The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is a big-business
think-tank that authors “model legislation” at the local, state and
national level that benefits corporations at the expense of everyday
people; their greatest hits make for scary reading – you can thank ALEC
for ag-gag laws, stand-your-ground laws, private prisons, bans on
municipal ISPs, killing Obamacare and jailing pipeline protesters.
ALEC’s Republican legislator friends often introduce bills that are
word-for-word identical to the “discussion drafts” they circulate,
making ALEC the nation’s most prolific and unapologetic legislative
ghost writer.
