But ALEC, as the organization is known, nevertheless began targeting governors’ pandemic powers as early as last summer, when it first drafted its model bill as then-President Donald Trump and other GOP lawmakers were fuming over pandemic-related restrictions…
That month, ALEC also hosted a panel discussion on “outdated emergency management,” the Center for Media and Democracy reported. Mississippi House Speaker Phillip Gunn, ALEC’s national chairman at the time, led a talk that included legislative leaders from Wisconsin, Utah, Arizona and South Dakota.