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ALEC: Exposing ALEC: How Conservative-Backed State Laws Are All Connected
Apr 14 2012, 8:00 AM ET
Nancy Scola
Nancy Scola is an Atlantic correspondent based in New York
City, whose work focuses on the intersections of politics and technology.
She has written for Capital New York, Columbia Journalism Review, GOOD,
New York, Reuters, Salon, and Seed, and is a frequent contributor to The
American Prospect.
The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/04/exposing-alec-
how-conservative-backed-state-laws-are-all-connected/255869/
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/8a6ueca
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A shadowy organization uses corporate contributions to sell prepackaged
conservative bills -- such as Florida's Stand Your Ground statute -- to
legislatures across the country.
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The recent blowing up of the Invisible Children viral video might have
some of us thinking that Malcolm Gladwell was onto something with his
biting critique of online politics, the so-called "slacktivism" debate.
But the attention to the shooting death of Trayvon Martin and, even more
so, the connected debate over Stand Your Ground gun laws and the
distancing of some of the country's biggest companies from ALEC, the
American Legislative Exchange Council, shows how online organizing
actually can work. And that, reasonably, seems to be causing palpitations
in the hearts of everyone from Coca-Cola to the Koch brothers.
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That's why even if, as Politico reports, the gun debate isn't happening in
Washington, the N.R.A. shouldn't be unconcerned.
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To itself, ALEC is an organization dedicated to the advancement of free
market and limited government principles through a unique "public-private
partnership" between state legislators and the corporate sector. To its
critics, it's a shadowy back-room arrangement where corporations pay good
money to get friendly legislators to introduce pre-packaged bills in state
houses across the country. Started in the mid-1970s, ALEC's existence has
been long known but its practices, largely, have not; the group hasn't
been eager to tie its bills in Wisconsin to those in Ohio to those in
North Carolina.
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Nine months ago, though, a website called ALEC Exposed went live,
showcasing more than 800 so-called model bills contributed by, the site's
creators say, a still-anonymous whistleblower. Beyond the bills
themselves, the group built out a wide-ranging, sometimes confusing wiki
aimed at documenting which legislators take part in the group, which
corporations support it, and where the bills go once they leave ALEC.
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Lisa Graves is executive director of the Center for Media and Democracy,
the group that built ALEC Exposed. She's also a former Justice Department
official in both the Clinton and Bush administrations. Said Graves on a
call this week, "We built out the material using Google, the Internet
Archive and the Wayback Machine, primary records that were previously on
ALEC's website, old old Lexis news clips, and the tobacco library," as in
the digital archive run by the University of California of San Francisco
as part of the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement of the late '90s.
"There was a lot of material out there that was just not widely known."
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Having the bills all in one place painted a certain picture. "If it's
voter ID, it's ALEC," observed Doug Clopp, deputy director of programs at
Common Cause. "If it's anti-immigration bills written hand-in-glove with
private prison corporations, it's ALEC. If it's working with the N.R.A. on
'Shoot to Kill' laws, it's ALEC. When you start peeling back state efforts
to opt out of the regional greenhouse gas initiative, it's ALEC." Adopted
first in the states, by the time these laws bubble up to the national
level, they're the conventional wisdom on policy.
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For years, political types had vague notions of the state-to-state
connections, but it was difficult to see the whole picture. ALEC Exposed
launched with a series of companion articles in The Nation, detailing not
only the bills themselves but the involvement of the Koch brothers, early
ALEC funders. Graves said she was eager to avoid the fate of past interest
group reports that focused on ALEC then sat on shelves, unread. "I know
the only way that we could possibly tell the story of this corporate bill
mill across 50 states was to use, in essence, crowdsourcing that engaged
other journalists, citizens, researchers, and writers."
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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