyssey=mod|defcon|text|FRONTPAGE" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(207, 14, 14); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 0.2s; outline: 0px !important;">enacted in a mad rush of anti-democratic excess</a>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; word-wrap: break-word; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">They simply did as they were told.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; word-wrap: break-word; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The ideas, the outlines and <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2012/12/11903/michigan-passes-right-work-containing-verbatim-language-alec-model-bill" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(207, 14, 14); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 0.2s; outline: 0px !important;">the words themselves came from the American Legislative Exchange Council</a>, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">the right-wing “bill mill” that produces “model legislation” at the behest of Koch Industries, Rupert Murdoch’s NewsCorp, ExxonMobil and the </span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ALEC_Corporations#For-Profit_Corporations" target="blank" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(207, 14, 14); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 0.2s; outline: 0px !important;">corporate cabal</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> that is always looking to “buy” states.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; word-wrap: break-word; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As the Center for Media and Democracy’s <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/projects/alec-exposed" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(207, 14, 14); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 0.2s; outline: 0px !important;">“ALEC Exposed” project</a> revealed (in conjunction with <em style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: inherit;">The Nation</em>), ALEC has <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/business-domination-inc" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(207, 14, 14); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 0.2s; outline: 0px !important;">developed binders full of “model legislation” that assaults the rights of working people, consumers and communities</a>.</font></p><div class="teads-inread" style="box-sizing: content-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; overflow: hidden; height: 0px; transition: height 0.5s; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; margin-bottom: 0px !important;"><div class="teads-ui-components-label" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin-bottom: 0px !important; text-align: center !important; text-transform: uppercase !important; height: 21px !important; line-height: 21px !important; letter-spacing: 0.3px !important;" /><div class="teads-player" id="teads0" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin-bottom: 0px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></div></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; word-wrap: break-word; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ALEC’s package of “model legislation” includes numerous bills and resolutions that, by any reasonable measure, would be referred to as “<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/business-domination-inc" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(207, 14, 14); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 0.2s; outline: 0px !important;">no rights at work</a>” schemes.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; word-wrap: break-word; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Those measures formed the basis for<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/gop-koch-brothers-sneak-attack-guts-labor-rights-michigan" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(207, 14, 14); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 0.2s; outline: 0px !important;"> HB 4003, the Michigan “Right-to-Work Act”</a> that has provoked mass demonstrations in Lansing and other Michigan communities.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; word-wrap: break-word; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Section after section, line after line, of the Michigan legislation mirrors the ALEC model legislation, as revealed by the <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/projects/alec-exposed" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(207, 14, 14); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 0.2s; outline: 0px !important;">“ALEC Exposed” project</a>. “The legislation is straight out of the Koch-funded ALEC playbook,” <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2012/12/11903/michigan-passes-right-work-containing-verbatim-language-alec-model-bill" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(207, 14, 14); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 0.2s; outline: 0px !important;">explains Brendan Fischer,</a> the staff counsel with the Center for Media and Democracy. At some points, the Michigan lawmakers shifted words, from “resign or refrain from…a labor organization” in the ALEC model legislation to “refrain or resign from…a labor organization” in one of the two Michigan bills.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; word-wrap: break-word; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At other points, the Michigan Republicans <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2012/12/11903/michigan-passes-right-work-containing-verbatim-language-alec-model-bill" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(207, 14, 14); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 0.2s; outline: 0px !important;">simply lifted whole sections verbatim</a>, outlining how workers who get the advantage of union representation will not have “to pay any dues, fees, assessments or other charges, of any kind or amount” to a labor organization.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; word-wrap: break-word; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The willingness of legislators in Michigan and, it should be noted, other states to simply take marching orders from ALEC is troubling enough.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; word-wrap: break-word; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But even more troubling is the reason why corporations and politicians in states where the middle class was forged by organized labor agree on the “need” to advance anti-labor legislation.