Pittsburgh Stands Up for Education and Protests Corbett’s Award at the Opera

When the Pittsburgh Opera decided to betstow upon Governor Tom Corbett and his wife a “Lifetime Achievement Award” for support of the arts the irony was not lost on thousands of people in Pittsburgh.

The outrage that a Governor who cut $1 billion from the education budget in his first budget, causing many arts and music programs to be eliminated and their teachers laid off, would receive such an award boiled over as hundreds of angry messages appeared on the Pittsburgh Opera’s Facebook page.

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What Is ALEC?

Ever since the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision overturned decades of settled campaign finance law in January 2010 and declared that corporate political spending does not corrupt elected officials, American democracy has been for sale to the highest bidder. ALEC – the American Legislative Exchange Council – has been one vehicle used by big corporations to make sure laws passed by state legislatures directly benefit their bottom line at the expense of the 99%.

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