A Former GOP Voter Explains ALEC in Layman’s Terms

[davidt2974]

What is the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)? How does it affect my family?


By: Jen Geurin Ferrell

It has only been in the last two years that I’ve woken up to what the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is and how they are currently impacting legislation we’ve directly seen passed into law in North Carolina. I was raised in a politically active GOP family, with two parents with their hearts in the public school system. My mother teaches 4th grade and my father served on the local school board for 12 years. Neither of them knew who or what ALEC is and how it’s impacting public education on several levels. Now, my mom as a teacher understands how it’s undermining her efforts to teach with the goal to decrease public funding to our schools. We’ve learned recently that ALEC plans to try to infiltrate local county Board of Supervisors and County Commissioner Boards to advance their harmful policies on the most local level, where policy can affect us the most.

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[littlemissmartypants]

1. ALEC in action. The 40 yr. old plan. nt

[Baitball Blogger]

2. You all hearing that? They're going to the County Commission Boards.

So I don't want to hear another person say that no one gives a damn about local politics. It's time to wake up. The same people that are putting tons of money into national level campaigns also own companies that have to navigate local politics. For example, engineering firms.

Though in Florida ALEC is going to find competition with the Florida League of Cities which has also been known to push boneheaded ideas and has already infiltrated the local boards.