Incidentally Bold Nebraska has published a list of the legislative perps who passed LB1161 — basically everyone in the Unicameral except Mike Flood, Ken Haar, Rich Pahls, Anette Dubas and Danielle Conrad.
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| Sen. Jim Smith, of Papillion, sponsor of LB1161, which helps TransCanada trample property rights of Nebraska ranchers and farmers through abuse of eminent domain. Smith's law exempts oil companies that apply during 2012 from complying with Nebraska's new Major Oil Pipeline Siting act. Smith claims, with a straight face, that his law wasn't unconstitutionally written specifically for TransCanada. |
The person most responsible for the TransCanada sellout is "family values" senator Jim Smith of Papillion, sock-puppet-in-chief in Nebraska for the radically right-wing billionaire Koch Brothers, whose properties will benefit from the TransCanada pipeline. He wrote the original bill.
Smith is the Nebraska State Chairman of ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council, a group funded by the Koch brothers, to get bills written by corporate lobbyists passed in state legislatures.
What reactionary legislation has ALEC pushed? Stand Your Ground? Check. Prison privatization? Check. Union busting? Check. Discriminatory Voter ID laws? Check. The list goes on and on. (On Wednesday, fast-food giant Wendy's joined McDonald's in ending its ALEC membership. Previously Pepsi, Coke, Kraft, Intuit, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation all announced that they were jumping ship.)
Not far behind Sen. Smith is Beau McCoy, who, contrary to the below graphic, isn't entirely in TransCanada's pocket; after all, he has to spend some time doing the bidding of the despicable Alliance Defense Fund, and for heaven's sake, there are only so many hours in the day. | |
| Graphic via Bold Nebraska |
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