and as many as forty state lawmakers with financial ties to alec and the backlash against alec has now made it to the pages of the new york times the times editorial board took on alec in an article titled embarrassed by bad law. laws alec has been operating since the early one nine hundred seventy s. but it's only just now receiving the sort of attention that it deserves and all this exposure and pressure coming from progressives is starting to pay off and use breaking this afternoon alec decided to dismantle its task forces that write legislation for so called non economic issues and means no more writing legislation to disenfranchise democratic voters the radical voter id laws and no more giving the no more legislation giving gun owners like george zimmerman a right to shoot first responding to the news common cause president bob edgar said the american public has wised up alex misguided in secretive attempts to co-opt state legislators for corporate profit and holding its public safety elections task forces alec his abandoning under pressure of the most controversial part of its ag

alec has gone back to their states and pushed bills where they by mistake left the alec mission statement on the paper and had to resubmit the bill. it's our vision for democracy and where real voices are able to be heard. >> you are awesome. color of change is doing great work. thank you so much for joining us inside "the war room." we'll see you next week. coming up the masters and women, women and mitt mitt and himself. we'll look at what had people talking this week. this is "the war room" only on current tv. and everyone likes 50% more cash -- well, except her. no! but, i'm about to change that. ♪ every little baby wants 50% more cash... ♪ phhht! fine, you try. [ strings breaking wood splintering ] ha ha. [ male announcer ] the capital one cash rewards card. the card for people who want 50% more cash. ♪ what's in your wallet? ♪ ♪ what's in your...your... ♪ [ male announcer ] cookies with smooth caramel and chocolate. ♪ ♪ hmm twix. also available in peanut butter. attack on women that perhaps the majority of the population woke up? >> idaho is not known as approaching

alec, stand your ground, kill it, alec, the same organization. so this color the change group has now driven a wedge between mainstream corporate products. >> you mean to tell me some of these organizations are funding alec and they didn't even know what they were doing. >> they had no idea how radical this agenda was. >> and now this page has been opened up, do you think there will be more? >> i believe you're going to see a stampede of mainstream corporate groups saying, holy crap, we've been writing these $25,000 checks to these groups. listen, trayvon, that child died. the police said we can't put the killer in jail because of this stand your ground kill at will law. it came from alec. trayvon's not safe walking to the store. his mom's not safe walking to the voting booth because of the voting disenfranchisement laws. and a latino is not safe walking to work because of the same thing. they are in grave danger of having their brands tarnished. >> how much pressure can they put on them? >> this is going to be huge. what you're going to see now,

arguing that alec should be paying taxes you see alec claims to be a nonprofit public charity it is those exempt from paying any taxes a common cause as well as anyone else who knows exactly what alec is really up to knows that that's all a masquerade it's all a sham alec is not a public charity and never has been a public charity it's a right wing think tank that gives new meaning to the word lobbying by writing its own corporate friendly legislation and then handing that legislation off to republican state lawmakers to pass and there were specter of state legislatures to corporate profits at the expense of working americans and that's what alec is that's what alec does as the president of common cause said. in a statement quote alec tells the hour i.r.s. and its tax returns that it does no lobbying it exists to pass profit driven legislation in state houses all over the country that benefits its corporate members alec is not entitled to abuse its charitable touch that is to lobby for private corporate interests and stick the bill to the american taxpayer a common cause is calling on the

what is alec doing that it's not allowed to do. >> common cause has been looking at alec for the last year. we've been provided documents and we came to the conclusion that they spend 60% of their time and revenue lobbying. they give corporation abouts 140 about 140 corporations the opportunity to lobby in a tax-free environment it's giving to a chair glit tax deduction for a business when giveing to a charity. >> tax deduction. we decided to go to the irs the whistle blower act to the irs and charge them with fraudulent practices. if common cause were to have the kind of links to a corporation or series of corporations that alec has, we would be violating the tax code. we want the irs as a whistle blower complaint to tell us whether or not they are operating fairly and appropriately under the rules of the irs. >> you are a former congressman. i was the attorneys general and states have jurisdiction responsibility of enforceing charitable laws such as alec or what pretends to be a charitable entity. what is the distinction between lobbying and what alec said it did which is giving com