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; word-wrap: break-word; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">This is not about economic development, growth or job creation. And it is certainly <a href="http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2012/12/11/gov-snyder-right-to-work-will-pass-give-workers-freedom-of-choice/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(207, 14, 14); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 0.2s; outline: 0px !important;">not about “freedom,” as Michigan Governor Rick Snyder claims</a>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; word-wrap: break-word; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This is about </span><a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/rigging-elections" target="blank" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(207, 14, 14); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 0.2s; outline: 0px !important;">warping democracy</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> so that corporations have a consistent upper hand, with the result being that those politicians who are willing to do the bidding of corporations and wealthy donors are more likely to prevail. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In this sense, the best way to understand the recent rush to enact anti-labor legislation is as part of the same initiative that has produced <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/rigging-elections" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(207, 14, 14); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 0.2s; outline: 0px !important;">restrictive Voter ID laws, schemes to limit early voting and proposals to eliminate same-day registration</a>.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; word-wrap: break-word; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>What distinguishes the anti-labor initiatives is that they do not explicitly seek to make voting more difficult. They seek to make it harder for groups that seek high turnout to get voters motivated, to get voters organized and to get them to the polls.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; word-wrap: break-word; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ultimately, however, the end result of the assault on labor rights is the same as a direct assault on voting rights: a diminished democracy.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; word-wrap: break-word; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Democracy is, of course, about more than elections. And that’s where the anti-union push becomes even more significant. It seeks to narrow the discourse by weakening groups that offer an alternative to a Wall Street–dictated future for communities, states and the nation.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; word-wrap: break-word; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Attacks on labor are nothing new. Michigan is not the first state to enact a “right to work” law—the most draconian of anti-labor initiatives. It is the twenty-fourth. <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/right-work-and-jim-crow-legacy-affronts-kings-memory" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(207, 14, 14); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 0.2s; outline: 0px !important;">Southern states</a> enacted their laws restricting labor organizing and political engagement decades ago, at a time when legislators and governors in Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina and other bastions of segregation feared that integrated unions would unite white workers and African-American workers on the side of social improvement. <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/right-work-and-jim-crow-legacy-affronts-kings-memory" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(207, 14, 14); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 0.2s; outline: 0px !important;">That created barriers to the labor movement in the South</a> at a time when it was still growing in much of the country.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; word-wrap: break-word; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Now, however, the anti-labor push has come north.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; word-wrap: break-word; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There is a reason ALEC and its corporate sponsors want to undermine unions.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; word-wrap: break-word; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In states such as Michigan, and Wisconsin, and Ohio, and Indiana, organized labor provides a political counterbalance to corporation</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">s. Unions cannot and do not match the spending on elections by wealthy donors and corporations. But the willingness of unions to commit financial and human resources to political fights makes a huge difference at election time in states where the labor movement has a significant presence.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> The 2012 election results—particularly the <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/john-nichols-labor-fought-back-wisconsin-and-ohio-elections" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(207, 14, 14); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 0.2s; outline: 0px !important;">big wins for President Obama and Democratic Senate candidates</a> in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin—point to the connection.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; word-wrap: break-word; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">This is not, however, simply about Democrats or Republicans, liberals or conservatives. Among the <a href="http://www.freep.com/article/20121211/NEWS06/121211052/Snyder-makes-Michigan-24th-right-work-state-he-says-he-s-signed-bills?odyssey=mod|defcon|text|FRONTPAGE" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(207, 14, 14); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 0.2s; outline: 0px !important;">Michigan legislators who opposed</a> the latest attack on union rights were six state House Republicans. Unions have long traditions of aiding Republicans, and even social conservatives, who have proven to be allies of working people. Prominent conservatives once opposed “right to work” laws, <a href="http://www.frumforum.com/author/GeoffreyK/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(207, 14, 14); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 0.2s; outline: 0px !important;">as </a><b><a href="http://www.frumforum.com/author/GeoffreyK/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(207, 14, 14); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 0.2s; outline: 0px !important;">Ronald Reagan did</a> at the start of his political career, writing as he launched his 1966 California gubernatorial race: “I also was a leader of our [Screen Actors] Guild in the fight in 1958 against the [California] right-to-work bill. I am still opposed to right-to-work.”