Google and Facebook have joined out looking for those of you who have been
paying attention to
the american exchange Legislative Council they have been behind
many I'll many bills and legislation
that would presses are not in favor of course the Koch brothers are huge
wonders about like
so they usually try to pass legislation that goes against climate change
and they also try to pass legislation arrest successfully passed legislation
pertaining to for-profit prisons and also to immigration
so a good example that is actually SB 1070 in Arizona that was a very
controversial bill
that Alec helped pass now with all that information people are wondering why
Facebook and Google would join Alex especially considering the fact that
both two companies consider themselves to be green
are during a recent panel discussion on renewable energy
up bill we'll who is what Facebook higher-ups
actually answered that question and here's what he had to say your mom
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and you know why you working with Alec not
all bucks an hour it is not
yes this not to impose really it's not the case you're trying to oppose
renewable energy legislation
sir up watch and his girl go in the same boat
and honest I I love my
don't forget yeah get off it will but I love that their
the person who ever that woman was who just you know
said what's going on to the next question that person existed every penny
whoever shit and that person is all under a covered by the we have to get
past that this we have to move on to the next
i'd can't stand that person ever
water why why do they think that you have to do that you know why
why is it why can't the so here's a good question we're actually having
something interesting happened our panel which seemed dole otherwise
well I like the fact that he said his response was
you know we don't necessarily agree with everything right what are the things
that you agree with that
alec is Delia got to be that list let me see what I can join them and what it is
that you think that's good that they're doing
so now we know why your partner's you just can't say that's a very easy way to
get rid of that question raised by saying well with everything they do what
do you agree on what is it that you do agree with that's a great point it's
like the people just like a
I'm going over these guys house weicker their beer right
but we do know that there are your white supremacist the other beer there with
the area
so it s appropriate for the Blind 10 but there's a blindness
to that that just shows how out of control these businesses are
what they even if they are to yet they just blindly all
but job would you agree that there's like this
it's like a symptom on the current system that we have set up now
right where where all corporations feel obligated to donate money to all
political action committees whether they're
democratically lead or Republicans are leading it
because they want to have some clout they wanna have some say over
legislation so maybe this is just the symptom about
and I'm not trying to say that I'm giving them a pasado I definitely
disagree with that being part about like
especially considering the fact that Facebook once its data centers to be run
up by renewable energy at least 25 percent
by 2015 here so this kinda goes against all that
and I definitely think that these corporations want the influence and if
you're looking to be influential not at
like the federal level which they already donate I'm sure directly to
candidates but if you want
access to state and local level politics alec is one of the most successful
lobbying group in terms actually legislation passed that i've seen in the
past few years
it so this is a quick like a quick way to get to that
and I don't but I don't know Google doesn't need an express train to that
I mean face but nobody's if they might I don't think about
energy but I think if you're talking about but maybe like
local I guess the or county level
net neutrality laws be but like things like that I don't see that the
environment like I know that they're focusing on a video
but any the summer I see how it worked out like they're there now
trying to pass bills in multiple states to eliminate the 17th amendment
but there's those things is voting voting ID and things like that
I don't know what bullet hole but the 17th amendment is basically I
Alec or at least in these areas alec is against direct election
a popular election of senators that seems insane
I just saying that Alec doesn't to pass legislation
or working 'cause that we would agree with what we see in the new as well as
doing something bad
know could be doing something good I just never seen a case by the way if you
have any direct beneficiary
above the 17th amendment it's the people and Alec
hoop somehow get top have the mic and Z's
at and and the pat robertson all these people from the state's directly
elected they're the beneficiaries a bet that the the barbara boxer who
represents a state with a gazillion people
has as much power in the Senate as my Kenzie represents a stay with four
people
yeah i mean that that that is that third method that manifests them
so I don't understand why in the world they want to get rid of the 17th the
metal is because maybe because the democrats are charge in somehow they can
reject them well that it's clearly a head knee-jerk to
to what the democrat done to Harry Reid and filibuster response but still
II its it's an absurd think it's it's it's what is that the
to slicing off your nose to nose but you play today think
I I would just at ballpark
it's not that big a difference anymore but the parties this place far as
Corporate Controller corporate legions do you think I mean yeah I agree with
you I really don't
think that that the politicians are the beholder donors
as proved by this last the gonna vote where ninety percent of the public
wanted it
even to the back to the you know seventy percent the public wanted a public
option including the AMA came round finally
and still never even came up you know so a it it's dark our government no longer
responsible
responsive to the to the people yeah so what happens that
but but the Johns right on that there has to be a way of looking at it and
saying
per Google sale listen out we can't we're not gonna go with
Alec because what we're gonna do what we want to make change on a local level
we're gonna impact that change because we're Google want the richest companies
in the world
and we will start a an action committee that says we want to do whatever
src on a local level but to blindly go along with allocated to go to the party
cuz there's beer there is an ascent
and because everybody's going thats that to me is
is is a real problem I think it's important as was pointed out yeah
in the way that I see it is if I were Google or Facebook
I would just cut out the middleman why do you need I like to push for
legislation that you like all you need to do is buy politician you can buy them
so
she I agree with their yes so that when you get down to like state-level partly
that's a lot of politicians and they don't necessarily
like Google I don't know how much they know about the state legislature
Alabama or something having an organization like I like that has
offices in basically every state in the country and probably most areas are
those dates
that like that sort of thing as a shortcut highly to influence at that
level
well while you're doing that you're destroying your PR image your intention
to hurt your funding for legislation that goes again something that you are
so proud out that you like to boast about
just to give you a quick example that cool I T in 2012 actually
had Google as the top score among all tech companies in part because companies
such as Microsoft
AT&T remembers about like well now that's going to change because obviously
didn't really give a crap about that
and in terms of what Facebook I'm so I will Google had to say
on the DNA have Google isn't just about being environmentally
Stewart it's a basic fundamental issue for the company
well that's the case I mean you're you're doing something that goes against
what you just said
in the proof is in the pudding who are you finding why are you finding that
and just the fact that we have big companies
that need to find a way to get involved in local politics
is is the problem to begin with the the power the company's at
that it and it is totally ambiguous as to party is to use just saying
the fact that that's going on at all speaks to a huge problem in our country
that a company like Google
would need a middleman to get to the state legislature Iowa in the first
place they shouldn't have anything to do with the state legislature I let you
know
and so that's that's a a problem that's a bigger problem that needs solving the
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Google does but not about the state legislature in Alabama
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