Several diarists here on DKos have been writing great stuff about the American Legislative Exchange Council.
Now all of us have access to 800 pieces of so-called model legislation directly from ALEC.
A new web site, alecexposed.org went up today
The Nation has an article up on its site.
There is a protest planned for New Orleans, LA on August 5th. There are rumors of at least one national political figure joining us there. For more information about the protest, visit www.protestalec.org
We also need citizen journalists and professional journalists to compare the model legislation to the actual legislation being written in individual states and add to the database or ALEC members.
The website is set up to help identify "model legislation" that has come from ALEC.
“Never has the time been so right,” Louisiana State Representative Noble Ellington told conservative legislators gathered in Washington to plan the radical remaking of policies in the states. It was one month after the 2010 midterm elections. Republicans had grabbed 680 legislative seats and secured a power trifecta—control of both legislative chambers and the governorship—in twenty-one states. Ellington was speaking for hundreds of attendees at a “States and Nation Policy Summit,” featuring GOP stars like Texas Governor Rick Perry, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor. Convened by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)—“the nation’s largest, non-partisan, individual public-private membership association of state legislators,” as the spin-savvy group describes itself—the meeting did not intend to draw up an agenda for the upcoming legislative session. That had already been done by ALEC’s elite task forces of lawmakers and corporate representatives. The new legislators were there to grab their weapons: carefully crafted model bills seeking to impose a one-size-fits-all agenda on the states.
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