EPISODE · Apr 17, 2019 · 20 MIN
Copy-paste laws: How corporations are influencing your laws
from The Gaggle: An Arizona politics podcast · host The Arizona Republic and azcentral.com
Think your publicly elected leaders write the bills they sign into law? Not always. In fact, they often don't. That's the conclusion of a two-year-long investigation by The Arizona Republic, USA TODAY and plus the Center for Public Integrity, which found that 10,000 bills across 50 state legislatures were in large part copied from "model" bills written by corporations and special-interest groups. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Think your publicly elected leaders write the bills they sign into law? Not always. In fact, they often don't. That's the conclusion of a two-year-long investigation by The Arizona Republic, USA TODAY and plus the Center for Public Integrity, which found that 10,000 bills across 50 state legislatures were in large part copied from "model" bills written by corporations and special-interest groups. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Copy-paste laws: How corporations are influencing your laws
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