what is alec doing that it's not allowed to do. >> common cause has been looking at alec for the last year. we've been provided documents and we came to the conclusion that they spend 60% of their time and revenue lobbying. they give corporation abouts 140 about 140 corporations the opportunity to lobby in a tax-free environment it's giving to a chair glit tax deduction for a business when giveing to a charity. >> tax deduction. we decided to go to the irs, the whistle blower act to the irs and charge them with fraudulent practices. if common cause were to have the kind of links to a corporation or series of corporations that alec has, we would be violating the tax code. we want the irs as a whistle blower complaint to tell us whether or not they are operating fairly and appropriately under the rules of the irs. >> you are a former congressman. i was the attorneys general and states have jurisdiction responsibility of enforceing charitable laws such as alec or what pretends to be a charitable entity. what is the distinction between lobbying and what alec said it did which is giving co

and as many as forty state lawmakers with financial ties to alec and the backlash against alec has now made it to the pages of the new york times the times editorial board took on alec in an article titled embarrassed by bad law. laws alec has been operating since the early one nine hundred seventy s. but it's only just now receiving the sort of attention that it deserves and all this exposure and pressure coming from progressives is starting to pay off in news breaking this afternoon alec decided to dismantle its task forces that write legislation for so-called non economic issues that means no more writing legislation to disenfranchise democratic voters the radical voter id laws and no more giving the no more legislation giving gun owners like george zimmerman a right to shoot first responding to the news common cause president bob edgar said the american public has wised up to alex misguided and secretive attempts to co-op state legislators for corporate profit in holding its public safety elections task forces alec is abandoning underpressure of the most controversial part of its a

alec has gone back to their states and pushed bills where they by mistake left the alec mission statement on the paper and had to resubmit the bill. it's our vision for democracy and where real voices are able to be heard. >> you are awesome. color of change is doing great work. thank you so much for joining us inside "the war room." we'll see you next week. coming up the masters and women, women and mitt mitt and himself. we'll look at what had people talking this week. this is "the war room" only on current tv. and everyone likes 50% more cash -- well, except her. no! but, i'm about to change that. ♪ every little baby wants 50% more cash... ♪ phhht! fine, you try. [ strings breaking wood splintering ] ha ha. [ male announcer ] the capital one cash rewards card. the card for people who want 50% more cash. ♪ what's in your wallet? ♪ ♪ what's in your...your... ♪ >>> back with us to discuss a little politics is karen middleton she is the president of emerge america an organization that encourages women to run for office. lots going on with respect to women, but on this show we l

alec can claim to never. talk to a member of congress and so you need to push for this legislation to pass this legislation that's a lobbying but if i write the legislation and i just handed to them to go that's not very well in fact it depends a little bit on the state but if you go to just one or two legislators and you don't spend enough of your time doing it and that even doesn't count as lobbying the first time these laws are filled with loopholes the state law and then the federal laws which of course is what the i.r.s. is based on are completely different from the state bots so there's this huge patchwork of laws that cover what is or is not lobbying in most cases is not lobbying even though you would i or anybody reasonably thinking about lobbying might consider it to be and so it's all that everything falls into these loopholes and almost deliberately design is considering this you know it is a stranglehold on these lawmakers they might beat the rap on this one but it's still pretty negative attentio

