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<h3>[http://www.prwatch.org/node/12942 Scott Walker: Back in the Saddle, Back to His Old ALEC Tricks]</h3>
<h3>[https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/03/14/alec-legislators-dominate-leadership-positions-in-republican-states/ ALEC Legislators Dominate Leadership Positions in Republican States]</h3>
[[Image:Walker_what_lies_ahead270px.jpg|270px|center]]On the heels of Scott Walker abandoning his presidential bid, the Wisconsin governor is returning to the state and flipping through the old [http://alecexposed.org American Legislative Exchange Council](ALEC) playbook for ideas.
[[Image: ALEC-Panel-Annual-Meeting-2024-900x508.jpg |270 px|center]] For more than 50 years, the American Legislative Exchange Council has moved a right-wing and pro-corporate Republican agenda of legislation in states across the country — all while posing as a nonpartisan, tax-exempt charity.


Walker comes back to Wisconsin with his approval at an [http://host.madison.com/ct/news/local/govt-and-politics/election-matters/scott-walker-s-approval-dips-below-percent-in-wisconsin-in/article_da32e245-82bb-5586-be8e-b7f41a9af045.html all-time low]. Following a [http://www.prwatch.org/news/2015/07/12872/Scott-Walker-WI-GOP-Gut-Open-Records sneak attack] on the open records law, a [http://www.ibtimes.com/scott-walker-push-milwaukee-bucks-arena-subsidy-could-benefit-his-fundraising-chief-2012890 plan] to spend hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on a stadium for an NBA team co-owned by Walker's campaign finance co-chair, and [http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-scott-walker-jobs-agency-20150619-story.html mounting allegations] of lawbreaking and political kickbacks at Walker's job creation agency (the [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mary-bottari/privatization-fail-scott_b_7339010.html Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation]), even Walker's longtime GOP supporters began to disapprove of the governor.  
Read the rest of this item [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/03/14/alec-legislators-dominate-leadership-positions-in-republican-states/ here].
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<h3>[https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/02/25/alec-pushes-state-anti-labor-agenda-for-2025/ ALEC Pushes State Anti-Labor Agenda for 2025]</h3>
[[Image: IStock-1501973077-900x508.jpg |270 px|center]] The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a corporate bill-mill, has laid out its priorities for this year’s state legislative sessions.


With his return to Wisconsin, [http://www.jsonline.com/news/opinion/what-gov-scott-walker-needs-to-do-now-b99582108z1-328702211.html some] called on Walker to build bridges and mend fences.  
Read the rest of this item [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/02/25/alec-pushes-state-anti-labor-agenda-for-2025/ here].
 
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Yet rather than reach across the aisle or putting his weight behind broadly popular measures, Walker is returning to an old divide-and-conquer strategy: rally the far-right base by scapegoating public workers, and push policies lifted from the ALEC playbook.  
<h3>[https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/02/10/alec-publishes-its-own-project-2025-for-the-states/ ALEC Publishes Its Own Project 2025 — for the States]</h3>
[[Image: 50yearsofharm-rally-900x508.jpg |270 px|center]] “Now, more than ever, is the time for states to lead.” This assertion by leaders of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) opens the organization’s Essential Policy Solutions playbook for 2025.


Read the rest of this item [http://www.prwatch.org/node/12942 here].
Read the rest of this item [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/02/10/alec-publishes-its-own-project-2025-for-the-states/ here].
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<h3>[http://www.prwatch.org/node/12928 Showdown in the "Show-Me State"]</h3>
<h3>[https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/01/31/alec-member-strikes-a-blow-against-rule-requiring-union-labor-on-federal-construction-projects/ ALEC Member Strikes a Blow Against Rule Requiring Union Labor on Federal Construction Projects]</h3>
[[Image:Missouri-show-me-state-sign270px.jpg|270|center]]'''Local Democracy, Workers’ Rights at Stake in Missouri Veto Session'''
[[Image: Grand-Coulee-Dam-workers-Library-of-Congress-900x508.jpg |270 px|center]] Contractors engaged in large federal construction projects can’t be required to enter collective bargaining agreements with building trade unions, a federal claims court ruled last week.


Missouri’s General Assembly met under pressure from corporations and their lobbyists to override Governor Jay Nixon’s veto of bills that would curb local government control over wages, paid sick leave, and other employment policies and make Missouri a Right-to-Work state.
Read the rest of this item [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/01/31/alec-member-strikes-a-blow-against-rule-requiring-union-labor-on-federal-construction-projects/ here].
 
Both bills vetoed by Nixon are high priorities of the [http://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_Exposed American Legislative Exchange Council] (ALEC). Read the rest of this item [http://www.prwatch.org/node/12928 here].
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<h3>[http://www.prwatch.org/node/12916 Back to ALEC, Back to (Private) School]</h3>
[[Image:Learning_Endangered-chalkboard270px.jpg|270|center]]''Op-ed by Rep. Chris Taylor''
On the heels of a newly passed state budget that again leaves our K-12 public schools behind without ample and consistent funding, I recently headed back to where the school privatization push all began--the [http://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_Exposed American Legislative Exchange Council], or ALEC.
ALEC and its members, including the [http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/The_American_Federation_for_Children American Federation for Children] (AFC), have become more powerful than our citizens’ voices at the State Capitol.
Read the rest of this item [http://www.prwatch.org/node/12916 here].
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ALEC News

ALEC Legislators Dominate Leadership Positions in Republican States

For more than 50 years, the American Legislative Exchange Council has moved a right-wing and pro-corporate Republican agenda of legislation in states across the country — all while posing as a nonpartisan, tax-exempt charity.

Read the rest of this item here.


ALEC Pushes State Anti-Labor Agenda for 2025

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a corporate bill-mill, has laid out its priorities for this year’s state legislative sessions.

Read the rest of this item here.


ALEC Publishes Its Own Project 2025 — for the States

“Now, more than ever, is the time for states to lead.” This assertion by leaders of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) opens the organization’s Essential Policy Solutions playbook for 2025.

Read the rest of this item here.


ALEC Member Strikes a Blow Against Rule Requiring Union Labor on Federal Construction Projects

Contractors engaged in large federal construction projects can’t be required to enter collective bargaining agreements with building trade unions, a federal claims court ruled last week.

Read the rest of this item here.