The ALEC Double Standard

From ALEC Exposed

ALEC PAYCHECK PROTECTION ACT

Summary

This Act requires labor organizations to establish separate funds for political purposes, establishes registration for the fund, establishes certain criminal provisions governing a labor organization's political activities, and prohibits its employees from authorizing automatic payroll deductions for contributions to a labor organization's political committee or fund except through an explicit, signed statement

Employee Rights Reform Act

Summary

The purpose of this act is to: 1) limit the amount of compelled agency fees which may be exacted from public employees as a condition of continued employment; 2) provide public employees compelled to pay agency fees as a condition of continued employment with an expeditious way to protect their rights to their pro rata share of union expenditures; and 3) minimize litigation over the appropriate share of union dues that is allocated to collective bargaining, contract administration, and grievance adjustment; provided, however, that nothing herein expresses or implies 

And then you have this:

The state paid $2,300 for 23 legislators’ memberships in the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, a far right wing group that pairs together paid corporate interests and conservative legislators to draft model legislation used in states across the country.

And from LONG-TIME ALEC Member Americans for Tax Reform Grover Norquist:

Kroft: But you make it pretty clear. If someone breaks the pledge, you're gonna do everything you can to get rid of them. 

Norquist: To educate the voters that they raise taxes. And again, we educate people--

Kroft: To get rid of them.

Norquist: To encourage them to go into another line of work, like shoplifting or bank robbing, where they have to do their own stealing.

Norquist MAY BE A  bit of a stretch – but in my mind, not much!

In my mind it is probably an unwritten rule of Alec/koch also.

Or another way of looking at it could be they will lose big chunks of campaign funding:

In the past ten years, employees of the 22 corporations on ALEC’s Private Enterprise Board have spent $9.3 million on state political campaigns in Ohio,

Double Standard – Wouldn’t You Agree?