You really need
some historical points – to understand how I got to where I went.
Here they are.
1983
The following people were honored at ALECs 10th Anniversary
Annual Meeting for their role in the genesis and development of ALEC:
FOUNDERS
(partial listing)
Hon.
Robert Bales
Ell Lilly and Company Indianapolis, IN
Hon.
Ray Barnhardt
Director
Federal Highway Administration
Gov.
Terry Branstad (IA)
Hon.
Robert Carleson
Assistant to the President for Policy Development
Rep.
David Copeland (TN )
Hon.
Donald Devine
Director Office of Personnel Managemen t
Attorney
General Kenneth Eikenberry (WA)
Hon.
M. Stanton Evans
Chairman Education and Research Institute
Dr.
Edwin J. Feulner, Jr.
President The Heritage Foundation
Congressman
Henry Hyde (IL)
Rep.
Louis Jenkins, Jr. (LA)
U.S.
Sen. Robert Kasten (WI)
Sen.
Donald E. Lukens (OH)
Hon.
James Mack (AZ)
Sen.
John McCune (OK)
Hon.
Robert Monier (NH)
Hon.
Lawrence Pratt (VA)
Hon.
Mark Rhoads (IL)
Sen.
H. L. "Bill" Richardson (CA)
Mr.
James C. Roberts
Sen.
Eva Scott (VA)
Hon.
Donald Totten (IL)
Hon.
Paul Weyrich
President Coalitions for America
2010 – Mark Rhoads
I relayed my memory of a speech given by Donald Devine in early 1973 that conservatives needed to develop a shadow society of many different organizations which included one that Don, Lou Barnett, and I helped to create, the American Legislative Exchange Council,
2010 – Mark Rhoads
In 1973, Donald Devine talked about a shadow society to replace the dominant liberal structures of that year and many benefits flowed from that idea including an explosion for The Heritage Foundation and many issue-specific conservative groups that did not exist in the 1960s. That was a good example of long-term thinking. I think now we could develop a “shadow academia” based on a good reading list, sample core courses, and a list of scholars all over the world who would in effect constitute a “shadow faculty.”
Shadow
Society
Shadow
Academia
Shadow
Faculty
Shadow
Government
Shadow
Congress
Evidently the extremist, ultraconservative Republicans can’t do anything that is not
shrouded in secrecy and in “the shadows”.
Shadow
Society
Shadow
Government
In reality
- ALEC is nothing more than a secret fraternity,
for ultraconservative, extremist
“shadow society /
government” right-wingers.
ALEC
where right-wing “shadow society / government”
legislators
go to party (paid for by the corporations) and
sit in "educational sessions" with their food
and booze hangovers, and
suck up to the booster club members (the
corporations)
hopefully, for financial gain.
ALEC
Where multinational corporations secretly and outside the view of anyone - introduce legislation, that ALEC legislators then introduce as their own. Multinational corporations that provide donations to facilitate the trafficking of legislators to posh and luxurious locations to rendezvous with corporatelobbyist representatives. Corporations who pay exorbitant amounts of cash to draw right-wing extremist speakers who support and provide justification for corporate policy/legislation that is presented at ALEC meetings.
ALEC
Where multinational corporations secretly and outside the view of anyone - introduce legislation, that ALEC legislators then introduce as their own. Multinational corporations that provide donations to facilitate the trafficking of legislators to posh and luxurious locations to rendezvous with corporate
A right wing political club cloaked in the shadows
Hidden within
the confines of
dark cavernous
rooms in posh and luxurious hotels
funded almost entirely with shadowy
corporate money –
ALEC legislators stealthily moving through the dark
recesses of the halls of our legislatures; lurking in the shadows of the
political discourse, - - - waiting - - - ready to pounce, - - - with the simple
mindedness, yet determinism of a primitive beast; to introduce legislation
developed in the secrecy and seclusion of a “shadow society/government”. ALEC
legislators deliberately, but yet hesitantly - - - with dedication and intent- - - slowly, yet savagely -
- - delivering an unending barrage of legislative blows against the delicate structure
of the US democracy, shattering the remnants of the republic for the extremists
right-wing rule.
Unfortunately for
America,
ALEC has become so
much more dangerous
than the simple
minded fraternity
of neanderthal weirdos/bogeymen
that it is, was and ever shall be.
Chicago – August 5
-7
ALEC Celebrates its
40th Anniversary of Secrecy
Be there!!!
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