</b></span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; word-wrap: break-word; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Now, for the most part, conservatives have cast their lot with corporations. And the demand of corporations, particularly those engaged in the ALEC project, is that politicians who want to earn the favor of corporations and wealthy donors such as Charles and David Koch or Michigan right-wingers <a href="http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2012/12/dick_devos.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(207, 14, 14); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 0.2s; outline: 0px !important;">Dick and Betsy DeVos</a> must advance anti-labor legislation.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; word-wrap: break-word; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Anti-labor laws in Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana and Michigan—and the attempts to do so in states such as New Hampshire—have been <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ALEC_Politicians" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(207, 14, 14); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 0.2s; outline: 0px !important;">advanced by political figures with ALEC ties</a>. Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is an ALEC alumnus, as is Ohio Governor John Kasich. Among the key sponsors of the Michigan law that Governor Snyder signed today was <a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/july-dec12/michigan_12-10.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(207, 14, 14); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 0.2s; outline: 0px !important;">state Senator</a> <a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/july-dec12/michigan_12-10.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(207, 14, 14); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 0.2s; outline: 0px !important;">Dave Hildenbrand</a>, a Republican who famously paid his ALEC dues with taxpayer funds.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; word-wrap: break-word; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Those political figures are determined to limit the ability of unions to engage in political activity on behalf or working families, communities, public services and public education.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; word-wrap: break-word; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Why? By making it harder for unions to organize and to represent workers, “right to work” laws make it easier for corporations to get their political allies elected. The corporations and the legislators come together in the American Legislative Exchange Council. They produce “model legislation” to advance their project. And that project is about rewriting the rules so that the corporations win.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; word-wrap: break-word; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“What they’re doing is basically, betraying democracy,” says Teamsters president James Hoffa, who promises <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2012/12/hoffa-civil-war-looms-in-michigan-84957.html?hp=l7" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(207, 14, 14); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 0.2s; outline: 0px !important;">a great struggle to restore labor rights in Michigan</a>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; word-wrap: break-word; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hoffa’s point is well taken.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; word-wrap: break-word; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Michigan politicians have betrayed democracy.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; word-wrap: break-word; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; word-spacing: 0.3px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And democracy betrayed is democracy denied.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""></font></p><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="39" data-ved="0ahUKEwj1yfL4gbfWAhVP1WMKHdvUAlEQFQgnKAAwAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><h3 class="r" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/3/8/953811/-" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Gov Rick Snyder Sellout? 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Amway / Dick & Betsy DeVos, and the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Koch</span> Brothers) the push is on to ...</font></span></a></div></div></div></div><p><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:NlItVZxqe94J:mcguffeygazette.blogspot.com/2012/05/michigans-john-engler-judas-who-led.html+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"></font></b></a></p><p class="speakable-p-1 p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:NlItVZxqe94J:mcguffeygazette.blogspot.com/2012/05/michigans-john-engler-judas-who-led.html+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Washington — Former Michigan Gov. John Engler said Thursday he plans to retire next year as president of the prominent Business Roundtable – a group of nearly 200 chief executives of major U.S. corporations.</font></a></p><p class="speakable-p-2 p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:NlItVZxqe94J:mcguffeygazette.blogspot.com/2012/05/michigans-john-engler-judas-who-led.html+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Engler, a Republican who served three terms as governor, joined the Washington-based Roundtable in 2011 after spending six years as president and CEO of the National Association of Manufacturers.</font></a></p><p class="p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:NlItVZxqe94J:mcguffeygazette.blogspot.com/2012/05/michigans-john-engler-judas-who-led.html+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">“The outlook in early 2017 to achieve passage of major components of the Business Roundtable economic growth agenda is very bright,” Engler said in a statement announcing plans to retire as of July 1.</font></a></p><p class="p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:NlItVZxqe94J:mcguffeygazette.blogspot.com/2012/05/michigans-john-engler-judas-who-led.html+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">“Tax reform, regulatory relief and immigration reform are all possible with the new administration and Congress. I expect the pace to be brisk as everyone gets to work next year.”</font></a></p><p class="p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:NlItVZxqe94J:mcguffeygazette.blogspot.com/2012/05/michigans-john-engler-judas-who-led.html+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Engler had a different take on the eve of Donald Trump’s nomination at the Republican National Convention earlier this year, telling the New York Times that his association was on the “opposite side of Trump on trade and immigration.” During his campaign, Trump said he would tear up free-trade agreements such as the North American Free Trade Agreement and impose taxes to protect American jobs.