the alec accountability act slifrm would allow -- would force alec to register as a lobbyist because it acts as a lobbyist by whining and dining and flying away republican legislateors on very fancy, expensive trips to resorts around the country and convincing them to run bills which are sponsored by the corporate sponsors of alec. >> now one of the corporate sponsors of alec is the national rifle association. does arizona have a stand your ground law that was pushed by the nra and alec? >> we have had a number of gun laws that have been pushed through in the past few years, including the stand your ground law, the castle doctorine, a whole bunch of other laws. they have been trying to push through laws that allow guns to be carried in any public or private location in violation of private property rights in many cases. there is a law that was being pushed this year to allow you to carry guns on to school grounds in violation of the national laws against that. so it's -- that's one of the areas. but there are a large number of areas relating to particularly anti-regulation, going aga

alec, stand your ground, kill it, alec, the same organization. so this color the change group has now driven a wedge between ma mainstream corporate products. >> you mean to tell me some of these organizations are funding alec and they didn't even know what they were doing. >> they had no idea how radical this agenda was. >> and now this page has been opened up, do you think there will be more? >> i believe you're going to see a stampede of mainstream corporate groups saying, holy crap, we've been writing these $25,000 checks to these groups. listen, trayvon, that child died. the police said we can't put the killer in jail because of this stand your ground kill at will law. it came from alec. trayvon's not safe walking to the store. his mom's not safe walking to the voting booth because of the voting disenfranchisement laws. and a latino is not safe walking to work because of the same thing. they are in grave danger of having their brands tarnished. >> how much pressure can they put on them? >> this is going to be huge. what you're going to see n

alec's p.r. has really been all over the place. last week they said that all they do is focus on economic issues and free market issues, and so at that point we asked the simple question to at&t and state form and johnson&johnson and other corporations that continue to stand with alec, we asked the simple question what about voter suppression and stand your ground laws are economic issues? fast forward to this week and now alec now is saying that they're no longer going to be working on these issues. the problem for us at color of change and activists raising their voices around the country on this issue they've gone out into a body of water and spilled some oil. now they're saying you know what, we're not going to spill anymore oil. unfortunately, we're all left to clean up this mess. in states all around the country that are now dealing with volar suppression laws and stand your ground laws brought to us by alec with their corporate partners, we're left with these laws. there's a lot more work to do not only for color of change b

to alec. they announced they would not make future grants but they have 17 months of ongoing funding they have committed to $376,000 that they have committed to rolling out within the next year and a half or so. there is really honestly no excuse for the bill and melinda gates foundation to continue feeting voter suppression, union-bashing organization like alec. so we are going to ask them to cease that funding immediately, continue the fight with at&t and then wherever color of change decides to lead we will follow them. >> color of change has been doing great job. you both have petitions, i understand, on the web to be able to make the pressure points. adam, where do people go to get to your petition? >> we are at bold progressives.org. >> all right. and rashad, i want to make sure you have got a chance to plug yours. colorofchange.org r? >> colorofchange.org. >> rashad until -- a lot of people aren't aware that one of the big funders of alec is the koch brothers. the koch brothers of cours

to alec. they announced they would not make future grants but they have 17 months of ongoing funding they have committed to $376,000 that they have committed to rolling out within the next year and a half or so. there is really honestly no excuse for the bill and melinda gates foundation to continue feeting voter suppression, union-bashing organization like alec. so we are going to ask them to cease that funding immediately continue the fight with at&t and then wherever color of change decides to lead we will follow them. >> color of change has been doing great job. you both have petitions, i understand, on the web to be able to make the pressure points. adam, where do people go to get to your petition? >> we are at bold progressives.org. >> all right. and rashad, i want to make sure you have got a chance to plug yours. colorofchange.org r? >> colorofchange.org. >> rashad until -- a lot of people aren't aware that one of the big funders of alec is the koch brothers. the koch brothers, of cours

