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Who Is ALEC -and Why Should We all Be Screaming? (Original Post) Jnew28 Mar 2016 OP
I was here, right in front. Zorra Mar 2016 #1
ALEC is an organization that exists to facilitate corruption and bribery AgerolanAmerican Mar 2016 #2
 

AgerolanAmerican

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2. ALEC is an organization that exists to facilitate corruption and bribery
Fri Mar 4, 2016, 07:40 PM
Mar 2016

Wish I were being rhetorical, but that's exactly what they do: they "match" companies with legislators to get corporate legislation passed at various levels of government.

It's basically a form of corporate sedition. If public corruption or bribery laws were enforced it would have zero members.

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