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Relentless. >> we won the 2012 election. we lost the 2010 and were paying the price for that. these bills dont come out of the blue, either. there is a group called alec, run by corporate powers that have little use for the rights and privacy of women. the right to make their own decision with partners, ministers. were seeing that play out. i think we do need as people who represent the majority view in this country, a 50-state strategy, to begin to take back these state legislatures, because th...

The united states house of representatives all democrats are communists. where is john boehner? and where is eric cantor? where are the republicans saying this is over the line? and while were at it, why isnt mitt romney condemning ted nugents comments while even the secret service will interview nugent for what he said. speaking of the secret service and prostitution scanned scandal, members are being given the opportunity to take a lie detector test. plus, lets say obama beats romney. will t...

Receive $400 in free bedding. only at the sleep number store, where queen mattresses start at just $699. were back. that organization responsible for spreading floridas stand your ground law across the country is now standing down in the wake of the trayvon martin shooting. the american legislative exchange counsel, its called, a group associated with promoting conservative causes generally is ending its work on social initiatives, including expansive self-defense laws like stand your ground. ...

Not going to do it either. you need momentum and i dont see where its going to come from. >> because al gore wants south carolina to secede. im a gun control person. people want to have a right to open carries into restaurants, open carry into bars. its going back to the wild west. is that going to stop because of the trayvon martin situation? is that going to dampen the push for more and more guns on display where theres places where theres booze around and things like that going on? >> i dont ...

Trayvon martin, we dont have a jury, we dont even have a case yet, we have an indictment. >> yeah, you mentioned it, there are 25 states now give or take that have laws on the books. and from some sort of legislative standpoint, thats the question now. if alec is standing down and isnt going to push more for laws like this, the question is, what about the laws that are on the books now. can they come down? you run into two problems. you look at the states where the laws take place, they tend to ...

Lets talk about voter recession. its been my sense that theres a pretty clear partisan aspect to this. that the republican party across the country, wherever it has legislative power to states, is pushing. here it is ending its controversial work on voter i.d. laws. since, 17 state legislatures have passed laws that would restrict the right to vote, make it harder to get up election day or even earlier and get out and do your voting, though some have not gone into effect yet and are still under ...

Director for center for median democracy and steve kornacki writes for salon. let me ask you, lisa, thanks for joining us, by the way. tell me what you know about the impact of the trayvon martin case in terms of funding this organization, which has been pushing these stand your ground laws. >> sure. well, a.l.e.c. is a group thats largely if you wanteded by corporations. over 95% of its funding comes from everything but legislative dues, although it describes itself as an association that is fo...

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Pro-guns. well it was only a matter of time, but someone finally got caught. florida state representative rachel burgon introduced an anti-tax bill last fall but she forgot to remove alecs mission statement from the top of the bill which she had apparently copied word for word from alecs model bill. common cause reports that the very next day, she took that bill down and put up the new bill with a new number without the alec header. i guess she was hoping that nobody would notice here what they ...

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