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This is florida governor jeb bush signing the first stand your ground law in 2005. the woman next to him is former nra president and powerful lobbyist. after the bill was signed, miss hammer approached the corporate backed american legislate i have exchange council. and asked them to adopt floridas law as a model bill. the law was approved unanimously. it became a template that a.l.e.c. and the nra pushed across the country. a vast right wing conspiracy? there are powerful groups at work here. a...

>> thank you. >> adam, let me start with you. how close is the relationship between nra and a.l.e.c.? >> well, al, what we found is we started doing research in florida is actually theyre thick as thieves and theres blood ties. down here you wont find the nra. what youll find technically is called unified sportsmen of florida. thats marianne hammers organization shes run since the 1970s. on the board is one john patronis. his cousin is jimmy patronis in floridas legislature. he also happens to b...

Issues. lisa, let me ask you because were going to run out of time. theyre hurting a.l.e.c. whats next though? they have other things theyre representing. >> well, thats right. walmart did drop out of a.l.e.c. about a week ago with the other corporations youve mentioned. my organization and others are working to highlight corporations like johnson & johnson and coke industries that are standing by a.l.e.c. and its agenda. to make it much more difficult for american citizens to vote and making it...

Fighting and many of us in the civil rights community including me have asked corporations to look at what a.l.e.c. has done here. theyve had stand your ground as a model bill which quote, based upon florida legislation enacted april 16, 2005. so when we say a model bill, they actually took this bill around the country as the template for other states to really duplicate this and pass legislation. >> thats right. a.l.e.c. is a group that calls itself the largest group of independent legislators ...

And it was adopted unanimously as a national model. after that time, a.l.e.c. extolled that as a bill. it counted it in voter score cards and it talked on nra radio about how close its ties were to the nra. after that happened, the nra became the co-chair of that task force for a.l.e.c. and at the same time walmart became the corporate cochair for the state of florida. >> now many of those corporations, some of them have withdrawn. i believe 22 corporations and over 50 legislators have dropped a...