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Constitution Courts & Other Democracy Issues 07.22.2014

As ALEC heads to Dallas, who's paying the bills

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a secretive, corporate-backed, lobby will have its annual conference next week in Dallas. More than 1,000 state lawmakers from across the country will convene for closed-door meetings with corporate lobbyists and executives to write “model bills” dealing with everything from education to telecommunications to environmental policy.

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Constitution Courts & Other Democracy Issues 06.19.2014

Peeking Under the Rock That Is ALEC

A powerful new documentary from Montana PBS, “Brought To You By ALEC,” looks under the rock that is the American Legislative Exchange Council — and what we see isn’t pretty.

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