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More on ALEC from Wisconsin to Florida, Legislation and Education | Seattle Education

More on ALEC from Wisconsin to Florida, Legislation and Education | Seattle Education:


More on ALEC from Wisconsin to Florida, Legislation and Education

Due to the wide-spread interest in ALEC based on the responses from yesterday’s post, I am going back through the archives and bringing up some of the “best” of ALEC which seems to bring out some of the worst in our legislators.
By the way, Kraft just dropped ALEC, see Kraft Foods Joins Coca-Cola and Pepsi in Leaving Corporate Front Group ALEC. Now it’s time for our legislators to do the same.
In a previous post titled ALEC Exposed in Wisconsin I wrote:
Wisconsin Representative Mark Pocan  explains in a brilliant speech how ALEC is working to eliminate public education in the state of Wisconsin specifically in a bill regarding vouchers and special education funding that’s right out of the ALEC playbook almost word for word.
This is from the Assembly floor session on March 13th 2012.
And in Florida from the Young Turks: