ALEC is a conservative organization that brings corporations and state legislators together behind closed doors to produce to write what it calls “model” bills that the lawmakers then introduce as their own. Frank previously reported that the group’s fingerprints could be seen on numerous pieces oflegislation introduced in the General Assembly,
including new voter ID requirements, private school vouchers, anti-union measures, a bill to shield fast food companies from lawsuits related to obesity and a bill to quash asbestos-exposure lawsuits.
The organization also has a man in the governor’s office: Former State Rep. and State ALEC Chairman Fred Steen is now Governor Pat McCrory’s legislative lobbyist.
And last year, Frank writes, ALEC’s influence grew.
The American Legislative Exchange Council counted 54 out of 170 North Carolina lawmakers as members through June, or roughly one-third of the General Assembly. The state is one of only seven to increase membership more than 40 percent [in 2013].
The numbers are highlighted in new internal ALEC documents, obtained and published by the British newspaper The Guardian, that shed new light on the organization’s presence in the state.
After “Stand Your Ground” laws pushed by ALEC received national attention in the wake of the Trayvon Martin killing in 2012, ALEC lost about 400 legislators and 60 corporate members and faced a budget shortfall. The organization’s “funding crisis” was the subject of a recent report in The Guardian.Among the organizations that let their membership lapse are major North Carolina players: Duke Energy, Lowe’s, Blue Cross Blue Shield and the John Locke Foundation, a conservative think tank.
and the skulduggery plays on, note those tings like behind closed doors, the right blame Progressives for in relation to ACA, difference is their backdoor is opened to anyone with money and favor in mind,
the right wing writes the bills that they than use to obstruct and disenfranchise intended primarily for Progressive voters but their voters are in the same barrel collateral damage psych out and they still vote for them.
But leaked documents show that ALEC is relying on a few current and former state legislators in 19 states — including North Carolina’s speaker of the House, Thom Tillis, ALEC’s 2011 “legislator of the year” — to each woo three or more major funders to help the organization recover.
how backdoor is that, they are ginning up those who want regulation and other regs that protect "we the people" from them to go away for a greasing of their palms, those voters are propping up those who would be their undoing, do they know IMO not many. politics in the right wing is not politics it's business enabling and Americans being disabled.
when you promote carrying guns you need to be careful of pissing off those you have insighted to violence it could be their butts full of buckshot.
