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...or something. Members of ALEC have been asked to limit the use of the organization's acronym so we'll stop paying attention. PR Watch has the details.
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ALEC "model bills" raise the stench level
It stinks to high heaven, but quite honestly, I don't know whether I want rapacious and mercilessly profit-driven corporate interests controlling state government, or perfer idiotic, blindly doctrinaire, conservative extremists controlling state government. Wait a minute! They are the same thing most of the time!