...There’s a great sense of frustration here,”
...in July. “We’re now faced with two candidates who, when it comes to the United States economy, have diametrically opposite viewpoints from us. It’s cause for great concern.”</font></a></p><p class="p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:NlItVZxqe94J:mcguffeygazette.blogspot.com/2012/05/michigans-john-engler-judas-who-led.html+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">The pro-business group endorsed the 12-nation trade deal with Asia known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership and had urged Congress to approve the pact this year. Both Trump and his Democratic opponent, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, opposed the TPP.</font></a></p><p class="p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:NlItVZxqe94J:mcguffeygazette.blogspot.com/2012/05/michigans-john-engler-judas-who-led.html+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">“We cannot have a robust economy if the goal is to make things here and sell it to ourselves,” Engler told the Associated Press in January.</font></a></p><div class="partner-outstream" style="background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><p class="p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:NlItVZxqe94J:mcguffeygazette.blogspot.com/2012/05/michigans-john-engler-judas-who-led.html+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Engler, 68, is retiring in part for family reasons. He and wife Michelle, who live in Virginia, have triplets, Margaret, Hannah and Madeleine, who are graduating from college in the spring.</font></a></p><p class="p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:NlItVZxqe94J:mcguffeygazette.blogspot.com/2012/05/michigans-john-engler-judas-who-led.html+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Engler also thought it would be a good time as the Roundtable transitions between chairmen. The current chair, Caterpillar CEO Doug Oberhelman, will be succeeded in January by Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase
“Under John’s stellar leadership, Business Roundtable has enhanced its reputation as a credible voice for an economy that serves all Americans,” Oberhelman said in a statement....
...“I look forward to continuing to help Americans and the U.S. economy by pressing for policies that increase employment, expand U.S. exports,<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> enhance quality education and worker skills and lift unnecessary burdens on businesses, such as excessive taxation and regulation</span>,” the incoming Business Roundtable president and CEO said in a Tuesday statement.</font></a></p><p /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:NlItVZxqe94J:mcguffeygazette.blogspot.com/2012/05/michigans-john-engler-judas-who-led.html+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Engler, 62, has been president and CEO of the National Association of Manufacturers since 2004, when he left Electronic Data Systems, the information technology firm started by one-time presidential candidate Ross Perot.</font></a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:NlItVZxqe94J:mcguffeygazette.blogspot.com/2012/05/michigans-john-engler-judas-who-led.html+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">The Michigan native was a three-term governor of his home state starting in 1991. He also was chairman of both the Republican Governors Association and the National Governors Association.</font></b></a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px;"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:NlItVZxqe94J:mcguffeygazette.blogspot.com/2012/05/michigans-john-engler-judas-who-led.html+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Business Roundtable represents the CEOs of Bank of America Corp., Boeing Co., Caterpillar Inc., Dow Chemical Co. and other large corporations. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">It played a crucial role in last year’s health care debate and was viewed as an ally of the Obama White House on the issue.</span></font></a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:NlItVZxqe94J:mcguffeygazette.blogspot.com/2012/05/michigans-john-engler-judas-who-led.html+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Engler’s first day will be Jan. 15.</font></a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:NlItVZxqe94J:mcguffeygazette.blogspot.com/2012/05/michigans-john-engler-judas-who-led.html+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">In a conference call with reporters, Engler said he expects the Business Roundtable to have a full legislative plate next year, when President Barack Obama is expected to make his case for reforming the tax code and other recommendations put forth in the White House deficit commission’s recent report. </font></a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:NlItVZxqe94J:mcguffeygazette.blogspot.com/2012/05/michigans-john-engler-judas-who-led.html+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">“I wish it were just one thing,” Engler said Tuesday morning.</font></a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:NlItVZxqe94J:mcguffeygazette.blogspot.com/2012/05/michigans-john-engler-judas-who-led.html+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">The new BRT president also said fixing the education system will be a priority in 2011 for corporate executives, who are concerned about competing globally with “a workforce that needs much higher levels of skills.” He also brushed aside suggestions that he’s been too partisan in the past half-decade and atop the manufacturers’ group, which has been a reliable critic of Obama and Democratic policies.</font></a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:NlItVZxqe94J:mcguffeygazette.blogspot.com/2012/05/michigans-john-engler-judas-who-led.html+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">“I’ve been a very bipartisan leader. ... What I work on are issues here that manufacturers care about,” Engler said. “It really is a broader platform at the BRT, but the agenda is still about American competitiveness. We’re going to be focused on a jobs agenda.”