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From: "David P. Dillard" <jwne@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 17:08:51 -0400 (EDT)



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Did the American Legislative Exchange Council Give Me the Full Story?

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Did the American Legislative Exchange Council Give Me the Full Story?

By Brendan Greeley

April 30, 2012

Bloomberg

Business Week

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-04-30/did-the-american-legislative-exchange-council-give-me-the-full-story


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If you dont mind me, if I can address this from a broader issue, youvetouched on another great example. We have clearly over 800 pieces of modellegislation, and theyre all there. John, me, my other, the rest of theALEC staff, even the ALEC board, we dont know whos reaching in andgrabbing what. Its a library service to members, should they choose towant to use it. And they use it, and they dont even tell us, and they maynot go on the floor and say this is ALEC legislation, they have to gothrough, you know, what, the bill becomes theirs, so we have no idea.

But now it looks like ALEC did have an idea, it did know who was reachingin and grabbing what, and it knew this in detail. On Monday, Common Cause,an advocacy group for sunlight and government accountability, filed awhistleblower complaint to the IRS, arguing that ALEC lobbies forcorporations and thus has violated its 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status as acharity. In a response, a lawyer for ALEC said that the complaint mostlyignores applicable law and distorts what it does not ignore. As part ofthe complaint, however, Common Cause released a number of documents itpulled from state legislators through FOIA requests. If youre interestedin ALEC, they make great reading, particularly minutes of task forcemeetings for the past two years. These meetings are closed to the pressand the public.

The document release includes an internal ALEC spreadsheet labeled ALECState Tracking: Good Legal Reform Bills. The spreadsheet details everyALEC model bill on legal reform proposed in a state legislature for the2011 legislative session: state, sponsor, current status10 fields in totalfor each bill. The spreadsheet is color-coded to show whether the bill hasbeen vetoed and whether theres been any movement since the last report.And it not only tracks each bills number and name; it also includes afield titled Related ALEC Model Bill.



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