we are finding more and more about how alec functions. we know that alec has nine task forces. and on those task forces elected officials, representatives, senators from the various states sit side-by-side among corporations their lobbyists and their representatives to craft model legislation that then is adopted and moved into the library for legislators to grab like they were going through a supermarket, to take those bills back home to their states to wisconsin, to ohio, to pennsylvania, and introduce them and, often introduce them under their own name. >> right. and they just take the words exactly. so it makes it easy for them to introduce these bills without having to have their ledge slash service bureaus redrafting bills. they can plunk it right in. now, in the last week and a half, there are six corporations, as you said, that have decided they are going to cut ties, but common cause is estimating that there are actually 140 corporations that are funding alec. so isn't this really just a drop in the bucket? >> well, i think it's the tip of a very big iceberg. although

nothing to do with alec. their fundations have been funding alec for years. they have given hundreds of thousands of dollars to the organization yet "we had nothing to do with it." it's and odd kind of lashing out at critics that frankly is unbecoming of people of their wealth and stature. >> when you say they lash out, what are they actually doing as they lash out? how does that affect manifest itself? >> so, you know, they will go on twitter and tweet nasty things at their opponents and they will put up these fact checks that are kind of fact free. they put up an e-mail chain with an nbc producer about something an on-air contributor, karen pin finney, and they attacked her for saying they fund alec. they are this babyish attacks on people. they will add in they have attacked van jones robert greenwald, just consistently are on the attack and not caring about the facts. just kind of lashing out at these critics. >> are you worried with all of the negative things that you may have said about them over time that you might be the subject of one of those attack

we are finding more and more about how alec functions. we know that alec has nine task forces. and on those task forces elected officials, representatives, senators from the various states sit side-by-side among corporations their lobbyists and their representatives to craft model legislation that then is adopted and moved into the library for legislators to grab like they were going through a supermarket, to take those bills back home to their states to wisconsin, to ohio to pennsylvania, and introduce them and, often introduce them under their own name. >> right. and they just take the words exactly. so it makes it easy for them to introduce these bills without having to have their ledge slash service bureaus redrafting bills. they can plunk it right in. now, in the last week and a half, there are six corporations, as you said that have decided they are going to cut ties but common cause is estimating that there are actually 140 corporations that are funding alec. so isn't this really just a drop in the bucket? >> well i think it's the tip of a very big iceberg. although we b

nothing to do with alec. their fundations have been funding alec for years. they have given hundreds of thousands of dollars to the organization yet "we had nothing to do with it." it's and odd kind of lashing out at critics that frankly is unbecoming of people of their wealth and stature. >> when you say they lash out, what are they actually doing as they lash out? how does that affect manifest itself? >> so, you know they will go on twitter and tweet nasty things at their opponents and they will put up these fact checks that are kind of fact free. they put up an e-mail chain with an nbc producer about something an on-air contributor, karen pin finney, and they attacked her for saying they fund alec. they are this babyish attacks on people. they will add in they have attacked van jones, robert greenwald, just consistently are on the attack and not caring about the facts. just kind of lashing out at these critics. >> are you worried with all of the negative things that you may have said about them over time that you might be the subject of one of those attack

. >>> now legislatures are running away from alec. we learn everything we need to know about alec. >>> sales of the chevy volt are way up. >> they catch fire. >> the former gm executive behind the volt and conservative responds to the haters. >> the political right is constantly talking about the flammability, overheating, fire hazard. folks, it's a pure fiction. please get it out of your heads. >>> good to have you with us tonight. thanks for watching. president obama is passing the test on student debt. republicans are on the verge of flunking out of class. he was at the university of north carolina at chapel hill today. he told students why he's able to relate with their own struggles. >> this is something michelle and i know about first hand. i just want everybody here to understand that this is not, i didn't just read about this. [ applause ] >> i didn't just. [ applause ] >> i didn't just get some talking points about this. i didn't just get a policy briefing on this. michelle and i have been in your shoes. we didn't come from w

