American Legislative Exchange Council, is described by the NY Times as "backed by business interests that circulates draft legislation in every state capital (is), unmatched by the left."
Is it alright to spend taxpayer money on being a member of ALEC?
One Wisconsin Now found through an open records request, that Republican politicians have been spending taxpayer money on their own ideological hobbies.
One Wisconsin Now has obtained documents showing that 12 current Republican members of the State Senate are forcing you to pay the cost for their private membership in one of the nation’s most powerful and influential corporate policy outfits – the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).
That’s like finding out Democrats have use taxpayer money to pay for Moveon.org membership. You would think conservative voters would be appalled that money, out of their pocket, was used for their private use or hobby.
ALEC is the corporate front group that has concocted and supported disastrous attacks on the middle class like ending collective bargaining, privatizing public schools, preventing access to affordable health care and starving local governments – taking police officers and firefighters off the streets.
Walker has served previously as a speaker at ALEC, Senate Republican Leader Scott Fitzgerald was appointed Wisconsin Chair of ALEC in 2008 and Republican Assembly Joint Finance Chair Robin Vos is current Wisconsin ALEC chair. Kapanke, Darling and the other 10 Senate Republicans should immediate return the taxpayers’ money and apologize for this improper use of our tax dollars.
Charges should be filed or demand that they pay back the fees.
ReplyDeleteWould be no different than a PAC.
They claim they are non-partisan but that is a plain outright lie.