The Truth Behind the Stand – Walter Carpenter

According to the Center for Media and Democracy, “ALEC is not a lobby; it is not a front group. It is much more powerful than that. Through the secretive meetings of ALEC, corporate lobbyists and state legislators vote as equals on “model bills” to change our rights that often benefit the corporations’ bottom line at public expense (www.alecexposed.org/wiki).” Member dues and donations, usually untraceable, from such conservative and libertarian groups as the Koch Brothers, fund ALEC. This group has been noted, for example, to be behind voter ID laws and other forms of voter suppression. It is hardly surprising that they rated Vermont as they did, using their “15 state policy variables,” created by their lobbyists and member legislators.