joining now giving alec money. well in many ways i think of benefit is that alex alex works behind the scenes so you don't oftentimes see alex fingerprints on the legislation that becomes laws and states around the country and so our craft piece of legislation and works with legislators at the state level to push those laws through i'm often times the laws that are there are crafted and developed in can partner ship with corporations that help them with their go to market their strategies of making more money and so corporations can have a relationship with alec and legislators to have a relationship with alec and alex these behind the scenes and there's been research in the work to sort of push an amplify these policies around the country and so what we've done is we're pulling back the mask on alec and helping americans all around the country who who have been outraged in and inspired to act as they've heard about the trayvon martin story and folks who have known for a while about the discriminatory voter idealis

now legislators are running away from alec. tonight, a defector tells us everything we need to know about alec. >>> sales of the chevy volt are way up and conservatives hate it. >> catch fire. >> catch fire. >> which would contribute, i think, to global warming, because fire is hot. >> tonight, bob lutz, the former gm executive behind the the volt and conservative, responds to the haters. >> the political right is constantly talking about the flammability, overheating, fire hazard. folks, it's a pure fiction. please get it out of your heads. >>> good to have you with us tonight, folks. thanks for watching. president obama is passing the test on student debt. republicans are on the verge of flunking out of class. the president was at the university of north carolina at chapel hill today. he told students why he's able to relate with their own struggles. >> this is something michelle and i know about firsthand. i just want everybody here to understand, this is not -- i didn't just read about this. i didn't just, you know, i didn'

now legislators are running away from alec. tonight, a defect eor tells us everything we need to know about aleck. >>> sales of the chevy volt are way up and conservatives hate it. >> catch fire. >> catch fire. >> which would contribute, i think, to global warming, because fire is hot. >> tonight, bob lutz, the former gm executive behind the the volt and conservative, responds to the haters. >> the political right is constantly talking about the flammability, overheating, fire hazard. folks, it's a pure fiction. please get it out of your heads. >>> good to have you with us tonight, folks. thanks for watching. president obama is passing the test on student debt. republicans are on the verge of flunking out of class. the president was at the university of north carolina at chapel hill today. he told students why he's able to relate with their own struggles. >> this is something michelle and i know about firsthand. i just want everybody here to understand, this is not -- i didn't just read about this. i didn't just, you know, i di

been revisions made to sis but what is the pressure going to be enough to get the bill stopped and alec the group who passes on legislation in states all across the u.s. things like voter id laws stand your ground laws are actually caving to the pressure but is it too early to declare victory and today we watch the space shuttle discovery make its last flight on the back of a seven forty seven so we're going to talk nasa space x. and the future of space exploration of all that and more for night including a dose of happy hour but first take a look at the mainstream media has decided to miss. right so after our show last night as predicted the buffett rule failed in a vote in the senate and this naturally sparked a lot of media discussion mostly resulting in a right versus left who's to blame type of banter. the senate rejecting the so-called buffett rule which was aimed at raising taxes on millionaires successful low limit yells a little bit to let the people who aren't so successful possibly become sick and you know you donnie ok tonight i just want to know i'm not missing the point by

. >>> el consulado americado de intercambio legislativo alec, es lo mÁs influyente en leyes estatales de inmigraciÓn, respaldÓ a la legislacion de la defensa propia y otras iniciativas controversiales, gerardo explica quienes lo integran, y por quÉ algunos patrocinadores la abandoradon. >>> alec es una organizaciÓn de congresistas y empresarios, es poco conocida, pero sieo su agenda polÍtica cambiÓ la vida de millones en estados unidos. >>> alec estuvo en secreto, fundada en el 73, en el aÑo pasado el centro para los medios y democracia publicaron mÁs de 800 proyectos de ley modelo de alec. >>> la oanizaciÓn que comenzo en el 1973 promoviÓ iniciativas controversiales, la ley de inmigraciÓn de arizona, normas que exigen documentos para votar, y tambiÉn la que se citÓ para no formular cargos a zimmermann el hombre que matÓ al joven negro martÍn. ahora organizaciones a¿provechan para ir contra la organizaciÓn. >>> el verdadero impacto de alec, fue el debilitamito de la democracia. >>> se tratÓ a empresas que participan en el concilio, coca cola, pepsi, kraft. se retiran

