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ALEC’s Education Summit Next Month in Amelia Island: How Many Florida Repubulicans Will Attend? | Scathing Purple Musings

ALEC’s Education Summit Next Month in Amelia Island: How Many Florida Repubulicans Will Attend? | Scathing Purple Musings:

ALEC’s Education Summit Next Month in Amelia Island: How Many Florida Repubulicans Will Attend?

The Orlando Sentinel’s Scott Powers reported in July 2011 on the involvement of mysterious, Koch brothers - funded group ALEC in last year’s legislative session. Citing a report in the “high brow liberal magazine,” In These Times. Powers wrote of the run-up to the union-busting Paycheck Protection Act:

Dorworth introduced his bill, H.B. 1021, in February. In These Times reports it put out a records request to his office to see if it could trace the Florida bill to ALEC or to Charles and David Koch, the big-spending conservative campaign kingmakers from Kansas.

The magazine reported getting responses ranging from “There’s nothing here,” to “Really? how’d