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Via The New York Times: "...Most of the attention has focused on ALEC's role in creating model bills, drafted by lobbyists and lawmakers, th... (more)

Via The New York Times: "...Most of the attention has focused on ALEC's role in creating model bills, drafted by lobbyists and lawmakers, that broadly advance a pro-business, socially conservative agenda. But a review of internal ALEC documents shows that this is only one facet of a sophisticated operation for shaping public policy at a state-by-state level. The records offer a glimpse of how special interests effectively turn ALEC's lawmaker members into stealth lobbyists, providing them with talking points, signaling how they should vote and collaborating on bills affecting hundreds of issues like school vouchers and tobacco taxes. The documents — hundreds of pages of minutes of private meetings, member e-mail alerts and correspondence — were obtained by the watchdog group Common Cause and shared with The New York Times...".* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

* Read more from Mike Mcintire: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04...

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