they believe in what alec does. they support the organization and the bills that they are advocating for. >> what do you make of grassley's coke boycott? >> desperation brings out strange things this people. it's for sure not going to go anywhere. it's a time to really celebrate and say we have them on the run when they are calling out all their supporters, the right ring blogs and the politicians that owe them saying we need help, and they need help because progressives have come together and said we're mad and we're not going to take it anymore. >> it might not be alec. it might be somebody else, but they will be there. great to have you. >> sure. >>> it's been called one of the biggest cheap shots or was it just an accident? we'll show you the video and you make the call. [ male announcer ] that. right there -- reminds you why you fell in love with her in the first place. and why you still feel the same. but your erectile dysfunction -- that could be a question of blood flow. cialis for daily use helps you be rea

for american capitalism in general and finally the koch funded american legislative exchange council alec they have met its match coming up how one campaign is having success cutting off the flow of corporate money out. you need to know this the gangsters and technocrats pushing trickle down austerity in greece now have blood on their hands on wednesday a seventy seven year old retired pharmacist walked up to the greek parliament building and shot himself in the head to protest the crippling austerity measures that are ripping apart that nation and then left a suicide note we'll get into that in just a minute but his suicide prompted thousands of greeks to take to the streets in central athens in fresh new protests against trickle down austerity since trickle down austerity began in greece suicide rates have jumped up forty percent so not only is trickle down austerity bad economically it's bad morally as well yet it's just the thing that the republican budget written by multi-millionaire congressman paul ryan wants to bring to the united states of america and if republicans win big in no

they have exactly the same meeting at an alec junket then alec claims that is tax deductible. >> so you have submitted this complaint to the irs, with also documentation attached to show that what is going on at an alec junket where they invite corporations or representatives from corporations and legislators together to craft legislation that is in that corporation's interest that that is essentially lobbying and you have the documents to prove it. >> yes. and alec says we do lobbying but we think it's more research and analysis. so i want to know how is it research or analysis when you send a petition directed to speaker pelosi and senator byrd saying oppose the healthcare legislation. >> but you are saying they admitted they are doing lobbying. >> they are saying it is lobbying, but there is a loophole. what they are really doing is research and analysis even though it looks like -- to the rest of us lobbying. >> so why should anybody out there care about that? >> because we're losing millions of dollars in tax revenues. >> because all of those corporations can deduct what their dues

and in many cases the public and the press are constantly shut out of the process so well alec is. kind of a good embodiment of this wider problem that people are not focusing on they're certainly not the only group i guess all the more important than right that we have campaigns like this to bring it all transparency and really highlight the issues thanks so much for joining us tonight i think you're having me. coming up tonight show and tell and then we'll toss hates the spaceship discovery made its final flight today right over washington d.c. so we can look at the future of space exploration the part. it's. the easiest.

you may recognize some of alec's work. it is claimed that alec had a hand in crafting florida's stand your ground, and boasts drafting 1,000 laws a year and it has been prominent in pushing voter id laws. coke's move comes hours of color of change dot org launched an online petition to urging companies to stop. joining me now is reverend jesse jackson, political activist and founder and president of the rainbow push coalition. thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you, sir. >> seems to me and i have been prosecutor, governor, the whole bit, i had a hard time finding any evidence ever that there was any significant degree of voter fraud. on the other hand i did find an awful lot of evidence that there was fraud in the stock market. so this group alec is pushing to deregulate the stock market and put a whole bunch of new laws in place to control voter fraud. what is going on here? >> those who are denied the right to vote have always found ways to undermine the impact of the vote. it may have been some form of reapporti

