GASP! Could this be almost the same as the AFL/CIO drafting the facsist takeover of GM and Chrysler and the wholesale sellout of the Democrat Party to the unions over healthcare?
Say it ain't so!
Sen. Pearce Refutes Money Connections
PHOENIX — Sen. Russell Pearce fought back Thursday against claims the private prisons had a heavy hand in writing and passing the state’s new immigration enforcement law.
CBS 5 has been reporting for months on the financial connection between Arizona lawmakers and the company that houses detained illegal immigrants. National Public Radio followed up with a two-part series detailing similar findings.
Pearce is a member of what NPR calls a “secretive group called the American Legislative Exchange Council”. Pearce attended a December 2009 meeting of the group, which also included officials from Corrections Corporation of America— the largest operator of private prisons in the country. Attendees from that meeting voted on model legislation to combat illegal immigration.
Four months later, that model legislation was introduced as SB 1070. Thirty-six legislators co-sponsored Pearce’s bill. Thirty of them soon received campaign donations from prison lobbyists or prison companies, according to research by National Public Radio.
Pearce told CBS 5 that he wrote the bill on his own, without input or help from Exchange Council members or CCA. He said campaign contributions had nothing to do with moving the bill forward and that he received no CCA money.
“People fund legislators because they support what they’re doing,” he said. “[Contributing] doesn’t influence many votes down here. If it does, shame on those legislators that it influences.”
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