</font></a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px;"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:NlItVZxqe94J:mcguffeygazette.blogspot.com/2012/05/michigans-john-engler-judas-who-led.html+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">The naming of Engler comes after months of speculation as to who would lead the key White House ally. Former President John Castellani left the Business Roundtable last summer for the top job at the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, where he replaced ex-Rep. Billy Tauzin (R-La.).</font></span></a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:NlItVZxqe94J:mcguffeygazette.blogspot.com/2012/05/michigans-john-engler-judas-who-led.html+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">In recent weeks, the hunt for Castellani’s replacement has taken a number of unexpected turns, as once-prominent contenders bowed out of the race or took other gigs. Retiring Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) told Roll Call on Dec. 10 that he was no longer interested in the job, even though he had been considered the frontrunner. And former top Citigroup Inc. lobbyist Nick Calio, who worked in both Bush administrations, was named president and CEO of the Air Transport Association of America in late November.</font></a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:NlItVZxqe94J:mcguffeygazette.blogspot.com/2012/05/michigans-john-engler-judas-who-led.html+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Engler said Tuesday that he was about to re-up for another five years at NAM when the BRT reached out to him a week ago. He called his decision to leave “bittersweet.”</font></a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:NlItVZxqe94J:mcguffeygazette.blogspot.com/2012/05/michigans-john-engler-judas-who-led.html+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">“This has moved fairly quickly, and I didn’t sit down with the BRT CEOs until last week,” he said. “I didn’t really start December thinking I’d end December making this announcement.”</font></a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:NlItVZxqe94J:mcguffeygazette.blogspot.com/2012/05/michigans-john-engler-judas-who-led.html+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">NAM is expected to name Engler’s interim replacement on Tuesday afternoon.</font></a></p><p><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:NlItVZxqe94J:mcguffeygazette.blogspot.com/2012/05/michigans-john-engler-judas-who-led.html+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">quit 2016? retire</font></span></a></p><p><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:NlItVZxqe94J:mcguffeygazette.blogspot.com/2012/05/michigans-john-engler-judas-who-led.html+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"></font></b></a></p><p><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:NlItVZxqe94J:mcguffeygazette.blogspot.com/2012/05/michigans-john-engler-judas-who-led.html+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">http://csdc.org/newsresources/recent-updates/former-michigan-governor-john-engler-recognized-for-his-contributions-to-education-reform.html</font></b></a></p><p><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:NlItVZxqe94J:mcguffeygazette.blogspot.com/2012/05/michigans-john-engler-judas-who-led.html+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">bs</font></b></a></p><p><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:NlItVZxqe94J:mcguffeygazette.blogspot.com/2012/05/michigans-john-engler-judas-who-led.html+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(Hanover, MD, May 23, 2012) Central Michigan University this week honored former Governor John Engler, who ushered in the state’s charter law in 1993 – at that time one of only seven states in the nation to authorize charters – by renaming its Center for Charter Schools after the Governor. CMU, a charter authorizer in the state, oversees 56 charter schools that are bringing academic opportunity and excellence to more than 28,000 Michigan students. CSDC board member and former Executive Director at the Center for Charter Schools </span></font></a><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://csdc.org/about-csdc/board-of-directors/james-goenner.html" title="James Goenner" style="border: 0px solid blue; margin-top: -2px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">James Goenner</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> shepherded the development and growth of CMU into the largest university authorizer of charter schools in the country, for which it was recently saluted as the “gold standard” by </span><a href="http://www.edreform.com/2012/05/21/gold-standard-of-authorizers-pays-tribute-to-michigan-pioneer" target="_blank" style="border: 0px solid blue; margin-top: -2px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Center for Education Reform</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. Goenner now heads up CMU’s National Charter Schools Institute, which supports the growth of the charter school movement in Michigan and throughout the nation.</span></font></p><p><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></b></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>John Engler</b> is the Former Governor of Michigan. Engler has strong ties to the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bioport_Corporation" title="Bioport Corporation" class="mw-redirect">Bioport Corporation</a>.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to the February 2003 article <a href="http://www.pipeline.com/%7Ergibson/rouge_forum/newspaper/winter2003/SuberAnthrax.htm" class="external text" title="http://www.pipeline.com/rgibson/rouge_forum/newspaper/winter2003/SuberAnthrax.htm" rel="nofollow">"3500 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd"</a> by Tom Suber:</font></p>
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<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Co-Chair, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Coalition_on_Asia_and_International_Education_in_the_Schools" title="National Coalition on Asia and International Education in the Schools">National Coalition on Asia and International Education in the Schools</a> <sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_Engler#cite_note-0" title="">[1]</a></sup></font></li>
<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Trustee, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Annie_E._Casey_Foundation" title="Annie E. Casey Foundation">Annie E. Casey Foundation</a> <sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_Engler#cite_note-1" title="">[2]</a></sup></font></li>
