Copy, Paste, Legislate
How special interest groups achieve their goals by enlisting friendly lawmakers to quietly push ‘model legislation’ in statehouses nationwide. A project of the Center for Public Integrity, USA Today and the Arizona Republic and winner of the 2020 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting.
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Copy, Paste, Legislate
Published — April 4, 2019
You elected them to write new laws. They’re letting corporations do it instead.
Copy, Paste, Legislate
Published — April 4, 2019
Used car dealers didn’t want to fix deadly defects, so they wrote a law to avoid it
Dealers are pushing copycat legislation that allows them to continue selling recalled used cars without fixing them first. Consumer advocates say that’s a cop-out.
