ALEC is wounded but not dead.
I first heard about the American Legislative Exchange Council a year and a half ago on a trip to a rally in Madison, Wisconsin.
It was a brutally cold March day. That didn’t keep 125,000 people from circling the Capitol building, protesting Governor Walker’s disgusting union busting.
The Mad City Madness not only launched the nation-wide fight-back against the policies of the One Percent. It also served to shine a light on the money and the (mostly) men who are behind them.
Before Madison, few knew about the Koch brothers. Fewer knew or ever heard of ALEC.
In the weeks that followed, I could stand at the microphone at the IEA state convention to offer a New Business Item calling for a boycott of Koch brothers’ products and have it pass easily.
No explanation was needed. Union members now knew all about the Koch brothers.
Soon information started coming out about ALEC. For years this right-wing group had been flying under the
It was a brutally cold March day. That didn’t keep 125,000 people from circling the Capitol building, protesting Governor Walker’s disgusting union busting.
The Mad City Madness not only launched the nation-wide fight-back against the policies of the One Percent. It also served to shine a light on the money and the (mostly) men who are behind them.
Before Madison, few knew about the Koch brothers. Fewer knew or ever heard of ALEC.
In the weeks that followed, I could stand at the microphone at the IEA state convention to offer a New Business Item calling for a boycott of Koch brothers’ products and have it pass easily.
No explanation was needed. Union members now knew all about the Koch brothers.
Soon information started coming out about ALEC. For years this right-wing group had been flying under the