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when chris christie was like who is alec? as he hands in bills that are word for word from alec. and raven bergen handed in a bill that said this: what? why is that in your bill? >> she forgot to ed it at all. she literally took what alec gave her and put it in as the actual bill including alec's mission statement. these people are 100% bout. i'm not even reading the bill. i'm just sending it in. what are the results? for example the stand your ground that was possibly applied in florida to george zimmerman. that's why the police in stanford, florida claimed that george zimmerman has not been arrested for shooting trayvon martin. that was bill authored by alec. and it's now in 25 different states across the country. why? because they have legislation fors in all of those different states in their back pocket. former u.s. attorney kendall coffee that said the stand your ground law is a license to kill. but who cares. nra is part of alec and they represent the gun manufacturers, and their job is to get them richer and richer. so if you need a gun, everybody in florida needs to get

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they believe in what alec does. they support the organization and the bills that they are advocating for. >> what do you make of grassley's coke boycott? >> desperation brings out strange things this people. it's for sure not going to go anywhere. it's a time to really celebrate and say we have them on the run when they are calling out all their supporters, the right ring blogs and the politicians that owe them saying we need help, and they need help because progressives have come together and said we're mad and we're not going to take it anymore. >> it might not be alec. it might be somebody else, but they will be there. great to have you. >> sure. >>> it's been called one of the biggest cheap shots or was it just an accident? we'll show you the video and you make the call. ♪ surf's up everybody get your boards and your wetsuits ♪ free-credit-score-dot-com's gonna direct you ♪ ♪ to check your credit score before it gets too late ♪ ♪ and you end up strapped for cash ♪ ♪ patching your board with duct

they have exactly the same meeting at an alec junket then alec claims that is tax deductible. >> so you have submitted this complaint to the irs, with also documentation attached to show that what is going on at an alec junket where they invite corporations or representatives from corporations and legislators together to craft legislation that is in that corporation's interest that that is essentially lobbying and you have the documents to prove it. >> yes. and alec says we do lobbying, but we think it's more research and analysis. so i want to know how is it research or analysis when you send a petition directed to speaker pelosi and senator byrd saying oppose the healthcare legislation. >> but you are saying they admitted they are doing lobbying. >> they are saying it is lobbying, but there is a loophole. what they are really doing is research and analysis even though it looks like -- to the rest of us lobbying. >> so why should anybody out there care about that? >> because we're losing millions of dollars in tax revenues. >> because all of those corporations can deduct what their due

you may recognize some of alec's work. it is claimed that alec had a hand in crafting florida's stand your ground and boasts drafting 1,000 laws a year and it has been prominent in pushing voter id laws. coke's move comes hours of color of change dot org launched an online petition to urging companies to stop. joining me now is reverend jesse jackson, political activist and founder and president of the rainbow push coalition. thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you, sir. >> seems to me and i have been prosecutor governor the whole bit, i had a hard time finding any evidence ever that there was any significant degree of voter fraud. on the other hand i did find an awful lot of evidence that there was fraud in the stock market. so this group alec is pushing to deregulate the stock market and put a whole bunch of new laws in place to control voter fraud. what is going on here? >> those who are denied the right to vote have always found ways to undermine the impact of the vote. it may have been some form of reapportionm

the alec agenda is being aexposed across the country. the group, progress virginia recently published a report showing how virginia lawmakers are connected to alec. the executive director confronted virginia house speaker after he said there were inaccuracies in the report. this is what bullies do when they are backed against the wall. >> i'm just curious about which part of the report you found inaccurate? >> the part where you say they got $230,000. >> the state didn't spend $230,000. >> i guess i'm not speaking in little enough words to understand. >> i'm a smart girl. i went to the university of virginia. i benefitted from public education. i think words with multiple syllables will be just fine for me. >> joining me is the director of progress virginia. good to have you with us tonight. you are in the thick of a big story in this country because the american people because of work of jurournalists are startg to figure out how laws are being passed. he's called you and apologized for his comments. he did say that there were inaccurac