ALEC Legislation

When ALEC members are defending the innocence of ALEC – Have you read something like this - the talking points sent out directly form ALEC’s Office:

ALEC task force members can bring legislation before their task force for consideration; usually  this is our legislative members.

Since ALEC is a legislative organization our state legislators take the lead on proposing legislation and only the public sector votes to adopt legislation as ALEC policy. We are a private organization

ALEC meetings are designed for legislative members to learn from each other as well as policy  experts representing a variety of current issue areas that affect our citizens and our economy.

The ALEC members make you think that it’s just a get together of state legislators to talk about things and share legislation among state legislators – Right????

WRONG!!!

I took some time and looked through the documents (ALEC Task Force meeting agendas and minutes) found at Common Cause to support their documentation to  the IRS requesting that the 501c3 status of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) be revoked.

And below is what you will find in those documents.
Grab a pot of coffee, a cup and a pound cake  – because I did not skimp on presenting you information.  

Below is the information from about one-half of the documents on Common Cause.  I did that for a reason – because you need to know the truth – the whole truth and nothing but the truth.  The information is "cut and pasted", just like ALEC model legislation - direct from ALEC meeting documents.

I will not make a comment after the intro – just read and gag – like I did.
I did not want to interpret the material for you – I wanted you to see it with your own eyes.
I did not want you to think I cut and chose just certain things - just to make my point - I gave you the whole enchilada.

I only ask you to carefully look at the legislation I have pulled and pay attention to the sponsors of that legislation.

It is important to know who is writing the legislation that ALEC legislators introduce in your state.

AND THEN ask yourself – WHO does ALEC “model” legislation really represent  – state legislators or ALEC Corporate Profit/Nonprofit Sector Members?

AND THEN ask yourself – Why in the hell are we allowing our legislators to attend ALEC meetings?