Inside the 2011 American Legislative Exchange Council conference - YouTube
This is a non-profit.... charity group. They write legislative templates for legislators to use in every state in the union. What's their charitable cause? They actually write and lobby for legislation that state legislators use to introduce laws in state governments. They are using the non-profit designation to lobby for huge profits and influence in state governments all over the country. It's illegal.
This is the "point of the spear" so famously referred to by a recent GOP frontrunner. This is where the right wing gets it's radical agenda implemented. It's the most dangerous aspect of the right wing junta that's been going on since Citizens United.
It's largely under the radar. We hear on the news about policies that seemingly arise from nowhere. In Wisconsin and Michigan, the governors of those states ran fairly unspectacular campaigns. Yes, they were Republicans and talked the talk, but both of them shocked their constituents with a rain of legislation busting unions, privatizing government, taking over localities, stealing from the public coffers to bribe corporate interests.
This torrent of legislation came from ALEC. It was written by their cadre of lawyers, offered to any and all Republicans in every state in the Union. A little close examination reveals the similarity in the issues represented. Everything from carbon emissions, fracking licenses, nuclear waste removal, to privatization of public education, abortion, and the repeal of the AHCA. Our own Virginia Attorney General was able to launch is first-in-the-nation suit against Health Care Reform by cutting and pasting from an ALEC template. It's illegal.
More work to do....
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