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<h3>[http://www.prwatch.org/node/12942 Scott Walker: Back in the Saddle, Back to His Old ALEC Tricks]</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.


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.  
<h3>[https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/07/18/who-funds-alec/ Who Funds ALEC?]</h3>
[[Image: Alec25.jpeg |270 px|center]] ALEC’s largest identifiable funder is the Milwaukee-based Bradley Foundation, which funneled $3.6 million into its coffers between 2019 and 2024. Some of the funds were used to bankroll ALEC CARE, the pay-to-play group’s controversial voter management campaign software.


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/2025/07/18/who-funds-alec/ here].
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<h3>[https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/07/17/alec-brings-voter-suppression-activities-out-of-the-dark-and-coddles-fossil-fuel-industry-at-this-weeks-annual-meeting/ ALEC Brings Voter Suppression Activities Out of the Dark and Coddles Fossil Fuel Industry at This Week’s Annual Meeting]</h3>
[[Image: Alec1.jpeg |270 px|center]] The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is bringing together state lawmakers, corporate lobbyists, MAGA followers, and right-wing operatives and funders at the four-star JW Marriott Indianapolis this week for its annual meeting, where once again it will strategize about how to further suppress the vote, prop up the fossil fuel industry, push Trump’s priorities, and more.


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.  
Read the rest of this item [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/07/17/alec-brings-voter-suppression-activities-out-of-the-dark-and-coddles-fossil-fuel-industry-at-this-weeks-annual-meeting/ here].
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<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: 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.


Read the rest of this item [http://www.prwatch.org/node/12942 here].
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>[http://www.prwatch.org/node/12928 Showdown in the "Show-Me State"]</h3>
<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:Missouri-show-me-state-sign270px.jpg|270|center]]'''Local Democracy, Workers’ Rights at Stake in Missouri Veto Session'''
[[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. 


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/2025/02/25/alec-pushes-state-anti-labor-agenda-for-2025/ here].
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<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.


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].
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/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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Latest revision as of 21:05, 31 July 2025

ALEC News

Who Funds ALEC?

ALEC’s largest identifiable funder is the Milwaukee-based Bradley Foundation, which funneled $3.6 million into its coffers between 2019 and 2024. Some of the funds were used to bankroll ALEC CARE, the pay-to-play group’s controversial voter management campaign software.

Read the rest of this item here.

ALEC Brings Voter Suppression Activities Out of the Dark and Coddles Fossil Fuel Industry at This Week’s Annual Meeting

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is bringing together state lawmakers, corporate lobbyists, MAGA followers, and right-wing operatives and funders at the four-star JW Marriott Indianapolis this week for its annual meeting, where once again it will strategize about how to further suppress the vote, prop up the fossil fuel industry, push Trump’s priorities, and more.

Read the rest of this item here.

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.

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