Shaking my head in disbelief this morning
Right-wing rag bitching about the costs of an open
records request – but that’s not the focus of this entry.
The focus here is about ALEC transparency – or lack
thereof.
ALEC has been screaming how transparent they have become -
which is an outright lie when you compare current meeting documents to older meeting
documents or review their webpage for specific ALEC bills
YET – when a left leaning legislator makes ALEC meetings
transparent by reporting on the meetings to left-leaning publications
the right goes
nuts
ALEC goes nuts
and the intimidation starts
The right-wing and
ALEC don’t want transparency of the mechanisms
of ALEC and this is proof.
The right-wing never ceases to amaze me with their
stupidity – their incredulous belief of
equivalency in what they do and why they do it.
This morning – trending – is an article that was released by the right-wing funded Media Trackers about open records requests that were
made against WI legislator Chris Taylor – back to that later.
But really
– it is a right-wing, same old, same old.
Different person, different year
– intimidation of anyone who dares expose their precious
ALEC
Most people aren’t aware that back in the day, way back,
Republicans did the same thing to a Wisconsin University professor when he
dared – yes dared – to start talking about ALEC. The Republicans filed an open record request
against William Cronin because he had the audacity to start exposing ALEC – way
before ALECExposed existed.
But the right-wing didn't - - -
Different person, different year
– intimidation of anyone who dares expose their precious
ALEC
The right-wingers are probably saying
Payback is a bitch – you libtards filed open record
requests against ALEC members – why can’t we intimidate people who are exposing
ALEC?
What these right-wingers are too muddle-headed to
understand is that there is no there, there.
Open records requests against someone reporting to the
press, about a meeting they attended as part of their legislative duties – what
ALEC desperately tries keeps secret – has no feet.
When CMD requested open requests on ALECer Vukmir in WI
and ALECer Rep. Stephanie Klick of TX, the open records requests were to reveal the secret
mechanisms of ALEC, the extent that ALEC was going to keep their documents
secret to the public. These were open records
requests to make public – what should have been public –the manipulation of our
state legislatures by ALEC.
Some might say – well that’s what the right-wingers are
doing now – trying to expose records that are secret to the public – BUT that's a spurious argument.
Open records requests to expose secret ALEC documents that
intentionally impact the governing of our country are not comparable to open records requests for records
of a legislator exposing ALEC meetings in a magazine article - about content they learned at an ALEC meeting they attended, as part of their legislative duties
Chris Taylor has never hid her relationship with The Progressive – she published her reports on the content of ALEC meetings there, twice. There’s no there, there. Yes there might be emails between Taylor and
various left leaning organizations – but so what, she’s a liberal. Really, so what? What difference does it make that Ms. Taylor
is reporting about the content of ALEC meetings and working with left-leaning organizations to
do so? It's historically evident that the right-wing does not report about the content of ALEC meetings - that is how ALEC has stayed under the radar of the public for 40 years.
What is the right-wing media trying to do – silence Taylor
for ALEC?
What is the right-wing media trying to do – intimidate Taylor
for ALEC?
What is the right-wing media trying to do – and who asked/paid them to do it?
Did Chris Taylor break any laws? Hell no.
Chris Taylor attended a supposedly legislative focused meeting, in her duties as bonafide legislator,
reported on the meeting to inform the public of what she experienced,
as a legislator at a supposedly legislative focused meeting.
And the right-wing attack dogs cut loose
What Chris Taylor did was break the secrecy laws that
surround ALEC meetings and ALEC is pissed.
What Chris Taylor did – is exactly what the right-wing
press doesn’t have the balls to do – report on ALEC.
Yes, ALEC is pissed – no one, absolutely no one, else
cares about the content of Taylor’s reporting – except ALEC!
The intentional secrecy of ALEC is destroyed when an
attendee reports on the “closed door meetings” of ALEC. The content of those meetings should be public domain and Taylor has made bits and pieces of what she saw/heard public and ALEC is pissed.
How dare someone report what is happening at an ALEC
meeting! How dare they! ALEC meetings are designed to be secret so the public does not know the evil ALEC is cooking up.
This is Exactly why ALEC will not allow citizen journalists
or even left leaning journalists into their meetings.
ALEC knows what is happening at their meetings is WRONG.
ALEC legislators know what they are doing at ALEC meetings
is WRONG.
ALEC and ALEC legislators know what they are saying at
ALEC meetings is WRONG.
ALEC and ALEC members do not want what they do at
meetings reported – cause they know it is WRONG.
ALEC is evidently pissed enough to secretly send
right-wing funded media to intimidate and deter.
So what is the right-wing so-called press looking for?
Nothing but sensationalism
Nothing but intimidation
to shut-up
Chris Taylor
The right-wing setting their crosshairs on someone like
Chris Taylor – for reporting about ALEC – which by the way – the right-wing media,
does not do.
Moral of the story – don’t piss off the American Legislative
Exchange Council or the right-wing will send their attack dogs after you.
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