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ALEC, Legislators Caught Making Sausage

”Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made,” American poet John Godfrey Saxe once said. Now there is video proof of just how ugly that process can be — especially if the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is involved.
ALEC, Legislators Caught Making Sausage
By Pablo Ros ·
Tags: Momentum

”Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made,” American poet John Godfrey Saxe once said. Now there is video proof of just how ugly that process can be — especially if the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is involved.

Investigative reporter Brendan Keefe of Atlanta 11Alive TV News followed the story as far as he could at a resort hotel where ALEC lobbyists and Georgia state legislators worked on “model legislation.” Barred from the backrooms, he dug up the story through other means, including working the bar where a corporate lobbyist and Ohio state legislator supplied inside information.

ALEC officials tried to intimidate Keefe by bringing in Georgia state troopers, but the reporter stood his ground and got the story about how Georgia legislators and corporate lobbyists were literally voting on what laws to support. The result is powerful footage of sausage-making at work.

The report comes amid new revelations in an IRS Whistleblower Complaint that ALEC is engaged in tax fraud – essentially a corporate lobby masquerading as a charity. The organization has lost more than 100 corporate sponsors over the past year.

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