I guess "front-group" is really a misnomer - ALEC doesn't do much to hide the fact that their overarching goal is to blur the line between state legislators and Big Business to the point where lawmakers are acting as corporate agents and introducing corporate-written legislation in state capitals throughout America. For too long, our side has watched as ALEC has become more and more powerful - but that is about to change.
He's referring to this:
Legislation aimed at grade-deflating liberal professors, animal laboratory bombers and jury duty-skipping citizens might seem to have little in common, but there’s a link: each is promoted by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).
When it comes to state policy, ALEC has clout. It claims it was behind more than 1,100 bills proposed in legislatures across the United States in 2004, 178 of which were enacted into law. Yet ALEC is little-known to the general public.
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