ALEC's Perceived Secretive Reality

More lies to the Media from the American Legislative Exchange Council.
And the media eats it up!

The media gives them a great positive headline

"Utah Senators say it’s time for ALEC to be more open"

and then hides the proof that ALEC is lying to America in the body of the article.

All from the same article:

"I don’t think we have anything to hide. I think it’s more perception than reality," said Sen. Wayne Niederhauser, R-Sandy, the Utah co-chairman for ALEC, who has made the argument for transparency, along with Bramble.

Task force and subcommittee meetings, where corporate sponsors, conservative think tanks and legislators craft model legislation have always been closed to the public.

Handouts and model legislation adopted during those meetings also have been tightly held.

The liberal blog Media Matters was denied credentials altogether.

although at least one television reporter was turned away from a panel discussion on health care featuring Gov. Gary Herbert.

But some ALEC members don’t see why there is a fuss over the closed task force meetings.

"I don’t think we have anything to hide. I think it’s more perception than reality,"

Really?

REALLY??????????????

Out of curiosity – I just went to the NCLS webpage because they have their big meeting coming up and I found

The webpage showing the Keynote Speakers

and I found the list of exhibitors

Then I went to the ALEC webpage about their annual meeting

And found nothing to look at except a barebones draft agenda

OPENNESS – NOPE! What a crock!