<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Director, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Council_for_Capital_Formation" title="American Council for Capital Formation">American Council for Capital Formation</a> <sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_Engler#cite_note-2" title="">[3]</a></sup></font></li>
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<li id="cite_note-0"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_Engler#cite_ref-0" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.internationaled.org/national.htm" class="external text" title="http://www.internationaled.org/national.htm" rel="nofollow">Overview</a>, National Coalition on Asia and International Education in the Schools, accessed December 24, 2007.</font></li>
<li id="cite_note-1"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_Engler#cite_ref-1" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.aecf.org/AboutUs/LeadrshpMgmtTrustees.aspx" class="external text" title="http://www.aecf.org/AboutUs/LeadrshpMgmtTrustees.aspx" rel="nofollow">Leadership</a>, Annie E. Casey Foundation, accessed April 20, 2010.</font></li>
<li id="cite_note-2"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_Engler#cite_ref-2" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.accf.org/directors.php" class="external text" title="http://www.accf.org/directors.php" rel="nofollow">Directors</a>, American Council for Capital Formation, accessed May 9, 2010.</font></li>
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<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/03/08/953811/-Gov-Rick-Snyder-Sellout-Prefabricated-Corporate-Michigan-%28Government%29-Courtesy-of-Koch-ALEC-Excl"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/03/08/953811/-Gov-Rick-Snyder-Sellout-Prefabricated-Corporate-Michigan-%28Government%29-Courtesy-of-Koch-ALEC-Excl</font></a>
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<em><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Michigan’s Koch / ALEC Problem</font></strong></em>
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<strong>Koch Foundations’ direct ties to Michigan” Mackinac Center and ALEC Dictated Michigan Legislation</strong></font></em>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While everybody is running around talking about Rick Snyder’s budget cuts and as the Governor is saying over and over “Michigan is not Wisconsin”, <strong><u>the real story is in the Michigan State House of Representatives and Michigan State Senate</u></strong>; both now controlled by the now heavily Tea Party/Libertarian infiltrated Michigan Republican Party.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ties with very powerful corporate special interests such as the Koch Brothers (<a href="http://www.alternet.org/teaparty/150106/how_koch_industries_makes_billions_corrupting_government/">Koch Industries</a> and a list of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Koch_Family_Foundations">Koch Foundations</a>) are in Michigan too, and have been for years</font>
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">. <strong>Why Should Michiganders care?</strong></font>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Koch_Family_Foundations">Koch Foundations</a> fund the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mackinac_Center_for_Public_Policy">Mackinac Center for Public Policy</a>, and unless you have been hiding under a rock, that is the Heritage Foundation’s Michigan subsidiary closely and directly tied to the Amway Clan, Dick DeVos, failed candidate for Governor in 2006 and a long list of former Michigan Governor John Engler cronies.</font></span>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Koch brothers and Heritage Foundation’s <strong><u>American Legislative Exchange Council have been deeply active in Legislation and their operatives have been around Michigan for years and</u></strong> there are scores of new bills and resolutions (maybe even Snyder executive orders influenced by ALEC activities) <strong><u>at work and being introduced in Michigan right now</u></strong>.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>What is the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)? And why should you care?</strong>
"<a href="http://www.justice.org/cps/rde/xbcr/justice/ALEC_Report.pdf">Ghostwriting the Law for Corporate America</a>"</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">===</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 17.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For her part, Arduin says that the idea of opening or building a private prison was never run by her in either the House or the Senate in 2008 or 2010.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 17.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When asked about the facility and the provisions of the 2010-2011 budget bill which called for its immediate opening, Arduin, who was paid $7,000 per month by the Senate as an economic consultant -- who, as stated by the terms of her contract, was to know the business of the state of Florida inside and out, down to the last dime -- responded, "Was that something that was in the 2010 budget?"</font></p><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ghosts of Private Prisons Past: Cash That Rings the Till, Part 2</font></h2><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" style="" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 17.6px;">Beginning in</span><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 17.6px;"> </span><a href="http://dbapress.com/source-materials-archive/legacy-of-corruption-source-materials-directory/documents-related-to-arduins-time-as-an-executive-appointee-under-florida-governor-jeb-bush" target="_blank" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 17.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">January of 1999 through November, 2003</a><span style="line-height: 17.6px;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">, Arduin served as director of the Office of Policy and Budget under Florida Governor Jeb Bush. Prior to her appointment under Bush, Arduin had served in similar roles under Michigan Governor </span>John Engler <span style="font-weight: normal;">and New York Governor George Pataki.</span></span></font></h2>
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