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<h3>ALEC Under Fire</h3>
KSTU Television FOX 13, Salt Lake City, UT - July 25, 2012: Lisa Graves, the executive director of the Center for Media and Democracy, went to Utah to protest the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), an organization that has taken center stage in a national debate over the proper roles of government and business.  "They [ALEC] vote on model legislation behind closed doors without the press, without people like you or the public present and then those state legislators come out to their state house and introduce those bills cleansed from any fact that they were pre-voted on by corporate lobbyists," Graves said.
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Neither ALEC nor the Georgia legislature would show us where the money comes from, or who it goes to.
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Latest revision as of 20:00, 14 July 2015

ALEC - The Backroom Where Laws Are Born

This is a glimpse into the world of the American Legislative Exchange Council, a corporate-funded charity that pays for lawmaker trips to resorts where they leave with ready-to-pass bills.

Neither ALEC nor the Georgia legislature would show us where the money comes from, or who it goes to.